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Collynzo16: Are you sure you read the article? Or you just saw Buhari's name and stopped there? You don't even need to read in between the lines to know that he was saying northerners are born to rule and are the best leaders even though they ruled for 38 years with nothing to show.
What is the relationship between a fool soldiers from a foreign country crossing into the country and a local insurgency with a good amount of local and political backing??
As for the attack on Buhari, it was staged in order to remove that boko haram tag from his name, we know better.

You are not responding to the article based on facts in the article but on sentiments and emotions.


Unless you balance your view and attack the message and not 'in between the line' messages then you will not gain from it.


So, it's better you ignore it.


P.S - Buhari stage Bombing on himself?

Very funny and foolish statement

BlackTechnology: COAS is different from GOC
COAS is Igbo but GOCs Northern Muslims




The boys mutiny because Northern officers sabotaged them leading to the death of their colleagues

Funding and Issuing of Weaponry and Logistics plus welfare is done from Headquarters Oga.


They mutinied cos they lacked weapons and logistics and so BH were killing the like flies

BlackTechnology: You said most of the 4trillion was spent on the army

I asked you to provide proof

The next you did you asked me to ask Ihejirika

Guy talk with fact

If you claim most of the fund was spent on the army provide proof.

Yes, its a fact.

Your question is irrational in the sense that, you r saying figures of Ihejirika's spending should be given to you.


So, in turn, is it not Ihejirika and GEJ that have those figures.

But what any informed stakeholder knows is that the supply chain since BH was confronted undder goodluck became president is co-ordinated by the office of Chief of Army Staff.

Take it anywhere or better still do a little investigation and fact finding and prove me wrong.

BlackTechnology: They mutiny because the sabotage by Northern officers in the army led to the death of their colleagues

No, the sabotage from the Defence Headquarterss and the COAS led to it.


A northerner wasn't heading the army, an igbo guy was, and a niger-deltan is now

BlackTechnology: OK

Tell me

How much of the 4trillion was spent on the army since you claimed most went to the army

Ihejirika knows.


Ask him, he is your brother afterall

BlackTechnology: Thanks for acknowledging that without your allies you won't have won

Now acknowledge the military skills of your allies and give half of your glory to them


Do you know that the GOCs of 7th division are Northern Muslims . Why haven't they be able to stop BH.

Do u actually think a nation's army is even defeatable by the band of killers of then Biafra. Forget it man.

With the army we had and our traing it was impossible.


Why do u think there was mutiny in 7th division?

There was lack of funding and weapons, even the soldiers said it won't be hard to defeat bH but only if they wld be given the funds and weapons they ask for.


But, as we knew corruption by the Oga(s) I.e CoAS and co will always hamper it

Collynzo16: It is more than just Buhari from what I read, he made it seem like northerners as a whole make better leaders from Presidents to Chiefs of army staff, he even said we miss Yaradua dearly. However, the same northerners have ruled us for 38 out of 54 years and we know the result.
The article simply summarizes the ''born to rule'' attitude northerners have been known for. I still insist that if he thinks northerners are the only ones good enough to rule the country, he should call for an excluxively northern country to be carved out so you guys can rule yourselves to paradise, you can join him in the call.
Simple.

Forget that propaganda tool of 'Born to Rule'.

It's just political grammar.

Besides, he didn't intend anything of the sort, he was just highlighting the time that Nigeria had foreign incursions and who dealt with the problems at the time.


Not forgettiing Buhari is the major opposition to Jonathan's govt and that's y BokoHaram (political wing) attacked and wanted to kill him in Kaduna.


We wld gladly welcome a Northern country as anything will be better than this failed government we r having now

BlackTechnology: How much of that 4 trillion was spent on recurrent expenditure and how much was spent on weapons.

Don't forget that money was spent on all security agencies including paramilitary police SSS etc

I repeat

Oil theft will generate more cash for him than BH

If u don't know, then let me enlighten you, military spending since GEJ took over tripled in 2010 to about 970 billion, then about 1.1 trillion the following year after he became substantial C in C.

Now majority of military spending is domiciled in the office of the COAS I.e (Ihejirika at that time).

Cos, the Army has the largest defence personnel of ALL military and para - military outfits.

And due to the perculiarities of the Insurgency, the Army leads on the front and uses the most equipment, logistics, welfare, weapons, recon etc


And Ihejirika had control of a larger percentage of the funds, even more than NSA and CODS.


So, forget oil theft, Yar'adua made it less lucrative with the Amnesty deal. And if u remember Tompolo and Asari are the Lords there

BlackTechnology: Yet it took the support of Britain Soviet, Arab league and 500 000 dead soldiers on Nigerian side to win the civil war

Ask the military to tell the world how many soldiers were lost in Sierra Leone and Liberia under the control of Northern officers

Guy

2015 will be to your tent oh ISREAL

From 2015 upwards , we shall know those regions that will end up like failed nations like N.Korea Somalia Afghanistan etc

My God! Are you this dull?.


Have you ever seen a nation fight a war on its own.


Why did America look for allies wen it invaded Iraq.

Why did Mali rally france wen it fought the Tuaregs.

Why was there a coalition wof nationsen the west fought the Hitler's Germans, aided by Italians and Japaneses in World War II

It is not as simple as u reason Oga. Ok?.



Besides, ask any military establishment, a division is only as good as its commander.


Why do u think the ancient empires are what they were, eg Mongol empire, Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar and the Roman empire etc


It's a historical fact that without great commanders, armies are ineffective.

North has and will always boast Great Military Commanders.

That's the Fact!

BlackTechnology: Osama declared an open war against US

Have Ihejirika declared any war against Nigeria.?

Ask yourself one smart question

If Ihejirika wanted to make money, why didnt he work with oil thieves.

If he has been aiding and sponsorinng Terrorism in this country then he has declared WAR long time ago. But as it happened with Azazi, Jonathan is shielding him from investigation.


2ndly, to your blatant ignorant question -

Ihejirika, to make money and boko Haram was a cash - cow at the time, (which it was as over 4trillion naira was budgeted by Jona from 2010 to combat BokoHaram) and yet nothing tangible in terms of progress was made.



So reason and draw a logical summation

Collynzo16: The summary of this article is that Northerners are the only ones good enough to rule this country politically and militarily, others aren't good enough.
They should carve out their own country and rule themselves to paradise then.
Why not?

Correction, not the best, but possess one of the Best to rule for now.

BUHARI.


Our track recoed in the military is unquestioned I.e from Gowon to Shuwa to Danjuma to MaiMalari to Murtala etc etc

FYI: let the country break up, we the average everyday folks cld care less.

It's the selfish elites who actually deceive u into thinking otherwise.

BlackTechnology: I called you babyyyy because you just reasoned like a child

How on earth do you think DSS will question a man who worked with them to contain BH to sambisa

That's your problem.

U see u r so narrow minded I'm nodding in shock.


Ok, going by your reasoning, then OSAMA BIN LADEN should have never been investigated by the FBI or CIA, because, he also worked with the same american agencies against the Soviet Union.


Abi??.

Rawani: They're going to ride their Kaduna built Peugeot 508's on their way to the world-class North-West University built by Kwankwaso, while you shine your flashlight in the afternoon sun looking for your 2nd Niger bridge.

!!!!!!!!! L W K M D !!!!!!!!!


Knock Out!

Una fit kill person 4 here

BlackTechnology: Babyyyy


DSS cleared Ihejirika because they worked with him in pushing BH to sambisa forest which prompted Northern elites to start a propaganda war against him


Babyyyyyy

I'm not homo.


Respect yourself man.

Caseless2: Oh God, you are the creator of universe and all that's within it. You are closer to us more than our 'juggular' vein and hears whatever that's running thru our minds and hear that which we have spoken out. You know the problems of nigeria/nigerians like u knw the problem of other nations and her citizens. Good leadership, political will, efforts of citizens and prayers combined were all other nations put to work to overcome their challenges. God, 2 important factors out of the remaining (good leadership and political will) are conspicously missing in Nigeria and their absence have made us victims of something we could have contained as a nation(boko haram).
God, i'm not saying Buhari is more a Nigerian than Gej , but he love Nigeria/Nigerians more than Gej do, he's stronger in will and decision, he's more patriotic than gej and incorruptible. God, it is for these outstanding qualities of his; which are the qualities expected of our C-in-C to win this war that we are praying and asking you to replace Gej with Buhari come 2015...ameen!

Ameen to this

BlackTechnology: DSS cleared Ihejirika

Northern Elders Forum (NEF) asked Jona to investigate Ihejirika after accusing him of genocide


Babyyyyy get acquitted with current news.

How and when was the investigation carried out by the DSS??

The agency only gave a lame excuse not to. (Guess Jona is shieldding his co-actor)

And 2ndly, who are the NEF is I may ask?. Do they represent the North as a people?. Or are they the North's representatives elected ib the National Assembly??.


Get in tune with how things work, ok.


P.S - dnt address me as 'Baby'.

Thank you

BlackTechnology: SE/SS oil wealth developing Northern Nigeria .


Kudos to Kwakwaso but GEJ till 2019

Our oil wealth our Son's presidency

After all the North's wealth gave u access to that stinking oil u rant so ignorantly about.


Oyel! Oyel! Oyyel! Fo.ol


It's that same mindsetthat will cause your generation to die of misgovernance.

Do China, Singapore, Malaysia, Brazil, Taiwan and other trend settters have OIL??


You are here shouting Oyel wey never bring u light sef!


Mtscheeu!!!!

TAN nairaland branch already hating I can see


KwanKwasiya Amana!

BlackTechnology: Babyyyyyy

List one town that fell to BH when Ihejirika was the COAS

The day Northerners accused ihejirika of genocide forcing Jona to abort his plan to extend his stay, was the day Nigeria ceased to exist

2015 Nigeria will disintegrate

Prepare to become a farmer whose govt likes to borrow money unto bad debts

There you go ignorantly typing again.

Did Northerners accuse Ihejirika??.

As the Australian accused Ihejirika as BokoHaram Sponsor, should'nt he answer for any transgressions to his reign as COAS, if he's found clear, shikenan!. So, why the foolsih aggression towards northerners?.

It's Hate that will consume and destroy u. Unless u go back to Logical reasoning if ever you did.

BlackTechnology: How towns were captured when Ihejirika was the COAS.?

Don't talk like a primary school pupil

Use your brain.

"Primary school pupil"




As I said... Troll

KnowAll: Nigeria has definitely gone to the dogs under Jonathan, No doubt.

You can say that again

Jakpon: When ihejirika was the COAS

The Police HQ, Abuja was bombed

The UN building, Abuja was bombed

The command and staff college, Jaji was bombed

The Air force base, Maiduguri was bombed(Three jet fighters & Two Helicopters were destroyed) etc etc

U dey mind am.

Some people r so uninformed and lack general knowledge, its disturbing wallahi.

But as data is cheap today, any troll can get nairaland on his chinco tecno phone and type utter garbage.

Nigerian Military, Yesterday and Today


By Dr. Aliyu U. Tilde


In 1983, some Chadian soldiers invaded some communities in Nigeria. Chad had been in a prolonged civil war and its soldiers
were known to be ruthless.

Nigerian armed forces were under the simple going but honest President Alhaji Shehu Shagari as its Commander-in-Chief and the COAS or CDS was Wushishi (forgive my memory). The then GOC of the 3rd Division in Jos under whose command the Northeast fall was Maj. General Muhammadu Buhari. Surely, northerners dominated the top command positions in the military then.

Without hesitation, the GOC in Jos was given the signal to flush out the Chadians. But on his own, the stern Buhari was determined to, in addition, teach them a lesson they will never forget.

In a twinkle, Buhari mobilized his soldiers and personally led them in the field. Within few days Nigerian soldiers not only got the Chadians to flee but they chased the latter right into Chad. Buhari couldn't stop. It took quite some effort to get the soldier in him to pull the brakes. Later, he will claim that he didn't know that he was already deep into Chad.

Buhari the GOC had an excellent relationship with his soldiers. He never allowed superiors to oppress their juniors or edit their allowances. He was riding a 504 saloon car and lived in a simple bungalow along Bauchi road adjacent to the Unijos Main Campus. When he was appointed the head of state after the coup, his soldiers in the barracks went wild in happiness. He bade them farewell, not knowing that it will be forever.

Well the Chadians never dared encroaching into Nigeria again. Buhari has permanently imprinted a lesson in them: Nigeria is mighty and no rat should dare step in its foot. The success was possible because the military chiefs and officers then were truly Nigerian. They believed in their hearts, not in their words only, that that the territorial integrity of this nation is not for bargain, its military must be strong and well catered for, and money was not their goal.

When the Maitatsine riots resurfaced in the Northeast during his regime, Buhari was the C-in-C and the story of how they were crushed ended in the burial of that sect forever.

No insurgency in Northern Nigeria surfaced again until when Obasanjo came to power. Like a joke, a group calling itself Nigerian Taliban surfaced in Yobe state. It engaged the police and the authorities in fights using guns and explosives. It was unbelievable. They were overcome but not wiped out. They had the chance to shift their base to Maiduguri and get patronised by the governors of Yobe and Borno states who gave them positions in government as a strategy of appeasement.

But the group couldn't be appeased. It continued to organise itself and train for a showdown to the full knowledge of the authorities in Abuja and at the dismay of the then SSS Director, Gadzama, who was from Borno and knew the risk his community and the nation at large would face in future.

When I raised this point at a conference in Kano, one of the former governors involved tried to discredit me, something I immediately objected to. These are facts, hard facts. Obasanjo as the C-in-C didn't do enough. By the time Yar'adua made an attempt to suppress the group extrajudicially, it was too late and, he too, didn't live a year longer than Muhammad Yusuf.

The death of Yaradua was a loss for the nation and its military. He gave the Niger Deltan terrorists a choice between war and peace. They chose peace. He sacked the then Chief of Defence Staff then, Andrew Azazi, for his involvement in arming the Niger Deltans and playing the fifth columnist in the fight against them. An army investigation report warned the nation of the existence of politicians from that region who nurse secessionist ambitions and who could become leaders of the country one day. A probe into their activities and level of
involvement in the arms theft, the report said, was necessary to avoid putting our national security at risk. Yar'adua, unfortunately, didn't institute the probe that would have seen Jonathan impeached. And he died, shortly and sadly. Thus, those fears expressed in the COAS office report in the theft of armoury from Kaduna and Jaji depots became real.

Jonathan, a Niger Deltan, became President. He returned Azazi as his National Security adviser and with that a different course was charted for the military.

Now, Nigerians have seen what a different calibre of leader Jonathan is. Also, the world has witnessed the mettle of the people - from the former Eastern region - he has chosen to lead the military and fight the insurgency. Their estimation in the eyes of the world is very low. Never in our history has a Nigerian president been so much a subject of ridicule by world leaders and press. Never in the history of our military has it performed so disastrously bad in the protection of the Nigerian citizen and became a subject of international disdain and contempt to the extent that the Americans said they will not share intelligence with it. How could they do so when they knew among our military are sponsors of Boko Haram, as Stephen Davies recently disclosed. (And believe me I have not seen a soldier in Ihejirika because he instantly became rattled by the disclosure, failed to put even a faint defence but resorted to blaming the president and Elrufai for underfunding the military.)

From Ihejirika to Minimah, various international and local media reports have shown our soldiers as neglected, ill-equipped, underpaid and many of them sadistic - taking delight in torturing Nigerians and killing them - as we have seen in the reported massacres of Baga and the latest slaughter video which the authorities said they are still investigating.

The Nigerian military is certainly witnessing its lowest moments. Soldiers are deserting it, as the authorities themselves confessed, and in moments of attack on civilians, they are seen running along with civilians for their dear lives. In one or two occasions, they fled to Cameroon in their hundreds where they were disarmed, packed into schools and escorted, like women and children, back to Nigeria. They arrived Mubi looking haggard, hungry and in need of help. Even in the battles that saw the fall of towns like Gwoza, Banki, Gamboru, Izge, Damboa, Bama, Gulak, Michika and Bazza, our soldiers were seen outrunning civilians for safety as their officers outrun civilian elites in building posh houses and riding the latest brands of cars.

What a depressing moment for every true Nigerian! What a moment of truth for our military! It is not a time for denial or pride, as a diplomat put it last week, because there is nothing to deny and nothing to be proud of when bandits earlier described as "ghosts" by the President can now capture large towns and keep them, one after another, and get our soldiers fleeing.

The Chadian soldiers that we could easily liquidate in 1983 today, in contrast, stand with their shoulders high. Three weeks ago, when Boko Haram abducted some 85 Nigerians and moved them across to a forest in Chad, Chadian soldiers instantly located them, fought them gallantly and freed the hostages, handing them back to Nigeria. Chad, for God's sake! Our Chibok girks and other abductees on Nigeria continue to languish in the hands of Boko Haram for my months now, awaiting for a rescue that will never come. Their government tells them: "You see, we can't rescue you because we don't want to see you harmed. You're safer there." What an excuse!

Cameroon too has been defeating the insurgents at every encounter, sometimes even crossing the border to assist Nigerian soldiers as it was reported in Ngala two weeks ago. Even yesterday, they routed the insurgents at a border town where they killed more than 100 of the latter.

Nigeria, where are the GOCs like Buhari, the chiefs like Wushishi, and Presidents like Shagari? Where are your courageous commanders like Shagaya and Malu who as true Nigerians earned us respect in Liberia and Sierra Leone?

The present GOC of the same 3 DIV, Zaruwa, must prove his mettle to Nigerians. His hometown, Bazza, is in the hands of Boko Haram, and so is Michika and Gulak. We want to see the reinvention of Buhari, Malu or Shagaya in him. Incidentally, the Chief of Defence Staff, Barde, is from neighbouring Mubi, a town that is half-deserted as it awaits its turn in the invasion tsunami of Boko Haram. Its people have been fleeing to Yola in their thousands. He too, we want to see a Wushishi reinvented in him. Let us see in the duo the reinvention of the ancient, legendary Margi warrior. We hope, but only hope can we afford, that the C-in-C and the COAS will give them all the support they need.

The comparison between yesterday and today for the Nigerian President and his military is truly odious. Nigerian leaders and indeed its military need to take a long, hard look at themselves. What went wrong and who are responsible for this state of shame? If we are serious, heads must roll. We also need a different set of leaders and commanders that are truly Nigerians in their past and future.

The spokeman for the Nigerians military, Olukolade, said Nigerians should not be discouraged with these setbacks and lose hope in the military. But, sincerely, where can we find the courage, where can we see the hope?

10 September 2014

Death to Boko Haram

Death to PDP

Death to this Terrorist Government

Still on Buhari and the Northern establishment. - by: Salisu Suleiman - September 7, 2014

The next presidential elections may still be five months away, but the tempo in political activity – at least going by the frenzy created by the more than 8,000 groups ‘pleading’ with President Goodluck Jonathan to seek re-election – gives the impression that the polls are just around the corner.

It is not clear if the PDP will put its candidates through primaries, but if it does, it will simply be to simulate due process. Any other candidate picking the PDP ticket will lead the party’s implosion. Of course, those ‘eating’ from the chaos in the system know better than to pour sand in their own bowl of garri.

President Jonathan’s most serious challenger will likely come from the APC, though who that person will be is another matter. For now, lacking the power incumbency and muscle to create a Pyongyang-like mass hysteria of individuals, groups, associations and ‘transformation ambassadors’, the APC is relying on traditional politicking as the party primaries approach.

Former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari, is no stranger to the contest, having run thrice before in 2003, 2007 and 2011. There is no doubt about the popularity of the peoples’ general, but his mass support has not put him office principally because certain sections of the northern elite fear that the egalitarian Buhari may erode the basis of their privileges.

I am not campaigning for Buhari or even for a northern president. I believe that what should matter to Nigerian voters are the track-records, integrity, sincerity and vision of a candidate, not their region or religion. The reality, as we all know, is different, especially with a president who deliberately finds ways of aggravating religious and ethnic divides for political advantage.

It has been observed, rightly, illiteracy, corruption, injustice and inequality are the major factors fueling northern Nigeria’s ongoing religious, political, social and economic upheavals, and that even the most basic form of good governance will go a long way to mitigate these challenges.

It is clear that without drastic change, things may get even worse in the north, and consequently, Nigeria as a whole. It is equally apparent that Jonathan has neither the inclination, nor the capacity to manage these challenges.

The question is, now that even the North’s elite are no longer safe, will they bite the bullet and support Buhari if he emerges as the APC’s candidate? As they have in the past, I think that the northern establishment will work for Jonathan.

I do not see Ibrahim Babangida, Aliyu Gusau, Adamu Ciroma, Barnabas Gemade, Jonah Jang, Gabriel Suswam, Bello Mohammed Halliru, Samaila Sa bawa, Ibrahim Mantu, David Mark, Jerry Gana, Sarki Tafida, Jonathan Zwingina, and others supporting Buhari’s candidature. For them, the present state of insecurity and uncertainty is more acceptable than a possible Buhari presidency.

That is because the interests of the northern establishment is, and has always been different from that of the ordinary people of the region. The North that supports Buhari has nothing to do with the usurpation of political and economic opportunities to the exclusion of other Nigerians. Buhari’s North is the North that is poor, hungry, illiterate and devoid of hope.

Buhari’s followers are the victims of the corruption and arrogance of the narrow clique in the establishment that has held Nigeria hostage for decades. His north is one for whom the various administrations headed by northerners have not resulted in better lives, education or improved opportunities.

Buhari’s north does not fly to Europe or America every fortnight for medical checkups or shopping sprees in Dubai. This north does not keep bank accounts in London, New York, Dubai, South Africa, Jordan, Beijing and Hong Kong; they own no bank accounts at all. This north that does not allocate all the best positions in the country to its children, qualified or not. Buhari’s north simply wants a better life.

Given the security and economic situation in the North today, if votes were to be free and fair, Jonathan will not get up to 10% of votes from the region. This is because despite proclamations, if Jonathan has achieved anything in the past four years, it has not reached them. To add insult to injury, he is sending the wrong the emissaries to woo their votes – the same people that systematically impoverished the region and the country.

Northern elite may despise Buhari and vehemently oppose his return to office because they suspect, rightly or wrongly, that he may destroy their power base and end their corruption and nepotism. But how long will they continue to ally with, and support a system that has proved to be incapable of protecting the very system from which they derive their benefits?
Does the northern establishment fear Buhari so much that they are willing to support a clueless leadership, whose incompetence threatens the existence of the North and Nigeria, simply because they want to preserve their elite status?

Interesting times make for interesting choices.

"Why President Jonathan Will Win In 2015"


With less than six months to Nigeria’s 2015 presidential contest, I predict that one Goodluck Ebele Jonathan will win it. He already holds the job, and many cite the power of incumbency to back up that belief.

They are wrong; in a normal democracy, incumbency would be a serious handicap because the candidate can be handcuffed to his record. Not in Nigeria, and there are really two reasons Mr. Jonathan stands poised to take his third oath of presidential office next May.

The first is that he is a man of great understanding. Mr. Jonathan understands that Nigeria is an abandoned project, literally and figuratively. Nigerians do not care. They do not care about themselves. And they care still less about Nigeria.

Nigerians are curiously insulted if you say something “negative” about someone of their ethnicity, but they do not react the same way if you insult Nigeria. Nigerians are more offended if you insult their government than they are if you insult their country. The same Nigerians are not offended when their government makes their country look like a bad joke.

The second reason Mr. Jonathan holds the aces as we approach February 2015 is that Nigerians are very forgetful, and hate to question. A Nigerian reads the most scandalous story about Nigeria, and just shrugs. A Nigerian journalist leaves home for his journalism job, but gets there and becomes a civil servant.

Since his ascendancy to the top of the ladder in 2007, Mr. Jonathan has reached this understanding. He has found Nigeria a boring and easy game anyone can do in their sleep, not the challenge he was hearing about on television.

Most of all, the Nigeria ruler knows Nigerians are happy to keep Nigeria that way. This is why he is poised to win in 2015.

A few weeks ago, “Mr. Fix-It” Tony Anenih, who chairs the Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) disclosed that Mr. Jonathan will run for office next year, a decision known only in the inner circles, and one the president ought to announce by himself.

That fact confirmed the power relations within the presidency, and the nature of Anenih’s presence in it. “Mr. Fix-It,” by the way, doubles as the chairman of the board of the Nigeria Ports Authority (NPA). The NPA and the Ministry of Petroleum Resources are reported to form a formidable power couple when it comes to financial backing for the president’s electoral ambitions. The Ministry, remember, has become the personal fiefdom of Diezani Alison-Madueke, the ethics of whom are routinely questioned by many Nigerians. But she is a pretty lady, and Mr. Jonathan does not argue with great beauty.

Mr. Jonathan is poised to win in 2015 because the Nigerian people understand that he is their Master, in office to serve his own will. As a result, he is not answerable to the very people who put him in office.

Those people include the Boko-Haram abducted children of Chibok, in Borno State, who have become a byword for historic government irresponsibility. They and their suffering families are an abandoned project that would have embarrassed a military dictatorship.

It is difficult to accept that the States of Borno, Adamawa and Yobe are under a state of emergency, given the success that the militants are enjoying there, treating Nigerian soldiers like amateurs. The military now appear lost…or abandoned.

Last week, as official denials came to an end and the insurgents assumed firm control of Bama, soldiers were reported to be removing their families from Maiduguri, as Boko Haram distributed fliers announcing it intends to seize the city.

That is a good sign for Mr. Jonathan’s re-election. No, he did not create Boko Haram, but he has promised to deal with them. Earlier in August, he promised to “lead Nigerians” to defeat the militants. Those who were paying attention would have recognized the joke: In March 2012, in South Korea, he told the Yonhap News Agency he would end the Boko Haram challenge within three months, stressing that Nigeria’s security forces would take “total control” of the areas in contest. The August 2014 renewal of the joke is a punch in the nose for those who say Mr. Jonathan in military fatigues looks like a Nollywood actor.

But he is deathly serious, reminding Nigerians that the problem with asking him to rescue the Chibok girls is that he is caught between using force and endangering their lives, or undermining the sovereignty of Nigeria by succumbing to the terms of the terrorists. He does not accept responsibility for letting the militants get away with 276 girls in the first place.

In other words, despite all the promises published so far, the abducted girls had better plan their own escape as some of them have done, or they are on their own. There is a presidential election to win.

Enthusiastic Nigerian voters will recall that in January 2011, the Presidential Advisory Committee, submitting its report, drew attention to ongoing and severe depletion of the country’s Excess Crude Account, from $20b in 2007 to under $400m in September 2010. The Theophilus Danjuma-led group criticized the alarming cost of running the government, citing “an army of special advisers and assistants.”

Mr. Jonathan promised to implement the committee’s recommendations, but just week after receiving its report, he appointed three new advisers.

The signs of re-election come from as far back as the last election. As recorded by the International Press Centre in collaboration with the Institute for War and Peace, here are Mr. Jonathan’s 91 electoral promises from 2011. One week before his inauguration, in May 2011, I also documented “A Mountain Of Promises.” Next February, Nigerians will vote for Mr. Jonathan overwhelmingly, in exchange for a longer list of promises.

On July 14, 2011, six weeks after he assumed office, Mr. Jonathan said he was starting an anti-corruption “war,” beginning with a comprehensive audit of the financial transactions of all Federal Government ministries, departments and agencies and with effect from 2007. Abandoned.

Beginning on January 8, 2011, the Abuja-based Leadership Newspaper ran a series it called, “Nigeria: The Country’s White Elephant Projects,” demonstrating just how pervasive uncompleted projects were at all levels of government.

In a follow-up, two months later, Mr. Jonathan set up a Presidential Projects Assessment Committee to look into the issue of uncompleted federal projects. The group reported at least 11,886, with many more unidentified! Mr. Jonathan took the report, made suitable promises, and then abandoned the report.

I could carry on, for hours. The point was to demonstrate that Mr. Jonathan has all the credentials to be re-elected, easily, in 2015. It is an abandoned country, and the only thing Nigerians are prepared to do about it is abuse anyone who says they should do something about it.
Let us pray.



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This write - up sums u what is going on presently in the North - East of Nigeria.

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Thanks to the Op for this.

oneeast: People down south do not know that Nigeria is presently at war. You need to go to the know to better appreciate that the event of 1966 is repeating itself again. By the time our military are through the north would have lost over 10 million in human resources and be set back another 100years. The worst part of it is that they brought this on themselves. GEJ was quite slow to action thinking that the north will change their evil ways but they kept at it.

It is really pathetic here in the north to say the least!

Today its the North, tomorrow we will be here talking bout the South.

Wat goes around comes around, God is not a hypocrite after all

BrokenTV: So in your myopic mind you think that a man that deal a big blow to them could be their sponsor, Christian and a man from the south east whose people have been murdered by BH is their sponsor, a man that nearly brought them to an end if not for the evil forces from north that lead to his remove. Did it also escape your mind that the same Australia man also said that their sponsors are also members of the opposition party, that if the president go after them it will look like a witch hunt for the general election next year. Did it also escape your medulla that the same man stated that their source of finance pass through the central government making it hard to be trace. Abeg pack well and use your brain for once. A drowning man will look for his enemy to pull him down. Tell yourself the truth is it not after Ihejirika left office that Boko Haram escalated.

Bros! Relax naa


Calm down! Dnt blow gasket na y all dis essay??

I just asked a simple one-line sentence na.


#... Or is it a diversionary tactic you r dislaying. I just want a Simle answer to my earlier question, no need for gibberish in multile paragraphs

BrokenTV: Sometimes I wonder if you guys really think with your brain or what, did you forgot to put the name of the former CBN governor and the other opposition leaders there because the man mentioned about them in his interview.

Can u pls quote the line or paragraph where the names were mentioned.

Thanks

BrokenTV: Also extend the same curse to Buhari, Sanusi, Elrufai and all those in APC and anyone who has a foot in Nigeria terror attack.

May they never know peace in this life and the next.
AMEN.

ANYONE! Irrespective of religion n tribe. I don't care who it is.


But unfortunately for you, Ihejirika n SAS are the known sponsors for now.