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In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a bloody civilian and a retired military general.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that was once elected by majority of Nigerians and another man that has always been rejected by majority of Nigerians.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that has never won an election in Nigeria and another man that has never lost an election in Nigeria

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that has deepened democracy and another man that destroyed democracy over 30 years ago.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that became Head of State without the blessings of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, and another man who became President only after he was sworn in by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that cancelled a railway project he did not initiate (even after the state that initiated it had paid a whopping $50m as counterpart fund), and another man that initiated, sponsored, and has actually built railway lines linking the north of Nigeria to the South of Nigeria and intends to do more.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who is so scared of criticism he forbids anyone to say anything not favourable to his government and threatens any who attempts to do so with jail without fair hearing, and another man who is so confident in democracy and confident of himself that, in view of his legion of enemies and their ownership of media houses, not only signed the Freedom of Information Bill into law, but has publicly averred that no Nigerian will go to jail for criticizing him.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that believes (by his actions and utterances) that becoming Nigeria’s president is his right, and another man that is grateful for the privilege to serve this great country as number one citizen.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who, through his actions, resembles a hater of education and enlightenment than anything else, and another man who will go down in history as the first to consider the plight of the millions of uneducated street urchins parading street corners in the north, and who actually began to do something to change their story by building 150 Almajiri Schools for them, even though primary education is not really the responsibility of the federal government.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that violently stopped the September 1985 National Conference of the National Association of Nigerian Students, attacked a press conference of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU, and even banned the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, and another man that has opened the floodgates of freedom of association and whose government has no political prisoners.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that did not build a single institution (tertiary, secondary, or primary) throughout the time he was Head of State, and another man who loves education and loves to see others educated so much that he has given evidence for this by building 14 federal universities in just 4 years – an unprecedented record in Nigeria’s history.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who is directly responsible for denying young people their right to life by retroactively applying a decree just to make sure they are killed, and another man that loves young people so much his government became the first to seek out young people and give them grants as much as N10m through his YouWin initiative and several others, just so that they can live a better life. NOTE: These grants are grants: they are not loans to be repaid.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who has a tactical and reactive approach to fighting corruption (even though corruption is only a symptom of a more serious disease) and another man who has a strategic approach. This man has called corruption by its real name – stealing – and focuses on the diseases that lead to corruption by implementing a strategy of rapid education, infrastructural development, women and youth empowerment, and curbing actual corruption through the deployment of technology to make corruption impossible.

DETAILS

General Buhari is a military man. He was trained to destroy – to fight. This is why the General is always saying he is going to fight. He wants to fight corruption and guarantee security, which he will achieve by fighting. Even his economic plan is not based on key development initiatives but fighting waste. If there is more money, then, every other thing will take care of itself. Many people believe that General Buhari built our refineries, but he did so under the orders of another administration – the first Obasanjo administration: many also believe General Buhari built roads and several other infrastructures; but, again, he did so under another administration – the Abacha administration. On his own, the man seems a better destroyer than builder. It is on record that, all through his 20-month reign, General Buhari did not do much more than basically fight. Or is there a road somewhere I missed; or a hospital, or some tractors he bought, or a school he equipped, or even a barrack he built between December 1983 and August 1985? I will honestly like to know. During his brief stay in power, General Buhari was busy fighting. He fought politicians, he fought journalists, he fought drug barons, he tried to kidnap Umaru Dikko from Britain, he fought the Nigerian Medical Association, he fought ASUU, he fought NANS, he killed young people outside the law, he jailed respectable politicians, he harassed traditional rulers, he humiliated elected leaders, he fought ordinary Nigerians and had them whipped on the streets, he fought free speech and he fought freedom of association; he even attempted to fight men in green like himself, which was what led to his untimely ouster. Now, it must be noted that the fight of General Buhari is always for the common good – or so he always believes. This is what makes his brutal actions somewhat forgivable and I have no doubt that the man means well. The problem is that, in spite of his good intentions, it takes a lot more to be a leader. Together with the fact that the man is personally abstemious, not materialistic, and almost Spartan, it is no wonder that Buhari has some magical effect, especially in the north and especially among the peasants, who cannot be accused of any kind of sophistication in their mode of reasoning. When politicians associate with Buhari, it is always as a result of this secondary advantage of his, which means some secured voters. Democracy does not discriminate between the vote of a complete illiterate who does as he or she is told, and an employer of labour in the thousands who contributes to society and understands economics and the dynamics of politics and societal development; so, notwithstanding, Buhari has real electoral value.

Why has General Buhari suddenly become so important in the Nigerian polity? Is it even a mystery? Maybe it is an issue of memory.

Until November 2013, Buhari was only important in the sense that he was tending towards a Guinness World Record – as the man that had contested and lost more presidential elections in history than any other. He had contested against Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003 and lost; he had contested against Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007 and lost; again, he had contested against Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and lost, in an election adjudged free and fair by members of the international community as well as by local observers. Although the General did not accept the result of that election and even, unwittingly or otherwise, made statements that led to the deaths of several Nigerians, the point, for now, is that he lost. If Nigerians have rejected this man at least 3 times, why are they suddenly in love with him?

Or are they?

“It is becoming apparent that the recent replacement of Service Chiefs is part of President Jonathan’s plan to use state apparatus to scale the 2011 presidential hurdle. Anything short of a Northern President is tantamount to stealing our Presidency. Jonathan has to go and he will go. Even if he uses the incumbency power to get his nomination on the platform of the PDP, he would be frustrated out.”

“The North is determined, if that happens, to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan or any other Southerner who finds his way to the seat of power on the platform of the PDP against the principle of the party’s zoning policy.”

When someone challenged Kaita that northern Christian were going to vote for Dr. Jonathan in the 2011 elections, this was his response:

“What you may call Northern Christians are concentrated more in Benue State where they may constitute about 90 per cent. In Plateau State, if you study that carefully, the Christian/Muslim population is 60 per cent for Christians, 40 per cent Muslims, so Plateau State is not an entirely a Christian State. The only state in the North that is substantially a Christian community is Benue State.”1

One wonders if this is why we often read of raids in these two states by Fulani herdsmen who are armed beyond the average Nigerian soldier.

Consider the following facts:

Some people in the north did not want Dr. Jonathan to be president beyond 29th May, 2011
Some people in the north felt so bad about Dr. Jonathan’s ascension they damned the consequence and the possibility of prosecution and openly threatened to make his government ungovernable
Some people in the north felt cheated by Yar’Adua’s death and felt Jonathan was an opportunist
Some people in the north did not believe that Dr. Jonathan deserved to be President even after Yar’Adua’s death
Some people in the north felt it was the right of the north to rule for 8 years, in spite of the fact of Yar’Adua’s death
Some people in the north have never spoken a word in condemnation of the Boko Haram insurgency
Some people in the north have never sympathized with the Nigerian government and military in their fight against Boko Haram
Some people in the north have never offered condolences to the families of those slain by Boko Haram’s bullets and bombs
Some people in the north have risen to the defense of Boko Haram at least once
Some people in the north have said that Boko Haram (which must now be seen as ISIS) should be treated by the government of Nigeria the same way the government of Nigeria treated Niger Delta militants
Some people in the north have accused the government of killing “their people” when the government launched an offensive against Boko Haram
Some people in the north have been so incensed by the killing of Boko Haram by Nigerian troops that they threatened to take Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (General Ihejirika) to the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Some people in the north vehemently opposed the state of emergency declared by the Nigerian government in some northern states, to help the military establish command and control to deal with the Boko Haram insurgency
Some people in the north have stated their preference for Sharia law, which is also in tandem with Boko Haram’s objective


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/response-to-barrister-keyamos-article-endorsing-gmb/

And In 2015 Nigerians shall choose the incorruptible general.
Cant wait to dance Sekem when Buhari is sworn in.
#marchforbuhari

@ OP 5 days to elections, is this all u could unearth? Nothing earth shattering, just some stale and repackaged regurgitation? Com on u can do better!

What u put up dia is nothing but a Big Mac-sized propaganda with tinctures of lies to spice it up....we no chop..we don beleful


50 Shades of lies...we can now see...we don shine our eyes!

politricks:
And In 2015 Nigerians shall choose the incorruptible general.
Cant wait to dance Sekem when Buhari is sworn in.
#marchforbuhari

It's your choice but don't make a mistake that will affect life forever.

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adebisi000:
In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a bloody civilian and a retired military general.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that was once elected by majority of Nigerians and another man that has always been rejected by majority of Nigerians.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that has never won an election in Nigeria and another man that has never lost an election in Nigeria

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that has deepened democracy and another man that destroyed democracy over 30 years ago.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that became Head of State without the blessings of the Chief Justice of Nigeria, and another man who became President only after he was sworn in by the Chief Justice of Nigeria.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that cancelled a railway project he did not initiate (even after the state that initiated it had paid a whopping $50m as counterpart fund), and another man that initiated, sponsored, and has actually built railway lines linking the north of Nigeria to the South of Nigeria and intends to do more.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who is so scared of criticism he forbids anyone to say anything not favourable to his government and threatens any who attempts to do so with jail without fair hearing, and another man who is so confident in democracy and confident of himself that, in view of his legion of enemies and their ownership of media houses, not only signed the Freedom of Information Bill into law, but has publicly averred that no Nigerian will go to jail for criticizing him.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that believes (by his actions and utterances) that becoming Nigeria’s president is his right, and another man that is grateful for the privilege to serve this great country as number one citizen.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who, through his actions, resembles a hater of education and enlightenment than anything else, and another man who will go down in history as the first to consider the plight of the millions of uneducated street urchins parading street corners in the north, and who actually began to do something to change their story by building 150 Almajiri Schools for them, even though primary education is not really the responsibility of the federal government.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that violently stopped the September 1985 National Conference of the National Association of Nigerian Students, attacked a press conference of the Academic Staff Union of Nigerian Universities, ASUU, and even banned the Nigerian Medical Association, NMA, and another man that has opened the floodgates of freedom of association and whose government has no political prisoners.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man that did not build a single institution (tertiary, secondary, or primary) throughout the time he was Head of State, and another man who loves education and loves to see others educated so much that he has given evidence for this by building 14 federal universities in just 4 years – an unprecedented record in Nigeria’s history.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who is directly responsible for denying young people their right to life by retroactively applying a decree just to make sure they are killed, and another man that loves young people so much his government became the first to seek out young people and give them grants as much as N10m through his YouWin initiative and several others, just so that they can live a better life. NOTE: These grants are grants: they are not loans to be repaid.

In 2015, Nigerians will be making a choice between a man who has a tactical and reactive approach to fighting corruption (even though corruption is only a symptom of a more serious disease) and another man who has a strategic approach. This man has called corruption by its real name – stealing – and focuses on the diseases that lead to corruption by implementing a strategy of rapid education, infrastructural development, women and youth empowerment, and curbing actual corruption through the deployment of technology to make corruption impossible.

DETAILS

General Buhari is a military man. He was trained to destroy – to fight. This is why the General is always saying he is going to fight. He wants to fight corruption and guarantee security, which he will achieve by fighting. Even his economic plan is not based on key development initiatives but fighting waste. If there is more money, then, every other thing will take care of itself. Many people believe that General Buhari built our refineries, but he did so under the orders of another administration – the first Obasanjo administration: many also believe General Buhari built roads and several other infrastructures; but, again, he did so under another administration – the Abacha administration. On his own, the man seems a better destroyer than builder. It is on record that, all through his 20-month reign, General Buhari did not do much more than basically fight. Or is there a road somewhere I missed; or a hospital, or some tractors he bought, or a school he equipped, or even a barrack he built between December 1983 and August 1985? I will honestly like to know. During his brief stay in power, General Buhari was busy fighting. He fought politicians, he fought journalists, he fought drug barons, he tried to kidnap Umaru Dikko from Britain, he fought the Nigerian Medical Association, he fought ASUU, he fought NANS, he killed young people outside the law, he jailed respectable politicians, he harassed traditional rulers, he humiliated elected leaders, he fought ordinary Nigerians and had them whipped on the streets, he fought free speech and he fought freedom of association; he even attempted to fight men in green like himself, which was what led to his untimely ouster. Now, it must be noted that the fight of General Buhari is always for the common good – or so he always believes. This is what makes his brutal actions somewhat forgivable and I have no doubt that the man means well. The problem is that, in spite of his good intentions, it takes a lot more to be a leader. Together with the fact that the man is personally abstemious, not materialistic, and almost Spartan, it is no wonder that Buhari has some magical effect, especially in the north and especially among the peasants, who cannot be accused of any kind of sophistication in their mode of reasoning. When politicians associate with Buhari, it is always as a result of this secondary advantage of his, which means some secured voters. Democracy does not discriminate between the vote of a complete illiterate who does as he or she is told, and an employer of labour in the thousands who contributes to society and understands economics and the dynamics of politics and societal development; so, notwithstanding, Buhari has real electoral value.

Why has General Buhari suddenly become so important in the Nigerian polity? Is it even a mystery? Maybe it is an issue of memory.

Until November 2013, Buhari was only important in the sense that he was tending towards a Guinness World Record – as the man that had contested and lost more presidential elections in history than any other. He had contested against Chief Olusegun Obasanjo in 2003 and lost; he had contested against Alhaji Umaru Musa Yar’Adua in 2007 and lost; again, he had contested against Dr. Goodluck Jonathan in 2011 and lost, in an election adjudged free and fair by members of the international community as well as by local observers. Although the General did not accept the result of that election and even, unwittingly or otherwise, made statements that led to the deaths of several Nigerians, the point, for now, is that he lost. If Nigerians have rejected this man at least 3 times, why are they suddenly in love with him?

Or are they?

“It is becoming apparent that the recent replacement of Service Chiefs is part of President Jonathan’s plan to use state apparatus to scale the 2011 presidential hurdle. Anything short of a Northern President is tantamount to stealing our Presidency. Jonathan has to go and he will go. Even if he uses the incumbency power to get his nomination on the platform of the PDP, he would be frustrated out.”

“The North is determined, if that happens, to make the country ungovernable for President Jonathan or any other Southerner who finds his way to the seat of power on the platform of the PDP against the principle of the party’s zoning policy.”

When someone challenged Kaita that northern Christian were going to vote for Dr. Jonathan in the 2011 elections, this was his response:

“What you may call Northern Christians are concentrated more in Benue State where they may constitute about 90 per cent. In Plateau State, if you study that carefully, the Christian/Muslim population is 60 per cent for Christians, 40 per cent Muslims, so Plateau State is not an entirely a Christian State. The only state in the North that is substantially a Christian community is Benue State.”1

One wonders if this is why we often read of raids in these two states by Fulani herdsmen who are armed beyond the average Nigerian soldier.

Consider the following facts:

Some people in the north did not want Dr. Jonathan to be president beyond 29th May, 2011
Some people in the north felt so bad about Dr. Jonathan’s ascension they damned the consequence and the possibility of prosecution and openly threatened to make his government ungovernable
Some people in the north felt cheated by Yar’Adua’s death and felt Jonathan was an opportunist
Some people in the north did not believe that Dr. Jonathan deserved to be President even after Yar’Adua’s death
Some people in the north felt it was the right of the north to rule for 8 years, in spite of the fact of Yar’Adua’s death
Some people in the north have never spoken a word in condemnation of the Boko Haram insurgency
Some people in the north have never sympathized with the Nigerian government and military in their fight against Boko Haram
Some people in the north have never offered condolences to the families of those slain by Boko Haram’s bullets and bombs
Some people in the north have risen to the defense of Boko Haram at least once
Some people in the north have said that Boko Haram (which must now be seen as ISIS) should be treated by the government of Nigeria the same way the government of Nigeria treated Niger Delta militants
Some people in the north have accused the government of killing “their people” when the government launched an offensive against Boko Haram
Some people in the north have been so incensed by the killing of Boko Haram by Nigerian troops that they threatened to take Nigeria’s Chief of Army Staff (General Ihejirika) to the International Criminal Court at The Hague.
Some people in the north vehemently opposed the state of emergency declared by the Nigerian government in some northern states, to help the military establish command and control to deal with the Boko Haram insurgency
Some people in the north have stated their preference for Sharia law, which is also in tandem with Boko Haram’s objective


http://pointblanknews.com/pbn/articles-opinions/response-to-barrister-keyamos-article-endorsing-gmb/

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All I see is Hate Campaign of the PDP and Dividing Nigerians in every way surgically possible. All these madness will end once Jonathan is voted out.

egift:
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All I see is Hate Campaign of the PDP and Dividing Nigerians in every way surgically possible. All these madness will end once Jonathan is voted out.

shut it right there you shameless janja-weed.
Pres jonathan is going no where and would be your president till 2019 and there's nothing you and your fellow e-touts can do about that.

btw any update on faith bele?

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Gh0stFreak:
shut it right there you shameless janja-weed.
Pres jonathan is going no where and would be your president till 2019 and there's nothing you and your fellow e-touts can do about that.

btw any update on faith bele?

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Corruption will be kicked back to Otueke. You better start looking for another job. Being a TANkid is terminal

egift:
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Corruption will be kicked back to Otueke. You better start looking for another job. Being a TANkid is terminal

One billion of your type can't unseat the president. Never will Buhari be the president of the Nigeria again. We ain't oblivious of his atrocities and the disaster he will bring to Nigeria.

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adebisi000:
One billion of your type can't unseat the president. Never will Buhari be the president of the Nigeria again. We ain't oblivious of his atrocities and the disaster he will bring to Nigeria.

Buhari do not need 1 billion votes to defeat Jonathan. Just 25% of the votes in 24 states and simple mejority (a little over 32 million votes) and the Zoologist will be on his way home.

egift:
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Buhari do not need 1 billion votes to defeat Jonathan. Just 25% of the votes in 24 states and simple mejority (a little over 32 million votes) and the Zoologist will be on his way home.

That is what he has been saying since 2003