₦airaland Forum

Princek12:
Do you deny the truthfulness of what I said or you just have a problem because I quoted a Western source? I witnessed everything that happened, so don't act like anyone here is a fool. If you want to hold a truthful, intelligent discussion then have one. The links were just the implications of how it affects our freedoms. If you said the stories are untruthful, then it is another issue.

All the things I quoted are part of Sharia law; even Muslims do not deny it. If you know nothing about Sharia law, maybe you are the one who needs to educate yourself and learn about Sharia law. If you tell me what I quoted is wrong, then we can have a discussion. You need to read and educate yourself. So if you know nothing about Sharia law then don't hold a discussion.

How can I deny statements that are fundamentally falsehood peddling? There is no point in denying what every sane mind knows to be falsehood. How many Muslim ladies have come to you to confess they were being forced to live behind veils? You have quoted nothing about Sharia law apart from beer parlor talks and rumors. Can you kindly quote for us all the specific sections of the Sharia laws (document) you have been carelessly talking about?
You can not use lies to defend your position and expect to get away with it. If it interests you to know, I am a Muslim and I've lived amongst different cultures (western, middle eastern etc) and I can authoritatively state that the Middle Eastern women are the most pampered amongst all.

An average Arab lady cannot even cook well to feed her husband as they virtually all depend on house helps for everything, besides child birth. A regular Arab man revers his wife as he is obliged to do her bidding at all times. If you are ignorant about a culture or faith, the best way to understand such a faith/culture is to learn about it from sources within the culture. Then and only then would you be able to effectively criticize the perceived shortcomings you may have encountered.

Quoting BBC and CNN will not avail you the prerequisite info to be able to better understand the Sharia law. Use you God given brain. Read first and then criticize any part you disagree with.

Pharoh:
The IG just denied this claim so who has been lieing and trying to spin his earlier speech?.

He had better denied it o! 'cos no amount of threat nor intimidation will make Nigerians to fret on any issues concerning these elections.

mbulela:
Jarus, i hear we are not allowed to go to the polling booths with cameras.

That was merely the IG's opinion which he is entitled to. The Inspector General of Police has no right in the Nigerian electoral law to deter anyone from taking cameras and phones to the pollen booths. Only INEC is saddled with such directives. As long as Atahiru Jega's INEC has not made any announcement on the issue, the IG is on his own.
Some info reaching me states that the booths are being planned to be fitted with CCTV cameras. Everyone is enjoined to go to the pollen booth with their cameras and mobile phones to report happenings live!

madago:
you have nothing serious to say,

Can you please come up with something more serious?

Pharoh:
Who would have been the source if not the students?.

Abeg go and continue to play with sand. Your reasoning is really suspect.

Abeg na how many VP candiadte attend the media chat sef? Kindly help those of us who missed it.

Pharoh:
Anonymous post does not mean that they do not know the actual person who sent the story.Iam talking about those who post stories and not those who give anonymous comments on the comments threads. There are three people involved in this case with the president so why would an anonymous source be speaking for the student group as they stated below?.

where it is claimed that the Finland students were ‘promptly invited for consultations’. It never happened,” said a source.

Are you kidding me? Thousands of news paper articles around the world, Nigeria inclusive always use phrases such as: 'a source', 'our source', 'the source' etc etc. This is the lamest and most ridiculous excuse you can ever give. You are doing a terrible job at attempting to spin this news. Go and ask those who are more experienced amongst you GEJ supporters to come to your rescue.

Princek12:
1) Women do not have the freedom to open their faces and their bodies; they are forced to do it according to Sharia law.


2) You do not have the freedom to hold a discussion that some may "deem" offensive to Sharia.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8584707.stm
3) Women do not have the freedom to marry nonmuslims; men, on the other hand, can marry non muslims

4) you do not have the freedom to drink alcohol -- Kano has a statewide ban on the consumption of alcohol. there have been numerous reports of Hisbah (Sharia police in Kano) attacking and killing drivers of trucks transporting alcohol in Kano.

5) you do not have the freedom to sing any secular music or hold an event offensive to Sharia. --remember when Sharia proponents chased the Miss World contest out of Nigeria because, according to them, women walking in bathing suits offends Sharia.


7) women do not have the freedom to have sex outside of wedlock; if they do so, they are punishable by death. Many many times are not even allowed to drive; they cannot do things without their husbands' approval; they are pretty much slaves to the men without rights.

there is really no freedom of the press under Sharia. In 2002, a reporter published an  article that the Sharia people of Zamfara state deemed offensive to prophet Muhammed and they issued a fatwa, urging all Muslims to kill the reporter.

http://articles.cnn.com/2002-11-27/world/nigeria.fatwa_1_kaduna-nigerian-court-miss-world-pageant?_s=PM:WORLD

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2002/aug/12/gender.islam

9) there is no freedom to give yourself a meaningful defense in a trial. a nonmuslim cannot be called to testify in a trial against a muslim.

10) in a trial, the testimony of two women is equal to the testimony of one man. What barbaric reasoning.

Bottom line is that it is clear that principles of Sharia contradicts the principles of a free society the Nigerian Constitution is trying to embrace. If the above reasons are not enough to make you realize that, then I don't know what will. The principles of Sharia clearly contradict the fundamental rights guaranteed in the Nigerian Constitution,

I would want to believe that you are more intelligent than what you've typed above. I asked you to read through Sharia law documents and come up with the aspects you think will impede freedom and the best you have been able to do so far is to quote BBC, CNN and just about everything western. You cannot castigate a faith without understanding what it actually stands for. Abeg bring direct quotations from a proper Sharia law document then you'll be able to better argue your point. Would you accept publications from the middle east as evidence of the evils in the western system of governance?
To argue against any issue, your best bet will be to use the information sourced from the same faith rather than quoting western media, which have predetermined mindset about Sharia.

[quote author=na_so link=topic=631710.msg8004689#msg8004689 date=1301334700]Ol boy dis ya story of 5 PTF buses to FEDEPE is a lie. I  was teaching at federal poly offa then and PTF only gave one bus and built a mini female hostel. Mind you OFFA is north central. This you story na lie. i can bet that.[/quote]Sorry pal, your lies are just to easy to discern. How many buses has the PDP government provided for Offa ploy in 12 years. By the way I graduated from OAU Ife and PTF touched the institution which is situated in the SouthWestern part of Nigeria in the following ways:

PTF built the two Oduduwa Lecture theaters (ODLT-1 and ODLT-2). There may be others, but I know about these two 'cos I had several lectures in both LTs in my final days in Ife.
PTF supplied books to the school Library
PTF renovated the OUA Teaching Hospital (OAUTHC). I can bet that you'll still find PTFs insignias at the teaching hospital today.
PTF provided the same teaching hospitals with cheap drugs manufactured in Nigeria by mostly South-West based pharmaceutical companies. The pharmaceutical industry boomed during the PTF era as Buhari only imported those drugs that were not being manufactured within the shores of our country.
PTF provided two 14-14 buses for the school
There may be others which I can no longer recollect. All these were just in one institution. The same thing was done across all federal universities in the country.

For all those who claim PTF's infrastructural development initiatives were lopsided, can they please show us the lopsided projects, if any, which PDP has executed in 12 years of misrule?

Pharoh:
1)
How can someone who never gave you guys a response could be included in the people that rebuffed the claim from the presidency below?

The Finland-based students[b] Dipo Daramola, Oladeji Ikuesan and Adewale Adeyemo stated that there was no contact whatsoever from Mr. Jonathan’s office to further discuss their proposal on how to address the nation’s kidnap crisis.[/b]

2)
This was a terrible lie as it was dipo only who actually posted on jonathan's page and only two of them were working on the projects not the three of them. This is the comment of one them right now on hiw facebook status

How can you thank sahara reporters when you where the one that has been contacting them anonymously? You were brought into the project after there has been a contact on facebook and there was need for commercialization but sahara reporters said you were part of the IT development. For the records we knew what you did to include your name in that publication in thisday newspapers.


I definitely know this one and anonymous student that has been contacting sahara reports and come to think of it sahara reporters does not publish news from anonymous sources so what is difficult from them in identifying one of the three students. I can authoritatively tell here that only one student has been contacting sahara reporters and causing this trouble just because he is for buhari.


I challenge sahara reporters to come out and state how they got the phone numbers of the whole students to call them if it was not the same anonymous guy that supplied them all this information.

You have succeeded in saying nothing so far.
As per the bold, you actually exposed yourself to be trying to cover up for your benefactor. SR has several anonymous pots on its web page. Search for the word 'anonymous' on SR site and you'll be shocked at the amount of anonymous posts you'll find there.
I'll advice you to go and get better trained GEJ team members to come and attempt to put a spin on this news.

Gbawe:
My man , Buhari too declared, publicly ,  that "Abacha never stole a Kobo" . Abacha's son , while it is his democratic rights , is actually a gubernatorial candidate under the CPC banner so lets stop the holier-than-thou pontification . If the son of one of the most cruel dictator in our history , as per his democratic right , is running for an important office , with Buhari's backing, why does Ribadu now stand condemned because he has gained the backing of IBB? Is it not also IBB's democratic right to endorse anyone he wants same as Buhari is free to endorse Abacha's son , as the leader of the CPC Party, for a guber position?

Let's just assume Buhari goofed for speaking about Abacha in that light, does that make it right for a Ribadu to deny ever investigating Damn Dame Jonathan? What moral grounds does Ribadu have to deny he never called Tinubu unprintable names? Now we have the same Ribadu cuddling up with IBB.

Now on Abacha, would you honestly compare the development Nigeria has witnessed in the last 12 years with Abacha's 5 year rule? Abacha may have been a tyrant, however, I know for sure that the average Nigerian saw more progress in terms of infrastructural development between 1994 and 1999 as compared to 1999 to 2011. Only a blind and dim witted Nigeria will deny this fact. On Abacha's son, I think you are delibrately trying to be mischievous because it is on record that Buhari's choice was never Abacha's son. This fact is known 'cos Mohammed Abacha initially included Buhari amongst those he sued to court when his name was substituted for a preferred candidate by the party elders. Mohammed only withdrew Buhari's name 'cos he knows there was no way on earth he'll become Kano State governor without Buhari's support. By the way, PDP will win the Kano state governorship election. Buhari has abstained from endorsing Mohammed Abacha. If Buhari supports a candidate, he does it publicly, just the same way he supported Marwa in Adamawa state for example.

Pretense to Jesus-like piousness does all of us no good in our quest for a better Nigerian.  No man is perfect and it certainly is not favourable for Buhari fans to talk as if he is , while everyone else is condemned and inferior in comparison to Buhari,  because issues can be raised about Buhari also that point to human fallibility and error of judgement. BB fans must remember that everyone cannot be judged according to what Buhari has done or has not done. Do you honestly think Buhari will reject IBB's endorsement if it was offered ? Remember it is the same Buhari that offered a VP ticket to a man (Bakare) who was vociferously scathing of his presidential ambition.

No Buhari supporter that I know has ever claimed that the man is infallible. What we are saying is that he's the cleanest. As per IBB's endorsement, the Buhari will certainly not accept IBB's endorsement. This much we know 'cos of the verbal war in which Qasim Afegba (IBB spokesman) and Odumakin (Buhari's spokesman) engage in shortly after Buhari visited IBB in Minna. One clear issue with Buhari is that we know he'll not cut a deal with anyone on issues of corruption.
Buhari offering Bakare the VP slot is in fact a big plus for him. It shows that the man is willing to work with those who may have castigated him in the past as long as such individuals have no known record of corruption hanging around their neck. Buhari is ready and willing to work with any Nigerian who has credible records of standing firm against corruption and nepotism.

Yet , because IBB gave verbal endorsement , after Ribadu paid him a courtesy visit , we are to believe Ribadu has sold his soul ?

As long as Ribadu does not come out publicly to deny the news, he'll never be able to wash himself clean from the baggage of IBB and others like him.

Until IBB takes to the road to be Ribadu's loud mouthpiece, as Anenih and others do for GEJ,  then I will take his endorsement as the same as that of Wole Soyinka i.e another important and influential man in Nigeria's history giving vocal support to a candidate he believe provides the best chance for Nigeria to move forward.

IBB endorsed Atiku after losing out to the latter in the NPLF choice. IBB never went out publicly to campaign for Atiku, but the former ensured that the delegates from Niger state (and some other northern states) voted for Atiku at the PDP primaries. IBB i not known to endorse anyone without cutting deals and he surely has never gone out to campaign physically for anyone he endorses.

Abagworo:
Is it a mere coincidence that most people on Nairaland with over 1000 posts are in support of Buhari.It is difficult to have multiple IDs of over one thousand posts.

Most GEJ supporters have less than 50 posts.That logically implies one sure thing.

We know that they all suffer from multiple identity syndrome. How I wish NL can automatically include in each individual's choice in the various threads with polls.

[quote author=na_so link=topic=633484.msg8004721#msg8004721 date=1301334967]PTF Projects: The Abacha regime created a parallel government through the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) headed by Major General Muhammed Buhari. Nothing else typifies the marginalisation of the Yoruba than the lopsidedness of the projects carried out by the PTF. Figures from PTF Situation Reports (Vol. 2 Dec. 98) show that the PTF carried on as if there was no South West.
[b]Of all the roads rehabilitated by he PTF, only 1984.5 kilometres of roads representing 10.84 per cent were carried out in the South West; from where the bulk of the PTF revenue came since the zone consumes over 60 per cent of refined petroleum products. All the Southern States had 4,440.43 kms or 24 per cent of road rehabilitation as against 13,870.47 kms or 76 per cent in the Northern States zone three comprising the North-West States of Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Sokoto and Zamfara had a lion share of 5020 kms or 27.42 per cent because the Fund’s Chairman, Buhari and the military dictator Sani Abacha were from there; zone four comprising the North-East States of Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba and Yobe picked 23.48 per cent. This is the zone where Salihijo Ahmed, the late Chief Executive of Afri-Project Consortium APC, the sole consultants that supervised all PTF projects came from.
Figures in other sectors were more scandalous.

For instance, under the National Health and Educational Rehabilitation Programme (NHERP), the South West had zero allocation in the tertiary programme, while the North picked 100 per cent. In the vocational programme, the South West had zero while the North had 97 per cent. In the primary area, the South-West had zero against 88 per cent for the North and in the secondary area, it was zero for the South-West and 86 per cent for the North.


The health sector is similar. For the Teaching Hospitals, the South-West had zero while the North had 62 per cent. For the Specialist Hospitals, it was zero for the South-West and 71 per cent for the North; in General/State Hospitals the Yoruba had nothing while the North had 56 per cent for health clinics, it was zero for the South-West against the North’s 100 per cent.


Under the food supply summary, the Southwest had 7.26 per cent compared with 83 per cent for the North, Buhari’s zone having 60.54 per cent to itself.[/b][/quote]Even in your delusion ou failed to verify the information you posted. I attended OAU in Ife and the teaching hospital in that University was renovated by PTF when Buhari held sway. Ife is in the SW region of the country.
The same thing applies to virtually all the Universities teaching hospitals across the nation. Go to any of those hospitals today and you'll still find the PTF insignias there.

I can continue to pick holes in all the thrash you posted, but have only decided to touch on the one which is most obvious to me. If the original writer of the article can be so brazen in lying about the teaching hospitals, then it is very safe for me to conclude that the write is just as ignorant as those who quote him to prove the ill-informed points.

aisha2:
Did he really lie? his aides are the once who failed in their responsibility, he asked them to contact the people they did not, not Mr. Presidents fault, to say he lied is a bit harsh. My two cents

Aisha2 you need not try to play the devil's advocate here. This current episode certainly isn't the first time GEJ gets caught pants down. Why would he publish a book claiming that he's been discussing with the young lads when indeed it is not true? So every gaffe by GEJ should now be blamed on his aides. Did any one chose those aides for him. One fundamental quality which GEJ lacks is his ability to chose aides who will discharge their duties honestly and not jus for what they stand to gain.

In a nut shell, GEJ has once again been caught lying.

I called the DSTV guys the same day you brought up the issue and I got their price. It's 75k for every 15 seconds. I'm working with a few guys back in 9ja to see how far we can go.

I do not have contact with anyone on the BB team. All I have been doing has been completely independent. I spoke with a friend last nite though who seems to know a number of the guys on the BB team. He says the most urgent need of the BB team is to raise funds to pay for the election logistics. Hence the opening of the GTBank account.

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The only shocking part is that it took Nigerian youth almost a full year to finally accept that GEJ is a complete fraud.

May God continue to run the lives of those who will vote GEJ the same way Jona ran Bayelsa state, and the same way PDP has ran Nigeria in the last 12 years!!

Anyone saying amen to the above prayer?

If I ever want to pray to God for guidance, I'll never be ashamed to ask for the same guidance He gave to Buhari when the general led the nation, and when he headed PTF.

rasputinn:
If I attack Buhari,I give reasons for the attack
Last time I checked,I did not insult anybody on this thread,so could you please keep your insult to yourself?The fact that nairaland is largely an anonymous forum where poorly raised adolescents like you talk thrash and abuse people without any provocation does not mean you should make a habit of flaunting your deficiency in upbringing

I am certainly noticing that you are indeed very poor at abusing! Keep it up.
Just a prayer for you though! May God run your life the way GEJ and PDP have ran Nigeria in the last 12 years.
Abeg just say amen o!

Asobank:
It is baseless and meaningless. We need a Man of great intelligence and dignity to lead us. It is not by dropping military uniform and becoming civilian. What did hedo when he was opportuned. Power should not be abused in this democratic era. Who does this Cap fit? GEJ and only GEJ. LOL

Would you be sincerely ready to pray to God to direct your life the way GEJ directed the affairs of his state, Bayelsa? Perhaps I should add that: God in His infinite Mercy should run your life the way GEJ and PDP have ran Nigeria in the last 12 years. Can someone say amen?

efisher:
How can people be so naive? Does anybody expect that a president of Nigeria will not dine with the likes of IBB? We have too many jokers that have no clue about politics. Muammar Gaddafi once wined and dined with the west, today he is under fire from the west!

Many people are hoping people like Ribadu and Buhari will come into power and put everybody in jail. What a huge joke. Anybody that can reason properly will not vote because they think somebody can kill corruption, or is a superhero that will erase every corrupt person in the country. You vote because a man has capacity to deliver. Look at the plans the man has for Power, Education, etc. Not how many probes he wants to conduct. This is where Buhari fails woefullly. He has lacks vision and capacity. Ribadu has vision and capacity to deliver. GEJ even has more plans than Buhari.

We need to wake up from this emotionally induced dream we have found ourselves in. Damn!

If a Ribadu can be excused for wining and dining with the evil genius, why not GEJ? It is the height of hypocrisy for anyone to excuse Ribadu for an act which he/she has consistently condemned GEJ for. He who stands for nothing will fall for anything, while he who stands for something will not be shaken by political expediency to compromise his integrity.

On the issue of plans, I'll urge you to take a closer look at the Buhari/Bakare (CPC) manifesto and compare it with the Ribadu/Adeola manifesto. Get your self informed before you start shooting ignorantly.

dazey:
MY FATHER IS FROM NORTH WHILE MY MOTHER IS FROM SOUTH-EAST AND I WILL NEVER VOTE FOR BUHARI ALL VOTE GOES TO GEJ FOR BETTER NIGERIAN

May your life turn out for the better the way GEJ turned Bayelsa for the better in the last 12 years.
I hope you can say a loud Amen to that!

rasputinn:
@ OP

But it is true that Buhari is a democratic ignoramus,infat he is very much anti-democratic(having carried out a coup de etat to topple a civilian government)
He also belongs to the past of Nigeria's history and thus not a pert of our future,hence should not be voted for(this fact was declared by no less a person than Tunde Bakare,who curiously happens to be Buhari's running mate

So what options are you proposing, since your pastime on NL is to simply keep attacking Buhari. Give us an intelligent alternative, if you indeed have brains.

Demdem:
so sorry to inform you that you are just ranting with no substance whatsoever. u are better of at the celebrity section. stick to that please.

No wonder! Celebrities are often loudmouthed.

@fesse,
Oya vamoose to the section where you are so popular and leave the politics section to the sane minds.

somze:
We also have the NNPC allegation before he stole power with a coup and don't forget the PTF one. The same man says Abacha isn't corrupt.
http://www.dawodu.com/omokri1.htm
http://news.biafranigeriaworld.com/archive/ngguardian/2002/nov/03/article12.html

And you believe such allegations. Even GEJ in his desperation will not make reference to the beer parlour web pages you posted. Abeg come up with something sensible and stop peddling lies and falsehood.

[size=15pt]Buhari [/size]
I first heared of the name Muhammadu Buhari from my father's mouth. That was at our country home in Ijebuland in the early hours of 31 December, 1983.
'There's a coup,' my father announced and jolted everyone around into alertness.

But I didn't understand what a coup meant. So I got curious, watching my father's lips for explanation. Then came the clarification. 'The army have removed Shagari and an army officer has taken his position,' my father announced further, like a repeater station of the BBC, the station from where he picked the news from his world receiver.

Finally, he reported, 'His name is Gen. Muhammadu Buhari.' I didn't know who Buhari was then but I was very happy about his emergence for the simple reason that the National Party of Nigeria (NPN), the party of the deposed president, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, had been swept out of power.

Though I was only 13 years plus in 1983, I was mature enough to appreciate the fact that Nigeria was adrift without vision or leadership under Shagari. Prices of commodities were on an upward spiral. My favourite Walls ice cream slipped out of the reach of my daily school allowance. And it was about that time I first realized that people could buy cars, second-hand. Hitherto all the cars bought by my dad, friends, relations and friends were brand new, freshly minted from the local assembly plants of Peugeot, Volkswagen, and Leyland or imported, if it were the more classy type like Mercedes Benz.

It was under Shagari that my high school and sister schools in Ibadan lost most of their expatriate staff from Ghana and India. It was at this time the economic recession from which Nigeria has not fully recovered till this day began. So, I was indeed very happy with Buhari's entry. It brought hope of a new beginning and better times. While the Buhari government lasted, my expectation of better things wasn't disappointed. Prior to this time, government, just as is presently the case in many Nigerian states, had failed woefully in rendering even basic, elementary services.

A veritable illustration on this score was environmental sanitation. Ibadan, the city of my birth, which I love dearly, though I hail from Ijebuland, was 70 percent slum. It was only places like Bodija, Oluyole Estate, Moor Plantation, IITA, Felele, and a few others, which were fairly clean. The other areas were like refuse dumps. Gege was so dirty that it soon got the unenviable appellation of Gege oloorun, meaning Gege the foul-smelling place. Kudeti, too, was such that could compete for and win the World Cup of slums.

An Ibadan man, Saidi Raufu, once told me that the word 'Kudeti' was a corruption of the words of a British colonial officer, who, in disgust, during an inspection tour of Ibadan, described that part of the city as 'too dirty!' As you may be aware, we Ibadan people would not lose our teeth in an attempt to pronounce Oyinbo words fluently. The stormy petrel of Ibadan politics in halcyon times, the late Chief Adegoke Adelabu, who passed on in 1958, cannot forget this wherever he is. The day the cerebral lawyer forgot to come down to our level and described a matter as a 'peculiar mess' in our hearing was the day we nicknamed him Penkelemesi!

But lo and behold! Ibadan became a model of cleanliness within three months of Buhari's coming. That was not just because a monthly environmental sanitation exercise was introduced. In Ibadan, as elsewhere across Nigeria, every blessed day was indeed an environmental sanitation day. A piece of paper found around your residence, shop or office or whatever you called it attracted a fine of N50 – a big sum in those days when the naira was almost at par with the British pound. Every shopkeeper had one eye on her wares and the other on the shop's ambience. Commercial buses carried waste-paper baskets and over-loading in those buses was a War Against Indiscipline (WAI) offence.

The queue culture at points of service of diverse hues became the vogue. I travelled to Lagos and I couldn't believe what I saw: Lagosians queueing for a bus still being awaited! Hitherto, you hopped in or out of a Molue while it was still in motion. You could be old, frail, or pregnant, that was your bloody business. The Lagos of yore was no respecter of the weak. It was an 'urban jungle' as former President Obasanjo once described it. But Lagos was as orderly as Mecca under Buhari.

Let me digress to advise those who think Buhari achieved all this simply because he was a military Head of State. What about the military leaders before and after him?

The man was simply visionary and committed. Some traducers say it was his deputy, Gen. Tunde Idiagbon, that should take the credit. I answer back by quickly saying Buhari was smart then to have gotten a resourceful deputy and even smarter to have stuck to him till the end. Afterall, his successor got rid of his own best deputy in a matter of months. Yet, other hecklers say, well his military governors in the various states, then, obeyed his directives in pure military fashion and he might not succeed in such efforts as a civilian president. I advise them to save their breath till 29 May, 2011. Where there is a will there is always a way.

You will find that persuasion and pressure tools abound with the central government even in a federation to induce submission to a good initiative nationally from top to bottom. Watch out as President Buhari, in a change of tactics as an astute general running a democratic government, would, for instance, co-opt the press in prosecuting an ethical revolution, among other transformative innovations from 29 May.

The West African parallel, except in bloodiness, to the Buhari revolution was Jerry Rawlings' regime in Ghana. The only snag in the comparison is that while Rawlings stayed in power long enough to institute lasting positive change that has outlived his days in power in Ghana, the Buhari effort was truncated midstream, no thanks to the Babangida coup of 27 August, 1985. But God is a God of second chance. On 8 December 2010, Buhari, by popular demand, accepted to run again for president via a public declaration in Abuja. Nigerians have another opportunity, therefore, perhaps for the last time, now that it appears we might have credible polls in 2011, given the assurances of President Goodluck Jonathan and a confidence-building Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), to bring the Buhari revolution back on course by voting him. Of the lot aspiring to be president and whatever his shortcomings, he is the best that can tackle the cankerworm of corruption that has undermined Nigeria's progress with the courage, sincerity, and ferocity it deserves.

This is the time all those who are fed up with the rot dogging this country and desirous of a better country should rally round Buhari. That is precisely what I am doing in my own modest way by writing this piece, which is coming straight from my heart. Not because Buhari has paid me or because I am sure I would have an appointment in his government. On its own, Buhari becoming president in 2011, is enough reward for my effort.

And I am sure Buhari will succeed as president because he is avoiding anything that will later undermine his capacity to lead as president. He has insisted all those vying for positions in his new party, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), must test their popularity at the primaries and that he would not anoint anybody. That is the people's prerogative, according to him. This means that the unpopular moneybags cannot do any deal with Buhari.

They have been coming and going with their Ghana-must-go and fleet of vehicles, disappointed. And this is why CPC is poor like Buhari himself. If you see any poster of CPC or Buhari anywhere, it is done by volunteers, most of whom he does not know personally. I began to discover these things firsthand since 2006 when I first met Buhari and have since moved from admiration to reverence for the great man.

When the Bible in Proverbs 14: 34 says, 'righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people,' not a few Nigerian Christians interpret it to mean that we must all be born-again to have the reign of righteousness in Nigeria or that born-again Christians must assume leadership of the country. Not so. The 'nation' in reference is not heaven but earthly. Righteousness in this context refers to upright leadership, dispensed by anyone: atheist, Muslim, Christian or traditionalist.

In a regime of righteousness, you obey traffic laws, deal squarely with looters of public money, ostracize 419 barons etc. If we Nigerians agree to observe a Week of Righteousness during which we will all do the right things, at least half of our problems would disappear in that week. Such a week is what we stand to enjoy perpetually by returning Buhari to power through our votes.

Femi Meyungbe-Olufunmilade teaches Political Science at Igbinedion University Okada, Edo State. Email: femiology@yahoo.com;

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seanet02:
Can not seen a single N1 not to talk of nairaland, is it not the same thisday that conducted a kangaroo Poll for GEJ? who dey read thisday sef?

Thisday has certainly been added to one of those Papers I will never buy again. If journalism in Nigeria can become a cash and carry enterprise as Thisday has continued to show us, then what hope do we have for obataining the real facts about those who are in leadership position.

@PrinceK12,
I'm just wondering what part of Sharia that you may have come across makes you feel it does not encourage freedom? Have you made any effort in whatever form to read through the norms of Shari law? From your posts so far, I'm certain you have little or no knowledge about the issue you have consistently tried to argue against. I'll implore you to make an effort to read about the law and then come back to discuss the areas you disagree with.

sley4life:
thats nice. NTA have the right

In you warped thinking, NTA's refusal to air Buhari's jingle is fair and square.

blacksta:
I dont understand  - All of the issues being discussed online stem from articles being read on Nigerian Newspaper hence i fail to see where issues are different to what is on ground.   If blogers are calling for blood i would say it is better and shows a more advanced set and i wish same online attitude could translate to what we have on ground rather than celebrate mediocracy.

You'ev just about sid it all.

Only those with short memories would claim GEJ to be the right choice. In 13 months, GEJ has reversed himself several times so much so that we've lost count.