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Buhari the Abacha stooge.

MOG1D1:
Its a shame that Buhari who truncated Shagari's duly elected govt, now goes cap in hand to beg same Shagari to support him. The evil that men do lives after them.

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Mor on

broken country indeed

if he likes let him visit muhammad after 28 na crying things

pekeyim:
I was suppose to say a lot.


Dailytrust thinks we are broken?


I feel for some people,

Buhari will not win, so stop spewing all this, just to sell your Newspaper.

I thought the major reason the serial coup plotter removed Shagari was because of corruption?

Anyway i'll leave it @ that.

My brotherrr, I thought I was the only one thinking this way.

PassingShot:
Interesting read!

The weakness of Shagari was his inability to prevent looting that was prevalent under him despite himself not guilty of that offence.

A Buhari president will not allow this to happen given what we know of him.

shakes head smiling ..................how old are you to say what you know of him

This is an interesting piece and a great reminder of the past.
Nigeria today is not the same at the time of Shagari. We have become more sophisticated in every areas of our thought, perception and relationship and therefore need a strict, proactive and well focused leader. GEJ and GMB, the popular two contenders must be weighed in such a way that only the best is good enough. GEJ's close to 6yrs has no significant impact on our lives. These years can best be described as the years of the locusts.
GMB has demonstrated good leadership before and one is therefore convinced that if given the chance, the people's general will not disappoint Nigerians.

SOBSISRAEL:
I luv shagari 4 his silence over political stuff. Nt lyk our old man. Obj

you will say not like AGBAYA obj.

MOG1D1:
Its a shame that Buhari who truncated Shagari's duly elected govt, now goes cap in hand to beg same Shagari to support him. The evil that men do lives after them.

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it is in olden days that their evil lives after them, NOW IT LIVES IN THEIR LIFETIME STARING AT THEM KO-RO-KO-RO. AND HUNT THEM INTO THEIR GRAVES.

Good and nice; this Buhari does not worth any thing in Nigeria again, see what is happening now, buhari went to UK unknowingly to Nigerians came back with Boko haram intensity and pledge allegiance to ISIS,
Let Buhari should made opened the meetings he went for in UK/ since he said he is fit and ok in his health. Buhari and APC is joking with Nigerians.

ThisisBuhari:
Many people who looked at the picture published in several newspapers yesterday of General Muhammadu Buhari visiting former President Shehu Shagari in Sokoto mostly thought of one irony, that the former led the coup that overthrew the latter’s government in December 1983.
That’s just the tip of the political iceberg. There are many more similarities and differences between the two men, mostly the latter.

Buhari visited Shagari less than 24 hours after he returned to the country from a two weeks’ visit to the UK. While the APC presidential candidate was away, Shagari turned 90 years old and President Goodluck Jonathan played a fast one. He rounded up all the living former Nigerian heads of state and took them to Sokoto to pay a congratulatory visit to fellow National Council of State member Shagari. Generals Yakubu Gowon, Ibrahim Babangida and Abdulsalami Abubakar together with Chief Ernest Shonekan went with Jonathan to Sokoto for a great photo op.

 Though Buhari was not there, he sent apologies and he had signed the joint birthday card in advance. The only other living ex-Nigerian ruler, Obasanjo, arrived in Sokoto minutes after the Jonathan-led team departed. He claimed that he was delayed by traffic snarl near the Murtala Mohamed Airport in Lagos but many people thought he didn’t want to be part of the Jonathan-led delegation, given their recent spats.

That Buhari made the visit to Shagari his first public event since his return from UK showed how seriously he viewed Jonathan’s maneuver as well as Shagari’s current standing in Nigeria. A Buhari visit to Shagari inevitably reminded old folks of 1983-85 and all the things the soldiers said and did after they sacked the Second Republic. Shagari, all his ministers and all the state governors of the Second Republic were shepherded into detention and accused of corruption and other crimes. How time changes things. Shagari’s long life has enabled him to witness a tectonic change in his public image. Once derided as the man who led the Second Republic to failure, he is now seen as a man who was personally untainted by the corruption and greed of his contemporaries. Given what happened and is still happening to Nigerian governance since 1983 the NPN men now look saintly in retrospect.

As a candidate in an upcoming presidential election, Buhari’s visit must have reminded Shagari of 1979 and 1983 when he was presidential candidate of the behemoth National Party of Nigeria, NPN. They are very different quantities, these two men. In fact, with respect to many personal character traits Buhari and Shagari are polar opposites. Buhari is the no-nonsense tough guy who finds it difficult to smile and who strikes fear in the hearts of many elite figures with his famed anti-corruption stance. Shagari on the other hand is the benign face of politics. In his heydays he was always well dressed, ever smiling, totally at home with crowds, with ceremonies and with foreign visits.

In the 13 years since he entered the political fray in 2002 Buhari has built for himself the largest and most intense personal following of any Nigerian politician since Obafemi Awolowo. Shagari had nothing of the sort during his three decades plus in Nigerian politics. He did not cultivate a personal following; instead he was an organization man who was content to operate under the huge political shadow of the First Republic NPC leaders Sir Ahmadu Bello and Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa. He became president not on his own steam but in continuation of their political legacy.

Buhari is running for president for the fourth time this year entirely on his personal record. APC is the third political party under whose umbrella he is running. In contrast, Shagari didn’t even want to be president. He said in a newspaper interview in 1976 that having been a minister in the First Republic and in the Gowon era, he didn’t want any Executive role again and would vie for a Senate seat. When he was later asked why he reversed himself and sought the presidency, it was Alhaji Aliyu Makaman Bidda, Sardauna’s old deputy, who ordered him to run.

No matter how they arrived at the decision to run, both Shagari and Buhari emerged as candidates out of keenly contested party primaries. NPN’s “nominating convention” of 1978 and APC’s special convention of 2014, both held in Lagos, were some of the most exciting and most transparent party primaries ever held in Nigeria. While Buhari emerged victorious after one ballot, Shagari qualified for a second round of voting alongside Yusuf Maitama Sule and Adamu Ciroma. The two men however graciously withdrew for him.

Shagari and Buhari won their primaries for different reasons. Shagari got the highest number of votes in a six-way race, 900+, partly because many Southern delegates, having zoned the ticket to the North, thought he was more approachable than the others. Buhari did not win the ticket because anyone thought he had a soft image; power broker Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the APC governors thought that his huge personal following is the party’s biggest asset. While Shagari had the active support of the Northern Establishment [traditional, political, business and clerical] Buhari is supported by the Northern masses because they want him to deal with the greedy Establishment, hence the latter is suspicious of him.

The two men’s political platforms are also very different. NPN was much more harmonious than APC is, since it was a resuscitation of the Nigeria National Alliance [NNA] that fought the 1964 election. APC has no such political history. In fact it bucks history, bringing Northerners and Westerners under one political roof for the first time in Nigeria’s history.  

Buhari faces an election opponent that, despite incumbency, is not above him in political stature. In contrast, Shagari had less political stature in 1979 that three of his election opponents namely Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Malam Aminu Kano. It was only GNPP’s Waziri Ibrahim that was his equal, since both of them were First Republic ministers. Shagari was also Gowon’s Finance Minister so he had a slight stature edge over Uncle Waziri.

A person coming to power in Nigeria can hardly hope to inherit a country better than the one that Alhaji Shehu Shagari inherited in 1979, succeeding a regime that was described by all observers at the time as “purposeful.” As for Buhari, if he wins this election he will inherit a broken nation only slightly better than the one he inherited in 1983. Some people might in fact argue that Nigeria is worse today than it was in December 1983 but I don’t think so. To recall one small incident, two friends and I went from one end of Sokoto market to the other in December 1983 but could not find rice, milk or bathing soap to buy.

What about party programs? NPN promised Nigerians two main things in 1979, food and shelter. Shagari tried to deliver both through his Green Revolution and the housing estates. Observers derided the former because the regime massively imported Thai parboiled rice. The housing estates that Shagari built in every state were also derided at the time but they have since become an important housing element in many Nigerian cities. APC’s slogan of “Change” is more opaque that NPN’s Food and Shelter, so we must wait to find out what this change is.

How will Buhari fare as party leader vis-à-vis Shagari? NPN was so mighty and Shagari was so mild mannered that he didn’t dominate it. For example, during the election for NPN’s national secretary at Kano in 1981 Shagari supported Alhaji Sulaiman Takuma but the delegates elected Senator Uba Ahmed instead. These days PDP’s “leader” single handedly selects who he wants as the party chairman. If Buhari were to become president how will he relate with APC and other party figures? Will he permit powerful figures to shine the way Shagari allowed Umaru Dikko, Adisa Akinloye and Olusola Saraki to dominate the scene? Right now, the potential APC Dikkos and Akinloyes are Bola Tinubu and Rotimi Amaechi with others lurking in the background. We must wait to find out.

Source: http://dailytrust.com.ng/daily/columns/monday-columns/48918-between-buhari-and-shagari

free2ryhme:

wait oooo you quoted the whole article just to shine teeth??

gbassa:
Good and nice; this Buhari does not worth any thing in Nigeria again, see what is happening now, buhari went to UK unknowingly to Nigerians came back with Boko haram intensity and pledge allegiance to ISIS,
Let Buhari should made opened the meetings he went for in UK/ since he said he is fit and ok in his health. Buhari and APC is joking with Nigerians.

Spot on. This has been on my mind too. Imagine in the fight against insurgent, Buhari left for UK as he's not happy that Nigeria Military are winning over the Boko Haram.

During his UK 2Weeks holiday, Nigeria Military has progressed immensely in combating the insurgents, he has find a way to make ties with ISIS just to kill the moral of the Military because it was too obvious that he's not happy with the progress Nigeria Military has made.

Only ignorant and barbaric Nigerians will vote for him. He'll lose again comes March 28.

hansad:
Buhari has alays been a profiteer.

He became Head-of-State when he gingered a bunch of soldiers to overthrow Shagari

Buhari is now riding higher than before on the political turf because a bunch of Boko Haram boys have been doing the damage against Jonathan government; Buhari now stands to profit from the work of Boko Haram.

Irony is: Buhari had severally expressed sympathy with Boko Haram.

Under no circumstance must Nigerians allow Buhari to get away with Buhari's latest fraud.

Are people nailing Jonathan on Bokoharam alone? How about Electricity and Inteligence? You GEJ supporters are only sentimental and ha s no point supporting the man

free2ryhme:

And you have to quote everything just to shine ur teeth? SMH

The OP simply concluded that a Buhari government now could end up being ran like the Shagari government.

Simply put, Buhari has made a lot of compromise as regard his corruption stance through the years, having passed through the filters of Nigerian style politics, a politics made out of corruption. It is pretty difficult to avoid corruption or being corrupted (directly or otherwise) in a Nigerian style democracy. With Tinubu and Amaechi behind the old man, it may well be a Shagari all over again.

feldido:
And you have to quote everything just to shine ur teeth? SMH

And you had to quote his shiny teeth?

Buhari wasting his time since 1961. He is a born loafer.

stevikenna:
NIGERIA NEEDS A MAN THAT IS HONEST,DOMINEERING AND A FACE THAT STRIKES FEAR INTO THE HEART OF THE CORRUPT
THE ONLY MAN I KNOW THAT IS CAPABLE OF SUCH IS NEITHER SHAGARI NOR JONATHAN
SAI BUHARI
CHANGE 2015

you certainly are onevof the very few who wear their thinking cap before commenting....nice one

MOG1D1:
Its a shame that Buhari who truncated Shagari's duly elected govt, now goes cap in hand to beg same Shagari to support him. The evil that men do lives after them.

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A personal visit to convey a hearty felicitition to an elder statesman on his 90th birthday is not analogous to going begging - cap in hand. Agreed, they may not roll as buddies but the passage of time should have healed the wounds. Can this equate with the shamelessness of Jonathan who muscled Sanusi out of his job less than a year ago and still went to same man to prostrate a while ago because he needed support?

berem:
God bless the General!

Happy belated birthday to Shehu Shagari

U have returned
Hw was d ban
Mzjackbeuress or whatever will rest for now

A northerner must have written this. It is filled with transient tribalism

PassingShot:
Interesting read!

The weakness of Shagari was his inability to prevent looting that was prevalent under him despite himself not guilty of that offence.

A Buhari president will not allow this to happen given what we know of him.

* Abacha did not steal
~Buhari, 2008

Buhari Will Not Probe Past Corrupt Leaders


More from: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/oyegun-buhari-will-not-probe-past-corrupt-leaders/197980/

Who is FOOLING who

MOG1D1:
Its a shame that Buhari who truncated Shagari's duly elected govt, now goes cap in hand to beg same Shagari to support him. The evil that men do lives after them.

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You don't see Buhari go kneeling down in front of Shagari or any other personalities to beg for their support.

It is the desperado Jona that goes from one church/pastor to another, from some traditional rulers to militant groups and so forth. With all the endorsement he has secured bought, it's surprising that Jona and Jonathanians are still not confident of going into election.

They're either pre-occupied with begging for a debate with Buhari, or Mama Piss asking her supporters to stone anyone who preaches change to them or they're making one documentary or another; or FFK/Okupe and Abati telling us why Yorubas will not vote for Buhari.

One would think they've got enough endorsements to make them comfortable of winning the election but mba, they're still running around like headless chicken.

gbassa:
Good and nice; this Buhari does not worth any thing in Nigeria again, see what is happening now, buhari went to UK unknowingly to Nigerians came back with Boko haram intensity and pledge allegiance to ISIS,
Let Buhari should made opened the meetings he went for in UK/ since he said he is fit and ok in his health. Buhari and APC is joking with Nigerians.

Oya, read the post again. This time very very s-l-o-w-l-y. Don't rush!

makzeze:
A vote for Buhari is a vote for Change.


Buhari and Osinbajo have my precious one vote and that of my entire family come March 28.

my man, how many una be for d family? I guess that number won't stop Uncle Jona#GEJ till..... u know naw.

reborn1:
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Moses, he was there cos of his birthday and not for any support. Stop smoking that stuff...

reborn, chill for a minute!

why would he go to say congratulations to someone he not only labelled corrupt, but only pointed a gun to his head and then, rendered his government void. isnt it ironic that he praises and gives congratulatory messages? i bet he cant even look shagari in the eye and his conscience wont pinch him or will shagari ever accept it wholeheartedly. if he does, then we need shagari for president not buhari

PassingShot:
Interesting read!

The weakness of Shagari was his inability to prevent looting that was prevalent under him despite himself not guilty of that offence.

A Buhari president will not allow this to happen given what we know of him.

Are you sure? He was in charge of PTDF. The report of the probe of the agency said that different actors:from the consultant to the contractors were to refund 25 Billion Naira. I believe he was not personally involved. But there was massive corruption going on at the PTDF under him.
If he wins, I expect the same thing to happen.

We need change in this country. But, like Gov. Mimiko said at the meeting with Afenifere, we need a change of structure not personality. I am not interested in any outcome that will ensure the continuation of the dysfunctional political structure we have now.

efemena22:
my man, how many una be for d family? I guess that number won't stop Uncle Jona#GEJ till..... u know naw.

one vote can be the difference. Enough to return a candidate if you dont know.

hush15:
reborn, chill for a minute!

why would he go to say congratulations to someone he not only labelled corrupt, but only pointed a gun to his head and then, rendered his government void. isnt it ironic that he praises and gives congratulatory messages? i bet he cant even look shagari in the eye and his conscience wont pinch him or will shagari ever accept it wholeheartedly. if he does, then we need shagari for president not buhari

Bro, Life is not like that, they aint enemies and they do see everytime. Babangida toppled Buhari's government and they still talk and chat, Abacha was also part of them and he still work under him. They are elder statesmen and past will always be past.

reborn1:
Bro, Life is not like that, they aint enemies and they do see everytime. Babangida toppled Buhari's government and they still talk and chat, Abacha was also part of them and he still work under him. They are elder statesmen and past will always be past.

When there interests are common temporarily, yes. Otherwise....



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anonimi:
When there interests are common temporarily, yes. Otherwise....



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You cant think with your brain cos you are programmed to post meme and rubbish on any thread. Abeg drive front and go earn your pay.

Buhari has now gone begging.

Too late.

Will you also go and beg Ogedengbe's family.