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I'm Chinedu from Abia. I'll name my Son after Buhari.

I fit fight anybody wey insult Mazi Buhari.

True talk.
Mazi BUHARI has done in 6 years what PDP Couldn't do in the EAST for 16 years. We Igbo's hold President Buhari in high esteem. We see him as our Messiah.

godfatherx:
Buhari does not know how to talk, he is extremely divisive, worse than Trump in his divisiveness

Cry me a River.
BUHARI knows how to piss BIAFRANS off.

God bless Buhari the slayer of IPOB

Online REPUBLIC of BIAFRA with its 5% Dot.

milann:
President Muhammadu Buhari rarely
grants media interviews but when he
does, he makes the headlines for several
reasons including gaffes. His interview
with Arise Television, aired on Thursday,
was not an exception.
Despite the ban on Twitter activities in
Nigeria, Mr Buhari trended on the
microblogging platform for several hours
after the interview was aired across
major televisions, indicating that it was
one of the most discussed topics of the
day.
The over 40 minutes interview, which,
arguably offered more insights than the
barrage of statements from his
spokespersons, was an appraisal of his
six years in office, touching on his
successes as well as areas of
deficiencies, particularly security and
economy.
However, Mr Buhari’s answers to the
questions posed by the four interviewees
followed a pattern set in an interview he
granted two years ago to the same
medium, PREMIUM TIMES’ analysis
showed.
This leaves anyone who watched the
2019 interview and the recent one
wondering if Mr Buhari is just being
consistent with his ideas or rigid to
embrace fresh ideas.
Same analogies, same data
In the build up to the 2019 election, the
president, who was seeking a second
term, spoke with the Arise TV crew for
90 minutes. The majority of the
questions centred on security and his
agriculture-related projects.
But most of the responses, including the
analogies he provided, were repeated in
the Thursday interview.
For instance, he blamed the PDP’s 16-
year-rule for the decadence of the
infrastructure when asked about what
his government has done differently in
2019. This he reprised in the recent one.
“You know after 16 years of PDP, with
the resources I have just mentioned.
There have been enormous resources at
their disposal. And they will use
everything at their disposal to discredit
the administration.

“Once people are making trouble for us,
I sit down and wonder what have they
been doing for 16 years. Did you know
that the condition of the road from here
to Onitsha, from here to Port Harcourt,
to mention a few, have been there since
Abacha time?,” he said in 2019.
“Look at the state of infrastructure. Look
at our roads. Look at the rail. Look at
power. And tell me which country
develops without infrastructure,” he
said, blaming the opposition party for
the decay in infrastructure on Thursday.
Also, he cited the same erroneous
figures which have been fact checked to
be false by Dubawa, Nigeria’s foremost
fact-checking organisation, in 2018.

“This country was getting 2.1 million
barrels per day and getting it out of the
Nigerian territory. With a cost of,
average 100 American dollars per barrel.
It went up to 143 but when we came it
collapsed … ,” he said in 2019.
“I would like you to check how much we
are earning from 1999 to 2014. From
1999 to 2014, our production (if you
check you will find out that) every
production was 2.1 million barrels per
day. At the cost of 100 American dollars
per barrel. So, from 1999 to 2014, we
were earning 2.1 million times 100
dollar per day,” he told the Arise
Television crew on Thursday.
The president’s claim that crude oil was
selling for $100 per barrel between 1999
and 2014 is false as available data
showed that the figure is an average of
$61.7 per barrel, Dubawa concluded.
On insecurity, particularly the bloodshed
in Benue State, President Buhari’s
perception of the herders-farmers clash
has not been any way different from his
views in 2019.
He does not believe that the indigenous
herders can kill, maintaining his stance
that the killer-cattle rearers are from
Niger Republic and Central Africa
Republic in both parleys.
His grouse with the Benue State
Governor, Samuel Ortom, was not also
masked in both discussions

“The Benue people know and I talk to
the Benue Governor, the Nigerian cattle
herder used to carry sticks and
machetes to cut foliage and give it to
the animals. But these ones have
Ak-47,” the president said in 2019.
“The governor of Benue said I cannot
discipline the cattle rearers because I
am one of them. I cannot deny that I
am one of them,” Mr Buhari said in the
interview with Arise TV on Thursday
morning.
“Fulanis from Mauritania or from Central
Africa look the same. So, they think that
they are the Nigerian ones,” he added.
PREMIUM TIMES also observed that the
president’s solution to the herders
farmers clash has always been rooted in
the approach of the First Republic that
provided for grazing routes and
reserves.
“This was in the First Republic, they put
houses there, windmills, even veterinary
departments and any cattle rearer that
allows his cattle to stray into the farm is
arrested. Then the farmer will bring it,”
he said in the 2019 interview.
Herdsmen
“I have asked to dig up gazettes of the
First Republic. There are cattle routes
and grazing areas. You have to stay
there and if you allow your cattle to
stray into another person’s farm you will
be arrested.” Mr Buhari said in the
interview aired on Thursday morning.
This, however, did not consider the
clamour of southern state governors for
the ban on open grazing. They had
opined that open-grazing is primitive
and outdated.
Kirikiri experience
When asked about his perceived skewed
fight against corruption, Mr Buhari, as
seen in the two clips, is always quick to
recall how he was detained during the
military era for fighting corruption.
He complains that fighting corrupton in
a democratic setting is a herculean
task.
“When I came to the military. I took
them to Kirikiri. I told them they are
guilty until they could prove themselves
innocent. I too was arrested and
detained and those who stole were
given their money. Now I’m trying to
come back to the system and you are
calling me Baba go slow,” he said in
2019.

“When I collected people and put them
in Kirikiri (prison) and said they are
guilty until they can prove themselves
innocent… But what happened?
Eventually, I myself was arrested.
Detained. And they were given back
what they had looted,” the president
stated as the reason for his ‘slow’ fight
against corruption.
Mr Buhari was referring to the military
era when he invoked the Decree Number
2 of 1984 to jail about 500 politicians,
officials and businessmen for
corruption.
According to Decree Number 2, the state
security and the Chief of Staff, Supreme
Military Council, were given the power to
detain, without charges, individuals
deemed to be a security risk to the state
for up to three months.
This was against the provisions of the
constitution and international practices
that stipulate that an accused is
presumed guilty until proven in court.
The former military ruler was later
arrested and detained in prison after his
Chief of Army Staff Ibrahim Babangida
ousted him in 1985.
“I assure you”
Unlike the 2019 interview, President
Buhari’s use of the phrase “I assure
you”, reduced. It is however unclear if
the repetition of the phrase is of
mannerism or emphasis.
The phrase was repeated 10 times in
the 2019 interview but five and with less
frequency in the recent one.
In the five times the president gave his
words of “assurance” in the Thursday
interview, two were on matters
pertaining to insecurity, two on his
resolve to fight corruption and one on
the need for better infrastructure.
“But I assure you, in spite of the
problems we are having with the
system, whoever we have correct
intelligence that he’s not accountable,
we ease him out,” he said on his fight
against corruption.
“And I believe that if you make the
infrastructure work, road, rail, I assure
you that Nigerians will keep themselves
very busy and leave you alone,” he
stated at different intervals in the recent
interview.
Meanwhile, the opposition parties have
derided the president’s performance in
the interview, especially his blame of
PDP’s 16 years in power.
While many have acknowledged Mr
Buhari’s infrastructural strides in the
last six years, the PDP insisted that the
current administration has
underperformed in numerous ways
compared to the previous
administrations and he failed to admit
those failures.

“We want to inform President Buhari,
since he is not always aware, that
successive governments elected on the
platform of the PDP built on these
development plans leading to the
expansion of major trunk roads across
our country, railways and other legacy
projects which, probably, his handlers
are making him to believe are his,” the
publicity Secretary of the PDP, Kola
Ologbodiyan, said.
On the other hand, the African Action
Congress (AAC) said it is embarrassing
that the president chooses when and
how convenient to speak.
“Another shock is how, instead of
reeling out his “achievements” over the
last 6 years, the President sounded like
an opposition leader. But for a closer
look and the distinction of voice, one
would have thought it was a member of
the civil society or the NLC being
interviewed. The President in his usual
style blamed everyone but himself.
“May we remind the president that the
youths he blamed for insecurity that has
reached the highest crescendo, are not
the ones who are constitutionally in
charge of the Military and the Police.
“Talking about infrastructure, may we
also remind the President that the
youths are not the ones who took loans
to the tune of trillions of naira with the
promise that infrastructure would be
fixed. The statements of the President
confirmed the suspicion in many
quarters that he is not conscious of the
happenings in his immediate
environment and his administration,
except what he is told,” the AAC
publicity secretary, Femi Adeyeye,
stated.
Presidential spokespersons, Femi
Adesina and Garba Shehu, did not
respond to calls and texts sent to their
phones seeking their comments for this
report.
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Leave Mazi BUHARI alone. FOCUS on your Online REPUBLIC OF BIAFRA with its 5% population .

SenatePresdo:
Illiterate.

I bet you don't know what Forest means.

Nursery school dropout like you.

#Spits.

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SenatePresdo:
Fulanis should leave our forests.

If not, this meeting will not yield anything.

Una get forest?

jaybenugo:
https://igberetvnews.com/1392857/teachers-pupils-run-fulani-herdsmen-cows-invade-school-isuikwuato-abia-video/

Where are the supposed ESN, Unknown Gunmen, IPOB, BIAFRANS and their SYMPATHISERS? They are bloody Cowards. They only have strength online. Right in the Middle of Abia, Fulani still Dey do as he wish.

nairalee:
I don't understand why Twitter boss Jack has suddenly started becoming more interested in Nigeria.

It's because Mazi BUHARI don show am pepper.

Kingdemu:
Mr Sophisticated guy, stay there with your upgraded wardrobe and be trekking upandan, dragging every giveaway thread like tiger generator.

See how you finish @tydi

AchalugoNwa:
My

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AntiBeEmCe:
U just learn that one? Haha... bororo wan show off newly learnt words. Well that picture you uploaded there suits you fine...but a cow pic would have suited you better.

Oya shed those tears I like so much boy.

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triple996:
Good
Children of hate and frustration will come and call it fake news. They live a miserable life and only come to nairaland to pour their frustration . Always celebrating d dearth of their own country men and soldiers protecting them(can u imagine).
They are very sad that d June 12 protest did not turn bloody like end sarz.
They are also very angry that peace is gradually retuning to imo.
It sucks to b an ipob sympathizers
Meanwhile somewhere aba...

You dey mind them.
The North Borno is more peaceful than the entire EAST

Vickym1:
They should let the igbos go first then we'll see if they can't have access to water

The North can never give Biafra their independence

OyigboUpdate:
Before u join ESN/Unknown gunmen see this picture.
Monkey dey work baboon dey chop. Ndi atarata

He don scam BIAFRANS finish

Conrod:
And peace will oontinue to elude them,they've lost over 300 men in the northwest alone this week.

No problem. The North will never give Biafra their independence

AntiBeEmCe:
Hehe. Exactly as expected. I knew that as soon as they were handed over to the police, they will go scot-free. The so-called police will change the narrative as well as create tons of excuses for them. But if it were to be another tribe in nigeria, even if the person was caught with a dagger, they'd arrest and prosecute him for it.

How long are we going to b treated like 4th class citizens in our own country, while these foreigners are worshipped and treated like first class citizens?

Southerners should learn to deal with all terrorists caught trying to commit crimes in their communities and stop handing them over to the police. That's the only way to effectively end this menace.

Cry me a River.

This news go pain Nnandi Kanu, IPOB TERRORIST, Unknown Gunmen, BIAFRANS, ESN and their SYMPATHISERS. They initially propagate lies, that the men were caught with Guns.

Unhinged:
Can the government and other stakeholders encourage referendum already? It's constitutional. This bloodshed in the country is way too much.

Pathetic

Referandum for what? The North will never give Biafra their independence.

Benitoh:
I would have given you a second thought, but not after what i experienced while living in the north. I noticed the disappearance of these highly devoted igbo muslim man always in his white gown and long beard and never misses prayer. I inquired about him i was told that he has ran back to the east after the news filtered in that he a highly revered Christian back home. So don't rejoice when they show you pictures telling you they are igbo Moslems, who are only interested in the financial benefits. No such thing like igbo Moslems. It's only a scam and strictly business.

Even some of your Governors have secretly converted to Islam. Governor Hope Uzodima a.k.a AlhajI Musa, is the latest amongst Eastern Muslim Governors.

Headachetoigboh:
Hahahaha. Continue to deceive yourself. Few igbos that are Muslims are just hungry.They are lazy to work and brain dead to think.
They want sympathy from Buhari.
Just watch if power leave North,u will look for them,u will see them no more.
Let me burst ur balls.Many igbo guys in Malaysia and imdonesia changed to Muslim just to get favor from the Muslim community.As soon as they get what they want,Vooooom
Off they go so stop drinking too much of cow piss. It's bad to the health

See painment

Arespect10:
And They're nothing but just a dot in circle

You know them too well

Arespect10:
Check those army robbers you'll hardly not see nyamiris among them

Na them plenty pass. Those guys will do anything to make money.

savagerhythm007:
I no understand oh. Shee you daft?

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This news go pain Nnandi Kanu, IPOB, ESN, BIAFRANS, Unknown Gunmen and their SYMPATHISERS.