₦airaland Forum

naijangel7:
the same Yar'Adua that has been dead for a year? Is GEJ waiting for him to come back and right his wrongs? These GEJ peeps, o di egwu.

HourGlass1:
Yesterday food log was something else, garri and water just once at noon and thats it, infection made food a fear-factor for me yesterday. This morning, i woke with a little strength and a healthier tummy. Took 3 slices of white bread and beef in the morning and almost 7 servings of fruits as at now, 1 cup rice tonight. No exercise but on the move for 45 mins altogether. This unexplained weakness has greatly subsided too. I just thank God for everything. @123, dont mind me o, it was weightloss obsession that nearly drag me inside wahala o, LOW FAT YOGURT!!!

naijangel7:
on whose watch did all this happen?

dayokanu:
A man who has all the thieves in Nigeria behind him

From Anenih, OBJ, Bode George, Alams

Kobojunkie:
[size=13pt]About $300 Billion dollars spentso far in 12 PDP Years[/size]



What do we have to show for all that money? Still

a) No Electricity

Kobojunkie:
[size=13pt][b]About $300 Billion dollars spentso far in 12 PDP Years[/size]


[b]
What do we have to show for all that money? Still

d) Education in dilapidated state

naijangel7:
No interest in the anti-corruption fight.

In all his years in the presidency, EFCC has been rendered useless. No significant purpose anymore, even Yahoo Yahoo boys aren't caught anymore. Plus, he rewarded all the people Ribadu was able to find guilty.

timbuk two:
this list is really too many, but i'll start with grossly incompetent and go from there

apoti:
He turned my naija turn to Afghanistan, we now her bomblast everywhere  
He has not been able to find just one of the people responsible, rather telling us to pray  
GEJ must go  

SuperPap:
True and hes a lier as well
And someone who said Abacha did not steal our money is not a liar
[quote author=drpanaba link=topic=638748.msg8051492#msg8051492 date=1301940511]He belongs to a cult that deliberately underdeveloped Nigeria in the midst of abundant resources.

Nobody has anything against him, but against the cabal of PDP.

Seun, in case you do not know, nobody cares who the candidate is anymore, but the party that is ready to land us at the safest shore.

apoti:
I cannot vote for someone who was more or less than a houseboy to Turai  

SuperPap:
Because his words contradict his actions
He surrounds himself with criminals
He accused IBB and Dokpesi of bombing Abuja

umbawo:
A friend of a thief is a thief as the saying goes

aisha2:
i will never vote for a man who turned my friends death to score a cheap political point. A man who has shown that luck without preparation means bad leadership. No clear cut policies, and who lies aboyt 4000 megatwatts of power

dayokanu:
Simple.

I cant vote for a MEND spokesman who told us solution to crime is prayers

somze:
He's achievements in Power (Road Map and implementation), Transportation (Railways), Energy (Fuel availability and prices, Refineries, Proposed Refineries, PPP Refineries under construction) and Elections (support of Jega in every legal way possible.

Like Seun said his press freedom has been the best so far. Way better than Buhari and Obasanjo.

Seun:
I think GEJ's human rights and press freedom record is the cleanest so far.
No newspapers or tv stations have been closed for criticizing the president.

justinelov:
when I hear people compare GEJ and Buhari in this election it only make me wonder whether some of us are really in this country or not. For those of that live up North our constant prayer is for GEJ to win. Buhari is an extremist. The northerners will only vote for a southerner and a christian if there is no northern Muslim in the race. Have somebody ever wondered what will have happened if the northern have oil like the Niger delta. In most part of the north during the last voters' registration exercise, non- indigenes were beaten up and chased out from the registration venue in some areas there are usually two queues one for indigenes the other for non indigenes. They will attend to one stranger and for indigenes. I am only giving these examples so you will know what is actually happening when a southerner is at the helm of affairs not to talk of what it will be like when a northerner takes over the helm of affair. Talk about sentiments come to the north and see real sentiments. You are a second class citizen as far as the Hausa man is concerned. They only become friendly when the need you and after that you will see their true colour ask the middlebeltans.

GenBuhari:
There were no political assassinations during Buhari's era

GenBuhari:
you are wrong Power was stable during Buhari's reign

modath:
I am always on my grind cos this isn't a temporary fix but a lifelong thing for me,i occasionally take naps but i never go into deep slumber,i did level 1 and 2 of my 30 day shred and did my stretches thereafter.i am still rocking the same 76-77 kg swing I've been for close to 6 months and i will not call it a plateau but what my body is comfortable with. i am in my 30s and i have children and from the almost 100kg am coming from i am not doing too badly.Friends are begging me to put on some weight so my cheekbones will stop showing,but the irony is that i have a long face and i love the cheekbones.LOL.

GenBuhari:
I thought u guys are discussing Mohammad Abacha, why discussing Buhari.

Why do u fear Buhari?

He headed the only anti corruption government in our history.

He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

Odunnu:
Lol

Blazing99:
@ Agaba123, efisher and other GEJ fans

if I am to make a choice between a military man and a dumb zoologist as my leader. As much as the military leader could be extreme on some issues, I'll still choose him to the zoologist. Come on' why is it only his time where elections had to be postponed. Gross inefficiency. That guy should be posted to a zoo or something where he might perform efficiently. Nigeria's too complicated for him to handle.

chuqudy:
AUTHEBURCKLEY   reply to Biodun  in  http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/adeboye-oritsejafor-others-sue-for-patience/



22 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE

In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the follwoing reasons I cannot vote for Buhari

1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame

‎17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of[b] Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort, h. If in doubt rea[/b]d El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.

If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human beings like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.

, "Have you seen the above", ?

texazzpete:
You are so right! These people have a 'debt' of knowledge

By all means, vote for the man who will happily give Nollywood 30 billion Naira yet give the Federal Universities 0 Naira.

When President Goodluck Jonathan announced the federal investment of $200 million (N30 billion) into the development of the entertainment industry in November 2010, he sent shock waves of disbelief through Nollywood. Last week, Goodluck’s promise appeared to be on the road to actualization when Minister of Finance Olusegun Aganga announced that the $200 million–now known as the Special Entertainment Fund–will be distributed by the Bank of Industry (BOI) as single-digit interest rate loans. The Lagos Business School will provide “entrepreneurial capacity training” for beneficiaries of the Fund. As of January 17, the on-line application for the Fund became available on-line: http://www.boinigeria.com

“I won’t bother myself with the integrity of politicians that will fund my campaign. I will take corrupt politicians money for my campaign as far as the money is not put in my pocket.”

cjfavour:
daiyabu is a PDP man,so what else do you expect to hear from him if nt all these?why didn't he tell us the corrupt men and evil men in PDP? sorry which party is that man that stole our 12#illion dollar gulf oil windfall?

Sagamite:
And I have not educated you?

gymer:
God bless Alitheia, Agaba123 and Efisher (Amen). I am impress with your debt of knowledge on issues. I have been well educated with your information on Buhari. I cannot be deceived. GEJ has my vote.

oyewolejos:
Under what ground? If u are a politician with 18 million votes coming from the SW alone and majority of  votes from Benue, Imo, Akwa Ibom, Edo, Jigawa, Adamawa, Anambra, Rivers, Sokoto will u step down for another politician? What about million of your followers? Will u just let them down cos one General is desperate to be president? Politics is a service not a must so even if he doesn't win in a free and fair election he stands a better chance next time.
The million of youths yearning for change in this country want total change not recycling.
We are voting for principle not just to get replace PDP with another calamity but replace them with the best Man for the job.
Since Buhari scattered the alliance then lets go to the polls and see what will happen.
How do u expect a party with 4 Governors to abandon their party and follow a less than a year old party to the polls?
You want to appoint the VP and the Party Chairman without any input from the other party in the alliance, are u taking them for a fool or what?
Why will u dump a party that gave u the platform to contest an election in 2003 and 2007 on a platter of gold just because they insist u will have to go through primaries for 2011?
This election is about principle and i know Nigerians know better.
I wish Buhari best of luck but he should know that Nigeria is bigger than any personal ambition.

texazzpete:
Erm, the article doesn't go as far as painting Buhari as 'criminally minded'. That is your own invention. It also doesn't say that he actively 'promotes corruption' among his followers. You made that part up too.

it is a pity Buhari cannot be like GEJ who surrounds himself with noble, honest and blameless individuals like Bode George, Uduaghan, Anenih, Alao Akala and many others. It is a pity Buhari cannot seek out a good mentor for himself, unlike GEJ that confessed that the notoriously honest IBB is 'his father'.

One must not forget how GEJ was a 'loyal deputy' to Alams of Bayelsa State, a man of exemplary honesty indeed! Perhaps they both had long and fruitful discussions on how best to save the Bayelsa state money.
One must also remember how GEJ's closeness to OBJ underlines his anti-corruption credentials!

Oh! If only Buhari was like GEJ! If only his anti-corruption record could be more like GEJ's!

Demdem:
well, i see it in a different way if this your assertion is right. that shows he is not such a dictatorial person as he is being accused. he likes to carry every one along which is a democratic quality. However his management skills arent in doubt. He showed us this when he was in PTF and excelled greatly with enough results to show for it. or do you know of any assistant of his (assistant chairman-PTF) during those days?