₦airaland Forum

I do not see why there should be complaint about pictures of the dead if they are relevant to current politics and are published sparringly. Pictures of Ukeoma's body are shocking, but the election riots were even more so.

greateros:
FOO-OOL it has not yet occurred to you that Buhari's presidency would av put an instant end to this crisis!

For the records, go and read about the scary Islamic maitatsineh Sect (believed to be invisible when they attack) so brutal, wild, devilish and inhuman (Boko Haramites are actually like child's play to the maitatsineh sect) But buhari destroyed and buried the sect during his regime as a military head of state.

Majority of us voted him because we know this errant non-sense wouldn't happen in his government.

Lol!

It would simply grow instead. I don't believe Buhari even knows how to use the internet, yet things like the election riots are said to have been organised via twitter.

seanet02:
I knew they have always been more Human than this Northern Blood suckers but the issue is The Northerners are Influenced by crook Politician using Religion as a scape route

I agree, and I hope to God that they are rounded up soon after the elections when there will be no need to keep a fragile peace by all means.
The animals must be picked up and if any foolhardy almajiri decides to kill, burn and loot in response, the FG must persuade them and calm their nerves with deadly bullets.

As for the so called Boko Haram, we might need to invade Niger Republic to drive the message home that we will no longer tolerate their fvcked up citizens crossing our borders to forment trouble after getting paid.

I pray that it will be gloves off time after the elections.

seanet02:
So that is true to you dunce?
When MEND bombed Lagos you did not claim it was An External Influenced Incident
Case of Double standard!!!!

That was the real MEND and they expressed regret whenever their operations led to the loss of any civilian lives.

We regret any civilian loss of life that may have occurred from the attack.

-Jomo Gbomo

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5436404-146/Atlas_cove_attack:_Militants_react_to.csp

This new "Aboki MEND" doesn't give a toss about civilian lives, in fact they lust after blood. Aboki MEND has been blowing up the place since Oct 1 last year.

olawalebab:
With people like Beaf around, i see a bleak future for Nigeria, i cant imagine a plain LIAR that'll want to turn black to white for us. Buhari is holding a long PEN which is the logo of his party and not spear, that is how he show it in all his rally. As for Papa Ayo, i dont want to believe he say all that. I want to believe he was quoted out of context. Success Nigeria

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. That is not a "long PEN," it is a SPEAR. Why should a pen be made so long and thin that it unmistakably is a spear?
Buhari and Bakare held similar spears at other campaigns.

Now that blood has been spilt, we demand to know why Mr Buhari held spears at some rallies.

^
Lol

I'm very sleepy. I'll join you guys tomorrow.

koruji:
This call to drag Buhari & Bakare to the International Criminal Court is silly in my opinion. This is what needs to happen if GEJ truly wants to build a new Nigeria in deed and not by mouth alone:

1. Those arrested for the dastardly acts of burning, pillaging and killing must be prosecuted swiftly.

2. They must receive the highest punishment available - by which I mean death, if I am not being clear.

The events that have followed the presidential election is partly due to GEJ's tendency to do too many "political calculations" with his decisions. These events were presaged and primed over and over again by repeated murderous rampages in Jos, Borno and bombings all over.

How many persons have being prosecuted and punished swiftly, even when they were caught red-handed, under GEJ? None that I am aware of. Why won't people immediately resort to violence with that kind of laxity.

President GEJ has been adviced to have some of these animals publicly executed after dragging them before the nation, and incontrovertibly tying them to their gruesome acts in full view of the world.

How long are we going to be hiding behind the UN? Iran brought enough weapons to start a war into your country, you go to the U.N.; Your elections are not considered credible until you have the U.N. and other observers watching it; Now, you cannot handle the election crisis without calling the U.N.

It is becoming a bad habit.

The ICC is independent from the UN, so the basis of your argument is wrong. Nigeria is a signatory to the ICC and there are Nigerian lawyers involved in its activities.
As long as we are fully signed up to the ICC's charter, we must avail ourselves of its services if need be.

The beauty of the ICC, is that you and I (any ordinary citizen) can invoke powers of judgement on every and anyone where the circumstances are right (free of charge). The ICC is already investigating, so all we need do is lubricate the process.

alj harem:


very good so long as u are arrested i am cool with it  

This is where your governor is building the zoo to keep you. There is plenty grass for your feeding and if you look carefully you will see some Boko Harams climbing the trees, wanting to play with you.

https://farm4.static.flickr.com/3066/2967814166_489ba7b2a1_o.jpg

In the meantime, this is how I will be training you every morning for the next 6 years. The boot targets the arse and the family jewels, talk of killing to birds with one stone! Lol!
Its a new form of family planning to reduce the almajiri population. You ain't breeding, son.

https://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40966000/jpg/_40966302_beating416ap.jpg

He berated the clerics who are hailing the April 16 presidential election as credible, saying they don’t even know what is happening. Bakare said the leadership of the church has polluted themselves, “That is why they say they thank God for a peaceful election, unfortunately for them, the money paid to them, the serial numbers were taken.”

"The serial numbers of the notes were taken?"
Dishonest people always try to fill the air with noise so it seems they are attacking when in reality they are running away and talking crap.
The statement about serial numbers is so nonsensical that one wonders if Tunde Bakare is actually a lawyer or if he didn't buy "University of Toronto" documents. How can a graduate say something so uniquely daft?

alj harem:
gbammmm

i really do not know why he still has his phone or laptops with him
_{do worry beaf i would come with suya and garri everyday while in prison}

Don't worry, your governor is building a new zoo. You will be one of the animals in it.
The place is in the desert near where Boko Harams come out to play, so you will be very happy there and they will always have grass for you to eat as well.

Did you see that on google maps?

Buhari campaigning with a spear. Bakare did the same too:

https://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/188687_133216876748266_116280281775259_204076_4939635_n.jpg

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Statement from the International Criminal Court of Justice (ICC):

Statement: 21.04.2011

[size=14pt]OTP Statement on Electoral Violence in Nigeria[/size]

The Office of the Prosecutor is closely following on the situation in Nigeria and is concerned with the outbreak of violence surrounding the National Assembly and Presidential elections of April 2011.

In the context of its on-going preliminary examination activities, the Office will seek to establish whether the recent violence may have been planned and organized and whether crimes falling within the Court’s jurisdiction may have been committed.

The Office is mindful that the upcoming governorship elections on 26 April could lead to further violence. Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo stated. “Those who commit atrocities to gain power will be held to account”. The Office of the Prosecutor welcomes Nigeria’s political leaders’ call on their supporters to show restraint and avoid unrest. In accordance with the complementarity principle, the Office will, in the first place, support national investigations into the violence and its perpetrators.

Source: Office of the Prosecutor

http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/FFAB57D5-3986-4208-8BC3-CEF1971629E7.htm

Lol!

The vast majority of the good people of Nigeria urge Tunde Bakare to shut up and take his so called evidence to court. It really can't be that difficult.
In the meantime, I suggest to all Nigerians that we find ways to haul Buhari and Bakare before the International Criminal Court. The prosecutor has already expressed interest and only needs evidence that the violence was planned.

Ibime:
Some Nairaland fantasists have gone too far with their fantasies, and seek to achieve political expediency by naming Buhari and Bakare as sponsors of the riot. Of course those responsible for the riots should be tried, but I would be doing a disservice to logical reasoning to entertain deranged arguments that Buhari and Bakare should be tried without any evidence of them having ordered any riot.

As it stands Beaf and Papabrowne are insignificant and unknown citizens who are just mouthing off nonsense. If ICC wanna try anyone, Naija AG must first submit names to ICC, or there must proof of someone having ordered riots ala Major Hassan Katsina in the 1966 progroms.

Take a look at the alert from the ICC Prosecutor below, it really neglects to mention the AG or ask if anyone ordered the riots. I wonder why?

Statement: 21.04.2011

[size=14pt]OTP Statement on Electoral Violence in Nigeria[/size]

The Office of the Prosecutor is closely following on the situation in Nigeria and is concerned with the outbreak of violence surrounding the National Assembly and Presidential elections of April 2011.

In the context of its on-going preliminary examination activities, the Office will seek to establish whether the recent violence may have been planned and organized and whether crimes falling within the Court’s jurisdiction may have been committed.

The Office is mindful that the upcoming governorship elections on 26 April could lead to further violence. Prosecutor Moreno-Ocampo stated. “Those who commit atrocities to gain power will be held to account”. The Office of the Prosecutor welcomes Nigeria’s political leaders’ call on their supporters to show restraint and avoid unrest. In accordance with the complementarity principle, the Office will, in the first place, support national investigations into the violence and its perpetrators.

Source: Office of the Prosecutor

http://www.icc-cpi.int/NR/exeres/FFAB57D5-3986-4208-8BC3-CEF1971629E7.htm

I wonder why anyone should be scared of Buhari and Bakare clearing their names before an incorruptible court. Leaving aside their understandably jittery supporters, I'm certain beyond doubt, that the "two honest men" will jump at the chance to defend their integrity in a court with impeccable pedigree such as the ICC.
I see little to worry about, rather all hands should be on deck to make the trial possible and bring the date closer.

CPC rigged the baby.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=653494.msg8197161#msg8197161 date=1303682184]Your obsession with GEJ and now Buhari, for different reasons have turned your objectivity on its head. You are now making foolish excuses for why GEJ should not provide for the security of Nigerians. Carry on. olodo[/quote]If you look into the mirror, you will see the real olodo staring right back.

The riots occurred as a direct result of Buhari's campaign style. No? He even attended ralies with a spear, same goes for Bakare.
Buhari asked almajiri's to lynch people, while Bakare asked them to go and vote with kerosine in one hand and matches in the other.

Now that people are dead in the aftermath, I am proposing that the perpetrators be taken to the Hague and their rusty arses hauled before the ICC. Most people I know would think that is justice served and security threats dealt with, but in a very strange way, you don't. Weird!

Buhari must be tried before the most competent court where excuses and almajiri action will be futile.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=653494.msg8197079#msg8197079 date=1303681253]How about GEJ and his security aparatus cart the known culprits off to jail right now and stop the madness! They know who they are, don't they?[/quote]Its best to get a court as beautifully neutral as the ICC to try Buhari.
The immediate reason is so you people can't start a new song about how Southern "kafirs" and "Zionists" are jailing holy Northern Muslims; or whatever other hogwash gets almajiri's eyes bloodshot and works them into a frothy primeval frenzy.

[quote author=aloy/emeka link=topic=653548.msg8197030#msg8197030 date=1303680758]Gbam. First positive thought that came from Aigbofa. You see how one can improve if he/she lets go of tribalism. 5 stars.[/quote]Agreed, that is one brilliant mind that is dulled by ethnic bigotry; most of NL's bigots are dunces he shouldn't be rolling with. Its a shame really.

Ibime:
As usual, Beaf reading into sections of the article what he wishes to believe.

The writer expressly states that he believes the imams are responsible for the violence and that Buhari is not in any way a religious bigot and quote "Buhari has been used by opportunist" paraphrase "who've been worked up by PDP zoning issue".

Where the connection comes between Buhari and ICJ is simply a machination of Beaf's mind.

Firstly, a correction. It is the ICC (which can prosecute and lock away individuals), not the ICJ (which is a UN body that deals with govt disputes).

I am not reading from the article, but stating my mind and buttressing my thoughts with points from the article. I urge you to do the same, it is quite liberating.
Yes, I would like Buhari and those who plotted the riots to be carted off to the ICC and jailed for eternity.

The ICC is an incorruptible, neutral court, staffed by World class legal experts; it is also an upholder of human rights, morals and all tenets of civilisation. Why then do Buhari supporters squirm, fidget and stutter each time it is suggested that Buhari be made to face the ICC? Surely, one would think he would immediately jump at the chance of hosing and vacuuming his soiled name before such a court, since he is one of the "two honest men?"

The spilt blood is what concerns the nation now. We must dig to the bottom of the matter to find out why the rampaging almajiri's carried Buhari's picture and were identified by all they met as CPC supporters. Punishment for spilt blood is all that concerns us now, and all fingers, straight and crooked, point at Buhari.

Buhari must be tried.

SEFAGO:
^ nah I actually like the way Igbo people dress. They dress simple. I would rank dress styles by

1) Bini (I jealous these peope dressing no be small with all those beads. Bling bling)
2) Igbo (Simple, a red cap and that thing they love hitting each other with while shouting igbo kwenu. I want one of those)
3) Yoruba (Too much clothes but swagger dey plenty. The women spend too much money on clothes and aso ebi for party)
4) Hausa (Quite simple too, dont blame them, not a good idea to wear too much under the scorching heat while chasing after cattle)
5) Ijaw (I love the hat- you guys can hate it or love, but it does add some style, its just that it does not fit Jo-boy)

Fail.

That list is damn horrible. Check this out (from Warri with luv).

https://www.deltastate.gov.ng/images/UPFRECEPTION4IBORI089.jpg

We just need to buy nuff otapiapia to fumigate the fvckers.

They come from Niger, so we might need to show that godforsaken strip of desert a thing or two about military might. We need to capture a few dozen of their villages (rocks, goats and all) until the swear to keep their useless indegenes from crossing the border to pollute Nigeria.

[quote author=ndu_chucks link=topic=653494.msg8194789#msg8194789 date=1303655385]This is mere conjecture and unfounded speculation which misses the point of the protests completely. The point is not whether GEJ should have won but that the rigging should have got his candidacy disqualified. This writer also assumes that the violence and killings were orchestrated by CPC, an unfortunate and disappointing stance.

We all condemn the violence, but we must not allow the action of irresponsible few put us in a position to continue to accept the rigging machine of PDP without protesting, preferably peacefully.

I'd be glad to read the author's article next week after PDP rigs Ogun Oyo, and Lagos. Based on the author's logic, we should just roll over and let it be, because violence is bad. olodo[/quote]You're a clever guy, but you allow ethnic and sectional bigotry make you reach conclusions that sound clownish tomost people. From your words, it quite clear you didn't even bother to read the article. Dude, nobody is in the least bit interested in the silly and childish claims from the Buhari camp. No, what interests us now is blood. The blood that has been unecessarilly spilt by savages, who deprived of education by their masters, cut down the fleshiest fruit of the nation. Young saplings bursting with vigour and life, brandishing degrees were cut down by a hailstorm of primitive almajiri's brandishing the sticks and stones that have come to symbolise Buhari's CPC.

Blood sir, innocent blood is what concerns us. It is what has raised the ire of the International Criminal Court at the Hague, as well as the United Nations. The wanton spilling of blood should be your main concern too, because drawing up these strange, ridiculous and morally bewildering positions only ridicules the blood of our fallen youth; and that is unacceptable, it is untenable and an absolute disgrace.

We MUST get Buhari to face the International Criminal Court at the Hague.

The riots were premeditated. Even you promised there would be pogroms long before those riots occurred. The article makes the sequence of events clear:

It is even more amazing that some people are saying the violence was not premeditated, that it was “spontaneous”. I beg to disagree. The violence started in Gombe on Saturday even before the results were announced. The Adamawa version erupted on Sunday night while we were still awaiting the results. Then it spread to other states. I don’t want to believe the rioters were so sophisticated that they had already compiled the results by themselves on Saturday or Sunday ahead of INEC’s announcement on Monday evening. They were being pushed to kill, to shed blood, to slaughter. By whom, I don’t know. But there was nothing spontaneous about that.

maclatunji:
Beaf is here and you are asking if the Nigerian government monitors Nairaland, I laugh in Latin.

Lol!
If you honestly think I am connected with the Nigerian govt, you muster be high on either paint or gutter water.

Click the link. 
Weird! Youths in Kano inhale gutter odour to get drugged *558 suspects arrested —NDLEA

[size=14pt]This Nonsense Has to Stop Now![/size]
24 Apr 2011
Simon Kolawole Live!: Email: simonkolawole@thisdayonline.com

Finally, I am beginning to question my convictions about the unity, peace and progress of Nigeria. After fifty years of independence and almost 100 years of amalgamation, Nigeria is still in shreds despite several efforts to stitch a country together. Hawkers of hate and vendors of violence always seem to have the upper hand. The sanctity of life is rubbish as far as they are concerned. When I saw the violence and killing spree that erupted up North after last Saturday’s presidential election, my ever-abiding faith in the unity of Nigeria was shaken to its very foundation. The only positive I could take out is that there were no reprisals in the South. This, as little as it may appear, has doused what might have become a widespread national calamity. I shiver at the thought of what might have been.

[b]By the way, I am a believer in Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. I started dreaming of a Buhari presidency in 1998. I supported him wholeheartedly against ex-President Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003 and against Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007. But I saw certain things in the run-up to the 2011 presidential election that toned down my enthusiasm. First, I was very uncomfortable with the ethnic and religious undertone to the mobilisation for him. I kept getting reports of the messages being preached against President Goodluck Jonathan by Northern clerics on the ground that he is a “kafir”. I was further put off by the use of sheer intimidation and blackmail by Buhari’s supporters to force people to support their man.

Most importantly, I was highly discouraged by the failure of Buhari to factor the South into his political calculations. Since 2003, he had never won anything in the South.  If you’re going to be president of Nigeria, you have to reach out to all. Nobody is ever going to be president of Nigeria by appealing to only the people from his region and religion. In widely published news reports, Second Republic senator and deputy co-ordinator of Jonathan/Sambo Campaign Organisation in the North-central, Senator Walid Jibrin, pointedly accused Buhari’s party, the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), of whipping up religious sentiments against Jonathan in the North. It was an open secret. I was so worried because I knew where all these things would end up. Nevertheless, I believed it was overzealousness on the part of Buhari’s men, because the Buhari I know is not a bigot. Perhaps it was just politics.

Following the violence that erupted after Buhari’s defeat, it is amazing how some analysts have been so untouched by the killing of innocent Nigerians, including youth corps members, but have instead focused attention on politicking with figures. It is so amazing that some are trying to hide behind the “outrageous figures” Jonathan got from the South-south and the South-east to justify the killings in the North. These analysts tacitly support the mindless murders while pretending not to. They conveniently ignore the underage voting and the intimidation that jacked up the figures for Buhari in the far North. To them, there is nothing to be said about that. It is sauce for the gander and poison for the goose. Of course, under no condition should rigging be justified but fairness further demands that you don’t close your eyes to wrongdoing on any side anywhere in the country. How on earth can a sane person try to explain away the killing of innocent souls for any reason at all?[/b]

It is even more amazing that some people are saying the violence was not premeditated, that it was “spontaneous”. I beg to disagree. The violence started in Gombe on Saturday even before the results were announced. The Adamawa version erupted on Sunday night while we were still awaiting the results. Then it spread to other states. I don’t want to believe the rioters were so sophisticated that they had already compiled the results by themselves on Saturday or Sunday ahead of INEC’s announcement on Monday evening. They were being pushed to kill, to shed blood, to slaughter. By whom, I don’t know. But there was nothing spontaneous about that.

Come to think of it, the targets were clearly picked: anybody suspected to have supported Jonathan was put on the firing line. It was not just “kafirs” that were targeted. Even any Hausa/Fulani suspected to have supported Jonathan was dealt with for “selling out”. This explains why even the Sultan of Sokoto, Alhaji Sa’ad Abubakar III, was not spared the venom, allegedly for asking people not to vote along religious lines. A politician friend of mine from Malumfashi, Katsina State, said his house was burnt because he was a PDP member. “The houses of eight of us who are PDP members were selected and burnt, even though Buhari won our local government by a landslide,” he lamented to me on phone. A similar thing, called “Wetie”, happened in the old Western Region in 1964-65: anybody suspected of working for the ruling Northern Peoples Congress was tagged a quisling and marked for murder. What have we learnt since then? Are we not going backward?

Indeed, violence and intimidation had been systematically unleashed long before the general election began. Jonathan’s campaign office in Damaturu, Yobe State, was burnt down. When he went to campaign in Kaduna, his billboards were pulled down by youths shouting “Sai Buhari”. His campaign train was pelted with missiles in Lafia, Nasarawa State, and Gombe, Gombe State. Across the far North, people were routinely stopped and forced to chant “Sai Buhari”. You dear not say anything to the contrary! A former military governor told me he was returning from the mosque one day when Buhari’s supporters mobbed his car and asked him to tell them whom he was supporting. People were being forced to covert to “Buharism” through mob action. There is nothing spontaneous in this. Yet I insist that Buhari I know is not a violent politician. His campaign, to my mind, was hijacked by opportunists.

Why is Buhari so popular among the commoners up North? We need to understand the region’s socio-political structure a bit. There is a religious establishment, controlled by the clerics, and the political establishment in the hands of the political elite. Then there are the ordinary people on the street. The clerics wield the biggest influence on the crowd. The crowd goes wherever the clerics point to. The ordinary people detest the political elite because of perceived corruption and insensitivity to the plight of the masses. The political leaders are seen as oppressors. On the other hand, Buhari is seen as an honest person, “Mai Gaskiya”, the antithetical politician. He is, to the people, the liberator who would deal with the oppressors. It was very easy for the clerics to market Buhari; after all, he was running against a “kafir” and a “usurper” (Jonathan).

[b]There was this interesting story of a cleric in Sokoto who bought buckets of black paint, gathered four of his children and marched them to the streets with the singular assignment of removing or defacing Jonathan's posters anywhere they were found. In a newspaper interview he granted after he was arrested, quizzed and released by security agents, the cleric said he did it because Jonathan violated the zoning principle of the PDP as it was the turn of the North to rule Nigeria. This is intriguing. Zoning used to be seen as a PDP thing. But as soon as Jonathan won PDP’s ticket in January, zoning became everybody’s problem. Many of my Northern friends who used to support Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and hated Buhari with passion quickly shifted their support to the retired general and started calling him an honest person. And even though it was not openly pronounced, Buhari had become the official Northern candidate. Many politicians, some of them criminals and PDP riggers, seized the opportunity and defected to the CPC, knowing fully well that Buhari’s popularity was going to be a stepping stone to winning elections.

But beyond the emotions of the mob out there, could Buhari have won the presidential election? From indications, he believed he would win enough votes in the North to force a run-off. He had no presence in the South at all. I have said it a million times that nobody can become president of Nigeria by winning votes in his region alone. His strategy, as I understand it, is that if he led with a simple majority of votes based on the North’s population, then there would be a run-off which he would also win relying on the North’s population. The miscalculation here, in my opinion, is that the North would vote as one. Someone even told me Buhari would win in the 19 Northern states. I did warn Northern politicians last year that the North could never vote as one. It has never happened before. The most popular political figure ever produced by the North, Alhaji Ahmadu Bello, never won in all the provinces in Northern Nigeria![/b]

Some smart analysts have told us that the post-election killings in the North should be understood within the context of rigging in the South. If it had not been rigged, they said, Buhari’s strategy would have worked. One strand of this belief is that Buhari won the election and INEC deducted 40 per cent from his votes, thereby handing victory to Jonathan (Buhari called it “computer fraud” and said he had evidence). If this is true, Buhari would still not have won the election. He was credited with 12,214,853 votes to Jonathan’s 22,495,187. If Buhari’s votes were marked up by 40 per cent across the 36 states and Abuja, his total would be 20,358,088, still almost 2 million votes less that Jonathan’s. Yet, no fair-minded person would say Buhari scored 40 per cent of the votes anywhere in the South. It was an impossibility. I never saw how Tony Momoh and Yinka Odumakin were going to deliver those 40 per cent Southern votes to the CPC.

[b]The other strand of this belief is that the figures from the South-south and South-east were “sexed up”. To be honest, the voter turnout in these two regions was staggering and suspicious. There is no doubt about that. There is no amount of explanation that will make me believe those funny figures from Abia, Imo, Rivers, Bayelsa and Anambra. But, let’s be reasonable here: even if we discount the “rigging” by as much as 70 per cent to keep voter turnout in the two regions at 30 per cent (compared to South-west’s 32 per cent turnout), Jonathan would still have polled 14,722,489. He would still have defeated Buhari by over 2 million votes. In fact, if the entire votes attributed to Jonathan from his region, South-south, were taken out, he would still have scored 16,376,579. He would still have won. So why the orchestration of violence and killings over a lost case?

And may I ask: how come the statistics experts conveniently ignore the massive underage voting incidence up North? One of the youth corps members who was murdered in cold blood in Bauchi had said on his facebook page that CPC supporters forced underage voters on him and demanded that the remaining ballot papers be handed over to them for thumb-printing. Is that acceptable? Fairness demands that we should condemn both the sexed-up figures from the South as well as underage voting in the North. It is illogical to say every vote for Buhari was legal and willingly given, while only Jonathan “sexed up” his own figures. The best way to sort out this sort of problem is by legal means, not arson and slaughter. Those who attempt to justify the killings on the basis of some warped statistics should have their heads examined.[/b]

[size=14pt]I would sum up in this wise. One, the violence we witnessed last week was premeditated; the timing and the targets, in addition to the history of attacks that preceded the polls, put a lie to the suggestion that it was spontaneous. Two, the tension in the North over zoning—or the likelihood of a Northerner not occupying the No 1 position until 2019—contributed to the violence significantly; if Jonathan had not run, and say Atiku or IBB had defeated Buhari last Saturday, there would have been no killings.[/size] Three, even though Buhari is a good and credible candidate, his failure to command good following in the South, or work out an alliance with the ACN, was a political handicap for him; it was just practically impossible for him to win the presidential election with Northern votes alone, especially as the North was never going to vote in one direction.

Finally, while I agree that the figures from the South-south and South-east were too good to be true, even a generous discount would still not give victory to Buhari in those zones. Therefore, we should condemn the underage voting and forced support for Buhari in the North with the same passion with which we condemn the figures from the South-south and South-east. Justice must be done. Buhari and his supporters should gather their evidence and head for the tribunal. The fact that he lost at the courts in 2003 and 2007 does not mean there is no hope of a judicial victory, especially as Buhari says he has concrete evidence to prove that his votes were stolen or robbed off. Also, those who were responsible for the killings—and the reprisal killings—must be brought to book. The time has come for the government to show that it means business when it comes to protecting the lives of Nigerians. This nonsense must stop.

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/this-nonsense-has-to-stop-now-/90206/

youngmonie:
Wait I just like to ask one big question. DID BUHARI EVER TELL HIS SUPPORTERS TO GO OUT AND KILL PEOPLE?, DID HE NOT CONDEM THE VIOLENCE WHEN IT BROKE OUT?, so all this rant about buhari being behind all this violence in the north I just dont get it

Yes, he did. And he kept at it to the extent that the FG had to warn him twice, on the last occassion, threatening him with arrest. I created a thread on that subject and a horde of wild CPC zealots came on saying GEJ dare not arrest Buhari for whatever inciting things he was saying.
We don't have short memories, there are clear as day pictures of both Buhari and Bakare conducting CPC rallies with spears in their hands. They could have passed the same message with AK, cutlasses or daggers. Buhari is famous for telling almajiri's to lynch; Bakare is famous for his "wild-wild North" as well as telling CPC supporters to go vote with kerosine and matches, as well as telling them to be ready to self-immolate like the guy in Tunisia.
Buhari, Bakare and Odumakin repeatedly told the World to expect a Libya, Egypt and Tunisia all rolled into one.

CPC entered the contest like a party spoiling for war and bloodshed. Today, the result is clear.

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Give your brain a rest, cos it surely isn't functioning.
The international criminal court is interested in the riots, so we'll be feeding it evidence. If you don't like it, tough!
Carry your basket of vacuous arguments to the market where they can be fed to pigs, they will never make a difference to our intent and the course of justice. Shame on you.

egift:
A winner takes it all mentality that have been killing Africa since generations. Useless.

Instead of thinking of how to solve the numerous problems facing Nigeria, provide security, prosecute offenders, etc - All these jobbers can think of is Kill The Opposition.

I hope if SW boils when PDP rigs Lagos, that fo.ol will call for the termination of ACN.

For now most of you have suspended the use of brains.

ACN might be led by a clown, but they are no primitive stone throwing murdering id!ots as we have with CPC.

Lest we forget, ACN is a far bigger party than CPC which basically only exists on paper. ACN actually has state governors and 30% of the NASS, while CPC is unlikely to even get a single governor and only has a very impotent 6% of the NASS.
The only reason we talk about CPC today, is because they killed, ra'ped, maimed and burnt.

“If CPC is allowed to continue, it will continue to lead the rioters, its not the way to lead a political party, it is a sectarian party. So the second party you will now find, is in the National Assembly, and that is the ACN. ACN should put its home in order and run as an alternative to PDP. If you want to produce a minority leader, it is not CPC, it is ACN.

Simple and plain.

[size=14pt]Proscribe CPC now, Prof. Omoruyi tells INEC[/size]
On April 23, 2011 · · In News
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FORMER Director General of the Center for Democratic Studies (CDS), Prof.Omo Omoruyi, yesterday, called on the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to proscribe the Gen.Muhammadu Buhari led Congress for Progressive Change (CPC).

Prof. Omoruyi, who urged President Jonathan to “ fundamentally restructure this country by bringing about a new political order, new moral order order, new economic order and new social, insisted that “ we must do away with CPC.

And let me say this, after a presidential election there is nothing called a runner up, the person who wins, just like Jonathan did now, won the election squarely.

“If CPC is allowed to continue, it will continue to lead the rioters, its not the way to lead a political party, it is a sectarian party. So the second party you will now find, is in the National Assembly, and that is the ACN. ACN should put its home in order and run as an alternative to PDP. If you want to produce a minority leader, it is not CPC, it is ACN.

CPC can be controlling in some states but it will die a natural death like the AD and the ANPP which is dieing today.

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/proscribe-cpc-now-prof-omoruyi-tells-inec/

Blazing99:
I think the Hausa population on Nairaland is less than 5%. Else I find it hard to understand why I would take people constantly rubbing my tribe in the mud as if we are the only violent people in Nigeria.

I guess the Yoruba OPC who went on a rampage against non-yorubas in lagos from 1999-2002, the Igbo Bakassi Boys murdering people as if they were butchering animals, the Niger-Delta boys who go on shooting rampage on innocent citizens in the name of their freedom are to be praised.

Lets us all face the facts, every tribe has its own, the Hausa almajiri problem is a problem arising from negligence of the Hausa youth by the government. If other Nigerian tribes had uneducated youths as dumb as almajiris, they cud also be used as weapons of violence. the sooner GEJ does this almajiri reform, the better.

Why do you people lie as if the rest of us aren't living in Nigeria? I live in Lagos and have never ever been attacked because I am not Yoruba. That is the daftest claim you can make.
As for ND people, they don't go about killing people. They blow up pipelines and kidnap the odd foreigner, but they do not go about hunting down Nigerians to kill. Any civilian deaths have been accidental and followed by apology.

The case with the North is in a class of its own. Crowds of crazed monsters run amock, targetting Southerners for burning, looting, rap!ng, killing and recently, bombing. Its like a pack of hell fuelled wild beasts, nothing compares.

samix:
@ beaf, u are such a silly person, who told you he's got a house to himself, one he built with money of any form? He lives in a rented apartment. SO SHUT THE bleep UP.

You have clearly been giving your 10% to a scam artist every month. Why not give me your name and address so I can preach to you and collect it instead? At least I won't make dumb prophesies and tell almajiri's to go to the polling booth with kerosine and matches. Christians are among the dead, not so?

Dunce.

babaowo:
hmmmmm northern borders should be tight n strict by now

Thats true, but its always going to be difficult to police vast stretches of desert. Perhaps, we'll be better of having strings of frequently rotated military outposts permanently stationed on our Northern borders.