President Muhammadu Buhari granted an interview to Al Jazeera English while on his official trip to Qatar. The interview was aired on Saturday, March 5, 2016 to the chagrin of Nigerian around the globe. Here are six quick notes:

• On why he should continue to fund his children in foreign schools while restricting foreign exchange for most families that have pupils in schools abroad, Buhari acknowledges its “tough luck”.

• On presenting the “worst budget” ever, Buhari blames it on sabotage by technocrats, and also denies knowledge of details of his budget when challenged on specifics, such as amount budgeted for books for the VP, and the Aso Rock Clinic. He accused the interviewer of assuming better knowledge of his budget.

• On security votes, which had been source of corruption, which we had been told were scrapped. he defended the need for the security votes, and promised to punish anyone found misappropriating the funds.

• On why no convictions since his much vaunted fight on corruption, he queried the motives of his critics, and why similar expectations were not made of previous administrations.

• On whether Nigeria will join the Saudi Arabia led Islamic Coalition Force Against Terrorism, he said YES, which is in contradiction to what we were previously told. When asked if this decision was insensitive to the desire of Christians that make up 50% of Nigeria’s population, Buhari retorted [with hate] that Christians complaining should “Go fight terrorism in Nigeria, or fight militants in the South”. Those complaining Christians he referred to as religious bigots.

• On Buhari’s promise to defeat Boko Haram, he was declared a “failure”, to which he angrily declared “I haven’t failed, I haven’t failed, I haven’t failed…”. His rationale was that Boko Haram now only has capabilities to attack and kill only civilians, but not police posts and military institutions. What low value placed on Nigerian lives by the President charged with the responsibility of protecting them. By the way, Boko Haram bombed a police headquarters in Adamawa last month.

• On the killing of IPOB peaceful protesters by Nigeria’s armed forces, Buhari wickedly refused to watch the video when offered. He accused the movement of “interfering with movement of troops and the economy”, and declared the movement as “joking with Nigeria’s security and Nigeria will not tolerate it”. He then cajoled them, since we are in a democracy, to organize and vote for a “state within a state”

The level of inconsistencies, ignorance, and insensitivity displayed by this president, for lack of better word, is pathological.

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/news/buharis-al-jazeera-interview-reveals-hes-clueless-train-wreck/

A group known as Save The Nation Movement (STNM) wants General Tukur
Buratai, chief of army staff, to be included in the ongoing probe of abuse
of funds meant for the procurement of arms for the military.

Only last week, President Muhammadu Buhari directed the Economic and
Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) to investigate some serving and retired
military officers over procurement of Arms for the Military.

However, the group wondered why Buratai, who was said to be the director
of procurement between 2012 and 2015, was excluded.

“Major General Tukur Buratai was appointed director of procurement DHQ in
2012, a position he held until May 2015 that he was appointed force
commander of the Multinational Joint Task Force (MJTNF), an appointment he
held till he became chief of army staff,” Steven Chilaka, national
secretary of the movement, said in a statement issued on Sunday.

“As director of public procurement at the DHQ, all procurements by the
military between 2012 and May 2015 passed through his office. Our question
is; how can you probe procurement of arms within this period without the
involvement of Major General Buratai, the man who was the director of
procurement?

“Curiously too, only retired and serving officers of the Nigerian Air
Force were said to have been indicted.

“Was the army being excluded from this probe to save Major General
Buratai? Or Could procurements have been made without his involvement
during the period that he was Director of Procurement?

“Definitely, it won’t be funny if President Muhammadu Buhari’s fight
against corruption is also selective against the military as it already
appears to be against the political class and the president must look into
this obvious case of selective probe as a matter of urgency.” http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/arms-deal-group-wants-general-burutai-arrested/

brize:
He is a kid na

A mere commissioner should be loyal to his boss. Maybe na buhari bag em dey help carry

President Muhammadu Buhar’s  choice of Senator Ahmad Lawan for the post Senate President, has futther fractured the party caucus at the National Assembly. 

This contradicts Buhari’s earlier position. He had said he was not interested in who emerges.

The move by Buhari has angered the camp of  Senator Bukola Saraki, who believes the National Working Committee members in concert with Buhari may want Lawan who is viewed as more credible and a core northerner unlike Saraki

Buhari had said two weeks  ago “I am prepared to work with any leader that the House or Senate selects, “It doesn’t matter who the person is or where he or she is from “there is due process for the selection of leaders of the National Assembly, and I will not interfere in that process.

35 out of the 59 senators-elect under the platform of the All Progressives Congress, APC, had declared their support for Saraki. He had  posted the video of the endorsement on his Facebook and Twitter pages with the caption “videos don’t lie”.The APC at the General elections won majority of the 109 seats in the upper chamber.

Similarly, in a statement issued by Dino Melaye, for ‘Like Minds Senators’, he said, “Senators of the like mind are here today at the retreat organized by our dear party, All Progressives Congress, which is meant to equip and empower Senators-Elect of the 8th Assembly to prepare them toward the challenges ahead.

It was learnt that a meeting scheduled to decide on who takes the spot  was to hold Tuesday  at the International Conference Center in Abuja, was called off. 

While some said the plenary was responsible for the shift to Saturday, others allege it was a ploy by the Lawan group to re strategize.

In a meeting a day ago with members of the party’s NWC, President Muhammad Buhari had signaled his preference for Lawan. According to Sahara Reporters, several sources at the meeting disclosed that Buhari said he was tipping Senator Lawan because of his experience and integrity. Mr. Lawan hails from Nigeria’s violence-ravaged northeast zone.

President Buhari had asked party leaders to present one candidate as a way of projecting a united front. However, it was learnt that  the APC’s national chairman, Odigie Oyegun, was pushing for a primary to enable party members to choose between Saraki and Lawan. Some APC sources disclosed that Mr. Oyegun supports former Governor Saraki’s bid to emerge as the new Senate president.



Source

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/senate-presidency-buhari-goes-back-on-promise-endorses-lawan-as-crisis-deepens/


This administration isn't going to be funny. The northerners might have sinister agenda that is making Buhari to surround himself with core northern muslim. But God will definitely hear our cry, like he has been doing

All hail the great Achuzie and other gallant Biafra soldiers. I must appreciate them, no one could have believed that they could resist Nigeria soldiers for 3 years, considering their shortage of military kits.

MzJackBaueress:
Unazi is not an Igbo name. Definitely from the middle-belt or south-south. You better be surprised.

You are right. Unazi is South south but she is a Nigeria.

Fund embezzlement brings unity btw the 3 major tribes.
May God help our great nation.
We the poor/average Nigerians engage in nairaland tribal war while our so called leaders from different tribes unite to take away what belongs to all.

Togo’s incumbent President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe won more than 58.75 percent of the votes in the presidential election, securing another five years in office, preliminary results released Tuesday showed.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), ruling Union for the Republic party candidate Faure won 58.75 percent of the votes, while opposition Combat for Political Alternative in 2015 (CAP2015) alliance candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre won 34.95 percent.

“The national electoral commission states that Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe has been elected based on provisional results which are subject to confirmation by the Constitutional Court,” the commission’s head Taffa Tabiou said.

The INEC will soon transmit the provisional results to the Constitutional Court, which is responsible for examining appeals and electoral disputes before proclaiming the final results.

Gnassingbe came to power in April 2005, following special election after the death of his father General Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ran Togo from 1967 till his decease. He was reelected in 2010 with 60.89 percent of the votes.

Togo’s incumbent President Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe won more than 58.75 percent of the votes in the presidential election, securing another five years in office, preliminary results released Tuesday showed.

According to the Independent National Electoral Commission (CENI), ruling Union for the Republic party candidate Faure won 58.75 percent of the votes, while opposition Combat for Political Alternative in 2015 (CAP2015) alliance candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre won 34.95 percent.

“The national electoral commission states that Faure Essozimna Gnassingbe has been elected based on provisional results which are subject to confirmation by the Constitutional Court,” the commission’s head Taffa Tabiou said.

The INEC will soon transmit the provisional results to the Constitutional Court, which is responsible for examining appeals and electoral disputes before proclaiming the final results.

Gnassingbe came to power in April 2005, following special election after the death of his father General Gnassingbe Eyadema, who ran Togo from 1967 till his deceas

kastonkastrol:
op you are obviously crazy for comparing a great person like awolowo with that lunatic(ojukwu) who thought chest beating could make him win a war.

Is really pathetic for ibo people to call ojukwu their hero. A man who led 2million of his people to their early graves because of his selfish and greedy ambition is called a warlord by some people, how sick can that people ever get?



Don't you ever put awolowo and the midnight runner in same category ever again because is outright insult to the sense of odua people and a ridicule to awolowo dynasty....
Rather ojukwu and adolf hitler should be competing for the destroyers of human lives award.

Hilter led millions of his people to their early grave, same thing ojukwu did.


BE WARNED

Ojukwu will always be remembered as a warlord, hero and a saviour to the Igbo land.

What is Tinubu smoking over there?

President-elect General Muhammadu Buhari may have been confronted with his first acid test on the fight against corruption. Members of a panel set up by his party, All Progressives Congress (APC), to propose the zoning of political offices allegedly received $500,000 as bribe from a ranking senator from the Northcentral to doctor their report.

The party’s National Working Committee (NWC) had last Thursday inaugurated a five-man committee to come up with an acceptable formula for zoning political offices in the National Assembly.

The committee, Pointblanknews.com gathered, on the same day submitted its report to the National Chairman, Chief John Oyegun. However, it was gathered that the contents of the report changed between the venue of the earlier meeting and Oyegun’s house.

Pointblanknews.com gathered that the five-man panel had agreed that the position of Senate President be reserved for the Northeast, with the Southwest to produce the Speaker, House of Representatives.

However, the arrival a $500,000 largesse from a ranking senator from the Northcentral reportedly changed aspects of the report to suggest that the committee had recommended that the North central produce the Senate President and the Northeast the House Speaker.

Fumed an influential APC chieftain, “This is not 1993. The present realities do not support ceding the positions of Senate President and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the North alone.

“What we did was to cede the Senate President to the North east and the Speaker of the House of Representatives to the Southwest”, adding, “whoever collected money to doctor the report is on his own.”

Apparently embarrassed by the bribery allegation, which is reportedly being investigated, the APC leadership on Monday disowned the zoning formula published by some newspapers.

The party’s spokesman Alhaji Lai Mohammed urged Nigerians to disregard media reports on the alleged zoning of leadership offices in the National Assembly.

He said: “No appointments have been made and no offices have been zoned. The main concern of our party at the moment is to ensure a smooth transition and to hit the ground running, in the overall interest of the long-suffering people of Nigeria.

“At the appropriate time, Nigerians will be informed of the appointments made and the offices zoned.”

Meanwhile, the party’s National Executive Committee is expected to meet on Thursday to consider the tainted report of the National Working Committee (NWC) on the zoning of positions.

Some members of the party’s NEC told Pointblanknews.com that they knew the persons desperate to get party positions, but said such persons would smoke themselves out.

“We cannot wrest power from PDP only to hand it over to felons and criminals. Our mantra is change. Anybody who thinks it will be business as usual is living in a fools paradise. You either adapt to change or perish,” an officer declared.

Source

http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/news/500000-bribery-allegation-rocks-apc-zoning-panel/

High Chief Moses Enimade, the Oyewoga of Ode Irele in Ondo State, has linked the recent death of 20 youths in the town to a sacrilege done to Molokun, god of the land.

Enimade, next in command to Oba Cornelius Olanrewaju-Lebi, debunked the rumour that the deaths were caused by strange disease or Ebola virus.

No fewer than 20 youths reportedly died of severe headaches and blindness in the town recently.

Enimade contended that some stubborn youths broke into the inner room of Molokun Shrine on April 15.

“Molokun is a deity of the land, only the Chief Priest and High Chief Gboguron are qualified to enter the shrine.’’

The chief said the youths entered the shrine and made away with traditional items in a bid to acquire extra-ordinary powers and engage in money ritual.

“They were not qualified to enter the room (shrine). They had to face death penalty’’; he emphasised.

The Oyewoga said it he could not remember the last time Malokun or any other gods had to strike like this in the area.

According to him, there is no community or town without its own culture and tradition; what happened in Irele is the judgement of the gods on stubborn youths.

“Even the Kabiesi himself is not permitted to enter the Molokun Shrine’s inner room except the Chief Priest and High Chief Gboguron. Sacrifice must be performed before they can enter.

“Because these youths want to be rich at all costs, they entered the sacred place and made away with traditional items and 20 of them have died as a result of their desperate acts,

“We have to appease the gods or else many will still die and we have to bury them according to tradition. Their corpses belong to the gods and will be exhumed if buried by their families.’’

He restated that the deaths were not caused by diseases or ebola as widely speculated.

“The death caused by Molokun is characterised by severe headache and blindness.

“Proverbs 29:1 in the Bible say: `he that had been reproved and hardened his neck shall suddenly be destroyed without remedy; so youths of nowadays must be careful’’’, Enimade said.

Some residents who spoke with NAN appealed to the chief priest to make necessary atonement to avert calamity in the town.

They said news of the deaths had given the town and state a bad name.

Mr Saheed Osuolale said he was afraid when the news broke.

Mrs Esther Bantefa said the news had given the town and the state a bad name adding that the chief priest should as a matter of urgency perform necessary rituals.

“Our people in Lagos and other towns called us to get information if it was Ebola outbreak’’, she said.

Mrs Tayo Akinyelure said parents should warn their children against going near shrines.

“Many youths do not believe in all these traditions and customs. It is high time parents warned their children against committing sacrilege’’, she said.

May God deliver yoruba land from juju in this 21st century
Source
http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/04/18/strange-deaths-in-ondo-town-linked-with-anger-of-god/

doctokwus:
@least this gets to prove Amaechi right that no elections were conducted in Rivers state,for those who thought he was just acting as a sore loser.

If you don't know what to say, you keep shut. Problem of card readers, delay, disenfranchisement was experienced in almost all the states. Blame Jega for that

The Rivers State Police Command has dismissed claims by Governor Rotimi Amaechi that some thugs shot at his convoy on Thursday.

The governor’s spokesperson, David Iyofor, had said the incident happened in Rumuolumeni, Obio Akpor area of Port Harcourt.

But  the Rivers State command spokesperson, Muhammed Ahmad, in a statement said contrary to the report, shots were actually fired from the governor’s convoy.

The police said Mr. Amaechi merely raised false alarm to win public sympathy to back his “bogus” claim of being targeted by assassins.
Read Police Statement:
1. The Rivers State Police Command wishes to react to the news that went viral on both normal and social media quoting David Iyofor, Chief Press Secretary to Rivers State Governor to the effect that gun shots were fired at the convoy of his principal at Rumuolumeni, Obio/Akpor Local Government.
2. To put the records straight, after a successful and peaceful rally under the close watch of Policemen led by the Divisional Police Officer of the area, shots were indiscriminately fired from the convoy of the Governor for reasons best known to them, as against the wispy claim of David Iyofor. No shots were fired at the convoy of the Governor.
3. The false alarm which is the usual penchant of the State Government may not be unconnected with the bogus claim of assassination attempt by his principal that is to just whip up public sympathy.
4. The Command urges politicians to refrain from whipping sentiments by toying with security issues to create needless public panic, where there is none, please.

Amaechi is a desperate deadly man

Sooroptimist:
Breaking news: EFCC freezes all Father Mbaka Accounts




By Ifeoma Ononye

Senior reporter, Lagos



The information reaching us from Enugu says Economic and Financial Crime Commission (EFCC) have frozen all accounts of well known Enugu based reverend father Ejike Mbaka.

According to our source who was present at Mbaka’s Wednesday adoration Mass for the sick and needy, the reverend while giving his sermon narrated to his congregation how he went to withdraw money to buy food items for the poor masses that moved down from north because of the election, but to his surprise his cheques were returned.

When he enquired why he could not make any withdrawals, he was told EFCC has directed his accounts to be frozen. He stated that the commission is also inviting him to EFCC office in Port Harcourt for questioning.

The Reverend guessed the order may have been from President Goodluck Jonathan to cripple his activities during the elections that is coming up this weekend.

He further stated that he is not scared but in order to be cautious and not fall victim of assassination, he will not honor the invitation from EFCC. “They have threatened to arrest me at the cathedraticum which will take place at holy ghost cathedral, Enugu.

I won’t fail to be there on Friday” he said

The source who gave his name as Benjamin disclosed that President Goodluck is lucky that it is just one day to the election before the EFCC issue with father Mbaka cropped up. “the situation Would have messed him up”

Another ardent follower of the popular Mbaka adoration confirmed the story. But we could not get the father to confirm the story himself.?


SOURCE: http://dailyindependentnig.com/2015/03/breaking-news-efcc-freezes-father-mbaka-accounts/

LIES LIES LIES
Mbaka is simply making his money from the election. Guess Buhari has given him a fair share of the $700million to know if he can get sympathy vote from Igbos

dearpreye:
The Coast is clear!


Barring unforeseen circumstances, President Goodluck Jonathan is set to return to office, the Daily Times can authoritatively reveal.

The presidential and National Assembly elections are scheduled for Saturday in an exercise that is set to be a defining moment in the life of the country.

Jonathan, the incumbent President, who is seeking reelection on the ticket of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), is projected to record clear victories in 24 out of the nation’s 36 states.

His main challenger, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, of the All Progressives Congress (APC) will win convincingly in the remaining 12 states.

These projections came from an opinion poll, commissioned by the Daily Times newspaper and conducted by a team of renowned social scientists.

Using both upper and lower limits, the exercise showed that President Jonathan will have convincing victories in Abia, Akwa Ibom, Anambra, Bayelsa and Benue states.

The list also includes Cross River, Delta, Ebonyi, Edo, Ekiti, Enugu, FCT, Imo and Kogi states. The rest are Kwara, Lagos, Nasarawa, Niger, Ogun, Ondo, Osun, Oyo, Rivers and Taraba.

General Buhari is projected to also record huge victories in Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Jigawa, Kaduna, Kano, Katsina, Kebbi, Plateau, Sokoto, Yobe and Zamfara states.

The projection also includes respondents who are considered as conservative, optimistic and pessimistic.

The upper limit projections for Jonathan include Abia (90%), Akwa Ibom (85%), Anambra (85%), Bayelsa (95%), Benue (65%), and Cross River (90%).

It also includes Delta (80%), Ebonyi (75%), Edo (60%), Ekiti (60%), Enugu (80%) and FCT (55%).

The rest are Imo (70%), Kogi (65%), Kwara (60%), Lagos (55%), Nasarawa (55%), Niger (55%), Ogun (55%), Ondo (65%), Osun (55%), Oyo 60%), Rivers (75%) and Taraba (60%).

The upper limit for General Buhari are: Adamawa (80%), Bauchi (70%), Borno (80%), Gombe (75%), Jigawa (65%), Kaduna (60%), Kano (85%), Katsina (85%), Kebbi (85%), Plateau (60%), Sokoto (90%), Yobe (80%) and Zamfara (90%).

Source: http://dailytimes.com.ng/jonathan-may-win-24-states/

GEJ till 2019
Haters should keep on hating

Governor Rotimi Amaechi has been Rivers state Governor for quite a while. He was PDP and now APC. How he became governor is no news. He was one of those PDP rebel governors who exited for personal reasons.

In 2007 a supplementary budget of 53.2billion Naira was passed into law. In 2008 another supplementary budget of 177.930billion Naira was signed into law by Governor CRA bringing the total of Rivers State Budget for these period to 2,997.91trillion (Two trillion nine hundred and ninety seven billion and ninety one million).
Using the official foreign exchange of N150 to 1 dollar, Rivers State total budget for these period is $19.999bn (USD) @ N160 to $1(USD) the black or parallel market. The total budget for these period becomes $18.737bn(USD)

Total Security Vote for the 3years of governor Amaechi tenure is N27.5billion Naira …Money that will not be accounted for!

In the 2010 budget again N16.3billion was allocated for General administration and out of this amount 11billion is allocated to Government House

1. 2 trillion naira collected revenue that has not been accounted for.
2. 57 million dollars for the purchase of Aircraft.
3. 3 billion naira for the construction of Eneka road project is no where to be found.
4. 150 million dollars for the Portharcourt mega hospital is no where to be found.
5. 70 billion naira for tourism centre is no where to be found.
6. 7 trillion naira Federal allocation cannot be accounted for.
8.30 billion naira for the repair of Rumuokuta- China road is no where to be found.
9. 47 billion naira for the Trans -Amadinroad is no where to be found.
10. 250 million naira spent on foreign trips…… He only travelled to southAfrica.
11. He owns 20 companies in Ghana and his people are complaining of Jobs.
12. 20 billion naira for the construction of monorail.
13 2 billion dollars for the rehabilitation of ring-road.
14. 15 million dollars was given to Amaechi for security vote , but yet people sleep in portharcourt with their two eyes open.
15 12 million dollars was paid to some US based online blogs to report negatively against Mr President.
16. 100 million naira was collected by Amaechi to organise a conference.
17. 30 billion naira for building portharcourt stadium that is still in shambles.
18. Amaechi has made the state to owe 100 million dollars as foreign debt.

naijaracist:
The Northerners have kicked against the plan by the federal government to amend the 1999 constitution by creating another new state from the South East region. Speaking in Abuja, the Executive governor of Kano State, Rabiu Kwankwanso accused the Deputy Senate President, Ike Ekweremadu who is also the Chairman of the Constitutional Review Committee for his using his office to lobby for another state for his region without considering other regions, particularly the North. He noted that in Nigeria, the population of Kano state in the north is more than three states in the South East, and it won’t be justified to have a state created out of the Southeast. Kwankwanso said“In this course, the northern states, particularly the Kano State deserves one or two additional states. Not only this, just only the North West claimed about 35,786,944, while Sout-East and South South in addition is 37,396,384, please among all these regions, who should be considered for another new state?

“As far as we are concerned, if we have to go for constitution amendment, all issues should be on the table. We do not want a situation where state creation would be a matter of yes or man-know- man or I have this or I have that.

“Kano has 44 local governments because we are over 9.4million population by the last census and we have the landmass. Now if you want to change things, let us come up with criteria, don’t just do it under the table on the pretence that they have five states in the South-East.

“They (the South-East) should not have five in my opinion. What is the population of the South-East?

“I am saying this with all sense of responsibility; I am not playing any regional or ethnic politics. But you see, I am representing a state now. I will not allow anybody to go and make nonsense of what we have. If you want to create your state, go and create, do not call Kano anyhow.

The Governor charged all the northerner representatives in the National Assemblies to rise against the plot and call for equal share if there is a need for the amendment of the 1999 constitution.

“That is why I want to advise our own people to be more careful. They should not go to the National Assembly and do something else. You are on paper representing us and you go there and you are voting for others. “I want to challenge our members (from the North) to stand up. That is why I will support Northern governors to empower Arewa House, where they keep history, to go and put table in the gallery of the House of Representatives and in the gallery of the Senate. Any member of the House of Reps or Senate who is voting for any position should be recorded, his father, his constituency should be recorded.”


SOURCE:http://dailypost.ng/2015/03/22/it-northerners-deserve-another-state-south-east-kano-state-governor/?wt=2

The Arewa's think that they are the people entitled to additional state because of their population. That's why they give birth like goats. Look at Mrs Buhari getting married at the age of 9 and giving birth at 13years. With other Alhaji that gives birth to 30 children and we are complaining of unemployment and over population. Almost all men/women have the potential to give birth to 20 children, so they should stop seeing the regions that practice birth control as clueless people.

Dear General Buhari; I would’ve addressed this letter privately to you, but in the expectation that you may not receive it, I decided to make it an Open Letter, in the hope that you would stumble on it, read it and hopefully feel some of the pains and anguish that have been my lot. Having said that, permit me therefore to proceed with the rest of this missive from the grave of innocents departed.

Last night, while I was at my modest home in Katsina, relaxing and probably half-awake, I heard the voice of my cousin who was killed in the North in April 2011 during the post-election violence instigated by your loss of the presidential election. With bloodshot sad eyes, my cousin, looking apparition-like, was wailing “Gen Buhari, why why”. My cousin’s name is (or was) Mallam Yusuf Danfulani, a bright young lad originally from Katsina State, who was slaughtered in cold blood and set on fire by youths chanting “Sai Buhari”, like they are again now chanting in 2015.

Gen Buhari, in case you have forgotten, Yusuf was slaughtered in your name even though he never did any wrong to you, and even voted for you against Dr Jonathan. He lost his life just because the murderers you encouraged by your many hate speeches believed Yusuf to be from middle belt or southern Nigeria, most probably because of his bulky looks and brave, patriotic attempts to prevent the killing of an innocent Youth Corper, Ukeoma Ikechukwu. Even though he cried out in Hausa and Fulfulde, he was still not believed by those you (Buhari) managed to brainwash to see all non-Fulani Nigerians as conspiring to vote against you. In this very case, Yusuf voted for you but his ‘Sai Buhari’ killers never believed he did. Like you, Gen Buhari, the mob was baying for the blood of innocents.

If not for Yusuf’s best friend who was with him and was himself nearly killed, we would not have recognized his charred body that was burnt beyond recognition. And thanks to the same friend for recounting to us the little he could make out at the last moments of Yusuf’s life, the agony he passed through and the most important words he uttered before he gave up. It is the same words I heard him utter last night from the grave: ‘Gen Buhari, why why’. Yet, to this day, you (Buhari) have not cared to apologize or show any remorse, but you instead offered lame excuses for the bloodletting you had instigated, and still instigate. I now ask you this: Gen Buhari, must you always shade blood, like you started doing from 1983, to rule Nigeria? Do you recall how you killed Brigadier Bako in 1983 just so you could take power by force from Shehu Shagari?

General Buhari, Ukeoma Ikechukwu himself was reported missing that same day Yusuf was murdered by your supporters, and finally confirmed dead the following day when his charred remains was discovered in a hooded area. Apparently, your supporters had dragged him out of the open and tortured him before finally snuffing life out of him. Like my cousin, Yusuf, Ukeoma was very young and an innocent. Unlike Dr. Jonathan, they were not contesting against you. Yet, when they were killed, part of Nigeria was killed with them; the same Nigeria that you are now angrily campaigning to rule.

Yusuf and Ukeoma were not alone. Six other innocent Youth Corpers were also murdered in Bauchi, where you Buhari, polled 1,315,209 votes (almost 82 per cent), defeating Dr Jonathan who scored 258,404 votes and did not even hit the 25 per cent mark. The corps members were reportedly chased to a police station where they sought refuge. But the rioters, who were raving mad with bloodlust and chanting “Sai Buhari”, overran the station and murdered the young Nigerians in cold blood. So, Gen Buhari, as you can see from the Bauchi result and it’s aftermath, your supporters even shade blood when you win; still you have no qualms. Today, you are prancing around the nation, arrogant and angry as usual, behaving like you have already won the election; and thus setting up another bloodletting if you are not announced winner.

The story of Obinna Okpokiri is as heart-wrenching as Yusuf’s. The 27-year-old was butchered and burnt to ashes, in the service of his fatherland. Okpokiri’s own circumstances were as gruesome as they could be. He had run to the Corpers’ Lodge as the rampaging ‘Sai Buhari’ rioters targeted Youth Corper polling officers recruited by INEC for the election. As painful death loomed, the young Nigerians contemplated fleeing to the barracks. But they were not lucky enough. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters caught up with them, slaughtered and set them on fire. Like Yusuf, these innocents are human beings and future leaders on the last laps of fulfilling their national duty before moving on to a bright future. But it was not to be because, in your name, Gen Buhari, they were slaughtered, sliced, soaked in petrol and scorched. Reduced to ashes in minutes and in the most callous fashion by those that are not better citizens or humans than them.

General Buhari, while you are now busy inciting another violence, please bear in mind that in 2011, your supporters turned violent in whole 12 northern states as they burned the homes, vehicles, and properties of innocent Nigerians, some of whom are also Muslims and Northerners like you and my cousin Yusuf. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters also targeted and killed Christians and members of southern Nigerian ethnic groups, who were seen as supporting the PDP, and they burnt churches across the north. One particular attack in Bauchi stood out as most heart-breaking. According to Human Rights Watch, on April 17 in Giade, a rural town in northern Bauchi, ‘Sai Buhari’ mobs attacked youth corps members in the town. The Corpers, who were mostly from Yoruba, ran to the local police station to seek refuge, but the mobs stormed the police station. The mob killed the police officer on duty and burned down the police station. They raped two of the female youth corps members and then hacked them to death with machetes, along with five male youth corps members. In total, rioters killed ten youth corps members in that town alone.

A lecturer at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna State, described to Human Rights Watch how a mob of Muslims chanting “Change, Sai Buhari” attacked and killed several Christian students, a Christian lecturer and four Muslim students suspected of being PDP sympathizers on April 17: He said “Between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., they entered the school chanting slogans and shouting: “Where are the Christians and Muslims that supported the ruling party?” They had painted their faces black and were shouting that they needed “change”, the Congress for Progressive Change campaign slogan. The mob had all sorts of weapons – machetes, sticks, and clubs. They started breaking the glass on the buildings. The students ran away but the mob pursued them into the staff quarters and they had nowhere to go. The mob beat them to death. The lecturer they killed was Yoruba“.

Finally, Gen Buhari, let me end this letter by asking you this question: When are you going to apologize to me, to Yusuf’s aged parents, to Ukeoma’s parents, to parents of all innocents murdered by your brainwashed supporters, to Nigeria and to mankind? And here is Yusuf again, asking you from the grave: “Gen Buhari, why why”.

Nigeria’s government on Wednesday denied reports of a mass kidnapping in the country’s northeast, as Boko Haram militants flee a four-nation military offensive.

“There is no fresh kidnapping in Damasak,” Nigeria’s national security spokesman Mike Omeri told AFP, referring to the town recently retaken by forces from neighbouring Chad and Niger.

Reports suggested that the Islamist militants, who seized the town in Borno state earlier this year, made off with hundreds of children as they fled the troops’ advance.

But Omeri said Nigeria had no information about a mass abduction. A senator who represents the area and a senior intelligence source also cast doubt on the reports.

The contradictory claims shed light on the difficulty of establishing facts in the brutal, six-year conflict, with communications infrastructure devastated in the northeast and travel restricted.

Officials, the military and locals frequently give contrasting information.

The militants do have a track record of mass kidnappings, however, including the high-profile abduction of more than 200 schoolgirls in April last year from the Borno town of Chibok.

Details about the kidnapping were muddied for weeks by military and official denials of details reported by the affected families.

The disputes over what actually happened were finally laid to rest when Boko Haram released a video picturing dozens of the hostages, who were subsequently identified by relatives.

Omeri noted Boko Haram’s widely reported tactic of forcibly conscripting young boys during their hit-and-run attacks and attempts to indoctrinate them into the group’s radical ideology.

Many Boko Haram fighters are believed to be on the run as a result of the offensive by Nigeria, Niger, Chad and Cameroon, who have routed the insurgents from dozens of towns.

Several sources said it was possible, and perhaps even likely, that scores of Boko Haram conscripts were missing, feared kidnapped by the militants across the region.

But they denied a specific mass abduction in Damasak, where the Chadian military last week said that about 100 bodies, some of them decapitated, were found in a mass grave.

Senator Maina Lawan, whose constituency includes Damasak, said: “I will be extremely surprised that such a huge number of my constituents would be abducted without me being informed.

“It is very unlikely that Boko Haram would have abducted such a huge number of people from Damasak because most of the people had fled months ago when Boko Haram took over‎.”

A senior intelligence source in Borno’s capital Maiduguri said there was “no iota of truth” to the mass abduction claims.

I wonder why our politicians will pass a fallacious news just to sabotage the effort of the government and the military.

Governor Rauf Aregbesola of Osun on Wednesday opened up on his inability to pay the salaries of workers in the state for five months, blaming it on “declining federal allocation.”

The governor made the open confession at the 7th Bola Tinubu Colloquium organised to mark Tinubu’s 63rd birthday in Lagos.

He said he was deeply pained and unhappy that he had not been able to pay workers salaries.

“I have found it hard to pay the wage bills owing to the declining federal allocation to the state.

“Federal allocation to the state has reduced by 40 per cent since 2013, making it difficult for government to meet up its responsibilities,” he said.

Aregbesola said the situation became so bad at a time that he resorted to the state’s reserves and exhausted it on payment of salaries.

The governor added that the government went ahead to accumulate debt of N12 billion in its bid to ensure that salaries were paid.

He said that he would not mind to borrow more “just to ensure that workers were paid but the “banks would not grant more loans.”

He said: “Osun is next to Lagos in the sheer size of its civil service.

“In fact, the state inherited 50 per cent of all the workers in the old western state and more than 75 per cent in the old Oyo State.

“I was meeting my wage bill of over N3.6 billion with N4.6 billion federal allocation until July, 2013 when the Federal Government announced a decline of about 40 per cent allocation to states.

“This reduced the state’s allocation from N4.6 billion with which I was meeting my bills to N2.6 billion.

“Since then, Osun has had to augment salaries by sometimes N1 billion, sometimes N1.6 billion.

“Before the last time I paid salaries in November, 2014, I have had to either spent the state’s reserves on salaries or borrow money.

“Today, I have a loan of N12 billion that we spent on salaries and I could not go to the banks anymore.”

The governor said that his administration remained pro-workers in spite of the tight corner it had found itself, pledging to pay the salary arrears as soon as the means was available.

He reiterated the commitment of his administration to the welfare of the people, adding that he had demonstrated the commitment with the implementation of a number of programmes.

He described Tinubu as “an icon through whom many great leaders had risen”

http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2015/03/25/why-i-owe-osun-workers-5-months-salary-aregbesola/


What a clumsy excuse from a failed governor from a failed party.

egift:
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Corruption will be kicked back to Otueke. You better start looking for another job. Being a TANkid is terminal

One billion of your type can't unseat the president. Never will Buhari be the president of the Nigeria again. We ain't oblivious of his atrocities and the disaster he will bring to Nigeria.

lilflipnerd:
Sorry did he use his money any of dis shiit

It's an evidence of how judiciously Nigerians money is being spent and his administrations effort to create employment

tayebest:
Pictures or... [b]Pictures or... [/b]Pictures or...

Continue deceiving yourself

politricks:
And In 2015 Nigerians shall choose the incorruptible general.
Cant wait to dance Sekem when Buhari is sworn in.
#marchforbuhari

It's your choice but don't make a mistake that will affect life forever.

The Economy

Created 1.6 million new jobs under various programmes including the Community Service Scheme (CSS), Graduate Internship Scheme (GIS), Youth Enterprise with Innovation in Nigeria (YouWiN!) and the Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Program (SURE-P).

Created 250,000 jobs in the agriculture sector by enabling Dry Season Farming in 10 Northern states.

Launched the National Industrial Revolution Plan (NIRP) to spearhead private sector-led industrialization by strengthening the value chain of various manufacturing industries.

Today, Nigeria has become a major destination for multinational investment in car manufacturing. Big auto giants, including Peugeot, Nissan and Hyundai, now either assemble, or entirely manufacture, their cars, SUVs, trucks and buses at various locations in Nigeria. Innoson Vehicle Manufacturing Company (IVM), Nigeria’s flagship indigenous automaker, began the sale of its first made-in-Nigeria cars and SUVs in August 2014. National Automotive Industry has made it possible for ten Car manufacturing companies to open business in Nigeria. These include KIA, INNOSSON, NISSAN amongst others. Some of the plants that where already operational in the country but where forced to shut down due to influx of imported fairly-used vehicles, including Peugeot Automobile Nigeria, Leyland, Fiat, Volkswagen and Mercedes, would bring into the country complete knock-down vehicles.

Introduced SURE-P (The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme), which has created 185,000 jobs across the country.

Lowered government fiscal deficit from 3.35% of GDP in 2010 to 1% in 2014.

Enhanced transparency in government financing through the publication of monthly FAAC allocations to Federal, States, and Local Governments.

Hosted the World Economic Forum on Africa for the first time in 2014, showcasing Nigeria’s impressive economic growth to a global audience and attracting further foreign investment.

Generated $68bn in Foreign Direct Investment, with notable projects including: Indorama’s $1.2bn fertilizer plant at Onne, Procter and Gamble’s $250mn consumer goods plant in Ogun, and SAB Miller’s $100mn brewery in Onitsha.

Tackled fraud in the oil subsidy regime, identifying N370 billion in fraudulent claims now targeted for recovery.

Spearheaded the YouWIN programme, aimed at creating youth employment and alleviating poverty. The programme will create 80,000 -110,000 jobs over 3 years.

Initiated the Community Works Programme to create 370,000 jobs in 3 years with all 36 states and the FCT benefitting.

Established the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority (NSIA) to manage the Sovereign Wealth Fund and oversee The Future Generations Fund, The Nigeria Infrastructure Fund and The Stabilization Fund.

INFRASTRUCTURE

Power:

Released the Roadmap for Power Sector Reform, laid out a strategy for expanding capacity, improving service delivery, and removing obstacles to private sector investment.

Instituted the Presidential Action Committee on Power (PACP) and the Presidential Task Force on Power (PTFP) to drive the implementation of reforms in the power sector.

Privatized the power sector, unbundling PHCN into 11 distribution companies (DISCO’S) and 6 generation companies (GENCO’S) and a single transmission company (TCN), and positioning the sector to respond adequately to growing power demands. The sale of PHCN’s assets was the largest and most transparent privatization transaction in Nigeria to date.

Secured $3 billion for investment in transmission capacity expansion through 2018.

Improved stability in electricity generation and distribution. Power generation increased from 3,514MW in 2011 to 4,500MW.

Roads:

Some 2,000 kilometers of road were built or rehabilitated by the end of 2013 – the highest in a single year by any government.

Increased good and safe motorable length of Federal Roads from about 52% (17,742km) to nearly 85% (28,320km).

Deployed 38 state-of-the-art Bergkamp FP5 Mobile Pothole patchers for year-round road repairs.

Introduced the SURE P Public Works Programme, which trained and hired more than 6,000 Nigerian youths to maintain and improve the country’s road system.

Installed street lighting along usually dark urban stretches of Federal highways and major bridges across the country.

Commenced construction of the 2nd Niger Bridge, which is funded through a Public Private Partnership (PPP) arrangement.

Launched the rehabilitation of the 127.6km Lagos-Ibadan expressway.

Enabled the ongoing rehabilitation of the Oturkpo-Oweto Road in Benue State, Otukpa-Anyangba-Ajaokuta-Okene Road in Kogi, Ningi-Yadagumgume-Fuskar Mata Road in Bauchi, Wukari-Takum Road in Taraba and Benin-Shagamu Expressway in Edo State.

Water:

The Jonathan administration has revitalized the 12 River Basin Development Authorities (RBDAs) nationwide.

Completed the Greater Makurdi Water Supply Scheme to supply 50 litres of water per day to nearly one million people in Makurdi.

Brought the massive Galma Dam water supply project to 85% completion. This project will supply 186 million cubic metres for potable water to residents in 23 towns in Kaduna State.

Brought the Kashimbilla Multipurpose Buffer Dam Project to 65% completion. This project will supply 60 million gallons of treated water per day to citizens in Taraba State.

Completed the Mangu Water Supply project, which supplies more than 2.5 million gallons of clean water per day to the residents of Gindiri and Mangu township in Plateau State

Completed the Northern Ishan Water Supply project, which provides 2.5 million gallons of clean water per day to the communities of Uromi, Ubaiaja, Ugengu, Ugboha and Iguben in Edo State.

Brought to 35 percent complettion the Central Ogbia Regional Water Supply project, which will provide potable water and sanitation to 16 communities in Uteke, Bayelsa State.

Rail:

Produced a 25-Year Strategic Vision for Nigerian Railways.

Rehabilitated the Western Railway Corridor: Lagos-Ibadan-Ilorin-Jebba-Minna-Kaduna-Zaria-Kano, with a branch line from Zaria-Kaura Namoda.

Rehabilitated the Eastern Railyway Corridor: Port Harcourt-Aba-Umuahia-Enugu-Makurdi-Lafia-Kuru-Bauchi-Gombe-Maiduguri, with branch lines from Kafanchan-Kaduna and Kuru-Jos.

Modernized the Abuja (Idu)-Kaduna Standard Gauge rail line.

Rehabilitated and constructed the Itakpe-Ajaokuta-Warri Standard Gauge rail line.

Rehabilitated the Apapa Port railway network.

Procured 29 new locomotives and 20 new tank wagons.

Refurbished 240 coaches and wagons.

EDUCATION

Achievements:

Developed a 4-year strategic plan for the development of the Education Sector to strengthen the institutional management of education, improve access and equity, ensure quality, enhance teacher education and development, provide technical and vocational education and training, and improve partnerships and resource mobilization.

Launched the Safe Schools Initiative to ensure that young people are not only safe in going to school, but that schools are an environment ripe for learning, growth and development free of fear.

Introduced a Formal Early Childhood Education programme.

Constructed special girls schools in 13 states of the Federation in order to improve the Girls’ Education Programme, including girls boarding schools in Adamawa, Yobe, Zamfara, Nasarawa, Ebonyi, Ekiti, Delta and Akwa Ibom.

Launched the National Campaign on Access to Basic Education across the geo-political zones to reduce the number of out-of school children.

Established 14 new universities to improve access to higher education in the North and ensure that students in all states have access to a Federal University.

Constructed 64 Almajiri Model Schools, which has recently begun operation. These are part of a list of 89 schools being constructed by the administration through the Universal Basic Education, UBEC (the remaining 25 have been completed and will soon be handed over to the host states). 300 additional Almajiri schools have been slated for construction in line with the survey conducted.

Created a National Framework for the Development and Integration of the Almajiri Education into basic education.

Refurbished and equipped 51 Federal and State Polytechnics with modern laboratories to encourage participation in technical and vocational education and training.

Refurbished 352 science and technical laboratories in the 104 Federal Unity Colleges, in addition to providing 62 ICT centres and 40 sets of mathematical kits.

Distributed a total of 19.67 million instructional materials in the four core subjects of English language, mathematics, basic science and technology, and social studies to primary 1 & 2 pupils.

Invested in training and development for teachers, principals and vice-principals of primary and secondary schools as well as federal unity colleges across the country.

AGRICULTURE

Achievements:

Increased food production by over 8 million metric tons, averting a predicted food crisis from flooding.

Reduced food imports from N1.1 trillion in 2011 to N648 billion in 2012.

Ended four decades of corruption in fertilizer and seed distribution.

Revolutionized the way farmers receive farm inputs through the e-wallet system, which assures farmers receive subsidized agricultural inputs directly and prevents exploitation from middlemen and profiteers.

Drastically curtailed wheat imports by enacting policies that encourage production of Nigerian produced cassava flour.

Increased the number of farmers in Northern states who are profitably engaged in farming to over 250,000.

Increased grain storage capacity by over 300%.

Increased rice production, placing Nigeria on the path towards self-sufficiency.

HEALTH

Achievements:

Refurbished 1,500 primary healthcare facilities and provided them with essential drugs.

Introduced SURE-P (The Subsidy Reinvestment and Empowerment Programme), which has provided vital funding to health care services, leading to a 26% decrease in the maternal mortality rate and a 22% decrease in neonatal mortality rate.

Implemented the “Saving One Million Lives” initiative, through which over 433,650 lives were saved from November 2012 to June 2013 by scaling up six cost-effective interventions including Maternal & Child Health, Nutrition, Prevention of Mother to Child Transmission (PMTCT) of HIV, Provision of Essential Commodities, Malaria Control, Routine Immunisation/Eradication of Polio.

Rehabilitated and modernised teaching hospitals and medical centres such as OAU and UNIBEN teaching hospitals.

Reduced under-5 mortality from 157 out of 1,000 live births to 94 out of 1,000 live births.

Reduced maternal mortality from 545 women per 100,000 to 350 women per 100,000.

Introduced, for the first time in the history of Nigeria, a curriculum for the training of paramedics.

Recruited 11,300 frontline health workers who were deployed to under-served communities across the country.

Held a week-long Presidential Summit on Universal Health Coverage, with the aim of boosting efforts to provide access to affordable, high quality healthcare for every Nigerian.

DEMOCRACY AND HUMAN RIGHTS

Achievements:

Initiated the National Conference to deliberate and make recommendations on resolving Nigeria’s current political and socio-economic challenges.

Strengthened public watchdogs including the National Human Rights Commission (NHRC).

Actively fostered collaboration with human rights leaders and other civil society activists on constitutional reform.

Implemented the recommendations of the report of the independent electoral reform commission chaired by a revered former Chief Justice of Nigeria, Hon. Justice Mohammed Uwais.

Reconstituted the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) and appointed as its chair, a highly respected university professor and human rights activist, Professor Attahiru Jega.

Ensured that INEC was made financially independent and its commissioners were not required to belong to political parties.

Fostered a competitive electoral system by refusing to deploy the instruments of federal power to determine outcomes of elections in Nigeria, as had been done by previous administrations.

Why should I not believe the allegation of Fani Kayode that Buhari has cut a deal with Western nations to repeal President’s Jonathan’s anti-gay law in exchange for their support? That is how desperate the APC is for power. What else would they not do? What else have they not done? Whatever the case, the fact is that the New York Times will never support Buhari except on the platform of the promotion of gay rights. That is what the paper basically stands for.

From the information at my disposal, I have no problem believing the “wild” allegation by Chief Femi Fani Kayode that, indeed, Buhari was approached and offered Western support and endorsement on the condition that he considers repealing the anti-gay law signed by Goodluck Jonathan. This matter could even have been in the works long before Fani Kayode released his bombshell. But I must confess that I thought Fani Kayode was a little crazy when I read what he initially said. I felt maybe he must have taken pawpaw with some onions and gotten such a bad stomach upset he needed to release the stress.

As an honest Muslim, I have no doubt that Buhari is facing the moral crisis of his life because of this. He is suddenly face-to-face with evil and he has to make a choice. He has come to understand, even more than Dr. Jonathan, the extent these people are willing to go to have men having sexual intercourse with other men and forcing others to clap instead of being naturally repulsed. The problem is that Buhari also wants to be president. He now knows what the endorsements are about. From the way things are going, under the pressure of wanting to be president, General Buhari may have already caved in. The giveaway in this orchestrated campaign is the New York Times.

Nigerians should hear this: knowing what it does in America and what it has come to stand for, there is no way New York Times will endorse Buhari (especially in view of the facts on the ground and Buhari’s human rights albatross) except in the belief that Buhari will be an asset to the gay agenda. Anyone who doubts this should pray and fast and that Buhari wins and just wait and see what happens next.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a bloody civilian and a retired military general.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that was once elected by majority of Nigerians and another man that has always been rejected by majority of Nigerians.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that has never won an election in Nigeria and another man that has never lost an election in Nigeria

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that has deepened democracy and another man that destroyed democracy over 30 years ago.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that became Head of State without the blessings of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, and another man who became President only after he was sworn in by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that cancelled a railway project he did not initiate (even after the state that initiated it had paid a whopping $50m as counterpart fund), and another man that initiated, sponsored, and has actually built railway lines linking the north of Nigeria to the South of Nigeria and intends to do more.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who is so scared of criticism he forbids anyone to say anything not favourable to his government and threatens any who attempts to do so with jail without fair hearing, and another man who is so confident in democracy and confident of himself that, in view of his legion of enemies and their ownership of media houses, not only signed the Freedom of Information Bill into law, but has publicly averred that no Nigerian will go to jail for criticizing him.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that believes (by his actions and utterances) that becoming Nigeria’s president is his right, and another man that is grateful for the privilege to serve this great country as number one citizen.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who, through his actions, resembles a hater of education and enlightenment than anything else, and another man who will go down in history as the first to consider the plight of the millions of uneducated street urchins parading street corners in the north, and who actually began to do something to change their story by building 150 Almajiri Schools for them, even though primary education is not really the responsibility of the federal government.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that violently stopped the September 1985 National Conference of the National Association of Nigerian Students, attacked a press conference of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU, and even banned the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, and another man that has opened the floodgates of freedom of association and whose government has no political prisoners.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that did not build a single institution (tertiary, secondary, or primary) throughout the time he was Head of State, and another man who loves education and loves to see others educated so much that he has given evidence for this by building 14 federal universities in just 4 years – an unprecedented record in Nigeria’s history.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who is directly responsible for denying young people their right to life by retroactively applying a decree just to make sure they are killed, and another man that loves young people so much his government became the first to seek out young people and give them grants as much as N10m through his YouWin initiative and several others, just so that they can live a better life. NOTE: These grants are grants: they are not loans to be repaid.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who has a tactical and reactive approach to fighting corruption (even though corruption is only a symptom of a more serious disease) and another man who has a strategic approach. This man has called corruption by its real name – stealing – and focuses on the diseases that lead to corruption by implementing a strategy of rapid education, infrastructural development, women and youth empowerment, and curbing actual corruption through the deployment of technology to make corruption impossible.

DETAILS

General Buhari is a military man. He was trained to destroy – to fight. This is why the General is always saying he is going to fight. He wants to fight corruption and guarantee security, which he will achieve by fighting. Even his economic plan is not based on key development initiatives but fighting waste. If there is more money, then, every other thing will take care of itself. Many people believe that General Buhari built our refineries, but he did so under the orders of another administration – the first Obasanjo administration: many also believe General Buhari built roads and several other infrastructures; but, again, he did so under another administration – the Abacha administration. On his own, the man seems a better destroyer than builder. It is on record that, all through his 20-month reign, General Buhari did not do much more than basically fight. Or is there a road somewhere I missed; or a hospital, or some tractors he bought, or a school he equipped, or even a barrack he built between December 1983 and August 1985? I will honestly like to know. During his brief stay in power, General Buhari was busy fighting. He fought politicians, he fought journalists, he fought drug barons, he tried to kidnap Umaru Dikko from Britain, he fought the Nigerian Medical Association, he fought ASUU, he fought NANS, he killed young people outside the law, he jailed respectable politicians, he harassed traditional rulers, he humiliated elected leaders, he fought ordinary Nigerians and had them whipped on the streets, he fought free speech and he fought freedom of association; he even attempted to fight men in green like himself, which was what led to his untimely ouster. Now, it must be noted that the fight of General Buhari is always for the common good – or so he always believes. This is what makes his brutal actions somewhat forgivable and I have no doubt that the man means well. The problem is that, in spite of his good intentions, it takes a lot more to be a leader. Together with the fact that the man is personally abstemious, not materialistic, and almost Spartan, it is no wonder that Buhari has some magical effect, especially in the north and especially among the peasants, who cannot be accused of any kind of sophistication in their mode of reasoning. When politicians associate with Buhari, it is always as a result of this secondary advantage of his, which means some secured voters. Democracy does not discriminate between the vote of a complete illiterate who does as he or she is told, and an employer of labour in the thousands who contributes to society and understands economics and the dynamics of politics and societal development; so, notwithstanding, Buhari has real electoral value.

Why has General Buhari suddenly become so important in the Nigerian polity? Is it even a mystery? Maybe it is an issue of memory.

Until November 2013, Buhari was only important in the sense that he was tending towards a Guinness World Record – as the man that had contested and lost more presidential elections in history than any other. He had contested against Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003 and lost; he had contested against Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007 and lost; again, he had contested against Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and lost, in an election adjudged free and fair by members of the international community as well as by local observers. Although the General did not accept the result of that election and even, unwittingly or otherwise, made statements that led to the deaths of several Nigerians, the point, for now, is that he lost. If Nigerians have rejected this man at least 3 times, why are they suddenly in love with him?

Or are they?

“It is becoming apparent that the recent replacement of Service Chiefs is part of President Jonathan’s plan to use state apparatus to scale the 2011 presidential hurdle. Anything short of a Northern President is tantamount to stealing our Presidency. Jonathan has to go and he will go. Even if he uses the incumbency power to get his nomination on the platform of the PDP, he would be frustrated out.”

“The North is determined, if that happens, to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan or any other Southerner who finds his way to the seat of power on the platform of the PDP against the principle of the party’s zoning policy.”

When someone challenged Kaita that northern Christian were going to vote for Dr. Jonathan in the 2011 elections, this was his response:

“What you may call Northern Christians are concentrated more in Benue State where they may constitute about 90 per cent. In Plateau State, if you study that carefully, the Christian/Muslim population is 60 per cent for Christians, 40 per cent Muslims, so Plateau State is not an entirely a Christian State. The only state in the North that is substantially a Christian community is Benue State.”1

One wonders if this is why we often read of raids in these two states by Fulani herdsmen who are armed beyond the average Nigerian soldier.

Consider the following facts:

Some people in the north did not want Dr. Jonathan to be president beyond 29th May, 2011
Some people in the north felt so bad about Dr. Jonathan’s ascension they damned the consequence and the possibility of prosecution and openly threatened to make his government ungovernable
Some people in the north felt cheated by Yar’Adua’s death and felt Jonathan was an opportunist
Some people in the north did not believe that Dr. Jonathan deserved to be President even after Yar’Adua’s death
Some people in the north felt it was the right of the north to rule for 8 years, in spite of the fact of Yar’Adua’s death
Some people in the north have never spoken a word in condemnation of the Boko Haram insurgency
Some people in the north have never sympathized with the Nigerian government and military in their fight against Boko Haram
Some people in the north have never offered condolences to the families of those slain by Boko Haram’s bullets and bombs
Some people in the north have risen to the defense of Boko Haram at least once
Some people in the north have said that Boko Haram (which must now be seen as ISIS) should be treated by the government of Nigeria the same way the government of Nigeria treated Niger Delta militants
Some people in the north have accused the government of killing “their people” when the government launched an offensive against Boko Haram
Some people in the north have been so incensed by the killing of Boko Haram by Nigerian troops that they threatened to take Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (General Ihejirika) to the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Some people in the north vehemently opposed the state of emergency declared by the Nigerian government in some northern states, to help the military establish command and control to deal with the Boko Haram insurgency
Some people in the north have stated their preference for Sharia law, which is also in tandem with Boko Haram’s objective


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/response-to-barrister-keyamos-article-endorsing-gmb/

studio14:
Does that bring NEPA to my house?

NEPA has been an existing problem that the federal government is working very hard to solve.
A vote for Buhari is a vote for terrorism.

Dear General Buhari; I would’ve addressed this letter privately to you, but in the expectation that you may not receive it, I decided to make it an Open Letter, in the hope that you would stumble on it, read it and hopefully feel some of the pains and anguish that have been my lot. Having said that, permit me therefore to proceed with the rest of this missive from the grave of innocents departed.

Last night, while I was at my modest home in Katsina, relaxing and probably half-awake, I heard the voice of my cousin who was killed in the North in April 2011 during the post-election violence instigated by your loss of the presidential election. With bloodshot sad eyes, my cousin, looking apparition-like, was wailing “Gen Buhari, why why”. My cousin’s name is (or was) Mallam Yusuf Danfulani, a bright young lad originally from Katsina State, who was slaughtered in cold blood and set on fire by youths chanting “Sai Buhari”, like they are again now chanting in 2015.

Gen Buhari, in case you have forgotten, Yusuf was slaughtered in your name even though he never did any wrong to you, and even voted for you against Dr Jonathan. He lost his life just because the murderers you encouraged by your many hate speeches believed Yusuf to be from middle belt or southern Nigeria, most probably because of his bulky looks and brave, patriotic attempts to prevent the killing of an innocent Youth Corper, Ukeoma Ikechukwu. Even though he cried out in Hausa and Fulfulde, he was still not believed by those you (Buhari) managed to brainwash to see all non-Fulani Nigerians as conspiring to vote against you. In this very case, Yusuf voted for you but his ‘Sai Buhari’ killers never believed he did. Like you, Gen Buhari, the mob was baying for the blood of innocents.

If not for Yusuf’s best friend who was with him and was himself nearly killed, we would not have recognized his charred body that was burnt beyond recognition. And thanks to the same friend for recounting to us the little he could make out at the last moments of Yusuf’s life, the agony he passed through and the most important words he uttered before he gave up. It is the same words I heard him utter last night from the grave: ‘Gen Buhari, why why’. Yet, to this day, you (Buhari) have not cared to apologize or show any remorse, but you instead offered lame excuses for the bloodletting you had instigated, and still instigate. I now ask you this: Gen Buhari, must you always shade blood, like you started doing from 1983, to rule Nigeria? Do you recall how you killed Brigadier Bako in 1983 just so you could take power by force from Shehu Shagari?

General Buhari, Ukeoma Ikechukwu himself was reported missing that same day Yusuf was murdered by your supporters, and finally confirmed dead the following day when his charred remains was discovered in a hooded area. Apparently, your supporters had dragged him out of the open and tortured him before finally snuffing life out of him. Like my cousin, Yusuf, Ukeoma was very young and an innocent. Unlike Dr. Jonathan, they were not contesting against you. Yet, when they were killed, part of Nigeria was killed with them; the same Nigeria that you are now angrily campaigning to rule.

Yusuf and Ukeoma were not alone. Six other innocent Youth Corpers were also murdered in Bauchi, where you Buhari, polled 1,315,209 votes (almost 82 per cent), defeating Dr Jonathan who scored 258,404 votes and did not even hit the 25 per cent mark. The corps members were reportedly chased to a police station where they sought refuge. But the rioters, who were raving mad with bloodlust and chanting “Sai Buhari”, overran the station and murdered the young Nigerians in cold blood. So, Gen Buhari, as you can see from the Bauchi result and it’s aftermath, your supporters even shade blood when you win; still you have no qualms. Today, you are prancing around the nation, arrogant and angry as usual, behaving like you have already won the election; and thus setting up another bloodletting if you are not announced winner.

The story of Obinna Okpokiri is as heart-wrenching as Yusuf’s. The 27-year-old was butchered and burnt to ashes, in the service of his fatherland. Okpokiri’s own circumstances were as gruesome as they could be. He had run to the Corpers’ Lodge as the rampaging ‘Sai Buhari’ rioters targeted Youth Corper polling officers recruited by INEC for the election. As painful death loomed, the young Nigerians contemplated fleeing to the barracks. But they were not lucky enough. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters caught up with them, slaughtered and set them on fire. Like Yusuf, these innocents are human beings and future leaders on the last laps of fulfilling their national duty before moving on to a bright future. But it was not to be because, in your name, Gen Buhari, they were slaughtered, sliced, soaked in petrol and scorched. Reduced to ashes in minutes and in the most callous fashion by those that are not better citizens or humans than them.

General Buhari, while you are now busy inciting another violence, please bear in mind that in 2011, your supporters turned violent in whole 12 northern states as they burned the homes, vehicles, and properties of innocent Nigerians, some of whom are also Muslims and Northerners like you and my cousin Yusuf. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters also targeted and killed Christians and members of southern Nigerian ethnic groups, who were seen as supporting the PDP, and they burnt churches across the north. One particular attack in Bauchi stood out as most heart-breaking. According to Human Rights Watch, on April 17 in Giade, a rural town in northern Bauchi, ‘Sai Buhari’ mobs attacked youth corps members in the town. The Corpers, who were mostly from Yoruba, ran to the local police station to seek refuge, but the mobs stormed the police station. The mob killed the police officer on duty and burned down the police station. They raped two of the female youth corps members and then hacked them to death with machetes, along with five male youth corps members. In total, rioters killed ten youth corps members in that town alone.

A lecturer at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna State, described to Human Rights Watch how a mob of Muslims chanting “Change, Sai Buhari” attacked and killed several Christian students, a Christian lecturer and four Muslim students suspected of being PDP sympathizers on April 17: He said “Between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., they entered the school chanting slogans and shouting: “Where are the Christians and Muslims that supported the ruling party?” They had painted their faces black and were shouting that they needed “change”, the Congress for Progressive Change campaign slogan. The mob had all sorts of weapons – machetes, sticks, and clubs. They started breaking the glass on the buildings. The students ran away but the mob pursued them into the staff quarters and they had nowhere to go. The mob beat them to death. The lecturer they killed was Yoruba“.

Finally, Gen Buhari, let me end this letter by asking you this question: When are you going to apologize to me, to Yusuf’s aged parents, to Ukeoma’s parents, to parents of all innocents murdered by your brainwashed supporters, to Nigeria and to mankind? And here is Yusuf again, asking you from the grave: “Gen Buhari, why why”.