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papaejima1:
The question is did you really read the interview?
Did he really say he knew IBB was plotting against him?
Did he move to use legal bloodless means to frustrate the attempt?
Did he not realize that removing him from power would truncate his "good intentions" for the country?

Brother face the truth, the fact was that the coup was a welcome relief to him. He sought not to act because he couldnt bear the heat.

what legal bloodlesss means does he have? report him to the United Nations? please go and get properly enlightened and get know the way the military worked.
when a junior officer accost the Head of State and accost him that officers reported him, it is telling him point blank that we put you there, dont mess with us and him smelling the coffee knows what it means.

a military head of state controls no air, land or sea troops he relies on his GOCs, CGS and other Service Chiefs.

if as a military head, you lose the regards of your top commanders, it is either you are killed, retired or removed.

if in doubt, Ask Alafin Aole in Old oyo empire, ask thomas sankara in burkina faso, ask samuel doe in liberia , ask general achimpong in ghana etc. Buhari knew he came to power through IBB and company and they are properly placed.

GuyFawkes:
For the fact IBB had recruited the GOC's into the plot means the COAS would have had a hard time rallying troops especially as he himself hadn't been in direct command of any formation in a while, I agree with you though.

The Orkar coup was different, did we have army commanders clashing ? That's the scenario i said we didn't experience. The most senior officer in the Orkar coup Major Mukoro was a military police officer. Most of the people they recruited were military retirees predominantly from benin city.

Dodan barracks was assaulted by armored vehicles seized from FRCN but IBB escaped so we can't say it fell since the principal occupant had been relocated.

Buhari knew he was up against the elements because most of the GOCs where Soldiers who were involved in the overthrow of shagari and were rewarded with promotion, appointment and leadership of core military formations. Truly Idiagbon being around then wont have stopped the coup though he might have made it more difficult and bloody.

orkar's coup had echendu too who was a colonel then, their plan was to kill the head of state and some top military top brass, whip up popular support with their act to cut off some states from the Nigerian Entity and then take command and formations.

their plan was watery and not organised, they could not rally the middlebelt soldiers into their plot which was their achilles heel.

the way the military was structured then, no coup could succed except the core north was behind it.

papaejima1:
This should dispel every doubt in the minds of people that Buhari cannot lead this nation in this turbulent times.

A head of state who knew a coup was being plotted against him and chose not to act to stop it because he hates shedding of blood.

What became of arresting and trying the perpetrators and if guilty jailing them?

So if elected to rule this nation and knowing BH wants to carve out their own country and kill all unbelievers and just because you hate shedding of blood will fail to act and allow them their own country?

I can't believe this. Am beginning to see a lot of flawed reasoning coming from this man.

why not take the pain to read the interview and not judge the post based on the sentimental title the journalist gave it.
Buhari took on the Maitsatsine Cult group who like Boko Haram was an Islamist cult group, Buhari took on the Chadian Army for daring to attack and try to steal territories belonging to Nigeria.

Do you hear of Boko Boys, who without the training and skills of a professional Army has taken over large swipe of the same country, a swipe so big than the entire south east and south south joined together, and the house of your Chief of Defense Staff as their Operational Base. bUHARI took on the chadian Military defeated and pursue them up to Niger Republic and Libya to punish them for daring.

How is your present c-in-c handling the present territorial loss, he is in otuoke, showing off his PDP membership card and smiling for the camera.

FOLYKAZE:
I cant believe you typed this with a straight face.

What and what have you read about Buhari that made you conclude he didnt do anything while he was the head of state?

For your information dear, Buhari 2u0 months reign records excellent performance which is more than 15 years reign of PDP all put together.

If you dont know anything about Buhari, why cant you keep mute or rather learn from those that witnessed his reign or read about him than relying on some false information from deluded uncles in your village or where ever you heard that Buhari did nothing as the HOS.

My brother arguing with some people from a certain part of Nigeria is like pouring water in a basket and expecting it to get full.

They are trained and tuned to act in auto mode and can be gullible and easily stereotyped to believe whatever message their elites feed them. It should marvel you that their zone is the least developed and least populated in the country because they are quick to pack their bags and baggages to flee the poverty and lack of opportunity prevalent in their land occasioned by the choice of leaders they continually turn up and swallow every gibberish those leaders feed them.

Who in his right senses will compare a buhari and a jonaTAN except someone who is ignorant not ready to seek knowledge and is fed tales by moonlight by his forebears who have taught them to hate and lack objectivity in their reasoning.

GuyFawkes:
The COAS can be rendered useless if he doesn't have the loyalty of the GOC's . We've not experienced the kin of situations you stated in your first paragraph, so you see how the coup plotters are always meticulous in their planning to reduce the risk of bloodshed.

There's no way any infantry troops can function efficiently without the support of some armoured columns in that kinda scenario.

Yes the powerful army divisions were Bonny Camp and Ikeja Cantonment..

Bonny camp is now Bonny cantonment. Killing the head of state doesn't guarantee a successful coup as long as the COAS or CGS can rally all GOCs to be on the government side, the case of nzeogwu, ifeajuna, and co and that of Dimka comes to mind here.

The success of a coup depend solely on the loyalty and ability of the COAS or CGS to rally all the GOCs of relevant divisions. Abacha did and Ironsi did too.

GuyFawkes:
The COAS can be rendered useless if he doesn't have the loyalty of the GOC's . We've not experienced the kin of situations you stated in your first paragraph, so you see how the coup plotters are always meticulous in their planning to reduce the risk of bloodshed.

There's no way any infantry troops can function efficiently without the support of some armoured columns in that kinda scenario.

Yes the powerful army divisions were Bonny Camp and Ikeja Cantonment..

The GOCs report to the Head of state through the COAS. The COAS oversees all Army formations. We did experience it during the orkar coup. Abacha rallied the GOCs when Dodan Barracks fell to the coupists. Even if gideon orkar had killed IBB, his case would have been like that of Dimka in 1976

Those asking him to do something about it should have ask why blaise campore of burkina faso ran away to ivory coast.

Buhari knowing he wasn't the arrowhead of the coup against shagari and only benefited knew doing anything against IBB who controls the most equipped and elite military formation could lead to another round of the 1966 episode.

A true and sensible leader place national interest above personal glory. A wise general chooses his war and going against IBB, Abacha, Dogonyaro and domkat bali would have been a stupid and fruitless venture..

His deputy who the commanders are supposed to report to wasn't in town and he on his own control no troops. Taking on the establishment would have been suicidal. If you don't think so, go read about Thomas Sankara.

idumuose:
When i tell Buhari's supporters that he was part and parcel of the coup,theysaid i was lying.
He knew ibro was planning a coup against him and what action did he take? He acted like a tree

who heard it was going to be felled yet he stood there and did nothing.

Reading the whole interview would have educated you better.
You become part of a coup when you benefit from it whether you know about it or not.

A palace coup just took place in burkina faso with the sudden removal of the Army Chief who took power the day the president ran away but has been removed and replaced with a junior office simply because they Army chief took a unilateral action and was punished for it. That is military ethics and how things are done. The army chief would have been the head of state if he was the one who removed the president but in their case popular uprising did.

Military has a structure and they guide it jealously if you don't know about it, don't discuss it. Buhari had no choice than to takeover else the other option was to resign his military commission. He was respected by the coupists by them naming him head being the most senior officer in the land then.

Colonel isaac zida in burkina faso is the head of state now because the military commanders made him so. Pls get enlightened.

GuyFawkes:
Abacha was the GOC mechanised division Ibadan then and also IBB ally. The brigade of guards or loyal troops will fight if they know their COAS was still in a position of power and the seat of goverment could be safeguarded else it would be an exercise in futility.

Yeah, you are saying same as I said. The head of state controls no troops. The COAS control all brigades, divisions and troops but by proxy. If the commanders are loyal to him during a coup then the likelihood of the coup successful is minimal but if 2 or more commanders are not then it becomes a bloody coup and the troops with more power and equipment takes over.

The loyalty of the infantry and armoured division determines the way a coup goes.

Remember the first thing Abacha did when he escaped from dodan barracks was to seek the loyalty of commanders of the two most powerful army division in lagos.

bombay:
The Hausa Fulani oligarchy is currently using the All Progressive Congress (APC). Its intention is to foist another Fulani son on the rest of us as the President of Nigeria. The APC is the modern Northern People’s Congress (NPC). Right now, they are trying to convince us that Mohammadu Buhari, a certified fundamentalist, pretentious and cunning man of dubious integrity who once insisted that Sani Abacha was a “saint” who never stole a dime of Nigerian money; Atiku Abubakar, an American wanted fraudster; Rabiu Kwankwanso, a confused political scallywag and Aminu Tambuwal, a clueless, dour but efficient manipulator, all of them of the Fulani stock, are the only options the rest of Nigeria should consider as our president in 2015. This APC agenda is the same as that of Ahmau Bello’s in the first republic. Or so it seems.

"I'm set and fully armed, to conquer the Action Group, AG, in the same ruthless manner as my grandfather conquered Alkalawa, a town in Sokoto province, during the last century"
-- Sir Ahmadu Bello (Premier , Northern Region and grandson of Uthman Dan Fodio) The Daily Times, May 3, 1961

whenever the chieftains of northern oligarchy want anything done in the colonial contraption called Nigeria that will overwhelmingly fall within their socio-politico-economic interest, they have willing southern dancing partners to take the floor.

Whether it is the so-called One-Nigeria, quota system, Kaduna refinery or moving capital city to the northern region of Nigeria, there are insurmountable numbers of southern Nigerians ready to do the biddings for chieftains of northern oligarchy.

The blame of regressive Nigeria, manifested by actions of northern oligarchy, should partly hinge on the shoulders of moronic southern Nigerians.

Islamic party of nigeria

Apc arewa peoples congress

Tinubu and the south west are traitors serving there fulani masters.

Tot you were a muslim as you quoted in a thread yesterday.

It is a pity that nigerians are no longer sold by yoyr scaremongering and uninformed gibes at the most effective if not the best military ruler nigeria ever had.

Be prepare to run to Israel when he takes over next year because we are ready to take our destinies into our hands and do away with a failed and useless PDP government who has suffer the phyche and confidence of nigerians over the years. Take your false tales to people in the South East who are willing tools of propagandalists

mazzi:
Just like shegari knew u were trying to impeach him abi.when ever this serial loser tries to attract public symperthy,he ends up inviting the ruth of the public.old man stop de yan opata.

Did you bother to read the thread at all or you're just sold on the title of the thread not the content?

He is not looking for sympathy but was responding to a question posed by the journalist who decided on his own to give the interview a sensational title.

take an example of the recent happening in burkina faso. The COAS made a nationwide broadcast declaring himself the head of state and it would have stood but the fact he took the decision solely without consultations of other military top brass he was swept aside by the wider military council and spited with the appointment of a junior officer colonel isaac zida as the head of state/transitional head.

That is a classic palace coup against general traore for not putting other generals into confidence before his broadcast. How it will. play out there still remain something to watch.
Because u can't have a colonel giving command to generals.

The armoured corp was the elite army division then but remember the infantry, motorised and presidential guards and brigade would have mounted some level of resistance if their commanders were still loyal to the COAS hence the reason behind some coups being bloody and some aint.

GuyFawkes:
Idiagbon was the COAS no doubt, but he wasn't really in control of the whole military command structure as I emphasised IBB was in charge of the armored corp and could move tanks and AFV's with ease. Don't forget Idiagbon rose from military secretary to COAS without being in command of in recent years leading up to his appointment, so which loyal troops would he have called on?

His presence might have made it bloody but I doubt it would have stopped the coup which had been in rumoured to be in the offing many months before it took place. The brigade of guards had been infiltrated already hence the complexities he would have faced.

It used to be said that whoever controlled Ikeja controlled the country ( the Armored Vehicles were there ). If you study the coups of 66,75,83, even the Vatsa coup of 86 you'll see the pivotal role Ikeja cantonment played. Orkar failed priimarily because they failed to capture Ikeja.

A COAS has never stopped a coup, he's always a primary target.

Bloody coups occur if the COAS is not brought in into the plans. It is either he is into the plans of the coupist or he is first incapacitated before the coupist go for the head of state.

You're right about Ikeja it was the power house. Abacha lived on the island during the orkar coup , he was able to lead the counter coup with troops from ikeja where he ran to when the coupist struck.

Can't wait for the peoples general to come rescue the nation and return our military to its days of gallantry and bravery.

mekaboy:
I think those in support dont av cars.

You may right though but trust me nigerians are the most funny people on earth who celebrates anything that makes their brothers in power happy.

Stella oduah was celebrated in igboland, alamaseigha was defended and celebrated in bayelsa and ibori was called a victim by some folks in delta.

We are a peculiar people my brother. Suffering and smiling fela called us. Most are happy becos it means more money for the government .

GuyFawkes:
Buhari encapsulated it in a statement he made during an interview. Refering to IBB about the coup he said " He was head of the armoured corps; he could move. Anyone with knowledge of how a modern army works would know what the armored corp signifies.

The coup would still have taken place if Idiagbon was in the country, he would have been arrested just as Buhari and other targets. Units of the Brigade of guards were already loyal to the coupists led by IBB.
Idiagbon may have cut a stern image among the civil populace, even as COAS it had been quite a while since he directly commanded troops. There he had no command link with any viable body of troops he could have used to fight the coupists anyway.

It would have been more difficult if idiagbon was in the country since he has troops under his command unlike a head of state who has no powers to muster troops but can only pass instructions to the military commanders.

The coup plotters knew what they were doing when they waited for idiagbon to go on hajj before striking. It was a tactical move. Orkar nearly succeed but because abacha and co had troops still loyal to them they were able to counter the coup against babangida.

The military is about command and structures then anyway not the useless contractors and azzlickers who are there right now. It is a pity the Nigerian Army has been brought down on its knees and can't even face ragtag bunch of hungry boys.

Buhari was in a tight corner in 85, he had never command any formation in lagos except ibadan and knew to try counter the coup was a foolish move. A good and tactical general chooses which wars to fight.

Don't mind the ignorant people who are spewing rubbish on the thread. They act before they think. It is a tribal infection, you know ojukwu passed on the genes to all of them.

When the government tries to force down an unnecessary plate number changeon the populace without any clear justification and some people are celebrating it. It shows the level of sycopancy this government enjoys.

Can someone please tell me the last time plate number change was effected in the uk or the usa? Nigerians are truly their own albatross celebrating a clear rip up as a victory.

People don't read but are just fascinated by the title of a post even if it was the newspaper trying to colour statements to gather more appeal to buyers.

Buhari has no sole powers to query activities of junior officers in a successful coup attempt. He control no troops and he has no option since the populace where in total support of the coup.

It will be a suicide attempt for the military chief in burkina faso to try force the president to remain in power with the popular rage of the people despite his closeness to the president .

People should get acquainted with the military command during a military coup, you either support the winning side and live or you die fighting it. Shagari was already out before buhari was contacted in faraway jos.

This interview goes beyond the babangida issue and people should read and not just take the title and be judgemental. Babangida is the army chief and equally the arrowhead of the shagari overthrow. Buhari knows he has no loyal troop in lagos since he didn't command troops in lagos so he knows if the same cabal wants him out he has no powers to stop them knowing how grounded they are.

tit:
these are people's husbands, boy-friends, fathers, brothers and you mention their murder so glibly.
So inconsequentially.
like they jumped into some rounds of their own volition.
Yet for some people, the world ended, just like your supporters ended some bright lives in the abortive attempt to bring you to power in 2011.
Indeed, Allahu is keeping you alive for a sign.
We already know how ambitious he is and the lengths he went to achieve his ambition.
He lied serially to Shagari that he was not planning a coup and then conveniently was chosen to lead the government afterwards.
Did his conscience not tell him to refuse the offer?

Since the coup plotters had him in such high regard, what efforts did he make to restore the democratic regime of President Shehu Shagari?

Go learn about military protocol thankfullly the event in burkina faso is fresh and close to home. No single GOC on his own will go against the collective military decision. General traore the army chief who first declare the takeover of
Government has been told by the entire military rank and file to stepdown for colonel Isaac zida. That is the power of the military during a coup, no single officer no matter how highly placed can take a sole decision. That is why you see what happened in B/faso and why a colonel was chosen over many generals.

If you're worried over people killed, they signed to defend or die defending the president and if in a coup they were caught up with it, those with higher power takes victory. It is victory or die trying. Ask gideon orkar, ask dimka and also ask babangidaa and abacha. Those were two faces of a military purge, the first two failed and paid with their lives while the 2nd two were victorious and enjoyed the spoils of war.

If you're worried and concern you shouldn't be for those who knowthe dictate of the job they voluntarily signed up to, compare that to the fate of the chibok girls, the peoples of mubi, vimtim, gworza, michika, buni yadi, boma, etc who are daily incapacitated by a heartless and soulless boko haram sect while your useless president plays the ostrich and show no concern don't you think they deserve more compassion than soldiers and policemen caught up in a palace coup.

For posters on this thread who i know didnt bother to open the link but just commented based on the sensational title. the transcript of the interview has been posted. read and make a proper jugdement.

I Knew Babangida Was Planning To Overthrow Me-Buhari | TheCable .

Muhammadu Buhari, former head of state, said he was aware Ibrahim Babangida was planning to overthrow him in 1985 but did not move against him because he detests bloodshed.
Buhari became head of state on December 31, 1983 after the military overthrew the elected government of Shehu Shagari.
But on August 27, 1985, Buhari himself was overthrown by Babangida, his chief of army staff and key actor in the 1983 coup.
Buhari, a retired major general and presidential aspirant on the platform of All Progressives Congress (APC), told TheCable: "It is true that I learnt he was planning a coup against me. And I sat and discussed it with him in my office.
"He brought the news that he went to Kano and people complained that I pulled a pistol during a council meeting. I said Ibro ─ I called him Ibro because I was just senior to him by a few months ─ I said whoever wants to sit on this chair let him come and sit here. And he decided to do it."

Reminded that the punishment for coup making was death and he could have put Babangida on trial, Buhari replied: "Yes. Remember how many people he killed subsequently for trying to overthrow him? But when I came in, there was no bloodshed. I think a couple of policemen were killed and [Brigadier Ibrahim] Bako also died in an ambush.
"But deliberately, nobody was killed. I was in the front, the real front in the Nigerian civil war. I had seen enough of death and I know what God means by human life. Any human being, God values their life. And anybody who hopes to meet God, he should be careful about killing.
"When there is law and due process of law took place, the question is clear. Like the cocaine convicts that were executed, the decision was taken in supreme military council."

Below is the concluding part of the serialised interview.

TheCable: People say that you were not really involved in the coup that overthrew Shehu Shagari but you only happened to have been made head of state. But we also heard that Alhaji Umaru Dikko, then minister of transport, felt you were a threat and asked that you be watched. How true are these reports?

Buhari: General David Jemibewon is still alive. He was the adjutant-general of the army at that time. When I came back from the War College in the United States, I was posted to Ikeja and I was made the GOC of the fourth division. I think I lasted for about four to six months there because some people in Shagari’s government said I was too dangerous to be kept around. So I was sent to Ibadan to command second division. I lasted about six months there. Again, I was posted to Jos to command the third armoured division. Then Jemibewon said to me, Buhari, the way they are moving you, your next posting will be to Daura (Buhari's home town in Katsina state). I had a good laugh. I will never forget. It was during the chief of army staff conference.

TheCable: How much did you know about the 1983 coup?

Buhari: I am working on my memoirs... (But) I have something to say now about the way we treat our military officers who really served this country. Along the line we have gone through so much, those of us in my generation. We served under people like Generals Shuwa, Adekunle, Murtala, Danjuma. I think these people have sacrificed so much. I think Nigeria should really honour them. I felt sorry for this country. .

TheCable: Alhaji Umaru Dikko is dead now. There was an attempt to smuggle him into the country from the UK to Nigeria. Your government was suspected as the brain behind it but you denied it then. Can the information be declassified now?

Buhari: No. (General laughter). I'm surprised that I am making you laugh. It is classified and it remains so.

TheCable: Were you really aware that Babangida was planning a coup against you in 1985?

Buhari: Yes, it is true that I learnt he was planning a coup against me. And I sat and discussed it with him in my office. He was the chief of army staff and I was the head of state. He brought the news that he went to Kano and people complained that I pulled a pistol during a council meeting. I had never heard that before, except a newspaper cartoon I saw many, many years ago about Mengistu Haile Mariam (former Ethiopian head of state). They were just making up stories. I said Ibro ─ I called him Ibro because I was just senior to him by a few months ─ I said whoever wants to sit on this chair let him come and sit here. And he decided to do it.

TheCable: But the punishment for coup making is death...

Buhari: Yes. Remember how many people he killed subsequently for trying to overthrow him? But when I came in, there was no bloodshed. I think a couple of policemen were killed and (Brigadier Ibrahim) Bako also died. That was when they went to pick Shagari from somewhere, I think in Abuja. But deliberately, nobody as killed. I was in the front, the real front in the Nigerian civil war. I have seen enough of death and I know what God means by human life. Any human person, God values their life. And anybody who hopes to meet God, he should be careful about killing. When there is law and due process of law took place, the question is clear. Like the cocaine convicts that were executed (in 1984), the decision was taken by the supreme military council (SMC).

TheCable: But when he eventually overthrew you, didn’t you regret that you should have taken action when you heard that he was planning against you?

Buhari: Taking action pre-empting and jailing or killing people does not solve the problem. But let people honestly ask now, as you said, those who are bothered about Nigeria, let them ask now: what did I attempt to do for the time Babangida and his group allowed me to stay and what did they do in his eight years in office? I told you about the naira and the dollar, and the IMF programme. What did they do? They wanted to impress the world? The naira was devalued by about 122 percent. We have never recovered. Go and ask any economist. When you devalue a currency, it can never recover. Some of the politicians that were jailed for corruption, they were released and their loot was returned to them by Babangida. So it’s a big joke. That means I was there then before my time.

TheCable: Having been a military ruler who overthrew a democratic government, how did you now come around to subscribe to democracy?

Buhari: At the risk of sounding like a broken gramophone record, I will tell the story again. After I came out of detention and went home in December 1988... then in 1989, 1990, 1991, the Soviet Union collapsed and that had a terrific impact on me. People were coming to me for advice. Thank God, they did not come to me to ask for money because they knew I had no money. I declared my assets as many times as I occupied political office because that was the law. And when I left I declared my assets. All those of us, our generation, from Obasanjo downward, if the country is serious about questioning them on how they acquired what have, it is easy because by law you have to declare your assets before office and after you leave office. But because it is so convenient to ignore it and accumulate wealth, that is what the big men and big women are doing.

Now, when the Soviet Union collapsed I realised that there was something right about multi-party democracy. I believe it was superior. But then how can we get it done in Nigeria? That was what eventually took me to partisan politics. And why did I leave the ANPP and form CPC? Why was I active in the merging of the opposition to become APC? It is all about strengthening our democracy and stabilising the system. I don’t like any person to see me as an impulsive person. I deliberately take decisions for my actions. That it is why when ANPP gave me the presidential ticket in 2003 and 2007, I went into the field, did my best but unfortunately we didn’t achieve success. But then while we were in court the party’s leadership took two marginal ministerial positions in the government of the late Umaru Yar'Adua. The party chairman said his son was taking up an appointment as special adviser while we were still in court.
Since 2005, we discovered that none of the opposition parties could face the PDP. The PDP has become so amorphous and it didn’t care about the opposition. If you see what happened to our members during elections... the killings, the burning. We realised we had to come together to face the PDP. This is the best way I think we can stabilise the system. When we stabilise the system impunity will not be acceptable. That is why we formed the APC. We need multi-party democracy to stabilise the system.

TheCable: What does a typical day in your life look like these days?

Buhari: Firstly, as you know, normally the practising Muslims have to wake up about five in the morning and pray. And I am an avid listener of the Voice of America and the BBC, Hausa service. This is because over the years I have discovered that they have been very, very helpful in educating the mostly illiterate Hausa-speaking populace. From Agadez or even from Tripoli down almost to South Africa, and from Senegal to Central Africa Republic, there is large body of Hausa-speaking communities, not necessarily Nigerian or Hausa, but those who speak the language because of trading over the centuries.

I found out VOA and BBC commentaries on politics and economics very good. They help to educate people. And they allow people to discuss, express different opinions and they interpret it, and I find that very helpful. And it is very current for Nigerian politics for that audience. I listen to that, and then I try to rest again. And then by 10am I have my breakfast, and go to the office or stay in the house if I choose to work without any interference. Otherwise, I go to the office and try to attend to official duties if I have appointments. About 4pm and 5pm I come back home, and mostly up to 10 in the night I will be with people discussing things.
These days, it is very difficult. This time scheduling is too tight. Sometimes I wish I had more than 24 hours to keep up with the demands of meeting people. Again, Nigerian politics, especially this time around, is the main issue. It is keeping me extremely busy. I go to bed nothing earlier than half past 11pm. I wish I could observe siestas. Sometimes I do. If I can escape from the office by 3:30 pm.

I was aware ibro was planning to overthrow the government, I did not move against it because I detest unnecessary bloodshed.

the full transcript of the interview is delivered below in a subsequent post.

compare the act of a patriotic, overzealous and detribalized Nigerian who went the extreme to bring his own kinsman in a most daring way to make him pay for his economic crime to the country with another who despite a clear case of corruption home and abroad against the person, gave his brothers and his boss as he called him, a presidential pardon and a National Merit Award for knowing how to steal well well.

Talking about Buhari and his legacy of great service to this country gives the hope that despite the hard times this country faces there is still hope at the end of this storm that JonaTAN and PDP in its 15 horrible years of misrule represents in the annals of this great sleeping giant of a nation.

our journey towards rediscovery and redirection starts next year and by God's Grace, we shall never face this monster call PDP again in our National drive towards greatness.




http://saharareporters.com/2014/11/01/i-knew-babangida-was-planning-overthrow-me-buhari-thecable

The most stupid comments I've read on this thread is reading GEJ is a lesser evil. My God are we normal in this country.

Buhari inherited maitastine sect, OBJ had niger delta militants, yaradua had yusuf Mohammed's group to contend with, gowon had the biafran agitation yet none lost territories to the forces the nation was up against.

Sending GEJ out of Aso rock should be a patriotic duty of any right thinking Nigerian. We can't continue along this path.

Surely azzlicking GEJ gives a disease that transfer cluelessness and being daft to anyone who come close to it.

So the large mouth CDS, the incompetent chief of Army staff should be left alone since Boko Haram is selective of who they kill.

Why is this government and minions of self serving pastors and men of SaTAN trying to put this country into an ethnoreligious war.

Which troops does sambo dasuki and aliyu gusau command? Why is pastor bling bling trying to blow up this country?

I think this is just to create a diversionary statement to make his gunrunning biz go awry news go away.

Not sure he has the powers to do so since the state is still under emergency rule.

Declaration of curfew I think lies with the military commanders. A curfew should have been declared since last week, it would have nipped the advancement of Boko into mubi.

tit:
i am glad you pointed out there is more than one way to spell the word describing a follower of Mohammed (SAW).
Peace Be Upon You.

Sorry of all the known spellings, moslim as written by you is not used by muslims except your own followership is that of Yusuf Mohammed or Mohammed Shekau

bombay:
I am a Muslim and i say no to Buhari.

bombay: Yoruba and Northerner collabo will not succeed in jesus name somebody shout amen


bombay: slave and master use ur mind who is slave and who is master arewa peoples party islamic jihad party of nigeria

bombay: slave and master use ur mind who is slave and who is master arewa peoples party islamic jihad party of nigeria

I'm sure your branch of muslim is the branch of shekau and ISIS.

Insha Allah we will kill you Boko Haram boys all. All of you who masquerade as Muslims and kill innocent souls.

Islam has better worshippers than you who doesn't know who or what he is.

Her type are the ones mentioned by the pastor in his submission.

She's a moslim who doesn't know the right spelling of the religion she profess.

It is popularly spelled muslim or spelt as Moslem and not moslim please.

She's a moslim indeed

If the leadership of a nation of 170million people is in the hands of a man who cannot control his wife and her lust and desire for power then we can see why we are where we are.

It took public and her ridiculing of herself on national TV before the nation was relieved of her meddlesomeness and allure of power.

From Bayelsa to Rivers must it always be her.