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Why did God allowed Rtd Gen. Buhari to be our President at this time?

Omooba77:
Why did God allowed Rtd Gen. Buhari to be our President at this time?

To teach us a lesson.
In our quest for a solution, we find a problem in Buhari.

So we can run back to him.

Omooba77:
Why did God allowed Rtd Gen. Buhari to be our President at this time?

If you are at work and your child fell at home or in school, would you say it was your fault? For not being there at that time?

Listen, God didnt do this. Nigeria has left God long ago, the disbelief in the existence of God is fast rising in Nigeria like the stench from unflushed poo .... Nigerians chose president bubu, prophet or profets became confusionists and everyone demanded CHANGE, forgetting that change begins with us at the grassroot and not at the Top.

This is why after this regime another northerner will take over because we have too many cowards in this nation and everyone has a price, God has been silent over nigeria for a loooong time.

We need to stand up for ourselves and decide the change we want else nothing will work

Omooba77:
Why did God allowed Rtd Gen. Buhari to be our President at this time?

Pmb was Never GOD'S Choice for Nigeria..

But when the people failed to listen, GOD allowed you guys to have your way...

blackpanthar:
If you are at work and your child fell at home or in school, would you say it was your fault? For not being there at that time?

Listen, God didnt do this. Nigeria has left God long ago, the disbelief in the existence of God is fast rising in Nigeria like the stench from unflushed poo .... Nigerians chose president bubu, prophet or profets became confusionists and everyone demanded CHANGE, forgetting that change begins with us at the grassroot and not at the Top.

This is why after this regime another northerner will take over because we have too many cowards in this nation and everyone has a price, God has been silent over nigeria for a loooong time.

We need to stand up for ourselves and decide the change we want else nothing will work

Your wisdom should be transferred to your children.

Omooba77:
Why did God allowed Rtd Gen. Buhari to be our President at this time?

He is the saviour Nigeria needs.

Let him ride on.

Omooba77:
Why did God allowed Rtd Gen. Buhari to be our President at this time?

God never allowed him , he was rigged in with fake result in2019

Davash222:
To teach us a lesson.
In our quest for a solution, we find a problem in Buhari.

A solid problem at that

Hedonism at its best, they question God wisdom, but never fault the wisdom of their heroes of thieves and pillage. Here is what God in his wisdom deliver us from:



1. Under Jonathan, Churches were bombed, no Christmas passed with out a church being bombed. Under PMB, no church has been bombed. It was so bad, that a Christian attempted to Bomb a church to try spoiling PMB record.

Do we want Jonathan's Nigeria where churches are bombed?

2. Under Jonathan, Nigeria Troops ran to Cameroon to avoid fighting BH, under PMB our Military has put BH on flight that even Shekua confessed that he is tired in a YouTube video?

Do we want Jonathan's Nigeria where our soldiers were scared to fight BH because of equipment?

3. Under Jonathan, BH occupied a territory the size of France and Belgium combined, under PMB all territory are fully recovered and denied space to operate freely.

Do you want Jonathan's Nigeria where BH occupied our territory?

3. Under Jonathan, BH attacked Police HQ, UN HQ, Eman and many places in Abuja and far from the theatre of war like suleja, Logo etc. PMB has curtailed their evil to largely Maiduguri and seasonally Yobe.

Do you want Jonathan's Nigeria were all the country lived in fear of BH?

These are just a few, when you see Christians saying they prefer Churches being bombed under Jonathan than none Under PMB then you know they are hedonistic fools whose greatest pain is no loot money.

Lol Agent of P&ID have audacity to write this thread? God is truly merciful. When the same person who supported a foreign firm which wanted to cheat Nigeria day and night can have the audacity to complain and even question God, clearly shows how values and decency have departed many people. You supported a thief to become President, and lost woefully but still have the audacity to question God? Nah, because of politics you want to earn God wrath upon yourself? With your insincerity and obvious amoral proclivity for Corruption!! Spits on foolish thread.

To soil the name what was wrongly given to him due to the glory he stole from idiagbon. imagine this man didn't come back as president, we would have wrongly praising him.

It’s not God at AAAAAALLL...It’s devilish Niggers that out of greed and jealousy did it...


You want democracy yet you support Coupist from the 1980s to rule you?


That is pathetic

Stalwert:
Lol Agent of P&ID have audacity to write this thread? God is truly merciful. When the same person who supported a foreign firm which wanted to cheat Nigeria day and night can have the audacity to complain and even question God, clearly shows how values and decency have departed many people. You supported a thief to become President, and lost woefully but still have the audacity to question God? Nah, because of politics you want to earn God wrath upon yourself? With your insincerity and obvious amoral proclivity for Corruption!! Spits on foolish thread.

They have set this bros loose again, thank God he did not cancel today

We are going through our own trying period as a nation

Bihari was your choice not his

Omooba77:
Why did God allowed Rtd Gen. Buhari to be our President at this time?

God allowed Buhari to be your President because you all voted for him, re-voted for him and then turn around to blame God . so since God knew you would blame him from the beginning had Goodluck retained the seat, he decided to allow most of you see what you wished for before you blame him.

The good news is that God might pity us and remove Buhari and the bad news is that God might ignore us and focus on Europe and America .

usba:
Hedonism at its best, they question God wisdom, but never fault the wisdom of their heroes of thieves and pillage. Here is what God in his wisdom deliver us from:



1. Under Jonathan, Churches were bombed, no Christmas passed with out a church being bombed. Under PMB, no church has been bombed. It was so bad, that a Christian attempted to Bomb a church to try spoiling PMB record.

Do we want Jonathan's Nigeria where churches are bombed?

2. Under Jonathan, Nigeria Troops ran to Cameroon to avoid fighting BH, under PMB our Military has put BH on flight that even Shekua confessed that he is tired in a YouTube video?

Do we want Jonathan's Nigeria where our soldiers were scared to fight BH because of equipment?

3. Under Jonathan, BH occupied a territory the size of France and Belgium combined, under PMB all territory are fully recovered and denied space to operate freely.

Do you want Jonathan's Nigeria where BH occupied our territory?

3. Under Jonathan, BH attacked Police HQ, UN HQ, Eman and many places in Abuja and far from the theatre of war like suleja, Logo etc. PMB has curtailed their evil to largely Maiduguri and seasonally Yobe.

Do you want Jonathan's Nigeria were all the country lived in fear of BH?

These are just a few, when you see Christians saying they prefer Churches being bombed under Jonathan than none Under PMB then you know they are hedonistic fools whose greatest pain is no loot money.

Stalwert enough of this rubbish you peddle. It's been five years already.

Under buhari, military formations have been sacked, soldiers butchered and amoury ran over.

Under buhari, christians are abducted and beheaded and the video sent to you for your accolades.

Under buhari, Boko Haram detained a Christian girl from dapchi on account of her faith while releasing hundreds of her mooslim counterparts.

I can go and on but what's the use telling someone who already knows he's stupid that he's stupid.

We told you all buhari was only fit to be Imam Abuja national mosque but you called us wailers!

Today, they are booing him in Maidugiri.

Stalwert:
Lol Agent of P&ID have audacity to write this thread? God is truly merciful. When the same person who supported a foreign firm which wanted to cheat Nigeria day and night can have the audacity to complain and even question God, clearly shows how values and decency have departed many people. You supported a thief to become President, and lost woefully but still have the audacity to question God? Nah, because of politics you want to earn God wrath upon yourself? With your insincerity and obvious amoral proclivity for Corruption!! Spits on foolish thread.

Usba, buhari is the most corrupt politician alive. I have his dossier from PTF days. Only. dingbats are decieved by the fake intergrity.

Nigerians too get strong head. Baba God just use buhari punish us. Three years more is not three score more thankfully.

God Didn't Allow, You Voted Him Despite Warm Warning Giving To You Not To Vote Him In

Omooba77:
Why did God allowed Rtd Gen. Buhari to be our President at this time?

....we offended God. He refused to forgive us, so He sent Buhari to punish us....

blackpanthar:
If you are at work and your child fell at home or in school, would you say it was your fault? For not being there at that time?

Listen, God didnt do this. Nigeria has left God long ago, the disbelief in the existence of God is fast rising in Nigeria like the stench from unflushed poo .... Nigerians chose president bubu, prophet or profets became confusionists and everyone demanded CHANGE, forgetting that change begins with us at the grassroot and not at the Top.

This is why after this regime another northerner will take over because we have too many cowards in this nation and everyone has a price, God has been silent over nigeria for a loooong time.

We need to stand up for ourselves and decide the change we want else nothing will work

You are mixing religion with political domination. Just like the Israelites, your Messiah is only someone who does what u like. Buhari remains the best president this country has had so far. He may not be the most efficient in everything, but nobody can accuse buhari of dishonesty or disloyalty or greed or any of those boxes that destroyed Jonathan.

If u conduct 2015 elections hundred times, buhari will still win. Not because he is perfect for the seat but because nobody else comes close. It's true that the administration is faired poorly in terms of security but in other areas we can see genuine efforts are improvement. Buhari is simply unbeatable

Righteousness89:
Pmb was Never GOD'S Choice for Nigeria..

But when the people failed to listen, GOD allowed you guys to have your way...

Do you now speak for God?

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blasted12:
Do you now speak for God?

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biggie73:
....we offended God. He refused to forgive us, so He sent Buhari to punish us....

May God have mercy on us all.

allthingsgood:
If u conduct 2015 elections hundred times, buhari will still win. Not because he is perfect for the seat but because nobody else comes close. It's true that the administration is faired poorly in terms of security but in other areas we can see genuine efforts are improvement. Buhari is simply unbeatable

With all the rigging; counting was still ongoing and Yakubu of INEC hurriedly gave him certificate of return.

ChoCho54:
Usba, buhari is the most corrupt politician alive. I have his dossier from PTF days. Only. dingbats are decieved by the fake intergrity.

I still wonder why lots of folks did not read much about PTF and see the rot therein. Even some acclaimed tax experts like Suraj did not know these facts, anyway age is a teacher too. God bless Nigeria.

allthingsgood:
You are mixing religion with political domination. Just like the Israelites, your Messiah is only someone who does what u like. Buhari remains the best president this country has had so far. He may not be the most efficient in everything, but nobody can accuse buhari of dishonesty or disloyalty or greed or any of those boxes that destroyed Jonathan.

Because he steals by proxies who are liquidated as/when necessary.
QED!

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Petroleum Trust Fraud
By Ray Ekpu
05 June 2018

It is not known to this column how close Brigadier Sani Abacha was to Major General Muhammadu Buhari by December 1983. It was Abacha who announced at the end of a few minutes of martial music on new year’s eve that the government of President Shehu Shagari had been thrown into the dust bin of history. Buhari became the fulcrum of that history as Nigeria’s head of state. On August 27, 1985, there was another game, the Revolving Doors’ game. Buhari was out, thrown out, while Ibrahim Babangida, was in, thrown into the pinnacle of political power in Nigeria. Babangida clamped Buhari into the dungeon for some months where he cooled his feet, while his colleagues were bestriding the Nigerian political and military firmament like they owned the world. Babangida left or was forced to leave the throne after eight years of dangerous foot work. He called Chief Ernest Shonekan, a successful private sector entrepreneur, to come and take the baton of leadership.

He took it and as he was trying to hold it in his hand firmly, Abacha who had been eyeing the coveted prize greedily grabbed it in 1994. He immediately increased the price of petroleum products. The public rolled out a series of protests. As an appeasement measure, he set up the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) as an intervention development agency to bring succor to the people especially in the rural areas. He made Buhari the executive chairman of the Fund which he ran for five years (1994-1999).

Why did Abacha appoint Buhari the Executive Chairman of PTF? Was it as an atonement for the sin of standing by while he was overthrown by the Babangida Boys? Or was he just sympathetic seeing that the man had been left in the cold by Babangida since his ouster on August 27, 1985? Or was Abacha simply looking for a fabled disciplinarian who didn’t love money too much or the dirty part of it? Buhari needed that rehabilitation, physical, financial and reputational. He was eager to come in from the biting cold and be seen as a man who, despite the overthrow and detention, had kept his dignity and integrity such that Abacha who was Babangida’s man, could trust him with the big-wallet job.

The Petroleum Trust Fund was to intervene in such areas as roads and waterways, supply of educational materials, rehabilitation of educational infrastructure, food supply, health, water supply, etc. Buhari set up a capricious management structure and appointed Afri-Project Consortium (APC) led by a 42 year old man, Salihijo Ahmad. This Consortium was the sole manager of the PTF projects. Ahmad had admitted to Newswatch in an interview published by the magazine in its April 19, 1999 issue that it was APC that wrote the proposal which defined the mandate of the PTF. It suggested the criteria, procedure for selection and appointment of contractors, consultants and suppliers. It also worked out the monitoring mechanism adopted by the PTF. The APC had some 620 consulting firms reporting to it. It was the sole management consultants to the PTF. Most Nigerians had no idea how the PTF was run. It was when President Olusegun Obasanjo took over in 1999 and set up an interim management committee (IMC) headed by Dr Haroun Adamu to wind down the PTF that the worms crawled out of the can. That Interim Management Committee appointed three technical consultants to investigate various aspects of the PTF management. Their findings conducted independently were damning. When I read President Buhari’s remarks a few weeks ago in which he crowed about the achievements of the PTF under his leadership, I decided to do a facts-check since I knew that Newswatch had done a cover story titled “How Buhari ran PTF” which was published in its March 13, 2000 issue. This story was the product of a thorough investigation into the mammoth fraud as discovered by the technical consultants hired by the IMC. Details of the IMC report are distilled for you here. The findings: N144.51 billion had been given to PTF by the Federal Government during its lifetime; A residential estate was to be built at Wuse, Abuja, for N703 million but the technical consultants hired by IMC put the realistic valuation at about N328 million; Between July 1994 and July 1999, about N25 billion was either stolen or improperly expended; Extension of PTF headquarters was to gulp N650 million; Expired HIV/Aids drugs and kits worth N28 billion was supplied to several hospitals nationwide. This was confirmed by the Nigerian Guild of Medical Directors whose Secretary, Mr. Rowland Ogbonna, asked the Federal Government to withdraw the drugs immediately from all hospitals in the country. Many projects were abandoned while the completion rate of other projects was put at 30%; the sum of N500 million that the PTF deposited in a bank disappeared as soon as the IMC was announced. The bank agreed to pay the money after President Obasanjo read the Riot Act to the bank officials. On taking over, IMC discovered that there were no contract documents, drawings or specifications relating to projects. The APC could and did award contracts and vary the pricing without any reference to the PTF. Mr. Ahmad had asked the IMC officials to come and collect some documents in connection with all the transactions. On the day of the appointment he collapsed and died. The other members of the APC team claimed that they were not in a position to supply the documents.

There were more sordid revelations. The Afenifere did an analysis of the siting of the projects. The consumption of petroleum products by the South was 70% while that of the North was 30%. However, the distribution of the PTF projects was a reversal of the consumption pattern: 70% to the north and 30% to the south. All southern states had 4,440.43 kilometres of roads rehabilitated (24%) while states in the north had 13,870.47 kilometres rehabilitated (76%). Teaching Hospitals’ rehabilitation: South 38%, North 62%; Specialist hospitals: South 29%, North 71%; Food supply: South 17%, North 83%; National Health and Educational Rehabilitation Programme (NHERP): South 0% and North 100%; Vocational Programme: South 3%, North 97%; Primary School rehabilitation: South 12%, North 88%. Haroun Adamu acknowledged the gross imbalances in the sharing of the projects but regretted that his committee could not do much to remedy the situation since by the IMC mandate they could not embark on new projects.

From the findings there was massive fraud in PTF, fraudulently masquerading as achievements. The institution was a government intervention agency but run without the regulatory checks and balances that undergird the implementation of government projects. The Afri-Projects Consortium was just on its own, a loose canon with no authority to check it. Buhari was the Executive Chairman but he was absent-minded and had capriciously surrendered the operational powers of the PTF to APC without diligent supervision. The boys looted the place dry and there was no evidence that Buhari had an inkling of the huge corruption under his feet. Sometime before the IMC takeover, a newsmagazine, TheWeek, had interviewed him about the swirling corruption allegations. He said allegations of corruption against him were false. “My integrity is intact.” His friends said so too and even insinuated that Dr. Adamu was going after Buhari because the former dictator had detained him in 1994. Adamu told Newswatch: “I am not here to probe Buhari, No, that is not our mandate. Whatever happened when he was head of state is long forgotten. He is my friend.”

Buhari’s personal integrity was not soiled by the Petroleum Trust Fraud but he displayed supreme incompetence as a manager. As an Executive Chairman the buck stopped at his desk and no matter how you want to slice it he takes vicarious responsibility for the humongous fraud that took place in that institution. Secondly, the grossly lopsided distribution of the PTF projects between North and South is an awful testimonial for a man of his national standing to whom the nation through the coup makers had given the highest position in the land. His lopsided appointments today constitute a déjà vu.

When I read what he said about Abacha I was sorry for him. He said to a delegation, Buhari Support Group led by Comptroller General of Customs, Hameed Ali. “I don’t care about the opinion you have on Abacha but I agreed to work with him and we constructed roads from Abuja to Port Harcourt, Benin, Onitsha and so on. We also touched education and health. One of the former Heads of State was bragging that he spent $16 billion on power in Nigeria. Where is the power?” The emerging confrontation between the two former dictators, former friends and former allies and now fierce foes, Obasanjo and Buhari, will receive the attention of this column in due course. For now, I think President Buhari’s open veneration of the kleptocratic and autocratic Abacha is a cause for nausea. At the 10th anniversary of Abacha’s death Buhari had given the fantastically corrupt Abacha a clean bill of integrity. Even at that time, Nigeria was running all over the world trying to retrieve the billions Abacha had scattered in several banks in several countries and several continents. The horrifying stories of the elimination of prominent politicians and businessmen by Abacha constitute a notorious portion of our national narrative. No matter how hard Buhari tries, no matter what he thinks of the despicable, despotic Abacha, no matter why he thinks the man was a saint he will never succeed in winning Nigerians to his side. He will only wake up with fleas since he chooses to be in bed with dogs.

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Because Jesus and Allah has never saved anybody
Not during the slave trade, not now

allthingsgood:
You are mixing religion with political domination. Just like the Israelites, your Messiah is only someone who does what u like. Buhari remains the best president this country has had so far. He may not be the most efficient in everything, but nobody can accuse buhari of dishonesty or disloyalty or greed or any of those boxes that destroyed Jonathan.

Blame the OP, he mixed it first and asked a mixed question. Am only replying in the mix