₦airaland Forum

My dear people of Rivers State, we of this generation will not in good conscience expect forgiveness and compassion from our forebears, posterity, and the spirit of our unborn generations if it is recorded in the annals of history that after 48 Years of Rivers people supporting leaders from all other parts of this country with our votes and resources, we were the same that witch hunted and hounded down the very first ever President from this region, granted us by providence.

I wash my hands off this treachery.

In the light of the above, I wish to urge all My Supporters, the Good People of Rivers State to join hands with other well-meaning Nigerians to massively vote for President GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN (GCFR) and the Transformation Agenda that has brought so much relief and succour to the greatest number of Nigerians. I also urge all Rivers People to vote for Chief Barr Nyesom Wike (CON), who has shown by his antecedents, track records and boundless capabilities that he will deliver good governance to the People of Rivers State.

Thank You and God Bless You All Abundantly.

Engr Tele Ikuru

[b]My dear people of Rivers State, we of this generation will not in good conscience expect forgiveness and compassion from our forebears, posterity, and the spirit of our unborn generations if it is recorded in the annals of history that after 48 Years of Rivers people supporting leaders from all other parts of this country with our votes and resources, we were the same that witch hunted and hounded down the very first ever President from this region, granted us by providence.

I wash my hands off this treachery.

In the light of the above, I wish to urge all My Supporters, the Good People of Rivers State to join hands with other well-meaning Nigerians to massively vote for President GOODLUCK EBELE JONATHAN (GCFR) and the Transformation Agenda that has brought so much relief and succour to the greatest number of Nigerians. I also urge all Rivers People to vote for Chief Barr Nyesom Wike (CON), who has shown by his antecedents, track records and boundless capabilities that he will deliver good governance to the People of Rivers State.

Thank You and God Bless You All Abundantly.

Engr Tele Ikuru[/b]

Letter to Buhari from the grave of the innocents –
By Bashir Yusufu
Dear General Buhari; I would’ve addressed this letter privately to you, but in the expectation that you may not receive it, I decided to make it an Open Letter, in the hope that you would stumble on it, read it and hopefully feel some of the pains and anguish that have been my lot. Having said that, permit me therefore to proceed with the rest of this missive from the grave of innocents departed.
Last night, while I was at my modest home in Katsina, relaxing and probably half-awake, I heard the voice of my cousin who was killed in the North in April 2011 during the post-election violence instigated by your loss of the presidential election. With bloodshot sad eyes, my cousin, looking apparition-like, was wailing “Gen Buhari, why why”. My cousin’s name is (or was) Mallam Yusuf Danfulani, a bright young lad originally from Katsina State, who was slaughtered in cold blood and set on fire by youths chanting “Sai Buhari”, like they are again now chanting in 2015.
Gen Buhari, in case you have forgotten, Yusuf was slaughtered in your name even though he never did any wrong to you, and even voted for you against Dr Jonathan. He lost his life just because the murderers you encouraged by your many hate speeches believed Yusuf to be from middle belt or southern Nigeria, most probably because of his bulky looks and brave, patriotic attempts to prevent the killing of an innocent Youth Corper, Ukeoma Ikechukwu. Even though he cried out in Hausa and Fulfulde, he was still not believed by those you (Buhari) managed to brainwash to see all non-Fulani Nigerians as conspiring to vote against you. In this very case, Yusuf voted for you but his ‘Sai Buhari’ killers never believed he did. Like you, Gen Buhari, the mob was baying for the blood of innocents.
If not for Yusuf’s best friend who was with him and was himself nearly killed, we would not have recognized his charred body that was burnt beyond recognition. And thanks to the same friend for recounting to us the little he could make out at the last moments of Yusuf’s life, the agony he passed through and the most important words he uttered before he gave up. It is the same words I heard him utter last night from the grave: ‘Gen Buhari, why why’. Yet, to this day, you (Buhari) have not cared to apologize or show any remorse, but you instead offered lame excuses for the bloodletting you had instigated, and still instigate. I now ask you this: Gen Buhari, must you always shade blood, like you started doing from 1983, to rule Nigeria? Do you recall how you killed Brigadier Bako in 1983 just so you could take power by force from Shehu Shagari?
General Buhari, Ukeoma Ikechukwu himself was reported missing that same day Yusuf was murdered by your supporters, and finally confirmed dead the following day when his charred remains was discovered in a hooded area. Apparently, your supporters had dragged him out of the open and tortured him before finally snuffing life out of him. Like my cousin, Yusuf, Ukeoma was very young and an innocent. Unlike Dr. Jonathan, they were not contesting against you. Yet, when they were killed, part of Nigeria was killed with them; the same Nigeria that you are now angrily campaigning to rule.
Yusuf and Ukeoma were not alone. Six other innocent Youth Corpers were also murdered in Bauchi, where you Buhari, polled 1,315,209 votes (almost 82 per cent), defeating Dr Jonathan who scored 258,404 votes and did not even hit the 25 per cent mark. The corps members were reportedly chased to a police station where they sought refuge. But the rioters, who were raving mad with bloodlust and chanting “Sai Buhari”, overran the station and murdered the young Nigerians in cold blood. So, Gen Buhari, as you can see from the Bauchi result and it’s aftermath, your supporters even shade blood when you win; still you have no qualms. Today, you are prancing around the nation, arrogant and angry as usual, behaving like you have already won the election; and thus setting up another bloodletting if you are not announced winner.
The story of Obinna Okpokiri is as heart-wrenching as Yusuf’s. The 27-year-old was butchered and burnt to ashes, in the service of his fatherland. Okpokiri’s own circumstances were as gruesome as they could be. He had run to the Corpers’ Lodge as the rampaging ‘Sai Buhari’ rioters targeted Youth Corper polling officers recruited by INEC for the election. As painful death loomed, the young Nigerians contemplated fleeing to the barracks. But they were not lucky enough. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters caught up with them, slaughtered and set them on fire. Like Yusuf, these innocents are human beings and future leaders on the last laps of fulfilling their national duty before moving on to a bright future. But it was not to be because, in your name, Gen Buhari, they were slaughtered, sliced, soaked in petrol and scorched. Reduced to ashes in minutes and in the most callous fashion by those that are not better citizens or humans than them.
General Buhari, while you are now busy inciting another violence, please bear in mind that in 2011, your supporters turned violent in whole 12 northern states as they burned the homes, vehicles, and properties of innocent Nigerians, some of whom are also Muslims and Northerners like you and my cousin Yusuf. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters also targeted and killed Christians and members of southern Nigerian ethnic groups, who were seen as supporting the PDP, and they burnt churches across the north. One particular attack in Bauchi stood out as most heart-breaking. According to Human Rights Watch, on April 17 in Giade, a rural town in northern Bauchi, ‘Sai Buhari’ mobs attacked youth corps members in the town. The Corpers, who were mostly from Yoruba, ran to the local police station to seek refuge, but the mobs stormed the police station. The mob killed the police officer on duty and burned down the police station. They raped two of the female youth corps members and then hacked them to death with machetes, along with five male youth corps members. In total, rioters killed ten youth corps members in that town alone.
A lecturer at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna State, described to Human Rights Watch how a mob of Muslims chanting “Change, Sai Buhari” attacked and killed several Christian students, a Christian lecturer and four Muslim students suspected of being PDP sympathizers on April 17: He said “Between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., they entered the school chanting slogans and shouting: “Where are the Christians and Muslims that supported the ruling party?” They had painted their faces black and were shouting that they needed “change”, the Congress for Progressive Change campaign slogan. The mob had all sorts of weapons – machetes, sticks, and clubs. They started breaking the glass on the buildings. The students ran away but the mob pursued them into the staff quarters and they had nowhere to go. The mob beat them to death. The lecturer they killed was Yoruba“.
Finally, Gen Buhari, let me end this letter by asking you this question: When are you going to apologize to me, to Yusuf’s aged parents, to Ukeoma’s parents, to parents of all innocents murdered by your brainwashed supporters, to Nigeria and to mankind? And here is Yusuf again, asking you from the grave: “Gen Buhari, why why”.
Bashir Yusufu.
yusufubashir@yahoo.com

GEJ'S TRANSFORMATION

SOUTH – EAST GEO | POLITICAL ZONE
ENUGU state:
Rehabilitation of the Enugu Airport (New international airport Terminal)

Ongoing Nsukka – Ayangba 132kv Double – Circuit

Sure – P Projects on Primary Health Care (PHC)

Enugu – PH – Maiduguri Rail Fixed.

University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu upgraded with new facilities to commence open – heart surgeries

Rehabilitation of Enugu – Port Harcourt Road

Ogrute – Umuida Road and Unadu to Odoru in Kogi State

Rehabilitation of Umuna – Ndiagu and Ebenebe Ezeagu Road, Agubuogu through Ebenebe to Iwolo road.

₦ 2.57 Billion Dam Project in Adada River Dam to provide Portable Water, Electricity and Irrigation for agriculture activities

Ada Rice Irrigation Project at Uzo – Uwani

Erosion control project

Export Crop preservation and Conditioning Centre in Enugu State (One of the 10 constructed nationwide )

e – wallet System in the distribution of agricultural inputs to the farmers and Dry Season Farming Project

Construction of Irrigation Facilities in Amagunze Rice Product farm Enugu

Establishment of Enugu State office of the National Productivity Centre.

In 2012, FG Commissioned a Cultural Industry Centre in Inyi Enugu State.

Reinstatement of washout at Km 6 + 750, Km 30 + 400 and Km 35 + 325 along Onitsha- Enugu Dual – Carriage way in Anambra and Enugu State.

Establishment of Maritime Institute at University of Nigeria Nsukka

GEJ'S TRANSFORMATION

ANAMBRA state:
Building of Aircraft Maintenance School at Akili – Ozuzo, Ogbaru Local Government Area.

Construction of Federal Government Secretariat in Awka

Exploring Public Private Partnership to Reconstruct Second Niger Bridge (Anambra – Delta States)

FGN Funded Ecological Projects in Anambra State : Nanka/Oko Landslide Project, the Nkisi Water Works

Erosion Control/Dredging Projects in Onitsha, the Okpolo/Ire Ojoto Erosion Control Project, Alor Town

Flood Control and Road Improvement Projects in Idemili Local Government Area

Rehabilitation of Onitsha – Owerri Road to Okija – Ihembosi – Afor – Ukpor – Ebenator – Ezenifite

Onitsha River Port – Fixed and ready

National Transmission Grid installed between Benin and Onitsha to prevent usual Nationwide Grid collapse

Sure – P Projects on Primary Health Care & Transformation

e – Wallet System in the distribution of agricultural inputs to the farmers and Dry Season Farming

Ongoing Nnewi 2 x 60MVA, 132/33KV Substation 2 x 60MVA, 132/33KV Substation at Oba and 2 x 132KV

Line Bays Extension at Nnewi, 2 x 60MVA, 132/33KV

Substation at Mpu with 2 x 60KV Line Bays Extension at Nnenwe

Onitsha – Oba – Nnewi – Ideato – Okigwe 132KV

Double – Circuit Line, Ugwuaji Nnenwe 132KV Double – Circuit Line 2 x 60MVA,132/33KV Substation at Nnenwe

Nnenwe – Mpu 132KV Double – Circuit Transmission Line, Onitsha – Ifitedunu and 2 x 132KV Double – Circuit Transmission Line, 2 x 60MVA, 132/33KV Substation at Ifitedunu and 2 x 132KV Line Bays Extension at Onitsha.

Modernisation of Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi

EBONYI state:
Establishment of a Federal University in Ndufe – Alike in Ebonyi State
Rehabilitation of 43 KM Obiozara – Uburu – Ishiagu Road 37Km Oji – Achi Obeagu – Maku – Awgu – Ndeabor – Mpu – Okpanku – Akaeze Road rehabilitation.
Construction of a Storey Hostel, Class room building and Procurement at the Federal Government Girls College Ezembo, Ebonyi State
Sure – P Projects on Primary Health Centres and others
Rehabilitation of Abakaliki – Mbok Road
Establishment of a New Teaching Hospital
e – wallet system for the Distribution of Agricultural Inputs to the farmers and Dry Season Farming Project
Ongoing 2x 60MVA, 132/33KV Substation at Amasiri and 2 x 13KV Substation at Abakaliki and Abakaliki – Amasiri 132KV Double – Circuit Line
Rehabilitation of Agricultural – Skills Training Centre.
Establishment of National Obstetric Fistula Centre Abakiliki

GEJ,S TRANSFORMATION

IMO state:
NDDC Projects: St Marks Estate and Federal Housing Estate Internal Road, New Owerri Ejizie – Izuogu Road in Akeme community of Arondizogu, and the Solar Powered Water Project at Mbaoma in Owerri North & Owerri Urban Water Scheme Project, Rehabilitation of Opkpuala – Iguruta Road(Imo and Rivers States), Reconstruction of Elele – Owerri Road

Sea – Port and Naval Base Project in Osse – Motor

Community (World Bank /FGN/Imo state) sponsored project
.
Construction of Administrative Complex and Entrepreneurial Studies Complex in Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO)

Construction of the new Federal High Court Owerri division complex

Establishment and Construction of a Court of Appeal Division in Owerri

14Km Mbaise – Ngwa Road with a bridge at Imo/ Abia State (Cost ₦2.94Billoin)

SURE – P Project on Primary Health Centres and other projects

Rehabilitation of Owerri – Port Harcourt Road

Ecological Control Projects at Nekede, Saint Kzito Secondary School in Muchina and the Umuoza – Ugri Erosion Control

Rehabilitation of the Sam Mbakwe International Airport Owerri

Egbema Power Plant (338MW)

e-wallet System in distribution of the agricultural inputs to the Farmers and Dry Season Farming Project

Ongoing Mbalano 2 x 30/40MVA, 132/33KV Substation and Okigwe 2 x 30/40MVA , 132/133KV Substation

Dualisation of Ada Owerri – Ikot – Ekpene Border Section Phase one in Imo, Abia and Akwa –Ibom States

Construction of Oguta River Port in Imo State

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jpphilips:
You believe that God is in Nigerian churches? , If you were God, will you sit and watch a man of god telling his customers that Jehovah can be bribed with 10% to open the windows of heaven?
God actually left when those nonsense started in churches, you and I know that majority of Nigerian churches preach the same nonsense how do you expect God to be there? anyways, don't derail the thread, Nigerian churches are too filthy for God to dwell in.

YOU JUST IGNORANT LIKE APC SUPPORTERS

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GEJ'S TRANSFORMATION

ABIA state:
Completion of Alaoji Power Plant (1074MW)

SURE – Projects on Primary Health Care (PHC) and others

MDG Projects ( in partnership with the state Government) 250 Health Centres and 10 Solar Powered

Water Boreholes completed and commissioned

Rehabilitation of the Federal Roads: Mbaise – Ngwa Road with a bridge and Owerri – Aba Road

504MW Power Plant at Aba and 133KVA Substation in Umuahia (Under the Federal Government/Abia state Partnership Projects)

e – wallet system in the distribution of Agricultural Inputs to the farmers and Dry Season farming projects

Umuahia – Mbalano 132KV Line

Mbalano 2 x 30/40MVA, 132/33KV Substation

Ohafia 2 x 30/40MVA, 132/33KV Substation and Ohafia – Arochukwu 132KVA Line

Okigwe 2 x 30/40 MVA, 132/33KV Substation

Ongoing Ohafia 2 x 30 /40 MVA, 132/33KV Substation

Umuahia – Ohafia 132KV Single – Circuit Line, Umuahia – Mbalano 132KV Line, Ohafia – Arochukwu 132KV Line

Rehabilitation and Re – opening of the NNPC depot at Aba after 6years of closure.

Rehabilitation and Construction of Goodluck Jonathan Barrack in Ohafia

Establishment of Abia State Office of the National Productivity Centre.

Rehabilitation of Agricultural Skills Training Centre

NDDC – Obehia – Azumini – Ukanafun Road (Abia – Akwa Ibom) Roads Projects

Construction of a storey building for 136 Inmates at Aba Prison.

GEJ,S TRANSFORMATION

IMO state:
NDDC Projects: St Marks Estate and Federal Housing Estate Internal Road, New Owerri Ejizie – Izuogu Road in Akeme community of Arondizogu, and the Solar Powered Water Project at Mbaoma in Owerri North & Owerri Urban Water Scheme Project, Rehabilitation of Opkpuala – Iguruta Road(Imo and Rivers States), Reconstruction of Elele – Owerri Road

Sea – Port and Naval Base Project in Osse – Motor

Community (World Bank /FGN/Imo state) sponsored project
.
Construction of Administrative Complex and Entrepreneurial Studies Complex in Federal University of Technology Owerri (FUTO)

Construction of the new Federal High Court Owerri division complex

Establishment and Construction of a Court of Appeal Division in Owerri

14Km Mbaise – Ngwa Road with a bridge at Imo/ Abia State (Cost ₦2.94Billoin)

SURE – P Project on Primary Health Centres and other projects

Rehabilitation of Owerri – Port Harcourt Road

Ecological Control Projects at Nekede, Saint Kzito Secondary School in Muchina and the Umuoza – Ugri Erosion Control

Rehabilitation of the Sam Mbakwe International Airport Owerri

Egbema Power Plant (338MW)

e-wallet System in distribution of the agricultural inputs to the Farmers and Dry Season Farming Project

Ongoing Mbalano 2 x 30/40MVA, 132/33KV Substation and Okigwe 2 x 30/40MVA , 132/133KV Substation

Dualisation of Ada Owerri – Ikot – Ekpene Border Section Phase one in Imo, Abia and Akwa –Ibom States

Construction of Oguta River Port in Imo State

GEJ'S TRANSFORMATION

ANAMBRA state:
Building of Aircraft Maintenance School at Akili – Ozuzo, Ogbaru Local Government Area.

Construction of Federal Government Secretariat in Awka

Exploring Public Private Partnership to Reconstruct Second Niger Bridge (Anambra – Delta States)

FGN Funded Ecological Projects in Anambra State : Nanka/Oko Landslide Project, the Nkisi Water Works

Erosion Control/Dredging Projects in Onitsha, the Okpolo/Ire Ojoto Erosion Control Project, Alor Town

Flood Control and Road Improvement Projects in Idemili Local Government Area

Rehabilitation of Onitsha – Owerri Road to Okija – Ihembosi – Afor – Ukpor – Ebenator – Ezenifite

Onitsha River Port – Fixed and ready

National Transmission Grid installed between Benin and Onitsha to prevent usual Nationwide Grid collapse

Sure – P Projects on Primary Health Care & Transformation

e – Wallet System in the distribution of agricultural inputs to the farmers and Dry Season Farming

Ongoing Nnewi 2 x 60MVA, 132/33KV Substation 2 x 60MVA, 132/33KV Substation at Oba and 2 x 132KV

Line Bays Extension at Nnewi, 2 x 60MVA, 132/33KV

Substation at Mpu with 2 x 60KV Line Bays Extension at Nnenwe

Onitsha – Oba – Nnewi – Ideato – Okigwe 132KV

Double – Circuit Line, Ugwuaji Nnenwe 132KV Double – Circuit Line 2 x 60MVA,132/33KV Substation at Nnenwe

Nnenwe – Mpu 132KV Double – Circuit Transmission Line, Onitsha – Ifitedunu and 2 x 132KV Double – Circuit Transmission Line, 2 x 60MVA, 132/33KV Substation at Ifitedunu and 2 x 132KV Line Bays Extension at Onitsha.

Modernisation of Nnamdi Azikwe University Teaching Hospital Nnewi

GEJ'S TRANSFORMATION

EBONYI state:
Establishment of a Federal University in Ndufe – Alike in Ebonyi State
Rehabilitation of 43 KM Obiozara – Uburu – Ishiagu Road 37Km Oji – Achi Obeagu – Maku – Awgu – Ndeabor – Mpu – Okpanku – Akaeze Road rehabilitation.
Construction of a Storey Hostel, Class room building and Procurement at the Federal Government Girls College Ezembo, Ebonyi State
Sure – P Projects on Primary Health Centres and others
Rehabilitation of Abakaliki – Mbok Road
Establishment of a New Teaching Hospital
e – wallet system for the Distribution of Agricultural Inputs to the farmers and Dry Season Farming Project
Ongoing 2x 60MVA, 132/33KV Substation at Amasiri and 2 x 13KV Substation at Abakaliki and Abakaliki – Amasiri 132KV Double – Circuit Line
Rehabilitation of Agricultural – Skills Training Centre.
Establishment of National Obstetric Fistula Centre Abakiliki

GEJ'S TRANSFORMATION

SOUTH – EAST GEO | POLITICAL ZONE
ENUGU state:
Rehabilitation of the Enugu Airport (New international airport Terminal)

Ongoing Nsukka – Ayangba 132kv Double – Circuit

Sure – P Projects on Primary Health Care (PHC)

Enugu – PH – Maiduguri Rail Fixed.

University of Nigeria Teaching Hospital Enugu upgraded with new facilities to commence open – heart surgeries

Rehabilitation of Enugu – Port Harcourt Road

Ogrute – Umuida Road and Unadu to Odoru in Kogi State

Rehabilitation of Umuna – Ndiagu and Ebenebe Ezeagu Road, Agubuogu through Ebenebe to Iwolo road.

₦ 2.57 Billion Dam Project in Adada River Dam to provide Portable Water, Electricity and Irrigation for agriculture activities

Ada Rice Irrigation Project at Uzo – Uwani

Erosion control project

Export Crop preservation and Conditioning Centre in Enugu State (One of the 10 constructed nationwide )

e – wallet System in the distribution of agricultural inputs to the farmers and Dry Season Farming Project

Construction of Irrigation Facilities in Amagunze Rice Product farm Enugu

Establishment of Enugu State office of the National Productivity Centre.

In 2012, FG Commissioned a Cultural Industry Centre in Inyi Enugu State.

Reinstatement of washout at Km 6 + 750, Km 30 + 400 and Km 35 + 325 along Onitsha- Enugu Dual – Carriage way in Anambra and Enugu State.

Establishment of Maritime Institute at University of Nigeria Nsukka

Dear Friends and Co-compatriots,
As one who had sat in meetings with both President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan and Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, I can confidently and in all honesty convey my humble opinion to you, that the difference between the choice of Jonathan and Buhari, is in similitude of the difference between the peoples choice and the choice of one man.

1. Buhari was not chosen by the North.
2. Buhari never discussed with Yoruba Leaders for adoption.
3. Buhari is not on Ndigbo agenda, talk-less of adoption.

Now it should be crystal clear to suspect, that one man chose Buhari for his personal interest, put publicly making it look as if it is a peoples choice.
On the surface, it may seem simple, but with the antecedents of this one man, any well meaning Nigerian should be concerned.

Friends as they say, why go to hell, when heaven is free?
Vote the genuine peoples choice, Vote Goodluck Jonathan of PDP for stability, peace and positive advancement of our dear country NIGERIA!!!

Chief Udoka Udeogaranya
President
Ndigbo Support and Ndigbo Cultural Society of Nigeria (NCSN)

Letter to Buhari from the grave of the innocents –
By Bashir Yusufu
Dear General Buhari; I would’ve addressed this letter privately to you, but in the expectation that you may not receive it, I decided to make it an Open Letter, in the hope that you would stumble on it, read it and hopefully feel some of the pains and anguish that have been my lot. Having said that, permit me therefore to proceed with the rest of this missive from the grave of innocents departed.
Last night, while I was at my modest home in Katsina, relaxing and probably half-awake, I heard the voice of my cousin who was killed in the North in April 2011 during the post-election violence instigated by your loss of the presidential election. With bloodshot sad eyes, my cousin, looking apparition-like, was wailing “Gen Buhari, why why”. My cousin’s name is (or was) Mallam Yusuf Danfulani, a bright young lad originally from Katsina State, who was slaughtered in cold blood and set on fire by youths chanting “Sai Buhari”, like they are again now chanting in 2015.
Gen Buhari, in case you have forgotten, Yusuf was slaughtered in your name even though he never did any wrong to you, and even voted for you against Dr Jonathan. He lost his life just because the murderers you encouraged by your many hate speeches believed Yusuf to be from middle belt or southern Nigeria, most probably because of his bulky looks and brave, patriotic attempts to prevent the killing of an innocent Youth Corper, Ukeoma Ikechukwu. Even though he cried out in Hausa and Fulfulde, he was still not believed by those you (Buhari) managed to brainwash to see all non-Fulani Nigerians as conspiring to vote against you. In this very case, Yusuf voted for you but his ‘Sai Buhari’ killers never believed he did. Like you, Gen Buhari, the mob was baying for the blood of innocents.
If not for Yusuf’s best friend who was with him and was himself nearly killed, we would not have recognized his charred body that was burnt beyond recognition. And thanks to the same friend for recounting to us the little he could make out at the last moments of Yusuf’s life, the agony he passed through and the most important words he uttered before he gave up. It is the same words I heard him utter last night from the grave: ‘Gen Buhari, why why’. Yet, to this day, you (Buhari) have not cared to apologize or show any remorse, but you instead offered lame excuses for the bloodletting you had instigated, and still instigate. I now ask you this: Gen Buhari, must you always shade blood, like you started doing from 1983, to rule Nigeria? Do you recall how you killed Brigadier Bako in 1983 just so you could take power by force from Shehu Shagari?
General Buhari, Ukeoma Ikechukwu himself was reported missing that same day Yusuf was murdered by your supporters, and finally confirmed dead the following day when his charred remains was discovered in a hooded area. Apparently, your supporters had dragged him out of the open and tortured him before finally snuffing life out of him. Like my cousin, Yusuf, Ukeoma was very young and an innocent. Unlike Dr. Jonathan, they were not contesting against you. Yet, when they were killed, part of Nigeria was killed with them; the same Nigeria that you are now angrily campaigning to rule.
Yusuf and Ukeoma were not alone. Six other innocent Youth Corpers were also murdered in Bauchi, where you Buhari, polled 1,315,209 votes (almost 82 per cent), defeating Dr Jonathan who scored 258,404 votes and did not even hit the 25 per cent mark. The corps members were reportedly chased to a police station where they sought refuge. But the rioters, who were raving mad with bloodlust and chanting “Sai Buhari”, overran the station and murdered the young Nigerians in cold blood. So, Gen Buhari, as you can see from the Bauchi result and it’s aftermath, your supporters even shade blood when you win; still you have no qualms. Today, you are prancing around the nation, arrogant and angry as usual, behaving like you have already won the election; and thus setting up another bloodletting if you are not announced winner.
The story of Obinna Okpokiri is as heart-wrenching as Yusuf’s. The 27-year-old was butchered and burnt to ashes, in the service of his fatherland. Okpokiri’s own circumstances were as gruesome as they could be. He had run to the Corpers’ Lodge as the rampaging ‘Sai Buhari’ rioters targeted Youth Corper polling officers recruited by INEC for the election. As painful death loomed, the young Nigerians contemplated fleeing to the barracks. But they were not lucky enough. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters caught up with them, slaughtered and set them on fire. Like Yusuf, these innocents are human beings and future leaders on the last laps of fulfilling their national duty before moving on to a bright future. But it was not to be because, in your name, Gen Buhari, they were slaughtered, sliced, soaked in petrol and scorched. Reduced to ashes in minutes and in the most callous fashion by those that are not better citizens or humans than them.
General Buhari, while you are now busy inciting another violence, please bear in mind that in 2011, your supporters turned violent in whole 12 northern states as they burned the homes, vehicles, and properties of innocent Nigerians, some of whom are also Muslims and Northerners like you and my cousin Yusuf. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters also targeted and killed Christians and members of southern Nigerian ethnic groups, who were seen as supporting the PDP, and they burnt churches across the north. One particular attack in Bauchi stood out as most heart-breaking. According to Human Rights Watch, on April 17 in Giade, a rural town in northern Bauchi, ‘Sai Buhari’ mobs attacked youth corps members in the town. The Corpers, who were mostly from Yoruba, ran to the local police station to seek refuge, but the mobs stormed the police station. The mob killed the police officer on duty and burned down the police station. They raped two of the female youth corps members and then hacked them to death with machetes, along with five male youth corps members. In total, rioters killed ten youth corps members in that town alone.
A lecturer at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna State, described to Human Rights Watch how a mob of Muslims chanting “Change, Sai Buhari” attacked and killed several Christian students, a Christian lecturer and four Muslim students suspected of being PDP sympathizers on April 17: He said “Between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., they entered the school chanting slogans and shouting: “Where are the Christians and Muslims that supported the ruling party?” They had painted their faces black and were shouting that they needed “change”, the Congress for Progressive Change campaign slogan. The mob had all sorts of weapons – machetes, sticks, and clubs. They started breaking the glass on the buildings. The students ran away but the mob pursued them into the staff quarters and they had nowhere to go. The mob beat them to death. The lecturer they killed was Yoruba“.
Finally, Gen Buhari, let me end this letter by asking you this question: When are you going to apologize to me, to Yusuf’s aged parents, to Ukeoma’s parents, to parents of all innocents murdered by your brainwashed supporters, to Nigeria and to mankind? And here is Yusuf again, asking you from the grave: “Gen Buhari, why why”.
Bashir Yusufu.
yusufubashir@yahoo.com