₦airaland Forum

Drlumi:
I agree with you.

All those people who are posting rubbish here on Nairaland: where were they when Bakare was marching to free Nigerians from the bondage of the Turai Yaradua? At that time, he was the hero because it looked like what they wanted. It hasn't occurred to most people that while Bakare took a practical step then, many other pastors were "praying".

When Bakare stood up to people like Abacha and Obasanjo, where were they? When his life was in danger, where were all these people?

At least, Bakare has proven that he loves his country. I can't say the same for the people who sit in the comfort of their homes and post insults.

It is not a crime to try something and fail. In fact, the person who tried it unsuccessfully is better off than the one who did nothing.

So, you can sit in your house and turn your laptop into an insult machine. It wouldn't be odd, anyway. Even Jesus rode into the city as a hero. The very next day, the crowd that cheered him was asking for his head. It was then they now remembered that he had said before that he would pull down the temple. . .

The moral of the story is: IF YOU'VE NOT SUCCEEDED WHERE A PERSON HAS FAILED, YOU HAVE NOT EARNED THE RIGHT TO TALK. IF YOU CAN'T BEAT HIS ACHIEVEMENTS OR HIS PASSION, SHUT UP!

You are preaching to the choir here. Nigerians, with this election have proved to be the most ignorant and foolish people on earth. Instead of attacking those that have been misruling them for 12 years, they are busy castigating a man who has not held any political position in the country. All he has done is to seek for good governance in Nigeria. Most Nigerians truly deserve to be in hell

jmaine:
Opposition wins , they claim it is victory for democracy. Opposition loses , they claim it was rigged . . The Nigerian politicking story so far

[size=14pt]Sometimes I wonder which planet people like you come from. In any truly free, fair and fraud free (Most Nigerians are used to fraud in one way or the other so it does not bother them)election, PDP or any bad party like PDP will not win elections anywhere. God's anger will still vist those that clinically perpetrated the biggest electoral fraud in history in the SS and SE. There was no way Jonathan would have won election without a run off. Yes I know some people will start their usual illogical statements like Buhari did not campaign in the south east, south south, Jonathan would still have won in these areas blah blah blah. Nigerians have proven to be a people that don't think and refuse to learn. Meanwhile governance has ground to a halt in Nigeria while the "elected" president is "chilling" in Obudu. He feels less concerned about current cost of living (the highest in the world) and the unbearable hardship in Nigeria. I do not have any sympathy whatsoever for those who were happy to vote for PDP[/size]

[size=13pt]Let it be known to all that as long as rigging of any form continues, Nigeria will continue to suffer in different forms. Almost everybody here is screaming senselessly about killings in the north forgetting the root cause-rigging and fraud that has become Nigeria's second name. I expect many senseless response to this-That's Nigerians for you, lacking in common sense and proper analytical skills. Meanwhile governance is completely grounded in Nigeria[/size]

Orikinla:
[size=18pt]Medicine after death cannot raise the dead.

The government was duly informed and warned of the dangerous states by the SSS, but President Goodluck Jonathan failed to address the emergency and spent billions of naira on his presidential campaign than the amount of money spent on security for INEC staff and other citizens who have lost lives and properties in the post election catastrophe.

The FRESH AIR IS NOW POLLUTED BY THE STENCH OF DECOMPOSING CORPSES OF INNOCENT NYSC MEMBERS AND SCORES OF OTHERS MURDERED BY ETHNIC AND RELIGIOUS FANATICS ARMED WITH ONLY CUDGELS, STICKS, STONES, BLADES, DAGGERS AND OTHER WEAPONS THAT CANNOT STAND THE FIREPOWER OF THE NIGERIAN POLICE FORCE OR ARMY IF THE DULY SWORN IN PRESIDENT OF NIGERIA AND COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF THE FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA DID THE RIGHT THING. INSTEAD OF DOING HIS DUTY, HE TOLD HIS MINISTER OF DEFENCE AND OTHERS TO GO AND CAMPAIGN FOR HIM AND THEY ALL LEFT THEIR PRIMARY DUTY AND RESPONSIBILITY TO GO AND CANVASS FOR VOTES.

THE INNOCENT NYSC MEMBERS AND OTHERS HAVE BEEN MURDERED.
THEY HAVE USED THEM FOR HUMAN SACRIFICE TO WIN THEIR PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION BY FORCE.

ANYONE BLAMING GEN. MUHAMMADU BUHARI (RETD) IS A FOOL.
BUHARI DID NOT SEND THOSE MURDERERS ON RAMPAGE TO MURDER INNOCENT CITIZENS.

I WAS IN LAGOS WHEN POLITICAL VIOLENCE BROKE OUT RIGHT IN FRONT OF MY OFFICE AS POLITICAL THUGS USED GUNS, MACHETES AND OTHER WEAPONS IN BATTLE, BUT THE ANTI RIOT POLICE IN ARMOURED VEHICLES ATTACKED THEM AND STOPPED THEM.

IF THE ARMY AND POLICE ALREADY ASSIGNED IN THOSE STATES CAME OUT TO STOP THE MURDERERS, NO INNOCENT LIFE WOULD HAVE BEEN LOST AND NO VEHICLE, HOUSE OR CHURCH WOULD HAVE BEEN BURNT.

WHERE WERE THE POLICE AND ARMY WHEN THOSE MAD BOYS WENT ON RAMPAGE?

I worked for the Alhaji Bamanga Turkur Presidential Campaign in 1990 and I once carried a rifle for his Director of Publicity for use in self defence.
I have gone to the Niger Delta to address the militancy and spoke to Asari Dokubo to bury the hatchet and he agreed, but before I knew it, the Federal Government arrested him for just openly expressing his political belief and detained him without trial and that was what provoked the emergence of the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta (MEND) and I simply left the government to face their Frankenstein monster.

THE FACT IS WE HAVE AN INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT THAT FAILED WOEFULLY TO PROVIDE SECURITY, BECAUSE OF CORRUPTION.

The government keeps on telling lies upon lies to hoodwink the ignorant masses.

They boast that they have provided regular supply of fuel, but there is scarcity of kerosene, the fuel of the masses.

There is no regular supply of petrol in remote places in Northern Nigeria, the most underdeveloped region in Nigeria.

The majority of voters are in the rural areas and kerosene means more to them than petrol.
Regular water supply means more to them than petrol.

ANY DUMMY GOVERNMENT CAN PROVIDE REGULAR SUPPLY OF PETROL.
WHERE IS THE PETROL COMING FROM?
FROM OUR REFINERIES OR IMPORTED WITH MILLIONS OF DOLLARS FROM FOREIGN COUNTRIES?

IS IT NOT CORRUPTION THAT HAS MADE THE GOVERNMENT TO TURN TO AN IMPORTER OF FUEL?

ASK THE OIL MARKETERS WHY WE NOW HAVE REGULAR SUPPLY OF PETROL.

The Nigeria Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (NEITI) has INDICTED THE NNPC OF CORRUPTION.[/size]
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MANY MEMBERS OF NAIRALAND DISPLAY APPALLING IGNORANCE THAT YOU CANNOT SEE ON ANY FORUM IN CIVILIZED NATIONS. I AM A WELL KNOWN MEMBER OF THE HUFFINGTON POST AND PARTICIPATED IN THE ONLINE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGNS AND OUR DISCUSSIONS WERE BASED ON INTELLIGENT ANALYSES OF THE REALITIES IN THE US AND NOT ON HEARSAY BY PEOPLE WHO HAVE NEVER BEEN ON FIELD TRIPS TO RURAL AREAS AND WHO DO NOT EVEN READ, BUT ONLY SHUTTLING ON THE STREETS OF THEIR URBAN COMFORT ZONES OF GHETTOS POSTING FROM THEIR PCs OR SMARTPHONES AND MADE THEMSELVES ARMCHAIR PUNDITS AND THEY ARE AMONG THE MOST silly SUPPORTERS OF THE CORRUPT AND INCOMPETENT GOVERNMENT OF PRESIDENT GOODLUCK JONATHAN AND HIS CORRUPT RULING PARTY PDP THAT WAS SEEN RIGGING ON VIDEO POSTED ON YOUTUBE FOR THE WHOLE WORLD TO SEE AND MILLIONS OF NORTHERNERS WHO ARE POLITICALLY MORE INFORMED HOOKED ON FREE CABLE TV AND BBC NEWS IN HAUSA WERE PROVOKED.

YOU CAN FOOL THEM SOMETIMES, BUT YOU CANNOT FOOL THEM ALL THE TIME.[/size]

Very Good Point!. I am indeed shocked the way Nigerians have responded to the political tragedy befalling our Nation today as a result of PDP's criminal leadership. Nigerians have shown that they are the most ignorant and dubious people in the world today with they way they reason especially those with "education"

kawkab:
This write up should be in the front page.

Every single point raised here is correct. But most CPC supporters fail to acknowledge them. Buhari did not campaign at all in the SS and SE.

[size=13pt]So because he did not campaign in these areas (though lies), the elections should be rigged? One man's ambition (Jonathan) is already plunging Nigeria into crisis. Can we do without Jonthan? Definitely yes. Please read what Primate Olabayo said about this deadly ambition in October 2010.[/size]

[size=14pt]Can we stop already. Election was rigged. Simple. God is my Witness[/size]

Jonathan’s Ambition ’ll Spell Doom For Nigeria -Primate Ayodele
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Written by Idowu Adelusi Saturday, 09 October 2010
NOTWITHSTANDING the change that took place in the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), a cleric, Primate Elijah Ayodele of the INRI Evangelical Spiritual Church, Lagos, has predicted again that the 2011 general elections will not be free as anticipated by most Nigerians.
The primate, who disclosed this to Saturday Tribune in an interview in Lagos during the week, said President Goodluck Jonathan has put his hopes in INEC to win the election.
The prophet again reiterated that President Jonathan was not the person God ordained to win the election, but because of his “ambition and desperation,” he would use the power of incumbency to force INEC to rig the election in his favour.
He said the method of rigging in the next year’s election would be different from what it used to be. “It will be more advanced, scientific, tactical and logical. It will be carried out in a more matured way,” he stated.
Primate Ayodele who, a few months ago predicted that there would be bomb explosion in Abuja and political earthquake in Aso Rock which would shock Jonathan, said “the plan of God for this country is sancrosant. When you talk of winning election according to rule of the game, Jonathan will not win the 2011 presidential election.
“He would influence INEC to rig the election in his favour and thereby force himself on the nation, contrary to the word of God.
“His action will spell doom for himself and the nation. Only prayer can avert the crisis that Jonathan’s ambition will plunge this nation into.
“He needs to listen, but those surrounding him will not give him breathing space till they push him into the pit.
“I know that many pastors and alfas will tell him that he is the messiah and that the coast is clear for him. It will be like the day of King Ahab for many of them when they will bury their heads in shame. Let us choose as God directs, not by what they are getting from the politicians.
“Many will see this message as a doom prophecy. I am not bothered about it. I am only saying what God asked me to tell the nation.
“I can tell you today, I can stand anywhere in the world to call myself a prophet of God. I can tell you that about 80 per cent of my prophesies had come to pass, not 100 per cent.
“Before you mention two or three prophets in Nigeria today, my name would come up. I am still saying that Jonahtan’s ambition will plunge this country into crisis. Let him take certain steps to save himself and the nation. The bomb explosions are a warning sign,” he stated.

[size=13pt]Very good. let's expose the fraud[/size]

[size=13pt]Sounds like a man whose property was stolen by an identified person and was asked by sympathisers to accept his faith as an act of God. When will accepting rigged elections stop in Nigeria?[/size]

[size=14pt]Nigerians, stop defending fraud. Stop attracting God's wrath. The elections were rigged. Something people always forget-what goes around, comes around. Next time it will be the turn of your candidate or even you to be cheated and rigged out and peole will be here celebrating and justifying why the fraud is good. He that seeks equity must come with clean hands. Mark my words!!![/size]

[size=13pt]2 countries- Made up of that are honest with principles[/size] [size=20pt]and[/size] [size=13pt]those that love and cherish corruption, fraud and incompetence[/size]

[size=14pt]BLAME the criminals that rigged elections in SS and SE[/size]

[size=13pt]He that seeks equity must come with clean hands. Jonathan was warned not to allow people to rig the election for him. He did not heed the advice and allowed the same criminals to wreck havoc in the South South an south east. Why did Jonathan 's people need to rig if he was sure of victory. We can not continue this fraud. Any nation built on the foundation of fraud can not last. While I advise Buhari to call his people to order, I make no mistake in also calling for cancellation of all elections in the whole of South East and South South and all areas in the north where there were rigging and underage voting. This idea of accepting fraudulent election must not continue. We accepted fraud in 1999, 2003, 2007 and now. If the issue is not resolved now, some people will still want us to acccept rigged elections in 2015 as if dishonesty is the only thing that works and is compromised in Nigeria. We must make efforts to arrest all those causing trouble now in the north as well as those that perpertrated the massive rigging in SS and SE. Enough said[/size]

toni tone:
Below are collated result from trusted source like Thisday newspaper as they roll in, put in a spreadsheet format to see how the top trio are performing. The sheet shall be updated as the results roll in. Note only credible media organisation shall be used as source data.

CONSOLIDATED ELECTION RESULT IN SPREADSHEET
STATES PDP CPC ACN ANPP
1 KANO 440,665.00 1,624,543.00 42,353.00 526,310.00
2 ABIA 1,175,954.00 3,608.00 4,156.00 3 EDO 542,173.00 17,795
4 ENUGU 802,144.00 3,753.00 1,755.00
5 JIGAWA 419,252.00 663,994.00
6 KOGI 399,816.00 132,201.00 6,516.00
7 KWARA 268,243.00 83,603.00 52,432.00
8 LAGOS 1,281,688.00 189,983.00 427,000.00
9 OGUN 303,000.00 17,000.00 199,000.00
10 OSUN 188,409.00 6,997.00 298,711.00
11 OYO 484,758.00 92,395.00 252,240.00
12 SOKOTO 309,057.00 540,769.00 20,144.00
13 FCT 253,444.00 131.00
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TOTAL 6,868,603.00 3,376,772.00 1,304,307.00 526,310.00
RAW DATAS OURCE: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/latest-presidential-results/89807/
TO BE UPDATED AS THE FIGS ROLL IN

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Nigerians just love Fraud[/size]

yomifoster:
You are saying God should not answer pples prayers because Buhari lost in the South East and South South. This is the kind of sectional and vindictive spirit that Nigerians voted against and Buhari will still lose again with such spirit. Objectively lets look at it carefully. Others are making promises, Jonathan is fulfilling promises of fairness, equity and rule of law. He went round all the zones and states in the country campaigning for votes. Buhari campaigned all in the North, then came to the South West where he only stopped over to greet Governor Daniel in Ogun State courtesy of Bakare (who is from Abeokuta) then to Ibadan where he spent 30 minutes campaigning and back to the North that same day. Later he went to the South East where he moved to Owerri from the airport, spent less than one hour and back to the airport enroute North. This is a simple way of despising other parts of the country. By simple logic and common sense, it means a Buhari presidency will oscillate between Abuja and the North. Nigerians are wiser than that. Buhari ignored the Yorubas and the people of the SE and SS to his own peril while Jonathan demonstrated that he believes in a collective Nigeria but Buhari sees Nigeria as the North and the rest are nothing but appendages. Ribadu is an intelligent young man who has proven that he could do well but can also be used by a godfather for other purposes. E.g Obasanjo was using him to pursue his political enemies while his friends and associates were stealing Nigeria blind. A Tinubu overhang around him makes me cautious about him. But I believe he may change with time. Jonathan still remained the best candidate and thats why people and not politicians alone voted for him.

[size=14pt]The bolded are just excuses. Most people from the SS had long decided to vote for him because he is from there, those in the SE decided to vote for Jonathan because his middle name is Ebele (Ebelemi). what Nigerian people need is education so as to be more informed on how democracy works. Ignorance is ravaging the people of Nigeria-North to South. There is absolutely nothing like despising the people of the SE. In 2003, he chose an Igbo(Okadigbo as his vice) and 2007 chose Umezoke) and campained vigorously everwhere only for the elections to be rigged for Obasanjo and Yaradua. He was able to campaign effectively then because he was an ANPP member that had governors and National assembly members that could support financially. CPC is barely one year old and had no elected official that could use government funds to prosecute the criminally expensive campaigns. He had to pick his battles. Besides, I do not think that any informed voter, with the technology every where needs personal visit from candidates to choose the better candidates. And to correct you, PDP did not do any campaign. All they did was to gather at rallies, show of their Ashoebis, scream PDP and that's it. Do you call that campaign. If that is what you call campaign, then Nigerians do not need them. The biggest problem in Nigeria today is dishonesty and support for dishonesty. Nigerians are terribly morally bankrupt. Any government that can not fiercely fight fraud in Nigeria will NEVER have my support even if I become a lone ranger in this fight[/size]

Bensonite:
I expect you to cry but you came here writing rubbish. If SS and SE are really serious people we would have got 95% turn out and 99% in favour of GEJ. I am surprised in Rivers with 2.4million registered only 1.8million voted.
Please go and tell him to raise money from Mohammed Abachi to get the forensic experts. You will be shocked that they will find all the CPC votes from underaged children.
If he had won you would have flooded this site with all manner of clean, free and fair posts.  GEJ said on the day of the election that he would hand over should he lose as he has committed to make himself sacrificial lamb but quite contrary your saint Buhar started crying foul that planes are flying at night to katsina and so the election will not be free and he knows perhaps he would lose and concluded he may not go to court but his party may go.
Go and drink kai kai and sleep boy before those curse come to you

[size=15pt]The usual Nigerian rambling, making no sense. Fraud is fraud, whether by Jonathan or Buhari. We need to sanitize Nigeria, a country riddled with fraud of unimaginable proportion. People of your ilk see no problem with fraud and corruption-the biggest problem Nigeria has today. I believe you are a Christian (fake, I assume), the wages of sin (fraud) is death whether you like it or not. Incidentally, the last time Nigeria made any genuine attempt to fight corruption was under Buhari-that indeed makes him a saint at least by Nigeria's pathetic standards [/size]

[size=20pt]General Buhari should raise money and assemble the best forensic experts in the world to challenge the despicable results being churned out from South east and south South. We can not continue to have losers as winners of elections in Nigeria. We can not continue to allow fraud to thrive in Nigeria. Where other states are 50% voters, SS and SE are having 80%, 90% and 100%. Let the riggers of this election as well as their families, supporters be cursed forever and may God never answer their prayers.[/size]

Nigeria holds presidential election on Saturday, April 16, 2011. It is expected that the party in power will rig elections in favor of the incumbent, Goodluck Jonathan, a man that has refused to show any seriousness in governing his country. Most Nigerians grew up in a Nigeria that nothing works. They always celebrate mediocrity due to their total lack of knowledge of what good governance is. They ignorantly assume that humility or being a "good man" is enough to transform any country. They misunderstand the meaning of the word 'transformation' and use it improperly. Goodluck Jonathan has been amassing endorsements form various groups across the country majority of whom are the same people that have worked so tirelessly to keep Nigeria undeveloped because of their criminal economic and financial activities. Why would they not endorse him and jubilate when he wins. The rest of the people supporting Jonathan are the many other beneficiaries of the inept administration, the unbelievably gullible and ignorant. Nigerians, Here are God’s warnings for Nigeria and Nigerians

[size=15pt]1. Should People gang up to rig the election in favor of anybody, each individual that participates in this crime will be cursed with his/her entire family. They will live the rest of their lives in agony. Strange diseases will be their portion, untimely and sudden deaths will befall the families,
2. For those that will be voting Jonathan, You are warned that Jonathan is not the type of Leader that Nigeria needs to deal with corruption and impunity. Harder times await Nigerians that decide to go ahead to vote for this man who has proved by nature, not to be a good leader. Nothing much will change in Nigeria after four years.

3. Those that will rejoice after Saturday due to Jonathan’s victory will have their celebration cut short. It will be business as usual in Nigeria, Hospitals will not be built nor properly equipped, corruption will continue to rule Nigeria, incompetence at every level will be rampant, inflation will continue. Hardship will continue to bite harder with Jonathan caring less or pretending to care without doing anything.
You still have this opportunity to save your life and the lives of millions of Nigerians whose lives have been ruined because of many years of callous and irresponsible leadership in Nigeria. Vote wisely on Saturday
Please save these for future reference [/size]

edicolove:
" added 31 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 following 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 Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort, h. If in doubt read 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.
23. Let’s informed Buhari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project for Lagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Club in the federation.
24 let also remind Buhari that Gbolahan Mudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn.Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given the people of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, General Buhari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on his mind.
25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi was also ethnically fired.
26. So also was the shorter end of the stick he handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.
27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.
28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.
29. Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.
30. Buhari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.
31. He should reveal to us his health status… Buhari at 69 yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?




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.
It is clear that apart from the states of the North-West and North-East, his Congress for Political Change (CPC) would hardly earn 25 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the remaining states of the federation. By implication, two zones just cannot earn Buhari the presidency he is looking for, no matter their voting strength.

[size=14pt]What have the above listed petty, rehashed irrelevant issues/lies got to do with the problems we face in Nigeria today?. Nigeria's twin problems as of today are incompetence and corruption at all levels in every area of our governance. The earlier you face the present day reality that only credible, transparent and upright men like Buhari and Bakare can lead us away from our numerous iniquities, the better for you and your corruption infested groups. God is fast forsaking this Great country[/size]

And do you think Buhari has a business being in the race now that there is so much noise about generational change of leadership?

I have not been an apostle of generational change. Rather, I prefer generational integration. That is, integration of the best from the young and from the old so that we can move the nation forward. I am a Yoruba person and there is a saying among the Yoruba that it is the wisdom of the elders combined with the knowledge of the young that was used to create Ife, the cradle of the Yoruba. And I think we need to be careful in this country about change based on age. In the last twelve years, we have had quite a number of young men who came to power as ministers or governors and who are today in chains both within and outside the country because of their corrupt involvement. Many of them have soiled their hands. When you place such men side by side with Gen. Buhari, you will see a great disparity in terms of transparency and honesty. This is a man who had been a governor of North Eastern State, Petroleum Minister, Chairman, NNPC, PTF and above all Head of State. And yet, today, he does not have a filling station in his name, much less oil blocs, refinery and other investments in the oil sector.

It was under him that Warri and Kaduna refineries were built and over 3, 000 kilometres of pipelines were laid. You know those who have held governorship positions in the last twelve years who own refineries abroad. Buhari, as PTF chairman, did not draw a single salary because he believed it would be immoral for him to be paid pension and salaries at the same time. When the board of the PFT sat and decided to buy cars for its officials, Buhari insisted that they should buy Peugeot 504 for everybody. When the cars came, the secretary of the body, Chief Ayotayo Apata, bought two 505, one for himself and one for Gen Buhari. And Gen Buhari said to him, ‘but we agreed on 504. He said, ‘the supplier just decided to upgrade the two of us at no cost to the PTF. Buhari said, ‘no, what is on the minute is 504, take it back to him and bring 504 for me. Tayo Apata ended up using the 505, while Buhari was using 504 as the chairman. He is a man who has lived a life of honesty and integrity. He has contested election in this country twice and defeated them but the released results said he came second. Yet, they couldn’t bring out any corrupt allegation against him. If he had soiled his hands, they would have used the EFCC against him as they did against those who were opposed to them or defected from their party. It means that the man is clean. What is killing Nigeria today is corruption. We have made more money in this present dispensation than any other time in the life of this country. But the lives of the people have become worse.

In 1999, the poverty index was 45 percent. In spite of the huge revenue that has accrued to the government, today, the poverty level is 75 per cent. In 1999, 64 percent of our pupils were passing WAEC exams, after twelve years of PDP in power, 98 per cent of them failed WAEC and NECO exams. This has never come up for discussion for one day in the National Assembly. Every other index is going from bad to worse. The Global Financial Integrity recently came out with a report that says that between 2007 and 2008, 15 billion dollars left the shore of Nigeria every year on illegal transfer. The urgency of the moment is that we need a remedy of the presence that Buhari represents. We need Buhari at this time. We need a man who brings the remedy of presence in such a way that cat surfaces and rats find their ways. The empire of thieves in Nigeria must be disbanded. Buhari, today, is the man who has the moral status with unblemished record and impeccable integrity who can sit at the treasury gate and thieves will know that the time is up. When Obasanjo came into power and he was trying to smear the image of Buhari, it was former Governor

Obong Attah who got up and said, "Which PTF are you talking about? I was a consultant to the PTF and up till today, there is no government agency in Nigeria that has done more diligence than the PTF. Every contactor with PTF that had a job of between N1 million to N10 million had to get a guarantee from Insurance company that if it failed to perform, the money would be repaid. Anybody taking a contract above N10 million had to provide a guarantee from a bank which would pay back the money in case the contract was not properly done. We need such a man of integrity today to move the nation forward. And luckily, he has a running mate who is also transparent. By the time we solve the problem of corruption, we can now move to good governance. Then, all the money that goes into individual’s pocket can now be channelled to other problems.



For more on the interview, visit http://nationalmirroronline.net/interviews/8609.html

Experts Weigh Brand Strengths Of Presidential Candidates .

AS 2011 elections draws near, brand experts have begun to weigh brand visibility and proficiency of presidential candidates in the next general election.

According to brand experts, who spoke with The Guardian, President Goodluck Jonathan is a controversial brand.

The experts, however, see consistency and performance brand strength in both Congress for Progress Change (CPC) presidential candidate, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari and presidential candidate of The All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), Ibrahim Shekarau.

Most brand experts consider Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) presidential candidate and former boss of Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, as political greenhorn, who may not satisfy Nigerians when elected.

DDB Creative Manager, Chuka Obi, noted that Jonathan might have been divinely ordained to rule Nigeria. He said that Jonathan has not developed into a brand, but a product. He noted that Jonathan is the perfect example of a product with a perfect unique selling proposition (USP) and high market anticipation with zero performance upon trial.

While product is the end result of a manufacturing process to be offered to the marketplace to satisfy a need or want, brand is the identity of a specific product, service, or business.

Obi said: “Jonathan as a brand is playing what I term the superstition card. It looks like he was divinely ordained to be President. However, with a name like Goodluck .I believe there is a problem because there is no such thing as luck in spiritual circles; only favour, time and chance. So I think his luck card is all played out. His ethnic card is also fast evaporating as far as the learned people of Nigeria are concerned.

“All he has now is major top of mind awareness that comes with being the incumbent president. But from the viewpoint of identity, I believe Jonathan has none because it is hard to hold on to any unique attribute. His D’banj debacle was an epic failure, and insult to the consumers. Jonathan is a product, but not a brand, at least not yet. He only evokes sentiments and no clear-cut expectations as far as perceptions go. ”

Obi likened Ribadu to Baygon insecticide. He noted that although the brand could kill cockroaches on application, but could leave trail of destruction as after effect. He nevertheless prefers fireworks in Ribadu to gentility in Jonathan.

“Like the famed insecticide, we do not really care as long as he (Ribadu) gets the job done. He is not as articulate as I would have liked him to be, but as in the case of Baygon, we pick the deadly efficiency of Ribadu over the refined yet questionable results of a Mobil aerosol (Goodluck). Ribadu’s value consistency enjoys highest top of the mind share, stemming from the nature of his work at the EFCC, the far from quiet circumstances encircling his departure and the recent nature of that organisation, “ he said.

The creative manager said Buhari would only be a strong brand to contend with if only he would change communication method and campaign strategies.

He said: “Buhari’s consistency is as much a plus as it is a problem. Buhari has not changed in any way. His values and messages have remained credibly consistent. Unfortunately, so has his communication. As a person and as a candidate trying to inspire people to bank on him, he needs to inject some ‘GTBank (modern) approach into his strategy and jettison his ‘Afribank’ (old school philosophy) approach. He needs to be more interesting because whether he admits it or not, consumer engagement is fundamental. He can not talks at people anymore, he has to talk with them; no matter how impeccable his message or selling proposition is.”

Shekarau, according to Obi, is “ like Cowbell or Viju milk of the race, who sneaking up among already established players. He tiptoes into the political race using the element of surprise. However, the sustenance phase of his campaign will determine how long the success of this new brand will last. And Shekarau’s work in Kano shows that he is pretty consistent as far as values and speech are concerned.”

According to another brand expert, Ilesanmi Brillow of Atele Communications, Jonathan is not a flawless brand. Brillow sees Ribadu, Buhari and Shekarau as good brands.

On their brand attributes, Brillow said Jonathan is calm and “not desperate for power” .He added, “Buhari is disciplined and strong minded, just as Ribadu is known to be fearless, restless and vigorous.” Shekarau, he said, thought to be inconsistent in the face of the public, “is liberal minded and sound.”

Brillow said: “Jonathan stands for a continuation of PDP mediocrity and which, is not consistent as a brand. I would liken him to Yale Biscuit that is not consistent in production. Buhari, who is known to be consistent, is a nemesis for corrupt politicians and a real switch to a new order. He is like a Close Up brand, which is ubiquitous (everywhere). Ribadu is fairly consistent and appeals to the young generation desirous of change. But he may have challenges with the older generation. I would liken him to GTBank brand. Shekarau stands for bright, intelligent leadership whose reasoning capability is excellent. He is like Chivita that is consistent, but hardly makes issue out of the consistency.”

Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Travland, Chuma Obi, said Jonathan is faced with identity problem. Buhari, he noted, is a progressive brand, just as Shekarau is an unsophisticated progressive brand.

Obi said: “Jonathan represents the establishment. I cannot ascribe identity to him. His projected values are not complimentary as he is willing to dine with the devil to get what he wants. He has connected with the ignorant public, but to the discerning, he has not connected. He is like Goody Goody candy.

“Buhari represents progressive politics. I identify him with integrity and determination. The values he projects are worthy and noble. He has been able to connect very well with the public like Maltina brand. Ribadu represents another arm of the establishment. The value he projects is also noble as he connects well with the public. Shekarau represents progressive politics and is identified with success and determination. He connects well with the public, but unfortunately he is provincial.”

Another brand expert, Olufemi Popoola said that both Jonathan and Ribadu are stooges of ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo. He noted that Buhari forte may be his conservatism.

He said: “Jonathan is Obasanjo’s stooge. Buhari stands for the old school politician. Ribadu is also Obasanjo’s stooge, who is inexperienced in politics. Shekarau stands for new breed politicians who are articulate.

“Jonathan is a flat character, I think his name, Goodluck, and his quick rise on the political ladder best describes him. Buhari symbolises the conservative Northern values and old school politics. Ribadu is known as the action man, but as young and new school politician. He appears to be a candidate of compromise like Wilfort Dark Ale. Shekarau is a little unknown in the South. He, however, is a witty and convincing politician, with a track record of exemplary leadership in Kano.”

Olufumbi Lehmann said Jonathan brand strength lies in incumbency power. He considers Buhari and Shekarau to be intelligent political brands, just as he noted that Ribadu is over confident.

Lehmann said: “Jonathan has the leverage of an incumbent president, but has no idea of his own. He is lucky to be where he is. Buhari is a smart and experienced politician, who is after corrupt rulers of this country. He deserves a chance to rule because of his reliability, doggedness and determination. He is sensible. Ribadu is over confident and aggressive politician, who has nothing to offer. He is a confused politician, who should not rule us. He has not handled a project of national significance as far as I am concerned. Shekarau is a technocrat and very intelligent. But this is not enough to rule us, though he has done well for Kano State in the last eight years.”

Korede Quadri, another political consumer, sees convincing brand attributes in Buahari and Shekarau.

“The most unique presidential aspirant in the 2011 is Buhari. He is a disciplined person who headed Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) with an indelible mark of honesty and judicious use of funds. I have never heard anything bad about Buhari. He is like the reliably Honda brand of car, which looks fragile on the surface, but tough and rugged in performance. Jonathan is a figure head that has been able to campaign because of incumbency factor, which makes money and campaign machinery possible for him.”

http://www.ngrguardiannews.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42728%3Aexperts-weigh-brand-strengths-of-presidential-candidates-&catid=192%3Abrand-intelligence&Itemid=719

[size=14pt]So there is no one in Nigeria that can stream these games live for people to watch online. Since Nigeria played Madagascar in Calabar, Sierra Leone in Lagos, those games are yet to be seen anywhere online. Indeed shameful.[/size]

[size=18pt]What is the difference between racism and tribalism?[/size]

[size=14pt]Just few days ago, all ethnic based threads were deleted and some of the posters banned. You have started the unhelpful discussion. I call on the moderators to remove/delete this thread that once again does us no good. There are better issues to discuss[/size]

mukina2:
half of the threads have been deleted and more are being deleted.

if the mods missed out any please post the link in here, it will be deleted.

[size=14pt]Thanks for deleting them. Please be sure to do this regularly. Thanks[/size]

[size=20pt]Moderators, It seems you are not doing your work properly. You allow all manner of people and posts in this forum. Please remove and ban any ethnic based threads. It does not do us any good at this point. Please!!!![/size]