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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by madamoringo(f): 2:19pm On Oct 15, 2014
PhockPhockMan:
Amaechi is a Clown.

He was right innit? Do you have any other job other than bootlicking GEJ arse?

Where is the ibo candidate? Oh never mind, ibos are slaves to Nigerians!

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by PhockPhockMan: 2:21pm On Oct 15, 2014
Seenyo:
And d liberation of nig. Just begun!
Taaaaaaaahh, close your mouth.
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by ican2020: 2:21pm On Oct 15, 2014
Buhari is honest, he did not steal 10 kobo, yet he contested elections on solid 3 occasions and lost, yet he never stole 10 kobo.

On those occasions, he went to different courts using the services of SAN's that will not take anything less than 50m to represent you in court, yet he did not steal any kobo.

Do you know what it takes to fuel a car, not to even talk of fueling 100s of vehicles that are used for campaign, yet he stole no kobo.

Then tell me who stole Naija's kuza since 1960 to date

Lizards brains should wake up and put on their thinking cap

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by mmb(m): 2:21pm On Oct 15, 2014
WITH FREE & FAIR ELECTION, BUHARI WILL WIN INSHA ALLAH.

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Firefire(m): 2:23pm On Oct 15, 2014
PhockPhockMan:


Today, Buhari’s fruitless journey begins.


Fruitless Journey indeed...
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Firefire(m): 2:27pm On Oct 15, 2014
Firefire:



Buhari can NEVER become the President of United Nigeria unless Jonathan finish his additional 4 years in office and power could return to the minority north (Maybe).

Goodluck to you all.
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Caseless: 2:27pm On Oct 15, 2014
wisdom77:

Religious Extremism

General Buhari enemies confuse religious extremism with religious fundamentalism. He has respect for both Christian and Islam. For instance, three of his Cooks are Christians, his Confidential Secretary, a Christian. His Private Secretary, a Christian. His Driver number 2, a Christian. His second Security, a Christian and his Office Cook a Christian. Prof. Tam David -West

may God bless u.

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by EbirichBen(m): 2:28pm On Oct 15, 2014
And they Call Us the Leaders of Tomorrow
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by wisdom77: 2:28pm On Oct 15, 2014
Jonathan has already done two terms.

[quote author=Firefire post=27164613][/quote]

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Caseless: 2:30pm On Oct 15, 2014
PhockPhockMan:
Taaaaaaaahh, close your mouth.
lunatic!!!

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by johnmartus(m): 2:30pm On Oct 15, 2014
naija2dabone:
The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot.

On Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled: “Counter-trading Nigeria’s Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government’s scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil. A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me. Not finding me, he left a note that I must present myself unfailingly at the SSS office at 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos the next Monday morning.

However, on Sunday, 25th August, 1985, Lateef Aminu came first thing in the morning to my house to inform me that the government of Buhari/Idiagbon had been overthrown. For this reason, I am fond of telling people that God brought about a change of government in Nigeria just because of me.

Coup-plotter

Under the Buhari/Idiagbon regime, once you ended up at 15 Awolowo Road, you may never be heard of again. Decree Number 2 of 1984 empowered Tunde Idiagbon to arrest and detain anybody indefinitely without trial and without legal reprieve. After Buhari was overthrown, Mohammadu Gambo opened the prison doors of 15 Awolowo Road on public television, revealing people in various stages of UnCloth and malnutrition that had been kept in the dungeons without trial by Buhari’s hound-dogs.

As self-imposed Head of State, Buhari had no regard for human rights. Immediately he seized power, he announced that he would “tamper with” the press. Soon, the infamous Decree Number 4 was promulgated which made even the publication of the truth a punishable offence. Under this cover, Buhari jailed innocent journalists, including Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabo. He abolished civil liberties, promulgated retroactive decrees enabling him to kill Nigerians through jungle justice, proscribed civil society organizations and professional groups and exercised “absolute” power.

This same Buhari would now have us believe that he has gone through some metamorphosis and has become a democrat. I am sure you will forgive me if people like me don’t believe him. Buhari is not, has never been, and will never be, a democrat. Only in Nigeria would a man with his track record, who came to power through a military coup that illegally overthrew a democratic government, now be acclaimed as a democrat. It is on record that Buhari’s military regime is the only one in Nigeria’s history that failed to promulgate a program for return to civilian rule.

Facts and fiction

So what exactly qualifies Bihari as a democrat today? Precious little! There is nothing democratic about forming and joining political parties just in order to be the presidential candidate. Little wonder then that Buhari’s parties have a short shelf-life. Buhari would like to be Nigeria’s head of state once again. He can no longer achieve this through the barrel of a gun. The only route now open to him is through the democratic process. That is the reason why he now conveniently fashions himself as a democrat. It is merely a means to an end; no more, no less.

Buhari’s reputation as an anti-corruption crusader is also a myth. As head of state, he did not make any dent in Nigerian corruption. All we got was a cosmetic “war against indiscipline.” The counter-trade scam happened under his watch. Rather than deal with it, he sent his hound-dogs after nonentities like me who dared to expose it. That scam was no different, in scope and scale, from the petroleum subsidy and other corruption scandals that have since plagued Nigeria. The Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) that Buhari headed under Abacha was also a citadel of corruption. While Buhari himself might not have enriched himself, his cronies and those who worked under him did so handsomely.

On three different occasions, Buhari has run for the presidency. On three different occasions he has failed. That should really be enough. If, as seems likely, he were to run for the presidency a fourth time in 2015, there is no question that he would fail yet again. Try as he might again and again, Mohammadu Buhari can never be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Buhari’s sectarianism

There is a fundamental reason behind this. Buhari is a lousy politician. He is an unbending former military dictator and not a democratic consensus-builder. Like his new ally, Bola Tinubu, Buhari is a regional, sectional politician. Such politicians are practically impossible to package and market nationally in the ethnically-delicate Nigeria of today.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El’Rufai, one of those Northerners who deserve to be serious contenders for the presidency of Nigeria, observed that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus.” This is an elegant way of saying that politically, Buhari has an uncanny tendency to put his foot in his mouth. He talks before thinking of the political implications of his words. He shoots from the hip.

The strength of Obasanjo, which enabled him to capture the presidency on two different occasions, was that he was perceived as a broadminded politician, not overly partial to his people in the South-West. As a matter of fact, in his first election, his people did not want him. The strength of Goodluck Jonathan, which propelled him to win the presidency, was that he was able to string together a coalition that stretched both north and south of the Niger. The weakness of Buhari is that he is totally unacceptable to people outside his region.

Buhari is a Northern regional champion. As head of state in the 1980’s, his government was unapologetically Northern. No attempt was made to balance the ticket at the top. It was the only regime in Nigeria’s history headed by two Northerners. When he seized power, Buhari put Shagari, the Northern head of state he overthrew, under house arrest. But then he jailed Alex Ekwueme, the Southern vice-president. You may well ask what makes Shagari less culpable for the misdeeds of the Second Republic than his number-two man. The simple fact was that Buhari was Fulani as was Shagari; but Ekwueme was Igbo.

Impolitic words

At the height of the Sharia debate during the Obasanjo administration, Buhari declared that Muslims should vote only for fellow Muslims. This was politically suicidal for a man seeking national office. He became an advocate for implementation of Sharia all over Nigeria. He protested to the Oyo State governor, in the context of a dispute between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers in the state, that “your people are killing my people.” This turned out to be unfounded and perhaps the reverse.

His threats during the campaign for the 2011 elections incited widespread violence in the North after he lost. His supporters went on a rampage; looting and killing; in spite of the fact that, by all accounts, the elections were adjudged the most free and fair in the history of Nigeria’s current democratic experiment. By the time the mayhem had subsided, over 1000 people had been slaughtered in cold blood and some 65,000 displaced.

Forgetting that a statement made in Hausa would readily be translated into English, Buhari later declared unapologetically in a BBC interview: “If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.” These are the tokens of an irresponsible politician, whose ambitions for power supersede the national interest. Who then are the dogs and baboons that Buhari has in mind to soak in blood if and when he loses yet again come 2015? Are they his children or are they those of others?

With the Boko Haram insurgency in the north, Buhari played to the Northern gallery yet again, calling the Jonathan government “the biggest Boko Haram.” Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House designed to persuade PDP rebel governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to decamp to the APC. Assuming that only Northerners were present, Buhari declared the Boko Haram was a “strategic plan” by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to “destroy the North.” When Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, Buhari still saw this with Northern goggles, insinuating that the President is waging war on the North.

President of the North

Without a doubt, Buhari has massive support in the North. Indeed, he is the most popular Northern politician in the North today. But that precisely remains his undoing at the centre. The more he has been identified as a Northern champion, the less attractive he has become as a national choice. Even in the North, his support base is limited to the Muslim population. He does not appeal to Northern Christians. Then there is the added factor of the opposition of his implacable opponents among the Northern elite. Men like Babangida and Atiku would rather die than allow Buhari get to Aso Rock.

One thing is certain, the South-South and the South-East will not vote for Buhari in 2015. Not only that; there are no buyers for Buhari’s sectarian politics in the South-West. No matter what Tinubu might be telling him, the people of the South-West will not vote for Buhari in 2015. We already had the template in 2011, when Buhari tried to sell himself, first by balancing his ticket with a Yoruba man; and then by making sure the Yoruba man is a Christian; a pastor no less. But it just did not wash. It will not work in 2015.

The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot. That is a sure guarantee that the North will not be providing the next president. Buhari would be a shoo-in in an election for president of Northern Nigeria. But in an election encompassing the entire country, the best he can envisage is to be a kingmaker. He cannot be king. The nearest Buhari will get to Aso Rock in 2015 is by attending the Council of State meetings.
hope its not heart attack please seek for medical advice upppp buhari carry gooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by russello: 2:31pm On Oct 15, 2014
locdog:
Jonathan should just forget northern vote

Yeahhh....including Taraba, Benue, Plateau, Southern Kaduna, Nassarawa, Kogi, Gombe, Adamawa and even Abuja.

Fantastic!!!

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by wisdom77: 2:31pm On Oct 15, 2014
“Major-General Muhammadu Buhari, an extraordinary Nigerian, matched only by few in integrity and readiness to subject himself to the demands of public office… abiding concern for the fate and welfare of the people of this great country.”

By General Abdulsalami Abubakar, GCFR, CSG.

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Firefire(m): 2:32pm On Oct 15, 2014
wisdom77:
Jonathan has already done two terms.


Funny...
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by dejavski(m): 2:32pm On Oct 15, 2014
naija2dabone:
The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot.

On Friday, 23rd August, 1985, the military government of Major-General Mohammadu Buhari decided to place me under arrest. My crime was that I wrote, among others, an article entitled: “Counter-trading Nigeria’s Future” in the National Concord, exposing the government’s scam of diverting public funds into private coffers through barter-trade with Brazil. A man by the name of Benson Norman was sent from the State Security Services (SSS) to my office to get me. Not finding me, he left a note that I must present myself unfailingly at the SSS office at 15 Awolowo Road, Ikoyi Lagos the next Monday morning.

However, on Sunday, 25th August, 1985, Lateef Aminu came first thing in the morning to my house to inform me that the government of Buhari/Idiagbon had been overthrown. For this reason, I am fond of telling people that God brought about a change of government in Nigeria just because of me.

Coup-plotter

Under the Buhari/Idiagbon regime, once you ended up at 15 Awolowo Road, you may never be heard of again. Decree Number 2 of 1984 empowered Tunde Idiagbon to arrest and detain anybody indefinitely without trial and without legal reprieve. After Buhari was overthrown, Mohammadu Gambo opened the prison doors of 15 Awolowo Road on public television, revealing people in various stages of UnCloth and malnutrition that had been kept in the dungeons without trial by Buhari’s hound-dogs.

As self-imposed Head of State, Buhari had no regard for human rights. Immediately he seized power, he announced that he would “tamper with” the press. Soon, the infamous Decree Number 4 was promulgated which made even the publication of the truth a punishable offence. Under this cover, Buhari jailed innocent journalists, including Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabo. He abolished civil liberties, promulgated retroactive decrees enabling him to kill Nigerians through jungle justice, proscribed civil society organizations and professional groups and exercised “absolute” power.

This same Buhari would now have us believe that he has gone through some metamorphosis and has become a democrat. I am sure you will forgive me if people like me don’t believe him. Buhari is not, has never been, and will never be, a democrat. Only in Nigeria would a man with his track record, who came to power through a military coup that illegally overthrew a democratic government, now be acclaimed as a democrat. It is on record that Buhari’s military regime is the only one in Nigeria’s history that failed to promulgate a program for return to civilian rule.

Facts and fiction

So what exactly qualifies Bihari as a democrat today? Precious little! There is nothing democratic about forming and joining political parties just in order to be the presidential candidate. Little wonder then that Buhari’s parties have a short shelf-life. Buhari would like to be Nigeria’s head of state once again. He can no longer achieve this through the barrel of a gun. The only route now open to him is through the democratic process. That is the reason why he now conveniently fashions himself as a democrat. It is merely a means to an end; no more, no less.

Buhari’s reputation as an anti-corruption crusader is also a myth. As head of state, he did not make any dent in Nigerian corruption. All we got was a cosmetic “war against indiscipline.” The counter-trade scam happened under his watch. Rather than deal with it, he sent his hound-dogs after nonentities like me who dared to expose it. That scam was no different, in scope and scale, from the petroleum subsidy and other corruption scandals that have since plagued Nigeria. The Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) that Buhari headed under Abacha was also a citadel of corruption. While Buhari himself might not have enriched himself, his cronies and those who worked under him did so handsomely.

On three different occasions, Buhari has run for the presidency. On three different occasions he has failed. That should really be enough. If, as seems likely, he were to run for the presidency a fourth time in 2015, there is no question that he would fail yet again. Try as he might again and again, Mohammadu Buhari can never be President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

Buhari’s sectarianism

There is a fundamental reason behind this. Buhari is a lousy politician. He is an unbending former military dictator and not a democratic consensus-builder. Like his new ally, Bola Tinubu, Buhari is a regional, sectional politician. Such politicians are practically impossible to package and market nationally in the ethnically-delicate Nigeria of today.

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir El’Rufai, one of those Northerners who deserve to be serious contenders for the presidency of Nigeria, observed that Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable” as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus.” This is an elegant way of saying that politically, Buhari has an uncanny tendency to put his foot in his mouth. He talks before thinking of the political implications of his words. He shoots from the hip.

The strength of Obasanjo, which enabled him to capture the presidency on two different occasions, was that he was perceived as a broadminded politician, not overly partial to his people in the South-West. As a matter of fact, in his first election, his people did not want him. The strength of Goodluck Jonathan, which propelled him to win the presidency, was that he was able to string together a coalition that stretched both north and south of the Niger. The weakness of Buhari is that he is totally unacceptable to people outside his region.

Buhari is a Northern regional champion. As head of state in the 1980’s, his government was unapologetically Northern. No attempt was made to balance the ticket at the top. It was the only regime in Nigeria’s history headed by two Northerners. When he seized power, Buhari put Shagari, the Northern head of state he overthrew, under house arrest. But then he jailed Alex Ekwueme, the Southern vice-president. You may well ask what makes Shagari less culpable for the misdeeds of the Second Republic than his number-two man. The simple fact was that Buhari was Fulani as was Shagari; but Ekwueme was Igbo.

Impolitic words

At the height of the Sharia debate during the Obasanjo administration, Buhari declared that Muslims should vote only for fellow Muslims. This was politically suicidal for a man seeking national office. He became an advocate for implementation of Sharia all over Nigeria. He protested to the Oyo State governor, in the context of a dispute between Fulani herdsmen and indigenous farmers in the state, that “your people are killing my people.” This turned out to be unfounded and perhaps the reverse.

His threats during the campaign for the 2011 elections incited widespread violence in the North after he lost. His supporters went on a rampage; looting and killing; in spite of the fact that, by all accounts, the elections were adjudged the most free and fair in the history of Nigeria’s current democratic experiment. By the time the mayhem had subsided, over 1000 people had been slaughtered in cold blood and some 65,000 displaced.

Forgetting that a statement made in Hausa would readily be translated into English, Buhari later declared unapologetically in a BBC interview: “If what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood.” These are the tokens of an irresponsible politician, whose ambitions for power supersede the national interest. Who then are the dogs and baboons that Buhari has in mind to soak in blood if and when he loses yet again come 2015? Are they his children or are they those of others?

With the Boko Haram insurgency in the north, Buhari played to the Northern gallery yet again, calling the Jonathan government “the biggest Boko Haram.” Wole Olaniyi was a fly in the wall at a meeting in Kano Government House designed to persuade PDP rebel governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso, to decamp to the APC. Assuming that only Northerners were present, Buhari declared the Boko Haram was a “strategic plan” by the government of Goodluck Jonathan to “destroy the North.” When Jonathan declared a state of emergency in Yobe, Borno and Adamawa states, Buhari still saw this with Northern goggles, insinuating that the President is waging war on the North.

President of the North

Without a doubt, Buhari has massive support in the North. Indeed, he is the most popular Northern politician in the North today. But that precisely remains his undoing at the centre. The more he has been identified as a Northern champion, the less attractive he has become as a national choice. Even in the North, his support base is limited to the Muslim population. He does not appeal to Northern Christians. Then there is the added factor of the opposition of his implacable opponents among the Northern elite. Men like Babangida and Atiku would rather die than allow Buhari get to Aso Rock.

One thing is certain, the South-South and the South-East will not vote for Buhari in 2015. Not only that; there are no buyers for Buhari’s sectarian politics in the South-West. No matter what Tinubu might be telling him, the people of the South-West will not vote for Buhari in 2015. We already had the template in 2011, when Buhari tried to sell himself, first by balancing his ticket with a Yoruba man; and then by making sure the Yoruba man is a Christian; a pastor no less. But it just did not wash. It will not work in 2015.

The worst thing that can happen to Northern presidential aspirations in 2015 is for Buhari to be on the APC ballot. That is a sure guarantee that the North will not be providing the next president. Buhari would be a shoo-in in an election for president of Northern Nigeria. But in an election encompassing the entire country, the best he can envisage is to be a kingmaker. He cannot be king. The nearest Buhari will get to Aso Rock in 2015 is by attending the Council of State meetings.

Hmmm....true words. I for one do not approve of this guy becoming our president, based on his religious sentiments and he also lacks the political leadership. I would pick Kwankwasho over him.
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by BOAR: 2:32pm On Oct 15, 2014
datribune:
I don't care 4 d PDP & APC but I care greatly about d patriot, GMB. if elections ar a referendum on performance while in office, GMB has proved himself & I will vote 4 him any day, any time, any platform.
[size=15pt]Wit no visible achievement to point to, I can not in good conscience vote 4 GEJ[/size].


This what every sensible Nigerian is saying.

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Allansmith: 2:34pm On Oct 15, 2014
Buhari Again??Hmmmm.....So help you God..... lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed lipsrsealed
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Itoroetti(m): 2:36pm On Oct 15, 2014
Buhari-The fruitless tree.what a shame seeing a grand father struggling for power
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Nobody: 2:39pm On Oct 15, 2014
Caseless:
no pay package. It is a self-less service. grin
If I hear!
You won use politics brain on me abi
Make you for dey chop my sweat for background cheesy grin

Selfless ko, selfmore ni cheesy

Obayaya come answer me make I begin dish out my long practiced lines. APC is in hot soup already cheesy
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by PhockPhockMan: 2:39pm On Oct 15, 2014
zubby29:
jst check ur name.dat defines who u are,abeg go nd hug a transformer,by d way tnks for d publicity,bt nxt time plz upload betr image.tnks
Shaaarraaaaap, did I tell you I'm in the venue? Why can't you snap the screen and upload.

As for my moniker, MIND YOUR BUSINESS.
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Bennyberry(m): 2:41pm On Oct 15, 2014
PhockPhockMan:
Today, Buhari’s fruitless journey begins.



Please the vision is too bad.
AND DIS STUPID TOPIC MADE FRONTPAGE...seems NAIRALAND IS AN AFFLICTION OF THE PEOPLE DEMOCRATIC PARTY....why not let d peoplr decides if it gonna b fruitful or not..most of u saying GEJ till 3015.dont evn hav voters card or are even up to 18yrs...

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by musulumi(m): 2:41pm On Oct 15, 2014
Did u just say tire You dont get tired doing what u love bros !


PhockPhockMan:
You Go tire.
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by wisdom77: 2:42pm On Oct 15, 2014
GMB SPEECH...

First I would like, Mr Chairman, if I may, pay tribute to Nigerians as a whole who are enduring all sorts of hardships and deprivations on a daily basis. Many millions are grappling with extreme poverty and barely eking out a living. Nearly all are in fear of their lives or safety for themselves and their families due to Insurgency by the godless movement called Boko Haram;

By marauding murderers in towns and villages;
By armed robbers on the highways;
By kidnappers who have put whole communities to fright and sometimes to flight.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is everyone’s duty to resolve and help the national effort to overcome these immense challenges. I would like us to place on record our appreciation for the efforts of our Armed Forces under new leadership and police in confronting these challenges.

I would like, secondly, to thank our supporters up and down the country for their perseverance and resolve in face of an oppressive PDP government.

Mr Chairman, this is an occasion to celebrate our efforts and to resolve to continue until victory is won. I humbly wish to present myself before you, before all of Nigeria and before God seeking to be elected as APC’s Presidential candidate. Having appreciated that the only way to relieve Nigerians of the PDP, the main opposition parties decided to pool their strengths into one party. We have worked very hard in the last 18 months to put up structures from the polling units to wards, local governments, states and the centre.

We have tried to ensure all processes in our party formation to be transparent and credible. These structures will lead to free and fair polls. There is no point in holding elections if they are not free and fair.

Interference in the form of rigging which PDP Government has practised since 2003 is the worst form of injustice – denying people their right to express their opinions. Whether they like it or not, injustice cannot endure.

Since 1999 PDP has presided over our country’s decline. Nigeria in my experience has never been so divided, so polarized by an unthinking government hell bent on ruling and stealing forever whatever befalls the country. Mr Chairman, we in APC are resolved to stop them in their tracks and rescue Nigeria from the stranglehold of PDP.

The last 16 years of PDP Government has witnessed decline in all critical sectors of life in Nigeria

There is now general insecurity in the land

Quite apart from Boko Haram, there is prevalence of Armed Robbery, kidnappings and killings, cattle rustling, market and farmland arson.

These outrages have taken a new and a frightening dimension, disrupting economic and social life across whole communities.

The economy continues to deteriorate while the Government continues to announce fantastic growth figures but manufacturing is down, agriculture is down, commerce is down

Simply because you sell oil and steal part of the money does not entitle you to cook figures and announce phantom economic growth when all the major indices namely,

Employment
Manufacturing
Farming
Trading

are demonstrably on the decline.

When PDP came to power in 1999 Nigeria was generating about 4,000 M/W of electricity. After 15 years and $20 billion spent we are generating between 3,000 – 4,000 M/W. No failure is more glaring than this.

We in APC are resolved to bring change to Nigeria. We plan to do things differently.

We plan to put priority on

Protection of lives and property.
Pursuing economic policies for shared prosperity and immediate attention on youth employment.
Quality education for development, modernity and social mobility.
Agricultural productivity for taking millions out of poverty and ensuring food security.
Reviving Industry to generate employment and “make things” not just to remain hawkers of other peoples’ goods.
Developing solid minerals exploitation which will substantially attract employment and revenue for government.
Restoring honour and integrity to public service by keeping the best and attracting the best.
Tackling corruption which has become blatant and widespread. The rest of the world looks at Nigeria as the home of corruption. Nigeria is a country where stealing is not corruption.
Last, (but not the least or final) respecting the constitutional separation of powers between the executive, legislatures and judiciary and respecting the rights of citizens.

Mr Chairman, there, in outline are some policy proposals about the direction APC should take when, by the grace of God, we are given the responsibility of serving Nigeria in Government.

General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Akpan107(m): 2:42pm On Oct 15, 2014
EconElectronics:
@ Op I really love that word fruitless, why is he coming back?
I like his post because of the word 'fruitless' and that is the only reason why i liked it.
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by datribune: 2:45pm On Oct 15, 2014
GMB - tried, tested & proven to be one of nigeria's greatest leaders of all time. SAI BUHARI

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by omenka(m): 2:45pm On Oct 15, 2014
PhockPhockMan:
Amaechi just disgraced himself by talking like a child. He claimed he spent 1.5 billion for Ebola. See corruption being promoted.
Abegi, go siddon. Everybody, including yourself, knows that the name "Jonathan" can be substituted for corruption in any sentence. Little wonder he's spent over two hours in two different presidential media chat trying to distinguish between "his name" and stealing!!

Go shiiit a brick man.
Buhari, your lot's nightmare, is here to run eight good years of uninterrupted growth, and put you guys out of business for good.

You can keep collecting your N500 N300 TAN stipends though. Jonathan will be allowed to be making payments from far away KiriKiri maximum.

Sai Buhari!! smileysmiley

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by EffectualPrayer: 2:46pm On Oct 15, 2014
Truth is bitter
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by omenka(m): 2:47pm On Oct 15, 2014
EffectualPrayer:
Why did Buhari refuses to probe Tinubu before he joined APC? If Buhari is indeed anti-corruption crusader he ought to probe Tinubu- first. Are all these people Saint?
Na wa oo. Wetin person nor go reaad for nairaland!!!! gringrin

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by batstan(m): 2:49pm On Oct 15, 2014
Acidosis:
Lol

I'll rather sleep than give my vote to a 70+ old f00l

Buhari stole more than any politician in Nigeria
https://www.nairaland.com/1939190/buhari-stole-more-than-nigerian

The massive looting of Lagos state by the Leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has reached monumental proportion
http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/exclusive/tinubus-massive-looting-of-lagos-uncovered/
u are so pathetic. a new breed u must be.

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Akpan107(m): 2:50pm On Oct 15, 2014
Keneking:
Sai APC (2015 - 2031) grin
Sai Buhari (2015 - 2023), President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria grin
Do you mean 'the Federal Repuplic Arewa'?
Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Agbalanze(m): 2:51pm On Oct 15, 2014
Just like in 2003,2007,2011... and now, 2015! What a serial looser!!

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Re: Buhari Declares For 2015 Presidential Race, Live On AIT. by Nobody: 2:53pm On Oct 15, 2014
Don't see how i can vote for dis guy and tinubull***t

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