₦airaland Forum

Kobojunkie:
a) When he served as Governor of Katsina, he did not institute Sharia

Buhari was never a governor of Katsina state. Katsina state was yet to be created when Buhari was made the governor of the North-Eastern region which comprises of the 6 states we have in the same region today.

Princek12:
I am not saying he instituted it; I said whether he is an advocate of Sharia. You don't have to institute Sharia to be an advocate of Sharia. Katsina is one of the states that has Sharia courts, and I am still appalled that a Nigerian Constitution that supposedly espouses freedom expressly empowers States to create Sharia courts as they deem fit. Sharia as we all know it is antithetical to freedom. I am just calling a spade a spade.

If the Nigerian constitution allows the existence of Sharia courts, as you out it, then why are you getting so upset about it. If you are claiming to be an advocate of freedom, how come you are against the majority of those states who out of their free will and the freedom of expression have decided to live under a sharia law? I hope you would not be describing freedom from your own point of view only. It is the same freedom you want that those living under Sharia law are exploiting.

bumba1234:
So because they aired a very "emotional" song on air, we should vote the jokers in, first and foremost Gen Buhari rtd. doesnt have a clue what governance is about, i havent seen a team, i havent seen any plans or polices or anything, all i hear is the existing Govt is corrupt bla bla, agreed. but what do you want to bring to the table?? he has absolutely no clue, gosh!!!!!

When you want to make claims, you need to back it up with facts. You cannot simply attempt to denigrate the person of Buhari without putting forward hard evidence to support your point. Buhari has led several teams in his military and political career and he has excelled in all. If Buhari does not know anything about governance, abeg point us to who amongst the rest that has the knowledge about how to govern.
You lamely attempted to attack Buhari on the basis of a non existence team on ground, please identify which candidate has a similar team. We all know the ineptitude of the team GEJ has so he's even worse off when compared with these who don't have a team. Since you are very smart, kindly identify the candidate who has a team on ground.

A good move from the evil genius. All I need to do is to say thank you to IBB, for clearing the air for us all.
IBB is GEJ's adopted father and now an endorser of Ribadu. SUrely Ribadu stands to loose more than he'll ever gain from an IBB endorsement.

^^^More like 'badluck' 1 goal!

Rossikk:
Still can't see any tangible thing he did. I mean let's face it, you can only arrest and imprison so many people before you start to look like it's the only game you got.  Did he increase funding for education? Raise the minimum wage? A rail rehabilitation project perhaps? What about improved power supply? No?

Education got some real boost when Buhari led PTF. In 1983 (effectively 1984 'cos he took over on 31st of Dec.1 1983) when Buhari came in, the education system was in good shape, hence You can keep raising minimum wage to even a million Naira, it will simply be of no good if the real fundamentals of the economy are not addressed. I hope and pray our currency will not go the way of Zimbabwe's. Power supply was a lot more steady back then. I was old enough to know that we enjoyed power supply for more than 90% of the 24 hours in a day. Back then , when you have power shortage issue, it was often due to broken down facilities which were promptly fixed. I lived in Festac back then. The problems we are having today with power supply started when subsequent governments failed to improve the facilities as the population continued to grow and demands became exponentially higher. Apparently you are too young and naive to understand the real problems facing Nigerian back then and how the Buhari led government tackled such issue. Abeg go and talk to ya folks to understand better.

EzeUche:
This is very good for publicity I must say. Buhari wants to be seen as a regular Nigeria in one with the people.

Obviously you do not know the man at all. Buhari is indeed a regular Nigerian. If he were the haughty type, he'll be living in opulence and moving around with myriads of security details. You may not like the man 'cos of your bias for your benefactor GEJ, but the fact remains that he's shown he's more humble than GEJ.

juman:
The best way for the masses is for this country to break. Nigeria has too many problems.

That's certainly not the way to go.
By the way, I'm Kwaran too but I do not support the ACN candidate.

Very interesting to note that he sat amongst the regular Nigerians in the popular side of the stadium. How many Nigerian leaders past and present can do just that? Buhari is even beating GEJ in his home turf. I though GEJ was supposed to be the humble one!

^^^Thanks for the insight.

honeric01:
Sitting with ordinary citizens, he has nothing to fear.

honeric01:
When you have nothing to hide, you fear no foe

Why would he be afraid t sit amongst those he wants to lead? That's just the typical Buhari for you. Imagine a GEJ amongst that crowd, 100sq meter around GEJ will be filled with security men and the next 500 sq meter will be filled by his countless advisers.

wesley80:
@9ijaman
Whatever cooks your soup dummy. Even If he has been a failure all his life well see how far it has got him! See u wey be success all your miserable life the only voice u have is on a faceless forum shooting off your obnoxious mouth like a dane gun stuffed with wet gun powder. Call him whateva you like and keep calling and be prepared to continue calling for the next four years, if u cant stomach him for that long, then there's a honourable way out for you- the lagoon!

Clap for yaself! Abeg explain to me how you've been able to address the points I raised with all these gibberish you typed. I suppose Wesley80 is your real name abi! Talking about achievements, I have always worked hard my entire life to get to where I am. I didn't rise through the ranks at work by chance or through some misconstrued element of luck. So why not keep you cool and use your brains well to prove me wrong in my allegations of GEJ's failures in governance instead of puffing hot to attack a faceless forumite. As it is at the moment, there is nothing you and the rest of your ilk can do to get to me even if you try.

doja:
Wow what a thread! were have I been all day?

Almost everyone here agrees to the fact that Ribadu will be a good president because of what we know about him, his sharp intelligence and the acceptance he has in the international community but the issue seem to be that some people feel he is guilty by association.

There are certain questions I had like to ask people who seem not to be comfortable with Tinubu and they are as follows;

How come Tinubu is not  lording himself over Adams Oshiomole of Edo State? Edo state is working very well.
How come each time this man insist on a particular candidate for any position the candidates ends up being a good choice?
Tinubu left office 4 years ago, how come no one has been able to convict him or even arrest him for corruption?

All that said, do we honestly believe that Ribadu can be pushed around by anybody?I do not believe so and we can see evidence of that in the way he carried out his work @EFCC.

Buhari is a good man with a passion to put things right , instill discipline and correct some mistakes of the past, these qualities  are not lacking in Ribadu infact, he has all these qualities and more.

Add this to the fact that Ribadu is in a party that has been tested, a party that has been known for the quality of ideas they bring forth in their domain, a party whose structure is getting stronger by the day. Same cannot be said of CPC the party has remain largely untested and like I said before now, remove  a Buhari from CPC and the party becomes 'empty' compare this with an ACN that has the likes of Fashola, Mamora, Abike  Dabiri , Audu ogbe, Adams oshiomole ,  

Lastly, if you have a 79 year old whose ideas and principles are similar to what a 50 year old is bringing to the table and more I think it is more logical to go with the younger person because like a friend said, a 79 year old is more[b] likely lo have hips of files unattended to in his office than a fifty year old man.[/b]

If eventually Buhari becomes the President of Nigeria in may, I will be as happy as I would be if it was my Ribadu that won because I know we are in save hands.

I would really like to know what extra qualities Ribadu has over Buhari.
My brother Buhari was 68 last December 17 and not 79 as you repeatedly claimed.
The real issue with a Buhari leadership which clearly sets him apart from Ribadu is his ability to make the right choices in the team he'll assemble. He's done it several times in the past and can also do it again. Ribadu may be younger, but not anywhere nere being more intelligent.

Age is nothing but numbers being younger does not mean you'd perform better. You will only look more zealous and enthusiastic, but not necessarily a better performer, particularly when being compared to someone like Buhari.

olasboy:
Prayer for the day:
May the family, life and entire affairs of all those who will vote and support PDP come April, move in the direction Nigeria has gone in the past 12 years, AMEN

Amen! Amen!! Amen!!!
The only Caveat is that the prayer be limited to the National level. We have to admit the fact that some PDP state governors are doing well by Nigerian standards.

@OP
This will be a welcome development.

lwise:
what the northerner did when yaradua died clearly shows that they believe its only the northerners that matters wen we talk about nigeria,tell me what ar they feelin like?abeg make we they enjoi d fresh air dey goooo

Were the northerners the only group who didn't want to allow GEJ to be sworn in? Are these same northerners not the same set of people GEJ has continued to lick their azzes? If the north had not voted for OBJ, would he have been able to install a puppet government on us? Open your eyes and brain, stop viewing the Nigerian case from the myopic and biased mind of an ethnic and religious bigot.

kasiem:
Why is it that this moderator are biased towards pro-gej henchmen. Deleting my comments wld't help u guys

gernded:
i wonder why the opposition hijack every topic in this forum?


OPPOSITION WHY?

GO TO THE STREET AND CAMPAIN TALK TO MARKET WOMEN AND TRADERS.

I HAVE PUT A CALL TO LAGOS AND MANY STATE THEY SAID APRIL 9TH IS FOR GEJ BUT GOVERNOR IS DIFFERENT.

You want to know why? It's simply because there is always a limit to how long and how far falsehood can be peddled, it takes just a single moment for truth to catchup. GEJs false life have been on for 12 years, and interestingly his supporters have acknowledged he was a failure as a VP, failure as a Governor, failure as a deputy governor and now a failure as the C-in-C.

Another lame attempt by team GEJ to denigrate Nigerians with good intentions, to at least support a candidate who will bring back sanity into our national life.

Wadeoye:
When a gathering doesn't favor them, they start crying, If the meeting was to endorse the clueless GEJ, there is no need to place them under security watch. But now that they have feelers that they are gathering to endorse Buhari, they become security risk to the country. Does this make any sense?

Even if they are there to endorse a candidate, don't they have a right to do so? These are retired warriors, they can't be intimidated except if GEJ will be consumed.

You have said it all my brother.

Another solid reason to boot our PDP from Aso Rock.

Cotton:
10 hours for a 260km journey

I suppose it's plenty of time to breathe your "fresh air"

I no fit laugh reach! You simply hit the nail dead center on the head.

Nsiman:
@ op, if buhari is in power, will u spew this rubbish with literal names?

If you have no sense of humor why no just vamoose to your GEJ azz licking corner to sulk and mourn GEJ's potential loss at the election. Abeg go sidon!

Below is a short analysis about the NN24 debate. I have not been able to work on the remaining part of the debate.

Opening Statements: All Candidates faired ok.

On Antecedents:
Shekarau faired well in his response about the activities of the Hisbah Police in Kano and confidently defended the film/movie
censorship board. I liked his response on that.
Ribadu performed well below par in his response to the questions raised on his past comments about Tinubu and corruption. Ribadu was not entirely truthful in his response.
Buhari faired well in his response about his military past. His response on being democratic as a military leader was concise. IMO he
answered the question well, stating clearly that if he were not democratic he would not have stayed in court for 50months when the
2003 and 2007 elections were rigged against him.


On Niger Delta Problems:
Ribadu's response was to vague to make much out of. He only kept harping on a marshal plan without specifically mentioning what such a plan will entail.
Buhari and Shekarau said just about the same thing, but Shekarau would appear to be better, due to his more facile delivery. They both said they'll have to meet with the militants, but more particularly with their local community chiefs and leaders to get to the bottom of the problem.
Their (Shekarau & Buhari) responses were not a real answer, but a way to first get to the root of the problem with a view of being able to proffer a lasting solution to the ND crisis. Buhari deviated though when he started out talking about investors not coming to ND because of kidnapping etc, but he clearly identified the genesis of the ND arms struggle.

On Power:
Shekarau gave a below par response on the issue of Power. He only stuck to decentralizing & privatizing the power sector.
Buhari was old fashion here. Even though he made valid points by referring to repairing the existing power generating dams and thermal stations. He however failed to mention specifically how much output will be obtained from these repairs and upgrades. He completely went out of the scope of the question when he kept harping on probing the past (PDP) government, if he wins the election, for the billions squandered on Power in the last 12 years. However, I do agree with him that we need to know why PDP failed for 12 years in order for us not to repeat the same problems.

Ribadu identified some important points on how to move the sector forward but still didn't give specific figures on what output will be
generated and by when. Ribadu was also not truthful when he attacked Buhari's figures on power in 1999 and the amount spent to date. Ribadu said we had 2GW, but we actually had almost 3GW. He also said PDP had spent about $10+ billion on power over the last 12 years. Buhari was closer to the truth, PDP has spent around $16 billion on power. PDP has actually spent $16 billion to generate 1GW, assuming we actually have the 4GW FG claimed recently. Ribadu also failed to tell us how the various new technology power generation methods would be funded, considering the fact that fossil fuel and hydro power generation remains the cheapest worldwide to date.


On Multinational Oil companies:
Ribadu alone had the chance to answer this question, however his response was ok.

I will try to post the analysis of the remaining part of the debate later.

I'll try to add my two cents without being utterly biased towards Buhari, the candidate I've always supported.

Comparing Ribadu to Buhari is like comparing a child who's just started schooling to his teacher.

INTEGRITY
Ribadu lost the respect people like me had for him the day he declared that the EFCC he led never investigated GEJ's wife, despite the clear evidence of the case file available for all to see. He also goofed when he lied during the NN24 debate denying what he had said about Tinubu in the past. Hence on grounds of integrity, Ribadu IMO is just a few inches ahead of GEJ and miles behind Buhari. I cannot recollect any instance where Buhari's integrity has ever been questioned.

EXPERIENCE
The only, I repeat, only achievement which Ribadu has to his name remains his sojourn at EFCC. Even during his EFCC days every discerning Nigerians know that he was mainly doing OBJ's bidding, I need not go into the details of this as the likes of Tony Anenih (Mr fix it) are still around today. Buhari has been there and seen it all. There have been several threads on NL and writeups on the internet extolling Buhari's achievements in virtually every instance when he was in position of leadership (Governor of North-Eastern region, petroleum minister, NNPC chairman, HOS, PTF chairman). Buhari's success as a leader far exceeds Ribadu's. One important quality of a leader is his/her ability to pick the right team comprising of individuals who will share his aspirations and dreams and subsequently achieve their set goals. Every team Buhari led excelled in their discharge of duties.

Let's look a the larger world, by assuming Nigeria to be a business corporation which is searching for a new CEO. Larry Page & Sergey Brin co-founded Google in 1998 and had to hire an experienced Eric Schmidt in 2001 as CEO to help direct the affairs of the growing business. Today, under the tutelage of Schmidt, Google has grown to be one of the most successful corporations in the world. Schmidt will finally hand over to Page in a few days (April 4, 2011 to be precise). How many large corporations in the world choose their CEO's based on the assumptions that he's just young and energetic, as some of us have alluded above about Ribadu? I know some will argue this and site Fashola as an example, but they will forget to mention that Fashola was a member of Tinubu's tink-tank team. Fashola learned the ropes under Tinubu in addition to his years of experience in the private sector.

Buhari's PTF can be likened to a private sector establishment which was completely independent of the government of Abacha, apart from the stable supply of funds which provided by the government for the execution of the projects. Ribadu has no such experience. He was simply the head of an anti-corruption team. I personally do not want a president who will be learning on the job.


KNOWLEDGE about NIGERIA's PROBLEMS
A first look at the NN-24 debate, I was one of the staunch supporters of Buhari who admitted that Buhari could have done a lot better. In fact I voted for Shekarau in the poll set up after the debate on NL, and I scored Ribadu the least 'cos he was the most disappointing on the night. I have taken my time to analyze the debate again, carefully avoiding to be swayed by Shekarau's eloquence and oratory prowess. I listened attentively to the substance of their debate and came to a very simple conclusion: Shekarau's answers were not much different from as those proffered by Buhari. I will post some comments later to buttress my point here. Overall, Ribadu lacked in-depth knowledge when compared to either Buhari or Shekarau on just about every topic discussed about issues plaguing our national development.


COMPETENCE
On the issue of competence on the job, Buhari and Ribadu will probably be scored equally. While the former is know to be a man of little words and a real achiever, the latter is a bit loud mouthed but again he performed his duties as EFCC chairman in a competent manner, at least considering those OBJ opponents he was unleashed upon. While the younger Ribadu is flamboyant, Buhari is asutere. The high point for Buhari here is that he has managed just about every sphere of the Nigerian socio-economic climate and knows how to go about making the real difference we truly clamor, on the other hand Ribadu is only known to have received directives on who to arrest and those who remain untouchables.

My next post will highlight what I summed up during my analysis of the NN24 debate.

Wadeoye:
And if I may ask, what is the problem with our education system? How is Ghana education system differ from Nigeria education? Is our education system unique to Nigeria? Are we saying we so unintelligent to be able to come up with a working education system? Ghananians are more intelligent than us? And we can't simply copy other working system if we think our eduaction system is not good?

Guys, don't allow english to confuse - you should be able to differentiate between the system itself and other things that will make the system work.

If the systems is poorly funded or money meant for the system is stolen, definitely the system will fail.

If you make money available and you don't supervise the system, how will it work?

We used to have all these before - funding by UPN and supervision.

Buhari even went further and talked about technical training and the need to have a way of making fund available to graduates who might want to setup their own business. Other candidates didn't even talk about this. On education, Buhari won - we are not talking about oratory here but content. Above all, sincerity and seriousness to do what is required.

Defender1:
You have summed up everything.You Nairalanders are nearly ALL outside Nigeria and you just pontificate over matters that you cannot influence.
Some Nigerians received their degrees from the Nigerian educational system before travelling out and getting employed in foreign universities to teach. There is nothing wrong with the Nigerian educational system. What is wrong is with the Nigerians who run the system.Na d people na him bad no be de ABC, or 123, or d Quadratic equations or d sociology .

Why u dey complain say d man talk say ALL Nigerians are corrupt. You will argue and complain that Buhari says ALL Nigerians are corrupt. Yet you will jump up and shout Alleluyah when the Pastor quotes Romans 3:23 "ALL HAVE SINNED". The man is just repeating what God has said.

Please stop trying to bring theman Buhari down. Please you should talk to your friends and family in Nigeria to vote for Buhari. You can see that he is a MAN of GOD!!

Intelligent responses!

Genbuhari3:
North west and north east is 29million (buhari) niger, nassarawa plus 25 percent in all north central votes is Buhari, south south and south east is 15 million for Jonathan, South west is ACN and Bakare is from south west. Bros or sister, PDP is dying and Jonathan knows this. That is why he has said TWICE Now, if I lose I will go. He is seeing the handwriting on the wall!

EVen if GEJ refuses to leave, he'll be summarily pushed out of Aso Rock.

Pataki:
And has that silly boy called Beaf said an amen to the prayer stated here?

Or at best, he should use one of his many multiple identities to say an amen.

You want all his generations yet unborn to perish? As you can see he's simply disappeared from this thread, while he's busy spamming threads with his monkeys/Baboons/gorillas and his other planet ape family members.

[quote author=Kilode?! link=topic=611008.msg7992291#msg7992291 date=1301167853]Is it impossible for this campaign to buy a 2 minute advert slot during the next few premiership games showing on Nigerian TVs or DSTV and show the campaign advert rejected by NTA?

Millions of Young Nigerians with no access to NTA or DSTV still get to follow premiership games at local viewing centers across the country, even in villages and inside markets.

Just cut it into a minute or two and pay Supersport to show it during halftime and before Arsenal, Chelsea, Liverpool and Man U games on DSTV. Buhari campaign no get money ni?[/quote]My brother the team no get money o! It's Buhari's antecedents that have kept the man going. In any case that's a good idea from your end about advertizing while a Premiership football match is ongoing.

efisher:
Solomon, my good friend. There is no need to kick against the thorns. There are two polls on the guardian website. One has over 400 votes and the other has over 100 votes. The picture of the poll you posted is the one that has over 100 votes. I think the one with more votes should give a better picture.

You can check the site yourself

Both polls really dont count much because we are talking about millions of voters on ground vs a few hundreds online. Most of these online voters may even be outside Nigeria.
I do not like PDP as a party but I know that 2011 is theirs once again. I only pray that GEJ will perform because all that is left till 2015 is HOPE.

This is the picture of the one with over 400 votes:

While I agree with you that these polls don't count much, it seems you forgot to mention that the poll with over 400 votes was created before the PDP primaries when GEJ's popularity was at it's peak. The poll with just above 100 votes actually reflects the real mood of the populace based on the current trend. Despite all tactics by GEJ to stifle the opposition parties, the Buhari/Bakare team's popularity is soaring by the minute.

Diligence:
It's not on Nigeria Police website; it's not official - so just take it as testing the depth of the ocean - IGP: the ocean indeed is too deep!

The ocean depth is indeed extremely deep. In the E&P parlance we call it Ultra Deep Water!

Lagosboy:
I pray this poll translates to reality on ground and we coast home to victory

Amen! Amin!! Ameen!!!

A man of high moral standards and a true Nigerian.

My folks are both from Kwara state, I was born and raised in Lagos and had all my schooling years in the southwest. I lived in the north for a couple of years. Lived and worked in the South-South region (Rivers-Bayelsa-Delta) for a little above 6 years, I am indeed a Nigerian.
I support the BB team as much as I can considering the fact that I'm now residing abroad!

Lagosboy:
The write up was a bit stretched too far but the general idea and message is simply the truth. GEJ is unfit to be the president of 150 million Nigerians. Ribadu would be checked by the god fathers that put him there if he wins. Buhari remains our only hope as his godfather is indeed the Almighty God and the godfather of Bakare as well is the almighty God.

Two honest men deserve your votes.

You've just said it all!

What else would you expect from a so called man of God whose pastime is his Jerry-curled hair?