Only a fool or anybody that was born after Buhari administration will beleive this.

BUHARI has nothing to offer this country any longer.

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the- scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order Buhari? Need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. 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. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc.

Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. The execution of that youthful innocent for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power. At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down.

They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition. So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma! Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his corrective rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buharis coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagaris government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility.

And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat f’rom dustbins – escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas. The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention.

Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of discipline, it was nothing short of impudent. Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the judicial processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror. The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration.

Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied.

The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism.

Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa? One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary structures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases it would appear that they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders air, sea and land had been shut tight.
Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets.

Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needles eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo later to become an emir- to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment as I later discovered – of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the incumbent Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.

On the theme of double, triple, multiple standards in the enforcement of the law, and indeed of the decrees passed by the Buhari regime at the time, let us recall the notorious case of Triple Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Who was caught, literally, with his pants down in distant Austria. That was not the crime however, and private conduct should always remain restricted to the domain of private censure.

There was no decree against civil servants proving just as hormone driven as anyone else, especially outside the nation’s borders.

However, there was a clear decree against the keeping of foreign accounts, and this was what emerged from the Austrian escapade. Alhaji Alhaji kept, not one, but several undeclared foreign accounts, and he had no business being in possession of the large amount of foreign currency of which he was robbed by his overnight companion. The media screamed for an even application of the law, but Buhari had turned suddenly deaf. By contrast, Fela Anikulapo languished in goal for years, sentenced under that very draconian decree. His crime was being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. A vicious sentence was slapped down on Fela by a judge who later became so remorse stricken at least after Buhari’s overthrow that he went to the King of Afro-beat and apologized.

Lesser known was the traumatic experience of the director of an international communication agency, an affiliate of UNESCO. Akin Fatoyinbo arrived at the airport in complete ignorance of the new currency decree. He was thrown in gaol in especially brutal condition, an experience from which he never fully recovered. It took several months of high-level intervention before that innocent man was eventually freed. These were not exceptional but mere sample cases from among hundreds of others, victims of a decree that was selectively applied, a decree that routinely penalized innocents and ruined the careers and businesses of many.

What else? What does one choose to include or leave out? What precisely was Ebenezer Babatope’s crime that he should have spent the entire tenure of General Buhari in detention?

Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned in the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier who would bear watching through the lenses of a coup-detat. Babatope’s father died while he was in Buhari’s custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his father’s funeral, even under guard. I wrote an article at the time, denouncing this pointless insensitivity. So little to demand by a man who was never accused of, nor tried for any crime,much less found guilty. Such a load of vindictiveness that smothered all traces of basic human compassion deserves no further comment in a nation that values its traditions.

But then, speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of enquire of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom, faithful to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buhari’s decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. Shall tamper with the freedom of the press swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did. And so on, and on, and on……

We now know who the Boko leaders are, it is clear that APC needs votes from that Boko Haram Zone, and they are wise enough to tell their boys to cease fire and embrace peace just for the election, otherwise they will lose many votes from such zone that is their strong region.

It means that if APC win the election their boys will lay down arms but if they lose again, then the killing begins just to make the nation ungovernable to Good Luck Jonathan.

Our politician should learn from this, they should not use every opportunity for campaign.
We are talking about the exit of Socrates like Justice Oputa, I think we should be praying to
get people of like mind as Oputa to replace such a lost in Imo state, but our leaders are there
to playing politics

I am also from Ameshi Umuachishi

tomakint: Definitely Buhari is perenially unelectable as far as Nigeria's politics is concerned, like I use to say, if you want to finish Buhari, just hand him the mic and the rest is settled! There is indeed a strong nexus between 'something' and Buhari, if 'something' is not wrong with Buhari, then Buhari must be wrong with 'something'! Strangely, this is the same tribalist, bigot, fundamentalist and sadist some southern Nigerians in the house called their MESSIAH what a big shame and blockheadedness

WELL SAID MY

Lagos state government denied knowing anything abot the yatch, but they were collecting tax from it, or they want to tell us that the hotel is tax free? eko oni bajeoooooo

ok

Boko Haram should come out first and tell us why they are fighting before we consider amnesty.
You mean that we should give amnesty to people who are fighting against western education
or we should give amnesty to people that want all Nigerians to be converted to Islam.
Please the northern leaders should come out to explain to us the reason why BH is fighting.

when they were dominating nobody complained

If you steal a cup of garry you will get 12years prison term without option,
but loot all the oil money settle the judiciary with 10% and you
will get 6 months with jail option fine of 250,000 naira and you are a free man.
NIGER I HAIL THEE

young man keep it up, you will get there someday

you will be barn for election in Nigeria if you do not join other loot,
You will be jailed in Nigeria if you are caught stealing Maggi cube
You are not free in Nigeria if you do not have loot money or 419 money to spend

He contacted Boko leader 73 times and he claims it is for peace, so how many of their communication that
he communicated to security the chiefs to prove that he is aggitating for peace. Or he wants to achieve the
peace alone?

Good job,Okorocha is working.

God bless you Lawyer, this is highly informative and educative.
I gain a lot from this.

good

For the h set to choose buhari that means they have confidence in him to protect their
interest and that speak volume.

thelastPope: GEJ again setting things right in a most transparent way. You have to really give GEJ serious credit. That is why I laugh when I see some detractors trying to malign him. There is no Nigerian president that have even come close to exposing the rot in the system like he is doing. Big big credit! Even the thought of using his political opponent in the last election for such a sensitive task is unheard of. Imagine Fashola using Obanikoro to run a probe on Lagos? Not even phantomable!

YOU ARE VERY RIGHT

OP: God bless you for this information.

This is the home of Famous Sweden based musician in Oguta, Dr Alban Nwapa. leveled by flood

Mr. President we believe in you, it is only the blind will say that he is not seeing the transformation going on in Nigeria,
It is only a hypo critics will say that he is not seeing your transparency and achievement.
God bless Mr President and God bless Nigeria.

Which part of Oguta lake is that? because the oguta lake I know is 10 times bigger than the picture you posted.
You can have a look of the picture of the lake, I visted the lake last on Easter period.

GEJ YOU ARE THE BEST PRESIDENT THAT THIS COUNTRY HAVE EVER PRODUCE, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME
ANY PRESIDENT IN NIGERIA WILL CONSIDER THE VOICE OF THE PEOPLE AND REVERSE ITS DECISION.
ALL THE HATERS OF GEJ WILL REMAIN ENEMY AND BACK BITERS THAT WILL NEVER COME FORWARD BUT
WILL ALWAYS BE AT THE BACK WHILE GEJ WILL BE IN FRONT MOVING FORWARD EVERYDAY.

GEJ MADE ME TO BELIEVE THAT THEIR IS STILL HOPE FOR THIS NATION

OP

This is the time to sho your husband more love, he confessing to you prove that the love he gets from you is stonger than whay he sees outside and
he just proved it by telling you. Please stop coming home late, try to show him more love than before because what he has just done proved that
he wants to give you more love than before.

You never knew that he was cheating on you before, now he felt that you do not deserve that and he decided to quit, so you need to give him more attention
and love. If you stop giving him attension then that means pushing him outside and whe he do you will have more problems than what you thing you have as a problem now.

If he no longer love her then let him quit,
that will be better for both of them because
i believe that the woman will be dying in silence
by now. The woman must have been enduring the marriage just
like typical African woman, so she too is not enjoying her marriage
rather she is suffering and smiling all in the name of marriage.

Enough is not yet enough oooooooo
when they were killing christians
and distroying all the churches
enough wasn't enough,
Now that they are bringing down
the mast in your states then enough
want to be enough.

NO WAY, BOKO BOYS CARRY GO TILL YOU
DESTROY EVERYTHING IN THE NORTH BEFORE
THE EYES OF THIS ACF

yohanna zack: So, shuld we celebrate otedola? Why is it dat nobody seems to shoult, crucify otedola too? Dis guys hav bin suckin nigerians' blood, pple like otedola are suposd to live. If u ask me.

I wonder

Rochas we know that you are doing well in governance but you will do well by moving some of your project out of Owerri which
is truly saturated, places like Oguta needs development as one of your state tourist center, I have visted Oguta lake about
3 times and that place is a God given site for your state development.

[color=#006600][/color]@ op it is better for you to hide your ignorance than show it in public and shame urself.U mentioned cars not to be bought becos of slight extra consumption for d exilarating performance and road balance they give because of better and heavier suspension but u also failed to mention cars like toyote honda and generally Japanese cars which are easily stolen cos they lack adequate security without alarm system.Cars like d peugeot 406 prestige which I use and love provides a range to choose from but d same body design.It has d 1.8,2.0,2.2.ew10 and ew 12 engines to choose from.any one who drives fast and needs balance would go for a benz,peugeot,bmw,audi.and anyone who needs normal performance and fear of car snatchers who will catch u with a danfo bus try japanese cars dat may jump into d nearest ditch @ 140km/hr.

Well said,
Most Nigerians are ignorant of cars and their abilities, Benz, BMW, FORD, AUDI, PEUGEOT, are all good product and very durable than the Japanese cars, but due to the fact that Nigerian mechanics specialize in Japanese cars they keep on condemning other brand.

I bought Honda accord 1999 model and BMW 2000 Model both in 2005 and 2006 respectively after using both for 3 years I sworn not to have anything to do with Japanese any more, now I am using Ford Taurus 2008 model and it gives me everything I need in a car.