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"Quota System General"

Funny people.....when the APC were making inflammatory statements,the people here crying and wailing were rejoicing......make the country ungovernable,blood of the baboon and dogs,form a parallel government if elections are rigged,cluless,Jonathan,he has failed not me,shepotatamus,iileterate wife,drunkard,fake PHd but to mention a few...........but when the PDP decides to respond after many months of heating up the polity by the APC, they become sensitive..........if there had been decorum and respect for both parties,it wouldn't have resulted to this mudslinging.....

ayokellany:
The only thing people like you know how to do very well is to incite people to violence. I am a Yoruba Christian and reading through your elaborate explanation on the conversation btw you and the Hausa colleague i sincerely feel like strangling you. God bear me witness but for civility and decorum which i hold in high esteem.

I do not even have to check you profile as i do not care till now but i am a billion% sure you are Igbos. I wouldn't want to dwell on the ills of you people inciting other to violence as that could lead to a one on one btw you and i but please be advice we all have different level of exposure education enlightenment and we are not at the same level of civility. When you Igbos realize that then Nigeria can progress peacefully.

That is the reason you'd see Yoruba are comfortable protesting to have Jonathan installed as president and voting Jonathan Ebele in 2011 but 2015 most of you people will be shocked. If you listen to radio broadcast across Yorubaland you'd understand every voter see Jonathan as a THIEF it now left for you to decide if he is stealing enough to continue or you need a change. Your guess is as good as mine on that. I never believed this until i tried informing some elderly people of whom they should vote for but was surprised they know they are voting no thief come 2015, peace.

its so strange that the whole yoruba land see GEJ as a thief but worship tinubu as the messiah of the SW? Isn't that hypocrisy??

iluvnaija:
Am gonna miss Jim. I really love his style of presentation and broadcasting generally.

"I'm Jim Clancy and you have been briefed".

I love Richard Quest too. "Wherever your business may take you, I do hope is profitable"

These guys are my inspiration in the industry.

I like that jim clancy guy......but where I would be angry is if they sack quest.......but he better behave too....its a responsible country and people are held accountable for whatever action they take......but Nigeria,anything goes

Well....I guess this is the real buhari's daughter.....they other photos were edited after 4hrs using photo shop.......

tomber:
Jimi all the way. But when will the men below me have their own debate now.

when someone produces his certificate...

This LRNZH again..........all the post you have put up are either divisive or tribal or your support for buhari.....are there no positive news that you could enlighten ur with?

yemaldo:
Let them enjoy pdp as long as they want

Lolz....when they tell you to leave the SW and experience other places in Nigeria,u would think you are being insulted......the op said aba road.....in PORT HARCOURT.....not aba in ABIA state.....geez...

ChristyG:
all d evils u and ur useless ibo animals wish yorubas will consume u all.iboland will be wiped out from d surface of the earth first before anything happens to yorubas.scumbags from the pit of hell.useless tribe...all ur insults will still not change d fact dat ur gej is going to lose and u ibos will drown together with him.its funny one of d most nomadic pple like ibos will be threatening others,when ur pple live in large numbers in dat same yoruba land u are wishing evil for,u pple truly deserve d genocide dat happened to u,u are still bitter and hateful..awon oloriburuku,eranko lasan lasan ikeji aja

lolz.....I thought you came from the tribe of warriors? Scared of the illorin treatment? So igbos are now Nomadic? Lols......wetin person no go see for this site.......I believe with all these insults and fallacy,u are speaking for your people......

abacus:
This is time wasting.. Nothing to defend. Discuss your topic leave APC and Fasola out of your post. Defend GEJ.

so it is easy to discuss GEJ and PDP with all the insults,but it is not right to criticise fashola and APC......why be a hypocrite?

NPComplete:
This is what happens when people with low IQ get involved in politics. U forget that Buhari needs to win at least 25 percent in 2/3 of the states to be declared president. Keep talking stupidly and making neutral people the SE and SS to begin to align with Jonathan when they read ur comments. I don't think Buhari needs people like u supporting him. U are only hurting his chances. I won't be surprised if u are a PDP supporter trying to masquerade as APC though.

lolz...."They don't matter".....there are people who don't really care about politics....but when they see these comments,they decide to take sides.......

najoke:
pls what is this thread about again.....Enugu or lekki airport......can all posters pls stick to the topic.

Thank you

or more like stick to your region......if yall really need a topic to discuss why not talk about the failures in the SW and leave the SE alone....all these negatice post would only make the igbos determined as ever to vote for GEJ....

LRNZH:
Keep calm and reason well.

The article is written by an Igbo man. The picture shows the consistent flooding that happens at Enugu Airport in the rainy season.
Did you read that out of the N13Billion earmarked for the airport only N6Billion has been spent and that's it?

Learn to question your Gov't or show us counter proof and stop acting like a clueless tout.

LRZNH and eightTHREAD......I believe you are the same dude with the same handle.....its quite funny that all your post are mainly about the igbos or about GEJ.......I don't understand ýou.....

emperorizzy:
"they look good together"? That sounds gay

yeah.....you really sound gay....

GhaliNaaba:
But the same ijaw man betrayed you during biafra war.

but the hausa fulani and the yorubas killed the igbos......so which is worse?

Crocz:
Sorry I had to say this but Igbos are one funny set of people always choosing the lost course, fighting battles that can never be won...they are always skeptical, thinking other ethnic majority is at war with them and aligning with minority president who dubiously claim to be one of them will give them respite. You'd wonder what exactly has it profit them for his 6yrs tenure. And when there is a change in government come May, they'd all be screaming ontop of their lungs that they've been sidelined and ill-treated. Most of them would even say "this is what Ojukwu saw, he knew this was gonna happen"...*smiled sacarstically*

My words for Ndigbos "get your a*s out their, compete vigorously against the Ethnic majority (hell!, even Ijaws are doing it, a minority), stop being cowards who seems not to get his voice out among his peers!...and let bygones be bygones, cos Nigeria is past Biafra already!!

stop being disrespectful and unwise.....its funny you talk about competition.....I hate it when someone or a tribe would act holier than thou and start preaching rubbish about what problems the igbos have when they haven't finished with the problems in their own tribe..... How do you know that GEJ is a lost cause? You sit back in your room and type things you do not understand just because you have the ability to do so....what I tell my political SW friends is that you don't understand Nigeria by watching africa magic and reading newspapers.....you need to take your self out of your region and experience people who are not your necessarily your tribe so that you have an understanding why different tribes act the way they do........I guess you are obviously not living in reality....

He is less qualified than before.....

Fashola,a man who didn't have a say in his government has the effrontery to criticise the president and some ignorant people are clapping? I am very sorry for the youths we have who have decided to tag along the train instead of ask questions from their leaders......we have tiers of government and for some reason best known to some disgruntled politicians,they focus only on the central government because they want power at all cost. A certain "elder statesman",having disrespected that office was insulted by the president and people clapped.........the sooner the Nigerian youth decides not to think based on ethnic or tribal sentiments,the better for us.......the black man has a long way to go.....

DesChyko:
So?
I've watched Nigerian mothers suck out the catarrh from their kids' nostrils even though it is produced by bacteria which is harmful to the body.
Why should one be afraid of 'faeces' which comprises of undigested and indigestible food materials that enters through the mouth?

Yuck.....

#I See Dead People#

Hip T.v

#I See Dead People#

ISpiksDaTroof:
Who is this "South South" yall stay screaming about? First off, if you think you'll get the backing of the Ibos your dreams are about to turn into nightmares. Next, in this so called "SS" how many groups do you honestly think will pick up arms to fight a foolish fight shoulder to shoulder with the Ijaws ? Do not deceive yourself, if GEJ loses the worst that'll happen is the Militant beneficiaries of GEJ'S corrupt Govt will try to blow up pipelines because they know funds for Benzes and Mansions are coming to a halt. But you know what will happen if they do this? The might of the Federal Govt will descend on them so heavily it won't be funny. Next--- and we hope they do go ahead and blow up pipelines and cause destruction to people's lives and properties because it'll only make the job eventually prosecuting them easier --- international warrants will be placed for their arrests thereby ensuring that nowhere on planet earth is a safe haven for them if they ever touch a single hair on the body of a Nigerian citizen, or if they even as much as destroy Nigerian property.

So, they can go ahead and destroy and cause carnage as much as they want, but this much I promise you: Eventually they will pay with either their lives or their freedom.

I probably think you don't know what's on ground...........I will forgive your ignorance......

barcanista:
Who in South South will pick up arms to fight because a failed project called Jonathan was boothed out? i know my people, we are not foolish. We have our demands and Jonathan isn't part of it. His Presidency is his own pocket, just like Sambo's VP is his own pocket. My brothers, Sisters and I want a better life. We want an abrupt end to unemployment in our region, we want security, we are tired of seeing some few criminals from our region and politicians enjoying alone and then shout "South South" when it doesn't favor them. Specifically, no one Ijaw, not even people of Otuoke will shed tears for Mr. Goodluck Jonathan. Whoever think that he has the ability to disrupt the peace of the South South and specifically the Ijaw nation should test his/her might from May 29. Incoming President Muhammadu Buhari and the entire South South People will put that bastard(s) to his/her place.

Sai Buhari
God Bless SS
God Bless Ijaw Nation
God Bless Nigeria

please,where in the SS are you from?

akpumping7720:
Dude... U funny oooooo. Ojukwu didn't trade oil for weapons. U funny no be small. Go and read history very well then come back to tell me if Ojukwu actually got weapons or not. All weapons Ojukwu used in prosecuting the war outmatched what the Nigerian Army used. Israelis and the Germans with some trained igbos designed d weapons... Have u heard about shelling machine before? Dude make we no start dis one dis nite. Just go to bed.

Just listened To Talk Radio 99.3 and they were talking about DSS and one dude called and said the reason why he would vote buhari is because his father told him how good he is and his father cannot lie........I was like...WTF??.....a grown man?? Well that aside,the guy said ojukwu was supplied with sophisticated weapons.....and I laugh again....guess his dad told him.....I won't digress too much, but truth be told,we had people who actually saw battle who were civilians....the battle ground was in the SE.......most SW,NE,Middle belt people who fought were actually soldiers so whatever news the civilians got in Nigeria was from the eyes of each individuals interpretation based on where he or she comes from........ojukwu had his Msc in History from oxford so he understood the implication of colonialism......why would u want an independent nation ruled by blacks to be re-colonised by the same people he was fighting against? The russians met with ojukwu and said they would trade oil for weapons....as my brother white technology has said......which I personally regret why he didn't do the trade......the story might have been different today....the igbo's were blessed with very brilliant people of those days....wonderful scientist and brilliant engineers.....ojukwu bucket,created bridges,created their own trucks,ammunitions,bombs,created an air strip in uli......and underground bunkers.......with the fighting spirit of the igbo man,these were the things that sustained them.....for the assertion that they were suported was true,Biafra would have been an independent country now or Nigeria would had been in a long and dirty battle to quell the insurgents from the east.........please read and research and don't be persuaded by what your parents told you under the mangoe tree......we are educated....

LRNZH:
APC just needs to reach out to these groups and tighten the coalition to keep the momentum going.

Again, Ndi Igbo don't miss this spaceship.

GMB will ride on the wave of all these support to Aso Rock come February.

it would take more than this to influence the SE votes so I would advice you to stop wasting your time.........

Change2015:
Now let's complain about how the quota system has been violated to favour the south East and south south, under Jonathan.
https://www.nairaland.com/2078102/illiteracy-tribalism-south-east-south-south-hijack

Facts have emerged that the Federal Government under the leadership of President Ebele Goodluck has grossly violated the federal character principle by appointing large chunk of citizens of the Southeast(SE) and South-south(SS) zones as heads of agencies and parastatals responsible for the financial and economic fate of Nigeria.

This is coming just as the Federal Character Commission(FCC) admitted its incapacity to stop the tide due to logistic constraints.

Documents obtained by Peoples Daily Weekend reveal that at the head of the pack is the Minister of Finance and Economy, Dr. Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, an Ibo from Delta state.

Corollary to her position runs a long list of appointees to parastatals and agencies dominated by South-East and South-south zones to the huge detriment of other zones.

For instance, in a list marked “Strategic Public Sector Finance/Economy Leaders, March 2014” numbering 26 appointees, 14 heads of strategic agencies all hail from the Ibo-speaking South-East zone, three from South-south, three from South-west(SW), three from North-central(NC), two from North-west (NW)and one from the North-east(NE).

Besides Prof. Nwanze Okidegbe, the chief economic adviser to the President, heads of the Nigeria Sovereign Investment Authority, Nigeria Stock Exchange, Securities and Exchange Commission, Assets Management Company of Nigeria, Investment and Securities Tribunal, National Pension Commission(PENCOM),Bureau of Public Procurement, Debt Management Office, Fiscal Responsibility Commission, Revenue Mobilisation and Fiscal Commission; National Salaries, Income and Wages Commission and Nigeria Export Processing Zones Authority are all indigenes of the SE.

The SS heads the Budget Office, Bank of Industry while the third, Mr Godwin Emefiele is already a Central Bank of Nigeria Governor- designate following the suspension of current holder, Sanusi Lamido Sanusi. The SW hold offices of the National Insurance Commission, Accountant-General and Infrastructure Bank. The NC has the Auditor-General, Nigerian Export/Import Bank and Bank of Agricuture; the NW with Nigeria Customs Service and the Nigeria Deposit Insurance Corporation while the NE has only the Federal Mortgage Bank. In the list, the headship of the Federal Inland Revenue Service is yet to be appointed probably due to the concern raised by the Senate over balance in appointments (see lists on page 9 for details).

Another expanded list of 65 names including non-finance and economic slots, summarises the dominance of the SE particularly by about 50 percent followed by the SS, a not too significant percentage for the SW while the entire North is grudgingly left with the rest.

Peoples Daily Weekend also observes that the moment a position is left by a Northerner through retirement, death or any other cause, most replacement nominees sent to the National Assembly would immediately come from the President’s zone or the SE.

Senators also raised this point recently when the list of new CBN non-executive Board members was released.

Senators were sharply divided along geo-political lines in a June 27,2013 plenary over the lack of observance of the federal character principle in federal appointments by President Goodluck Jonathan.

Many senators argued that President Jonathan’s nominations did not adhere to the principles of federal character as enshrined in Section 14 (3) of the 1999 Constitution (as amended).

Senators expressed reservations about the president’s nominations during confirmation of board appointments into the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN), Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC) and the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).

Senate President David Mark equally expressed reservations about the matter. Although he described the reservations of his colleagues as ‘healthy’, Mark said the day of reckoning would soon come.

Mark warned, however, that federal character could not be the ‘end of it all’ at the expense of merit in appointment of Nigerians into government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).

He cautioned that the issue of federal character should not be overstretched.

Senators were sharply divided over the confirmation of the appointment of four non-executive members of the board of the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN).

They are Muhammad Musa Kafarati (North-East), Collons Chike Chikeluba (South-East), Adaba Anthony Adeiza (North-Central) and Ayuli Jemide (South-South).

Although they were eventually confirmed, senators insisted that the federal character principle, as enshrined in the constitution, must be followed in all appointments.

Senate Minority Whip, Ganiyu Solomon observed that since the South-West was not represented in the list of those nominated for appointments, the remaining slot should be reserved for the zone in the interest of equity and fair play..…

well.....going by what you posted as fact,I believe what you mean is that the only time their is fairness in federal appointment is when all the FG parastatal are dominated by the North.......that's when it is equitable??.....how can a few ministerial positions be compared to the thousands of post being held by the North in the NASS,army,navy,air force,police,customs...... federal character,quota system......methods used to frustrate the speed of development in the south.......how can we as a people encourage mediocrity? The truth is,if Nigeria decides to restructure and do the right thing by throwing the federal character none sense in the trash,we all know who it would affect........

Rawani:
What the OP wants is an opportunity to dominate due to the variation in the levels of educational penetration in the different regions. Luckily the midwives of Nigeria foresaw this tendency for skewed representation in the affairs of this country in the long run, and established the quota system.

Before talking about quality, consider the spate of educational malpractices rampant in the region that complains about quota system the most. If Uche can pay N10k to get a score of 250 in the absence of the quota system, do you think Adamu will ever gain admission into any of our citadels of learning?

this your argument doesn't hold water at all.........why no make the cut off mark for the south to be 10 and the North to be 250 let's see how well we would enjoy the quota system.....

espn:
that is not correct.. the local govt was created so that they would be closer to the grass root. So dis doesn't mean they are the strongest. They don't evem have the financial power compared to the state and the federal government especially in nigeria where the local govt lacks full autonomy. Therefore the local government is the weakest among the 3 tiers of government.

the local govt is the govt closer to the people.....so that means they know what the people want,approve,dislike..........the locaal govt is controlled by the state government in Nigerias case.......you talk about full autonomy,but when the discussion about local govt autonomy was brought up,it was APC states that killed the idea of local govt autonomy........if not,the possibility of strengthening it would not be an issue......

Insults,abuses,Curse..........nothing intellectual to gain from.....our future of tomorrow.......

espn:
we have 3 tiers of GOVT. Federal, state and Local government and d federal government is the strongest in all ways. If the federal government fails to fix it's own house with all the resources available to him then how do you expect d other tiers of Govt to perform? GEJ should lead by example and let's c if others will follow.

the local govt is supposed to be the strongest....because its closer to the people.......please hold all the leaders of the three tiers accountable not just the centre.........each tier has its function to perform........when you criticise each tier that's when progress would be made......

lestat:
Dude speak for yourself, i am also from Anambra and sorry to say its you who are myopic, ignorant and stupidd, because i know for a fact that all these groups are only figments of the posters imagination, Igbos will vote Buhari enmasse COME ELECTION DAY,because every Igbo, man, woman and child knows that GEJ IS A USELESS TOOTPICK

REASONS WHY BUHARI CAN NEVER RULE NIGERIA

Originally By: Kekere ekun and Co.


In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the follwoing reasons I can not vote for Buhari

1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara and dollars to be under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers whose land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.

1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.

1 (b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.

1© Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.

2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution. He left untouched an alleged well known drug baron in Ibrahim Babangida who later overthrew his government.

3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.

4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash througth the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases were supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.

5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."

6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of Northern population majority

7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.

8. He is a coup plotter.

9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
9(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.

10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.

11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatia mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.

12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in Kiri Kiri Prison by meanhearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.

13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.

14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!

15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.

16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, co ordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame!

17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the North. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.

18. Buhari is unforgiven. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army function where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.

19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates and a few of them protested, Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.

20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.

21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.

22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.

If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human being like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?

I can not in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria.

For the good of Nigeria, vote any other candidate