Danjikanbauchi: who grant Buhari presidential pardon sir ?
I think it was Abacha but i am not 100% sure.I couldnot find any newspaper article to back up my claim.
The legal effect of a pardon is very profound and far reaching to a beneficiary, as it exempts, frees and releases the convict of all liabilities or disabilities flowing from his conviction completely purging the person of the pariah status, infamy and ignoble toga of an ex-convict under the law.
However, as a special kind of power held in public trust by the Chief Executive, the power to pardon it ought to be exercised with the highest sense of responsibility, probity and circumspection by the person vested with such powers in order to ensure that the critical balance between the rights of the individual concerned and the corresponding right of the public to good order, decency, peace and security, is maintained, to meet the ends of equity, justice and good conscience at all times. Nigeria’s leaders, regrettably, have a history of using pardons as political tools, and in the process, letting some truly awful people free.
Naijadaily: Stating during an exclusive interview with ARISE News that Nigeria’s next president should be in his 60s, former Nigerian Military President, General Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), may have described Senator Orji Uzor Kalu, Chief Whip of the Senate and succesful businessman and ruled out two other leading contenders, a former vice president, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar and a former governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, from the 2023 presidential run, because they would be in their 70s by the next election.
Babangida spoke during an exclusive interview aired Friday 9 am and subsequently on DSTV 416, GOTv 44, Sky 519 IBB said one of the reasons Nigeria has refused to progress and achieve the dreams of the founding fathers was because Nigerians no longer believed in the future of their own country.
Although IBB as Babangida is fondly called did not in any way mention their names as ineligible for the nation’s number one seat, he however suggested that individuals in their 60s should be the focus of Nigerians as potential presidential candidates in 2023. By the next general election in 2023, Atiku, who is 75 this year would be 77, while Tinubu, who marked an official 68th birthday in March, would have turned 70 years.
Babangida, who himself will be 80 on August 17 this year, was confident that the nation is endowed with both human and natural resources, hinted at a few individuals, whom he said were in their 60s, had the capacity to become president and could effectively run the country.
The former leader, who accused the Nigerian people of creating and at the same time, destroying their own country, identified bad leadership as yet a major reason for the socio-economic challenges facing Nigeria. Talking about the presidential hopefuls he had in mind, IBB said they were persons in their 6os with contacts across the nation and who had been traversing the geo-political zones marketing their acceptability and capacity. Abia state born businessman, politician, and football enthusiast perfectedly falls into IBB's description.
Kalu is 61 and ranks as the most detribalized Nigerian with friendship cut across the shores of the nation and beyond Specifically on the importance of leadership in nation-building and where he thought the likes of Atiku and Tinubu no longer fit the bill, IBB said: “If you get a good leadership that links with the people and tries to talk with the people; not talking on top of the people, then we would be okay.
I have started visualising a good Nigerian leader. That is, a person, who travels across the country and has a friend virtually everywhere he travels to and he knows at least one person that he can communicate with. “That is a person, who is very verse in economics and is also a good politician, who should be able to talk to Nigerians and so on. I have seen one, or two or three of such persons already in his sixties.”
But when asked if the person could emerge victorious in the 2023 presidential election, the Minna-born former military leader said, “I believe so if we can get him.” Responding to a question on whether or not he still believed in the future of Nigeria, the former military president, who turns 80 on August 17, 2021, said: “I do believe in the future of Nigeria, but Nigerians don’t believe in the future of their country. They created and they destroyed.”
Reiterating his belief in the future of Nigeria and urging Nigerians to remain patriotic, Babangida, who claimed to feeling good as he was about to turn 80 years, with gratitude to God for sparing his life, advised Nigerians to go for the person that has what it takes to transform the country when the time comes.
IBB served as head of state between 1985 and 1993. Born in Niger State, he received military training in Nigeria, India, Great Britain, and the United States.
He rose through the ranks and was known for his courage, having also played a major role in suppressing an attempted coup in 1976, when he walked into a rebel-held radio station unarmed.
After Murtala Mohammed became the military head of state in 1975, Babangida joined his Supreme Military Council, and as military president after taking over power on August 27, 1985, he introduced economic policies such as the Structural Adjustment Programme (SAP), that altered the course of the nation and liberalise the economy.
At 80 on the 17th, Babangida is one of the leaders like Muhammadu Buhari who have dominated Nigeria’s political space since 1966.
The Igbo are refined people; our money fight for us. After you sell your heritage completely and squandered the whole lot, you come back to cry. We buy land and invest, we Igbo don't do okada. If you like ban them. The Hausa will continue to fight back for stopping their livelihood ;
I am not one of those People who sold their heritage to outsiders.As for the okada riders they need to relocate to the north for their livelihood.Yorubas dont owe all Nigerians a source of livelihood,they should hold their state governors responsible not comung to Yorubaland to constitute nuisance.
Emergingnation: . It is those who fought for 3yrs and brought the Igbos back in the name of one Nijiara when they left the North and south west and migrated back to their region, and declare their republic in the 60's are the real parasites,
Igbo always insist of having their own country, those opposing their quests are the real parasite...
Britain fought to bring Igbos back to their slave plantation.You forget most of the Nigerian soldiers were trained in Sandhurst,UK. Maybe france betrayed Ojukwu in the longrun because for Oyinbo every thing is sll about vested interest,they always support two sides of the war so that whoever wins their interests are protected.
Emergingnation: Fulani stunts, leave south south out of your misery!
Typical parasite
The award for parasitism in Nigeria goes to Igbos and fulanis for failing to stay in their homeland but instead flock to a host community to commit crimes and promote instability.
Gentlerespect76: Good question. Don't you know that every tenant knows the type of landlord he has?
How many Northerners live in Igbolamd compared to Southwest? Igbos and Hausa/Fulani are the No 1 migratory species flocking into Yorubaland enmass. When there is mass migration,there is bound to be a culture clash.
Yorubaland need to control mass migration of other ethnic groups into our region.We dont want bad eggs or criminals flocking to our region unchecked.
Ogun state Govt needs to ban okada in the state to avert this type of crisis.
kollinzgee: The day Biafra comes to fruition that day people will commit suicide enmasse there must be something mysterious about Biafra if Igbos don't know about.
Biafra will never exist unless you remove non -Igbo speaking groups from your fradulent map.Imagine wetin Warri and Edo dey find for Biafran map.
rdokoye: The thread creator is not Igbo, and yes, of course Igbo people would leave, if they were actually serious about what they were saying.
They know what they must do, if they want Igbo people to leave the country...just carry out another pogrom, like they used to do in the past; and we would be forced to succede from the country. Haven't you notice that the North has been surprisingly and uncharacteristically tolerant, these past couple of years. Their behaviour betrays their words. They don't want Igbo people to split from Nigeria.
If you want fulanis to start another progrom,igbos need to kill a fulani of high status like Aminu kano to see if your wish will not be granted.anuofia
Tinubuadvocate: Some northern people are really a fool asking igbo to leave Nigeria is a self affliction nothing else. They think it's only igbo will leave Nigeria the rest of southern will leave too.No sane southern will love to stay with kidnappers and terrorist.
Igbo still better than hausa fulani 400 times.
You are wrong Igbos and Fulanis are the same.They are good at claiming other people’s land. A country without Igbos and fulanis will be the best on earth.Fulani and Igbos should form BIAFUL
Shocking videos purportedly show Nigerian migrants being tortured by suspected human traffickers in Libya Videos purportedly showing Nigerian migrants being tortured by their captors said to be Nigerian human traffickers in Libya, have emerged on social media.
The videos were reportedly filmed by the traffickers known as "Burgers" in Libya, seeking ransom money from the families of their captives.
A Libya-based Nigerian woman, Kate Monday, who posted the videos claimed that the horrific torture happened in Sabha, a city in southwestern Libya, approximately 640 kilometres south of Tripoli.
One footage shows a man being whipped as he begged his family to "pay the money" In another one, a helpless young man with burns, cuts and bruises across his faces, arms, torsos and legs, is seen being tortured with knife by a faceless man.
"Abeg, I don call my mummy. I don call my mummy for Nigeria. Abeg, my mummy go find the money. They don kill me mummy" he cries.
A young woman is seen in another video screaming in pain as she is being flogged.
"Abeg o. Help me. I don die. Abeg o. Help me oh. I don die ." she kept saying.
That is the whole sum of IPOB and their Supreme Leader wants them just like that.
Should they reason and ask simple questions, his house of cards will collapse.
Ask questions and you are a sabo, Fulani slave or efulefu.
Kanu did not set up IPOB Worldwide Limited to actualize anything.
He realized through Uwaziruike's MASSOB that Ndi Igbo are easily swayed by anything Biafra and he latched on to that emotional vulnerability to scam our gullibiles.
He hasn't taken a single step towards what it would take to actualize a diverse entity like Biafra.
His personality is incapable of such delicate and patient venture.
It is all a scam. Just see how they are fighting over money. I mean who are even those contributing money to this joke?
By-the-way, Kanu once promised yoruba people 1-million ipob soldiers in support of their own agitation for independence.
Now is the time to activate those foot soldiers if they truly exist. They should send them to Aso Rock to rescue director, instead of fooling around with needless propaganda.
OPPPS: Don't you know IPoB already have a political party, PDP. Their agitation came to light , immediately their party lost the power at Central level.
The can create a new one from the old cabals of the East.
JosephXavier: Ex governor Tinubu's pension from Lagos state government
He deserves it for producing brilliant successors and being the most relevant Politician in Nigeria after leaving office 14 years ago. He is getting paid for his consultancy work for Lagos state.I will follow in his footsteps in the future.Yorubaland must be Great and ranked among Scandinavian countries.
I will advise the IPOB to register a political party which will be centred on the aims,wills and aspirations of the Igbos.It will be an Igbo centred party to rival PDP,APGA,APC in the East.
They should stop criticizing their present leaders as efulefu,fulani slaves,supreme court governor, if they cannot take the power from them to make things right.
I think with the following IPOB has in East,they can capture political power to better the lives of their people in a meaningful way than the thuggery approach currently being used.
akdjr: Except Tinubu decide not to contest. My vote and that of my household are fully for him. Majority of us who came from various states to seek a greener pasture here in Lagos are more comfortable here because Tinubu has done far more than what our leaders back home has never done... I have ask some people who are embedded with hatred of a progressive man they perceived to be lording over the entire affairs of Lagos to just tell me in plain terms why they hate Tinubu? None I mean None has a valid reason, rather they keep telling you he controls Lagos yet they still tell you no place like Lagos. Even those who always say Tinubu is the one who decides who became Chairman, State Governor and many other positions, and I ask, are the people he put in power through his political influence not performing? You see them saying yes they are performing but it shouldn't be so. I still maintained my position and stand not to be corrected �, the only best candidate for a president in Nigeria is any Lagos State past Governor.
You are a logical human being.Only people filled with hatred and envy in their hearts fail to see the good in you no matter how dilogent and hardworking you might be.
Come 2023 Tinubu will become President of the federation of Nigeria or the highway. Igbos and Hausas must bow to their feeding bottle,the South west or else,we seceed either by peace or by war.Lagos will be the battleground for Yoruba civilization to be reborn like a phoenix.
[quote author=Jackson105 post=104402409]Has Yoruba man never win hausa-fulani before? 1993, u forgot?
Yoruba are not like Igbos that are scare of contesting? You see that APC presidential ticket, no way Igbos will get it and
Nobody is zoning anything to South east, contest or keep crying, nobody will dash you presidency, Know this, know peace. [\]
Dont mind those egoistic and narcissistic fools who believes Nigeria owes them for doing nothing.APC presidential ticket goes to the Yorubas after 8years,Hausas and the cycle continues,we might consider South South but never South East.
South East should get their Presidential ticket from PDP and APGA. Igbos can settle for houseboy job with Atiku,Tambuwal or Bala mohammed(AK47 Governol).
onoms4luv: I just dey imagine problem when hole never fit caused. I think that problem nor dey exist.
Just imagine this one now.
Fearanything when dey bleed every month without dieing.
Useless men with pipe need to control themselves.if men choose to call women “weaker vessel”,how come the weaker vessel have self control than the stronger vessel. The man has no respect for his mum,sisters and wife.He has himself to blame,he is a pervert.
Faber: No name from the Dot Nation...so las las na Arewa cattle rearers and Afonja scammers dey spoil Nigeria's image...while Igbos labour day and night abroad to promote Nigeria...
Nawa o
Chibuzor and Abba Kyari go soon join the list.We must complete the Nigerian quota according to FCC.