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This is a clear description of what Jonathan met on ground,

"A torrid depiction ofthe ignominy, debauchery and sheer debasement that Nigerians are forced to endure as a result of their being afflicted with the disease of poor leadership. It is a sad and upsetting scenario.

Successive governments have attempted to correct the anomaly and curse of the railway system; from the Shehu Shagari government of 1979-1983, with billions of naira committed to revamping the moribund – I prefer fully dead- Nigerian Railway Corporation. These billions have literally vanished as there are no visible improvements. Yet, those who handled these billions roam our streets while we are left to hang from behemoths of tangled scrap metal. Newspaper reports indicate that the Abacha led government signed a 528 million dollar contract with China Civil Engineering Construction Corporation (CCECC) to rehabilitate Nigeria’s entire 3,500km rail network, supply 620 locomotives and rolling stocks and provide technical training for the Nigerian Railway Corporation (NRC) staff. The contractors abandoned the project after two years.

In 2006, after receiving a 2.5 billion dollar loan – expected to be used on Nigeria’s railway project – from the Chinese government, then-president Olusegun Obasanjo called back CCECCC and awarded them an 8.3 billion dollar five year contract to reconstruct the Lagos-Kano railway. The end result was a squabble between the Nigerian government and the Chinese contractors which led to both parties parting ways-the contract was abandoned, but not without the Chinese leaving with the
initial deposit of almost 1.6 billion dollars. The contractors abandoned the project after two years.

In 2009, the Senate Committee on Transportation submitted a report on a probe of the government’s spending on land transport between 1999 and 2007, indicting some prominent Nigerians in the process. The report, however, never saw the light of day because of vague
legislative wrangling.

It is a sad thing, really, to hear of happenings like these while the industry witnesses further rot and decay. Something must be done. I fear for the worst, what with innocent people riding in rail propelled coffins. The people responsible for this must be brought to book. They must pay for this assault on Nigerians. They must atone for stealing our money and forcing us to ride like compressed fish in sardine tins.

A true investigative panel must be set up to investigate the corruption that has hounded the railway system, and honest, effective and transparent efforts must be made to transform the system. Obsolete equipment, which in this case means just about everything-trains, rails, ineffective and unscrupulous staff- should be discarded. Pre-historic trains should not be given to Nigerians; this is the era of light rail transportation. I pray all these happen soon, because the Nigerian Railway system is a disaster that is on the cusp of happening."
http://ynaija.com/your-turn-a-ride-on-a-nigerian-train/

and

KPMG's verdict of what Jonathan is left with in 2014

"Nigeria’s high speed rail project initiated by President Goodluck Jonathan has been rated among the global top 100 world-class infrastructure projects by KPMG. The rail will connect Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Warri, Bauchi, Abuja, and Port Harcourt and will cost the country $13 billion, much of which will be financed with a loan from the Export Import Bank of China. The China Railway Construction Corporation has secured the contract to build the 3,218-kilometre network, which will be digitally operated using fibre-optic cables, radio communication and wireless services. The project is designed to cover 54 stations and will take 25 years to build. In the report, The Infrastructure 100: World Markets Report, the KPMG panel of judges said the project “will remove heavy freight from Nigeria’s stressed roads, could save the country millions on road maintenance”. Other African projects on the list are: Khi Solar One (South Africa), Square Kilometer Array (South Africa), PRASA Rolling Stock (South Africa), Kudu Gas Field and CCGT Project (Namibia),Trans-Saharan Natural Gas Project (Nigeria to Algeria), Mombasa-Kigali Railway (Rwanda), KivuWatt (Rwanda), Jinja Bridge (Uganda), and Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Terminal (Kenya). In its note, KPMG said the report highlights key trends driving infrastructure investment around the world. A global panel of industry experts identifies 100 of the world’s most innovative, impactful infrastructure projects showing how governments are coming together with the private sector to overcome funding constraints to finance and build projects that can improve quality of life – both solving immediate needs and planning for future societal demands. The report looks at infrastructure based on the dynamics of four key markets: Mature International Markets (like Canada, Australia, and UK), Economic Powerhouses (including the US and BRIC countries), Smaller Established Markets (like Chile, Sweden, New Zealand, Korea and South Africa), and Emerging Markets (including a number of economies in Africa)."

Read more at: http://www.thecable.ng/kpmg-nigerias-high-speed-rail-world-class | TheCable

Even after experiencing first of its kind miracle of parting jordan river,the children of Isreal at a point in time wished and preferred going back to the bondage of the task masters in Egypt.

"A man who left the road and chooses to wander in the jungle,certainly is responding to a call from the land of the evil spirit.


Nature itself is not in support of reversal of the hands of the clock. Yesterday is gone forever and will never be seen again.

These are are words of wisdom that will guide your choice in 2015 GOD"
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This is the first in the series of comparisons between Goodluck Jonathan's performance in the office with that of Mohammadu Buhari. They have both served this country and have given us ample evidences to judge them with. We will compare them on policies, infrastructure, economy, security, power, education, etc. The comparison will have to be in terms of what was on ground before them and what could be obtained after their tenures.

Prompted by the discussion on Nigeria rail system, compared with other countries, I wish to start from that sector of our economy. Remember that we are here to compare GEJ with GMB, on what they met on ground and how they left them.

Your post lacked any intellectual depth, so stop yapping that crap. You posited that the president should be held responsible for a terrorist act that happened in his time, but when I used the same measure on your blood thirsty master, you became intelligent enough to demand intellectual response.

The crisis was contained, courtesy of the security agents and that is what a C in C should do. The perpetrators were the supporters of your blood thirsty master and they proved it by shouting SAI BUHARI and flying his posters. What did Buhari do? He kept silent, and allowed the innocent victims murdered in cold blood, because he lost an election. A democrat doesn't resort to violence in such an event, when the courts are there to serve him justice. His silence has given him away as a blood thirsty demon that enjoys the suffering of the helpless masses, thus he deserves no space in sane democratic setting, as this. Asking that such a person is denied any democratic privilege is not asking too much.


Goodluck has not monopolized Nigeria. He has just done one term, with so many achievements and promises. He has done a lot in many sectors, like road, power, aviation, overall economy, etc. He deserves another opportunity, to consolidate on the gains of his first term. You have the right to use your vote on Buhari. Some of us have both the rights and morals not to use our votes on him because he doesn't deserve it. That is in sympathy to the lost corps members, on national assignment.

kart042000:
You failed to answer my questions or reply intellectually, who said I hate Jonathan? Why has justice not been given to the corpers? What has he done as C in C to protect Nigerians?
What is he putting in place next year to prevent a repitition?
When you don't learn from past experience/previous mistakes, what can i call such person.

My one vote, i will rather try Buhari/Osibanjo and see what they can offer. If they repeat the same pattern as PDP, our right is our vote, we will vote them out, simple. You cannot monopolise Nigeria, it does not belong to any party or set of people.
Nigerians deserve to be happy, is that too much to ask? Nigeria is one country among the numerous countries have been to, they are not asking for too much, just basic infrastructure.
When are we going to start been result oriented and not the trash we are always reading, 'we will' 'in 2050' there will be'.
I see you guys advocating for this govt to continue as wicked people with no conscience. If it means there shouldn't be any election, let everybody go his way, regional govts, so be it. But this present administration to continue is putting a thief in charge of the vault

Bruteforce101:
Foolish people playing politics with the death of corpers just to score cheap political point. Miserable death awaits you all esp the OP

I already cursed you in the beginning and it will follow you. Since your feeling for the death and suffering of your fellow creatures is that of a dead man, may death be your portion, and may you suffer more than those innocent victims as your miserable body is being roasted by extrmist miscreants in support of one blood thirsty retired general.

kastonkastrol:
and in your myopic and confused state of mind, do you really think is cool to use their names to propagate your lies against buhari?

Dude be very careful...... There are some certain things you dont play with. Be careful

Swerve to the pit, you heartless goon. It is convenient for you to discard the heartless murder of your fellow humans, just to satisfy your blood thirsty master. Not all slaves are senseless, but your case is irredeemable. Just look at your fellows carrying posters and chanting SAI BUHARI as they cut short the lives of leaders of tomorrow in their prime. Tufia!!!

NO SANE MAN SUPPORTS BUHARI

The price tag is that all those that either had a hand in what happened or remotely supported their death to satisfy the thirst for blood of their master will face God's wrath. Stop supporting evil.

NO SANE MAN SUPPORTS BUHARI

azimibraun:
Antonio Banderas them.. what a shame! Your dead friend will be so disappointed in you guys for 2 reasons

1. The Man who sent them out to their early grave, the man who was supposed to provide them security but ddnt, the Man for who will not have a free and fair election conducted is now a beneficiary of their death as their death is bin used to campaign for him.

2. You guys will not let them rest in peace as you keep using their names and misery to prevent a change that will help give their parents and loved ones left behind have a better Nigeria.

My advice, you guys are treading on a very dangerous path. Using your late dead friends to seek relevance, lie and deceive people. We are a ppl of culture and tradition and some things are Taboo in Africa. There is a price tag o! I hv adviced.

Acidosis:
Buhari, the killers and all those who fail to condemn these killings because of their love for a coupist will never know peace in their lives.

The fate of those innocent victims of Buhari's barbarism will befall them, unless they repent and support Jonathan

kart042000:
Where you there as the miscreants shouted SAI Buhari? What exactly was the president who vowed to protect the lives and property doing at the time of the incidence? HE WAS CELEBRATING HIS VICTORY while the people he his to lead are been killed.
How many of the killers have been tried and charged to court?


If we are to be fare to the innocent corpers that lost their lives, the president is to be held culpable because he has not given them the justice they deserve till date, even if it means buhari was behind it, he should be behind bars. Equity and Justice, nobody is above the law but unfortunately, our dear president has proven time and time again that he does not give a damn about the lives of Nigerians as they mean nothing to him as long as his immediate family is in check.

What is the president doing now against post election?
Mind you, his people such as Asari Dokubo are already threatening the unity of the country and nothing is been done.

So, during the time of Maitasine or what do you call those terrorists then, Buhari was put behind bars, because he was the head of state? Hate for Jonathan has turned some people to dummy

NO SANE MAN SUPPORTS BUHARI

NO SANE MAN SUPPORTS BUHARI

So the standard of judging an incumbent president should be different from somebody who says he is better than him? Buhari has record. It is the height of hypocrisy to say that you don’t want to hold him to that record. The aspect of it you think is convenient for you, you want to trumpet it to high heavens, who is fooling who?

Even if you want to discountenance the past, the act of him purchasing a form for N27m alone speaks volumes of Buhari. Again, it is very unwise politically for him to have done that. I think that is where he should have started his anti-corruption crusade. What we have in Buhari is the character of a man so desperate and obsessed with power. After he lost the election in 2011, he said he was no longer going to contest again. A year later, the story has changed

You worked closely with Obasanjo and in the emergence of Jonathan as running mate to the late Yar’Adua. I can’t find the connection between the present Obasanjo’santagonism towards somebody he is supposed to be guiding. What went wrong?

Jonathan and Obasanjo
Jonathan and Obasanjo
I think it has one or two dimensions. Some aspects of it are political. Some aspects are genuine worries. No president is perfect. Like Jonathan said and I often tell people that they don’t have a full measure of the problems a president gets confronted. On that seat, you are going to get about 10 conflicting advices on one issue. That alone puts you on the spot.

I am a supporter of Jonathan which means that I don’t agree substantially with the position Obasanjo has taken. It is not that I believe that Jonathan is the best that has happened to Nigeria, it is not that by any stretch of imagination i think that he should not be criticized. I have no objection to that. Mine is this. If 90% of those who have access to the media are publicly criticizing a man that you cannot find any good thing to say about him, the man cannot be totally bad. I took a deliberate position to advocate for him, to put his case forward, for the sake of balance.

In the past two, three weeks, I have been asking myself, what really is the problem that critics cannot see anything good in this man? I travelled by road from Abuja to Lagos and saw evidence of works all over, and yet, people are saying he has done nothing. The railways is there. Go to agriculture and see what he has done there. It really worries me. Some of these things are so contrary to logic. By temperament and training, I believe in fairness and balance. People exaggerate the short comings of the president, they are grossly exaggerated.

Nigeria got the best rating from Transparent International since, I think, they have been rating Nigeria. This year, T.I said 37 countries are more corrupt than Nigeria. Before, Nigeria used to be either the most corrupt or the second or third. What is it that they have seen that we are yet to see? They are not partisan. They have no obligation to be. They have more access to the information they use to evaluate a country.

This is why I say people should pause and reflect. A man has to speak for himself anyway. May be they are not doing a lot of that. But, I see a lot of intimidation, stampeding the president all over the place. And, to be fair to Obasanjo anyway, he has played that role to a higher and lesser degree since he left as military head of state. So his criticism of Jonathan, is to that extent, not peculiar. But, at the end of the day, everybody would answer for himself. And one thing I appreciate him (baba) for is that, he has not in any way tried to influence me against the position that I take, not at all. Not once did he say or imply ‘don’t support Jonathan’.

If you were president today, given the fact that elections are two months away, what would you be doing as quick fixes in order to tilt that perception you said is fraudulent to positives to assure the people that you are still the best man for the job?

He should find a way of getting across to people on his achievements. But there is a problem here and this is where style obstructs actions. If only people can be open to see objectively what he has done, I just gave an instance that there is nobody who drives from Abuja to Lagos and will not be impressed whichever government was responsible for the road works. I think his style, gestures and symbols for instance matter.

Like the woman who died of Ebola, Dr.Adedevoh, I don’t see why he should not extend substantial goodwill gesture to her. Although the argument was that you cannot give her national honour post humorously, I thought he needed to have done something spontaneously. To me, if you name the National Hospital, Abuja after her, I don’t think it is too much. This is why I said it is about style. So, you ask, why has he not done it? That is why I said it is a matter of style.

Then, there is an aspect of him which is, he just believes in allowing processes and situations to play themselves out even if it is at a cost to himself. I think he has this attitude of saying, ‘Look, what is there? My conscience is clear, I have done this right, if people believe it or not, God is there’. But again, the opposition he has now is the most formidable any government can have since 1960. We have a significant segment of the South- West which is propaganda powered, plus the most entrenched interest in Nigeria, the North.

If you have those two segments to contend with… where it becomes double jeopardy is that by nature, the president is a recessive personality. And you know this 24 hour news cycle; what you do now-in 30 minutes the news is all over the world. So, whoever is in the spot light is under public scrutiny 24 hours a day. It never used to be like that. And as a media person, in our own profession, how it is damaging is that, he no longer has the luxury of time.

Before the global village era, If you receive a news item in Vanguard, it doesn’t get to the public until the following day, so that gives room for damage control, but not any longer. These are some of the problems he is contending with. And it is like something that has acquired a momentum of its own, negative news feeding negative news. Its like anything you see or read about government, you immediately push it to your subconscious that it has to be negative.

People are not ready to give him the benefit of the doubt. You assume the worst, almost immediately. I give you an instance, there was this controversy, I think, some months back about a plane taking 9.12 million dollars to South Africa. The interpretation by his adversaries and many non-adversaries too was that there was some kind of corruption involved-and that is because people don’t want to give him any benefit of the doubt but I did.

I was with my friends and I said to them that if a president wants to steal money and take it out, will it be 12m dollars that he will steal? But along the line, we now found the reason, not because they told us, but because it was the reality. They had to go and purchase arms in the black market. You cannot blame him for that because the security operatives cannot afford to tell you that ‘this is what we want to do, here is the place we are going to buy it from’.

Nigerians now know but the damage has been done. Another one: Before the Governor of Central Bank, Lamido Sanusi, left his position, he made this allegation about 20 billion dollars missing. At the time he left office, all parties to that controversy, including himself, agreed that it was only 11 billion dollars outstanding, but up till today, if the London Times is writing about it, everybody in Nigeria, it is 20 billion dollars unaccounted for. I am not saying 11 billion dollars excuses anybody, but this illustrates the predisposition to exaggerate the man’s shortcomings.

How about the issues of the economy and power which have become a campaign issue?

You talk about the economy not doing well, what parameters or yardsticks are you using to measure it and relative to what in Nigeria? I am not saying the economy of Nigeria is in good shape but you also have to look at it objectively, and relative to what? Is it any worse than before. There will definitely be areas of improvement. The government has adopted macro economy stability model-like Obasanjo did.

In the short run, it is going to impact some level of discomfort but, again, that is a policy debate. I told someone that if you want to get an honest assessment of the Nigerian economy, go to the World Bank or IMF or the rating agencies. You spoke about power, I am not happy about it too. I think the problem is circular, that is when the cause becomes the effect and the effect becomes the cause. Another political problem I found is that, people think he took the tenure that should have gone to the North.

A large amount of the hostility towards him emanates from there. For instance, people would tell you that he said he would only do one term. But where is the evidence? At any rate If Jonathan is from any of this majority group, WAZOBIA, he will be less vulnerable to this kind of political intimidation. And one of the reasons I stand up for him is that I don’t like intimidation….simply because he is from the minority and they are not as cohesive as those of us that come from the so – called majority groups. He is from minority within minority within minority.

Would you blame people when they criticize the ruling party given what is happening in Ekiti State where, with the collusion of the sitting governor, seven members of the state House of Assembly have upstaged 21 colleagues?

Can you mention any other PDP governor that has done that? If one out of 22 governors did that, why should you be generalizing it as PDP? You did not ask a similar question about Fayemi who was reported to have purchased two beds for N50m, who built a mansion at over 3billion naira with a yearly maintenance fee of N150m. and this in a state that is the poorest in the country. I am sure if it was a PDP governor, there would have been protest marches all over the country.

Where do you see the Yoruba nation of the South-West before and post – 2015?

I was reading my brother SegunAdeniyi recently talking about the Buhari fever in the South- West. Personally I don’t have a fever. And Ekiti and Ondo states, I don’t think anybody can consider them feverish for Buhari. In Oyo and Ogun States, the APC is in the minority, even though it is the government there. In Oyo state the combination of Ladoja, Akala and residual PDP constitute by far the majority.

As a matter of fact, APC has been a minority all along, it is not just now. The case has just gotten worse. At the beginning, if you added the votes of those who split from PDP to the original PDP, if you put all the votes together, APC would have lost, and the same thing in Ogun State. The situation in Ogun has gotten worse now because Chief Osoba has taken his own faction out of the APC.

So, when people write in the media, talking about Buhari fever in the South- West, I just laugh. These people in Oyo and Ogun states, they may quarrel among themselves at the moment, but they have to make one choice at the presidential election, it will be between Jonathan and Buhari, I don’t see any of them pitching its tent with Buhari or APC. Effectively, the probability is that Jonathan will win in those four states, Oyo, Ekiti, Ogun and Ondo. There remains Lagos and Osun states.

The case of Osun state is very interesting. The kind of stuff we are hearing at the tribunal is that the APC has some questions to answer, but let us assume that Jonathan wins the percentage of votes that Omisore won during the governorship election in the state, add it to those four states. In Lagos, there is an aspect of the Lagos voting population that I would not want to refer to here but in Lagos State, there is very high probability that the PDP will surprise pundits. I hope you can now see how the Buhari fever has been effectively contained in the South West-the way and manner Nigeria successfully contained the Ebola fever.

Buhari’s claim to nationalism is suspect — Osuntokun

on December 28, 2014 / in Politics 11:09 am / Comments


•‘Jonathan contending with the most formidable opposition since 1960’
•Lists the quick fixes Jonathan needs ahead of polls
•‘How S/West will vote in 2015’

Mr Akin Osuntokun is not new on the nation’s political terrain. He operated at the highest level of government when he was Political Adviser to former President OlusegunObasanjo. Before then, he was the Managing Director of the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN). In this interview, Osuntokun diagnoses the polity, fielding questions on the forthcoming elections and the contenders. Excerpts:

The N21b donated to the PDP presidential campaign has generated interest among a section of the public with some people saying those who donated the money committed illegality. Some people in fact called it obscene while a group of lawyers were reported as calling for the prosecution of the PDP and some of the donors. Should mere donation to a campaign generate hues and hues?

With due respect, Nigerians tend to be sensational even at the risk of sounding hypocritical, most of the time. I was a director of a presidential campaign like this in2002. I can tell you that just paying like N1000 or N2000 per agent in all the polling booths all over the country amounted to about N10b. That is just paying them, all over the country. When people hear that it is N21b, may be it is generating reaction because it is PDP.

Jonathan or Buhari who will you pick ?
Jonathan or Buhari who will you pick ?
Everything the party does, they think it must be discredited but, more importantly, I think I have mentioned this fact once which is that there is a lack of rigor and seriousness about the way commentators and observers respond to issues. They are given to cheap and careless talk. I would have expected that there are relevant facts that should be taken into consideration. One of such is, what does the law permit?

And within the context of what we are talking about, is that law even reasonable? Because I was reading a while ago that the presidential campaign donation should not exceed N1b. How can that be possible when paying your agents is a lot more than N1b? You are going to travel around the country, charter planes and hire buses, hotel expenses are there.

The logistics of going round the country for a presidential campaign are enormous. May be political editors should, through their writings, speak to the minds of those who crafted the law, it is an unrealistic law. It is not logical given what is on ground. But, campaign finances, like in the advanced democracies, you saw what happened in the last presidential election in the U.S., the money spent was well over 1b dollars and their own Supreme Court was the one that actually gave judgment and removed any ceiling on the money spent on election.

The money spent during the last congressional election in the US was well over 400m dollars. Yes, it is good to limit the impact of money so that it can be regularized in such a way that, having taken into account what you need to spend on logistics, you can now use that to factor what the law should consider excessive spending. I think Nigerians need to be educated and counselled not to get carried away by figures easily.

I think the source of the funds is also important and that is what the critics are querying. You find Jerry Gana and friends donating N5b, TundeAyeni, an operator in the power sector, donating N2b, and people are saying when these people contribute this much to the campaign, the chances are that they will have some influence on government when the party wins the election at the end of the day.

Was the government of America taken over by those who contributed money especially the Republicans? There is no logical correspondence between the two. The fact that you put down money does not mean you exert needless influence over government activities. Obasanjo said so in 1999 that ‘consider the money you have donated as a wise investment but nothing further’. Jerry Gana was able to mobilize N5b, all well and good.

If you want to investigate it as an issue, go ahead and do it, but why should you bother yourself if some people among themselves decided to raise a certain amount? In any case, don’t let us overreach ourselves. The problems of elections in Nigeria, if we were to give them priority, donations made would not rank high. I think we should be more concerned about credibility of voting on the day of election so that every vote would count, establishing a conducive atmosphere.

Whatever the peg you put on donation is ultimately irrelevant if you cannot attain the standard of credibility that was achieved in Ekiti and Osun states. I hope you know that it is on record that the single most expensive application form in the history of Nigeria was paid by General Buhari. This is where the hypocrisy of some people like Buhari begins to come in.

How can you say you stand for probity and you find it in yourself to pay N27m? it would have been credible of him to say, ‘look, if this is what I need to pay to get this, I am not going to do it’. If you want to live by example and image his supporters are projecting him to be, then he has no business paying N27m to get application form. He went head telling stories that he got it from bank a manager and so on, tell that to the marines.

If they say the N27m application form was intended to weed out unserious candidates, to the best of my knowledge, none of the five applicants stepped down on account of the application fee. But I am saying here is a man who says he has only one house, I don’t know whether it is true or not, you are this and that. If he refuses to pay the money, will APC disqualify him? I assumed and it was proven at the primary that he was their most formidable candidate, and I thought he would have used that platform to insist that the right thing must be done. He didn’t choose that path

What does that tell you about Nigerian politicians generally?

Where this is significant is the gap between deed and precept. He projects himself and he is being projected as a cut apart. The man that has come to fight indiscipline, corruption and so on and he had not even started the race before exhibiting contrary tendencies. This is my personal problem with people like Buhari, they will say something and not want to be judged by it regarding the kind of statements made all over the place. I must have mentioned it somewhere in my writings.

He championed the destabilization and subversion of Obasanjo government, because Obasanjo probed PTF and he was invited to clarify issues that did not bear out the reputation of integrity. And he then exploited the issue of Sharia to instigate division and incite regional rebellion against Obasanjo. And here lies my fundamental objection against his aspiration-that anybody who uses the instrumentality of division and polarizing the people of this country should not be rewarded with the presidency of Nigeria.

He attained to political popularity by pandering to the base sentiment of religious persecution. Until a year ago, what was he saying about Book Haram? He said when the Niger- Delta militants did their own, they rehabilitated them, sent them to schools abroad, this and that, but when it came to Boko Haram in the North, they are burning their houses and killing them (Boko Haram sect), and for that, it is an injustice to the North.

This was what this man said, just barely a year ago. And Nigerians tend to have short attention span and are given to wilful ignorance. Choose that which they want to remember and choose which to forget. The impression I have gathered in some of my write ups on him is that some people don’t want to know the truth; they care less about putting their own candidate under scrutiny. And, I say that is unfair.

If Jonathan is being put under 1000 megawatts light, his language, body movements, everything is scrutinized, every second of the day, it is only fair for the opponent to be subjected to a measure of scrutiny too.

In essence, Buhari is not under adequate scrutiny

Most certainly he has not. Look at his antecedence. He has the dubious distinction of heading a government that was the most unbalanced and parochial in the history of Nigeria. He was a Muslim from the North, the late Idiagbon, his deputy at that time, was a Muslim from the North also. You can see the trend of his instinct. When he was the Chairman of PTF, almost 70% of the expenditure of the PTF was expended in one section of the country. He was Chairman for five years. During those five years, no single staff of PTF was tried for corruption, is it realistic to assume that for those five years no corrupt act was perpetrated at the agency? PTF was perhaps the only agency on record that handed over its mandate to just one consultant-the Afri-projects

Some people may argue that as the boss who set the rules and lived by example, people under him were able to key into that?

Well they didn’t key into it and it was his duty that he ensured they did.

When you say they did not, then you must have a contrary view.

I am telling you that they didn’t key into and it is unrealistic for you to assume that nobody was corrupt in PTF. In any case, there are papers that established sundry acts of corruption. The buck stopped on his table which is what they are saying about Jonathan. If your wife is unable to deliver safely today, they will find a way of attributing it to Jonathan; that is an exaggerated way of saying he takes responsibility for everything. You as the executive Chairman of PTF, the buck stopped on your table on everything done there. I think Nigerians need to think more and beyond the superficial.

I thought that was in the past and the past should be in the past

Oh I see! They belong to the past. Okay, what Jonathan did yesterday should belong to the past too, right?

He is an incumbent president, his case is different.


- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/12/buharis-claim-nationalism-suspect-osuntokun/#sthash.cPxcJwxk.dpuf

kastonkastrol:
silly threads like this wont stop us from voting buhari in 2015.... we are now wiser and we know better

Sai Boko.har.i. The only silly thing I see here is your comment.

donmalcolm21:
The only reason I condemned GMB was cos of his silence. He was in the best place to call those miscreants to order or denounce the violence in his entirety but he chose to keep quiet. "Evil triumph when good men keep silent"

Any man that keeps quiet when evil is triumphing is not a good man. Silence is consent and that is why the court of public opinion indicts Buhari.

fkaz:
Why don't you cure yourself, if you have low down syndrome on this link

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/02/gani-felas-families-shun-

Stop being stubbornly ignorant and admit your mistake. No link can make Gani Fawehinmi condemn something that happened years after his death. Propagandist, see your colleagues: SAI BOKO.HAR.I

frustratedman:
SAI BUHARI


BUHARI TILL NIGERIA BECOMES A WORLD POWER

SAI BO.KOHAR.I

size40:
Na buhari kill them? in all d pictures of people carrying knife and sticks, I didn't see buhari oo. I will vote buhari come 2015

The last thing those innocent NYSC members heard was "SAI BUHARI". Hope you understand what that means? Say no to bloodshed in 2015, say no to Buhari

May the soul of all those killed by BUHARI's supporters in 2011 continue to rest in peace.

Thank you quid for your objectivity. Violence and barbarism spares no tribe or religion and have to be condemned by every sane human. Buhari has to shelve his selfish ambition to save innocent Nigerian youths. More pictorial evidence against Buhari like the one below? We will be meeting Buhari in court soon, insha Allahu!

sufido123:
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Thank you Sulfido for this. Guys, please more pictures.

MayorofLagos:
OP,
Your remembrance is not genuine.

Since 2011, and you just now found their memory worth honoring.

Why do you think it is not genuine? It is very much genuine, unless you want to say that if it happened in 2011, it didn't happen. Remember that this is the meeting point of the sympathizers. If you are not one, we are not pleased to meet you. If your supporters are barbaric, it tells the kind of human you are because birds of identical feathers flock together. We don't want Buhari to contest, because we don't want innocent Nigerians to be roasted again when he fails again.

Every reasonable Nigerian supports GEJ

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fkaz:
BUHARI showed-up and collect his national honour because he believe he deserved it. No single nigeria condemn or criticise jonathan for nominating buhari name. But the name of Abacha was criticise by many nigeria like Gani fawehnmi, fela family, soyinka etc, but Jonathan went ahead to give him

See what propaganda life can cause. So Gani Fawehinmi rose up to criticize GEJ for giving a centenary award to a former dictator who ranks alongside Buhari, IBB, etc. Lie Mohammed the second!!!

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It is on record that Buhari never said a word on time to save these innocent NYSC members on national assignment as his supporters were murdering them in their cold blood. This should be a meeting point of all those sympathetic to these slain innocent youths to rise in unison, in condemnation of Buhari's power hunger and earnestly demand that he leaves our political space, since he breeds nothing but sorrow in his quest for power. How can a man, whose supporters could terrorize innocent citizens this way, stand for elections again, in the same society. Only in Nigeria can such happen, but we have to start standing up to those who care less about our feelings. Register your presence here if you think that Buhari should be stopped on this account, from standing for general elections. We will use every civil and legal means possible to stop him.

You can participate by dropping a word for Buhari, posting any pictorial evidence of that event, and dropping your own suggestions.

This is no political witch hunting. It is being real to our feelings. If you are neither a supporter of this project, nor a sympathiser to these fallen heroes and their families, don't come here, else what happened to them will be your portion.

The names and pictures of the victims will come below.

IBB knows the full implication of letting Buhari become our president. Somebody that failed all the exams he wrote cannot pass the one set by Nigerian masses

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The two Vice presidential candidates are professionals in their own rights. While the PDP VP candidate is from Pure sciences, that of APC is from social sciences. They are both gentlemen, friendly and mien, but their pictures speak more in terms of their personalities

Unless you are talking about the parallel RCCG created by APC. Not the one led by Baba Adeboye

Spot the difference between day and night here

Spot the difference between day and night here