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Sibabasibaba1:
And read this too: Ekwueme was never tried but was illegally detained for 20 months. Hear him:

"I[b] waited for them [/b]for 20 months and they didn’t even come to ask me a question because I was the first person to be detained from December 31".

Read this Ekwueme's interview: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=8561

Am not an expert in English language but take a look at word he used "THEM"? Does them denotes a conflict with an individual or an institution? And who is them? Buhari or the tribunal/SMC?
One undeniable aspect of every junta government is the absent of habeas corpus principles, but that is not down one person. If anything, it was down to Akpamgbo and Rafinfadi, both were the two main people fingered by the amnesty international at the time. Many of you are young and bright but thinks like cave men. Use you brain and unlimited vast instruments of knowledge around you. Not wallowing in pure ignorance. Gosh!

Aksonman:
EZIACHI aka BARCANISTA pls get out of this thread and stop posting trash. Buhari's reputation is rotten and the stench will follow him to his grave.

It's not about Buhari. It's about me and you as Christians. You are supposed to hate falsehood even against your enemies, if you have one.

Sibabasibaba1:
Another oft bandied lie of these Buharistans is that Buhari Ekwueme was jailed for corruption. Ekwueme was the first politician to be picked up by Buhai boys on the day of the Buhari coup-31 Dec 1983. Nothing incriminating was found on the guy. So, to incriminate him, Buhari sold a lie to Nigerians that $56,000 was found in Ekwueme's house. Till today, nobody apart from Buhari and perhaps, Idiagbon, his 2iC, saw that money. Other accused politicians were tried in the military tribunal and jailed. But Ekwueme was neither taken to a tribunal nor a court--not even a kangaroo one. For 20 months the man was jailed without trial. Later, a panel set up by IBB headed by Justice Uwaifo investigated Ekwueme and returned a verdict that politics made Ekwueme even poorer. He praised Ekwueme for his forthrightness. Till today, Ekwueme has never been found guilty of any crime in his days as Vice President.

Yet, these Buharistans keep passing off this gross abuse of fundamental human rights as an achievement. Too bad!

God help some of you. Because every single thing you said above was 101% blatant lies. Probably you will go to church this Sunday and use the same mouth to call on God. Jeez!!

donmalcolm21:
When youths of today are more interested in fighting and campaigning for our common enemy then NIgeria still have a long way to go.

You can say that again. A wasteful generation, more idiotic and bigoted than even the uninformed before them.

Kunleskey:
Everything is becoming & beyound reasonable doubt now..cause the way pple are bring out buhari past and present mistake is so brutal...may God helep buhari on the journey he embark on...which one are we going to accept now..buhari is a jailer of innocent and corrupt pple while GEJ is the messiah of the most corrupt pple In Nigeria.

They must have thought you at school, the difference between fact and fiction. But in life, some people chose to believe in aliens no matter what you say to them.

Aksonman:
WHAT? Did those APC dudes actually defend Buhari's locking up of Fela on trumped up charges of excess foreign currency possession? Even when it was proven beyond reasonable doubt that the money allegedly found in Fela's possession belong to his entire band of almost 40 people?

I saw that thread on Front page but i never really read any of the comments.

As for me, Buhari na bad market any way u look at him.

If the charges were trumpeted, then you should be looking at the attorney general at the time, his name is Clement Akpamgbo. He is an old Anambra man. If know nothing about Nigeria, why bother commenting on it?

PDPblogger:
VERY SIMPLE ANSWER: Ekuweme was an Igbo Christian while Shagari (like Buhari) was a Hausa/Fulani Muslim.

General Buhari was (and still is) an ethnic/religious bigot. End of story.

And what religion and tribe is Umoru Dikko that was crated?

publisher:
Since APC fans (like Barcanista) have successfully defended and justified Buhari's imprisonment of the great FELA KUTI, thus I'd like to hear their views on this.

After Buhari's coup in 1984 with 'corruption' given as excuse, EXECUTIVE President Shagari was placed under house arrest-never tried, while 'ordinary' Vice-President Alex Ekuweme was thrown into the harshest part of kirikiri prison.

Since you wanted to learn, there is nothing like Buhari's coup in 1984, it was Babangida, Abacha, Vatsa, Dogonyaro , David Mark, Umar, Idiagbon, Ayuba, Adisa, Rasaki and Onoja's coup of 1984. You can rightly say, Buhari led military government of 1984. Two different scenarios.

What was the rationale behind this? If Shagari's governement was corrupt (according to Buhari) why was the principal and head of government (Shagari) not tried, convicted and thrown in jail?

Is this a sign of what to expect if Buhari is sworn in by May 29, 2015, selective justice?

Over to una...

Yes, it was a corrupt government led by Shagari just like Balewa government before but on individual basis there was no evidence that both Shagari and Balewa enriched themselves or were corrupt, just clueless and incompetent and those are not crime. Ekwueme was corrupt while in office, all the evidence was there, that is why he was jailed by a military tribunal not by Buhari.
The sentence was ratified by the ruling council SMC of which the likes David Mark and Ike Nwachukwu etc were members like Buhari.
The likes of Umoru Dikko, suffered more than Ekwueme and he is a northerner. Barkin Zuwo almost died in jail, Awwal Ibrahim died there and they are northerners. You people should get the simple truth and not bending fact any 30+ years old should know like nursery alphabet.

chinasaekperem9:
Omojuwa is crazy.when will yorubas learn how to respect their elders? In a sane country, no one in his right senses will say such again his / her president. Keep on with the good works GEJ.their silly propaganda can't stop you.

The same respect Jesus Christ refused to give the corrupt elderly money changers in God's temple

Billyonaire:
So, a man, such like Fela, a Hero known worldwide, can not bring his earnings back home ? God punish Buhari.

And after they could not silence Fela, Buhari and his Oligrachs, went ahead to poison him with cyanide, and gave his Iscariot brother 200m to bastardize his brother as HIV carrier just to shame him.

I thought that at least you are educated? You really sat down, type this out and really press the send button? Wow!!!

emmanuel4758:
look at the present governor of Enugu state who try him now what he is passing through is kinda hilarious he told him if you continue making fun of poor people your health will continue to deteriorate and you will perish in nearest future since then can you look at the health of the governor?
remember he is fighting for poor and when you ridicule him because your party is APC so shall God ridicule u because you are supporting the devils remember APC did not support the movement of Christian when Islam destroy Christian churches remember APC "buhari"said stop killing boko harams they are fighting for there right which is creating Islamic law .do you think Islamic law accept Christianity first look at Saudi Arabia ,mbaka said you don't have to sell your right better be on what is happening open your eyes the world is blind to people who support evil APC is an evil which everyone know.

Wow, this your god is really this powerful? Even Jesus, the son of the real God, people that tried him never perish like mosquito like those that tried you Enugu heavenly father.
I say no more, cos I don't want to try him and dissolve like salt in water.

I thought Fela was unjustly convicted by Justices Anya and Justice Dosunmu?
When did Buhari becomes a high court judge?
And by the way, I thought it was Idiagbon that achieved everything and Buhari was only sitting down chewing gworo?
Why is the credit for jailing Fela not going to Idiagbon but Buhari?

Mogidi:
There's no doubt as well that same anti corruption crusader allowed 53 suitcases filled with dosh to pass through the airport en-route to his emir friend. Promoting the lie that Buhari is a bonafide anti corruption crusader is a disservice to true anti corruption crusaders like Ribadu.

Ask yourself this question: In the history of public money stealing in Nigeria, do they normally take money out of the country or brings money inside the country? Suitcase full of dosh is meant to take a flight out of Nigeria rather than flying int, except 419 cash conned from some greedy white folks.
And more comical, the cash is for his emir friend and not for him. Does that make any sense to you?
Like you maybe, I use to wonder how this guy Buhari who is a pure Nigerian could not have been corrupt? as that is not normal, then again I asked myself, if this guy has all these political enemies all these years, knowing the Nigerian kill and bury politics, they surely must have dig up something now against him? but till date, absolutely nothing.
So as a human being, you are entitled not to like a man but spreading wicked lies against a person without any shred of evidence is not only wicked but unchristian.
If Ribadu was running against your I assumed or supposed candidate, you will probably be singing a different song and tune about him, but today, he is your corruption crusader just for expediency.
There is a saying by a German propaganda expert that, "lies, often when told time and again will one day sound like the truth to the peddler"

Silly question really. As if this was the first, the second or even the tenth bomb since Mr Jonathan's presidency.
Okupe said last week that no matter what happened that their life (daily politics) must go on. So why would anyone set off bomb now because of his declaration as if that will affect it, even if all Nigeria slave (masses) are to die?

hahn:
How do you know he is a man of God?

Because he called himself so.

Forgiveness for what sin against them?

size38:
To me, there is nothing like Delta Igbo in Delta state. Delta state is Delta state and belongs to Delta people. So anybody who says he is a Delta Igbo in Delta state is an illegal immigrant in the state. The tribe known tribes in Delta state are the Uhrobos. Itsekiris and the Ijaws.

I don't know if I should laugh at you or cry with you.

Mogidi:
Stop spewing hogwash, the US army is not made of 60% muslim. Imagine the US army refusing to fight because an (infidel) is the President. Imagine the US army giving information and logistical support to an enemy?
How then would they defeat such an enemy?

Every day you guys kept moving the goal post with some mind numbingly excuses in the bid to support ineptness of Jonathan. What was Nigeria military religion composition when they fought us Biafrans?
The buck stops with the C-in-C, if your army that you command do not want to fight for you according to your own words, what does that say about him? OBJ was also an infidel.

tit:
You are just a slowpoke.
The confederate Army under General Lee invaded the United States and nobody touched Ibrahim Lincoln till the wahabbist John Booth shot him in a theatre.
The third president of the United States (Adams?) suffered an invasion by the British. The British burnt down Washington DC and the whiteHouse. Nobody lynched him.

president Jonathan has performed absymally on security. I used to think the appoinment of Badeh was a masterstroke but I am begining to hav serious doubts. (I bet Badeh were deceived by the NSA and diplomats negotiating with BuHari in Tchad.)
I hope he notes that Ibrahim Lincoln changed commanding generals of the US army the way Obasanjo changes sleeping partners, befor he got to US Grant who finally started getting results.

(it looks like the Nigerian Army school of infantry is better than all your so called universities. all you guys do is dogon turenchi. no facts, no sense.)

In life, even in business, those that think to themselves to be intelligent always make mess of their supposed intelligent. First you started with unnecessary name calling instead of making your own point we all deserved. Then came up with a history of United States that bears no significant with the discussion in question. I don't mind being disagreed with but you can make your opinion known and still be civil.
If you as a supposed intelligent person actually believed that the appointment of Badeh was a masterstroke then and how wrong you are now, what makes you think that you are not only the same wrong route again now?

atlwireles:
If you understand that word, then you should understand why Alqeada will never survive 24hrs in America. Shekau is welcomed in some parts of this country. They even see him as a hero. Never compare Nigeria and America, when it comes to terrorism. What we have is a local in house war, between Nigeria and Nigerians.

So your ambition is to compete with that madness and myopic life of those you claimed made Shekau to be their hero? Two wrongs doesn't make write. As an acclaimed intelligent and civil person, you should do better than that.

osamaBUSH:
But Geoge Bush no resign because of Alqeada na

George Bush will be lynched on the street of America, not asked to resign if Alqeada had taken a metres of U.S territory, never mind 16 local government areas, never mind renaming U.S cities with some Arab names, never mind hoisting some strange flags and never mind sharing sovereignty with Shekau.
If some of you takes the toga of Nigeria poisonous ethic politics off your eyes for even a second, you will realise how indefensible Jonathan presidency has been on just insecurity alone. Don't even go to corruption.

tit:
APC is Operation Feeding the Nation with Lies again.
Was Neville Chamberlain a President?
Was he a head-of-state?

You guys are so infantile, it is ridiculous.

If you understand the British constitution, you the educator will know that their head of state is their crown, hence cannot resign but delegates the power to run the affairs of the state to the parliament headed by the prime minister.
Chamberlain had to go because he was clueless on how to tackle Hitler and in come Churchill.
After the war, the nation voted out Churchill because he was insensitive to the huge domestic issues despite the fact that he has led them to win the war.

Goodluck rice. If you eat this rice mama, you will scoop the national lottery this weekend as your doctor will say.

The last I checked, the target of 10k MW was be reached by 2010 and we are meant celebratevalmost 7k mw less, four years later after deadline target has passed? Get real.
4600 mw is what Douala in Cameroon generate annual for a city of just over one million people.

Ngwakwe:
What baffles me most is that the same people shouting Jonathan failed policies and PDP's sixteen years of bad governance are beginning to praise Obasanjo and have gone further to start repackaging him as a great revolutionary and a patriot.

Stop being baffled and face reality. Some view Obasanjo differently now, thanks to Mr Jonathan. As he has successfully made a useless OBJ looking like Bill Clinton.

manck2:
For Nigeria obasanjo did not achieve much in govt.
This figures are not correct. I don't think obasanjo left much money.it is more of propaganda
Because Nigeria economy need the USA dollar they have to find way to get it.

This is not a write up. These are factual figures, unless you got an alternative figures that are factual of your own? That is how to make an argument.

Opiosko:
U are really working hard spending sleepless nights to earn ur next pay. I wish u could channel such effort to something that's worth it.

What is more worthwhile than knowing the earning index of your country and how your elected servant have fared managing your resources?
You should be thankful to the poster, no matter your political divide. It is called accountability. An intelligent citizen should be arguing about the content of the figures and data presented instead of attacking the poster irrespective of his motives.

I cannot recall how many marital problems involving Nigerians in the U.K that I knew that failed from those that went home, both male and female to marry someone they barely knew back home, only for both to realise that they have made a huge mistake.
My advice to the young generation is always to marry someone you knew a bit and who knew you a bit too and as you embark on a journey of life time discovering each other. As after 40+ years of marriage my wife still surprises me.lol
I left home after the war to arrive in England after my 20th birthday, and prior, I never had a girlfriend, never kissed girls, talk less of sleeping with anyone for the first time.

So I knew nobody of the opposite sex intimately back home enough to come home and marry, hence my mother insistence that I come home and get a wife sounded foreign to me then.
And I was right to defy my mother and marry a young, intelligent and very loving white Scottish girl I met through a friend.
And 40+ years later, she is still my wife and the only woman I have ever kissed and slept with. A mother and grandmother of my beloved children and grandchildren.
A good wife or a good husband is not about where they come from, it’s about marrying your best friend, who will jump into the ocean for you because he/she loved you. In conclusion, most Nigeria women abuse the law set out to protect women against abusive men, use it to destroy their own life and that of their husband, thinking that it’s liberation, only to realise years later what a fool they’ve been and Nigerian men that think that a wife means a servant and dare not treat their wife as they will treat themselves and end up messing their marriage up.

mrjangaweed:
otu nne i doesn't exists.


apc are too bloody to the extent of playing politics with human blood

apc is evil
a vote for buhari is a vote for terrorist



gej till 2019
gej till buhari cries again like baby

I thought Jonathan was mentioned in the article as the president of Nigeria and not Buhari? Go and get your glasses and reread it again.
And remember what the writer said, when push comes to shove, neither Jonathan nor Buhari will be there for you.

Mrval20:
Word! However, anaghi ano n'ulo ama ihe zuru n'aghia. We don't know his plans.
If you ask me, ihe nwoke ga eme di ya n'obi.
I'm not trying to defend him though, just saying he must have his reasons.

You supposed to know and be told of his plans, it's your right as a citizen. He is your servant you pay every month with your taxes. YOU ELECTED HIM TO SERVE YOU if you understands democracy. He is not a monarch. Ife nwoke ga eme di you na obi my foot.

ultraGM:
Pls read the Story again Abraham Lincoln - Wikipedia

Abraham Lincoln did not contested several times before winning
He only loose to his opponents about two times at Congress level, at presidential level he only contested once and Won, even won re-election.
The area people refers to his failure were:
* Loss of Children (about three two)
* Collapse of business
* Defeats(set back) during Civil
* Two times Congress level loss
* Probably Marital problem

So Abraham Lincoln never contested more than once for Presidential Position - correct me if am wrong

How many times did Atta Mills of Ghana or Satta of Zambia contested before they won? Over to you.