₦airaland Forum

naijaking1:
Buhari's achievements in 1983:
1. He murdered 3 students for allegedly carrying drugs after he made the law retroactive. The parents of those boys should have been allowed to sue him, or at least be compensated----they're still waiting
2. He overthrew a democratically elected goverment of Shehu Shagari---in many countries, they would have hung him around his neck until he dies, but here, we have him running around and trying to be president again.
3. After his coup, he selectively hurled christians and southerners into jail, leaving his fellow Hausa/Fulanis to either go scott free, or at worst kept under house arrest in the government house.
4. He locked up Vice President Ekwueme in Kirikiri, while President Shagari was kept at the goverment house
5. He killed many memorable Nigerians like Ambrose Alli by false imprisonment and later death in jail.
6. He jailed sick and elderly southerners like Michael Ajasin, Onabanjo, Mbakwe, while his northern governors went free
7. He killed the hope of Lagos to join other mega-metropolis of the world by denying them access to the metro rail
8. He killed press freedom, by jailing journalists like Nduka Irabor.
9. He destroyed Nigerian medical standards by banning the NMA, and even the students union.
10. He created the highest number of billionaires in his native Katsina after Abacha made him the chairman of PTF.
11. He did not only refuse to explain any of the actions he took in 1983, he refused to appear before a reconcilliation committee, and even sued so that the findings will never be made public.

ise82:
Ribadu is d ONE,

omanzo02:
I always believe that beside Buhari there are other capable hands to lead the country than recycled the same person that truncated our democratic growth, Nigeria can survive and grow without Buhari.

So let leave the recycling option and embrace a new idea in leadership. I have come to believe that alot of the people shouting Buhari are difficult learners; you know those kind of people you teach one lesson in school over and over again before they understand it?

efisher:
Buhari, IBB and Abacha were the ones who set us on this path.

efisher:
Many people will carefully avoid nairaland for one whole month after the election.

Chongaiman:
^^^
No sir! Let me quote from one Nigerian military precis,

". . . . Aircraft can scream across the battlefield bombing and strafing, but when all this is done it requires a man with a rifle in his hand to walk across the ground . . . and deny it to the enemy . . . .There have been attempts to replace manpower with firepower, but the experiment has never succeeded. . . "

". . . . Artillery, tanks and aircraft can break an enemy's spirit, demoralise him, inflict casualties; but unless this is followed up by determined men on foot, the advantage is lost and the effort wasted . . . "

debosky:
To provide additional context, let's hear from Jakande himself:

Explaining how Shagari and Buhari worked against the metro-rail project, Jakande said there was delay after the N700 million metro-line project was awarded to a French firm with the arrangement to first pay N70 million and pay the rest in the space of two years.

He said the delay compelled him to ask "my commissioner for works to investigate why the N70 million mobilisation fund was not released. The commissioner investigated and discovered that it was President who asked the Central Bank of Nigeria not to release the money.

"I was told President Shagari was angry because I did not congratulate him after his controversial election and because I won election on the platform of an opposition party. I later approached him and explained the problem facing execution of the project and that CBN refused N70 million reserved for its take-off.

http://allafrica.com/stories/200907230352.html

Sun of god:
Widespread cancer is expected to break out within 2 years and last for many decades after the initial outbreak.

The gravity of the situation they/we find ourselves in is being surpressed.
Somehow I cant see them/the world overcoming this problem.

doja:
Our campaign is not about noise making on Nairaland. Ours is a well structured campaign that is anchored on strategic thinking.

recoome:
As the epic battle for the presidency rages on on nairaland, the once dominant 'team ribadu' have been jolted into political oblivon and sent on exile by the dominant forces of GEJ & BB camps, so much for his so-called 'youthful vigour', this futher confirms that ribadu is a paper weight as well as a political jejune!

alj harem:
He said: “Governor Fashola is opening up Lagos through investments in massive road construction. anytime a brand new road passes through your house, the value of the property goes up. This is how government puts money in your pocket”.