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IF GEJ WAS TRUSTWORTHY HE WONT ACTUALLY BE CONTESTING THIS ELECTION, PDP HAD A ZONING ARRANGEMENT WHICH HAD BEEN AGREED TO AND FUNCTIONAL LONG BEFORE THIS ELECTION, IF HE HAD INTEGRITY HE WOULD HAVE STUCK WITH IT AND SERVED HIS "LUCKY TERM" WITH INTEGRITY AND WAITED FOR HIS PROPER TURN

That answers it all.

It is so sad when you see young men making undemocratic statements like this. It is a bad sign for Nigeria. Zoning in 2011 especially after they have ruled for 39 years out of 50 already? you "born to rule" sycophants from the north will never thread on our future again. never! If GEJ had gone for that crap, it would have set Nigeria 40 years back. Thank God he is more intelligent than that.

Don't be decieved.

Voting GEJ is like maintaining the status quo. If we truly want a change, we must sweep him along with this tsunami.
Remember that he might be a good man with good intentions, but he is on the wrong (and devilish) platform called PDP.

A vote for GEJ will return all the LOOTING FACES (bank ole, iya bobo, omi to sore, etc) back to power in the form of Ministers, Special Advisers and Ambassadors. What do we get at the end ZERO - because the party continues.

SO LET US JOIN HANDS TO UPROOT PDP THIS COMING SATURDAY FOR A BETTER FUTURE FOR US AND COMING GENERATIONS!!!

Yeah right! and vote who? the Tinubus of this world and the Buharis of this world? thanks a lot for the option. I'll stick with GEJ. I have had enough of Tinubu here in Lagos, stealing the state dry. and read this: The new PDP with Jonathan at the helm and in control is a thousand times better than ACN or CPC. Nigerians know better and saturday just proved it.

Once upon a time, a certain party came out preaching change and while we were about to celebrate, they went and brought someone who has spent over 35 years in and around government as their candidate. How is that a recipe for change? A man that should be at home playing with his great grand children. This country na wa o! Change ko change ni!

You are attacking Nigerians by telling them they dont know what they are doing. They have made their choice. respect it.

Even in Yemen, pakistan and Haiti, people will not vote for a president because he simply organize a 'credible election'.

The type of mis-education as well as  our collective batardizes pychic has degenerated Nigerians to these levels -where things that are ordinary given are seen as achievements!!!

You vote for a president becasue he can organize electiions?Huh to me its like marrying a woman because she is beautiful!!!!

In Nigeria,Everybody keep saying they will vote GOODLUCK because there IS NO MORE FUEL QUEUES!!! Imagine the extent that we have dehumanizie ourself.

Even in Niger republic keeping queues off the gas stations is not a point on any presidential aspirant CV.

It s really  sad i expect nairalanders-young nigerians who claim to be educated- instead of basking in the euphoria of any presidential candidate to ask  questions?

IS IT TOO MUCH FOR FELLOW NIGERIAN TO ASK GOODLUCK WHAT HIS POLICY WILL BE ON DEREGULATION IF ELECTED.-WE ALL KNOW THAT THE FUEL SUBSIDY WILL NOT LAST LONG,WE WILL SOON ENTER THE BOXING RING WHEN WHOEVER ENTERS WILL TRY TO STOP FUEL SUBSIDY THE QUEUES WILL COME BACK, FUEL PRICE WILL RISE AND LABOUR WILL FIGHT. THEN ALL THOSE SINGING HOSSANNA TODAY WILL SAY CRUCIFY HIM .

What makes you think you know naija's problems more than Nigerians. What gives you the prerogative of supreme knowledge. You have one vote. cast it for those you believe in and leave the rest to God. Its called democracy. If you are so knowledgable why dont you vie for a position of leadership instead of sitting on your couch and typing stuff.

I think the poster started by contradicting himself. After saying that people voted for individuals and not their parties, he went on to say that Buhari doesn't have support in the North. The truth is that next week's battle is going to be GEJ vs Buhari and not PDP vs CPC.
It's not yet time for celebrations judging by the fact that Namadi Sambo couldn't do much for the PDP in Kaduna and CPC's sweep of Katsina.
In Borno it's PDP for governor and CPC for president. In Yobe it's ANPP for governor and CPC for president. The one common sentiment in the North is "Nigeria Sai Buhari!"

You are still clutching at straws. Last saturday's contest was GEJ vs Buhari and not PDP vs CPC. most PDP candidates have GEJ on their posters. you still dont get it. GEJ is loved across the country. Buhari has too many enemies in the north. Did you see how many votes he got from sokoto? the center of Islam in Nigeria? Most of you dont understand Naija's politics because you have stayed away too long. You just read other people's posts and think you know Naija. Borno state is half Christians. Do you think those christians will ever vote Buhari? Same goes for Bauchi and Niger, Gombe and Nasarawa. Do your research well. these areas used to vote in block but a lot have changed over the years. The north is no longer one like you used to know

BB is a disgrace. GEJ has just done to them the same thing he did to Atiku. with all their talk. very shamefu. even ANPP seems to be doing better than CPC. shame.

I dont use different IDs. I am not a bb supporter. Your APGA post does not deserved a reply. it is just ignorant stuff. shows you have no clue of Ibo leanings. the Ibo has already showed their inclinations. please check out the election results so far. thats your proof. You have to try and read other materials apart from Nairaland threads and The Nation newspapers.

2. Buhari does not enjoy the support of the north like we were made to (almost) believe.
3. The north is no longer one voting block.

Myth already busted. please can we move on, dont derail the thread!

Well I am not surprised. even with all the child voters that were shown on AIT, the CPC still lost most of the north. Why would the north not be more than the south when 6 year olds can vote in the north and Buhari doesnt really mind, does he?

Now you are sounding more and more bigoted . .  what was your original ID please

a) APGA does not even have all of the east . . . it only had Anambra state before Saturday's election

b) APGA does not make decisions for all of the S.E

c) The decision to support one of the existing candidates was made because APGA itself did not have any presidential candidate for the election


Like the guy already tried over and over to inform you, the saturday election is still up for grabs  . .  as in there is a 50-50 chance for Jonathan but it could go either way.

ha! the biggest duns/olodo of them all has finally showed up. you are sounding like Buhari. clushing at straws. just like your name suggests. how did you escape from your hole after all your propaganda of CPC wave. now turned CPC failure. reads this for a change:

"Once upon a time, a certain party came out preaching change and while we were about to celebrate, they went and brought someone who has spent over 35 years in and around government as their candidate. How is that a recipe for change? A man that should be at home playing with his great grand children. This country na wa o! Change ko change ni!"

Have you not been following Naija at all. I am disappointed in you. the south east has already declared a long time ago that they are going with Jonathan. that was why APGA adopted GEJ. you are too far from naija. please come back home. the Ibo man can never trust a mallam to hand over power to them. moreover, they see GEJ as the closest thing to an Ibo man being in power. His middle name is Ebele. The south east is firmly in GEJ's pocket. The north central is also going the same way. did you not follow the alliance talks and meetings? I guess not. And you probably didnt hear what the sultan said and Shagari expanded about supporting the south south because the south south has always supported them? Please do read wide and not just sit in front of your PC reading propaganda from so called bb supporters. You will be disappointed if that is all you read because they will probably tell you that CPC will win Bayelsa too. lol

You are counting your chickens too fast. This last election was all about local political following. It does show that Buhari's CPC is really the "phanton CPC", but I think you will see different next week.

President GEJ should be prepared for a good fight since the North has good reason to give most of its votes to CPC. PDP is probably spreading the "dollar" far and wide in the North as we speak - a big reason for their sweep up there in the legislative elections, and it might just work again. I think the SE would do the same because they are looking to take over in 2015. The Southwest is likely to split it two ways between CPC and PDP (mostly for CPC), while the SS goes for GEJ.

Why am I not mentioning Ribadu and ACN? Indications are that ACN is already in undisclosed alliance with CPC.

BB may still go to Aso Rock afterall, but GEJ has a 50-50 chance of staying put.

Can't wait till next Saturday.

Again, you analyze like a real nairalander with no clue. I Live in Lagos and many of the people that voted ACN on saturday will vote GEJ next weak. we did a count in my polling booth where i registered and almost everyone said they will vote fashola for gov and GEJ for president. most christians in Lagos will not vote a ticket with Bakare in it. He is like a plague to them. he insults their pastors. And combine that with Buhari, then you have a recipe for disaster. Did you not notice that ACN came close to loosing in some areas even after all the accolades giving to fashola? did that not suprise you?

And dont forget that the winner must have the mandatory 1/3 from 25 states or so. Buhari clearly cant have that now. And why would ACN form an alliance that will give CPC the presidency when they are doing far better than CPC. why not have it the other way around? You cleary are not thinking straight. CPC just went from major contenders to lame ducks in less than 48 hours.

Its time for Myth Bursting. Please let us know of any myths that you think have been busted from this election results and the voting pattern. I will list a few to start.

1. The election results shows Nigerians voted for persons not parties.
2. Buhari does not enjoy the support of the north like we were made to (almost) believe.
3. The north is no longer one voting block.
4. Bakare is not influential in the south west. He couldnt deliver much to CPC. Their results there were woeful
5. GEJ is not a stooge of PDP godfathers or OBJ. OBJ lost in his ward and his state. Bankole also lost. He left them on their own.
6. CPC has very little support in the south as a whole.
7. Bukola is more popular than his father in kwara. (nice one there)

please add more if you can.

Based on my posts and yours, it is clear that you don't even appreciate the level of your problems.
Again, if CBN is to be blamed for decline in foreign reserves, why do we praise Jonathan for the success of an election!

As for promises, Jonathan was forced to sack Iwu. He told Amanpour of CNN that Iwu was not the problem. US IMMEDIATELY said that Iwu remained a problem. Iwu was therefore sacked. All these happened in April 2010
Tell me the history of Jonathan's promises - I will not make empty Promises? At least for the power sector, he has changed his own deadlines till after the election. Brilliant!

I think I know what the problem is now. You must be posting from Syria or the Philippines. it is obvious you havent been to naija for a long time and you must be reading Sahara reporters or the likes. GEJ has delivered and is still delivering. The likes of you are too busy playing opposition to even notice. As I speak, most Lagos residence now enjoy improved power. we are not there yet but way better than  it has been  for years. i dont even know what fuel scarcity is like anymore. With the final privatization of the power sector, the power problem will be done once and for all. Even mend has finally laid themselves to rest. it is only the boko aram people that are causing violence in some parts of the country because they want to try and intimidate the rest of us. We can not and will not be intimidated. Naija belongs to all of us, not some ruling oligarchy from the north. Thank God, PDP is now born again thanks to GEJ and we can have a national party that can tackle our issues not some regional party that will fight for regional interests

Education. I can hold my own against some PhD holders. Facts -  produce them please. Let us flood this thread with facts

your post above shows you need to repeat primary 6. it speaks volumes. how can you give credit to Jega and say GEJ has nothing to do with it. It is like the field engineer in a project saying his boss, the CEO, should give him all the credit for the companies success because he installed the machines. If there was no company, would he have machines to install? If GEJ had chosen someone else, would Jega have even being known. Many people didnt even know Jega b4 Jonathan chose him. If GEJ had also given him problems, which he could have being the president, would he have been successful? The president has fulfilled his promise to Nigerians. please use shame salute am! olodo!

Why cant you guys just behave like bankole and be gracious in defeat for once. i dont like bankole but i respect his response to his loss. he congratulated the winner and has moved on. you guys are pathetic. Jega said clearly that results will be declared not later than 48 hours. it is not even 48 hours yet. how can you declare results in a hurry when you have to make sure they are free and fair? olodo

Thank you very much for enlightening him a bit. He would do well to educate himself and improve, or else he may end up becoming a reporter with the likes of Sahara Reporters.

lol!!!!!!!!!!! nice one. i cant stop laughing. more like opposition reporters.

The most interesting part of this whole thing is that many of the PDP senators and reps that are returning are actually new people because PDP did free and fair primaries and many of their incumbents lost. So PDP is not exactly the old PDP you know.

It seems PDP still retained its stranglehold on Naija.

This goes to show that we internet warriors are way off track with whats happening in Nigeria. I wont believe any projections I hear on NL on saturday.

However, PDP lost a lot of ground in the South west.,,,,,I hope that will be enuff for the checks and balances required for democracy to work.

This is one of the truest statements I have read in Nairaland all day. These nairalanders who live in malaysia and Iraq think they have a clue what is going on back home. they are way off the mark. I dont like PDP as a party, not because they are more corrupt than the other parties (I have been shouting it for a long time that all the parties are the same) but because they have become almost too uncontrollable because of their size and their continuous fighting was affecting the country. but I also know that if any other party win the presidency tomorrow, they will also become like PDP. maybe even worse. Edo state is a good example. see how all the PDP members defected to the ACN just because Oshiomole became the gov. This is bitter truth about naija. But in GEJ, we see a very sincere and good man. The whole credit for this free and fair election goes to him. not Jega. He has said from day one that he will give us a free and fair election and he delivered. He had the sole prerogative to choose who would be INEC chairman and he chose Jega and also allowed him to work freely. that alone completely carpets everything Buhari has ever done all his life. Even in the south west where ACN swept, PDP still posed a big problem for them all because of GEJ. All the PDP candidates in Lagos had GEJ's picture along side their picture in their posters. The man is a saint and we should let him change this country. What mallams could not do in 39 years, GEJ wil do in 4. You'll see

the day you do not want to see nigeri delta again and it's people try that nonsense of MEND when buhari enters

you bunch of lazy twats

At least you have been honest in your description of the kind of person Buhari is. we are not surprised. we have seen it b4. he is a self deluded tyrant like the rest of them. but you will be shocked this time if it happens. you will not see one oil and the country will shut down.

can u 2 shut up abeg

imagine this idee.oot above me telling me that it was jonathan that given the amnesty instead of yaradua Undecided

what a fooli.sh thing to say indeed

there is no need to reply you. we in ND know better. maybe you think the amnesty is what is keeping the militants quiet. you will be shocked if GEJ does not win the elections. you think just giving some money to these guys will shut them up? you lot will be very shocked. they are just watching patiently and the only reason they have not been reacting to the election issues is because GEJ has prevailed on them not to. it would not be good for his campaign if the militants start to talk tough so they dont want to undermine him. but make no mistake, it was not a mallam that convinced them.

Sadly , Jonathan has shown that he has nothing to offer anyone . He is not a man of his word and can certainly not be trusted in the slightest bit. Lets not forget that It was Yar Adua , a Northerner , that gave us the amnesty program and a package to rehabilitate militants who signed up . What has Jonathan done for his own ND region since becoming President ? The truth is Jonathan wants to portray himself as all things to all men but the sad reality is that , so far, he has been a big zero to all men . It is only folks like Anenih and other AGIPs (any government in power) who benefit and will continue to benefit from GEJ.

You should not display your foolishness and ignorance in public. it was not Yaradua that gave the amnesty program, it was GEJ. the amnesty was a recommendation that was given to Yaradua when the oil production hit an all time low and security reports indicated that a continued aggression against the militants was going to send Nigeria crashing. GEJ did all the negotiations. Yaradua only endorsed it. dont you see that militants have been very quiet under GEJ's rule? or you are too far away in malaysia to notice. do you think a niger delta militant can ever trust a mallam? GEJ is trusted in niger delta and that is why militancy has greatly reduced. you just say stuff without thinking. do you think niger deltans are like you? they cant forget the saro wiwa days. the same abacha that buhari worked for. buhari hardly visited niger delta all the while he was PTF head. you think we can easily forget that? we are not fools. make no mistake. we will fight for and defend our own.

JAPAN
GHANA
SINGAPORE
CHINA

Many of the alleged benefits from corruption, such as streamlining government transactions or enhancing civil service pay, only appear as such against the background of a public sector that is failing to perform effectively. The experience of economies such as Singapore indicates that patient and persistent efforts toward improved public sector management, by streamlining customs procedures or by paying wages that are competitive with the private sector, for example, are likely to result in greater benefits over time than tolerating relatively high levels of corruption to compensate for these deficiencies.

In light of the discussion above, we can affirm that corrupt and illicit behavior is a serious brake upon the development process. We should reject the argument that corruption's beneficial effects outweigh its negative consequences, or that it is inappropriate for international financial institutions to address such issues. Experience drawn from the Asia and Pacific region and elsewhere demonstrates that significant progress can be made in the struggle against corruption if the proper legal, institutional, and policy reforms are in place.

so even if its only corruption that we can reduce in this country, it will go a long way in solving many of our problems. Imagine if the $30billion was used to revive nepa? It would have reduced the amount of money spent on the importation of Generating sets, MTN and others would reduce their call tariffs, Dunlop would relocate back to Nigeria, thereby creating more employment opportunities,, I can go on and on, but the bottom line is everything is like a chain-reaction, they are interwoven and corruption is our main problem in Nigeria

God Bless Nigeria

please dont just say things just to win an argument.

Of all the countries you mentioned, only ghana could be said to have had a bit of corruption problem that affected the country. but it wasnt just solving the corruption problem that changed ghana, it was the visionary acts of jerry rawlings in uniting the country that changed everything. they were once divided like us. but now, they are united. our biggest problem is the fact that we are not one country. it is not corruption. ghanians are very modest people. they are not like Nigerians and they are not very corrupt.

The Independent National Electoral Commission [INEC] has announced that election into the National Assembly which is to hold on Saturday April 9, 2011 will only hold in some areas while others have been postponed indefinitely.


Full story with list of affected states and reasons as given by INEC below:


http://www.spotlightnigeria.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=452:no-nass-elections-in-15-senatorial-districts-inec&catid=34:politics&Itemid=55

is this all the crowd they could get from Lagos. wow! this is really shameful. even a thief like Bode george will pull a bigger crowd. if this is what you base his Lagos votes on, then he has lost woefully. GEJ filled up the national stadium.

Also the land mass is of the northern part of naija is considerable.just look at d map, the whole five SE states could be swallowed by Benue and Niger states alone. So d fact that we travel tru large land masses without seein people doesnt really mean the north doesnt have  a large indigenous population.

to those talking about land mass, do you know Mali has a bigger land mass than Nigeria but they are not even up to the population of lagos?

NO ONE KNOWS OR CAN KNOW THE ETHNIC DISTRIBUTION IN NIGERIA WITHOUT MEASURING IT.   indeed it is the essence of knowledge that once we know a thing there is no longer argument. it is uncertainty that sustains argument. no one argues that standing in front of a fast moving truck can kill. if they have any doubts they know where to go and it is not nairaland.com. their doubts will be resolved quickly.
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i am a student of science and in science we have deductions. i.e. if a +1 = 3 then a must be 3 - 1 which is = 2

so if all the west african countries are more populated along the coastal areas than in the hinterland, then it is deduced that Nigeria, being a part of that geographical area will have the same population spread. it cant be different.

secondly you cannot say no one knows the ethnic distribution. it is well known except you dont live in Naija. in lagos where i live, the hausas can only be found in places like idiaraba and they are not much. in benin. akure, ibadan, they also live in communities and they aint much either. in onitsha, ph, enugu, and calabar, they are very few. you can call your friends in these areas and confirm. but in kano, there are whole igbo and edo communities that compete with the indigines of these states. people like celestine babayaro, joel obi and many more are examples of southerners who have practically become northerners. the sabongari areas of most northern states are heavily populated. those stories of the population being in the rural areas are just fraudulent. there is migration everywhere in the world. people are migrating from rural to urban areas. anyone who tells you that the larger population  stil live in the rural areas is just plain lying

like i said in my posts b4, many of those areas listed as hausa are not hausa. they are various tribes that you cant even count. my brother did his youth service in maiduguri. a majority of those around him there were not hausa and were not muslim. so you know the population of people that graduate from eastern and western states every year? do you know the population of igbos living in togo, benin, cameroun, gabon, guinea, congo and many more. i was in south Africa twice, do you know the population of people from all over southern Nigeria living there? igbos, niger delta? you will be shocked. someone once said that the population of Nigerians living in many west and east african states can easily take over those countries and he his right. in the UK, there are places where you hear people speaking yoruba and igbo, you think that you are in ojuelegba. all these places i have listed, you cannot see hausa there. these are all facts that cannot be denied, doesnt matter how long we try to suppress it.

@aribisala0
This is not not just about having an argument. this is fact. i do not need to show you proof that the northern belt of western African states have lower population densities than the southern belts. any student of geography knows that. and any student of geography also knows that the sea areas are more populated than the deserts. Nigeria cannot be the only exception in the world. b4 you make it a biased argument, use your google and check it out. except you are from the north and you just want to defend a lie.

I just want to make these few points. please for once ets leave out the politics and talk sincere talk.

1. The north is not more than the south. it is not consistent with the geo-political setup of West Africa. you can check with other countries. Cameroun, Ghana, Cote dvoire, Benin, Togo, etc. the northern part of these countries are less populated than the south. because the lands closer to the sea always has more populations. people do not migrate towards the desert but towards the sea. the same principle applies all over the world.

2. The Hausa population is not even close to 20 million. from the map, major parts of bauchi, gombe, yobe and adamawa were classified as hausa. that is very wrong. there is a difference between hausa speaking people and hausa people. hausa is generally spoken in the north as a common language. that does not mean that the people are hausa. about half of adamawa people are christians. same for bauchi. there has been a systematic plan to present the north as one tribe since independence but this is beginning to fall apart. the middle belt's dissociation from the north is the biggest blow in recent times. now the north is left completely decimated. if you call a typical kaduna man an hausa, he may fight with you.

3. the reason the north is impoverished is because the monies stolen by the political class of the north is not spent to develop the north. it is stashed away abroad in countries like france, saudi and dubai. and the US too. the northern masses make it easier for these crooks because they have a belief that says when you are poor, that is your destiny and when you are rich, that is your destiny. only the educated few are breaking out of this bondage. but the political class will not want the people to really break out so they suppress them thru poor education. it is not much different from what you see in countries like syria. the truth is, in all the years the north has ruled Nigeria, the north hasnt seen very much development. there isnt much business in the north. they are good farmers but their farming in still small scale compared to really sophisticated farming as seen in advanced societies. think of this, the richest man in Nigeria is a northerner, Dangote, but over 80 percent of his business is in the south. without the south, he woud not have any business. if the not is really that populated and great, why does he not take his business there.

4. Did you notice that when the GSM companies started in Nigeria, the north was always their last point of call. if their populationis so great, why go there last.

the report from BBC is just some wrong stuff that has been going around for a long time. the solution is a national database. thats why they will fight it. if Nigeria can develop a national database, this country will finally change. thats our biggest need. not nepa, not anything else. i know some will not agree. but there is what is called causes and effects. corruption is not a cause. NEPA is not a cause. these are effects. there is a fundamental root problem. it is that the country is built on a lie. until that changes, nothing else can really change.

It is one thing to allow Jega finish the elections. it is another thing to excuse his complete failure. the guy failed, period. please dont excuse him or you will just be another condoning Nigerian and you will loose all your rights to a better Nigeria. The guy was too over confident and full of himself thinking he can run the course alone and prove he is a hard nut. he doesnt have to prove anything and he must learn to work with the people around him. he has no choice. if he sees anything wrong, he can deal with it. but to try to work alone is incompetence and bad leadership and it would lead to a failure of the entire elections and Nigerians will never forgive him.

" added 31 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE

In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the following reasons I cannot vote for Buhari:

1. 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.

1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame

‎17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort, h. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). 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. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.
23. Let’s informed Buhari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project for Lagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Club in the federation.
24 let also remind Buhari that Gbolahan Mudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn.Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given the people of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, General Buhari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on his mind.
25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi was also ethnically fired.
26. So also was the shorter end of the stick he handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.
27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurred Buhari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Buhari, Obasanjo’s appointee as military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate during the tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, so the House decided to deal with the matter soon after the 1983 general elections.
28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti, notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Buhari’s account at a Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially compensated.
29. Abacha rehabilitated Buhari with the chairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May 1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss, allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.
30. Buhari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.
31. He should reveal to us his health status… Buhari at 69 yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?




If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human beings like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.
It is clear that apart from the states of the North-West and North-East, his Congress for Political Change (CPC) would hardly earn 25 per cent of the total number of votes cast in the remaining states of the federation. By implication, two zones just cannot earn Buhari the presidency he is looking for, no matter their voting strength.