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pro2010:
Nairaland has been bought over by PDP. In recent times mostly news aimed at discrediting buhari makes front page, this is one of such news.

Shut up and stop talking like an insane child.

Chemical2:
The north has the numbers to do so. If what i hear about Buhari is any thing to go by then i think i support power shift to the north.

Which numerical strength? It is all fraud which the northern a have perpetrated ever since to make NIGERIANS think they are more in number. What happened when chief Festus odumegwu f(ormer chief executive of national population commission)called the current census figures as a scam, can you recall what happened? The north called for his head, threatened to kill him just because he wanted to expose their scam, up till today, no census re-evaluation. The north have always used this census scam to deceptively control NIGERIA. Let's wait and see how our division will eventually lead to the predicted break up of Nigeria. If Niger deltans for equity sake will not be allowed to peacefully lead this country then I wonder who and what some people really are in this country. After all, GEJ can not be there beyond 2019, then the north can present a credible and right thinking candidate to lead the nation. I see lots of selfishness, greed playing out here. May God help Nigeria and NIGERIANS when it plays out (I hope it doesn't)

LRNZH:
Not so fast my friend.

This time be optimistic.

Who is IBB these days? The highest he can do is to impose a governor on Niger State. He has no voice in the north. His only boy in Gov't is David Mark.

Buhari has a lot of the masses support nationwide, and a strong and well funded party structure in APC.
Even the people around GMB are no pushovers eg Tinubu, Amaechi, Osinbajo, El-Rufai, even OBJ.

Have confidence this time.

Which confidence? Don't worry, 2015 is just around the corner. Then you will know that PDP is not a regional almajiri hero party but a national political champion anytime any day with vast & strong representation in all geopolitical zones of this nation. That is the party we want, we don't want the party that will come and say one region did not vote for me and so they will suffer. That is what APC and Buhari will do if given the opportunity. You can dream on.

CzarRex:
GEJ nw turnin 2 IBB afta OBJ deserted him,GEJ is like a child rejected by his fada,hu nw luks 4 anoda peson 2 act like a fada 2 him in times of need nt knwin he is in d wrong hands.

Do you know founding fathers of PDP? What do you know about politics?, or you think politics is all about running around various Internet fora to type rubbish just because you can afford a P2 computer. You think the founding fathers of PDP will fold their arms and let their party lose the election to a tribal, sectarian and regional party that seeks nothing but vendetta.

SaiBuharii:
When the evil General sent from hell starts recommending an individual, you know it's time to do otherwise and chase their cabal out of office. Of all people to take recommendation from - IBB. They have taken Nigerians for granted

#GMB2015
#SAIBUHARI
#CHANGE


Mr Progressive

Your level of illiteracy is colossal and irredeemable. You need help.

APC has no shame. Typical of losers. Their candidate can't lead this Nation. We need a national leader not a regional leader like Buhari who has nothing to offer.

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This Day (Lagos) 21 JANUARY 2002
Nigeria: 2003: Buhari Urges Muslims to Vote Upholders Islam

By Isah Ibrahim Maru
Gusau — As the year 2003 elections draw closer, former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) has called on Muslims across the country to vote only for the presidential candidate that would defend and uphold the tenets of Islam.

Buhari who made the call yesterday at the closing ceremony of the 16th National Qur'anic Recitation competition held in Gusau, Zamfara State told Muslims that they have every reason to thank Allah for restoring the Islamic Sharia under the present dispensation, which he said was destroyed by British colonialists during their crusade in 1903 against the Sokoto caliphate.

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Why Buhari will never be president of Nigeria

on January 21, 2014 / in Femi Aribisala 12:40 am / Comments


By Femi Aribisala

ON Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled: “Counter-trading Nigeria’s Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government’s scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil. A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me. Not finding me, he left a note that I must present myself unfailingly at the SSS office at 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos the next Monday morning.

However, on Sunday, 25th August, 1985, Lateef Aminu came first thing in the morning to my house to inform me that the government of Buhari/Idiagbon had been overthrown. For this reason, I am fond of telling people that God brought about a change of government in Nigeria just because of me.

Coup-plotter

Under the Buhari/Idiagbon regime, once you ended up at 15 Awolowo Road, you may never be heard of again. Decree Number 2 of 1984 empowered Tunde Idiagbon to arrest and detain anybody indefinitely without trial and without legal reprieve. After Buhari was overthrown, Mohammadu Gambo opened the prison doors of 15 Awolowo Road on public television, revealing people in various stages of UnCloth and malnutrition that had been kept in the dungeons without trial by Buhari’s hound-dogs.

As self-imposed Head of State, Buhari had no regard for human rights. Immediately he seized power, he announced that he would “tamper with” the press. Soon, the infamous Decree Number 4 was promulgated which made even the publication of the truth a punishable offence. Under this cover, Buhari jailed innocent journalists, including Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabo. He abolished civil liberties, promulgated retroactive decrees enabling him to kill Nigerians through jungle justice, proscribed civil society organizations and professional groups and exercised “absolute” power.

This same Buhari would now have us believe that he has gone through some metamorphosis and has become a democrat. I am sure you will forgive me if people like me don’t believe him. Buhari is not, has never been, and will never be, a democrat. Only in Nigeria would a man with his track record, who came to power through a military coup that illegally overthrew a democratic government, now be acclaimed as a democrat. It is on record that Buhari’s military regime is the only one in Nigeria’s history that failed to promulgate a programme for return to civilian rule.

Facts and fiction

So what exactly qualifies Buhari as a democrat today? Precious little! There is nothing democratic about forming and joining political parties just in order to be the presidential candidate. Little wonder then that Buhari’s parties have a short shelf-life. Buhari would like to be Nigeria’s head of state once again. He can no longer achieve this through the barrel of a gun. The only route now open to him is through the democratic process. That is the reason he now conveniently fashions himself as a democrat. It is merely a means to an end; no more, no less.

Buhari’s reputation as an anti-corruption crusader is also a myth. As head of state, he did not make any dent in Nigerian corruption. All we got was a cosmetic “war against indiscipline.” The counter-trade scam happened under his watch. Rather than deal with it, he sent his hound-dogs after nonentities like me who dared to expose it. That scam was no different, in scope and scale, from the petroleum subsidy and other corruption scandals that have since plagued Nigeria. The Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) that Buhari headed under Abacha was also a citadel of corruption. While Buhari himself might not have enriched himself, his cronies and those who worked under him did so handsomely.

On three different occasions, Buhari has run for the presidency. On three different occasions he has failed. That should really be enough. If, as seems likely, he were to run for the presidency a fourth time in 2015, there is no question that he would fail yet again. Try as he might again and again, Mohammadu Buhari can never be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Buhari’s sectarianism

There is a fundamental reason behind this. Buhari is a bad politician. He is an unbending former military dictator and not a democratic consensus-builder. Like his new ally, Bola Tinubu, Buhari is a regional, sectional politician. Such politicians are practically impossible to package and market nationally in the ethnically-delicate Nigeria of today.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El’Rufai, one of those Northerners who deserve to be serious contenders for the presidency of Nigeria, observed that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus.” This is an elegant way of saying that politically, Buhari has an uncanny tendency to put his foot in his mouth. He talks before thinking of the political implications of his words. He shoots from the hip.

The strength of Obasanjo, which enabled him to capture the presidency on two different occasions, was that he was perceived as a broadminded politician, not overly partial to his people in the South-West. As a matter of fact, in his first election, his people did not want him. The strength of Goodluck Jonathan, which propelled him to win the presidency, was that he was able to string together a coalition that stretched both north and south of the Niger. The weakness of Buhari is that he is totally unacceptable to people outside his region.

Buhari is a Northern regional champion. As head of state in the 1980s, his government was unapologetically Northern. No attempt was made to balance the ticket at the top. It was the only regime in Nigeria’s history headed by two Northerners. When he seized power, Buhari put Shagari, the Northern head of state he overthrew, under house arrest. But then he jailed Alex Ekwueme, the Southern vice-president. You may well ask what makes Shagari less culpable for the misdeeds of the Second Republic than his number-two man. The simple fact was that Buhari was Fulani as was Shagari; but Ekwueme was Igbo.

Impolitic words

At the height of the Sharia debate during the Obasanjo administration, Buhari declared that Muslims should vote only for fellow Muslims. This was politically suicidal for a man seeking national office. He became an advocate for implementation of Sharia all over Nigeria. He protested to the Oyo State governor, in the context of a dispute between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers in the state, that “your people are killing my people.” This turned out to be unfounded and perhaps the reverse.

His threats during the campaign for the 2011 elections incited widespread violence in the North after he lost. His supporters went on a rampage; looting and killing; in spite of the fact that, by all accounts, the elections were adjudged the most free and fair in the history of Nigeria’s current democratic experiment. By the time the mayhem had subsided, over 1000 people had been slaughtered in cold blood and some 65,000 displaced.

Forgetting that a statement made in Hausa would readily be translated into English, Buhari later declared unapologetically in a BBC interview: “If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.” These are the tokens of an irresponsible politician, whose ambitions for power supersede the national interest. Who then are the dogs and baboons that Buhari has in mind to soak in blood if and when he loses yet again come 2015? Are they his children or are they those of others?

With the Boko Haram insurgency in the north, Buhari played to the Northern gallery yet again, calling the Jonathan government “the biggest Boko Haram.” Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House designed to persuade PDP rebel governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to decamp to the APC. Assuming that only Northerners were present, Buhari declared the Boko Haram was a “strategic plan” by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to “destroy the North.” When Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, Buhari still saw this with Northern goggles, insinuating that the President is waging war on the North.

President of the North

Without a doubt, Buhari has massive support in the North. Indeed, he is the most popular Northern politician in the North today. But that precisely remains his undoing at the centre. The more he has been identified as a Northern champion, the less attractive he has become as a national choice. Even in the North, his support base is limited to the Muslim population. He does not appeal to Northern Christians. Then there is the added factor of the opposition of his implacable opponents among the Northern elite. Men like Babangida and Atiku would rather die than allow Buhari get to Aso Rock.

One thing is certain, the South-South and the South-East will not vote for Buhari in 2015. Not only that; there are no buyers for Buhari’s sectarian politics in the South-West. No matter what Tinubu might be telling him, the people of the South-West will not vote for Buhari in 2015. We already had the template in 2011, when Buhari tried to sell himself, first by balancing his ticket with a Yoruba man; and then by making sure the Yoruba man is a Christian; a pastor no less. But it just did not wash. It will not work in 2015.

The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot. That is a sure guarantee that the North will not be providing the next president. Buhari would be a shoo-in in an election for president of Northern Nigeria. But in an election encompassing the entire country, the best he can envisage is to be a kingmaker. He cannot be king. The nearest Buhari will get to Aso Rock in 2015 is by attending the Council of State meetings.




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Collynzo419:
Aloy abeg just face your front.

Lagos is over populated. Only a big fool like u will not notice that.

Should we start comparing the slums of PH where you reside with Lagos?

What is LAGOS doing with the excess money they make in Taxes & other revenues? After all they once claimed that they don't rely on monthly allocation to run LAGOS. What now?

ikweremilitant:
ha! A.p.c change the way u decieve gulable nigerians,especaly your e-ode on nairaland.

Take a visit to Ikotun, Egbe, Ejigbo, Okota, Ijegun, igando, ipaja, Okoko etc, you will laugh...........

LastProphet:
If election is rigged is clearly different from if i lose, why are all jonathanians clueless? So u think gmb is as dumb as ur master gej to go and say he will kill if he dosent win? ONLY JONATHAN can make such a foolish statement, and only mo.rons like u can expect others to believe it

I will refer you to this publication. GEJ will never make such statements. He is not desperate.

Any presidential aspirant promising to end terrorism in 1 year is either telling lies or he is part of the terror group. Take it or leave it, terrorism is a global phenomenon championed by some muslims who see themselves are fighters for Allah. It is global from Middle East to America, to Asia and Africa. It is not a conventional robbery matter which is basically economical in nature, this is a fight from within the souls of men of the Islamic faith. The war against terror could last for 100 years, or even for ever. Presidential aspirants should stop telling us they will stop boko haram within 1 year except they are part of the terror group.

No aspirant should tell me he will eradicate poverty because we will always have the poor in our midst. Even as advanced as America is, they still have the poor living amongst them.

No aspirant should tell me he will eradicate corruption because corruption is in the mind. When you favor a man over others just because he is your tribes man, it is called corruption. When you favour people of your religious faith over others, it is called corruption, when you place a president under house arrest in his mansion and jail his deputy in Kirikiri maximum prison, it is called corruption, when a conductor deliberately withholds your change such that you forgot to take your change while alighting at your bus stop, it is called corruption, when your student scores 90% and you deliberately rate him 65 just because you don't like his face or tribe, it is called corruption, the list goes on. No one is exonerated in this.
My opinion.

samplegirl:
Nigerians need prayers more than anything. One thing one must learn from Nairaland is that ''being disrespectfull is now startung to be part of our culture'' sadly though.

There are so many MAD PEOPLE in this country and more of them are in Nairaland.

Seconded, nairaland has turned to madland, so many Nigerians are insanely disrespectful, abusive and uncultured. It's a pity. Sometimes I'm just speechless about all these.

Sabdeejat:
Thank you god for shunnin pdp with their ethnic campaign against people choice GMB this time,the change os every where coz we all live in thesame country where pdp is cheating on us no matter wat is ur religion or tribe,che dia will be change wooo..GMB for life unless u have been brainwash by cult call pdp

You have been hoodwinked by Buhari campaign of 'I am poor' 'I borrowed money to buy form'

Get a life please.

GEJ 2015.

So APC now believe that pastors can get involved in politics. When some pastors supported GEJ, we never drank water and dropped our glasses. But it's now news all over. Anyway, APC is a manufacturer of propaganda, it's their major product , this is one I see very clearly. Osinbajo is not the presidential candidate. Since pastors are said 'to be greedy' by our ignoramuses in APC, I think the pastors will eventually vote for GEJ because he is also a christain, a presidential candidate and that is where the money is.

magicfingers009:
Where are your facts? Talk about the issue on ground. Your paymaster is a rogue who has no regard for the law. I'm so interested in how he would manipulate his way around. No b today yansh dey for back. GEJ the con artist!

Now you ask for facts, you are just a kid if you claim you don't know it costs a fortune to contest presidential elections anywhere in the world. Even state governorship elections costs a lot of money. You are just a delusional dude whom have failed to get a life. You have been deceptively hoodwinked by Buhari. Your understanding will be clearer after the elections. Shame.

TippyTop:
Don't be silly, the only people Buhari is scamming with his "am very poor" slogan is young people who're too stupid to do a research on buhari. If buhari can't creste wealth for himself how can he do it for us?

Seconded, for over 32 years, Buhari could not create wealth for himself let alone his family. How can he create wealth for NIGERIANS. The Nigerians supporting this Buhari are lazy youths, they are lazy in ideas and intellectually, they equally can't improve themselves, most are illiterates and very gullible. All they want to hear is people being jailed for no reason and they come to social media to rejoice.

Coming to the donations, it's arrant nonsense calling for probe. Is it illegal to donate money for a worthy course? Or is it simply about the hate for GEJ?
If the donations went to APC, would they talk, would their e-urchins come out here to make noise? Please enough of these nonsense from ignoramuses. If you like gove your vote to Buhari, it wouldn't make GEJ lose his sleep on bit. In few weeks from now, you will all shut up and learn how not to talk trash again.

holajeedayy:
Nigerian are dieing in north.....some are suffering abroad i my self i av nt taking any reasonable tin and jona dey flex for aso rock wit some useless pastors in comfort may God reward dem brutality for all dis intentional evil

A bricklayer earned about 3,000 to 4500 on a daily basis, he was diligent to save at least 1,500 minimum daily, by second week of December, he had about 520,000 naira in his savings account. His Christmas was done. He has a wife, 2 children, a small toyota car, he has a plot of Land in Minna, Niger state. He is happy with his family.

You must be a lazy man filled with desperate expectation, deliberately delusional to think that GEJ or pastors are the source of your problem. This is the reason why you don't have 'any reasonable tin'

Go get a life.

Guidette:
Opolo eyes and madam peshi. He looks clueless and his wife is a bleached whale....

Ok.. I'm Sorry. But Buhari 2015-....

You are so disrespectful, I guess your parents did a bad job in bringing you up. You are such a wasted effort, time and resource. You should be ashamed of your self.

In response to your post, why not circulate this too

LRNZH:
Last Christmas in Aso Rock for Retardeen.

If men were God.......

Are you angry that he celebrated Christmas with his family, friends and well wishers?

trotsky2:
u are very s.t.u.p.i.d walahi talahi, and may Allah curse you and jonagoat till eternity. Jona is a bastard walahi talahi! Kai!

Sorry, Jonathan is not a bastard, do you know why?, because he's got a father and a mother, and he is the president of the federal republic of NIGERIA. Bastards don't rule NIGERIA.

So who are you? What are you? Count your teeth with your tongue. You are a complete illiterate who lacks the courtesy of public discuss, as widely exhibited by our MUSLIM friends from the north and the opposition party. It's unfortunate we have people like you in Nigeria. Sad.

This is one of the reasons why boko haram is increasingly getting difficult to deal with. I have said it in this forum, the northerners know these people and where they are, they know their families but they chose to hide information from the government. They will never reveal the identity of these people, and so we are at a cross road trying to solve this problem. It's so unfortunate that this is happening and sadly beyond anyone's control. When a person decides to commit suicide, it's is often difficult to stop him or her because they can do it anywhere, anyhow and whenever. May God help us.

Cheap propaganda. This is the lowest APC can go. It's a shame trying to use this method to woo Igbos. Try another one.

http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/apc-church-satan-%E2%80%93-pastor-tunde-bakare

Obijulius:
My Brother,

The bolded is a no go area for the North and their slaves in the South West.

Don't ask them thier plan for that ooooo. That is their biggest fear, thus the fight against GEJ.

Anyway, we dey wait for them!!!

but why are the hausa-fulanis so desperate for power, why? It's obvious they want power so they could embezzle, and it is very unfortunate some southwest slaves, illiterates and few educated ones who can not read between the lines are all supporting this evil and selfish plot for tribal reasons. It's so sad when a group of deranged people pathetically display hunger for power with such tenacity. It shows they really have nothing to offer other than just grab power with the help of southwest and the marriage will be over.

The bottom line is that if GMB ever wins, he can stop boko haram simply by asking them to stop and come over to Abuja to get what belongs to them and they will obey him because he started boko haram both as a religious and political tool to bulldoze his way into power.

the unfortunate thing for him is that he will not win. I would have so wished he won so could see how he intends to create the jobs, bring down price of fuel to 20 naira per litre, a bag of rice to 2,000 per bag, kerosene 15 naira per litre. crude oil to 200 dollars per barrel, cost of 3 bedroom flat in lekki 1, 250,000 per/A

well, he just wouldn't win because winning is not in his genome, he is just a generic loser.

BossAyuk:
Welcome The People's General. PDP must be swept away even on social media.

BTW let's have a moment of silence as we thank Goofluck for bringing Facebook and Twitter to Nigeria

lol, GMB only on social media ni.

Let him come to the National grid, GMB and his APC's brooms will all burn beyond recognition. The fire awaits him and his drug pushing APC executhieves.

That religion called Is-ram is crazy. The followers are deranged and misguided to cause mayhem the world. 90% of the chaos in the world today is caused by people of that religious fate. What a shame. Yet some ignoramus want to bring back one of the religious fundamentalist, an islamist to come and rule Nigeria. Never, it will never happen. GEJ till 2019.

rasco2000me:
Nigerian shold be careful about president jonathan is a pretender he as notting to offer nigerian and nigeria than all this makeup stories whre is the fresh air he promise

Buhari is the worst pretender and father of all lies. He is the devil in sheep clothing, the wolf amongst the innocent. He is an agent of the devil and sent to rule with a demonic Islamic agenda. He will not win the election. Mark my word. he is a corrupt goon, a selfish and tribal general and a coward. he is just a local champion amongst the almajiris and his south western illiterate and tribal supporters. What a shame.

KHAYGOLD:
As your father was shot. Oloriburuku omo igbo

what a deranged fox. "Igbo" one of the reasons you hate GEJ with passion even though he is not core igbo, you just hate anything from SS or SE. You should be ashamed with your vernacular, it on goes a long way to show the extent of your tribalism and the abysmal display of your stupd;;ity. Come 2015, GEJ will be riding high into Aso Rock, you will have to go hang yourself, its allowed, and don't for get to blame GEJ o. orangutan like you.

Pataki:
Rubbish.

Repainting airports is now an accomplishment?

Failure rebranding itself.

You should be ashamed of yourself. Does your father paint your house even in 30 years? When OBJ was there, did he paint or rehabilitate the airports?. It's obvious why power cannot be handed down to your type, you simply cannot understand nor process developmental achievements when you see one. You need to get lost from this thread.