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Nigerian Opposition Leader Buhari Arrives in London on ‘Charm Offensive’
BY JACK MOORE 2/20/15 AT 12:08 PM



FILED UNDER: World, Nigeria, UK


Nigerian opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari has flown to London in an attempt to ease Western fears about his leadership in the event that he succeeds in winning the upcoming presidential election.

Buhari, election candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), is up against incumbent Goodluck Jonathan in the vote, delayed until March 28 by the electoral commission on the recommendation of the country’s security services.

The security authorities claimed that a six-week military operation against the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, which is being conducted in the northeast of the country, was scheduled to begin on the same day as the election, leaving an inadequate security presence for voters in the rest of the country.

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[b]According to his campaign, after flying in from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, Buhari is set to speak at the foreign policy NGO the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House as well as holding talks with “key members of the British political establishment”. However, Chatham House could not confirm that he would be speaking, only saying it was “likely” and Newsweek could not determine who Buhari would be meeting.

Manji Cheto, West Africa analyst at political risk consultancy Teneo Intelligence, believes that Buhari’s flying visit to Britain is to show Western officials that he is someone who will “adhere to democratic principles” if he is elected next month.

“This is designed to position Buhari as pro-investment and pro-Western partners,” she says. “What [western officials] have heard is mostly information that the PDP [the rival People’s Democratic Party] has said to the world through propaganda.”

“It’s him having private meetings as well to calm Western partners about any potential autocratic tendencies so to speak,” she adds.

A journalist with knowledge of the situation on the ground in Nigeria, who declined to be named on matters of Nigerian politics, added that the devout Muslim politician is on a “charm offensive” to reassure Western officials about not only his own credentials but also his ability to tackle the threat of the Boko Haram insurgency.

“There is a feeling of anxiety among Western governments about Buhari, about what he represents and who his backers are,” the reporter noted. “So it doesn’t surprise me that he has flown in for talks before the election.”

“He wants to, as much as reassure them about himself, also convince them that he has got a plan for dealing with Boko Haram. I think that would be top of his agenda.”
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Buhari - a former military general - has failed on three occasions (2003, 2007 and 2011) in his bid to return as Nigerian president since the country moved from a series of military rulers to a democratic system in 1999.

He survived a Boko Haram assassination attempt last July when a suicide bomber aligned to the radical Islamist group targeted his car in the northern city of Kaduna.

http://www.newsweek.com/nigerian-opposition-leader-buhari-arrives-london-charm-offensive-308235

American Newsweek dey lie too....

Nigerian Opposition Leader Buhari Arrives in London on ‘Charm Offensive’
BY JACK MOORE 2/20/15 AT 12:08 PM



FILED UNDER: World, Nigeria, UK


Nigerian opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari has flown to London in an attempt to ease Western fears about his leadership in the event that he succeeds in winning the upcoming presidential election.

Buhari, election candidate for the All Progressives Congress (APC), is up against incumbent Goodluck Jonathan in the vote, delayed until March 28 by the electoral commission on the recommendation of the country’s security services.

The security authorities claimed that a six-week military operation against the radical Islamist group Boko Haram, which is being conducted in the northeast of the country, was scheduled to begin on the same day as the election, leaving an inadequate security presence for voters in the rest of the country.

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[b]According to his campaign, after flying in from the Nigerian capital, Abuja, Buhari is set to speak at the foreign policy NGO the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House as well as holding talks with “key members of the British political establishment”. However, Chatham House could not confirm that he would be speaking, only saying it was “likely” and Newsweek could not determine who Buhari would be meeting.

Manji Cheto, West Africa analyst at political risk consultancy Teneo Intelligence, believes that Buhari’s flying visit to Britain is to show Western officials that he is someone who will “adhere to democratic principles” if he is elected next month.

“This is designed to position Buhari as pro-investment and pro-Western partners,” she says. “What [western officials] have heard is mostly information that the PDP [the rival People’s Democratic Party] has said to the world through propaganda.”

“It’s him having private meetings as well to calm Western partners about any potential autocratic tendencies so to speak,” she adds.

A journalist with knowledge of the situation on the ground in Nigeria, who declined to be named on matters of Nigerian politics, added that the devout Muslim politician is on a “charm offensive” to reassure Western officials about not only his own credentials but also his ability to tackle the threat of the Boko Haram insurgency.

“There is a feeling of anxiety among Western governments about Buhari, about what he represents and who his backers are,” the reporter noted. “So it doesn’t surprise me that he has flown in for talks before the election.”

“He wants to, as much as reassure them about himself, also convince them that he has got a plan for dealing with Boko Haram. I think that would be top of his agenda.”
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Buhari - a former military general - has failed on three occasions (2003, 2007 and 2011) in his bid to return as Nigerian president since the country moved from a series of military rulers to a democratic system in 1999.

He survived a Boko Haram assassination attempt last July when a suicide bomber aligned to the radical Islamist group targeted his car in the northern city of Kaduna.

http://www.newsweek.com/nigerian-opposition-leader-buhari-arrives-london-charm-offensive-308235

American Newsweek dey lie too....

Ojiofor:
waering winter overall on top a gown on the streets of London makes him look like a mullah.
BTW,I own you no obligation of prove.you either take it or leave it.kpom kwem!

Show us a picture of mullah Omar wearing winter coat ..... You are not only a comedian, you are a lair too... ...

You are a freeking bigot....

Ode. The real market women are facing their work at the market with iyaloja, not rented poor women for show.....bunch of dullards

Ojiofor:
he was wearing a winter suit on top a gown only mullahs can dtess that way mr aresa.

Show us a picture of mullah Omar wearing the same thing like #GMB including a turban....

Again, you are a lousy comedian..

Ojiofor:
you are the lousy one here.in my original post u quoted I said buhari's outfit not mullah omar as a person kinda.u can believe whatever u like who cares.

Was #GMB#2015 wearing a turban like mullah Omar?..

Do they dress alike or do you have your own comparison picture to show us with both men wearing turban and gowns....

You are ignorant hence your uupside down comparison.

Again, you are a lousy comedian..

Ojiofor:
mallam aresa, e be like say u get jokes plenty ...joke apart,I made a statement of fact.
mullah omar is a buhari look alike.call it what ever u like.

Mullah Omar is a one eye turban and gown wearing clown so how he looks like lovable #GMB beats hence labeling you a joker and lousy comedian which I really think you are. Your mullah Omar rubbish was bigotry on your part or you just are grossly ignorant and don't know mullah Omar....

Still, you are a lousy comedian...

Ojiofor:
the joke is on you boy.don't care about ur opinion.

The joke can not be on me since you are the lousy comedian with failed and lousy jokes..

Sorry and pathetic angels of death..

Ojiofor:
BuharI looks like Mullah Omar of Afghanistan in that outfit.

Are you trying out for a comedy job? You fail no be small, even boring self...

halimaabi:
Dilusional self deceit.

What else is your propose and portion in life than wishing and peddling death?

Sounds like you are worthless to humanity....the only difference between you and BH is you not having a gun...

See as politics, hate, tribalism and bigotry turn people into angels of doom and purveyors of death......

...on behalf of #GMB#2015. Back to sender X 10000000000000000billion...


Sai Buhari

Sai APC

.....

Uche, face your work...

kallmemrB:
Good Afternoon Nigerians.....


Firstly that picture is pure hoax...freaking crap....i have seen lots of pictures of air strike ,,so. that rubbish the OP posted aint one

Secondly a bomb strike would never and never look like that

Thirdly lets be honest with ourselves Buhari is crap but GeJ is more useless than crap.....Are u telling me that for the past 6yrs he was dumb not to think of ways to battle boko haram....why didnt he carry out all this operation last year or january....Why now during election postponement? is he trying to show us hes capable after losing over 10000 lives?

@kosovo bros stop writing rubbish....not everyone is living on crumbs from politician...if u have nothing meaningful to post pls just shut up.......but if ur paid to write crap then ur children generation would suffer for ur greed...lets work together and build a good foundation for the next generation...ours is a lost course

Sadly, NL is the largest garbage dump site on the internet. Nearly all the trash you see on nl are 419 crap and most of it comes from that 419 facebook page....

Another 419, bogus ans trash tales from HateForNigeria face book page....

Next....

lol @ unknown 3 grade oba ..... Who are they.?

lmao...


Fashola bought thousands of buses, they spewed their usual hate, ignorance and bele, but their village headmaster is God because is some little kabukabu.....wonders shall never end....



lmao...

lol...

aljharem:
Again we have too many idiots on nairaland

These protest is voluntary and the people were not paid or was it you that gave them the money ?

Fooolish generation that have sold their soul to Tinubu and his empire.

Apc should leave Obanikoro alone. He has rejected apc because he is a man with conscience unlike gbawe and co that received money from atiku to lie to us.

Obanikoro has put himself in a prime position and thus Tinubu is scared of him

Voluntary means Voluntary presence with voluntary posters stating their different messages and issues. This is not voluntary or spontaneous, its a staged sorry and pathetic nonsense with hired bystanders with same posters and messages handed out to them...


Use you head for a change..

automaticcars:
Go and ask Diko, Balarabe Musa and others.

They are all kids with zero sense of history and current affairs hence their ignorance...

village thinz....

Funny enough, this agbaje man sounds more daft and clueless than Jonathan himself....

slimfit1:
Really

Yes, really.

JK is just KIDDing.... The clown is just a crappy image of the of his mentally warped and mediocre political party...

slimfit1:
I'm not a pdp supporter I'm a supporter of good government.

If you really are a supporter of good governance, who commissions what should be the last thing on your mind...

slimfit1:
Someone of his status should be launching highly important things and send commissioners to launch this. If he had done enough he would not have the time to attend to this one.

https://punch.cdn.ng/wp-content/uploads/2013/05/The-derailed-train-360x221.jpg


That is the worthless imported Siberian junk your cheap and mediocre oga bought with billions of dollars and still commissioning all over the place...

babosky2008:
shut up mr. clueless. dz is commissioning not advertisement.

But your village brothers are claiming it's advertisement and not commissioning so what is your own problem?

Inability to read and comprehend like a day old baby?


Damn villagers...

talktimi:
your ignorance is a disease so don't ever quote me again

Old papa, stop doing agidi, at your old age you should know the meaning of advertisement. This is shameful and pathetic way way beyond ignorance and mental mediocrity...

Fear, delusions and paranoia is killing you people. Vote for your worthless, crooked and incompetent jonSATAN and let others vote for their lovable #GMB...

It's all about the votes so meet us at the polls with your votes so stop crying, moaning and fearing your impending doom..

Oh, I see the 1909 locomotive junk from Siberia.... This is what your worthless , corrupt and incompetent masters in Abuja achieved after 16 years in office after tens of billions stollen..?


The billions your corrupt masters stole is enough to build modern, fast, bullet and digital age train system....

Thank God Nigerians are getting ready to banish mediocrity, corrupt, incompetent and mediocre clowns...#GMB...#GMB..

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Acidosis:
hehehe

Fashola the "best" governor Nigeria has ever produced. ...always commissioning projects without telling the donors (Lagosians) the costs of these projects

The easiest place to loot public funds in the whole world is Alausa.

Steal their billions and the robots will shout "E ko o ni baje" without asking questions in regard to contract cost & implementation

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Still, Lagos state commissions projects everyday while your own village governors have not even a classroom to show for 16 years of taxes, allocations and governance. Come back when you develop enough balls to ask your own non productive and no projects in 16 years governors what they did with your taxes and allocations.....I feel your pain and sorrow...

So as usual and as expected, the sad, sorrowful, angry and bitter with nothing to show from their villages are here crying and moaning..... Ndo, e go better one day...

argon500:
What is your own definition of Fail?

Let help him...


When you commission projects everyday, you are a failure and a looter, but when you are worthless, unproductive and have nothing to show for 16 years of governance, taxes and allocation collection like their village governors, you are superb and a winner...


This is what governance is in their backward and unproductive villages.


Think about it...When was the last time they showed you anything from their villages? Never, not once, not even a dog cage or 1 single classroom...


Btw, don't sweat them, we know the minute they stop venting and showing their anger and sorrow at our progress and development, it means we are not doing the right thing so when they cry, moan and bark like bingo every time we post this kind of topic, it means we are doing the right thing so we don't want them to stop... Simple...