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Original article from Reuters has been scrubbed.

This is the handwork of Obama who got paid handsomely by the Saudis and lobbied by the crooked Chagoury to back Buhari in 2015

The only link I could find is a 2003 blog post discussing the build up of the 2003 elections.
http://nigeriavillagesquare.com/forum/threads/nigeria-2003-election-results-and-the-resultant-effect.1057/#post-15257

As you can all read for yourselves, Buhari threatened to unleash his armed supporters if the elections didn't go his way.

REUTERS

Obasanjo Letter Adds to Nigeria Vote Tension

Thu April 17, 2003 01:16 PM ET

By John Chiahemen and Nicholas Kotch

LAGOS (Reuters) - Nigerian President Olusegun Obasanjo added to the bellicose build-up to Saturday's presidential elections, warning his main challenger on Thursday not to stir up trouble in the security forces.

An opposition politician said his supporters were armed and ready for an emergency as the man in charge of the April 19 elections appealed to Nigeria's 60 million voters to put their "primordial past" behind them.

"Let me emphatically urge you not to incite the society and law enforcement agencies," Obasanjo wrote to Muhammadu Buhari, who on Wednesday pledged "mass action" if polls are rigged.

"You know both as military leader and former head of state that (any) direct appeal, and incitement of law enforcement agencies and the military, against lawfully constituted authority is both reprehensible and extremely unfortunate," he said in the letter, a copy of which was obtained by Reuters.

Both he and Buhari are retired generals and former military rulers in Africa's most populous state which is making yet another attempt to entrench democracy.

The ambition is to achieve the first transition from one elected civilian administration to another -- a feat which has eluded Nigerians since independence from Britain in 1960.

But the level of saber-rattling ahead of the votes for the presidency and 36 state governorships is not inspiring confidence, say analysts. All opposition parties accuse Obasanjo's ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) of extreme rigging on April 12 during the elections for the National Assembly.

The loudest complaints have come from the southeast, the oil-rich Niger Delta and the southwest, home of the president's own Yoruba people.

"I can tell you that my boys are incensed. They are armed and ready...If anybody tries what they did last Saturday they will meet legitimate force," Governor Segun Osoba of Ogun state told a Lagos radio station on Wednesday.

The national chairman of Buhari's All Nigeria Peoples' Party (ANPP) said the party had not received Obasanjo's letter.

"The general (Buhari) is not inciting anybody. What we have said is that we reject the results of the April 12 elections because very many of them were spurious," Don Etiebet said.

In a veiled threat to his opponent, the president said he intended to use all constitutional means to preserve the peace.

"BAD HABITS"

The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) admits its performance was sub-standard last weekend but there are grave doubts that it can improve by Saturday.

It has still not announced all results of the vote for the House of Representatives and Senate because thuggery and fraud forced re-votes in some areas.

INEC's chairman, Abel Guobadia, said there were fresh reports of attempted bribery of his officials and warned any attempt to interfere with election materials would invalidate the outcome of the elections in that area.

"These bad habits may have been carried over from our primordial past but they are certainly obsolete in the modern world," Guobadia said in the capital Abuja on Thursday.

Nigeria is the world's eighth biggest oil producer but the colossal revenues the industry generates have failed to develop the country where basic infrastructure is either broken or absent. Members of Nigeria's elite are invariably placed near the top of international corruption leagues.

As the incumbent, Obasanjo had been considered strong favorite to win a second and final four-year term on Saturday but the past week's events have challenged that assumption.

Buhari flew to Lagos on Thursday to try to capitalize on anger against Obasanjo among Yoruba people. But after their meeting, Yoruba cultural leader Abraham Adesanya gave no sign his people would go for a northern Muslim candidate like Buhari.

Buhari, who is banking on a sweeping majority in northern states, then flew to southeastern Enugu and met Emeka Ojukwu who led the Ibo ethnic group into a disastrous secession bid in the late 1960s.

"I want him (Obasanjo) to know as a warning from me that if he continues along this line the events of 1967 to 1970 will be a child's play to what will be unleashed, not by me but by the massive anger of the Nigerian masses," Ojukwu said in a speech.

Here is Buhari's reply

Buhari Replies Obasanjo / Aluko Commentary

BUHARI RESPONDS THROUGH OFFICIAL ANPP STATEMENT


April 16, 2003



The contents of the President's letter to General Muhammadu Buhari got to the media even before the ANPP Presidential Candidate received it. We find that very inappropriate and quite out of order. We have also noticed from the contents of the letter that it is either the president has misunderstood the Press Conference of April 16, 2003, which was delivered by the ANPP Presidential candidate on behalf of the Presidential Candidates of the Conference of Nigerian Political Parties (CNPP) or has deliberately chosen to view it out of context. Either way, General Buhari cannot be held responsible for that.



The ANPP Presidential Candidate who is a former Head of State himself will not seek to incite the public against a constituted authority as the President's letter imputes. In all his public service life be has been known to be disciplined and law abiding. For the purpose of this election, it is the considered opinion of the Buhari-Okadigbo Presidential Campaign Organisation that Chief Olusegun Obasanjo is simply another candidate in the race. We have noted that in the conduct of the 2003 elections, the President who to all intents and purposes is in charge of the election process has behaved less as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria and more as an interested party in the elections. We have therefore addressed ourselves appropriately to that fact. The respected views of the Catholic Church in Nigeria and the several observer groups on the just concluded National Assembly elections are instructive.



We have noted the threats of the President in his letter. But the position of the ANPP Presidential Candidate remains unchanged. He will continue to maintain that Nigerians should promote democracy by exercising their rights to vote during elections. He will also continue to insist as he did in the press conference of 17th April, 2003 that the people should protect their votes with all they have. After all, as the PDP National Chairman, Mr. Audu Ogbeh once said himself, and we fully agree, "a fraudulent democracy is worse than a military dictatorship". We are at one with the President, that he as President has the responsibility for maintaining peace, law and order. But this responsibility does not in any way vitiate the people's responsibility or even the right to defend the nation's hard-earned democracy even against an elected President.



Sam Nda-Isaiah
ANPP Deputy Director General Media and Publicity

Abuja

The bigot has never changed

SalamRushdie:
The bigot has never changed

The man remained a very bad serial loser.

The 2007 and 2011 carnage that his supporters unleashed is still very fresh.

E don tey wey de man don dey waste blood.

And the man have the gut to threaten us with his "hate speech" rheotics

Paperwhite:
And the man have the gut to threaten us with his "hate speech" rheotics

From fake news to hate speech, Buhari and the APC have tried to muffle critiscm on their despotic reign.

I will be digging up all inflammatory and divisive hate Speeches the bigot has made when campaigning since 2003.

God punish Tinubu wherever he dey

Yea

Buhari will continue to rule till 2023.

Let us support him

Blackfire:
Buhari will continue to rule till 2023.

Let us support him

Crase dey worry you nii?

SHTFguy:
Crase dey worry you nii?

God bless General Buhari

AbuEzeFemi:
God bless General Buhari

God is punishing him with cancer

SalamRushdie:
The bigot has never changed

Since 2003, that stockfish has been the major problem plaguing Nigeria's democracy and sociopolitical stability.

By Saturday , we will do away permanently with that wicked sadistic and blood letting illiterate .

Blackfire:
Buhari will continue to rule till 2023.

Let us support him

All because of your afonja presidency ?

SluttanSlayer:
Since 2003, that stockfish has been the major problem plaguing Nigeria's democracy and sociopolitical stability.

By Saturday , we will do away permanently with that wicked sadistic and blood letting illiterate .

bro since 1983 ooo