₦airaland Forum

By True Nigerian.
Maybe Buhari will be another
fraud or folly on Nigerians
when he wins. But any other
"fraud or fuul" will be better
than Jonathan. These polls
reflect nothing but the truth. In
2010, I marched on the streets
to protest in favour of a
Jonathan Presidency, not
because I believed for a second
that he was the kind of leader
Nigeria needed at the time; I
did it because it was the right
to do in order for the law,
justice and good conscience to
prevail.
Today, I don't know if there is
anyone in the entire world that
feels as utterly embarrassed
and horrified as I feel about the
bottomless incompetence,
public defence of stealing and
senselessness from Jonathan.
Having lived in 5 foreign
countries and seen how smart
Nigerians are considered to be
in all spheres of life whether in
business, medicine, technology,
law, sciences, finance, and even
the politics of some foreign
countries, I struggle to reconcile
that fact with the rather
ridiculous fact that such a
bunch of brilliant Africans
would have such a ridiculous
character as Jonathan as their
leader. Sometimes, I look at my
country and weep. I look at the
Niger Deltans and feel sorry for
them about what Obasanjo did
to them by foisting Jonathan on
them and the rest of Nigerians.
Niger Delta has many smart
competent and brilliant chaps
who could transform this
country across every tribe,
tongue and religion if they
were in Jonathan's position
today. But today, Jonathan
makes Niger Deltans look as if
they are all "idyots". Jonathan
is an idea that has worked for
nobody in Nigeria except the
few criminals and animals that
are sucking the system dry
because they are his cronies.
Today, a Niger Deltan has made
history as the very worst leader
in Nigeria's history, and it
reflects badly on the Niger
Deltans. I know many people
today who have vowed that a
Niger Deltan will never get
their votes for the presidency
again. And it is not just because
of President Jonathan's failure,
but because of the way in
which he has succeed in using
some misguided fellows from
Niger Delta in voicing ethnic
bigotry each time someone
rightly criticises his government
on grounds of verifiable and
obvious failings. It's either they
are vowing to go to war against
any removal (even if a lawful
removal) of Jonathan or they
are childishly vowing to take
their oil. Meanwhile their own
governors are getting N22 a
month (bigger than the annual
budget of some countries) and
doing next to nothing for the
impoverished and abused
people of the Niger Delta. The
debate on leadership has never
been so low in our history. I
mean, Northerners produced
leaders that ruined this country
just like Jonathan. However, at
no time did we hear from
Northerners responding to
criticisms of such horrible
leaders by making any threats
such as the ethnic madness
we've heard from Niger Deltans
in the last 5 years. Some of the
most ferrocious critics of
Obasanjo were Yorubas. And
even when other Nigerians
criticised him, Yorubas did not
make any threats. In fact,
Yorubas wept because they said
that giving Obasanjo the
presidency in the name of
giving it to Yorubas was like
robbing the Yorubas. That is
why Obasanjo and his
candidates lose in every
election in his own ward, local
govt and state. And had he not
killed Bola Ige, his Presidency
would never have survived
beyond 2003 as the AD - well
supported by the Yorubas -
would have dealt with him at
the 2003 polls, which was why
he killed Bola Ige who would
have been wholly supported by
the Yoruba people. But today,
even when Jonathan comes on
national television to stoutly
and bullishly defend obvious
corruption and stealing by a
minister that has 5 official
indictments for stealing of
public funds since 2007, you
would hear Niger Deltans
saying "leave our son alone or
we will take our oil". It's
simply too low. Meanwhile, the
ethnicists from Niger Delta are
also victims of the same
incompetence that they are
defending. Who would have
thought that Bodo Community
in Niger Delta would be
condemned to seeking justice
from UK courts when their own
son is the Commander-in-
Chief? But they know he signed
away their oil block (OPL 245)
to Mohammed Abacha and Don
Etiebet for a paltry share of the
heist. Even as a Niger Deltan,
Jonathan is busy planting
serious ethnic rifts and fissures
in his own region by using his
Presidential office to rob some
parts of the region their oil
wealth in order to transfer the
property rights of those assets
to his own preferred
communities. So I don't know
any right-thinking person who
would consider the Jonathan
Presidency a good thing for the
long-term well-being of
Nigeria. Enough is enough, he
has to go, unless we want to
look even more "stoopid" in the
eyes of the world. John McCain
is telling us that we don't have
a government under this guy
named Jonathan. And that was
the only reason he started
looking for the Chibok girls
whom he ignored and mocked.
Even when he decided that he
would look for them, he needed
a plea and a visit by a foreigner
to beg him and convince him to
visit or meet the families of the
children that his failure and
the failure of his army chiefs
delivered into the hands of
disgusting murderers who call
themselves boko haram. Enough
is really enough! Jonathan has
been one terrible nightmare for
me as a Nigerian.
And this is not just about
Buhari or Jonathan. In a
democracy, there is no other
way for the people to command
the respect of their politicians
other than by showing the
politicians that they can
actually fire a ruling
government. Sacking Jonathan
and his arrogant goons in 2015
would send a clear signal to
APC that nobody will take
rubbish from them too.

Screw-em
• 6 hours ago
Deri aka dracula; Wendel
Simlin ; and Reno
Omokri....emmmhh ....e bi like
say water don pass garri
oooooh!!...Nna, which kind poll
be this? wetin u eat before you
conduct this "unscientific"
poll....abi na too much sapele
kaikai steer you into this
"nonsense"?.. you for Just leave
the soja and 20naira boys rig
your man in come 2015, then
everybody go know say your
benefactor Dumbo GEJ dey walk
on water....lol....The
unfortunate state of our dear
nation cannot continue along
this path as this time around
our VOTES will and MUST
count......The current occupant
in ASO Rock.should please
engage a Moving Truck
Company soonest, as we all will
ensure his kind NEVER smells
the corridor of power ever
again. Aso Rock must and will
be fumigated after the otuoke
clown/Jester is disgraced out of
of office come 2015

Sword of
Damocles
• 35
minutes ago
>
True Nigerian
My brother or sister, i
must tell you that
what i have just read
touched me deeply. It
is good to know that
there are people like
you

Guguru • 6 hours ago
I really do think Jonathan's
political future is in trouble.

Gbo_lee • 6 hours ago
Slowly but surely,the movement
is gathering
momentum...Jonathan will be a
goner by 2015 if the people are
allowed to vote in a free and
fair election and this is
clear...because while Buhari is
winning supporters who believe
in him,Jonathan is buying
support groups...change is
close!

tulampa
• 6 hours ago
Nigerians it's good to rejoice
this victory if for nothing at all,
at least it shows that Nigerians
are ready for change. But most
importantly elections are not
won on d pages of newspapers.
We must all register n ready to
vote out this tyrant called
Jonathan

Wähala • 6 hours ago
#AnyBodyButDumb2015...
There's no way evil can
triumph over good. Look at the
caption picture and judge by
their true colors. Black and
White, left or right and the
choice is easy: Children of God
sit at the right hand of God!
Left to me, I would advise Gen.
Buhari to promptly publish his
assets declaration form and
challenge Dr. Dumbo to follow
suit... that would be the 6inch
nail in the head of the Otuoke-
born criminal. With a huge
early lead at the polls, Gen.
Buhari must consolidate on it
by making Mrs. Fayemi, Dr. NOI
or an Igbo man his running
mate. That would swing the
women voters towards him, and
wake mumu Igbos from blindly
backing a losing horse. But that
is secondary, most importantly,
is to secure the loyalty of all his
well wishers regardless of
region and religion... to flush
Dumbo into the soakaway is a
national priority and call to
duty: #AllHandsOnDeck!

Owambe
• 5 hours
ago
>
Wähala
Respect for the first
part
#AnyBodyButDumbo2
The criminals must be
in slumber to think
the ride will continue
unchallenged. My
trouble is with the
Ngozi hype. The
Ugwashi-Uku woman
is a criminal full stop!
I stopped seeing her
as an intellectual and
truly she's not. She
leads this
abracadabra
economics of
Jonathan. Any sane
intellectual cannot
serve in this corrupt
govt. Did you watch
her yesterday flanking
Chidoka at the TAN
rally in Abuja. Ngozi
is a lost soul, I'm
sorry man... seek a
new mentor.

Musty
• 4
hours
ago
>
Owambe
Completely agreed on that lady. It is too
unfortunate she is the "PRIME MINISTER
OF NIGERIA"

sammyctu ode
• 7 hours ago
What Nigerians should know
and realize is that if pdp and
jonathan loose the 2015
election, WE THE PEOPLE OF
NIGERIA ARE THE REAL
WINNERS OF NIGERIAN
DEMOCRACY. If APC wins the
election, Nigerians have made a
big statement, we have freed
ourselves from slavery since
1999 and we have told the
whole world that if APC DOES
NOT PERFORM, WE NOW HAVE
THE GUSTO TO VOTE THEM
OUT OF POWER AND THAT
WILL TELL ALL THE NIGERIAN
POLITICIANS THAT THEY
SHOULD NEVER TAKE THE
NIGERIAN ELECTORATE FOR A
RIDE ANYMORE.

Efe1 • 7 hours ago
I am waiting for TAN to conduct
or commission their own poll
even among their own
members, Buhari will still carry
the day. Most of the tanners are
there for what they are paid.
Did you watch the disgrace in
PH? Look at the grand finale in
Abuja, GEJ must have gotten
some pre information about the
possible poor turn out, so he
did not turn up. There is so
much money can buy. If you are
senseless, you are senseless.
The level of corruption is just
too much! The man has fail but
just because he lack the
capacity to see his own failure
and take the right step, he is
walking straight into the
biggest disgrace ever suffered
by a president anywhere in the
world. The worse part of it is
that GEJ is surrounded by sub
humans like Reno, Abati, and
Okupe.

WWBlogger2
• 5 hours
ago
> Efe1
TAN is a completely
419 racket run by the
serial 4i9er Ifeanyi
Uba.

Sword of Damocles
• 7 hours ago
I am excited , but NOT about
the 2 polls referenced in this
piece, after all they are NOT
SCIENTIFIC. the reason i am
excited is that in a free and fair
election, Gen Buhari would
wipe the floor with our crooked
President, REPEATEDLY. Only
fools who have LOW ESTEEM
for their father's name would
vote for that BETRAYER of 180
million people. Nigeria has
suffered enough, millions of
long suffering citizens have had
ENOUGH of the national/
international DISGRACE, the
frenzied looting of the treasury
(federal,state, local), the lies,
the LACK of common amenities
taken for granted in other
lands. We just want these
treasonous lot OUT!!

TRUTH MASTER
• 7 hours ago
see more
At my watering hole, amid
gulps of Heineken and bites of
Nkwobi and other delicacies, I
told my fellow revellers
pre-2011 election that a vote for
Jonathan will be a vote well
wasted, for a few reasons,
including:
1. He never earnestly sought the
office of President and was not
prepared for it
2. Nothing in his antecedents
pointed to a man who swots to
achieve greatness
3. He dodged a debate with his
opponents
4. He said little as his then
Godfather, OBJ, piggybacked
him across the country during
electioneering campaign
Well, sentiments, religious and
ethnic, prevailed and mo

Ekwekwe
• 8 hours ago
What stops Sharia Reporters
and Propaganda Times from
starting the swearing ceremony
of Buhari as president right
away? Based on the irrefutable
fact that the samples used for
those studies are representative
of a large majority of Nigerian
voters - who are known to have
access to computers and the
Internet - the result of these
studies will be a carbon copy of
the 2015 presidential election.
Why waste Nigeria's scarce
resources to conduct an
election? When will Buhari be
sworn in?

TRUTH MASTER
• 8 hours ago
This Omokri must be living in a
dream world. And he is got
some nerve! Going ahead to
conduct a poll means he
somehow believes, deep down,
that his boss, our President,
Goodluck Jonathan, is doing
well and is on the way to re-
election in 2015. Now that he
has got an unintended result,
will he be honest enough to
admit it? We wait!
By the way, this is some piece
of good reporting!

Bishop • 9 hours ago
All we ask is for a free and fair
elections, by February 2015.
PDP will be disappointed when
the results are all shown, this
has proven to them that it's
really Time for change. APC
will beat them.

Owambe
• 9 hours ago
On a good day even Jonathan
will vote himself out. The guy
knows he's dirty. But wait o;
Omokri survived the Wendel
Simlin scandal, will he survive
this? Is the guy finally tired of
his thieving boss and seeks to
humiliate him?

ghostmode1:
I write this because of millions of Nigerians who are below 30 and who constitute a significant chunk of our voting population.

This is the ICT generation that is largely ignorant about the events of the Buhari era (1983-85) and so can be misinformed and misled by needless propaganda. I have sat with many in the under-30 bracket and those slightly above who only have faint recollections of the Buhari era and the level of ignorance about that era is amazing.

Before being MILITARY Head of State, Buhari had been Governor of one of the Northern States (under Obasanjo’s Military government) as well as Minister for Petroleum. He later served as Chairman of PTF under Abacha. Please consider the following unassailable facts:

- He birthed and supervised the establishment of our existing refineries.

- There was no religious crisis while he was Head of State. It started under his successor IBB!

- In his time as Head of State he reduced inflation from 23% to 4%, by fiscal discipline and a homegrown economic team (not achieved under any other era, even military).

- JJ Rawlings of Ghana took over 2 years before him, and killed all the corrupt leaders, while Buhari only sentenced the corrupt leaders here to prison.

- Under his watch as PTF Chairman, what he did in road construction in that short period hasn't been matched by 12 years of the PDP.

- Hospitals and universities around the country never witnessed as much benefits as they got from the PTF from any government after or before his time.

- Despite serving in senior capacity in the oil sector, first as Minister for Petroleum and then Petroleum Trust Fund, Buhari has no petrol station,much less a rig, refinery or an oil block like so many of our leaders.

- He could have retired into nauseating opulence like an IBB or Danjuma or even OBJ but didn't.

- Instead of hobnobbing with the high and mighty, he has cast his lot with the ordinary man most of who follow him out of hope and belief in his values.People who know him have said of him... "All I need from Buhari is his word, I can take it to the bank".

- He is the only politician in the North today who fills rallies without renting a crowd. The Kaduna rally of 2nd March is eloquent proof.

- He refused to collect an allowance while serving as Chairman of the PTF because he said since he was already drawing a pension from government, his conscience would not allow him to draw another salary from the purse of the same government.

- He is the only former head of state that does not own property or land in Abuja.

- Every attempt to rubbish him through probes in time past ended up vindicating him! The man who was asked by OBJ to take over the running of PTF before it was scrapped with the aim of probing and indicting Buhari, was the one who ended up being prosecuted
for misappropriating $100m of PTF funds! Buhari again, was vindicated

- He has OPENLY challenged those who accuse him of religious fundamentalism to come out and show proof. No one has till today, taken up the challenge.His personal driver of many years is a Christian from Plateau State.

- His government initiated the War Against Indiscipline that has made environmental cleanliness, queuing up, not urinating by the roadside etc features of our national life even till today Does it then surprise you why corrupt people would be spreading such heinous rumors about Buhari?

He is a threat to them and they know what he is capable of doing to corruption and corrupt people when he comes into office! So shine your eyes and make the right decision. If honesty and probity are the things you want for Nigeria ,now is the time to choose right. When you cast your vote for the BUHARI, you would have cast one vote for a honest men.

Now that you know better, will you please educate another person BY FORWARDING THIS TO AS MANY AS YOU CAN? THIS IS MORE THAN A CAMPAIGN.IT'S JUST THE TRUTH!!!