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Papa Awolowo was asked by inquisitive Nigerian journalists about his impressions on the Buhari military regime, a few days after the coup, Papa had replied "the omens are still bad"

When the Nobel Laureate, Professor Wole Soyinka, a.k.a ‘Bros Kongi’, cautioned the South-West leaders on their enthusiasm for a Buhari Presidency in Thisday publication of January 4, 2007, he was speaking the minds of many Nigerians who know the truth about Gen. Buhari and his ambition.

Nigerians are a politically volatile people. It is the strength of our socio-political existence. Nigerians have shown from their history that tyranny can never succeed here. It is equally a known trait of Nigerians that they have a forgiven spirit when they see repentance in the actions of any of their erring sons and daughters.

Gen. Buhari once ruled this country after the coup of the ‘Beret’ Generals on December 31, 1983 for 20 months. While he has defended some aspects of his rule with all the emphasis at his command, he has refused till this day to offer simple apologies to Nigerians on the tragic and sadistic consequences of his military autocratic rule.

A few days after he assumed power, a manhunt for the political actors of the second republic was ordered by his regime under his supervision. Many politicians at that time either died in detention or carried scars that they still nurse from their long prison incarceration till this day.

Three days after he assumed power, an invasion of Papa Obafemi Awolowo’s house at Apapa, Lagos was ordered by the Buhari-led military regime and the space that Papa Awolowo used in his house for Christian worship was desecrated by the invading soldiers sent by Buhari and his men. Papa Awolowo remains till this day one of the builders of modem Nigeria. He, along with Sir Ahmadu Bello the Sardauna of Sokoto, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and Papa Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe had led Nigeria to independence from British Colonial rule on October 1, 1960.Though Gen. Buhari did explain in later that the invasion of Papa Awolowo’s house at Apapa had been carried out by a soldier he described as “a fifth Columnist in our regime,” other actions from Buhari in the same year (1984) did prove conclusively that he and his regime had been uncharitable (with respect to his person) in their treatment of one of the founders of this country.

Though Papa Awolowo was not detained, it is, however, true that Gen. Buhari’s regime stationed soldiers at Ikenne, the hometown of the late sage, throughout his rule. It was to intimidate the old man. This, however, never dissuaded Papa Awo from speaking out his mind on national issues whenever he felt he should do so.

When Papa Awolowo was asked by inquisitive Nigerian journalists about his impressions on the Buhari military regime, a few days after the coup, Papa had replied “the omens are still bad.”

When the Buhari military headquarters that some governors of the Unity Party of Nigeria (UPN) led by Papa Awolowo in the second republic had confessed to obtaining kickbacks while in government, Papa Awolowo in a press conference, refuted the claim and told the world the truth about the distortion of Buhari and his men inside Dodan Barracks. The result of Papa’s press conference was a dispersal of detained politicians to remote areas of the country and a total cancellation of visits by relations of these detained politicians for the duration of the regime. Gen. Buhari impounded the official passport of Papa Awolowo and denied the old man visits to his doctors at Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota, USA for the years he ruled Nigeria. Papa Awolowo’s passport was only returned to him with courtesies by Gen. Ibrahim Babangida after the coup of 1985 that had ousted Buhari from power. Babangida had sent Lt. Gen. Aliyu Mohammed Gusau to return Papa’s passport with apologies from the Nigerian Armed Forces.

Many of Papa Awolowo’s lieutenants were incarcerated by the Buhari regime for no just cause. The late Papa Adekunle Ajasin, who as the governor of old Ondo State never spent one thousand naira from his security vote throughout his rule, was detained at old age for several months by the Buhari rule. All entreaties to get the old man released from prison failed.

The late Chief Olabisi Onabanjo, the Aiyekoto himself, was picked up from the Lagos University Teaching Hospital three days after an operation by security operatives during the Buhari rule and sent to Bauchi prison. The late Professor Ambrose Mofolorunso Alli, Alhaji Lateef Kayode Jakande, Uncle Bola Ige, Chief Dele Ige, Dr. Wale Idris, Dr. Femi Okurounmu, the late Ganiyu Dawodu, the late Chief M.C.K. Ajuluchukwu, Chief Mrs. Osomo, Prince Yemi Adefulu, the late Alhaji Agbabiaka and myself were sent to long incarceration by the Buhari terror rule.

Within six months of the Buhari-led military administration, Papa Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade and the highly respected Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero were all dealt with by the Buhari regime. Though not detained, these traditional rulers were virtually restricted to their palaces and their passports seized. The Buhari regime was to later state that the measures were imposed on the traditional fathers as a result of a reported visit to Israel.

Chief Solomon Lar, Alhaji Abubakar Rimi, Chief Jimi Nwobodo and some other prominent politicians of the second republic who were detained by General Muhammadu Buhari are alive to confirm the fact that sometime in 1984, security operatives from the Gen. Buhari military stable had visited detained politicians in their various prisons to ‘brief’ them on an alleged plan by Papa Awolowo; Ooni of Ife, Oba Okunade Sijuade; and the UPN leaders to effect a coup in Nigeria before the December 31, 1983 military putsch and declare a Republic of Oduduwa. The detained politicians were told that the alleged Awo-led coup was meant to exterminate political leaders who are not of the Yoruba stock.

Gen. Buhari is now being painted as a lover of the Yoruba nation. This is, however, possible but not visible to many judging from what is known about the man and his ideas when he was the Chairman of the Petroleum Trust Fund, established by the regime of late Gen. Sani Abacha. Only a few areas of the South- West saw signs of the PTF operations and these were due to the unrelenting efforts of Chief Akpata (Secretary to the PTF) and the late Chief Rufus Giwa. Chief Tayo Akpata’s pro South-West stance is not accidental. He comes from a family with long held progressive tradition. His brothers: the late Senator Olu Akpata (a close friend and ally of Papa Awolowo) and the late Bankole Akpata a.k.a ‘Bankie forever’ (former aide of the late Pan Africanist Osagyfo Kwame Nkrumah of Ghana) and himself (Tayo), had contributed immensely to progressive opinions in the country.

I have not written the above to deliberately smear Buhari with my personal feelings against him arising from what he did to me when he was in power. I have written the above to let the world know some of the facts of history that surround a former military ruler who is now being presented by some of our leaders as being one of the most committed democrats our dear country has ever seen.

It will be wrong for me not to admit that despite the crude tyranny of the Buhari regime, he (Buhari) is a man who is without doubt strong willed and committed to the anti corruption struggle. It is, however, worthy of mention that Buhari, who wants to govern Nigeria as civilian president, has refused since 2003 elections to recognize the Federal Government headed by President Olusegun Obasanjo. Since 2003, Buhari has refused to attend all meetings of Council of State called by President Obasanjo. Buhari’s refusal to attend these meetings has been anchored on what he called his frustrations over the conduct of the presidential election of 2003. Thank God that he attended the last Council of State meeting over the census results. This is, however, for understandable reasons.

Let me humbly submit here that despite bitterness over the 1979 elections that had led to Alhaji Shehu Shagari becoming the President of Nigeria, there was never a time that Papa Awolowo had shunned all the meetings called by Alhaji Shehu Shagari between 1979 and 1983.

When President Shagari honoured Papa Awo with the award of the Grand Commander of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, Papa was there with his wife, Mama (Mrs.) Hannah Idowu Dideolu Awolowo to receive it. Papa Awolowo made all of us to understand that Alhaji Shagari was de facto and dejure President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. Papa Awolowo stated his stand in the following words: “If I refuse to honour President Shagari’s meetings, it is not he (Shagari) that I will be insulting. It is Nigeria that I will be insulting. I will never want history to record me as having insulted Nigeria.”

This is very instructive indeed. Though there are now many ways of judging who a progressive is in Nigeria, it is strange that Buhari is being rated a progressive while Governor Umar Musa Yar’Adua of Katsina State is being denied his past as a progressive because he (Yar’Adua) belongs to a camp not embraced by some of our leaders.

Very soon, God will open the eyes of all Nigerians to the fact that Governor Umar Yar’Adua has been a part of the Nigerian progressive family for long. He was one of the young men that participated in the 1977 All Nigerian Socialist Conference held in Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, Kaduna State, under the auspices of Movement for People’s Democracy” put together by the late Comrade Ola Oni, the late Dr. Akin Fadahunsi, the late Bala Usman, Dr. Omafume Onoge, Dr. Akin Ojo, Comrade Laoye Sanda, the late Muhammadu Tukur, Egbon Baba Omojola, Edwin Ike Madunagu, the late Dr. Bade Onimode, the late Josiah Sunday Olawoyin, Professor Femi Odekunle, Bassey Ekpo Bassey, Arthur Nwankwo and myself.

Umar Yar’Adua was a known member of the Mallam Aminu Kano led Peoples Redemption Party (PRP) during the second republic. He was very close politically to the late revolutionary historian Comrade Bala Usman.

As a senior lecturer at the Kaduna Polytechnic, the leftist leaning of Umar Musa Yar’Adua was known to all the students who passed through that institution at that time.

It is, indeed, interesting that it is Gen. Buhari, who is now the political darling of some leaders who in their history have been dogged fighters of the progressive movement in Nigeria. It is the Nigerian people who have the final say with their votes on who they will want to see as their president after the President Olusegun Obasanjo led adminstration. No matter what is written by me and others, the people will by the grace of God express their choice of who their rulers should be with their votes in the April 2007 elections.

Culled from reubenabati.com.ng






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Ok but GEJ till 2019

Okay we'v heard you but this doesnt change the fact that jonathan is going back to otueke next year

How low can pdp go in bad mouthing buhari.


God make my enemy uneasy d way buhari name makes PDP and SaTANist uneasy

With the rate PDP is going in discrediting Buhari ehn, its obvious they will win the 2015 election..

Unless the Buhari Team can come up with a better answer to all this allegations

Buhari is yet to apologize to we Yoruba's personally... (not through any yeye spokesman)

NB: I am not a PDP or APC supporter...
Am Just a Nigerian.

Menesheh you sure know I can't read this, for the simple reason that you're always digging up stuff just to get a kick out of my main man GMB . Sometimes I keep wondering if you're not the DG of National Archives.

Jakpon:
Okay we'v heard you but this doesnt change the fact that jonathan is going back to otueke next year

too bad His farm cant match that of OBJ. Wel 2 months is enuf to start Operation Feed the Nation,

jhimmy:
With the rate PDP is going in discrediting Buhari ehn, its obvious they will win the 2015 election..

Unless the Buhari Team can come up with a better answer to all this allegations

Buhari is yet to apologize to we Yoruba's personally... (not through any yeye spokesman)

NB: I am not a PDP or APC supporter...
Am Just a Nigerian.

are u kidding me. The way pdp that asked 4 issue based campaign end up attacking GMB shows they have no ISSUES to campaign on. It justifies why they failed for 16yrs. They are suppose to be telling us that see in 16yrs we gave power, completed at least 50% of nigeria roads etc and at the end say we want to continue elect us but no they dont do it. They instead express their obsesion with buhari and make buhari even more relevant than the man they want to campaign for without even addresing him. Buhari is double popular because of them. You dont expect a sane man to be running around naked because a mad man took his towel from the bathroom. Buhari is even gaining advantage and pdp are even destroying gej campaing showing to the world that buhari is calm and comported inspite of the whole issues. That is the quality of a good leader, to be calm, relaxed and not panic when you know what you are doing

GMB won't be blamed for most of the things that happened during his short lived junta. We should put our differences aside and forge ahead for the greater good. Let's give GMB a chance to show forth what he has to offer.
Long Live Federal Republic of Nigeria.

interesting

I wonder what Buhari has done to deserve all this mudslinging .....why do you guys take delight in digging up Buharis 18months as Head of state,

Can we please dig up jonathans 18months as governor of bayelsa state? I know he didn't do anything but for posterity sake lets at least know his achievments, I know his wife and Nuhu ribadu had an issue over money laundering but lets save that for another day.....hypocrisy

oziegbe2015:
are u kidding me. The way pdp that asked 4 issue based campaign end up attacking GMB shows they have no ISSUES to campaign on. It justifies why they failed for 16yrs. They are suppose to be telling us that see in 16yrs we gave power, completed at least 50% of nigeria roads etc and at the end say we want to continue elect us but no they dont do it. They instead express their obsesion with buhari and make buhari even more relevant than the man they want to campaign for without even addresing him. Buhari is double popular because of them. You dont expect a sane man to be running around naked because a mad man took his towel from the bathroom. Buhari is even gaining advantage and pdp are even destroying gej campaing showing to the world that buhari is calm and comported inspite of the whole issues. That is the quality of a good leader, to be calm, relaxed and not panic when you know what you are doing

Exactly. They jst keep giving d general more fans n fame. U can't attack someone with something u are even more guilty of. Security, health, finance, corruption, stealing(not corruption )...name it jonathan is worse of. They shld jst let pple know what they v done in 4yrs n stop opening their a.rses even more

oziegbe2015:
are u kidding me. The way pdp that asked 4 issue based campaign end up attacking GMB shows they have no ISSUES to campaign on. It justifies why they failed for 16yrs. They are suppose to be telling us that see in 16yrs we gave power, completed at least 50% of nigeria roads etc and at the end say we want to continue elect us but no they dont do it. They instead express their obsesion with buhari and make buhari even more relevant than the man they want to campaign for without even addresing him. Buhari is double popular because of them. You dont expect a sane man to be running around naked because a mad man took his towel from the bathroom. Buhari is even gaining advantage and pdp are even destroying gej campaing showing to the world that buhari is calm and comported inspite of the whole issues. That is the quality of a good leader, to be calm, relaxed and not panic when you know what you are doing

aiit

starlingleanets:
Ok but GMB till 2019

how can you be so narrowminded?,it's like you didn't comprehend the post . . . GEJ is a failure,Agreed! ,but Buhari is not better either

mesoade:
how can you be so narrowminded?,it's like you didn't comprehend the post . . . GEJ is a failure,Agreed! ,but Buhari is not better either

Wetyn concern me with the post am only after the "likes" nd last time i check typing "GMB till 2019 gives u more like". I'm not a politician Oga and 2015 election is none of my buisness. GMB till 2019

starlingleanets:
Wetyn concern me with the post am only after the "likes" nd last time i check typing "GMB till 2019 gives u more like". I'm not a politician Oga and 2015 election is none of my buisness. GMB till 2019

lol! U no wel walahi

mesoade:
lol! U no wel walahi

Person must to gain smthng na. Besides MOD should do the needful.

Another DESPERATE and CYNICAL attempt at getting some CHEAP sympathy votes for the clueless from his fellow 'southerners'.

I really pity GEJ supporters because this kind of PATHETIC and shameless APPEAL to 'southern' SENTIMENTS to get votes for the Clueless-In-Chief would NOT have been NECESSARY if he had performed up to the EXPECTATIONS of ALL Nigerians in his first term!

Why did Buhari end the democratic elected govt of 1983. Deos he really believe in democracy he dismissed & topple in 1983?

Buhari people as usual, will not respond to the contents of the thread.
They prefer insults and digression from the topic.
What a shame.

The then ACN do term themselves as descendants of Awolowo
Maybe after they changed their name and join hands with buahri's party they have retract the tag "Awolowo descendants"
Cuz it only a Bastard that will eat with someone that victimized his father for no just course

well,after reading all posts with keen interest,l mean all posts about gmb and gej,l know dat gmb is blaming himself for not acting otherwise on those telling issues.on performance in govt,all past leaders are guilty.maybe obj has done better than any other.however attacks on our true leaders is same killing our dreams of freedom and this is unforgivable.aborting democracy,imposing a religion?haba fulanis!!!even our dear prophet mohammed could not stop xtianity and nobody will.you see l was thinking apc was going to present a reasonable candidate so that l may vote l didn't know they'll only throw in d towel by choosing an unworthy man.its a shame.gej may not have performed even at all something all past leaders are guilty of,he is just on his own and only honour some of our gteats like mko.l'm not even interested in this though.and 4 us here let us stop all blind arguements.when its claimed somebody has done something wrong,we should first verify if it's true,we can only admit and not to either defend him blindly or start attacking ther one dat has posted.if either of these 2 candidates has done something wrong,especially sins against another race let him admit and beg openly 4 forgiveness.after this,people can then decide whether or not to forgive.