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PapaBrowne:
@ Beaf
What happened with the website??

Abeg don't give up oooh! This idea was something good mehn!

Pharoh:
Good and looking forward to that.

Bala Hassan says:
September 10, 2010 at 12:45 amGusau’s permutations

Gusau’s body language was clear ab initio. Earlier on when Gusau attempted to singlehandedly convert his NSA job to one of a defacto Vice President; chiding CBN Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi and his yeoman’s job as helmsman at the apex bank, this writer was one of the few that saw through the ruse and called on Jonathan to call Gusau to order. Sanusi Lamido is one of the best things to happen to Nigeria and belongs squarely in the genre of the likes of Wole Soyinka, Nuhu Ribadu, Bala Mohammed, Beeko Ransome Kuti, Abubakar Umar and Issac Adaka Boro (to name a few).

Majority of the other characters on the national political scene are opportunistic charlatans who have no business in national governance in the first place!

Gusau’s calculations are few and not far-fetched to decipher.

First, he figures that the Northern faction of the PDP, having zoned itself to a corner, needs a viable option to Buhari, Atiku and Babangida. Why not offer himself as that viable fourth wheel!

Second, if things are not looking good enough for Option One, he can turn around and claim to have thrown his hat into the ring to play the spoiler by further depleting the concentration of votes in any of the existing Northern Three and enhancing the chances of his overnight boss; Goodluck Jonathan. That might only have any appeal if such an understanding was already consummated before Gusau eventually hit the airwaves with his ‘count-me-in-too’ plan.

Thirdly, he is resuming his pursuit of the presidential ambition project where he left off in 2006.

As a deft politician, he might also swing to a floundering Babangida agenda on the platform of being an old and loyal friend of the ‘evil genius.’

Whichever of the permutations he is counting on, Gusau had better realize that any plan anti-Jonathan is doomed to fail because, for one thing, Gusau’s timing is thoroughly inauspicious. Nigeria is at a point where the North is not credible as nationalistic in any sense; Nigeria does not belong to Northerners, Westerners, Easterners, MidWesterners or any of the Otherners in-between; it belongs to Nigerians. Of those Nigerians, the youth wing has recognized that it has no future worth looking forward to if it does not rise up now and defend its interest. The best opportunity for that defence is under Jega’s INEC. Once this opening battle is won, the decayed, political brigandage of the past is history for good. So says Bala Hassan.

Shikena!

Eziachi:
@Beaf
I enjoyed reading the long and chunky stuff but it sounds like an opinion of the writer rather than fact. You just have to look at Buhari’s life style compare to the likes of IBB or OBJ.
He still lives in a modest home, while others live in mansions.
He fly economic class like you and I, while others hop around the world in their private jets.
Buhari is hardly seen abroad, while others are of the opposite.

If he had such amount of money in Midland bank in London, you think he will dare the audacious try to kidnap Dikko in London with the British knowing that secret of his?

Why should he arrest Shagari? Shagari is political novice but I do not think he is economically/materially dishonest.

As Kobojunkie had alluded, his partner in crime, Idiagbon died poverty-stricken. If Buhari has those kind of money starched away and was still doing all those corruption fight with Idiagbon, then he must be the biggest actor on the planet.

TewMuch:
Why not LP? why PDP? He will be under more pressure than ACN to steal. This is a rumour i dont believe. PDP is at it again, they need to give up on Lagos, we have seen small development we want more! Forward ever backward never.

PapaBrowne:
Ribadu is not contesting on ACN. AC is using Ribadu's name to beef up their party's credentials.
Ribadu has asked that the article be taken down. If you doubt it, check the link!!! The article has been taken off 234next's site.

[size=14pt]ALL NIGERIAN COUP GENERALS WERE ROGUES AND GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI WAS NO EXCEPTION[/size]
NAIWU OSAHON 02/05/2010 09:31:00

Buhari is a tribal and religious bigot. When he lost the presidential election in April 2003, he threatened the nation with mass action and refused to go to court. He organized a rally in Abuja, as one in a series of such civil acts of disobedience to protest what he described as the massive rigging of the election that brought Obasanjo to power the second time.
He almost succeeded in launching his Jihad. The alleged taped sermon of an unnamed pastor at an unidentified church in Adamawa claiming that: “Whether Muslims like it or not, Obasanjo must continue” and that “any Muslim who does not want that, can die or move to Niger” was obviously a blatant forgery. It was very likely to be the handiwork of the ‘Crater of Dikko brigade. For a start, the language of the sermon was too brash to be true, especially coming as it was claimed, from a Christian minority likely to bear the brunt of the consequences of the offensive sermon in a predominantly Muslim state. The Christian minority would have had to be mad to the last man, to call for their own annihilation in such a careless and irresponsible manner.

It is not logical that the Christian cleric would send hundreds of his suicide sermon tapes, not to Christians, but to Muslim clerics and the media around the country. Someone who desperately wanted to kill Nigeria must think we are all morons and I suggest we look for him at the backyard of our current number one Jihadist. Where else to look when Buhari was threatening he must occupy the Presidency whether he won the election or not. We begged him to go to the Electoral Tribunal to settle the matter but he insisted that he would rather clubber us to death, with religion than subject himself to the in indignity of being judged by another man. That is how badly he cares about our welfare and survival.

One is not always sure if he is truly a Nigerian because let’s face it; no true Nigerian would hate Nigeria so much as to threaten her with a Jihad. May be the problem is of a mental nature considering the gutter snipes often credited to the supposed statesman on the Hausa service of the BBC and other foreign media about his fatherland. He seems to love to speak before he thinks. There is something definitely troubling about the mind of this crater genius because it is probably not just Nigerians that he hates but life itself in its totality. In other words, we are probably all trapped in the vicious grip of a cool and calculating sadist. In fact, I am told that no one has ever seen him smile or laugh.

Sam Omatseye, writing about Buhari in the Sun newspaper at the time said: “He (Buhari) uses Sharia to justify his worldview; to justify a certain selfish view of the world that serves his interest at a particular time. He played that card in the presidential election in order to secure a base for himself. But he needed more than his northern base to become president. You must be flexible to pull non-sharia base with you and the man has no flexibility in his bones so when he tries to play the chameleon, he fails. He tries to carry a veneer of a man of principles but falls short when selfish interest is involved.”

Buhari has no respect for democracy. Under his behest, the ANPP humiliated five highly respected South-Eastern Presidential aspirants at their primary for the 2003 presidential election despite having Dr. Okadigbo as Buhari’s running mate. After rigging his party’s primary to become its presidential candidate, Buhari then felt he stood on moral grounds to preach election morals to the world. Buhari ignored the South-West completely, as if it did not exist and offered the South-South, the unattractive, legally diminished constitutional option on derivation. To rob salt into injury, he threatened to swap NDDC with PTF. If he wasn’t playing with words, he betrayed his selfish ethnic agenda because we all know what happened in his PTF. It concentrated its activities in the North.

Buhari definitely was not a sellable presidential candidate across Nigeria. What happened was that the incumbent ANPP governors needed a Buhari to help them hold on to their states on religious grounds. Even in the area of public debate, Buhari was not articulate or detribalized and he lacked charisma. He ignored all entreaties to explain his programmes to the ‘bloody civilians.’ Arrogant and condescending, he was unable to climb down from his high horse as a former military dictator. Infused with the moribund myth that Nigerian leadership was the sole property of his ethnic group, he assumed he could cow the rest of us with a jihad. If that failed, some said, military coup was a possibility because a kaferi must not continue to rule. He concentrated his campaign (if it could be called that, because he said very little at every stop), in the North-East and North-West of the country. The little he said, was only in the Hausa language to titillate the warrior nerves of his jihadist gang.

With 19 states in the North, he was convinced he could, at least, force a re-run in the elections, forgetting that the North Central states are already a little weary of jihad. Even the core North itself has some 30% Christian population. Awolowo and Zik exposed the fallacy of the monolithic north by winning elections all over the place during their time. Abiola proved that religion is not the cocoon the Buharis think it is in modern Nigerian politics.

He prostitutes his political ambition by moving from party to party, with the sole aim of becoming the presidential candidate of any party he joins. He is not prepared to serve under anyone else, definitely not under a southern candidate. On seeing that he would not be able to realize his selfish ambition in the mega party he initially joined with others to form, he hurriedly formed a break away party where no one would challenge him as presidential candidate. Since there is no hope of his legitimately ever becoming the Nigerian president or head of state again, Nigerians need to be preparing now for a possible jihad led by this man in the not too distant future.

http://thewillnigeria.com/opinion/4382-ALL-NIGERIAN-COUP-GENERALS-WERE-ROGUES-AND-GENERAL-MUHAMMADU-BUHARI-WAS-EXCEPTION.html

[size=14pt]ALL NIGERIAN COUP GENERALS WERE ROGUES AND GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI WAS NO EXCEPTION[/size]
NAIWU OSAHON 02/05/2010 09:31:00

This article, rearranged for special emphasis, was first published by me in my now rested Sun newspaper Nigeria weekly column of May 26, 2003 under the headline: ‘Has anyone ever seen Buhari laugh?’
All our military heads of state were largely insensitive, corrupt, almost illiterate, self-appointed tyrants who seized their stripes of honour (dishonour is probably more appropriate) through coups rather than the rigours of formal training, experience or war.  Each one of the military heads of state simply got up from bed one chosen morning, pistle on the hip, jackboots on the ready to besmear our constitution to loot our treasury to their hearts content.  Of course, they soon made up on the job for their lack of proper war or soldiering experience by detaining, tear gassing, shooting and bombing citizens protesting against their high-handedness and misrule.  Everyone of our coup Generals aspired to be the richest lazy fool in the world sitting like an over-fed baboon atop the tallest tree in our devastated and rotting vineyard, savouring their exploits amidst squalor, hunger and decaying corpses. General Muhammadu Buhari was one of such military heads of state.

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 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 and expose the rogue military head of the NNPC soon after the 1983 general elections.
The attempt at civilian-to-civilian transition provided the fillip for mayhem at the time.  The elections were marred by massive rigging because incumbent political office holders were refusing to slacken their stranglehold on Nigeria Plc., mortgaged as the leaders private property.
[b]On the 31st December, 1983, Buhari struck under the cover of the political commotion that trailed the presidential election results. Buhari generally had no agenda for leadership but vendetta against those he called critics and rabble-rousers. Buhari did not see any moral wrong in his conversion of our oil money into his personal use.  Rather he railed at the press and what he described as the self-righteous sections of the country for making a big deal out of the issue. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue.  Satire saved my neck at the time.  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.[/b]

Buhari’s ‘War Against Indiscipline’ was obviously a swathe to camouflage his moral decadence.  He did not see anything wrong with the over 50 suitcases an Emir smuggled through the Murtala International Airport without routine checks. And as a master of selective justice, he refused to convict Shagari, claiming not to find direct evidence against him but making a mountain out of a molehill on the indulgencies of Shagari’s lieutenants.  His regime’s masterstroke to divert attention from his moral ineptitude was exemplified by his crating of Umaru Dikko to airfreight back to Nigeria from London.

Despite his moral degeneracy and his high handedness and intolerance of dissent, his regime was not a total disaster. He maintained a vibrant foreign policy with Africa as its principal focus.  Nigeria was already a failed state economically when he seized government from Shagari.  We had a staggering foreign debt load of US$18 billion, so Buhari stopped all further borrowing, and in defiance of the IMF and World Bank, provided a homegrown alternative to the IMF’s SAP and pegged the exchange rate of the naira at one to the US$1.50. He stopped all further borrowing from abroad; instituted counter trade for essential or desperately needed commodities and put a ceiling (or an upper limit) on the amount of foreign exchange earnings to be used in servicing foreign debts.  After sorting out and rejecting all the dubious and unverifiable foreign debts in our portfolio, he paid off nearly 50% of the genuine debts by the end of his regime in 1985.  Even Britain was already scheming to enter into counter trade agreement with Nigeria when Babangida was sponsored in 1986 by the West to sack Buhari in a military coup that reversed our limited economic gains.

Not much is known about Buhari’s family background.  Not a great deal has been heard about his educational qualifications either.  As head of state, he was a recluse to the core.  At least, that was the image he portrayed.  His deputy, the late Gen. Idiagbon, was considered by most Nigerians to be the star of Buhari’s regime.  It is to Idiagbon that any credit due to that regime is generally attributed.  Idiagbon was the defacto head of state.  He was honest, upright, disciplined, and like Murtala Muhammed before him, he succeeded briefly in introducing order and sanity to our lives.

After consigning the vexatious matters that brought him to power, to administrative oblivion with the help of Shinkafi, his Secret Service guru, Buhari announced his readiness to quit office. Idiagbon, as Buhari’s lieutenant, naturally insisted on taking over as head of state from his apparently prematurely retiring boss.  Babangida, who was Chief of Army Staff at the time and a member of the Supreme Military Council, insisted it was his turn to rule because he had been involved in virtually every military coup up to that time.  The quarrel split the Supreme Military Council members almost equally behind the two principal combatants and eventually led to the overthrow of Buhari’s regime by Babangida.  America, Britain and the other leading western nations hailed Babangida’s coup and immediately sent emissaries to strategize with him.  President Reagan went out of his way to send him gifts including books such as Niccolo Machiavelli’s: the Prince, advocating the destruction of civil freedom to strengthen despotism.
The June 12 annulment provided Buhari with the opportunity to publicly wear a messianic toga while quietly pursuing private vendetta against someone he considered his enemy.  He attended meetings at Ota to join with others to condemn Babangida’s decision and as soon as the decision was reached to ask Babangida to step down, he stopped attending further meetings.  He had achieved his revenge.

[b]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. Most of what he was able to achieve in the PTF, was focused in his backyard.  Haruna Adamu, who was appointed by Obasanjo to investigate the PTF before finally consigning it to the dung heap, quickly pocketed one hundred million naira of PTF’s money before operating table could be set up for him, thus forcing Obasanjo to hurriedly close the place down without further investigations.  Buhari has been trying desperately since to return to power, perhaps to get a chance to shred the PTF documents?[/b]

bawomolo:
couldn't it be argued idiagbon was the bigger visionary in that regime? can buhari rule without a strong sidekick?

well you could also argue buhari surrounds himself with the right people

xterra2:
Quote from Beaf Yes Danbazzau is the only one affected as he is the only person is the army that the president can sack

@ Chyz
No body can sack a military officer just like that the military is not like a private company to the president that he can sack just like that


@Beaf and @Chyz
Other military officers xcluding the service chiefs can not be sacked rather they can be "dismissed" and only if they go against the rules

freegaza:
It's official, beaf is a sycophantic idioot.I will not read anything that comes from that name starting from now

Akwasi:
I can only imagine, Gbawe. This political "cover my back" is every where in the world. The United States even have it that is why they go to some useless wars at a point that only leaves the world in a worse state.

But nonetheless, I really have to thank you for giving me some insight.

But you must also know that since I started to follow Nigerian politics, Jonathan has been painted as the most "noble" Nigerian president ever and I bought it.

ducci:
The Svc Chiefs were since due for change due to their long years of service, they have been expecting it since GEJ took over(guess its no surprise to them), also considering the fact that the stability of the polity depends much on such appointments, every new regime needs to come in with his own loyalist to guarantee his security, that of the nation, and of course do his bidding. The appointment of the COAS is more important in this regard because they are the land forces and their strength is about double that of the other 2 services (air and maritime combined), they also have presence in all parts of the country. The changes thou politicaly inclined because of the timing is also a good and welcome dev in the forces due to several dissafection among the ranks were marginalization in the army was claimed to be the other of the day. The move does not necc mean other Maj Gen will be retiring like someone speculated, depends on the NDA Course of the new COAS, gues he is of Course 18, and so those above him will either be retired or moved to departments under the Defence HQ were they will answer to the Defence Chief. O yes the new Army Chief will be promoted to Lt Gen so he becomes above others, he will thereby select his cabinet were some people will be uplifted and others loose theirs. I think the Army is more proffessional than what a lot of us think, atleast if compared to a lot of other organizations, they also got a lot of brains there too, thing is, we mostly just jugde by the low ranking ones we see, try mixing with the officers you will understand were am coming from.

xterra2:
I dont think so ask around in the military circles
P.S that list of generals above is irrelevant to our discussion , dont you think so?
I said he cant sack a military officer if not the service chiefs not even a sarge 

Why didnt you say that your slogan "[size=33pt]IBB people = Foolish people[/size]" ? this time ----which would soon change

eros:
[size=14pt]Very few of us understands the meaning of this move by GEJ[/size]. I hope his plan works out and if he means well for Nigeria, God will guide him through.

Patiently watching and waiting to see how things play out.

xterra2:
you said "all lt generals and above must now retire" well the army since 2009 (after azazi) didnt have a General
And there is only lt general that is the Danbazzau he is still a lt general till he pulls out and the army chief gets promoted

And you said Must retire there isnt like i said but i hope you are aware that the president,commander in chief and the chairman of the newly formed armed forces council DOES NOT have the power to sack any military officer except the service chiefs he cant sack even a sergeant like when azazi was the unimaid commander after being the defence chief can not be scaked by jonathan or any other president he left cause he got to either 60 years or 35 yrs in service

slap1:
Onovo, please come home and be kidnapped, abeg!

[size=14pt]Boko Haram attacks Bauchi prison [/size]
September 8, 2010 04:38AM

Suspected members of the Islamic sect, Boko Haram, yesterday evening attacked the Bauchi central prison and set the place ablaze and freed members of the sect who were jailed there following last year’s unrest. Other prisoners were also reportedly released by the sect members.

The prison is close to the palace, and the emir of Bauchi, Muhammadu Rilwanu Suleyman Adamu, reportedly went into hiding shortly after the start of the exchange of gunfire between the assailants, men of the Nigeria police force and prison guards.

The evil apartheid regime had its supporters in Pretoria, Washington and London, while the Biblical Satan has its followers. So there is nothing outstanding if Babangida has his own lovers.

[size=14pt]Babangida is like the tortoise who is embarking on a fruitless journey, and when asked: “Mr Tortoise, Mr Tortoise, Mr Tortoise, when are you coming back?” The Tortoise replied “Not until I have been disgraced, disgraced, not until I have been disgraced!” [/size]