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adamsjj:Never give up until u make last attempt and Never make last attempt until u succeed. Buhari will succeed in the next election. #Reset Nigeria |
samuelkaykay:It's u that can't win an election in Nigeria because Buhari believes in himself and so shall it be. #Reset Nigeria. |
waternogetemeny:whatever u may say doesn't matter because u r bereaved of history. I would rather cast my vote for a serial election loser than an indecisive vision less person who can't even caution his wife let alone checkmate her. War Against Indiscipline (WAI)....Buhari I salute u for being d only politician that remain discipline without stain from other politicians. |
"TOYING WITH THE FIRE OF RELIGION BY C. DON ADINUBA (HEAD OF DISCOVERY PUBLIC AFFAIRS CONSULTING). DATED Wednesday November 5, 2014 (This Day Newspaper…pg 56) While retiring as the Chief of Army Staff in 1979, Lt Gen Theophilus Danjuma expressed profound fears about Nigeria’s future. “I am not aware of any nation” the Daily Times reported him saying, “which has survived both a civil war and a religious war”. Religious bigotry and manipulation had by this time not become an issue in Nigeria. That was why Alhaji Shehu Shagari, a devout Muslim, who was to become Nigeria’s first executive president on October 1, 1979, appointed only Christians to head the military and the police force. Lt Gen Gibson Jallo was made the Chief of Army Staff, Admiral Akin Aduwo the Chief of Naval Staff, Air Marshall Dominic Bello the Chief of Air Staff and Mr. Sunday Adewusi the Inspector General of Police. The succeeding government was going to be headed by two Fulani Muslims from the Northern part of Nigeria, namely, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, who was the Head of State, and Major General Tunde Idiagbon, who was the Chief of Staff at the Supreme Headquarters. There were no protests or even murmurs anywhere. We all thought that a true nation had all but emerged, the nation where tongue and faith “may differ, but in brotherhood we stand”. Nigeria is today, however, at a crossroads. Our future seems not as certain as the most citizens would have wished. The cause of the perplexing uncertainty is religious politics all right, but it is not the type represented by Boko Haram menace. After all, Boko Haram terrorists do not appear to want Nigeria’s dissolution, but the country’s full islamisation through the most primitive kind of violence which borders on sheer savagery. The real threat to Nigerian’s future is the religious politics promoted, amazingly, by the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) with gusto. Determined to return to power after the 2015 general election, the PDP has sought to cast the main opposition party, All Progressive Congress (APC), as Nigeria’s version of the Muslim Brotherhood and Nigeria’s answer to the supporter of APC of the Sudan, despite the huge contradictions. Even though the APC has yet to choose its presidential candidate, the PDP has been accusing it of promoting a “Muslim-Muslim ticket”. This must be the first time in Nigeria’s history that a ruling party and its government have gone out of their way to promote religious acrimony in a nation already almost paralyzed by all manner of fault lines. Despite being a devout Muslim, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa, our first prime minister, recognized the state of Israel and established diplomatic relations with it. The diplomatic relations were broken in 1973 by General Yakubu Gowon, a devout Christian, in the wake of the six-day Ramadan or Yom Kippur War which saw Israel annex the Sinai Peninsula, a part of the African territory. The relations were to be restored by General Ibrahim Babangida, a Muslim. Every Nigerian must be worried by the current mindless promotion of religious bigotry. Faith is founded on the most powerful sentiments in human beings, and not reason or nationality. Divisive politics based on religion have proved to be the most destructive in human history. Religious politics manipulation by the late Jafar el Nimiery from 1973 destroyed the Sudan, eventually leading to its breakup in 2011. Religious politics was responsible for the Balken War which broke up Yugoslavia in the 1990s into three different countries. Religious politics led to the carving out of East Timor from Indonesia in 2002. Religious politics held Northern Ireland down for decades until the Good Friday Agreement of 1998 promoted by United States President Bill Clinton led to the enthronement of season. Religious politics between Christians and Muslims is responsible for the ongoing carnage in the Central African Republic. Can Nigerian politicians ever learn from history? The whole world has been marking the 20th anniversary of the genocide in Rwanda in which about 8,000 people were butchered, including bishops slaughtered in churches by their own church members. I was expecting all Africans, especially Nigerians who like to see themselves as leader of the continent, to use the anniversary to reflect on this colossal tragedy and sincerely resolve “Never Again”. But the anniversary has gone on unnoticed in these shores. We have rather been treated to a ceaseless frenzy of unprecedented and unimaginable intolerance and hatred spewed by our own citizens manipulated by our so-called leaders in the name of politics. No society can survive on an ideology of mind poisoning. How could anyone in good conscience call General Buhari, for example, a religious bigot when, as military Head of State from 1983 to 1985, he had absolute power, and yet no adherents of any religious tradition suffered injuries as result of their faiths? Is this not the same man who dealt with Maitastine religious terrorist decisively in the 1980s when he was a general officer commanding? There must be boundaries in all human endeavours. There must be a limit to politics. Those who paly religious politics in heterogeneous societies must be the worst enemies of their people. Is it sectarian politics that took Brazil or Dubai or Indonesia or Malaysia or India to the dizzying heights of development? When will the Blackman get it right? When will the Nigerian politician begin to work to make the world respect Africans? As the leadership of the ruling party in Nigeria presses ahead with the extremely dangerous politics of religion, I wonder if this is not the country where the Social Democratic Party (SDP) presidential candidate in the June 12, 1993, election, Chief Moshood Abiola, chose a fellow Muslim, Ambassador Babagana Kingibe, as his running mate, and the whole country voted for them like one man? Is this not the country where Alhaji Lateef Jakande, while running for the office of governor of Lagos, a religiously diverse state, selected a fellow Muslim, Alhaji Ganiyu Dawodu, as his running make, and he was given a resounding mandate? Is this not the country where Chief Bola Ige, while running to become the governor of religiously diverse Oyo State, picked a fellow Christian, Chief Sunday Afolabi, as his running mate, and won overwhelmingly? Is this not the country where Professor Jerry Gaana, a well-known Christian evangelist, won an election in 1993 as a senator in a district in Niger State with 90% Muslim? Is this not the same nation where a Fulani Muslim, Alhaji Umar Altine, was elected mayor of Enugu, capital of Eastern Nigeria which could well be called Nigeria’s Ireland? Come to think of it: are we making progress or regressing as a people? Frankly, if there is any group which can afford religious politics in Nigeria, it should not be the PDP. Its top leaders like General Ibrahim Babangida took Nigeria into the Organisation of Islamic Conference and its leader like the late President Umaru Yar’Adua took the country back to OIC. Almost all the top officials suspected of starting and sustaining Boko Haram over the years like Senator Nduma and ex Governor Modu Sheriff are its top members. Interestingly, no APC member has been accused of strong links with Boko Haram. The present generation of Nigerians should not capitulate to the religious politics being stoked by opportunistic politicians. Religious politics is, for all practical purposes, a contradiction in terms. Take my great friend, Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State, who was born into a Muslim family, attended a Christian school, married a Christian who is a Lady Auxiliary (or Knight) of the church; he is at home in the mosque as he is in the church. For several years he has personally been driving his wife and children to the church and back every Sunday. There are millions of people like him all over Sothwest Nigeria, in northern Edo State, in Ghana, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Senegal and even Palestine, among others. We must reject outright the campaign that the forthcoming general election is a mortal fight between the Muslim North and the Christian South because it is false. There are states in the North that are mostly Christian; even in so-called northern Muslim states like Bornu and Kebbi as well as Sokoto there are sizeable numbers of Christians like and Benjamin Dikki, the Director General of the Bureau of Public Enterprises, in addition the Generalls Bamayis of this world. The Catholic Bishop of Sokoto, Bishop Matthew Hassan Kukah, is from Kaduna State. To those who play religious politics and by so doing threaten our collective destiny, I would like to refer them to the words of the great African American writer, James Baldwin: “The fire next time will consume even the air”. May this apocalypse not be Nigeria’s lot. We have we have no other country." Just wondering if our leaders are not using religion differences to milking us dry.......! |
nellyelitz:Hum....is it Muslims/Buhari/APC behind the bombing? Just thinking loud. Can u bomb ur region because of becoming a president? |
Ebubeslym:I think it is suffice to allege that PDP and its candidates behind d BH in the Northern Nigeria. Since the region is likely to produce the most strong presidential candidate to take on the PDP. Or is it rational for APC to be blowing up its strong homes? |
opiaoku:And your GEJ govt can't prosecute Buhari & his BH? What a very weak set of people at the helm of affairs. Would Nigerians allow this to continue.......BH in the NE? Obviously NO. we can't afford losing our people anymore. We need a serious-minded, brave and disciplined man to lead us. |
Humm......Surprisingly, No saTANiod, not even a single pro-GEJ has come to COMMEND this decision by Jonathan led administration. Jonathan is DOING IT! |
laurel03:At an average of NGN11,979.17 per Stove/wonder bag |
ideology:An e-office or Data Centre as u may like it works round d clock. So, it's not out of place meeting workers there even mid-night. |
tuborme:Don't take it higher......it wasn't Biometric. It was just normal paper form with hardcopy of passport photograph. |
MudRaker:And where is it in our constitution that u can't move to another party? |
masterpower:Here comes another PDP e warrior. It's sad that u can't think before u speak. All these allegations for APC? And PDP led admin can't prosecute APC? So, what's PDP doing in power?......Corruption u said? U got it. |
fabregas04:That was a true talk.....seconded! The guy is hereby appointed as PR of Yoruba on NL. If it's vex u, go hug transformer |
WhiteTyre:Base on ur spine of analysis, it's suffice to say we should blame PDP for d show of Shame that took place @ d NNAS last week and that of Ekiti State Assembly. Because PDP is d arrow head |
gramci:Though facts about the case are yet to emerge but Lagos State Govt under Fashola can't sweep it under the carpet. It wouldn't have got to remanding stage if it were to be swept under the carpet. |
Humm....the reality in my area is that the supply of power has reduced so low than what It's used to be say within 2008/2009. And ironically phcn bill is more than 50% higher than what I used to pay. Fuel cost also goes up due to long hr on generator which now become main source of power instead of standby. |
Marlbron:WHO IS AFRAID OF BUHARI? I write this because of millions of Nigerians who are below 30 and who constitute a significant chunk of our voting population. This is the ICT generation that is largely ignorant about the events of the Buhari era (1984-85) and so can be misinformed and misled by needless propaganda. I have sat with many in the under-30 bracket and those slightly above who only have faint recollections of the Buhari era and the level of ignorance about that era is amazing. Before being MILITARY Head of State, Buhari had been Governor of one of the Northern States (under Obasanjo’s Military government) as well as Minister for Petroleum. He later served as Chairman of PTF under Abacha. Please consider the following unassailable facts: He birthed and supervised the establishment of our existing refineries. There was no religious crisis while he was Head of State. It started under his successor IBB! In his time as Head of State he reduced inflation from 23% to 4%, by fiscal discipline and a homegrown economic team (not achieved under any other era, even military). JJ Rawlings of Ghana took over 2yrs before him, and killed all the corrupt leaders, while Buhari only sentenced the corrupt leaders here to prison. Under his watch as PTF Chairman, what he did in road construction in that short period hasn't been matched by almost 16yrs of the PDP rule. Hospitals and universities around the country never witnessed as much benefits as they got from the PTF from any government after or before his time. Despite serving in senior capacity in the oil sector, first as Minister for Petroleum and then Petroleum Trust Fund, Buhari has no petrol station, much less a rig, refinery or an oil block like so many of our so called leaders. He could have retired into nauseating opulence like most of his counterparts (IBB or Danjuma or even OBJ) but didn't. Instead of hobnobbing with the high and mighty, he has cast his lot with the ordinary man most of who follow him out |
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aguiyi:And btw Buhari n Jonathan who is morally upright? Disciplined person or corrupted respectively? |
Opiosko:And has s end justifies d means on current state of security in Nigeria? No improvement because corruption is d order of d day |
mikeansy:And is PDP the party of looting treasury + converting national resources to PDP private ownership is best to lecture us on financial prudence? |
karlmax2:I could understand that u can read between the lines let alone reading within tin lines. The op broke it down to FG n all 36 states n FCT as well. So y beefing d op? |
lilprinze:He is rich enough to hire services of private security. Or do u want to assert that he can't afford even a driver and the party can't afford that for his as well? |
onatisi:Pls, be guided by history.....if u weren't on this earth then, go n do some research about Buhari n his personality. |
onatisi:So, of all the people and the "big" PDP for d few, only the most ever slow poke person u guys considered without democratic process?.....ooh your demo lies in demons lashing out NE. It's shameful that acclaimed largest party in Nigeria couldn't conduct themselves in a democratical process and even denied her member from buying presidential form. Only to endorsed with moneybag of the most ever corrupted president who said corruption at public offices is mere stealing. |
tit:Pls quote the provision of Nigeria constitution where police escort is provided for the president. |
RockMaxi:I find it difficult to believe that Some1 is still begging somebody to accept or vie for a political post which that person doesn't make his/her mind for. Not surprising anyway, since he himself was begged to plea for 2nd chance as stated in d recent advert. Both of them can't make any meaningful or better still positive impacts on citizenry. You guess the reason......because they are begger. Shameless political party without democratic process.....print of only 1 form for presidential position. A big cari-cachop party. |
onadana:I agreed with u legally but morally, I disagree. When u join a nations army, it's mandatory for such nation to equip u with latest n best weapon to be able to defend the sovereignty of such nation. Also, it's mandatory for d nation to pay u all allowances n other benefits to keep u motivated. However, the reverse is d case here in Nigeria where Oga at d top takes all while his boys suffer without any right to complain. Mutiny don't just happen, in this case, what d boys are asking for are their constitutional right. |
Dragonking:Which GEJ? Security gulp highest % of nations budget year in year out, especially Nigerian Army but with little or no outcome under GEJ. So, tell me where he has impacted or influenced d decision. Remember, Olisa Agbakoba is a democrat with Principles and took it upon himself to get this judgement. |
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