₦airaland Forum

Gej cannot step down 2015, because he is using the slot of south south

You all have planned it, so that GEJ will be impeached, try and see earthquake even in the north. IBB, BUhari, chiroma atiku SAnusi Lamido

I WANDER WHY FOLDING OF ArMS IN CHRISTIANITY, WE WILL ONE DAY BE FADED OUT OF Naija by this BOKO BOy. Let us take our destiny on our hand and start fighting for a common goal "RESPECT OUR PLACES OF WORSHIP"

What joy do they derived frm kilin christian, are they not after d gvmnt again

Alhaji Mai Deribe, Cavendish Petroleum OML 110

Prince Nasiru Ado Bayero, Seplat/Platform, Asuokpu/Umutu Marginal Field

SAPETRO, T.Y.Danjuma, OPL 246

Okoro, Setu Fields, Rilwanu Lukman, OML 112

Amni International, Alhaji (Colonel) Sani Bello

Oriental Energy, Alhaji Mhammed Indimi, OML 115

Equity Energy, Alhaji Aliko Dangote,

Express Petroleum, Alhaji Aminu Dantata, OML 108

HE is a rebel, no doubt.
But the leader of the Niger Delta People’s Volunteer Force (NDPVF), Alhaji Mujahid Asari-Dokubo insists that he is a rebel with a cause.

In an interview with Sunday Compass, published on pages 13, 14 and 15 today, he expressed dismay that the wealth of Nigeria is not in the hands of the land owners, neither is it in real terms in the hands of the Federal Government.

The oil wealth, he said, is firmly in the hands of Northern leaders.

According to him, the unfair socio-political system that disallows Southern Nigerians to exercise ownership on Northern lands yet put southern lands in the hands of Northerners, must stop immediately.

He also argues that Northern leaders are the biggest enemies of their geo-political zone, going by the realisation that their ownership of the vast oil wealth of the Niger Delta region has not resulted in good standards of living for Northerners.

He listed some of the Northerners who own and operate oil blocs in the Niger Delta while hundreds of thousands of the original landowners live in shacks at home and under bridges in Lagos State and other Nigerian state capitals.

When his opinion was sought about the recent arguments of Northern leaders that there is imbalance in the distribution of the nation’s wealth, with oil producing states receiving so much while Northern states get so little, he thundered: “We want 100 percent of our resources . Even the little that is going to them is very painful to us. The little that they said they are taking, it is terribly, terribly painful to us. We want them all, because it belongs to us. It does not belong to them.”

On the argument about poverty in the North, he said: “This much no one disputes, the poverty has bred millions of destitutes, who have become instant and easy recruits for Boko-Haram. But the question is: Who impoverished the North? I want to posit that the core North through their aristocrats and ex-military rulers rake an enormous income from oil money from the Niger Delta individually, much more than any individual or group of individuals from the South, and collectively more than 10 times the entire Niger Delta business men in the oil and gas industry put together.”

Asari-Dokubo continued: “At least, estimated 75 percent of crude oil and gas produced by indigenous companies is controlled by the North. However, the loot never get back home. The very uneven nature of the distribution of the nation’s wealth (is) among the Northern aristocratic families and their military generals who for decades looted Nigeria. They did so blatantly, and while Nigeria was weeping about oil windfall loot and others, Nigerians would wail if they know how much of the nation’s resources these folks allocated to themselves and their business fronts before they stepped aside.”

Giving details of the ownership of the oil blocs, he said: “Cavendish Petroleum, the operators of OML 110 – with good yielding OBE field. This oil block was awarded to Alhaji Mai Deribe - the Borno patriarch, who even in death will remain the richest man dead or alive in the history of Borno state- by General Sani Abacha on the 8th of July, 1996. OML 110 has a proven oil reserve in excess of 500 million barrels, more than the entire 300 milliom barrels reserve of Sudan. It has the capacity to produce about 120,000 barrels of crude oil daily from its OBE 4 and OBE 5 wells. At current production levels, the Mai Deribes net circa N4 billion monthly in crude oil sales, using oil price estimates of $100 per barrel.”

Asari-Dokubo continued: “Mai Deribe’s mansion, in allegedly poor Maiduguri is one of the most lavish mansions anywhere on earth; it used to be a tourist attraction, before Boko Haram’s tourism deterrent activities. The Fulani Prince Nasiru Ado Bayero, Mallam Sanusi Lamido Sanusi’s cousin, is a key shareholder and director in Seplat/Platform Petroleum operators of the Asuokpu/Umutu Marginal Field with a capacity of 300,000 barrels monthly and A 30mmfcsd gas plant capable of feeding 100MT of LPG. The Ado Bayeros, Yar’Aduas and Atiku Abubakar are Nigerian holders of Intels. It runs a private port that has grounded three federal ports in the South. Intels is discussed later. South Atlantic Petroleum Limited (SAPETRO). South Atlantic Petroleum (SAPETRO) is a Nigerian Oil Exploration and Production Company that was created in 1995 by General T. Y.

Danjuma, who is also Chairman of ENI Nigeria. General Sani Abacha awarded the Oil Prospecting License (OPL) 246 to SAPETRO in February 1998. The block covers a total area of 2,590km2 (1,000 sq. miles). SAPETRO partnered with Total Upstream Nigeria Ltd (TUPNI) and Brasoil Oil Services Company Nigeria Ltd (Petrobras) to start prospecting on OPL246. Akpo, a condensate field was discovered in April 2000 with the drilling of the first exploration well (Akpo 1) on the block. Other discoveries made on OPL 246 include the Egina Main, Egina South, Preowei and Kuro (Kuro was suspended as a dry gas/minor oil discovery). In June 2006, General TY Danjuma divested part of his contractor rights and obligations to China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) for $1 billion (N160bn). Akpo exports about 230,000 barrels of condensate daily.

Condensate export is not regulated by OPEC, so SAPETRO/TOTAL exports as much as possible each day. Egina exports about 75,000 barrels of oil daily. Therefore, Akpo and Egina fields export just over 300,000 barrels of oil/condensate daily (three times what the country Ghana exports). SAPETRO (TY Danjuma) get’s 25% of this. Now, note I have not talked about the gas component – it’s about 2.5 trillion cubic feet. The money SAPETRO nets each month is more than the monthly statutory allocation to any Nigerian state and also more than the oil revenue of Ghana. Do your math. AMNI International Petroleum Development Company. AMNI owns two oil blocks – OML 112 and OML 117. In the production-sharing contract, AMNI gets 60% for owning the oil block and Total gets 40% for providing technical advice. OML 112 was awarded on the 12/02/1998 while OML 117 was awarded 04/08/1999 all by Gen. Abdulsalami Abubakar. Operations started on both blocks on 26/02/2006.

The licenses are due to expire 11/02/2018 and 05/08/2019 respectively. The Okoro and Setu fields in OML 112 are operated by Afren Energy, a company substantially controlled by Rilwanu Lukman. The Okoro and Setu oil fields have about 50 million barrels in reserve and currently produce/exports just a little below 20,000 barrels per day. The chairman of AMNI International Petroleum and Development Company is Alhaji (Colonel) Sani Bello a Fulani from Kontagora, Niger State.”

nigerians should not be short sighted

I WILL VOTE FOR GEJ NIGERIANS ARE SO SHORT SIGHTED

why are nigerians crying more than the owner of the oil, we dont want business as usual. subsidy must go.

this unwanted killing of christian use to be the order of the day in kaduna. but now even the so called boko haram are afraid to attack in kaduna. all christiand should be ready to take the bull by the horn.

jonathan having receiveD the report from the presidential panel on boko haram, he should do the following?

1. Depose the sultan of sokoto

2. Depose the other emir nominated by boko haram

3. prosecute all the military personnels that boko haram members escape from their hand.

4. Sack and prosecute the ig of police for negligence

5. Visit all the infamous statement of persons before, during and after the pdp primaries and the general elections.

6. Take the war to the door step of boko haram and their sponsors.

7. retire every general in the nigeria military and their counter parts in other security outfits

8. Investigate the allegation that the former governor of borno state formed boko haram, and report points to his side, he will be prosecuted.

9. propose a law to the national assembly making it compulsary for any corruption case to be terminated within 4 months, and serious punishment for corruption.

10. remove the imunity

11. prosecute the judges that have collected some 150 billion naira as bribes and have they all sacked.

12. Call for SNC for nigerians to decide how they want to be govern.

The new nation called Nigeria should be an estate of our great grand father, Othman Danfodio. We must ruthlessly prevent a change of power. We must use the minorities in the North as willing tools and the South as conquered territories and never allow them to rule over us or have control over their future.” (Sir Ahmadu Bello October 12, 1960)

source

sycophant

Cud someone help me with undelete command, if there is?

Chief of Army Staff is far more better than what you are agitating for. Dont be myopic in your posting.

Give us alternative

buhari must pay dearly for this, he instigates violence, preaches violence, eat violence, sleep with violence, the blood of the innocent people will pursue him and his generation.

buhari must pay dearly for this, he instigates violence, preaches violence, eat violence, sleep with violence, the blood of the innocent people will pursue him and his generation.

WINNERS OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES SEATS

Hon. Ofor Chukwuegbo
PDP
EnuguNorth/South Kingsley

Ebenyi
PDP
EnuguEast/Isiuzo

Hon. Patrick Asadu
PDP
Nsukka/Igboeze South

Tobias Okechukwu
PDP
Awgu/Aninri/Oji River

Hon. Ogbuefi Ozomgbachi
PDP
Udi/Ezeagu

Hon. Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi
PDP
Igboeze North/Udenu

Hon. Peace Nnaji
PDP
Nkanu East/West

Mrs. Stella Ngwu
PDP
Uzo-Uwani/Igbo-Etiti



Lagos Federal Constituencies


Lagos Mainland Federal Constituency
ACN
42, 060

PDP
16, 270

SDMP
576

NCP
321





Lagos Island Federal Constituency I
ACN
17,803

PDP
6,244

SDMP
60

ANPP
185




Lagos Island Federal Constituency II
ACN
22,254

PDP
6,946

SDMP
118

DFPF
423

ANPP
185



Federal Constituencies

Eti-Osa Federal Constituency
ACN
32, 473

PDP
16, 219

SDMP
1,125

NCP
442




Ikeja Federal Constituency
ACN
32, 757

PDP
15,152

CPC
3,562

LP
1,299

ANPP
1,049




Kosofe Federal Constituency
ACN
63,070

PDP
18,744





Senatorial Election Results

Rivers State


Rivers South East Senatorial District

PDP
154,218

ACN
58,182

APGA
13,605

Winner - Magnus Abe of PDP





Rivers East Senatorial District

PDP
154,218

ACN
34,978

APGA
3,679

Winner - George Sekibo of PDP





Kaduna State


Kaduna North Senatorial District

CPC
103,094

PDP
30,604

Winner - Usman Bawa of CPC





Kaduna South Senatorial District

PDP
428,992

CPC
73,830

ACN
70,488

Winner - Nenadi Usman of PDP





Delta State


Delta North Senatorial District

PDP
98,204

DPP
67,548

Winner - Ifeanyi Okowa of PDP








Nasarawa State



Nasarawa North Senatorial District

CPC
62,815

PDP
31,602

Winner - Solomon Ewuga of CPC





Nasarawa South Senatorial District

PDP
108,844

CPC
103,320

Winner - Solomon Adokwe of PDP






Kogi State


Kogi Central Senatorial District

PDP
68,167

ANPP
26,959

ACN
4,051

Winner - Nurudeen Usman of PDP




Kogi West
PDP
84,511

CPC
35,281

ANPP
6,483

ACN
5,817

LP
582

APGA
455

Winner - Senator Smart Adeyemi of PDP






Ondo State



Ondo South Senatorial District

LP
88,319

PDP
80,319

Winner - Boluwaji Kunlere of LP




Ondo North
LP
84,290

PDP
51,112

Winner - Prof.Ajayi Borrofice of LP




Ondo Central
LP
113,292

PDP
41,783

Winner - Dr. Ayo Akinyelure of LP





Edo State


Edo Central Senatorial District

PDP
61,983

ACN
49,385

Winner - Odion Ugbesia of PDP







Lagos State


Lagos West Senatorial District

ACN
503,786

PDP
234,679

CPC
40,711

APGA
13,305

ANPP
9,011

ALP
5,198

SDMP
2,631

NPPP
1,525

DFPF
1,478

Winner - Senator Ganiyu Solomon of ACN





Lagos Central Senatorial District
ACN
202,506

PDP
75, 982

APGA
9, 302

SDMP
3, 499

NCP
3,073

Winner- Mrs. Remi Tinubu of ACN




Lagos East
ACN
222, 429

PDP
83, 133

SDMP
10, 100

CPC
7, 776

ANPP
2, 183

Winner - Gbenga Ashafa of ACN





Benue State


Benue South
PDP
147,923

ACN
79,433

Winner - Senator David Mark of PDP



Oyo State

Oyo Central
ACN
105,975

AP
92,544

PDP
78,643

Winner - Hon. Ayo Adeseun of ACN




Oyo South
ACN
127,621

AP
118,256

PDP
92,359

Winner - Femi Lanlehin of ACN






Enugu State

Enugu East
PDP
67,330

PDC
32,005

APGA
8,175

LP
4,439

ACN
3,621

CPC
730

ANPP
525

Winner - Hon.Gilbert Nnaji of PDP




Enugu North
PDP
86,220

LP
27,139

PDC
25,731

ACN
3,099

Winner - Senator Ayogu Eze of PDP




Enugu West
PDP
112,806

PDC
7,522

LP
5,175

APGA
3,591

ACN
1,325

Winner - Senator Ike Ekweremadu of PDP



Imo State

Imo West
PDP
95,816

ACN
63,755

APGA
54,432

Winner - Senator Osita Izunaso of PDP




Imo South
PDP
60,449

ACN
47,258

APGA
2,782

APN
1,568

ANPP
1,125

Winner - Matthew Nwagwu of PDP




Gombe State

Gombe Central
PDP
84,347

ANPP
50,080

CPC
40,145

LP
1,462

Winner - Danjuma Goje of PDP



Osun State


Osun East
ACN
119,852

PDP
51,315

Winner - Hon. Babajide Omoworare of ACN




Osun West
ACN
121,971

PDP
49,001

AP
7,789

Winner - Prof. Sola Adeyeye of ACN



Ogun State

Ogun Central
ACN
102,389

PDP
56,312

PPN
27,182

Winner - Gbenga Obadara of ACN




Ogun East
ACN
72,543

PDP
52,613

PPN
46,148

Winner - Gbenga Kaka of ACN




Ogun West
ACN
61,362

PDP
59,949

PPN
45,246

Winner - Akin Odunsi of ACN

Jonathan has more to offer than buhari, Buhari will only turn nigeria to war zone and religion market. i am not a partisan but in every indication Buhari will loose mercilessly.

poster what are your emphasis, which party is good for nigerians,cpc that has internal crisis for just few months of foundation. take kano, katsina for instance they have no guber. candidates pls use your brain before post.

He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest

buhari cannot win in free and fare election, nigerians is too complex for rigid people like buhari, but in case mistake he wins that the end of nigeria.

BUHARI HAS NO ANTECEDENT, OR IS IT OVERTHROWING A GOVERNMENT BY FORCE AN ACHIEVEMENT, PLS CAN U CONVINCE ME. I REALLY WANT A POSITIVE CHANGE, A DEMOCRATIC CHANGE, BUHARI IS NOT SELLABLE. HE IS NOT FIT TO RULE NIGERIA. NIGERIA IS TOO DELICATE FOR A NAME CALL PRESIDENT THAT ONLY THE VICE PERFORMS.

it is high time we stop deceiving ourseves and wise up, about mr. incorruptible, all are corrupt including buhari himself, what plays out here is religion and ethnicity.

all the story about pdp is bad, is because the flagbearer is a minority from south, it was the same buhari that exonorate the most incredible looter of nigeria history (abacha) becos he is northerner i am suprise about few southerner that still think, the north are glamouring for buhari because of his incorruptible nature. no! not at all because he a northerner so beware. they believe they are born to rule.

Nigerian politics for the uninitiated is about NORTHERN 'CABAL/CALIPHATE' and 'BORN TO RULE' . the campaign against GEJ is not about his competence or even the PDP incompetence as well but about 'We want our power we loaned to the south back'

Mko Abiola won an election, they murdered him because he is a southerner, since he was a muslim they cannot use that against him. They only 'loaned' the power to the south via OBJ to appease the Yoruba's after the murder of Abiola knowing well that the SW may move for seccession which actualises Biafra and Nigeria coming to an end.

The Northern cabal are after the 52% federal budget and nothing more, not even the welfare of their own people.

More unfortunately, the southern political mugus think the North by whatever candidates will be sincere once they becomes President, NO, history has shown they are only loyal to the caliphate and the emirs, and cabal via the Islamic pretense.

GEJ anyday over 12 years of PDP rule, but certainly over 38 years of North deliberate 'rulership'

Buhari can never ever win, if he does by using his almajeri to intimidate voters, then he will only rule nothern nigeria because the south south are not second class citizens

BUHARI CANNOT GET 2% VOTES IN LAGOS STATE

it is only myopic youth that will vote  arrogant buhari. come to think of it, what  does he want in democracy after overthrowing democratically elected govt. we all cannot be dumb ass. buhari has nothing to offer other than to fight perceived foe.

This intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded. It would appear that some, myself among them, had been overcomplacent about the magnitude of an ambition that seemed as preposterous as the late effort of General Ibrahim Babangida to aspire yet again to the honour of presiding over a society that truly seeks a democratic future. What one had dismissed was a rash of illusions, brought about by other political improbabilities that surround us, however, is being given an air of plausibility by individuals and groupings to which one had earlier attributed a sense of relevance of historic actualities. Recently, I published an article in the media, invoking the possible recourse to psychiatric explanation for some of the incongruities in conduct within national leadership. Now, to tell the truth, I have begun to seriously address the issue of which section of society requires the services of a psychiatrist. The contest for a seizure of rationality is now so polarized that I am quite reconciled to the fact it could be those of us on this side, not the opposing school of thought that ought to declare ourselves candidates for a lunatic asylum. So be it. While that decision hangs in the balance however, the forum is open. Let both sides continue to address our cases to the electorate, but also prepare to submit ourselves for psychiatric examination.

The time being so close to electoral decision, we can understand the haste of some to resort to shortcuts. In the process however, we should not commit the error of opening the political space to any alternative whose curative touch to national afflictions have proven more deadly than the disease. In order to reduce the clutter in our options towards the forthcoming elections, we urge a beginning from what we do know, what we have undergone, what millions can verify, what can be sustained by evidence accessible even to the school pupil, the street hawker or a just-come visitor from outer space. Leaving Buhari aside for now, I propose a commencing exercise that should guide us along the path of elimination as we examine the existing register of would-be president. That initial exercise can be summed up in the following speculation: �If it were possible for Olusegun Obasanjo, the actual incumbent, to stand again for election, would you vote for him?�

If the answer is �yes�, then of course all discussion is at an end. If the answer is �No� however, then it follows that a choice of a successor made by Obasanjo should be assessed as hovering between extremely dangerous and an outright kiss of death. The degree of acceptability of such a candidate should also be inversely proportionate to the passion with which he or she is promoted by the would-be �godfather�. We do not lack for open evidence about Obasanjo�s passion in this respect. From Lagos to the USA, he has taken great pains to assure the nation and the world that the anointed NPN presidential flag bearer is guaranteed, in his judgment, to carry out his policies. Such an endorsement/anointment is more than sufficient, in my view, for public acceptance or rejection. Yar�Adua�s candidature amounts to a terminal kiss from a moribund regime. Nothing against the person of this � I am informed - personable governor, but let him understand that in addition to the direct source of his emergence, the PDP, on whose platform he stands, represents the most harrowing of this nation�s nightmares over and beyond even the horrors of the Abacha regime. If he wishes to be considered on his own merit, now is time for him, as well as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise the moral courage that goes with his repudiation of that party, a dissociation from its past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future. We shall find him an alternative platform on which to stand, and then have him present his credentials along those of other candidates engaged in forging a credible opposition alliance. Until then, let us bury this particular proposition and move on to a far graver, looming danger, personified in the history of General Buhari.

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 Buhari�s coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagari�s 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 from 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 �dis�pline�, 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 strictures 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 needle�s 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 A� � 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.