₦airaland Forum

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.

Buhari was the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999, 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 Oga, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure. can someone research very well before selling the incorruptible buhari

Buhari is only winning in nairaland, how many of you will go out there and vote. One man one vote Buhari has lost from inception.

Mr. Pukkah can you convince nigerians about this your Buhari achievement for 2 and a half year. He is unsellable except you want to be sentimental or your brother lost primary to Jonathan as the case is.

Buhari candidature (CPC) represent violence, it is against tenet of democracy, we dont need a violence leaders at this point in time.

What we need is a true democrat not an ethnic and religious bigot that will use his eight years to hunt foes.

Let everybody clamouring for Buhari have it at the back of his mind that he will only rule the north. he has no more gun to intimidate people if loves democracy why did he overthrown democratic elected government infact BB support are daft.

who is fit to rule is buhari that rule for more than 2 years for nothin to reckon for it, or jonathan that rule for just 7 month just mention but a few that stabilised fuel pls let us not crucified people for others mistake. what are buhari achievement jailing Ekweme exonorating Shehu shagari his kingsman or what.

I am begining to think that a core notherner believes that he is born to rule let every person in this house read apart This election is not all about incorruptgible and corruptgible it is about the mentality that the north must rule at all cost the other day when people were glamouring for consesus candidate from the north nobody talks of PDP corruption now a minority (the hen that lay the golden egg emerges as PDP flag bearer) some people hijack nairaland to spearhead to campaign against Jonathan using deceptive approach. as long as there is no equity in this country Nigeria will seize to exist from 2011 when Buhari emerges as the Pres. Enough of all these rubbish we know what is behind this smear campaign let stay and watch.

What does Buhari  has to offer? fighting of corruption, without gun, hell no. he cannot fight corruption he is going there to fight those who fought him, those who overthrew him, if he win (Allah Forbid) there aaren'tno time to work Nigerians so be wise and don'tvote Buhari. Vote Jonathan or Shekauru these are true democrat.

Is CPC Dead on Arrival? by Audu Garba Girei

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Never in the history of Nigeria’s democratic experience have we ever witnessed such a violent party like the CPC. This is a party that is barley four months old in existent but caused more violence than any other party in the history of Nigerian democracy. CPC was registered by INEC in November 2010. Apart from the fact that it lacks internal democracy as was witnessed during all its primary elections in all the states especially in the North, its presidential candidate and his running mate have been preaching violence wherever they have gone to campaign.

Listen to General Buhari to his wild and unruly supporters, lynch other voters and protect your votes. On his own part, ‘Pastor’ Tunde Bakare is threatening brimstone and fire that it is going to be ‘wild’ ‘wild’ North if the election is rigged. Unfortunately for the Nigerian masses, Pastor Tunde Bakare has confirmed that his family has been living in America since 2000. Who is going to start the ‘wild’ ‘wild’ North for him then as his family is in America? It is like they are aware they will lose the election already that is why they are making every effort to cause commotion and chaos so that they blame the government and the police as usual. Otherwise what is the essence of General Buhari urging his supporters to stay at the polling station to protect their votes? The police have promised to deploy two policemen per each polling unit, is that not enough? What will happen if all the other voters will malinger around the polling booth to protect their votes as well? The situation will become chaotic and riotous. General Buhari, power comes from Allah and he gives it to whosoever he wants.

From all the confusion and the entire chaotic situation in the CPC, it can safely be said that all the problems that were in ANPP were caused by General Buhari his agents. Since he left ANPP there has been peace and orderliness in that party.

General Buhari, please preach national unity and not violence.

Even your supporters on the internet are more violent that those that are physical. Kai CPC, So so Violence everywhere

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Why vote Buhai I asked you before, and I ask you again, tell me just one thing, BUHARI military regime achieved in terms of POWER, EDUCATION, AGRICULTURE and HUMAN CAPACITY BUILDING. If you can tell me just one thing then I will vote him. I challenged you on a 1:10 basis. Do you think Nigerians are all fools? You may have sort memories or too young to remember, but we saw it all. It was the northern elder that asked IBB to chase out that crappy self-acclaimed general because he has no wisdom to lead a country, yet he was killing people. A move which was considered to be a threat to the nations unity

Buhari is never the best choice in this race, what does he now want in democracy after making a blonder in 1984 by saying he has thrown the key of democracy to the sea when he was approach by Awolowo. Anybody supporting Buhari is being sentimental religiously or ethicnically because there is no base to support an arrogant person for the office of the pres. Going by his record he ruled virtually 2years or more, there is absolutely nothing to remember him for as a past leader of this country. i m very angry with post i red alwys in this forum we are supporting person base on what? if we say we hate PDP then vote for a democrat not Buhari like shakarau. Buhari will only take us back to era of darkness i can assure you he cannot fight corruption. This is democracy there are laws that must be follow before action is taken.
He has no ball to to fight corruption he has no gun to force people to do what is right this leaves us with two options to choose from Shakarau and Jonathan, Ribadu was used by Obasanjo to fight selective corruption.

everybody knows that except those hiding under the pretext that buhari is a saint

it is only insane human being that will waste his vote on BB they are so self righteous, they are not the messiah, Buhari preach of fighting curruption and he has the son of a man that finish our treasury on his train (Abacha) how deceptive he is.

i know Buhari Will Not and Never Win if he do there will be uncontrolable crisis that will lead to demise of Nigeria as a one country.

Nigerians should not vote for Buhari in April mainly because he does not have what it takes to cope with the dynamics of the new world order driven by genuine democracy and characterised by respect for the wishes and aspirations of the people–rule of law, accountability, transparency, intellectualism and information technology among other factors.

Buhari came to power as a military dictator after overthrowing a democratically elected government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari in 1983 and left office after about two years of no clear- cut vision of what he took over the reigns of power for.

Some people have credited Buhari’s person and administration with what they call integrity. While one is not here to drill any hole on that claim, it could be said that, 20 months was such a short period for Buhari to reveal his real self. But let’s leave that as it may be for now.

General Buhari ruled Nigeria as a usurper coup plotter about 26 year ago. Many of the children who were born when Buhari was Head of State are now out of the universities. In serious societies, young people of 26 and 30 years are the ones shaping their societies. But Buhari wants to be president again.

In spite of his obvious handicaps in formal education, Buhari has not acquired any additional training or skill since he left office nearly 30 years ago that would have helped to keep him abreast with modern techniques of governance. What would a President Buhari be telling President Barak Obama and Prime Minister Cameron of the United Kingdom if the three of them meet in a conference to discuss interplanetary communication evolution, digital military science and applications, information technology deployment as well as modern economic management techniques?

Nigerians should know that today’s leaders are well- educated and vibrant men and women who are so versatile in diverse fields of life so much so that they can take on anybody anywhere, on any issue under the sun. Today’s leaders rely less on advisers and policy analysts. Nations of the world are governed today by men and women who can log unto the internet to research and get information on anything under the earth, leaders who can communicate with their people making use of information technology tools like the facebook, twitter and the rest.

Time is no longer there for those leaders who apply brute force on people to queue at bus- stops, employ the service of horsewhips to force people to clean their environments and set up brigades as means to tackle the issue of corruption and indiscipline. Leadership by example first and second, civil persuasion are the basic driving forces in today’s governance. Buhari cannot begin to learn those basic techniques while in office because we cannot afford to wait for him to go to office in the morning and attend adult school in the night. He had all the time to do that but couldn’t.

When the United States President Barak Obama went to Ghana some time ago, he made it clear to all that national development anywhere today, depends on good governance. Obama said that no country is going to create prosperity if its leaders among other things exploit the people for personal aggrandisement. He said that nobody wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and force. Incidentally, those were the hallmarks of the administrations superintended by Nigerian tyrants.

According to President Obama, in the 21st century, capable, reliable and transparent institutions are the key to success which include strong parliaments and honest police force, independent judges and journalists; a vibrant private sector and civil society. He said that history is on the side of those who fight for freedom and justice and not on the side of those who use coups or change constitutions to stay in power. Is someone listening?

We cannot allow coup plotters and those who manipulate both the constitution and democratic institutions to become our leaders any longer. And Obama was right: We do not need strong men again. We need strong democratic institutions to take our nation to the Promised Land.

Wherever he goes for his campaign rallies, Buhari is telling Nigerians that his purpose of seeking the office of the President is to serve us. That is every good.

But I ask the General, must you be in government to serve the people you love and contribute to national development? If Buhari wants to serve Nigeria since he left office, there are so many other ways he would have done that without waiting to contest the President’s office every four years. Is Buhari saying that he has not been seeing what Kofi Annan, Bill Gates, Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter and a host of others are doing?

Since he left office as the Secretary General of the United Nations, Koffi Annan has been running a Foundation called the Koffi Annan Foundation with a three- plunged vision of training people for global leadership, mediation in conflict and advocacy and partnership.

For Bill Clinton, it has been from one African country to another where his Foundation is helping to bring succour to millions of people afflicted with the HIV/AIDS pandemic through provision of cheap drugs, while the Carter Centre has been championing the war against guinea worm and other dreaded diseases across Africa and Latin America among other nations. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation last year released one half of the multi-billionaire’s fortune towards fighting poverty in Africa and other humanitarian activities all over the world.

If Buhari cannot see these philanthropists, has he not seen how General Yakubu Gowon through partnership with the Carter Centre is working round the clock to rid Nigeria of guinea worm? If Buhari does not have money as he claims, couldn’t he have used his tall and handsome figure and the so- called Mr. Clean identity some people think he has, to attract international donors to a Foundation in his name that would help to reduce the suffering Nigerians have been subjected to these past years?

You hardly can point at any manufacturing industry or visible business venture providing employment to any of the millions of Nigerians roaming the streets in search of meaningful life that you can say Buhari and his likes established. They have not, since they left office, added value to anybody’s life. But they want our votes so they can provide good governance. That would not work, not this time.

no rational thinking youth will waste his vote on any aspirant that will incite violence in nigeria. anybody that experience nigeria civil war will try to reject violence in all ramification. vote wisely.

This is just another avenue to fight the south like the way he did to Alex ekweme after excluding the head of government from the north (Shehu Shagari) as a saint. Buhari is just an Ethnic Bigot.

The south south man will not take it lightly with the way things are going on now. this is no longer campaigning for election this is a direct assault to the south south as a zone. i use this medium to send warning signal to anybody perpetuating this act to deviate from it, destroying jonathan billboard is not the solution to nigeria problem to think of it jonathan just started ruling this country few months ago.

Kano — The late military Head of State, Gen. Sani Abacha, did not loot the national treasury contrary to the general impression, two military former heads of state have said.

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, who ruled Nigeria between 1983 and 1985, and his successor, Gen. Ibrahim Babangida, gave Abacha the clean bill in Kano yesterday after the rememberance prayers marking 10 years of the death of Abacha, who ruled between 1993 and 1998

http://allafrica.com/stories/200806090008.html

we need a leader that will carry everybody along without acrymony. buhari is not the messiah let's be wise

the scenario unfolding in the electionering processes considering the role being played by ethnicity, nigeria may break up b/f 2012 january

vote individual dont vote party

IF BUHARI CANNOT CONTROL THE CROWD THAT FOLLOWS HIS CAMPAIGN TRAIN THEN NIGERIA FUTURE IS SCEPTICAL IF WE VOTE HIM. I NEED NOT TO REMIND US WHAT HAPPEN IN KADUNA AND GOMBE AND ALMOST EVERYWHERE HE'S GONE FOR CAMPAIGN A WHOLE LOT OF OPPONENT CAMPN APPARATUS ARE BEING DESTROYED. THIS IS DEMOCRACY NOT DICTORSHIP. WE SHOULD BEWARE WHO WE GIVE POWER TO OR ELSE WE MAY GO BACK TO THE OLD ERA OF DICTORSHIP. VOTE WISELY.

you have alraedy have made up mind

Buhari thrust himself into our consciousness when he truncated democracy by successfully staging a coup d’etat that sacked a democratically elected government of Nigeria in 1983.

His true character did not take long to manifest.  Before our very eyes, the head of the government he sacked, Alhaji Shehu Shagari, was declared a saint and kept under house arrest while his erstwhile Vice President, Dr. Alex Ekwueme, was declared a scoundrel and clamped into Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison without any judicial pronouncement as to his guilt.

His disdain and contempt for the judiciary did not know bounds. He took it abroad and crated Alhaji Umaru Dikko, the sacked Transport Minister, for repatriation back to the country.  These are some of the attributes of someone who wants to be the President of Nigeria under a democratic setting in the 21st century.

Let’s even leave his anti-corruption gaffes and pretences which led to the easy passage of 53 suitcases belonging to a sacred cow while other Nigerians’ goods were impounded and destroyed at the same airport. This was anti-corruption war indeed!

His hatred for law, order and due process even went to the extreme.  Lives of young Nigerians who were caught and tried for drug offences were executed on the orders of Buhari even with Decrees made to have retroactive effect.  Is this the kind of leader we want in 2011 Nigeria?

How about the contempt for truth which to him is an anathema with his dreaded Decree 4 against journalists for publishing the truth? How would Buhari operate under the new Freedom of Information (FoI) Bill when passed into law? A leopard cannot change its spots so easily.

I am gona tell all nigerians especially the youth to set aside sentiment and stop allowing religion, region emotion to control their reasoning and vote for the right person. if you judge the present administration for the six month life span you will agree with me that he has done something i mean something that affect every i mean every nigerian positively. i never for the past decade experience the solemnity in the way we are at the moment in our filling stations. and let me also tell every one posting here that we the youth we should stop playing politics with our destiny we should learn from history. no history no future. the so call notherners have rule this country for about 3 decades, let me tell you the highest illiteracy ratio in nigeria is in the north, how about poverty is also in the north. this means all those past leaders they where self centered thank you all and may God bless united nigeria.

atleast for the six month of this administration of Goodluck Jonathan we have enjoy one thing that most of us (nigerian) have not, for the past 25 years of our existence. we should not be judging people with sentiment, if we let our sentiment to control our sense of judgment then all of us i mean all of us will suffer it. if there is fuel scarcity who will suffer most it is you and i. some of us are just posting whatever that comes because we allow religion, region, sentiment to becloud our reasoning. we need to wake up from all these to make nigeria a better place for all of us.

One evening I went to my lover's house, on reaching there, her younger brother told me she went to see her aunty. Before then she normally complains about one guy that is disturbing her. but then I still have some doubt in my mind, I decided to wait for her. I waited till around 10:30pm in her house, after then a thought came to me to call her I then discovered that she left her phone in the house.

I pick up the phone I search for the guy's number. Then I call the guy if she know someone call (this) the guy reply no. After a while I decided to go home with her phone she now appear, I ask her where are u coming from she is coming from her aunty's house she replied, I then got a bit provoke and decided to go with her phone although she never knew I was with her phone.

On my way going home I then dial the guy in question number I kept mute the guy pick and said have you reach home. men I was mad! I just need some advise what to do with her.