₦airaland Forum

Yungwizzzy:
Weather you like it or not BUHARI IS YOUR NEXT PRESIDENT

You can hug the next transformer

is laughable that till now you cannot read the handwriting on the wall,buhari can afford to be the next shekau but for aso rock ?he is a forgotten story

ONE month ago, the APC had whipped its supporters into frenzy in believing it is bound to win an

election it really has no chance of winning. In truth, if the election had been conducted then for

chairman of the EFCC, Muhammadu Buhari would have been declared winner by a landslide. However,

with postponement of the election, a lot of water has passed under the bridge. Even Buhari’s self-styled

credential as Mr. Integrity has unraveled.

Buhari’s entire campaign posture for the 2015 presidential election stands on two shaky grounds. He

fashions himself as Mr. Integrity; the implacable enemy of corruption in Nigeria. He is the one who

reportedly is going to ensure that corruption is a thing of the past in Nigeria. He is also the one who is

going to destroy the Boko Haram in the twinkling of an eye; even though a number of months ago, he

was negotiating for amnesty and golden handshakes for the insurgents, and they nominated him as their

preferred middleman in any truce negotiation with Nigeria.

File photo; Tinubu and Buhari – leaders of ACN and CPC

Buhari’s disappearance

Things have not gone too well for the Buhari campaign since the postponement of the election. He

did not help things by disappearing off the political radar for virtually two weeks. By the time he re-
surfaced, Boko Haram was toast. We no longer needed Buhari’s vain promissory notes to deal with

the insurgency. One after another, town after town were recovered from the Boko Haram. In many

respects, they have been routed as the Nigerian army came into its own after having received its new

consignment of weapons.

As a result, we are no longer hearing anything from Buhari about whipping Boko Haram. All he had

left was his anti-corruption mantra. But that one also came to grief with the airing of AIT’s tripartite

documentary entitled: “The Lion of Bourdillon.” This alleged that Bola Tinubu, the self-styled national

leader of the APC, is steeped in corruption. It claims Tinubu is the biggest landlord in Lagos, and

maintains he has acquired so much property through very sharp practices.

While the veracity of these allegations is yet to be ascertained beyond reasonable doubt, the

documentary has brought to the fore the flies in the anti-corruption ointment of Buhari. The truth is

that corruption in Nigeria is not the exclusive preserve of the PDP. It is also the chronic ailment of the

APC. Neither is corruption only the malaise of the Federal Government; it is equally the malaise of state

governments, including those ruled by the APC. Indeed, Murtala Nyako of the APC was impeached and

removed as governor of Adamawa State partly because it was alleged that he had corruptly enriched

himself with government funds.

The question then is this: Does Buhari’s so-called zero-tolerance for corruption extend to his APC

colleagues? Will Buhari, in the unlikely event that he becomes president, go after APC thieves as well

as PDP thieves? Or will he turn a blind eye to APC thieves and molly-cuddle them? Suddenly, the anti-
corruption searchlight turned on to Buhari and his friends, and just as suddenly, we discovered what

some of us have always known: that Buhari, the Emperor of Anti-Corruption, has no clothes.

Buhari’s response to the issue of corruption in APC ranks reeked with sheer hypocrisy and double-
standards. Like charity, Buhari’s anti-corruption must begin at home in the APC if it is to be credible.

However, Buhari is not inclined to prosecute his friends. Instead, he came up with a pronouncement

that virtually rubbished his anti-corruption posture. He said: “Whoever that is indicted of corruption

between 1999 to the time of swearing-in, would be pardoned. I am going to draw a line, anybody who

involved himself in corruption after I assume office, will face the music.”

Insurance for corrupt supporters

This means as long as you steal money between 1999 and 2011, you have nothing to fear under a Buhari

presidency. This is, of course, an insurance policy for his corrupt supporters, assuring them that they

would have nothing to fear by giving him their vote. Buhari did not come out in strident support of Bola

Tinubu. He did not come out to tell the world that, contrary to the AIT documentary, the Bola Tinubu he

knows is a man of unimpeachable integrity. Instead, he told the world that if there are thieves among

his friends, they can rest assured that he would pardon their thievery.

When President Jonathan pardoned the former governor of Bayelsa, Diepreye Alamieyeseigha, a man

who had been convicted of corruption and was a refugee from justice from Britain, Nigerians were

incensed. This was rightly seen as the president condoning corruption. One would have thought this

kind of thing would not occur with a man who talks anti-corruption day and night. However, in the case

of Buhari, he would not only pardon one corrupt associate, he would pardon them all.

When asked how he was going to get funds to revitalise the economy, Buhari stated that he was

going to get all corrupt past leaders and officials cough out their stolen money. This was nothing but a

nonsensical policy. It is bizarre and odd for Buhari to think he can run Nigeria, revamp the educational

system for example, by recovering stolen money. Where will he get this money from? Who will give it to

him? Would such recovered money not amount to a storm in the teacup?

But now that he has dumped this anti-corruption charade in favour of a blanket pardon for the corrupt,

it is clear that political reality is beginning to erode Buhari’s highfalutin campaign grandstanding. It is

equally significant that Buhari’s new stance on corruption comes coincidentally after AIT documentary

on “The Lion of Bourdillon,” where one of his most important allies was accused of corruption. Clearly,

it is high time Buhari stopped deluding Nigerians that he is genuinely anti-corruption and that he can

eradicate corruption in Nigeria by sending corrupt politicians to jail.

Buhari was Nigeria’s head-of-state for a period of 18 months in the 1980s. At the time, he ran so rough-
shod over the Nigerian judicial system that the Nigerian Bar Association proscribed Nigerian lawyers

from appearing in any of Buhari’s kangaroo courts. Buhari sent both corrupt and non-corrupt politicians

to jail, sometimes for up to 300 years. Nevertheless, corruption was not eradicated. It continued

unabated because it was not addressed structurally. Even the practice under Obasanjo of shooting

armed robbers by firing squad in Bar Beach failed to stop armed robbery. All it did was to brutalise the

Nigerian public.

Jonathan’s effective approach

Surely, the more reasonable and effective method is to remove the avenues for corruption. This is what

Goodluck Jonathan has been doing. He has sanitized the payroll system by removing some 50,000 ghost-
workers, saving the country a whopping N200 billion in the first instance. He has removed the fertilizer

middlemen; saving Nigeria hundreds of billions of naira. He has sanitized the electoral register. Over

three million ghost voters have been removed; one million in Zamfara State alone. He is going after

corruption in the oil sector with the Petroleum Industry Bill.

In the vainglorious case of Buhari, it did not help matters that he fought corruption with corruption.

He interfered blatantly in the judicial process. The judge who sent Fela to jail later went to apologise to

him in hospital afterwards that he did it under government duress. Nevertheless, some members of the

Nigerian public, baying for the blood of corrupt politicians, hanker back to the high-handed days of the

Buhari era, when the human rights of innocent Nigerians were violated on the altar of anti-corruption,

and some Nigerians were even judicially murdered under heinous retroactive decrees.

What Buhari is not telling them is that he has no power to do this under today’s democratic

dispensation. Buhari goes on the stomp and says: “When we come into power, anyone who steals

Nigerian money will end up in Kirikiri Maximum Prisons. We are going to make sure that Nigeria’s wealth

belongs only to Nigerians.” But the truth of the matter is that, in a democracy, the president does not

have the judicial power to send anybody to Kirikiri. If the EFCC does not prosecute, the president cannot

become the chairman of the EFCC. If the judges do not convict, Buhari cannot transform himself into a

judge.

Deceived electorate

All those who have been deceived into believing that Buhari will just become president and begin to

lock up corrupt politicians left, right and centre are dreaming. In the unlikely event that Buhari becomes

president, he will neither have the power to do so, nor the inclination to do so. The reason is simple:

many of the thieves are his friends and allies in the APC. Buhari talks change, but he is running around

with the old breed of politicians. You can always tell a lot about a man by the composition and character

of his friends.

Buhari fashions himself as Mr. Integrity, nevertheless, he was not averse to serve under Sani Abacha,

one of the most corrupt heads-of-state in the history of Nigeria. Even more significant, Buhari insisted

that Abacha was not corrupt at all. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha’s death, Buhari told incredulous

Nigerians that all the allegations of looting the treasury leveled against Abacha were “baseless.” He said:

“ten years after Abacha, those allegations remain unproven because of lack of facts.”

Buhari held this position in spite of the millions of dollars of Abacha’s loot recovered from banks around

the world, and in spite of the fact that the Abacha’s family signed a formal agreement to return over $1

billion of such monies to the Nigerian government. We can see therefore that, from the point of view of

Buhari, only the PDP has the copyright on corruption. Every allegation of corruption leveled against his

friends and financiers must surely be “baseless.”

It is this kind of double standard that prompted Buhari to jail Vice-president Ekwueme while only putting

President Shagari under house arrest. Fela Anikulapo-Kuti poked fun at this in one of his songs. He said:

“Driver commit accident Buhari lock conductor.” Given the many corrupt drivers that abound in Buhari’s

APC’s, we can anticipate that he will only be interested in locking up conductors in the unlikely event

that he ever becomes president

genieplus86:
Do you remember what was said about former Bayelsa governor , how GEJ will make sure he would go to jail, how corrupt he was and would lose his loot? Just wake up man be wiser these politicians serve their interest not yours. The sooner you wake up to that reality the better. Happy weekend. I have not given up on you

i wish you the best weekend ever, but you will agree with me that this time around buhari in particular wont escape from all the atrocities he committed ,many blood has been shed in buhari's name

GboyegaD:
Anyone can write an epistle but we know the truth that a vote for Buhari is a vote for the development of the nation.

which nation? islamic nation i guess not nigeria because he will not smell aso rock

Yungwizzzy:
When will this Jonathan boys get sense?

When will they realize that the more they attack buhari the his followers increases?

For me and my entire Family WE HAVE DECIDED TO VOTE GEN BUHARI FOR PRESIDENT 2015

simply put...you and your family have decided to go back to being slaves

Lailerh:
Voting wisely is voting for Buhari

which type of buhari are you talking about?(a)buhari haram, (b)buhari abuse, (c)buhari insane, (D)buhari kworupt, (e)buhari osibande

genieplus86:
Can you name the Arab billionaires or at best get the names from your so-called intelligence sources. We live in a terrible country . The world needs your service help us name the billionaires sponsoring these terrorist group and Buhari. I hope the CIA would come after you . This country is the only country where her citizens know better than her government and it's security service. Citizens know Buhari is the head of Book Haram her government does not know. What a funny post we've got here

he will be arrested after the election to avoid seeing it as political imprisonment,surely after the election he will pay for his sins,you think the blood of the innocent souls killed after his failure in 2011 will allow him go free...hell no!!!

The All Progressive Congress (APC) presidential candidate, Mohammadu Buhari recently returned from a visit to London. He went to London for a medical treatment. The grueling presidential campaign had taken a toll on the ailing Septuagenarian and he desperately needed medical attention. His appearance, while in London, at the Chatham House was merely a smokescreen; it dissembled the object of the visit: medical treatment. Although, the APC presented his London visit as a “working visit”, he failed to attend most of the programs organized as part of his “working visit”. His Chatham House appearance allowed the APC an opportunity to sell the Buhari presidential candidacy to the world, and especially, the United Kingdom. At the Chatham House, he presented a paper titled “Prospects for Democratic Consolidation in Africa: Nigeria’s Transition”.
The Chatham House hype belied the outrageous cost of that public relations outing for the APC. It cost the APC about N5 billion. The money was for the payments for the speaking engagement, numerous foreign consultants, air tickets for the huge APC delegation (including a contingent of governors), the purchase and renting of vehicles, hotel bills and other logistics.
Unknown to many, is that the London visit also allowed Buhari the opportunity to source funds from a number of Arab donors. Despite repeated denial by General Muhammadu Buhari and the APC of being sponsored by Arab countries and businessmen, intelligent sources revealed that Mr. Buhari made contacts with at least two Saudi billionaires with links to the Al Qaeda terrorist group. He solicited and received their financial support for his presidential campaign.
That Buhari is seeking financial help from Arab billionaires is fathomable. There are indications that some of his erstwhile financial backers are now withholding their funding from his political quest. Governor Rabiu Kwankwaso of Kano State, an APC stalwart, recently made it clear that he cannot continue to fund the Buhari campaign because he needs money to pay state government employees. Another major financier of the Buhari campaign, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, is disenchanted with the APC. Consequently, he is hobnobbing with the ruling party, the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). And once provided a soft landing, he will readily return to the PDP. He has since seized to be a financial supporter of the Buhari candidacy.
Governor Rotimi Amaechi of Rivers State was one of the most important financiers of the APC presidential candidate. Notorious for his flippancy and reckless remarks, he repeatedly embarrassed the APC with his unguarded statements. In one of his brazen remarks, he said that Nigerian soldiers fighting the Boko Haram insurgency can justifiably disobey orders from their commanders. Legal experts considered his statement treasonable because Section 44 of the Criminal Code provides that: Any person who attempts to (a) seduce any member of the armed forces of Nigeria from his duty and allegiance; or (b) to incite any such persons to commit an act of mutiny is guilty of a felony, and is liable to imprisonment for life. The party tried to rein in his glibness. Piqued by his party’s remonstration, Amaechi is sulking, and in retaliation against the party, is holding back funds from the Buhari campaign.
With the once bloated coffers of the Buhari Presidential Campaign drying up, Buhari is in a desperate need of money. As such, he is reaching out to Arab donors for money. The sourcing of money by Buhari from Saudi businessmen with links to global terrorist groups is illegal. The Nigerian electoral act prohibits political candidates from raising foreign money and /or taking money from foreign donors. Yet, in his characteristic disdain for the constitution and national laws, Buhari went with cap in hand to London, begging money from fundamentalist Saudi Arabian billionaires with ties to both Al Qaeda and ISIS. It is important to note that Buhari, his Saudi sponsors and the leadership of both ISIS and Al Qaeda are all fundamentalist Sunni Moslems.
Buhari’s ties to terrorist group, Boko Haram (with its enduring ties to Al Qaeda) that has lately declared its affiliation with ISIS have never been in doubt. For an earlier proposed negotiation between the terrorist group and the Nigerian government in Saudi Arabia, the Boko Haram chose him as its representative. He once proposed a general amnesty, financial rewards, jobs and political appointments for Boko Haram terrorists. Before he started feigning the image of a national, unifying figure and trustworthy presidential candidate, he was critical of the Nigerian army for killing Boko Haram members and his supporters celebrated Boko Haram attack on Nigerian soldiers.
Lloyd Ukwu, a lawyer writes from Port Harcourt.

THE MANY SINS OF BUHARI (A CHANGE AGENT?) - Richard Omoko

Some of the people blind folded by the APC toga of 'change' do not clearly understand what they are getting into, while I agree that you have some decent elements in the party APC. Yes decent human beings that are better respected and even I regard as great mentors of society and generations to come. This class of people are well liked and highly respected individuals that you may not compare them with some rascals and truants that you may find in other parties. I often wonder why the APC is a party filled with 'strange bed fellows', if you check the composition of the APC you would discover that it is a party filled predominantly of desperate and disgruntled politicians from the PDP and other parties.

As a young boy my dad often warned me not to have any form of dealings with a desperate individual and that by so doing I would have my fingers burnt and regret it afterwards. As he would say "a desperate man can kill", this frightening words have never left my mind since I was a boy. A lot of young people do not understand what dangers these desperate men you currently have in the APC portends to the security, peace and unity of Nigeria as a country that's why I call on the decent few I have earlier described that are still within their rank and file, and also young boys and girls who never knew the antecedents of these desperate characters to please 'shine your eyes'. Pastor Tunde Bakare even said it better "I trust Buhari but I don't trust the environment that he is in". Get this right Buhari is not a demon, nor is he demented but matter of fact is that as the saying goes "The evil that men do lives with them".
Buhari's and his many sins
1. Human rights: Because of Buhari and Babaginda, Fela Anikulapo Kuti composed several songs like 'Overtake don overtake overtake', 'Animal in human skin', 'Animal can't dash us human rights'. Fela may have been a 'prophet' of his time. I agree with him though in some of his words, if you have abused the rights of others you can't turn around now and pretend to 'dash' us human rights under the pretence of Change. A leopard cannot change its spots. Buhari ceased power in 1983 and systematically abused Nigerians of their rights of justice and fair hearing. Politicians were accused of bogus crimes of corruption and tried under kangaroo courts, while there may have been a few who were corrupt, the innocent were not spared. They were given heavy sentencing some as much as 323 years. The trauma such people as Ambrose Ali faced in prison was what killed him afterwards. Like Ahmadu Bello, Ambrose Ali after massively developing Bendel state had to his credit only one small bungalow in his home town.
2. Decree 4 and Decree 2: He was infamous for his constant harassment of the Press and Civil rights groups as a means of concealing the truth from ordinary Nigerians. At will he threw people into jail without any form of charge and such journalist as Nduka Irabor would tell you of their experiences. Some were tortured and are still traumatised till today, some even lost their lives in the process.
3. Ghana must go: As a child growing up our economy was booming and as such we had a lot of foreigners living around us. We had Asians especially Indians and Pakistanis, Eastern Europeans and of course Africans all running from economic hardships in their countries. Some were professionals and experts in their fields and we also had artisans and others who did menial labour, we had some Africans who were professionals but most were involved in menial work. Interestingly of all these sets of people that were in Nigeria Buhari singled out Ghanians and sent them packing without any form of compensation and compassion. If you must note during the civil war a lot of Nigerians ran to Ghana to take cover even Nnamdi Azikiwe schooled in Ghana. Some of these Nigerians that escaped the civil war married their Ghanian girl friends and boy friends and returned to Nigeria after the war was over. To be sent packing in such a manner was indeed callous, and painfully some were forced to leave with just only a bag irrespective of the wealth or properties that they had accumulated from decent hard work. So young people as you go out to the shops to buy that 'Ghana must go' bag without knowing truly why they call those bags with such a name, now you know.
4. Economic policies: I don't need again to explain to you that Buhari is bereft of ideas when it comes to economic issues and the handling of the economy. Start with the reprinting of the naira when he ceased power. As a boy we were jubilant that we were seeing the new face of the naira, what we didn't understand then was the economic impact and the implications. His excuse for doing so was that corrupt politicians who had stolen funds hidden under their beds may not be able to exchange their cash for the new currency. The impact of this together with his import license policy helped to devalue the naira and rubbish it's exchange power. Before he ceased power the naira had a strong exchange value against major currencies for decades the naira had been exchanging for £1.00/N2.00 and $1.00/0.60 kobo. For the first time ever it was during Buhari's regime that the naira started to depreciate in value. It's laughable when now he is the same person shouting that naira is exchanging at $1.00/N220.00. Even with this all is not lost as the Chinese and Japanese constantly and intentionally devalue their currency as a means to curbing dumping of products and hence boosting local production. Now the desperate politicians are encouraging him to make promises like building four refineries, free education, free lunch, monthly stipends and allowances for jobless youths and so on without proper economic planning and drafting.
5. Irresponsible utterances: His irresponsible utterances especially with disregard to its security implications have cost some Nigerians their lives and properties. He had said "The baboons and monkeys would be soaked in their blood" who are these baboons and monkeys? His utterances during and after the elections of 2011 were not helpful either. How do you place your self interest above the lives of the innocent and even the nation? Al Gore knew he won the elections but he allowed the interest of America to over shadow his personal interest. Even my dearly beloved Baba Obasanjo allowed the general interest of Nigeria to subdue his personal interest and agenda of running for office as President for a third term. To me that's being a true statesman.
6. Irresponsible actions and inactions: When people were being killed in 2011 under the guise of defending their votes as encouraged by Buhari. He did not come out to make an immediate statement or plea for these miscreants to stop forthwith.
7. The costs of crating Umaru Dikko: Before he parcelled Umaru Dikko in a crate Nigerians had easy access into the United Kingdom (UK) and USA. With a return ticket costing only N500 and just your passport you can travel into these countries without a visa, but his brute approach cost us dearly, the UK came down heavily on Nigerians and withdrew the privileges of travelling under a common wealth of nations. They went further and started denying citizenship to Nigerians born in the UK.
8. Total disregard to women: Initially when contacted on his opinion of the office of the first lady, he had said that he would scrap this office as it had no meaning nor place in his administration. However, having faced a lot of backlash and criticism from Nigerians and international organisations he is forced to go against his will of incorporating women in his government should he win. Now you may find a repackaged Aisha Buhari frying akara (bean cake) in Abuja. Even if APC do not agree with it, GEJ has remained the only government in Nigeria that has worked for the cause of fully incorporating and representing women in government.
9. Islamic agenda: His penchant for fighting the cause and fully supporting sharia is not hidden to many. As such the christian north are wary of supporting him. The fear generally in the minds of people is that this unrepentant supporter of sharia may well be the trump card or joker for Organisation of Islamic Countries (OIC) or maybe ISIS currently on a jihaddist campaign, if you would recall boko haram that pledged allegiance to ISIS had nominated Buhari as it's spokesman.
Please truth be told, Nigerians be wary of desperate politicians who are serving their own interest, again I repeat Buhari is a good man and his intentions may have been good but his sins are living with him. The environment that he currently finds himself is one of suspicion and not to be trusted as Chinua Achebe describes it 'Things fall apart and the center cannot hold' that is what the APC stands for.

Richard Omoko is a political analyst and economic watcher based in Nigeria.

BUHARI STILL CLUELESS ON ECONOMIC ISSUES AFTER 32 YEARS - Richard Omoko
I watched with keen interest the APC town hall meeting of Wednesday 18th and Thursday 19th March, 2015. Various questions were asked on how APC intends to tackle such matters as Security, Job creation, Power generation, women empowerment, The exchange rate amongst others issues.

In their response to the issues or questions asked, Buhari and his fellow APC stalwarts at the town hall meetings sounded like semi-illiterates when giving responses to this crucial matters of importance. Before we draw conclusions let us go back in history to how our economy used to be like before Buhari ceased power by force through a coup de ta in 1983.

As a young lad I can remember vividly that this was how Nigeria was before Buhari ceased power by force
1. When it came to exchange rate it was $1.00 exchanging for 0.60 kobo (yes if you didn't know that), the British Pound Sterling was £1.00 exchanging for N2.00.
2. We didn't require visa's to travel abroad. Now interestingly while you only needed to board a plane with your blank passport, your visa would be stamped at the point of entry in almost all nations of the world including the United Kingdom (UK). America was begging us Nigerians to come and visit (so we could spend our money there) they even offered free scholarships to most Nigerian students to study up to masters level, and when they finished their studies there were mouth watering offers of jobs and accommodation waiting for their picking should they decide to stay. Some Nigerians even had special luxury treatments given to them right from the airports at America.
3. In most shops in the UK they would close their shops to other customers once they learnt that you were a Nigerian and intend to shop there. This treatment is only now meeted out to Arab sheiks.
4. It was automatic citizenship for any Nigerian baby born in the UK, with immediate allowances for both baby and mother.
5. Our International Trade fairs used to be a big issue, with every notable company from all nations in the world fighting to ensure their participation. These companies even released their products to Nigerians with only a promise to pay.
6. The economy was bouyant and merriment was always in the air, every family had one reason to celebrate. People like Fela that were hooked on candies could afford to travel to the UK just to buy candies from his favourite shop. I could afford to buy my big dip for 50k.
7. Nigerians were driving only brand new cars. You were considered poor if you happen to drive a car that was more than 3 years old talkless of buying a 'tokubo' vehicle (ie. Second hand vehicle). The major automobile plants were working a Volkswagen beetle was N3,000, a Peugeot 504 was N7,000.
8. Prices of essential commodities were affordable, a can of liquid milk was 25k, a bottle of coca cola was 15k, a bag of rice was N15, a loaf of bread (family size) was 50k.
There are more happenings I can reel out, however this is enough for our youths to digest as they never new how Nigeria was before Buhari came in is usual manner of brute force with no economic knowledge and destroyed everything.

When Buhari ceased power in 1983.
1. Buhari immediately introduced import license when he ceased power. This policy favoured only his cronies as they were the only one who had access to import license. They only obtained the licenses and sold it for a price without importing anything. Some would use such license to import sand from Saudi Arabia, expired tires from Europe, empty containers etc. They did this just to pocket the exchange dollar. The resultant effect was the shambles this caused by increasing black maketeering, increasing smuggling, creating a scramble for foreign currency and hence devaluing the naira. For those who do not know it was in Buhari's regime that the dollar started to appreciate over the naira from what was 0.60kobo to $1.00.
2. Buhari's singular act of importing a human being in a crate (Umaru Dikko) from the UK resulted in the UK removing all those privileges that we enjoyed. From then on you can only come into the UK with a visa, and not anymore as a citizen of the common wealth. The United States also followed suit from this.
3. His regime introduced Price control. This lack of elementary understanding of Pricing and the forces of Demand and Supply caused a lot of hardship for Nigerians as you had long queues for such 'essential commodities' as bread, milk, tea, sugar etc. Of course traders hoarded their wares as you couldn't force them to sell at a loss thereby creating a sky rocketing inflation.
4. The overblown stance of corruption and Nigeria being a drug nation dealt a big blow on our image internationally as most nations started viewing Nigerians with suspicion, to them every Nigerian is either corrupt or a drug dealer. The killing of Bartholome Owho and two others without a convincing trial made other countries view us as babaric. They were no longer comfortable in having business dealings with Nigerians based purely on trust. This we are seeing Buhari repeat yet again.

Buhari's current clamour after 32 years
The chanting is yet to change after 32 years, the so called 'change' agent is still to change from his old ways.
1. On security: as usual he continues to blow it out of proportion hence scaring intended foreign investors whose Foreign Direct Investments (FDI) would having given a boost to the economy and helped in creating jobs. Agreed the current security situation is not perfect, however only until this week did he acknowledge the efforts of our gallant soldiers. His utterances in the past has caused a lot of security breeches that had costs lives and properties of Nigerians. These statements he made had helped increased both followers and symphatisers of boko haram.
2. On Economy: "I would create two million jobs in one year". Free Education, free lunch, free monthly allowances/stipends for jobless youths, he wants to build four refineries in less than four years, his claims of single handedly increasing the price of crude oil and so on just goes to show that he still is clueless on the economy and how it operates. For instance how does he intend to increase the price of crude oil when he cannot control it's demand and OPEC has limited control to its supply as a means of price increase instruments. They clamour oil theft (even though he would not tell you that it started way back in the 70's when he was Petroleum Minister). For those who care to know the US being the largest consuming nation of crude oil is using Fracking and other new technologies to explore for crude as a result demand for global oil is low and the price has to fall because supply is constantly increasing due to oil theft not only from Nigeria but from all ISIS controlled nations and Libya inclusive.
The clear difference between United Party of Nigeria (UPN) led by Awolowo and APC led by Tinubu is very simple. Awolowo would tell you that he would create jobs, industries, roads, free education and so on. Awo doesn't stop at that he would break down the economy for you and show you where and how he would raise the money to perform and fulfil all his promises. That is why the till today the western region is still living off Awo's legacies. Please someone ask Tinubu/Buhari (no pun intended as this is the ticket) to show us how they intend to raise the capital for their promises. They are only building castles in the sky.
NIGERIAN BE WISE AND DONT BE FOOLED - VOTE WISELY

Buhari should surrender, buhari is shy of being called a coward ,he is just going for the election for going sake because he knows vividly that he will losw

Babacele:
The correct word is 'must' Mr Sanity. Thank you.

Thanks for the correction but still pretend please,just comport to be ok

GEJ have done his best irrespective of the distractions that was instigated against his government he still stood firm like a man

I can't be deceived by deceitful change, I won't freedom, I don't want to go back to slavery
GEJ is moving higher and am moving with him
Join the moving train cos their will be no time for arguments and regrets
GEJ is the answer

Babacele:
fkaz you are right. a character like ffk has no shame, so he can switch loyalty as quickly as convenient.

You most not show the whole world that you are insane,pretend a little

fkaz:
He will surely come out to renounced the statement coming out of his mouth now, That he never intend to insult Gen. Buhari, but he was forced to do the dirty job @ gunpoint.

dont worry yourself ,i know you are sick

Kestolove:
Dix tym...buhari will. win even bayelsa

even your mum no say you no well

kolonigga:
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Rubbish

you see the problem with you monster,why not pretend you didnt see it than laying such a comment on a sympathetic story like this which you now very well that it happened ,those this mean you are happy with that barbaric act of buhari's supporters ?are you in support of that action?i can see you are ready to go for another blood shed but who knows who will be the victim of such circumstance if it should happen again, you better be warned

everybody should be ready and very much prepared for self defence because buharis fans will surely repeat their unlawful action because definately buhari will lose,the era of waiting till you get killed is gone,those suckers are also human beings,they feel they can do anything and go free without judgement,for me i will not wait for icc to solve the issue ,i will protect my own life before talking about court because is only the living that bears witness,lets not allow those animals to trap on us and go free,all am saying is get ready because buhari must lose again

he renounced these statement long ago.,

do you see that change?is that not slavery?why must buhari make his followers slaves #And Jesus wept#

do you see that change?is that not slavery?why must buhari make his followers slaves

do you see that change?is that not slavery?why must buhari make his followers slaves

where are those changers?they need to go and change aisha's p***y casing cos the thing don they suffer from her 9yrs, wetin buhari use open the thing ,i hope no be that his big stick

espn:
abeg make we hear word.. tell us 1 reasonable thing pdp/gej have said since d beginning of dis campaign? They only scream they don't want to go to prison..did they commit any offence?if no MARCH 28 will decide.

Good,atleast you are now behaving like you went to school
But GEJ is here to stay

The worst part is that he is half educated,had it been he didn't go at all I would have pardoned him but to be half educated and lead us that means we are finished cos half education is dangerous

hadizadeezy:
I can perceive the PDP body odour coming from u, mmmmmmmm! common my friend go and take a bath before you kill us here with smell.

Hi donkey,is it not high time you using your brain? Why not be civil for once
Can sharing soup solve the problem of nigeria

They should continue dreaming, it will shock them like electric shock,buhari's history of failure will surely repeat itself

Godfullsam:
Mark my words

North East ..... sai Buhari
North West .... sai Buhari
North Central... sai Buhari

South West... sai Buhari
South East.... sai Jonathan
South South... sai Jonathan

Six geo- political zones, Four for GBM and Two for GEJ.
Winner..... GBM
Sai Bihari

Continue dreaming

Is not a new news that SR is Anti jonathan and anti PDP, they can say anything they want we can never believe them

GEJ caused it#

Maybe Buhari swore another false affidavit
#liar mohammed#