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Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by SHTFguy: 4:22am On Sep 09, 2017
MalcoImX:
Try and talk even if it is once, without an abuse!
The Syrian Conference held in London was to promote pro refugee sentiments among British citizens.

Buhari was one of very few heads of states to attend the conference which saw most countries sending their diplomats in their place.

Buhari was a guest speaker and the only head of state to make a presentation.

Even though we are meant to believe that the conference was used as a decoy by Buhari to attend to his failing health, we must ask why he chose to then give a press conference denouncing Nigerian immigrants in the UK as criminal and unworthy of asylum.

By that statement alone Buhari has fully endorsed mass deportation of Nigerians living in the UK.

So is Buhari now canvassing for Arab refugees?

Are Arab refugees better than Nigerians?

And if so, then what is behind this latest display of foolishness if not for jihad?

We must also ask why Buhari refused to attend a side meeting at the UN which was meant to address the humanitarian crisis in the NE which the APC and federal govt spokespersons downgraded as a low level meeting not deserving of Nigeria's President attending.

So why ignore a UN convened meeting to help alleviate the sufferings of your own people but you decide to fly to London to both lobby for Arab refugees and denounce asylum claims of your own citizens as criminal?

Buhari is by far the worst thing to ever happen to Nigeria.
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by MalcoImX(op): 6:30am On Sep 09, 2017
SHTFguy:
The current under-secretary of the Security Council at the UN is an American.

The west appoints their own into UN agencies and councils like the World Bank, WHO, etc.
Don't twist facts to suit your argument. My question is, why do most developed countries seem not interested in the UN Secretary Generalship? I am not talking of Under Secretaries.
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Under Secretaries are just like heads of departments, programmes and commissions, and you don't expect the Westerners not to be appointed. There could be tens of such officials amongst which could be found many Africans and even Nigerians.
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by SHTFguy: 6:34am On Sep 09, 2017
MalcoImX:
Don't twist facts to suit your argument. My question is, why do most developed countries seem not interested in the UN Secretary Generalship? I am not talking of Under Secretaries.
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Under Secretaries are just like heads of departments, programmes and commissions, and you don't expect the Westerners not to be appointed. There could be tens of such officials amongst which could be found many Africans and even Nigerians.
Under-Secretaries are permanent representatives and their tenures can span an entire career.

Under-secretaries are more powerful than the UN secretary-General.
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by SHTFguy: 6:38am On Sep 09, 2017
MalcoImX:
Don't twist facts to suit your argument. My question is, why do most developed countries seem not interested in the UN Secretary Generalship? I am not talking of Under Secretaries.
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Under Secretaries are just like heads of departments, programmes and commissions, and you don't expect the Westerners not to be appointed. There could be tens of such officials amongst which could be found many Africans and even Nigerians.
The distinction in method of appointment is important as USGs appointed by the General Assembly have a mandate independent of the Secretary-General, and he is therefore unable to remove them from office without the General Assembly's consent. This restriction has been seen by many commentators to weaken the Secretary-General's ability to provide strong leadership and management within the United Nations System.
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by Ikechuob: 6:57am On Sep 09, 2017
grin grin grin grin grin grin I bet the OP regrets opening this thread. Just got slapped silly in his attempt to rewrite history

Anyway thanks to OP, I learned alot from reading the replys. Always knew since day 1 that Buhari is nothing but a tribalistic bigot
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by MalcoImX(op): 7:12am On Sep 09, 2017
SHTFguy:
Under-Secretaries are permanent representatives and their tenures can span an entire career.

Under-secretaries are more powerful than the UN secretary-General.
We are talking about the politics of appointments of Secretary Generals in supranational organizations not Under secretaries, which even the name suggests to you that they are "under" the Secretary.
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There are the Five 5 in the UN as there is in the AU. There is no law that prevents the "big five" either in the UN or AU from contesting the chair. My questions to you, which you've not answered (but you kept on bringing issues of Buhari at The Syria Summit) is:
1.Why is SA, a supposedly influential member of the AU, now disinterested with the unwritten agreement of the AU's Big 5?
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2. What is the implication of not abiding by such agreement?
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3. Why are the UN Big 5 seem (for want of a better word) 'not interested' in the UN Secretary Genetalship position?
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by MalcoImX(op): 7:30am On Sep 09, 2017
Ikechuob:
grin grin grin grin grin grin I bet the OP regrets opening this thread. Just got slapped silly in his attempt to rewrite history

Anyway thanks to OP, I learned alot from reading the replys. Always knew since day 1 that Buhari is nothing but a tribalistic bigot
You can confidently bank it that no serious Nigerian, but that with iPoBic paraphernalia and leanings, has any issues with the facts presented here.
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by HoluwarTohbar(f): 7:41am On Sep 09, 2017
MalcoImX:
How can I be silenced when I know I stand on a higher ground. I was attending to some other issues.
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I no be Kanu wey dey change goalpost anyhow.
Kanu before Buhari arrived: 'We'll destroy the zoo.'
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Kanu after Buhari arrived: 'iPoB is nonviolent, Buhari should convince me with superior argument.'
When they loose out, they begin to handle KANU and his Ipob. Pray, what has Ipob got to do with this issue?

Like someone rightly pointed out, your work na hard work.

Buhari is a bitter bigoted clueless president. 2019 is fast approaching and Tinubu will no longer be available to launder him. As a matter of fact, the stage is set for the implosion of the All Progressive Criminals and you and your likes Sarrki and Madridguy would be out of job soon at the BMC.
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by MalcoImX(op): 8:07am On Sep 09, 2017
HoluwarTohbar:
[s]When they loose out, they begin to handle KANU and his Ipob. Pray, what has Ipob got to do with this issue?

Like someone rightly pointed out, your work na hard work.

Buhari is a bitter bigoted clueless president. 2019 is fast approaching and Tinubu will no longer be available to launder him. As a matter of fact, the stage is set for the implosion of the All Progressive Criminals and you and your likes Sarrki and Madridguy would be out of job soon at the BMC.[/s]
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by jpphilips(m): 7:31pm On Jan 14, 2018
EmeeNaka:
Can you also tell us why Buhari is appointing mostly northerners to his government and neglecting Southerners especially Southeast, where that Peter Onu come from?

Idi Oamouru is not a Fulani man, he is of Zarma tribe.
Dagash did not give any reason why Buhari refused to confirm Onu, the fulani angle was a mischievous twist.

Again Dagash did not say Onu contested the election because without a confirmation from your head of state, he was ineligible, that brings the second subject of voting against him. You dont vote for El rufai in an election fielding Jonathan and Wike.
I dont do attachments on nairaland, I will show you a link where I uploaded that page 69.

In another book titled "theory and reality in foreign policy", Gambari explained why Buhari denied Onu that confirmation.
In 1983 Idi oumaru and salim salim contested for the oau sec gen seat, the election ended in a deadlock, that was why Oau appointed its highest ranking diplomat at the time Peter Onu to occupy that seat on interim basis.

Within that 2yrs, using his interim position, peter onu made friends and wanted to contest unfortunately, idi ouaru has met buhari first and being a west african, we are supporting ourselves, most west African countries voted for Idi not just Nigeria. On that visit Buhari gave his word to Idi.

Buhari explained to Onu that this guys have been on this struggle for two years, giving him a nomination in 1985 will disfavour the contestants especially our west african chap Idi. Also on interim capacity, Onu has enjoyed half of their tenure due to the election deadlock.

According to Dagesh, Onu sent Julius Nyerere to lobby for his confirmation Buhari saw it as very unpatriotic because Salim Salim of Tanzania was equally in the struggle.

I have both books, ive read them all.

Zoom the image below to read the original text of what daggersh said.

https://medium.com/factsonlyng/breaking-the-internet-and-burning-questions-does-buhari-hate-the-igbos-part-1-98a24da4aab0

Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by Sirjamo: 7:47pm On Jan 14, 2018
I don't understand why Igbos expect Buhari not to reciprocate the deep hatred they had/have for him
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by miayaki69: 10:56am On May 25, 2019
Why all these fabrication of tissues of lies to defend a confirmed fulani irredentist- Muhamadu Buhari?

In international diplomacy,every agreement between countries are written and signed by the concern countries officials.So where is the said agreement?

Truth be told!

" incase you are not aware !

Between 1983 and 1985, Peter Onu of Nigeria was Acting Secretary-General of the OAU. At the 1985 Summit in Addis Ababa, statesmen like Julius Nyerere, President of Tanzania, lobbied for his election as substantive Secretary-General. However, there was a major stumbling block to Peter Onu’s candidature: his Head of State, Muhammadu Buhari, was campaigning against him. Buhari claimed: “This generation of Nigerians and indeed future generations have no other country than Nigeria.” But when the crunch came, his allegiance to Nigeria disappeared. In the election of the OAU Secretary-General in 1985, Buhari voted against Nigeria and for Niger instead. He secured the election of Ide Oumarou, a Fulani man from Niger; as opposed to an Igbo man from Nigeria. By so doing, Buhari became the first and only Head of State in the history of modern international relations to vote against his country in favour of his tribe... - Vanguard, February 3, 2015

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The article is both interesting and troubling. At first I thought it was fake news. Then, I googled it and found it to be a true account in the book titled – _The OAU: Reality Or Fiction by Ibrahim Daggash, former Head of Information and Communication, Organization of African Unity (OAU); pg 69; ISBN 1-9044722-25-3._
Whilst the refusal of Gen. Mohammadu Buhari to aid the election of his country man to head the OAU in preference to his fellow Fulani Muslim from another country (Niger) is a glaring example of this man’s mindset is troubling, most troubling from the Author’s account was his reaction when the vote was tallied and Gen. Buhari found out his country man was defeated. Ibrahim Daggash in his aforesaid book narrated it as follows:
_“What was astonishing, when the vote was in favour of Niger’s candidate, the Nigerian Head rejoiced to such a degree that he was unable to control his emotions. That was a moment I witnessed and was convinced that General Buhary would not last long as a leader.”_

It is sad indeed ...!"
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Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by Ndipe(m): 9:38pm On Feb 21, 2020
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by BigBabyJesus: 10:52pm On Jun 18, 2020
SHTFguy:
The Syrian Conference held in London was to promote pro refugee sentiments among British citizens.

Buhari was one of very few heads of states to attend the conference which saw most countries sending their diplomats in their place.

Buhari was a guest speaker and the only head of state to make a presentation.

Even though we are meant to believe that the conference was used as a decoy by Buhari to attend to his failing health, we must ask why he chose to then give a press conference denouncing Nigerian immigrants in the UK as criminal and unworthy of asylum.

By that statement alone Buhari has fully endorsed mass deportation of Nigerians living in the UK.

So is Buhari now canvassing for Arab refugees?

Are Arab refugees better than Nigerians?

And if so, then what is behind this latest display of foolishness if not for jihad?

We must also ask why Buhari refused to attend a side meeting at the UN which was meant to address the humanitarian crisis in the NE which the APC and federal govt spokespersons downgraded as a low level meeting not deserving of Nigeria's President attending.

So why ignore a UN convened meeting to help alleviate the sufferings of your own people but you decide to fly to London to both lobby for Arab refugees and denounce asylum claims of your own citizens as criminal?

Buhari is by far the worst thing to ever happen to Nigeria.
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by eagleu: 11:34pm On Jun 18, 2020
MalcoImX:
This junk you're talking about appeared in a campaign article by the PDP and Aribisala campaigning for GEJ. The title of that piece is:
Jonathan is a superior presidential material to Buhari, which is a fallacy, aimed at people like you.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/jonathan-superior-presidential-material-buhari/

It is vintage Aribisala, FFK or Omokri when the topic is Buhari - full of lies, half truths, character assassinations and conjectures.
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Onu was not on any ballot talk less of Buhari not voting him. Nigeria, in deference to that agreement, advised Onu not to contest and he can't go against his country. But if you insist that Onu contested and votes were cast for and against him, you can as well tell us how the vote was taken?
Apart from your so called gentleman's agreement, which is actually questionable, is there any other reason Buhari would have told his own fellow citizen not to contest for the position he had been acting for 2 good years?

Reminds me of acting chief justice Ononegha who he eventually replaced with an unqualified fellow Fulani Muslim.

Buhari is sick, but revisionists like you are even sicker.
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by Obaaderemi2: 12:58pm On Jun 24, 2023
MalcoImX:
This junk you're talking about appeared in a campaign article by the PDP and Aribisala campaigning for GEJ. The title of that piece is:
Jonathan is a superior presidential material to Buhari which is a fallacy, aimed at people like you.
http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/02/jonathan-superior-presidential-material-buhari/

It is vintage Aribisala, FFK or Omokri when the topic is Buhari - full of lies, half truths, character assassinations and conjectures.
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Onu was not on any ballot talk less of Buhari not voting him. Nigeria, in deference to that agreement, advised Onu not to contest and he can't go against his country. But if you insist that Onu contested and votes were cast for and against him, you can as well tell us how the vote was taken?
Oga, how market now @ bolded? grin
Re: The Truth About Buhari Not Voting Peter Onu As OAU Secretary General In 1985 by Obaaderemi2: 1:00pm On Jun 24, 2023
eagleu:
Apart from your so called gentleman's agreement, which is actually questionable, is there any other reason Buhari would have told his own fellow citizen not to contest for the position he had been acting for 2 good years?

Reminds me of acting chief justice Ononegha who he eventually replaced with an unqualified fellow Fulani Muslim.

Buhari is sick, but revisionists like you are even sicker.
I'm sure the Op is one of the people cursing buhari today.
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