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Islam!! |
feedthenation:It's possible and acceptable for a speaker to come from the minority; the template is from the national assembly. Let the apc law makers go back to work . |
congratulations to a woman of substance. |
courage54:The model is from the house of representative; where the speaker is from the minority party. APC law makers better go back to perform their duties. |
Wow! What a truth!! The buharists are coming to hurl insult and not to fault the presentation. We have already seen the connection bw apc and boko haram. |
My brother it's not only annoying, but an insult to our psych that these buharists keep thinking every one is stupid. Vote buhari if that is ur choice but stop presenting the man as the one with a magic wand who will "save" Nigeria. If anything, Buhari is part of Nigeria's problem. |
The fuel subsidy payment was introduced as a policy into the Nigerian during the IBB administration of when our refineries failed due to no-maintenance. It was introduced to temporarily stabilize the price of petroleum product while the refineries underwent rehabilitation. It was meant to last for only six (6) months. Licenses to lift, import and market oil was issued to friends of the administration (IBB) who happened to be mainly from the Hause-Fulani stock of Northern Nigeria. They were the new oil bloc holders. When the newly formed oil cabal of Hausa-Fulani hegemonists saw that they were making billions of petrol-dollars as profit from the payment of subsidy, they frustrated every effort channeled into the rehabilitation of Nigeria’s refineries. The policy that was meant to last only six (6) months has now lasted for almost thirty (30) years! It is on record that the IBBs, the Dantatas, the Sawoes, the Otedolas, the Danjumas, the Abachas, the Aremus, the Abubakars, and the Dangotes all own refineries in neighboring African country; those who don’t own refineries out- rightly all have substantial stakes in refineries in neighboring countries. The middle-belt, the Ndigbo and the South- South Nigerians were marginalized in the sharing of oil-bloc licenses by the IBB junta. The Yorubas got a little percentage of the bounty. Every other Nigerian tribe/ region were alienated by the hegemonistic Hausa-Fulani cabal. And in the face of this injustice against a people, no one stood for the voiceless. Now, to make their war more favorable, they have reminded you of how corrupt the government is! The same corruption the institutionalized and entrenched it in our society. Please ask them what they did when they were in power. |
U didn't explain what happen when ur prediction is wrong. |
The fuel subsidy payment was introduced as a policy into the Nigerian during the IBB administration of when our refineries failed due to no-maintenance. It was introduced to temporarily stabilize the price of petroleum product while the refineries underwent rehabilitation. It was meant to last for only six (6) months. Licenses to lift, import and market oil was issued to friends of the administration (IBB) who happened to be mainly from the Hause-Fulani stock of Northern Nigeria. They were the new oil bloc holders. When the newly formed oil cabal of Hausa-Fulani hegemonists saw that they were making billions of petrol-dollars as profit from the payment of subsidy, they frustrated every effort channeled into the rehabilitation of Nigeria’s refineries. The policy that was meant to last only six (6) months has now lasted for almost thirty (30) years! It is on record that the IBBs, the Dantatas, the Sawoes, the Otedolas, the Danjumas, the Abachas, the Aremus, the Abubakars, and the Dangotes all own refineries in neighboring African country; those who don’t own refineries out- rightly all have substantial stakes in refineries in neighboring countries. The middle-belt, the Ndigbo and the South- South Nigerians were marginalized in the sharing of oil-bloc licenses by the IBB junta. The Yorubas got a little percentage of the bounty. Every other Nigerian tribe/ region were alienated by the hegemonistic Hausa-Fulani cabal. And in the face of this injustice against a people, no one stood for the voiceless. Now, to make their war more favorable, they have reminded you of how corrupt the government is! The same corruption the institutionalized and entrenched it in our society. Please ask them what they did when they were in power. |
Some of u are being objective but if obj had made those false allegation against Gej, most of u would support obj . I know obj is lies personified |
Next we will see buhari on a donkey and the apc e-warriors will be like " here is the honest buhari on a honest donkey! He even borrowed it! " Let vote for him!! nsai mbuhari! |
All the aforementioned claims of achievement of buhari had been refuted and shown to be lies. No refinery was built be 1983-1985. In the words of El rufai, "buhari has remained permanently unelectable " and this is a fact. |
Informed Nigerians know it's not about good governance or lack of it, it's about power returning to the north. we even feel more insulted when the followers of buhari would have us believe that he is the ONLY man that can "save" Nigeria; and I ask: assuming buhari dies, it therefore means Nigeria is doom. Smh. |
The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the- scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order Buhari? Need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc. Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. The execution of that youthful innocent for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power. At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down. They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition. So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma! Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his corrective rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buharis coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagaris government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/ or responsibility. And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat f’rom dustbins – escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas. The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention. Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of discipline, it was nothing short of impudent. Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the judicial processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror. The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration. Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied. The utmost severity of the Buhari- Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism. Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa? One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary structures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases it would appear that they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders air, sea and land had been shut tight. Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets. Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needles eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo later to become an emir- to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment as I later discovered – of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the incumbent Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable. On the theme of double, triple, multiple standards in the enforcement of the law, and indeed of the decrees passed by the Buhari regime at the time, let us recall the notorious case of Triple Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Who was caught, literally, with his pants down in distant Austria. That was not the crime however, and private conduct should always remain restricted to the domain of private censure. There was no decree against civil servants proving just as hormone driven as anyone else, especially outside the nation’s borders. However, there was a clear decree against the keeping of foreign accounts, and this was what emerged from the Austrian escapade. Alhaji Alhaji kept, not one, but several undeclared foreign accounts, and he had no business being in possession of the large amount of foreign currency of which he was robbed by his overnight companion. The media screamed for an even application of the law, but Buhari had turned suddenly deaf. By contrast, Fela Anikulapo languished in goal for years, sentenced under that very draconian decree. His crime was being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. A vicious sentence was slapped down on Fela by a judge who later became so remorse stricken at least after Buhari’s overthrow that he went to the King of Afro-beat and apologized. Lesser known was the traumatic experience of the director of an international communication agency, an affiliate of UNESCO. Akin Fatoyinbo arrived at the airport in complete ignorance of the new currency decree. He was thrown in gaol in especially brutal condition, an experience from which he never fully recovered. It took several months of high-level intervention before that innocent man was eventually freed. These were not exceptional but mere sample cases from among hundreds of others, victims of a decree that was selectively applied, a decree that routinely penalized innocents and ruined the careers and businesses of many. What else? What does one choose to include or leave out? What precisely was Ebenezer Babatope’s crime that he should have spent the entire tenure of General Buhari in detention? Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned in the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier who would bear watching through the lenses of a coup- detat. Babatope’s father died while he was in Buhari’s custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his father’s funeral, even under guard. I wrote an article at the time, denouncing this pointless insensitivity. So little to demand by a man who was never accused of, nor tried for any crime,much less found guilty. Such a load of vindictiveness that smothered all traces of basic human compassion deserves no further comment in a nation that values its traditions. But then, speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of enquire of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom, faithful to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buhari’s decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. Shall tamper with the freedom of the press swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did. And so on, and on, and on……… |
aydoth:I have learn not to rate buhari by what selected few corrupt elites say about him, but by what he (buhari ) said about them. concerning abacha , buhari said he ( abacha ) didn't steal any money. Buhari has never criticise obj because he was a saint. He said boko haram are freedom fighters. He said he borrowed money to build all his houses, when he (buhari ) is earning the full salary of the current president. We are wiser than buhari, and we will reject him for the lies he told. |
HKCOMPANY:Don't worry keep waiting. from ur post It is safe to say you have a warped notion about other tribes, and that's prejudice. Good luck to u and ur would be town husband. |
The truth is, tribalism in marriage doesn't arise when you are famous and rich. when money speaks, tribalism dissolves. Fact. |
datribune:Your saint buhari is no match for gej-fact. He made unfounded allegation against nnpc and they responded, and u call it mudslinging? so be it. The last time u guys voted buhari, did he win? We are just fed up with lies coming from buhari and his supporters. If u guys must raise issues, be truthful and not just concoct stories that can't be verified. sorry ur buhari is a bad product, I'm sure u know it too. |
sodiqjimoh7:Obj never said any of these false stories u copied and paste; and for ur information, buhari's daughter was married to a fellow Hausa Moslem, Captain Junaidu Abdulahi. I will like that u give us a link when next u want to copy and paste |
These were lies told by buhari supporters to portray him as a patriot. Never in life has buhari's daughter marry an igbo man. Buhari never employed the services of a Christian cook. |
God bless responsible fathers! u can't do it because u aren't yet a father. This man is an example of a responsible father. |
Is she the 3rd or 4th wife to buhari? What happened to the set of wives buhari had in 1983? |
op are u not tired? Hate kills faster than ebola and u are already infected. |
nijanigga:Do you have any facts to support your claims or u are just driven by hate? |
Raikishi:Tell me what was working before, I'm ready to learn. present verifiable facts and not conjectures borne out of sentiment and hear say. |
MalcoImX:buhari is not the messiah as you would have us believe, rather it's a plot to return power to the north. The call for change is never because of bad governance, it's because power has left the north and ur masters cant stand it. |
banki:The onus is on you to show with facts, as done by the writer,.all you have against gej. As for your Messiah buhari, Nigerians know better than what you party supporters will wish they know. |
urhoboman:k. And the change is? |
sai buhari! so much for Mr " integrity " |
urhoboman:Really? And you? |
informed Nigerians are waiting for. 2015 to say to buhari, probably stamp on his forehead " REJECTED ". |
You will never tell Nigerians the good side of PDP government. APC supporters and their hypocrite.... OUR HYPOCRISY...OUR LIES! When in look at how partisanship has blinded our sense or judgment and fairness and respect for others' rights, I just laugh. And this stems from the attitude of my brothers and sisters on the other side of the political divide and those who just don't like Jonathan's face. Okie,checkizienu, imagine these: If you are a Southern Christian and you support the president, you are TRIBALIST. But a Northern Muslim/Hausa Fulani who supports Buhari/Atiku is not! If you are seen pushing the president's case, you are PAID to do that, when you do that for opposition, you are a patriot. Ndi ara! When an editor writes an editorial that is sympathetic to the president, he has been BOUGHT, but the one that abuses the president like Sahara reporters and other religious fanatics are FREEDOM FIGHTERS. A blogger that posts stories positive about Nigeria is a shame and paid, but Sahara Reporters is a credible source of news. When you support Jonathan, you are a JONATHANIAN. Meanwhile, I am still looking for someone tagged BUHARIST for supporting the retired general. When you support a Jonathan and PDP, you 'hate' Nigeria. But when you support a Kwankwaso who spent FOURTEEN YEARS in PDP and has only been APC member for ELEVEN MONTHS, you are pushing for change! When local government elections are held in opposition state and the ruling party clears all the seats, DEMOCRACY IS AT WORK, but INEC cannot be trusted to conduct election. In fact, when such happens in PDP state, it is rigged. When APC wins a bye-election, the PEOPLE have SPOKEN, but when reverse is the case, then INEC has worked for PDP. A PDP member since 1999 who decamps to APC today at the age 70 has become a progressive, but an APC member who moves the other direction, has left 'light' for 'darkness'. All the billions being spent by PDP to prosecute election preparations are 'stolen', but the ones being spent by opposition fall from sky. When a minister buys house in Lekki, he has stolen. But a Lagos commissioner who shares fence with him/her (and even and bigger house) took 'mortgage' to built his own! Na only Buhari waka go borrow 27million na wey him take purchase APC presidential form but Jonathan is corrupt...Nkaliuka! The crowd at the president's declaration was 'rented' but all those who came to Buhari's were not. In fact, some of them trekked from Sokoto to Abuja and did not eat for three days because they love the Buhari...story for the gods! And if you read this and it pricks your conscience, instead of reflecting on it, you will put on a bold face and tag me a Jonathanian and a PDP apologist. Abegi, wetin you go tag yourself? Obamaian? Buharist? Atikuist? Kwankwasonian? Amaechist? APC irredentist? Joor, my hand dey pain me jare. I wan go drink my coffee... curled from okafor |
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