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Muhammed Kabir
A Rejoinder to “Buhari, Atiku, Go and Rest” written by Naiwu Osahun: a response from MK Hassan

Dear Naiwu Osahun,
I read your article with the above caption and was compelled to write a rejoinder because of the inaccuracies it conveyed. The article only succeeded in exposing your ignorance of what has been happening in Nigeria, not surprising to me because you have stayed too long in the West and have no clue or is it due to some deliberate intellectual mischief? It may be better if you start writing on Memphis Tennessee, the civil right movements and how Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis since you know that place very well to have been given the city’s key before you get enlightened on local politics back home in Nigeria and start writing. I am really disappointed with that article and other ones you have previously wrote. It is obvious that your article wanted to attack the personality of Buhari but it ended up with bunch of contradictions and lack of scholarship. I cannot defend both Atiku and Jonathan because they all have case files before EFCC. While Atiku has one with respect to PTDF, Mr. Jonathan’s wife has a case file involving 12 million dollars when he was Governor of Bayelsa and she was arrested by EFCC then. Jonathan became Vice President and now Acting President and the case has since died silently. However, on Buhari I need to put the records straight point by point, I hope my rejoinder will be given the same publicity as your initial write up.

1. Mitary Training: Buhari does not fit in to the profile you wrote. In case you don't know Buhari graduated as a military officer (lieutenant) in Aldeshot UK. He went to the US National War College Carlisle in Pennsylvania from 1980 -1981. That is where the most respected officers of the US army such as Collin Powell attended to become generals. He was at the Defense College of India as well. By all military standards, his training is superb and the best any general can get in the world. Buhari was not some idle sitting General on baboon tree as you stated in your write up when he was in the army. In 1982-1983 when Chad took over our land with more than 19 villages like what the Cameroonians did with the support of France in the case of Bakassi, he then Brigadier Buhari led a successful operation as the GOC to push back Chad and reclaim our territory. If it was Buhari, there is no way as President, he will hand over Bakassi to Cameroon, that is true patriotism. I am not Buhari's relative and I have never met him in my life. But I have taken the pain to know a lot about him by reading facts because I believe among all the possible candidates vying for the Presidency now that may end up ruling Nigeria, he is the best qualified. Someone challenged me on the comments section of Sahara Reporters that I must compare General David Petreaus (The General Commanding Central Command in the Middle East of the US Forces) and Buhari; that is a tall order. They did not serve in the same army but still you have to give it to Buhari. Buhari as Lieutenant after graduating from the UK royal army fought in the Congo in 1964-65 as part of the first mission forces to stabilize the country during it first civil war and won the Congo Medal. He is comparable to Petreaus of US in terms of war command and strategy training. Petreaus Attended the US War College, Pennsylvania to become a General, Buhari went to the same college from 1980-1981 to be General even though Petreaus did, Buhari is his senior even by the US army rankings. Buhari fought a dangerous battle in Congo as a Lieutenant and won the Congo medal, Petreaus did not. Buhari fought in the Biafra civil war as a captain; Petreaus has not fought in a civil war. Buhari commanded an army division to defend his country against Chad, Petreaus commanded an army division to destroy a country Iraq. Now anyone who wants to can compare them.

2. Buhari's family background: Buhari came from a poor family in Daura. He is not the typical northern prince that you may think of. He lost his father Mallam Dauda, when he was young and his uncle took care of him and sent him to school and after secondary school, he joined the army and went to train in the UK royal army. You should have found out about all that before you write your article. It is because of his kind of background and the suffering he went through that he has no sympathy for corruption and the northern traditional ruling families fear him. Quite unlike Atiku, IBB, Yar'adua, Abdussalam etc, he has no traditional title, he refused to accept one from any emir even though they want to give him one even today. The masses in the north have decided to give him one. They call him Baba Buhari Shugaban talakawan Nigeria (Meaning our father, Buhari the leader of the masses).

3. Buhari, the so called Jihadist: Buhari was the first person to fight religious extremism in Nigeria. Anyone can go and find out about a group called Maitatsine in the north that took up arms in 1984 in the name of Jihad in States like Kano, Maiduguri, Bauchi and Adamawa and what he did to them. You also need to read about his refusal to allow every tom dick and harry to become a pastor or imam in Nigeria like what is happening today. That is why we have so many religious crisis in the country because illiterates are parading themselves as Mallams and Pastors and fomenting trouble in the land. In respect of Nuhu Ribadu, Nasiru El Rufai, two of the most recent distinguished northerners anyone likes to mention, I would like to let you know that they have learnt a lot from Buhari as well. Nuhu got the opportunity to fight his first battle of corruption when he was doing his NYSC in 1984 when Buhari was investigating the 1984 thieves, Nuhu served in the Ministry of Trade where the import license scams took place and it is there, he told us on one occasion while delivering a lecture, that he got the inspiration to fight corruption and decided to join the police after his NYSC. In the case of El-Rufai, he also worked as consultant for PTF when Buhari was its chairman. Not surprising that they are hard working and distinguished. However, just before the 2003 elections, mischief makers like Atiku went to the south to misinformed people that he is a jihadist and support Sharia. If that is the case distinguished southerners both Christians and Muslims alike will not have supported him and I am talking of people like late Gani Fawehimi, who invited him to his house and raised Buhari’s hand before the media for all of us to see. People like Olu Falae, Tam David West and the like who still say a lot of good things about him and are supporting him. The truth must be told this time.

4. IBB's Coup against Buhari: Buhari refused to accept IMF loans and refused to devalue the naira then and I am glad you acknowledge that in your article and because of that he had to go because the west didn't like him so they used IBB to bring SAP that scuttle our econo y and put us in 18 billion dollars debt even though we sell oil. Meanwhile, he has retired General Ali Gusau in 1984 because of disagreements regarding work and defense contracts as reported along with Babangida, the duo planned the coup and when they succeeded, Babangida recalled Ali Gusau back to the army and made him his chief of Defense Intelligence. By the way, I would like you to know that Buhari sent Gusau on training to UK and US in intelligence and security while he was head of state. He made IBB his chief of army state but IBB is nothing short of a traitor to Buhari just the same way Dimka and Bisalla were traitors to Murtala in the 1976 coup.

5. Buhari planned a coup because of missing oil billions. He planned a coup against people like Umaru Dikko the then transport minister who were giving themselves import licenses for rice and skimming Nigerians and the like of Dr Tahir, the communication minister, who were importing horses and their food from Argentina. I met late Dr. Tahir who became Buhari's supporter in 2003, when I visited him in 2002 he told us that what Buhari did then was right, because they have lost their direction as a government. Dr. Tahir was a man of high intellectual capacity with a Phd in sociology from Cambridge, he spoke the truth. What Buhari did as a petroleum minister was the successful supervision and construction of three of the nation refineries, over 4000km of pipelines and 28 depots that we have failed to maintain today and so we import oil. How much has been stolen in just the turnaround maintenance of the refineries between Obasanjo and Abdussalam and still the refineries are not working? Over 4 billion dollars from 1999 to date. Infact before Obasanjo left, he auctioned one of refineries to Dangote at about 250 million dollars, something worth more than 3 billion dollars, Yar’adua reversed that sale.

6.Buhari and PTF: It is obvious you have not been home for long and so you are writing on what you don't know. On PTF, Buhari rehabilitated universities in Nigeria, provided textbooks for libraries and I am a witnessed, I used them for my final year project with PTF written on them. He supplied buses to the universities that time universities have no means of transportation. He built lecture theaters that I have studied in. We were happy to drive in the PTF buses and go for excursions to Kainji and Ajaokuta. What happened in PTF was after Obj won election even before he was sworn in and seeing the PTF records, he said he is going to ban PTF because it has no constitutional backing in a democracy. Because constitutionally all revenues must go to federation account and allocated by RMFAC. So when he was sworn in, he appointed a sole administrator, Dr. Haruna Adamu to investigate PTF hoping he will find something against Buhari. But it ended with Haruna going to jail for stealing $100 million dollars and it is in the records and newspapers in case you don’t know.

7.Missing PTF Money: . Let me tell you if that money you are talking about was missing in PTF, in both 2003 and 2007 elections, PDP and OBJ will have used that against Buhari just like he did to Atiku and PTDF and how he intimidated IBB on Glo by arresting his son, but OBJ cannot because he knows the man is so clean and that is who we need today in Nigeria. You can accuse Buhari for high handedness when he initially came in to power in 1983 by sending the politicians to Kiri Kiri with long life sentences but not corruption. Looking back to the 1980's , I can say Buhari was even compassionate. During that time, in Ghana and Congo and several African countries where they were coups, people like Rawlings in Ghana executed the government officials by firing squad or hanging but Buhari just jailed them. Some Nigerians are now even clamoring for a revolution or the Rawlings style.

8.Buhari and Democracy: Since the time he joined partisan politics, Buhari has conducted himself in the most admirable manner to anyone who knows what African politics is. Whenever, he lost, he went to court to follow due process. He has been in court for more than 20 months in one occasion making his case. He refused to mobilize his follows to rise against the Government or become unruly. If you don’t know he has such a large following but even if you think he doesn’t look at what is happening in other African countries. Raila Odinga and Kenya, they almost went to civil war because of elections. Morgan Tseveingire and Zimbwebwe, the country is now in shambles.

9. Let me be categorically clear, I am not saying Buhari is Saint Buhari and has no faults. I have my own different opinions on him as well but given our circumstances and the practical reality we are facing the main options we have in 2011 are BUHARI, ATIKU, BABANGIDA, GOODLUCK, the rest of the candidates are not yet out and I have not seen someone with their political heavy weight, we may be left with only the option of electing Buhari if we want to move this country forward. In a real political fight, Jonathan may not survive the intrigues. I don’t have anything against him but I am waiting for him to prove himself on electricity. I am even helping him because I have given his government a plan on how to fix it in the next one year, I hope he can deliver on the electricity promise to prove to us that he can lead and solve our problems.

Finally, if you think my points are not correct or I am being dishonest, I think we have no other option than I challenge you to a debate on your write up perhaps with Sahara reporters and informed journalists and historians as panelists. You are in Tennessee, I am in Pennsylvania, so we can meet in the neutral middle state of Ohio in a city like Cincinnati for the debate. I can pay for your travel fare from Memphis if you want me to. After the debate on Buhari with facts and defending the trash you wrote, then we can put it in on Youtube and Sahara reporters that way Nigerian’s will be more enlightened. I am not intimidated by the bunch of acronyms and titles after your name. It is dangerous to be writing stupid stories and misleading people, it is not helping the situation in Nigeria.

MK Hassan can be reached at mk.hassan@hotmail.com

Something you don't know about Buhari


Muhammed Kabir
A Rejoinder to “Buhari, Atiku, Go and Rest” written by Naiwu Osahun: a response from MK Hassan

Dear Naiwu Osahun,
I read your article with the above caption and was compelled to write a rejoinder because of the inaccuracies it conveyed. The article only succeeded in exposing your ignorance of what has been happening in Nigeria, not surprising to me because you have stayed too long in the West and have no clue or is it due to some deliberate intellectual mischief? It may be better if you start writing on Memphis Tennessee, the civil right movements and how Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis since you know that place very well to have been given the city’s key before you get enlightened on local politics back home in Nigeria and start writing. I am really disappointed with that article and other ones you have previously wrote. It is obvious that your article wanted to attack the personality of Buhari but it ended up with bunch of contradictions and lack of scholarship. I cannot defend both Atiku and Jonathan because they all have case files before EFCC. While Atiku has one with respect to PTDF, Mr. Jonathan’s wife has a case file involving 12 million dollars when he was Governor of Bayelsa and she was arrested by EFCC then. Jonathan became Vice President and now Acting President and the case has since died silently. However, on Buhari I need to put the records straight point by point, I hope my rejoinder will be given the same publicity as your initial write up.

1. Mitary Training: Buhari does not fit in to the profile you wrote. In case you don't know Buhari graduated as a military officer (lieutenant) in Aldeshot UK. He went to the US National War College Carlisle in Pennsylvania from 1980 -1981. That is where the most respected officers of the US army such as Collin Powell attended to become generals. He was at the Defense College of India as well. By all military standards, his training is superb and the best any general can get in the world. Buhari was not some idle sitting General on baboon tree as you stated in your write up when he was in the army. In 1982-1983 when Chad took over our land with more than 19 villages like what the Cameroonians did with the support of France in the case of Bakassi, he then Brigadier Buhari led a successful operation as the GOC to push back Chad and reclaim our territory. If it was Buhari, there is no way as President, he will hand over Bakassi to Cameroon, that is true patriotism. I am not Buhari's relative and I have never met him in my life. But I have taken the pain to know a lot about him by reading facts because I believe among all the possible candidates vying for the Presidency now that may end up ruling Nigeria, he is the best qualified. Someone challenged me on the comments section of Sahara Reporters that I must compare General David Petreaus (The General Commanding Central Command in the Middle East of the US Forces) and Buhari; that is a tall order. They did not serve in the same army but still you have to give it to Buhari. Buhari as Lieutenant after graduating from the UK royal army fought in the Congo in 1964-65 as part of the first mission forces to stabilize the country during it first civil war and won the Congo Medal. He is comparable to Petreaus of US in terms of war command and strategy training. Petreaus Attended the US War College, Pennsylvania to become a General, Buhari went to the same college from 1980-1981 to be General even though Petreaus did, Buhari is his senior even by the US army rankings. Buhari fought a dangerous battle in Congo as a Lieutenant and won the Congo medal, Petreaus did not. Buhari fought in the Biafra civil war as a captain; Petreaus has not fought in a civil war. Buhari commanded an army division to defend his country against Chad, Petreaus commanded an army division to destroy a country Iraq. Now anyone who wants to can compare them.

2. Buhari's family background: Buhari came from a poor family in Daura. He is not the typical northern prince that you may think of. He lost his father Mallam Dauda, when he was young and his uncle took care of him and sent him to school and after secondary school, he joined the army and went to train in the UK royal army. You should have found out about all that before you write your article. It is because of his kind of background and the suffering he went through that he has no sympathy for corruption and the northern traditional ruling families fear him. Quite unlike Atiku, IBB, Yar'adua, Abdussalam etc, he has no traditional title, he refused to accept one from any emir even though they want to give him one even today. The masses in the north have decided to give him one. They call him Baba Buhari Shugaban talakawan Nigeria (Meaning our father, Buhari the leader of the masses).

3. Buhari, the so called Jihadist: Buhari was the first person to fight religious extremism in Nigeria. Anyone can go and find out about a group called Maitatsine in the north that took up arms in 1984 in the name of Jihad in States like Kano, Maiduguri, Bauchi and Adamawa and what he did to them. You also need to read about his refusal to allow every tom dick and harry to become a pastor or imam in Nigeria like what is happening today. That is why we have so many religious crisis in the country because illiterates are parading themselves as Mallams and Pastors and fomenting trouble in the land. In respect of Nuhu Ribadu, Nasiru El Rufai, two of the most recent distinguished northerners anyone likes to mention, I would like to let you know that they have learnt a lot from Buhari as well. Nuhu got the opportunity to fight his first battle of corruption when he was doing his NYSC in 1984 when Buhari was investigating the 1984 thieves, Nuhu served in the Ministry of Trade where the import license scams took place and it is there, he told us on one occasion while delivering a lecture, that he got the inspiration to fight corruption and decided to join the police after his NYSC. In the case of El-Rufai, he also worked as consultant for PTF when Buhari was its chairman. Not surprising that they are hard working and distinguished. However, just before the 2003 elections, mischief makers like Atiku went to the south to misinformed people that he is a jihadist and support Sharia. If that is the case distinguished southerners both Christians and Muslims alike will not have supported him and I am talking of people like late Gani Fawehimi, who invited him to his house and raised Buhari’s hand before the media for all of us to see. People like Olu Falae, Tam David West and the like who still say a lot of good things about him and are supporting him. The truth must be told this time.

4. IBB's Coup against Buhari: Buhari refused to accept IMF loans and refused to devalue the naira then and I am glad you acknowledge that in your article and because of that he had to go because the west didn't like him so they used IBB to bring SAP that scuttle our econo y and put us in 18 billion dollars debt even though we sell oil. Meanwhile, he has retired General Ali Gusau in 1984 because of disagreements regarding work and defense contracts as reported along with Babangida, the duo planned the coup and when they succeeded, Babangida recalled Ali Gusau back to the army and made him his chief of Defense Intelligence. By the way, I would like you to know that Buhari sent Gusau on training to UK and US in intelligence and security while he was head of state. He made IBB his chief of army state but IBB is nothing short of a traitor to Buhari just the same way Dimka and Bisalla were traitors to Murtala in the 1976 coup.

5. Buhari planned a coup because of missing oil billions. He planned a coup against people like Umaru Dikko the then transport minister who were giving themselves import licenses for rice and skimming Nigerians and the like of Dr Tahir, the communication minister, who were importing horses and their food from Argentina. I met late Dr. Tahir who became Buhari's supporter in 2003, when I visited him in 2002 he told us that what Buhari did then was right, because they have lost their direction as a government. Dr. Tahir was a man of high intellectual capacity with a Phd in sociology from Cambridge, he spoke the truth. What Buhari did as a petroleum minister was the successful supervision and construction of three of the nation refineries, over 4000km of pipelines and 28 depots that we have failed to maintain today and so we import oil. How much has been stolen in just the turnaround maintenance of the refineries between Obasanjo and Abdussalam and still the refineries are not working? Over 4 billion dollars from 1999 to date. Infact before Obasanjo left, he auctioned one of refineries to Dangote at about 250 million dollars, something worth more than 3 billion dollars, Yar’adua reversed that sale.

6.Buhari and PTF: It is obvious you have not been home for long and so you are writing on what you don't know. On PTF, Buhari rehabilitated universities in Nigeria, provided textbooks for libraries and I am a witnessed, I used them for my final year project with PTF written on them. He supplied buses to the universities that time universities have no means of transportation. He built lecture theaters that I have studied in. We were happy to drive in the PTF buses and go for excursions to Kainji and Ajaokuta. What happened in PTF was after Obj won election even before he was sworn in and seeing the PTF records, he said he is going to ban PTF because it has no constitutional backing in a democracy. Because constitutionally all revenues must go to federation account and allocated by RMFAC. So when he was sworn in, he appointed a sole administrator, Dr. Haruna Adamu to investigate PTF hoping he will find something against Buhari. But it ended with Haruna going to jail for stealing $100 million dollars and it is in the records and newspapers in case you don’t know.

7.Missing PTF Money: . Let me tell you if that money you are talking about was missing in PTF, in both 2003 and 2007 elections, PDP and OBJ will have used that against Buhari just like he did to Atiku and PTDF and how he intimidated IBB on Glo by arresting his son, but OBJ cannot because he knows the man is so clean and that is who we need today in Nigeria. You can accuse Buhari for high handedness when he initially came in to power in 1983 by sending the politicians to Kiri Kiri with long life sentences but not corruption. Looking back to the 1980's , I can say Buhari was even compassionate. During that time, in Ghana and Congo and several African countries where they were coups, people like Rawlings in Ghana executed the government officials by firing squad or hanging but Buhari just jailed them. Some Nigerians are now even clamoring for a revolution or the Rawlings style.

8.Buhari and Democracy: Since the time he joined partisan politics, Buhari has conducted himself in the most admirable manner to anyone who knows what African politics is. Whenever, he lost, he went to court to follow due process. He has been in court for more than 20 months in one occasion making his case. He refused to mobilize his follows to rise against the Government or become unruly. If you don’t know he has such a large following but even if you think he doesn’t look at what is happening in other African countries. Raila Odinga and Kenya, they almost went to civil war because of elections. Morgan Tseveingire and Zimbwebwe, the country is now in shambles.

9. Let me be categorically clear, I am not saying Buhari is Saint Buhari and has no faults. I have my own different opinions on him as well but given our circumstances and the practical reality we are facing the main options we have in 2011 are BUHARI, ATIKU, BABANGIDA, GOODLUCK, the rest of the candidates are not yet out and I have not seen someone with their political heavy weight, we may be left with only the option of electing Buhari if we want to move this country forward. In a real political fight, Jonathan may not survive the intrigues. I don’t have anything against him but I am waiting for him to prove himself on electricity. I am even helping him because I have given his government a plan on how to fix it in the next one year, I hope he can deliver on the electricity promise to prove to us that he can lead and solve our problems.

Finally, if you think my points are not correct or I am being dishonest, I think we have no other option than I challenge you to a debate on your write up perhaps with Sahara reporters and informed journalists and historians as panelists. You are in Tennessee, I am in Pennsylvania, so we can meet in the neutral middle state of Ohio in a city like Cincinnati for the debate. I can pay for your travel fare from Memphis if you want me to. After the debate on Buhari with facts and defending the trash you wrote, then we can put it in on Youtube and Sahara reporters that way Nigerian’s will be more enlightened. I am not intimidated by the bunch of acronyms and titles after your name. It is dangerous to be writing stupid stories and misleading people, it is not helping the situation in Nigeria.

MK Hassan can be reached at mk.hassan@hotmail.com

Let me start with this,this is a picture of the Prime minister on his annual leave,spending some time with his children in his farm. Nigeria of those dayz. . .

@op
u mean something like what these people were doing at the PDP primaries?

Yes i have, and i'm voting BB,I want a bloodless revolution

Vote BB for the bloodless revolution,and you will be glad you did,if not you'll forever live with a troubled conscience.

@op
lets not waste our time,we know that those legis-looters wont even ponder that.

Appeal court president accuses chief justice

February 5, 2011 11:32PM
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The President of the Court of Appeal, Justice Ayo Salami, has accused the Chief Justice of Nigeria (CJN) Aloysius Katsina-Alu, of trying to remove him from office.

Mr. Salami in a letter addressed to Mr. Katsina-Alu, who is also the Chairman of the National Judicial Council, alleged that his planned removal was initiated during meetings of the Federal Judicial Service Commission held on February 1 and 2 while he was away at Ilroin, Kwara State.

In a letter dated February 4 and addressed to Mr. Katsina-Alu, Mr. Salami alleged that the action was a validation of months of rumours of his planned ousting which he had then dismissed as "talk shop gossip" originating from mischief makers.

According to Mr. Salami, "What was thought to be a rumour became the subject of serious discussion initiated by the Chief Justice of Nigeria, Alosius Katsina-Alu"

He further faulted Mr. Katsina-Alu for instituting a discussion which concerned him at the council meeting without first consulting with him; and expressed his disappointment that the CJN presented the issue even when "the subject was not part of the agenda of the day".

He continued in the letter, "It was sadly not deemed fit and proper to discuss the proposal with me. Perhaps my view did not count for anything. Neither was it expedient or decorous to place such an important matter on the agenda. No council paper was circulated."

Mr. Salami is of the view that his movement away from the Court of Appeal is a ploy. Mr. Katsina-Alu had told members at the meeting that Mr. Salami should be appointed to the Supreme Court. He said his move would "strengthen" and "add value" to the apex court. He further assured the council members that Mr. Salami would not lose his seniority by the new appointment.

However, Mr. Salami in his letter stated, "I regret to say I am not taken in. I am contented with being the President of the Court of Appeal. Indeed it is common knowledge that I had even in a more auspicious moment declined for good reason to be appointed to the Supreme Court. Nothing has changed since then."

Mr. Salami asked Mr. Katsina-Alu to desist from the "present unholy move to push me out of the Court of Appeal for whatever reason". The president of the Court of Appeal advised that "I do not therefore think that it will be fair for the Chief Justice of Nigeria to seek to create a dangerous precedent which may give rise to chained reactions".

The battle of the Justices

The impasse between Mr. Salami and Mr. Katsina-Alu who were both sworn into their respective offices in December 2009 has caused a lingering tension in the judiciary. This was notably evident in March 2010 when a Supreme Court Justice, Dahiru Musdapher, disqualified himself from adjudicating over the re-run governorship elections in Sokoto State, following an electoral dispute between the Supreme Court and the Court of Appeal.

Mr. Musdapher was quoted as saying then: "I had taken part in discussion pertaining to the case between the CJN and the President of the Court of Appeal. I did not personally feel comfortable to adjudicate in this matter. I am uncomfortable hearing this case because of the fact that I had taken part in discussion on issues pertaining to this case".

Sources following the ongoing gridlock say the motive behind Mr. Salami's conspired removal and appointment to the Supreme Court is to pave way for an amenable Appeal Court president who will play to the dictates of politicians seeking to hijack the judicial process following disagreements anticipated from the general elections in April 2011.

This decision is said to be based on recent Appeal Court judgments in several states which saw governorship elections of the ruling People's Democratic Party (PDP) overturned in favour of opposition parties.

Mr. Salami noted in his letter, "Needless to say that the environment is already over-heated and in a state of flux. Let no one do anything to disrupt the status quo. Nigeria is greater than all of us."

View letter here

View letter here

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5673361-146/appeal_court_president_accuses_chief_justice.csp

Party registration is done at the ward level,go to the CPC office in your ward and register

Please don't call this guy President,A president that rules for 30 yrs is not a President,hes a Pharaoh.
And remember Pharaohs don't step down,they die on the throne.  

Go Gyptians

vote BB for the bloodless revolution,you will be glad you did, thank you.
[b]B[/b]uhari-[b]B[/b]akare

#Rig2011ElectionAndYouWillDieAPainfullHorribleDeath

Lets give Buhar-Bakare a chance,and we will be glad we did. . .

vote BB for the bloodless revolution,u will be glad u did,thank you.

If you believe this piece of false news then you will also believe that i built the 3rd mainland bridge.
4000Mw my black a$$

Bunch of greedy old fools,they are just fooling themselves.

Definitely he not the best, not even close,tell me what he has done so far apart from spending money on nothing,
what useful new thing has happened since he came into power,NOTHING

his supporters are either very naive or have sold their conscience which they'll later regret

It was never about the north,it was all along for their stomaches,
pls lets vote Buhari-Bakare so that we cann see these crooks behind bar


vote BB for the bloodless revolution, thank you

pls how do i flash my E1550 modem or update the firmware,it keeps disconnecting for no reason.

dappssee:
@OP, GEJ didnt say that. One of his aides did

why ddnt he correct the lying aide for gross sycophancy?
which means he agrees with wat the aide said.

THEY are wrong,period


vote BB for the bloodless revolution

[quote author=na_so link=topic=598624.msg7664707#msg7664707 date=1296807555]Contradiction. How can someone whom you claim is not known beyond Lagos and cannot win a Local govt chairmanship election in Adamawa be a spoiler?

You said he is not known in the north, hence one can deduce that you mean Buhari is the sole northern candidate, then explain hoe ribadu is a spoiler. pls.

In my opinion , ribadu is a spoiler for GEJ becuase without ribadu, Gej would have been sure of 70% of SW votes.[/quote]therez no contradiction here,Ribadu cant win an election againt the corrupt GEJ talkless of Buhari,Ribadu became a spoiler by scuttling the CPC/ACN alliance,d 2 parties hav even started exchanging words with ACN calling Buhari names,Ribadu's work is done,wait to hear him in a top position if GEJ 'wins'

yeah,we'd be very lucky if we get bb by 2019 considering the number of things he has to bring to us,Linked,myspace. . .etc

[quote author=Chyz* link=topic=598260.msg7663853#msg7663853 date=1296789335]That's why i love my people,everyone wants to be us. [/quote]seriously,are u being sarcastic? Lmao

GEJ and co,by the grace of God u will not succeed.

sell-outs,apga is dead and gone for good

^^
Howz the insults different from the ones we heap daily on obj,atiku,ibb,gej and co and other corrupt politicians

so what if they abandon shit,who ever cared about what ever stupid clowning they were doing,it has dawned on them that nobody is concerned with what foolish thing they are doing,so its better they channel their energy to something usefull and productive,thank you.

^^
mofo i'm not ibo,i tell u Ribadu is not known beyond Lagos,he cant even win chairmanship in Adamawa. Hes not known in the north,hes just a spoiler.

Let him start his own party lets see how far he will go,instead of using the platform of a man he said was a criminal of international reputation in 2006 on the floor of the national assembly.
Its exactly 4 yrs that Ribadul started 'disqualifying' candidates running for elections,Ribadu has no credibility left,he has been paid be GEJ, mofo

or both

Golddudu:
You better have your facts right. Some of us will yab you off this website if you don't. You have been warned!!

look at this jonny-just-come,will shut dat pit u call mouth b4 i shut it for u,nonsense

IBB’s men at war
• As Oyovbaire faults Omoruyi’s claims over state creation
From Our reporter
Friday, February 04, 2011

Prof. Sam Oyovbaire, former Minister of Information, has taken on Prof. Omo Omoruyi, former Director General, Centre for Democratic Studies (CDS), over his recent utterances on the creation of Delta State on August 27, 1991. Both Oyovbaire and Omoruyi served in the regime of General Ibrahim Babangida , former military president.

Oyovbaire in his rejoinder to Omoruyi’s interview with Daily Sun of Tuesday, January 25, 2011, puntured the roles Omoruyi claimed he played in the creation of of the state: “It is reckless and foolhardy to assign or arrogate IBB’S action or advocacy to anyone particular person who IBB might have consulted.”

He agreed that “Omoruyi would obviously have tendered some viewpoints or advice on the matter; but it is not correct that he alone was involved, and that it was because his advice (whatever it was) was not adopted by IBB, hence IBB ‘fumbled.’ ”
Oyovbaire then explained what he said transpired before Delta State was eventually created. Full text of his rejoinder:

“I have always resisted the strong intellectual urge to respond to some of the many national and local issues of politics and governance which my good and amiable friend and also senior academic colleague – Prof. Omo Omoruyi - has been canvassing since about 1991 when he published his book with the title The Tale of June 12. Omoruyi has canvassed several historical facts and analytical perceptions in the book and in many media interviews which induce and indeed provoke contention and controversy.

“My reluctance to engage in rejoinders derives from very good reasons which are in addition to my very sincere and deep respect for him as an excellently likeable friend, senior intellectual colleague and with whom I have shared mutually challenging thoughts and discourses in matters of governance and political science. We also have a mutual friend who is a great statesman, Gen. Ibrahim Badamasi Babangida (IBB), and who incidentally, occupies the primary space of the critical issues in our discourses, and hence am disinclined to unduly invoke his person in the public domain.

“I am, however, unable to hold back this time from elucidating some points of view based on facts and analysis in the cover story of “IBB fumbled in creating Delta State” by Omoruyi published in the Daily Sun of Tuesday, January 25, 2011, at pages 5 and 63. There are five issues in this story with which I intend to contend, but let me provide a concise preface to my rejoinder.

“It is common knowledge among close intellectual friends, advisers and scholars of IBB’s statesmanship that he is a most complex and thoughtful person – a man who makes up his mind and does what he considers appropriate after listening, usually, to multiple sources, and even when what he does coincides with one’s views or counsel, it is reckless and foolhardy to assign or arrogate IBB’S action or advocacy to anyone particular person who IBB might have consulted. Aphoristically, IBB’s five fingers do not touch one another.

Hence, it amuses me when any friend of IBB says ‘IBB did so and so, because it is my advice to him to do so’. It may or may not be correct. This may well be the source of Omoruyi’s ascription of ‘fumbling’ to the mode and character of Delta State which the IBB regime created on 27th August 1991. Omoruyi would obviously have tendered some viewpoints or advice on the matter; but it is not correct that he alone was involved, and that it was because his advice (whatever it was) was not adopted by IBB, hence IBB ‘fumbled’.

“It should be recalled that the Political Bureau had in its report in 1987, based on very knitly close research, recommended the creation of only six states in the country including Delta State. The number of states then would have risen from 19 to 25. For reasons which are hardly clear and justifiable, only two states, namely: Akwa-Ibom and Katsina were created. Yet about four years later, nine new states, without the benefit of further study but simply in response to governance pressures, were created by IBB. Delta State was one of these nine states. Same for the exercise of creating new local governments which was rejected by IBB earlier in 1987 but having been orchestrated by societal pressures, the AFRC approved and created over 200 in August 1991.

“Twenty years after the events constitute a long enough period to open up a little in the affairs of public governance. The Vice-President, Admiral Augustus Aikhomu, was directed by IBB in July 1991 to hold consultations and make appropriate recommendation on creating new states out of Bendel State. (It is important to acknowledge the fact the pressures for new states in Bendel were highly orchestrated from all segments– Afemai/Esan;/Asaba/Ika/Anioma; Urhobo/Isoko; and Ijaw). Aikhomu summoned a consultative meeting of carefully and advisedly selected leaders who comprised, among others, Oba of Benin and Olu of Warri, Gen. David Ejoor, Gen. Samuel Ogbemudia, Chief K.B. Omatseye, Chief Prof. Philip Onianwa, and Chief I.S. Moemeka. I remember that late Chief Dennis Osadebay and late Chief Sutherland were invited but could not attend. (The register of attendance, minutes and recommendations of that meeting remain in my longhand-writing in my personal library).

“One memorable feature of that meeting is the instructive altercation and educative engagement about the “political origins” of the Itsekiri Kingdom between the two highly revered traditional monarchs, Oba of Benin and Olu of Warri. One other sideline entertainment feature of that day was the gate-crashing into the meeting by Chief (Mrs.) Rita Lori-Ogbebor, a domineering Itsekiri chief, who, knowing that the Olu of Warri was on his way to the meeting decided to attend uninvited and kept Aikhomu constantly on his toes in preventing her from participating in the proceedings. She paced round the Vice President’s residence at No. 7, Ikoyi Crescent, Lagos, throughout the duration of the meeting.

“Two major conclusions and recommendations were arrived at, namely: Delta Province should be a new Delta State with Warri as the state capital. The Itsekiri members were opposed to making Warri the capital of Delta State; and vehemently insisted upon the Itsekiri nationality to be excluded from a Delta State but merged with what is now Edo State or what Omoruyi probably canvassed with IBB as Eduwa State.

“Benin Province which included Asaba District (now Oshimili, Ika and Anioma areas) or the core Ibo speaking area of Bendel State should constitute Edo State with Benin City as the state capital. The Asaba members who attended the meeting vehemently insisted on either being granted Anioma State or as an alternative to exclude Asaba District from Edo State, and, absorbed into Delta State.
“The meeting was occasionally quite heated. The two conclusions above were, however, formulated into an aide-memoire which was tendered by Aikhomu to IBB. Between July and August 26, when the Armed Forces Ruling Council (AFRC), held its meeting on the matter of creating new states and local governments, a lot of currents of political water passed under the political bridge. The currents and under-currents as well as the persons involved in the under-the-bridge movements are well known to me.

“At the AFRC meeting on August 26, 1991, I happened, by dint of insistence by my immediate boss, Aikhomu, to sit behind him as the only civilian adviser to assist in taking notes along with the Secretary to the AFRC, Gen. Tim Shelpidi. The meeting was not concluded by night, and Shelpidi and myself were ordered by IBB to produce the summary of the proceedings for the resumed sitting next morning, Saturday 27, 1991.

“On the matter of Delta State, the decision of the AFRC was as follows: The new state was to be called Ethiope State with capital in Asaba; the Warri area (which used to be one local government, subsequently Warri North, Warri South, and Warri South-West) was excised away from Delta Province and added to Benin Province as Edo state.

“Late in the night after my assignment with Shelpidi, and highly troubled by the decision of the AFRC on Delta State to be endorsed the following morning, I decided to do a hand written note (three pages) to IBB. I could not secure a photocopy but as luck will have it, I was told by Aikhomu that the note was handed to him by IBB at the end of the AFRC meeting on Saturday 27th August 1991. In the note, I sought to plead with IBB to reconsider the three decisions about Delta State.

“That Ethiope is the name of a river whose meaning does not go beyond the source of the river in the Obiaruku sector of Delta Province; hence it is meaningless to call the new state, Ethiope. Apart from the historical and political significance of Delta Province since it was re-named in 1952 by the Action Group government of Chief Obafemi Awolowo from Warri Province to Delta Province, it had already become rooted in the consciousness of the people, including the Ukwuani (Ndokwa) people of present day three local government areas of Ukwuani, Ndokwa West and Ndokwa East. I pleaded that the name Ethiope should be dropped and Delta restored or retained as the name of the new state. Honestly, I do not know who counseled or canvassed the name, Ethiope for the state; may be Omoruyi knows.

“Asaba was obviously on the northeastern fringe of the state sharing River Niger as border with Anambra sSate. It was even much farther away for the people in the Escravos territory than Benin City as capital of Bendel State. Pretending that IBB may have forgotten the aide-memoire from Aikhomu about Warri, I sought to re-emphasize the significance of Warri as the state capital. My argument was that contrary to the strong belief in certain quarters, Warri as a state capital would soon expand to convert the whole area into an economic, administrative and political conurbation and melting pot city for the Ijaw, Itsekiri, Urhobo and Ukwuani (Ndokwa) among other Nigerian citizens who would do business in the city.

I am aware of the resentment by the Itsekiri leaders about making Warri the capital of the state for the fears of Urhobo domination and of their relegation to the backwaters by the forces of socio-political change and development, and also particularly of the Itsekiri monarchy.

“I requested even to the point of being rude to IBB the rationale of taking the Warri area into Edo State. The area is historically settled by the Itsekiri, Ijaw and Urhobo. Taking the Warri area from Delta is creating another round of new problems for the Urhobo who would now be a part of Edo State and for the Ijaw whose fellow compatriots in Edo State already have problems with their historical link with the Bini. For me, the recurrent crisis then in the Warri area would increase rather than reduce by the decision of 26th August 1991 by the AFRC. I therefore sought for reversal of the AFRC’s decision.

“Through the help of my lifelong friend and colleague, who also was a senior political adviser to IBB, Dr. Tunji Olagunju, my note got to IBB more than one hour on Saturday 27th August 1991 before the AFRC reconvened. At the reconvened meeting, it was announced to the AFRC by IBB that the name of the new state should be Delta State and the merger of Warri with Edo State rescinded. The capital of the state remains Asaba. As I stated earlier, my note was handed to Aikhomu which I hope to retrieve. The ramifications of the AFRC’s decisions and reversals are many; but I need not address such matters in this rejoinder.

“Having now relayed my own story as different from Omoruyi’s story, let me take issue with five points in Omoruyi’s interview in the Daily Sun of Tuesday January 25, 2011:
“When Omoruyi stated that “Urhobo and related people deserve a state of their own,” who are the “related people” he has in mind other than the Isoko, Itsekiri, Ijaw or Ndokwa? Omoruyi confuses one by this kind of statement because he also proceeded to advocate “that the Ijaw, Isoko and Itsekiri should be protected”; against whom, I may ask, other than the Urhobo? There can be, as there has always been, a good case for the Urhobo people to have their own state, but how does Omoruyi deal with the fact that the Urhobo and Ijaw who are in Warri South, Warri South-West and Warri North will have been absorbed into his advocated “Eduwa State”?

He was not invited, but how I wished Omoruyi was present at the meeting summoned by Aikhomu in July 1991 when the two revered traditional rulers – Oba of Benin and Olu of Warri – were seriously engaged in altercation over the history and politics of the relationship between the two kingdoms and nationalities, that is, Benin and Itsekiri.

“I really cannot comprehend what Omoruyi had in mind when he said that “they (Urhobo) have not forgiven Babangida” for the location of the state capital in Asaba, and that Babangida took the decision for “personal consideration”. For Omoruyi, IBB’s “personal consideration” was the consequence of “Ogboru/Orkar Coup” of April 1990. I want to believe that Omoruyi is on firm ground, but I doubt it very much that the decision by IBB/AFRC to locate Delta State capital in Asaba has anything to do with anti-Urhobo feelings of IBB over the abortive Orkar coup. Omoruyi is insinuating that Ogboru is equivalent to, or the same as, all Urhobo people and that the Urhobo nation collaborated with Ogboru to sponsor the 1990 abortive Orkar coup. Unbelievable.

“Incidentally, there used to be another laughably alleged IBB’s “personal consideration” which certain individuals used to bandy around in the location of the Delta State capital in Asaba. This one is related to the fact of Her Excellency Mrs. Miriam Babangida (May her peaceful and beautiful soul rest in Peace) being paternally from Asaba, and hence as it was comically stated to me, the state capital was “the bride price paid for the traditional marriage of Mrs. Babangida to the Asaba people”. These are really funny political stuff.

“It is true that Babangida listened to the strong plea of the Asaba community to be granted Anioma State and be ”freed from the Benin Empire”. It should be recalled that until only recently, the bogey of economic viability argument was used to shoot down, refuse, reject or counter any demand for state creation. Anioma was considered, rightly or wrongly, as unviable as a state. I know the individuals whose personal engagements swayed IBB (not even his wife) in granting Asaba “independence from the Benin Empire”; in attaching them to Delta Province for the purpose of Delta State; and in approving Asaba as the capital. It has nothing to do with the 1990 coup or with Mrs. Babangida being a paternal indigene of Asaba.

“I am perplexed by the persistence of Omoruyi in the linkage between Benin and Itsekiri in his proposition of an Eduwa State. In addition to what I have already said when the AFRC decided on 26th August 1991 to merge the Warri area of Delta State with Edo State, I really do not see the geo-political fundamentals in the Eduwa State proposition.

“There is hardly any direct geo-political relationship between Benin and Itsekiri. The linkage is even permeated by the Ijaw community. Even if a case can be built around any geo-political contiguity in the creation of an Eduwa State, how can we deal with the Ijaw in Warri North and Warri South West, and Urhobo in Warri South Local government areas in Eduwa State? To extend the argument a little, how is Edo State dealing presently with the Ijaw minority in the state? In spite of well meaning attempts by the state government and the Benin Monarchy in the social integration process between the Ijaw and Benin, we need to be careful when we pontificate on these matters.

“Omoruyi talked so much about relationship among the three ethnic nationalities of Isoko, Ijaw and Itsekiri. There is a good case in the political relationship of these three groups in so far as there is an Urhobo phenomenon to deal with, yet the relationship between Ijaw and Itsekiri has not been less problematic than as between Urhobo and Itsekiri. In any case, the Ijaw community in Delta State is only a part of the larger Ijaw nationality which is composed by Ijaw communities in Ondo, Edo, Bayelsa, Rivers and Akwa-Ibom states.

When the “coast state” proposition was orchestrated during the government of Prof. Ambrose Alli of the UPN and even, later, before the Chief Arthur Mbanefo Panel in 1994/95 under Gen. Sani Abacha, the proposition was not limited or envisaged as consisting of Isoko, Ijaw and Itsekiri only. The people of Ndokwa East and even a section of Asaba along the south western fringes of the River Niger were part of the agitation. I find Omoruyi’s thoughts and advocacy here very confusing or at best not well informed.

“Finally, I am not sure what to make of the statement in the interview by Omoruyi by linking the result of the recent re-run election of January 6, 2011, and the politics of Delta State on the one hand, and what he believes as the mistake made by IBB in the creation of Delta State on the other. As an excellent scholar of elections management and electoral politics not only here in Nigeria but also in the Caribbean, the United States and Europe, I thought Omoruyi would be able to appreciate the problems and dynamics of elections and election results in Delta State. I say this with particular reference to the history and pattern of election results in the Warri political terrain, especially in the Escravos.

“Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan has only recently drawn attention to this matter both on television and in the print media; and in any case, I hear that the results of the re-run election are being tested in an election tribunal. I wish therefore to refrain from any details. But if only Omoruyi understands the “politics of elections and even of census enumeration” in places like Ogidigben in Warri South West, to take just one extreme location by the ocean, he will know that the results of election and census usually present interesting configurations in the electoral politics of the defunct Western Region, defunct Bendel State, Delta State and of Nigeria.”

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/feb/04/national-04-02-2011-003.htm