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GenBuhari: Whilst the professor has a record of speaking against human rights, he seems very content with accepting massive looting and corruption.

Looting and corruption in governments (around the world) are like the heat of the sun. While the sun if necessary for many purposes on earth, its scorching can be unbearable and dangerous. Only concerted endeavours and vigilance can save you (a nation) from the scorching sun, while utilizing its presence positively.
Casting such aspersion on Soyinka (the way you did) is like asking a man putting out a nearby consuming forest fire for not first putting out the heat of the sun.

jjcbuthot: And if I may ask Cultist Professor Wole Soyinka, what does he have to say about the hanging and beheading of Nigerian drug pushers (since Buhari left power) in other countries like Saudi, China, Malasia, Indonasia, etc? I am sure more than 100 heads of Nigerian drug pushers have been severed from the body since then in other lands. With the lesson Buhari regime was delivering at the time, I am sure most of those guys would be living today and much more who are in jails across the world would be free today. When you refuse to train your children, outsiders will help you deliver some hash lessons to them. And could those three guys executed by Buhari regime have escaped beheading or hanging in other countries? The answer is NO - they would have either been beheaded or languishing in jail somewhere in the cold. But the lesson the Buhari/Idiagbo government was delivering would have saved some many lives today.

Soyinka is short sighted and despite his education, he failed woefully to understand that laws are made to deter people from committing crimes and if anybody steps over it, the laws must be enforced so the essence of the laws which is to deter people can be achieved.

I know the teeming illiterates from a particular region will hit back at me - I have my boxing glove already and also wearing bullet proof-vest under. Come come come...

chei I so badly wanna take u on but no time! cheap beer palour rants.

Without wole saying these I always know that any patriotic Nigerian cannot support the killing of NYSC members in the name of losing election and finally unleashing bokoharam on the country because he was not on power. He is desperate in need of power!

Yes, there are many past sins of Buhari but he has some good as well. He is the only past leader that has spoken against and fought corruption. IBB stopped him from cleaning up Nigeria, and we all know the legacy that IBB has left us, free fall corruption that has virtually destroyed the country.

I am not a fan of Buhari but I support his continued clamour for anti-corruption. He is entitled to being part of the debate on the future of his country but he should not seek to be president again.

I would ask Wole Soyinka to read through the trail here and see how bad our English and communication have become in Nigeria. That is all due to our unbridled romance with corruption. Lecturers selling notes and awarding marks to highest bidders and so on...that would not have happened under Buhari. Let us also recognize some good Buhari has done.

jcgodfrey: *sighs* well, what can I say about Buhari? 12 million votes abi. Ok. Well, u see, there's this thing in I.T called peering. When your peers vote for u, there's no greater feeling. E.g, Lionel Messi. It means they recognize ur true quality amongst them. And that supercedes politics, where 12 million votes from lesser minds can be bought.
That's the pleasure Wole Soyinka derives. So when u win international laurels and have red caprets rolled out worldwide and speak and great minds listen, *sighs again*, u can't choose politics. Atleast not in a country like Nigeria. There's simply no honour there.
I don't see any international figure taking Buhari's side. Nah, who would? No brainer.

You seem to agree with me;
Let him ( soyinka) stick to story telling- in English . He cannot be a leader in anything else - not road safety , not even cultism which he invented.

AnanseK: You seem to agree with me;
Let him ( soyinka) stick to story telling- in English . He cannot be a leader in anything else - not road safety , not even cultism which he invented.

Lols. U dis guy, u bad ooo. See as u twist my tale. Anyways, Soyinka is a world leader in every right, albeit literarily, atleast. But he's a big voice for the masses. Not everyone tows the political path, mind u. But in a sense, he's a politician too. Not just an office-seeking one.

ekwah: chei I so badly wanna take u on but no time! cheap beer palour rants.

No time or no intellect?

Oh! Abacha! Oh! Mustapha. You should have spared Kudirat and Pa Rewane. You people no do well oo..

This man is causing confusion in our Land because he can speak grammar.

I blame Abacha and Mustapha..

A Count-out for Buhari

By Toyin Shittu Adebowale Newsdiaronline Fri Apr 1,2011



How times have changed ! And General Buhari is a presidential candidate in a democratic dispensation with the audacity to tease the people’s sense of history of just where he is coming from. Discerning minds will however remain alert to the opportunistic presence of General Buhari in the forefront of the very civilian democratic dispensation he so hated with a rage, that not only undermined and eventually violently terminated a democratically elected government, but went to the sadistic excess of hounding and quarantining the nation’s political class. General Buhari was then so inebriated with power from the barrel of an AK-47 that he disparaged democracy and politicians and swore to never have anything to do with either. The General was so ruthlessly committed to imposing his dictatorship on the entire country as he went about preying on all basic human rights, including the sacred right to life which he violated with impunity. There are several survivors of the notorious "Buhari Era" who have not and cannot forgive or forget the atrocities arbitrarily unleashed on them just for being civilian political leaders, let alone condone his callous attempts to reap where he did not sow.
Such a heavy political handicap and widespread resentment has haunted the lack-luster political career of General Buhari and rendered him an anathema among the political class and subsequently hopelessly at the disposal of three nonentities who are themselves very contemptuous and arrogant in dealing with fellow human beings. Together they have practically turned General Buhari into a puppet on their strings, flagrantly flouting all known
ethics of consensus and consultation in a political party and putting every decent person off. As has now been amply demonstrated, Buhari supporters are almost exclusively mobs of exuberant but uninformed youths whom even he can hardly control let alone lead to any gainful end. And he continuously recycles the same mobs to the venues of his campaigns to create the impression of mass support where none has ever existed for him.
The reality of his being politically unpopular is unmistakable also in the failure of his many strenuous bids to be considered worthy of partnership in endless negotiations with Bola Tinubu’s ACN crowd. Buhari is notoriously a non-starter in the entire south which only complicates his political pariah status in the north and qualifies him as the most desperate failed politician in Nigeria’s history. Only blind desperation can explain the retired general’s opting for the Lagosian clergy by picking Pastor Babatunde Bakare of the Latter Rain Assembly as his running mate. There is every reason to expect the General to be soaked to the bones in the latter rain of presidential elections ! Such an ill-fitting running mate, whose contempt for northerners could spell doom should there be a repeat of the circumstances that saw Goodluck Jonathan inheriting the Yaradua Presidency !
General Buhari has further holed himself up in the cave of political isolation and diminishing returns for northerners who might still regard him as their saving grace. Even more unsettling to the northern parochial sentiment is the General’s adoption of, not just a Christian, but a pastor as his political partner while the region’s Muslim renegades are busy condemning pro-Jonathan Muslim governors as heretics and sell-outs. With the political tide turning wildly away from the North, the ethno-religious sentiments on which Buharism is precariously perched could well become a death-wish for an ill-fated and ill-fitting presidential ambition.
But it is just as well that Buhari’s political career is dead on arrival even in the north. He only deserves a nemesis kiss of death for his still unforgettable political false-starts and outright fiascos. When he became military head of state in those draconian days of yore, the hard-hearted general had no qualms about picking a Muslim Idiagbon as his deputy, a choice that exposed his less than nationalistic instincts but which still did not impress the likes of Kano Islamic preacher Kalarawi who lampooned the general for departing from the familiar "Buhari-Muslim" Hadith partnership and coming up with a bizarre "Buhari-Idiagbon" alternative.
That was to be the beginning of the end of any notion of General Buhari having any dependable pro-northern or indeed pro-Islamic slant in his dictatorial tenure as he went on to unleash a series of outrageous affronts on that constituency which included limiting the number of Hajj pilgrims, imposing screening and permits on Muslim preachers, banning teenagers from Hajj-except Idiagbon’s son-and eventually detaining the revered Sheikh Gummi for criticizing the excesses of his regime ! Not even the northern political leadership was spared Buhari’s draconian callousness as Umaru Dikko and President Shagari can still testify. Remember the Justice Okorodugwu’s sentence of the Late afro beat maestro Fela Anikulapo Kuti whom the Judge had to trail to his hospital bed to beg for forgiveness, confessing that Fela did no wrong but was forced by Gen Buhari’s administration to jail him over basic travelling allowance saga.
But the General did not spare himself either because of the rough shod manner in which he wielded his arbitrary might. Recall the infamous 56 suitcases airport saga and the despised Decree 17 that permitted official victimization of civil servants through summary dismissals without right of appeal and swept over 100,000 of them into instant misery along with millions of dependants. This decree triggered a wave of corrupt practices and plunder of public funds as jittery civil servants prepared themselves for sudden retirement without benefits !
Then there was his recourse to retroactive legislations and draconian sentences of several lifetimes clearly targeting certain hated politicians who were charged to kangaroo tribunals with trumped up offences that never existed before Buhari came to power and others already provided for in common law with civilized penalties. Decrees 2 and 4 are reputedly comparable only Hitlerian era of unapologetic victimization of dissenters which Buhari even boasted about as he cast away the legitimate rights of the Press and civil servants alike. In the process he outraged the nation by trampling rough shod on the fathers of the nation by seizing the passports of the Emir of Kano and the Ooni of Ife because they did not come begging him to travel out ! In another act of wasteful self-aggrandizement, Buhari ordered the construction of presidential palace in his hometown of Daura for a whopping 7 million naira of those days of valuable naira but which has remained an abandoned white elephant tribute to his extravagance since his ouster in 1985.
In other outings, General Buhari turned out not be as firm and fearless as his fans would want us to believe. Recall how a couple of hapless drug traffickers were summarily executed despite public outcry only for the General to back-step and dilly-dally when a certain well-connected chap and his girl-friend were nabbed for similar offences until eventually they got scot free while the unconnected families mourned the execution of their children. He led the race of acquiring choice plots in Kaduna’ high brow areas where he still lives in a mansion and would have similarly cornered Abuja’s plots if it had become the nation’s capital in his tenure.
The PTF also exposed the General as being susceptible to undue influence in the award of contracts through cronyism and nepotism, from which a deep pool of public funds were made available for some favoured individuals to, among other things, set up media houses some of which still exist to glorify the General’s "impeccable" character beyond the call of duty. He was after all not the initiator of the PTF concept but an appointee of General Abacha given a blueprint to implement but who instead converted it to an opportunity to build an empire for himself and his hangers on. Come to think of it, what tangible contribution to national development has ever been attributed to General Buhari’s 18 months rule of terror that he can now recall to justify his interest in the presidency ? Certainly, nothing comparable to President Goodluck Jonathan’s acclaimed nine month successful tackling of intractable fuel scarcity, constitutional crisis and imminent sabotage of governance and federalism?
Even today as he is being propped up as the flag-bearer of the North’s flagging political stake, the General is proving far short of expectations and propaganda. Most of the irate youth fanatical about his leadership were not born in his draconian days as military head of state and only succumbed to the latter day media profiles spun by his PTF beneficiaries. The CPC emergence only worsened this profile in the manner the General personalized the party and imposed his long-standing lackeys to thwart internal democracy and frustrate credible people’s legitimate bid to contest for positions. The exit of Chief Mike Ahamba in disgust over the General’s sheer incapacity for leadership of a political party, leaving Buhari to publish an apologetic appeal to Ahamba to forgive and forget has said it all.
All said there is just no way for General Buhari to meet up to the current demands of generational and transformational change in caliber of national leadership and process of governance nor the challenges of Nigeria’s future aspiration. By his antecedents he should be in the museum of military dictators and by his present political predicament he belongs to the back row, not the high table of presidential politics which he strains himself to occupy ! Definitely we shall look back at him in a few weeks as the president Nigerians roundly rejected.


Shittu Adebowale can be reached at toyin_shittu2011@yahoo.com

jjcbuthot: No time or no intellect?

jjcbutHot abi na wetin be ur name sef.... you are a joker.

Dpeacemaker101: why are you running away from the main substance, even if it is not whole Soyinka. But the facts stated in this article are true, so stop running around to protect your inhuman and mean killer called Buhari

No No i was not running away but stating the fact to someone that was insinuating that it cant be WS, and therefore even given the benefit of doubt, WS under our constitution, WS can sue the paper for defamation of his person...until then.. the story is by WOLE SOYINKA and finally, i [size=15pt]cant[/size] support this GMB he has a lot of baggage that i wont wanna share, so he is on his own...

Novice1: Balderdash. Let him give us a genuine alternative to squarely face the wholesale corruption that will soon bring this country to its knees.

Under Buhari's watch during Abacha's regime the PTF whatever that acronymn stands for, was the most organized corruption machinery in the history of Nigeria. Four or five contracts for the same road, broken into sections. Sixty five per cent of available resources spent in the North. Buhari is unrepentant. In recent history as the presidential candidate, of CPC every campaign was marked by unbridled violence.

paulabdeel: Under Buhari's watch during Abacha's regime the PTF whatever that acronymn stands for, was the most organized corruption machinery in the history of Nigeria. Four or five contracts for the same road, broken into sections. Sixty five per cent of available resources spent in the North. Buhari is unrepentant. In recent history as the presidential candidate, of CPC every campaign was marked by unbridled violence.

And which probe panel revealed that? Educated illiterate...

paulabdeel: Under Buhari's watch during Abacha's regime the PTF whatever that acronymn stands for, was the most organized corruption machinery in the history of Nigeria. Four or five contracts for the same road, broken into sections. Sixty five per cent of available resources spent in the North. Buhari is unrepentant. In recent history as the presidential candidate, of CPC every campaign was marked by unbridled violence.

You know you are lying.

nokingasgod: True talk Brother. I remember every bit of it all. THe fear of KAI officers is the beginning of wisdom. I also remember many of the politicians that were incastrated and never survived the trauma, Ambrose Alli of Bendel, Bisi Onabanjo of Ogun etc. I remember that of the drug peddlers as well. The decree was backdated so as to make scapegoats out of them. THe atrocities were monumental and these paved the way for the ''Devil's Alternative'', Babangida's coup. I remember Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief at the overthrow of Buhari/Idiagbon.

The reforms no doubt were long over due and necessary but the modus operandi, the spirit and philosophy behind them were corrupt, so, wrong and ungodly. There must be human face to any form of meaningful reforms if it were to succeed and this was lacking in the Buhari reforms.

Get a copy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's Beast of no Nation and right from the album's sleeve to the lyrics, you will learn more about the fraud called Buhari/Idiagbon's regime .

it was WAI not KAI, you remembered indeed.

nokingasgod: True talk Brother. I remember every bit of it all. THe fear of KAI officers is the beginning of wisdom. I also remember many of the politicians that were incastrated and never survived the trauma, Ambrose Alli of Bendel, Bisi Onabanjo of Ogun etc. I remember that of the drug peddlers as well. The decree was backdated so as to make scapegoats out of them. THe atrocities were monumental and these paved the way for the ''Devil's Alternative'', Babangida's coup. I remember Nigerians heaved a sigh of relief at the overthrow of Buhari/Idiagbon.

The reforms no doubt were long over due and necessary but the modus operandi, the spirit and philosophy behind them were corrupt, so, wrong and ungodly. There must be human face to any form of meaningful reforms if it were to succeed and this was lacking in the Buhari reforms.

Get a copy of Fela Anikulapo Kuti's Beast of no Nation and right from the album's sleeve to the lyrics, you will learn more about the fraud called Buhari/Idiagbon's regime .

it was WAI not KAI, you remembered indeed

Buhari is a democracy destroyer, period!!!

Say no to Buhari

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CHIEF RICHARD AKINJIDE SAN IN AN INTERVIEW...

"IN THE EVENT FORMER HEAD OF STATE, GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI, EMERGES AS APC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DO YOU SEE HIM DEFEATING PRESIDENT JONATHAN IN 2015?

If Buhari standsfor any election 10 times, he will lose.

WHY?

He hasn’t got the electoral advantage to win an election. He has done a lot of things in the past, which shows that he hasn’t got democratic norms. For instance, the government of Lagos Statewas to do the railway system and we know what he did about it. Nigeria has one of the worst railway systemsin Africa today. Lagos State was going to do water system; he (Buhari) cancelled it. He even cancelled the railway system (metroline) in Lagos State.

The railway system was approved by Shehu Shagari and the agreement was vetted by me as the Attorney-General and Lagos State deposited $50 million to a French company, which they forfeited and then they were asked to pay damages again in arbitration. Buhari was told that and he didn’t care. His belief was that South would be better developed than the North. Anybody who thinks like that is not worthy of being President of this country. That is one of the reasonshe has no political advantage for any political party. We all know what he did about human rights abuses. He imprisoned many political leaders."

Can any of you this mods bring this to the frontpage so that We may have a nice discourse between Pro Jonathan and Anti Buhari forces of Youths....
We are being brainwashed that the older is better than the younger...
#This Generation sha

From other sources I went to, the article is not a new lie... It is an old lie... So come and counter this lie o.... The Lie about the Lagos MetroRail has not been countered yet though i went on FACTCHECKI.ng to ask for the truth....

HolyHolla:
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CHIEF RICHARD AKINJIDE SAN IN AN INTERVIEW...
"IN THE EVENT FORMER HEAD OF STATE, GENERAL MUHAMMADU BUHARI, EMERGES AS APC PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE, DO YOU SEE HIM DEFEATING PRESIDENT JONATHAN IN 2015?
If Buhari standsfor any election 10 times, he will lose.
WHY?
He hasn’t got the electoral advantage to win an election. He has done a lot of things in the past, which shows that he hasn’t got democratic norms. For instance, the government of Lagos Statewas to do the railway system and we know what he did about it. Nigeria has one of the worst railway systemsin Africa today. Lagos State was going to do water system; he (Buhari) cancelled it. He even cancelled the railway system (metroline) in Lagos State.
The railway system was approved by Shehu Shagari and the agreement was vetted by me as the Attorney-General and Lagos State deposited $50 million to a French company, which they forfeited and then they were asked to pay damages again in arbitration. Buhari was told that and he didn’t care. His belief was that South would be better developed than the North. Anybody who thinks like that is not worthy of being President of this country. That is one of the reasonshe has no political advantage for any political party. We all know what he did about human rights abuses. He imprisoned many political leaders."

If APC has no other option than this one, i'm afraid there is bound to be no change...
#I Want Change

People were begging back then, but the masses still voted for Buhari and see where that got us.

Buhari is very Clumsy !!!

*Buhari’s Ruthlessness Secrets*

_by somtookeke(m): 11:11am_


The lamb at home doesn’t know the deadliness of the hunter in the forest. Radical issues require drastic actions. With uncommon courage and a massive sense of patriotism, I, Babatunde Odesola, a middle-aged Nigerian journalist and a die-hard lover of democracy, hereby, call for a revolution against millions of Nigerians who have been demonising Mallam Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR) and his amazing party, the All Progressives Congress.

*Read More* :

https://speakersden2..com/2019/12/buharis-ruthlessness-secrets.html