₦airaland Forum

lordcornel:
WAEC is not enough! Buhari must provide his original
school uniform,his note books and the sandals he used
in primary school. Period!

off point. Wrong thread.

Leebeedo:
This man is joking with stroke

Are you Fayose in disguise, abi na you wan give am stroke?

Does this look like a sick man or someone who will die soon as the PDP claims? Certainly not. You are looking at the peoples's general, as strong as ever.

Showing the dead body of a soldier does not pay tribute to him. You'll never see that done in the developed world and it certainly should not be done in Nigeria. Please stop posting pictures of soldiers killed in battle.

texazzpete:
From Reno Omokri's 'The broom or the vacuum cleaner'

https://www.nairaland.com/2119726/broom-vacuum-cleaner




I don't understand, is the FG actually BOASTING of letting crooks who have been stealing $2bn ANNUALLY to go free? Is this what Reno Omokri is saying, that criminal prosecution of the corrupt is actually a bad thing?

Is the Government not able to multi-task...close loopholes while bringing those crooks to justice?

Maybe he was one of the ghost workers and he is rejoicing because he escaped jail.

ceo4eva:
President Jonathan and his campaign train today hit Jalingo, Taraba State for re-election rally. Turnout was very impressive!

God Bless Nigeria!

Here are some photos from the PDP Presidential Campaign Rally in Jalingo:

Why is Jonathan following Buhari's campaign trail? Have you noticed that a day after Buhari's campaigns somewhere Jonathan shows up the next day?

siegfried99:
Eleyi Gidi Gan
This one is strong

"Newly acquired certificate "

One minute Fani-Kayode says GMB never took the exam and so has no certificate, the next minute he says GMB is about to present his certificate after the deadline. Confusion + Panic = Chaos

Donmarrius:
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Tell the Daura general,to write his will,because, 72+14+14,is 100 years.He might die in jail before he finish serving the 28yrs jail term of perjury and forgery.

Tell him to indicate that you will be given 0ne of the 150 cows,to start life.ijjiot.

In that case GEJ will also be jailed for lying about having a PhD when he never completed it.

jamicide77:
PDP are doing everything to discredit dis guy, something is fishy, I think dey are scared, issues like dis did not occur in d last election

Scared is an understatement. Can you imagine how much damage this is doing to Jonathan? APC don't need to campaign anymore, PDP is doing it for them

moderatorr1:
WAEC Says It Has No Records On Buhari [Letter Included]
The West African Examination Council headquarters [located in Ghana] has disowned General Mohammed Buhari’s claim that he had sat for WAEC examination in 1961.
See Letter Below


Source: www.Brainterm.org

Note he said "...can not be found in the archives of the Records and Aptitude Test Department in [/b]Ghana[b]" Keyword is Ghana. Did Buhari do the exams in Ghana? And since when did WAEC release results to anyone other than the candidate?

See Nigeria WAEC address below:

WAEC INTERNATIONAL OFFICE, LAGOS
3 Watchtower Avenue,
Onipanu, Somolu, Lagos
Private Mail Bag 1076. Yaba, Lagos, Nigeria
Tel: (234-1)-5820266,5820704,7915675,7914351-6
Fax: (234-1) 5820265
e-mail:waechqrslagos@yahoo.com

NIGERIA NATIONAL OFFICE
21, Hussey Street, Yaba;
Private Mail Bag 1022, Yaba, Lagos.
Tel: (01) 7305150,961016,2136455,8974569
e-mail:hnowaeclagos@yahoo.co.uk
hnowaeclagos@waecnigeria.org

GEJ supporters, as usually, spending their time and efforts talking about Buhari instead of talking about GEJ's achievements and plan. Well, I guess they can't because he (GEJ) has no achievements and plans worth talking about.

sinorte:
Her reactions

Not to worry, the audit report will be released, and the culprits prosecuted, by Buhari.

The people will decide, not Jonathan. This is democracy not dictatorship. I thought Jona said he has given Nigerians freedom, so why is he now trying to take away their freedom to choose their President?

KADUNA, Nigeria — Boisterous crowds packed the streets for the retired general, while young men climbed lampposts, walls and billboards to glimpse his gaunt face. Others danced on careening motorcycles, brandishing homemade brooms, symbols of his campaign.

With Nigeria’s presidential election only weeks away, Boko Haram’s unchecked rampaging here in the country’s north is helping to propel the 72-year-old general, Muhammadu Buhari, to the forefront.

After ruling Nigeria with an iron hand 30 years ago as the country’s military leader, Mr. Buhari is now a serious threat at the ballot box, analysts say, in large part because of Boko Haram’s blood-soaked successes.

“The state is collapsing and everybody is frightened,” Jibrin Ibrahim, a political scientist with the Center for Democracy and Development in Abuja, the Nigerian capital, said of Boko Haram. “They are able to capture more and more territory, but also increase the level of atrocity,” he added. “A lot of people are frightened that these people can take over the whole country. So a lot of people are saying, ‘Give Buhari a chance.’ ”

A Buhari victory over President Goodluck Jonathan would be a rare upset for an incumbent in a country where petrodollars have long flowed and the presidency has great latitude to distribute them.

But oil prices have crashed; attacks on schools, markets and entire villages continue unabated; and Nigeria’s army has been thoroughly incapable of stopping Boko Haram, which now controls substantial portions of the northeast and regularly sends the country’s soldiers fleeing.

“We have to solve it; it’s the first problem of the country,” Mr. Buhari said tersely about the battle with Boko Haram during a long day of campaigning this week.

“This should have been an easy one,” added the former general, who is believed to have been a target of bombings in this city over the summer in which dozens were killed. “But it has been allowed to develop over five years.”

There is much at stake in Nigeria, Africa’s largest economy, even as it falters — the currency has dropped sharply, questions are swirling about the ability to pay civil servants and the country’s oil-money reserves have withered. The campaign has become a vociferous, at times violent, joust between Buhari partisans in the mostly Muslim north and supporters of Mr. Jonathan in the largely Christian south.

Mr. Buhari’s tenure as Nigeria’s military ruler was brief: a 20-month stint in the 1980s, ended by another military coup. Yet it is remembered with trepidation by many Nigerians.

His self-proclaimed “war against indiscipline” was carried to “sadistic levels, glorying in the humiliation of a people,” wrote the Nobel laureate and writer Wole Soyinka. Mr. Buhari forced tardy civil servants, even older ones, to perform frog jumps, jailed journalists for critical articles, and expelled tens of thousands of immigrants from other West African countries, blaming them for the country’s problems.

The current president and his party, which has held power since military rule ended more than 15 years ago, have made this past a central part of Mr. Jonathan’s re-election strategy, hoping to fan old fears about the general.

Full-page newspaper ads suggest that Mr. Buhari is eager to introduce Shariah law all over the country, beyond the northern states where it already exists (in the campaign, Mr. Buhari has not said that).

Other ads remind readers of the retired general’s coup-prone past. (Historians say that even before Mr. Buhari came to power in a military coup at the end of 1983, he played an active role in the coups that marked Nigeria’s early years.)

But Mr. Buhari’s supporters are far more interested in the instability shaking the north, urging a total overhaul of the lackluster fight against the Islamists. Many of them turned out in this northern metropolis this week for a glimpse of the general, who has traded his medal-bedecked uniform for traditional robes and thick-framed spectacles.

Hadiza Bala Usman, the main campaigner for the return of more than 200 schoolgirls kidnapped by Boko Haram last spring, was waiting for the general at the airport here. She helped start the group that pressed the government on the girls’ fate, demonstrating for weeks in a public square in Abuja. Nine months after their abduction, the girls remain missing.

“The resources meant for the military don’t go to the military; the bullets and boots don’t go to the soldiers,” Ms. Usman said. “And what is happening to security, you see it in all the sectors.”

“The support we’re giving” to Mr. Buhari “is for ending the insurgency,” she added. “And so no more children are abducted.”

A retired general in the crowd of supporters, Alhassan Usman, who is not related to Ms. Usman, agreed, expressing anger that Boko Haram had gained the upper hand over Nigeria’s soldiers.

“The issue is lack of discipline; the commander has eaten his money,” he said, arguing that officers take money meant for soldiers, who then see little reason to obey orders.

Mr. Buhari stood as ramrod straight as he had in the days when he rose in a coup against Nigeria’s fledgling, but corrupt, democracy. After taking power, he soon instituted what he called his attempt to straighten out a chaotic nation.

That tarnished past has been, if not forgotten, at least pushed aside by many in the tumultuous jumble of Nigerian history. Mr. Buhari is expected to do particularly well in the Muslim north, his home turf, on Election Day, as he did in an unsuccessful run four years ago.

Still, his campaign faces stiff obstacles. Tens of thousands of people in northern Nigeria have been displaced by relentless violence, and many of them will be unable to vote in the Feb. 14 election. Even if they can, Nigerian elections are prone to violence and fraud.

This week, the streets of Kaduna were packed three-deep with people, many waiting since early morning or trekking miles from nearby villages to see him. Partisans yelled as they climbed on the general’s vehicles, frenetically brushing windshields with the symbolic brooms.

Mr. Buhari spoke only briefly to the packed stands in a downtown stadium, vaguely promising greater security, prosperity and better education. But the words appeared not to be the point. It was his presence, and an implicit promise of austerity and military action, that the crowd seemed to want, after years of scandalous stories in the Nigerian news media about missing oil funds and high living by officials in Mr. Jonathan’s administration.

“The enthusiasm for Buhari is almost like a religion,” said Nasir el-Rufai, a former government minister running for governor of Kaduna State. “Look at all these people,” he said, pointing at the crowds pressing up against his own car before the general arrived. “They are all waiting just to see Buhari.”

As military ruler, Mr. Buhari showed little respect for the democratic process, rising to power in a coup that swept aside a civilian government and promising to include the political participation of Nigerian citizens “at some point.”

His government also carried out a bizarre kidnapping plot targeting a former minister who had fled to London. It involved Israeli secret agents, giant packing crates and anesthetic drugs.

In an interview, Mr. Buhari said that the times had changed and that he had changed with them.

“I operated as a military head of state,” he said. “Now I want to operate as a partisan politician in a multiparty setup. It’s a fundamental difference. Whatever law is on the ground, I will make sure it is respected.”

Yet it is Mr. Buhari’s long military career, not the respect for civil liberties he has proclaimed later in life, that will ultimately swing voters wary of his past, analysts say.

“You’ve got the Boko Haram in the northeast, where they bomb churches and marketplaces, and slaughter children,” Mr. Buhari said.

But he also noted the security problems in the nation’s south, where militants at oil fields have created havoc for years. “No highway in the country is absolutely safe,” he said.

Though supporters insist he will knock out the Islamists “in a month,” as Mr. el-Rufai put it, the retired general is far more cautious. He spoke of a methodical approach, declining to say whether he would fire the country’s top military chiefs.

“We have to see the whole picture,” Mr. Buhari said. “We’ll ask them to brief us, one by one. Why haven’t they been performing?”

“Let them justify the use of funds,” he said. “What is the intelligence community doing?”

Referring to Boko Haram, he added, “Where do they get weapons?”

He focused on the individual failures in confronting Boko Haram — the misspent money, the lack of weaponry for the soldiers, their lack of motivation for the fight — rather than on an overall condemnation of the army.

His jaw muscles tightening, he said, “This is not the Nigerian Army I knew.”

Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/24/world/africa/muhammadu-buhari-nigeria-election.html?_r=0

baybeeboi:
FFk is working for His employers...what's He supozd to do,continue criticizing them?
Btw,Man must've been cleared before the appointment
and besides PDP and GEJ needed a good marketer and FFK is just the right man for the job

Right man for the job? This man will cost Jonathan votes, anytime he comes out to speak people switch off. He is the wrong man for the job. The right man for the job would be someone with credibility and principles that would attract people, rather than put them off. FFK is probably trying to save his own skin because he still has a fraud case in court and could be imprisoned if Buhari wins. In any case, it is a conflict of interest that the president chose a man who has a corruption case in court, in other countries that person will be avoided by the president to avoid tarnishing his image or being accused of trying to interfere with the outcome of the court case.

Well done APC for publishing FFK's words in the paper to remind people that he cant be trusted and speaks from both sides of his mouth. Keep hitting him hard. Imagine the damage he did to Jonathan with this certificate issue, knowing full well that Jonathan himself didn't finish his PhD.

dre11:
And this is the same guy that is singing the praises of GEJ when money has changed hands





That's why I don't listen to the guy and his rant because he lack the tat and integrity for me to listen to any of his poo

Exactly. So why on earth would Jonathan think that it would help him to appoint a man that Nigerians don't take serious, and won't listen to, as the face of his campaign? Talk about poor judgement and shooting himself in the foot.

baybeeboi:
that Video was made before he got to position now.
nonsense APC givin themselves hope.
GEJ till 2019

How does that matter? It shows the man lacks credibility that he is now the media director of the party he so strongly criticized and said deserves to be votes out. It also clearly demonstrates poor judgement by Jonathan that at a time when he badly needs good publicity he decided to appoint a man on trial for fraud and and a critic of his government as he media man. Shame!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=619ia_Xe-TA

awodman:
Moral...APC should stop claiming higher moral grounds or even mouthing Change..No difference with PDP

Na lie. Anybody who knows Buhari knows he will fight corruption to a standstill. Look back to 1983 and you'll see that Buhari was brought to power by some corrupt Army Officers like IBB but it did not stop Buhari from fighting corruption. In fact Buhari was overthrown by IBB because he was about to arrest IBB. Make no mistake, Buhari will fight corruption like we have not seen since 1983.

Prediction: Fani-Kayode will end up in prison. The man is a fraud. Watch the video above. The same man said we must all join hands with Buhari.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3JLKzd3mjw

Ilekeh:
Omo we can't read that na?

Na which camera you dey use?

You can watch the video of what Femi Fani-Kayode said here, basically he was supporting Buhari and the APC:


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3JLKzd3mjw

Mogidi:
Ibadan citizens know what to do if they want a state.

Nonsense. The president does not have the powers to create states. This is not the military era when you can create state by degree. Even the national assembly does not have the power to create states. States can only be created by the National and all state assemblies combined, in other words, the whole of Nigeria has to approve before a new state can be created. It will be difficult to create any more states in Nigeria.

REMMEI:
bet why . . . If this's true i give up on our president.

So you haven't given up on him yet? Most Nigerians have, that's why he wants to postpone the elections. The problem is, in six months time he will be even more unpopular, so no need. Elections will hold on Febuhari 6th as planned or yawa don gas be dat.

Plans by President Goodluck Jonathan and his team to scuttle the general elections scheduled for February have come to light, with National Security Adviser Sambo Dasuki openly calling for postponement of the elections.

Sambo spoke at a Chattam House lecture in London, offering the excuse that the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has not distributed Permanent Voters Cards across the country as was expected.

SaharaReporters had reported several months ago that President Goodluck Jonathan was reluctant to hold national elections because his popularity had dwindled considerably and he feared losing the election.

In the last few days, as the popularity of General Muhammadu Buhari for the presidency has grown, Mr. Jonathan has spent vast sums of money mobilizing people to call for the postponement of the elections.

INEC spokesperson, Kayode Idowu told SaharaReporters today that INEC was not aware of Col. Dasuki’s suggestion, and that the elections will hold as scheduled.

Several sources connected to the presidency told SaharaReporters that President Jonathan wants the elections to be postponed for at least six months, a period that will enable him to appoint a new INEC chairman of his liking to oversee the elections. Professor Attahiru Jega’s tenure expires in July 2015.

With Jega out of the way, Jonathan would appoint another INEC chairman who would further postponement of the election.

SaharaReporters sources stated that President Jonathan is seriously considering an “Interim Government of National Unity” that would elongate his tenure till 2017. That would mean he spends eight years in power as President, the equivalent of two terms.

In 2011 as he assumed office, his first effort was to call for a new six-year term arrangement, which was shot down by Nigerians. He also recently attempted to smuggle in a new constitution by the back door through the National Conference.

Source: http://saharareporters.com/2015/01/22/jonathan-wants-elections-postponed-6-months-inec-says-elections-will-hold-scheduled

Exactly. Note: In this quote, Jonathan also gave his promise or prophesy of what he will do in the next 4 years if he wins, he said "...if I can’t improve on power within this period [2011 - 2015], it then means I cannot do anything even if I am there for the next four years [2015 - 2019].”

Nigerians, there is a wise old saying "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." The shame will be on Nigerians if Jonathan wins the next election.

“Without security, there is no government. So it is not debatable, it is something we have to addressed and we are working towards that with vigour. But if I’m voted into power within the next four years, the issue of power will become a thing of the past. Four years is enough for anyone in power to make significant improvement and if I can’t improve on power within this period, it then means I cannot do anything even if I am there for the next four years.”

President Goodluck Jonathan, 31st January 2011.

naijaking1:
This is going to be very interesting: as a nation of law, let' see how Nigeria solves this Buhari school certificate palaver.

Buhari should either go back to school and produce some sort of school certificate
OR
The constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria should be changed at the section where it required a school certificate before anybody could become president.

Simple!

The constitution stipulates the minimum requirement is school leaving certificate level OR the equivalent. What Buhari did in the Army is the equivalent of and more than the minimum requirement. The key word here is 'equivalent', people should stop focusing on school cert.

Dream49ja:
Watch the funny and incredible video below

https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=314197738769414&set=vb.301078146748040&type=2&theater&notif_t=video_processed

Let's discuss, do you think it's genuine?

Do you think they are faking it?

Is this really what Religion should be all about?

Cult. Notice how non of the camera men nor musicians fell even when the so called anointing was throw in their direction

Firefire:
Congrats!

What were the weapons available to the terrorist then?

Do they have tanks?


Do they have assorted rifles ?


Do they have Anti-aircraft?


Do they have International backing?

How large are their followers?

What were their ideology then?

How many men in the military are supporting their ideology ?

Does it have any religion colorations?

This and many more question will enable us equate Maitatsine with the deadly bokoharam.

Shalom!

Good questions. No They didn't have tanks and anti-aircraft weapons because Buhari dealt with them early and decisively before they could reach that level of sophistication. Boko Haram did not have tanks and anti-aircraft fire early on, it was the failure of Jonathan's government to deal with them that emboldened and enabled them grow into an organised army that is now difficult to defeat.

rebranded:
I am starting to feel APC might have made a grave mistake presented an older candidate. Buhari is a good man and has change in him and all, but looking at the present day realities. I am starting to doubt Buhari has what it takes to be a President in the 21st century.

GEJ is still clueless and unfit for the position. A Tambuwal/Osinbajo would have been perfect

Everyone keeps saying we need a revolution in Nigeria. Well, have a look at Tunisia, they had a revolution, organised an election and ended up voting an 88 year old man in as President. There is nothing wrong with Buhari's age. I am sure America will vote in a 69 year as their next President in 2017.

Nigeria is still doing the same things as it did 30 years ago and expecting the country to progress, so we need Buhari to come and finish what he started but was terminated by IBB. He will do it this time in a democratic way but rest assured he will do it.

Ngwakwe:
Yes US Army only do that when they can guarantee his safety.

On the contrary, Nigeria Army is trying to secure their barracks let alone guarantee the safety of the President.

Until a time when our military is 100% capable and with less saboteurs, no visit is assured.

Actually, the US military is not able to guarantee the President's safety that's why the visit is usually top secret and unannounced. Jonathan could visit the north east in the same way, make sure it is top secret. Instead, due to incompetence and lack of security tactics, when Jonathan was thinking of visiting Chibok, after being heavily criticized by the foreign press for his inaction after the kidnapping, it was announced in the media where, when and how he would be visiting.

dharyour93:
First and foremost, I'm no a GEJist. But please you should not compare the president of Nigeria to The President of the Greatest country in the world (USA)

But the Prime Minster of the UK and several other European countries have also visited Afghanistan and Iraq.