₦airaland Forum

Some people are just very pathetic. If you believe GEJ made false claims, why not go to UNIPORT? The Freedom of Information Act is there and you can use it to get what you want. Go to the university's postgraduate college and ask for PhD theses in Zoology. Who knows, you might find something incriminating. Coming here to ask for GEJ's credential, with due respect, is the highest form of stupidity. It just shows how petty, ignorant and irresponsible some people can be.

Hypocrites! Did you remember when supporters of the ACN now APC went and burnt
the campaign office of President Jonathan in Akwa Ibom in before the elections of 2011? I hope you can also recall that in that campaign office were PDP flags.

I also hope you remember the CPC (APC) riots in the North that led to the deaths of many Nigerians after the 2011 elections.


Do you also remember 'dogs and baboon' soaking in blood and 'rig and roast'?



In words and deed APC is synonymous with violence and not PDP.

God don catch these Buharistans today.

Gumpy liars. They want to canonize a criminal coup plotter.


Hehehehehehe.

As usual, many people have started cursing the federal government without knowing how the decision came about. National Council on Transport comprises the transport ministries of all the states. The Minister of Transport is only the chairman.

What this means is that both APC and PDP states took the decision since the Minister of Transport read the council's decision. So, hold your states responsible for the proposed plan and not the FG.

Unfortunately, the journalist who wrote this report is not knowledgeable enough to know the constitution of the council.

You know a packaged story when you see one. Verily, verily, this is one. It is a PR story duly paid for. QUOTE me.

That, however, does not diminish whatever Fashola may have achieved. To be fair, he has achieved a few.

However, the fourth mainland bridge, the light rail which were the anchor points of his election and re-election have remained a mirage. The fact that over 90 per cent of Lagosians 'generate' their own water either through borehole or well remains an indictment. The abandonment and neglect of suburbs like Ajamgbadi, Ijanikin, Ayobo Ipaja, Iyana Ipaja, Ikotun, Ejigbo, Idimu, Nanti in Apapa, etc sugggest that he loathes the poor.


That stated, he is still one of the one-eyed men among our predominantly blind polithievsians.

Hypocrites! You are quick to believe Buhari's account but are quick to dismiss another person's account. Didn't the Senate, an independent body, say Sanusi lied regarding the alleged missing NNPC $20b yet you guys will insist that GEJ and Dezieni stole our money.

Why believe Buhari that no N2.8 which in today's value is over N2 trillion was missing and doubt Dezieni and the Senate that no $20bn is missing? That is hypocricy. If you insist money is missing now, others have the right to insist that money missed during Buhari's time.

So Buhari is saying that the 53 suitcases issue was a case of the press believing what it wants to believe? Lol! But you all do not give the current government any benefit of the doubt. Even after govt's explanations we still doubt it's side of the story. If we believe the stories our press carry now, why should we doubt what the press carried then? The press then was non partisan and was even more professional. Ask any Nigerian media studies scholar and he will confirm that professionalism has taken flight in journalism.

So, Buhari should sing us another song. For all we care, N2.8bn missed under his watch and his propensity for nepotism once more manifested when he allowed 53 suit cases of his cronies to come into the country when there was a law that nothing should enter and nothing should leave.

Next page!

barcanista post] No I don't mock people, in fact I do correct some typos whenever I quote the comment. As for that smiley, it was a harmless one not really to mock. If you know me, you will understand that I am the last person to do such. Everyone makes mistake!!!

Thanks for the correction
Sorry for misunderstanding my smiley
Good morning
Buhari For President 2015

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Okay. Good on you that you don't mock people.

Now, I agree with you on this: Buhari for President of Daura Elders Forum 2015.


Good morning to you, too.

barcanista post= Jonathan should face the primaries. I am tires of you Jonathanians sermons

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Just some moments ago you were 'hailing' your friend for 'laughing' at an error which probably was a typo. Can you now see your own error up there? Now, I know that this is a typo which most likely occurred because of the close proximity of the letter 's' and letter 'd' on the keyboard. Just to tell you that these errors do occur and as such, it is absolutely unnecessary 'gloat' over another person's typo.

[quote author=iamtheprincipal post=27429555]Mr Philip, if you were of age at the time the military carried out the overthrow in December, 1982, you should be much aware that Buhari wasn't part of the process that installed him as C-in-C.
Cross check your facts before posting trash here.
---------------------------------------------------------
It was not Dec 1982. It was Dec 1983. Buhari was very much part of that coup. He knew about it and he benefited from it. And these are the very ingredients that made him a coup plotter. Besides, there are series of evidence that top military guys met in Buhari's house in Jos to fine tune strategies before the coup. Ask Domkat Bali.

So,forget all those stories you heard beutifully crafted to extricate Buhari from the 31 Dec 1983 coup that sacked a duly elected government, a coup he was the major beneficiary.

Buhari himself is an arch apostle of corruption. Corruption is dishonest or illegal behavior. Coup plotting is an illegal behaviour. It is also a dishonest behaviour. Buhari and his colleagues plotted a coup and sacked a duly elected government. Therefore, Buhari is corrupt.

Even in power, he used corrupt way to detain people. For instance, in order to jail the then Vice-President, Chief Alex Ekwueme, Buhari's illegal regime planted $56K in Ekwueme's house. Nobody saw the money except Buhari and Idiagbon. Ekwueme protested and challenged the government to try him even in a Kangaroo court. Buhari had no evidence and as such he detained Ekwueme for 20 months without trial-even in a contrived military tribunal.


And when Buhari's fellow felons kicked him out in August 1985, a panel headed by Samuel Uwaifo (JSC) was set up to try Ekwueme and some other people. Giving his judgement, Uwaifo noted that it found no evidence of corruption against, pointing out that Ekwueme even left politics a poorer person.

Till today, Buhari has not been able to bring any shred of evidence to justify why he jailed an INNOCENT man.


Is Buhari the type of man to hand over this country to?



God forbid.

barcanista post=27359476]I stopped replying you because you keep saying the same thing. No one accused Ekweme but the large sum found in his home betrayed him.

Thank You
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You have nothing to say, hence you are saying nothing. The man says everything Buhari said is a BLATANT LIE. So that means no money was found in his house. Buhari cannot be the accuser and the judge. He never tried Ekwueme in any court-not even a Kangaroo court and found him guilty so why are we to believe him? When you show us evidence of Ekwueme's guilt, then we will believe Buhari. But in the absence of no evidence, it means Buhari is a liar, a wicked one.


And we can't have a lair, a criminal, a dictator, a democracy destroyer as President.

I also asked the Federal Ministry of Finance about what Ibrahim Babangida takes in a month. And they told me he collects just N15, 000 a month.








I think this Operation Launder Buhari's Image has become a comedy.

[quote author=barcanista post=27359167][/quote]--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

When they see facts and have no response, their safest and fastest out is to begin to cross out the points. But whatever, it doesn't change the fact that:





Buhari is a criminal and he is desperately wicked. He'll be permanently retired to Daura in four months time.

barcanista: I have read the Article and he didnt commented on the $560k. Please i am done with you
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
There you go again. Your New York Times article says $56k and you are saying $560K if you are not being mischievous.

And why should he particularly comment on $56K when he has said this: "Buhari cannot even get any evidence to support what he was saying because they were allies. Blatant lies. It was just a hang-up he had simply because he was in power, and had the gun. And he had to justify his own illegality (of toppling a legitimate government)"?


He said Buhari fabricated his story. Buhari did not try him. But Justice Uwaifo's panel had to later free him of the allegations. You just cannot continue defending the indefensible. There are certain things you need to sidestep and the Buhari's inhumanity to man is just one of them. I assume that you have a wee knowledge of law. So you should be conversant with the legal maxim: He who alleges must prove. Buhari never proved that Ekwueme STOLE. Bring up an link where it was proven that the honorable man STOLE. Not a link where a criminal desperate for legitimacy was alleging that someone stole. Apart from Buhari and his fellow felon, Idiagbon, who saw the money? Where was the money even kept? You accuse somebody of crime and because you know that you have no evidence against him you refuse to try him-even in a Kangaroo court. That is WICKEDNESS of the highest degree.



PLEASE BRING UP THAT LINK WHERE BUHARI'S FOUND EKWUEME GUILTY WITH EVIDENCE. Until then, just keep mute and don't defend what the coupist can't even defend.

barcanista Who kept the $560k in Ekweme's house? Have Ekweme denied that money was found in his house? And that your nonsense [b]30 Oct 2010 Article makes NO SENSE and isn't even factual.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

The article will not be factual because it nails the criminal coup plotter, Buhari, who is still unable to bring up any evidence against Ekwueme. Meanwhile why are you this mischievous? Has the money moved from $56K to $560k?

Till today, Buhari cannot substantiate why he cruelly jailed Ekwueme. Why should you bring up an unproven allegation by an illegal government which Uwaifo panel shot down but will be quick to exonerate Buhari from the terrorism sponsorship (unproven though) flying about? That's double standard.

Now, look at what Ekwueme has to say about the allegations:

" Buhari cannot even get any evidence to support what he was saying because they were allies. Blatant lies. It was just a hang-up he had simply because he was in power, and had the gun. And he had to justify his own illegality (of toppling a legitimate government)".

And read this too: Ekwueme was never tried but was illegally detained for 20 months. Hear him:

"I waited for them for 20 months and they didn’t even come to ask me a question because I was the first person to be detained from December 31".

Read this Ekwueme's interview: http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=8561




Buhari is an epitome of criminality and wickedness. All perfumes of Arabia cannot mask the stench of dictatorship and cruelty that oozes out of him. Try as you can to fumigate his image, like the he-goat, his body produces his stench.

barcanista
Stockpiles ofmoney of more than $56,000 was found in Ekweme's House. Thankfully, New York Times Article of 1984 captured it. Ekweme neither decline that he owns the money nor did he offer any explanation and was convicted by the tribunal accordingly. Maybe it was my grandfather that kept the money in his bedroom



This is a New York Times Article of 1984
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/21/world/around-the-world-nigeria-says-it-recovers-millions-from-ex-aides.html

Ekweme is still alive and Buhari is still well and strong.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

You have brought this link up again to exculpate Buhari from his inhuman action against Ekwueme. This was a MALICIOUS accusation by Buhari/Idiagbon regime to justify their WICKEDNESS when they were looking for legitimacy. And whenever you bring it up, you forget the words of the Eminent jurist, Samuel Uwaifo (JSC) whose panel tried Ekwueme:

“Dr. Ekwueme left office poor than he was when he entered it, and to ask more from him was to set a standard which even saint could not meet”

And please where and when did "Ekweme neither decline that he owns the money nor did he offer any explanation"? Where you at the tribunal to see his defence? You don't have to say what you don't know. Ekwueme has always maintained his innocence.

Ekwueme was rich, VERY RICH before he went into politics. When he started making money legitimately in 1958 Buhari was still in a glorified alimajiri high school. Please read a little bit about the man here: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/alex-ekwueme-as-a-true-political-model/75392/


Let us even assume that Buhari/Idiagbon was saying the truth. Is finding money in one's house became a criminal offence? Shouldn't the issue should be how he came about the money; whether the money was stolen-whether it was public fund.


I think there are some issues you just have to let be in your quest to canonize this criminal coupist, Buhari.

barcanista:
My friend, You say NPC? May I remind you that an incumbent NPC boss faulted the records in NPC and was subsequently relieved of his duties? What has changed between then and now? In a project like the Water Research, secondary data collection is never enough to get a near excellent or very good result. The investigator need to also leave the comfort of his bedroom, conduct interview, surveys, observations from locals, opinion leaders, the press and all those concerned. My friend, You can't solely rely on data from a government website to arrive at accurate result, not especially a Nigerian Government/or a Federating state.

As for our system of government, a Federating State should naturally not have a so-powerful center. Look at the Wealth distribution between states and FG, it is so laughable. This is one reason reason why the performace of any federal government usually have a HEAVY effect on the populace. If the Center is weak, I am sure some state will relatively progress economically even with a not so good federal economic policy.

-----------------------------------------------------


I can see that you like arguing for the sake of argument. Each research has an objective and the methodology for this research fits. It is was a research about the WHAT and not about the WHY and HOW. Therefore there was no need for interviews and surveys of water users. That will not impress any examiner. Anybody versed in in research methodologies and methods will tell you that the topic, aims and objectives determine the methodologies and methods of a research. Based on what this research set out to achieve, nobody can fault it. If you need schooling un social science research methodologies, I will humbly school you. I am not sounding immodest, it is my specialty.

So, I don't know what you are trying to prove when the facts on ground bear out the research. The statement of the water board boss and the cholera as well as the guinea worm prove that potable water is LUXURY in kano. From records, Kano has one of the the worst cases of resident to potable water ratio. You can't spin this one.

Whether there is problem with accurate census or not is neither here nor there. What we have now is what we plan with. There is no other body that is better placed than NPC in Nigeria on population matters. Or is there any you can think of?

Nobody is arguing on whether our federalism has issues. It sure has. But it is still a federalism.

We operate more of a federal structure than a unitary structure. Our system of government is not in any way close to those of Ghana and the UK which operate a unitary government. Rather, it is closer to that of America-albeit with variations. What you can say is that something may be wrong with our federalism and not that we don't practise federalism.

Our federalism can never be exactly the same with America's. NEVER. This is because we have different socio-political challenges and we are evolving differently as a nation. Even some Americans will tell you that something is also wrong with there federalism.

barcanista:

My friend I am not silly. Your so-called emperical research is/was even flawed. Look at the methodology
You can't expect to get an accurate result by solely depending on secondary research. Reason being that the materials used as sample may not be updated as at time of research or any other human and non human error. Hence, such research usually have high percentage of inaccuracies, and it can not be accepted anywhere as a reliable source for knowledge.





It is only someone like you that will call Nigeria's system Federalism. You need to look up what a federal State is, like what is obtained in the United States of America. You need ti ask why Nigerians are calling for True Federalism to be adopted other than this pseudo federalism that we currently practice.

Thank you
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Now, In this type of research, the methodology is apt, very apt! Where else can the researchers get their data if not from institutions like: Kano State Water Board and Water Resources Engineering and Construction Agency as well as National Population Commission? The first and second institutions are the primary organisations that can supply the type of data being sought. That the data are secondary does not make research flawed or 'un-emperical'. Besides, no researcher will fault this methodology for this type of research. At the time they conducted their research, the data were accurate.

And even from the statement of the Kano State Water Board boss, in the second link I provided, you could see that the data these guys used cannot be faulted as the statement of the water board boss bears out their research. The water board boss says they pump 300 million liters of water daily for the whole of the 44 councils of Kano. These other guys in there research observed that 200 million liters of water daily for the six local governments that make up Kano Metropolis (Kano Municipal, Fagge, Dala, Gwale, Tarauni and Nassarawa). In other words, the remaining 100 million liters from the 300 million liters the state government claims it pumps daily is for the other 38 local government areas of Kano. This is GROSSLY inadequate. And that is why we have cases of cholera and guinea worm in that state.

Now, you just can't fault the this research with an apt methodology just because you want to argue that a state that has cases of cholera and guinea worm has provided adequate potable water for its residents. The 'secondary data' here are very okay because working with 'primary data' not significantly change anything. What the guys did was to get the daily volume of water provided by the state government and also get the population of Kano and also the average daily water usage of a household. From there they got the required volume for the state. That is the standard thing to do and if it were a thesis no examiner will fault it.



Regarding federalism, Whether you call it pseudo-federalism or whatever, it does not change the fact that Nigeria's system of government is closer to that of the USA than that of the UK. Federalism has variations. The features of the Australian Federalism vary from those of the US federalism. It does not make the Australian's UNtrue federalism. So, if Nigeria's federalism varies from these other two, it does not make Nigeria less federal. We can amend our Constitution at any time (if we can summon the courage) to alter the features of our own federalism. The three countries practice their federalism based on how they evolved or are evolving as individual nations. Nigeria does not have to practice their type of federalism to be called a federal state. Pray! if Nigeria is not practicing federalism why did the Lagos State government go to court over the domestication of the FoI Bill? Why have some states domesticated the Child Rights Act while some states have not? Why is Sharia practiced in some states and not in others?







Now, your last response was less insulting than the former-even though you can do better. As I said, insults do not win arguments. Rather, they indicate lack of valid points for arguments.

My problem with these APC guys is their hypocrisy. Now that their party is involved, many of them are saying people should not believe everything that they read. But when it has to do with the federal government or PDP, they will want us to believe everything we read. What kind of double standard is this?


Why canonize their party members and declare members of other parties anathemas- even when all of them commit the same sin?

barcanista: I repeat, you are VERY ignorant of Kano State and Nigeria. BTW, Nigeria is practising a "False" federalism, we are calling for true federalism. it is not just rhetorics but in practice. As for the subsidy, Nigerians elected Mr. Goodluck Jonathan to lead at the Federal level and Goodluck Jonathan made those promises, without achieving ONE.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I understand that you are very knowledgeable about Kano State, hence you argue that potable water has been provided across the 44 councils of the state. Yet, Cholera, a water borne disease has been ravaging the state. There was even a reported case of another water borne disease, Guinea worm, in Kano this year. Note that the last case of Guinea worm was reported in Nigeria in 2008. Yet, it resurfaced in Kano, a state that has, according to you, provided potable water for its citizens.

Meanwhile this may interest you:

An emperical research by Nura Bello and Ibrahim Abdullahi published this year says Kano State provides just 36 per cent of the potable water demand of the Kano metropolis: www.ijsk.org/uploads/3/1/1/7/3117743/4_water_supply_situations.pdf

This is despite claims by the state government that it has spent N18 billion to provide potable water across the state in the past two and half years: http://www.dailytimes.com.ng/article/kano-govt-spends-n18bn-provision-potable-water-commissioner


The article by Nura and Abdullahi observes that the daily water demand of KANO METROPOLIS ALONE is 550 million liters while the government provides only 200 million liters (36 per cent of the demand). Now, the government claims in the Daily Times report that it provides 300 million liters of water daily for the ENTIRE STATE. Now, let's assume the government is saying the truth about the volume of water it provides for the whole state, don't you think this is grossly inadequate?

If in this year alone we have heard of cases of cholera and guinea worm in Kano doesn't that tell you something about potable water being luxury in the state? So who is ignorant about Kano now?

So Nigeria is no longer a federal state? Yet state and local governments get their share of monthly allocations from Abuja and states have their own boards of internal revenues which collect taxes for them.

Certainly, objectivity has taken flight!

joseph1832

Oh is I see... I believe there's portable drinking water in Otuoke right? Even in your village is there portable drinking water?.

All what you mentioned above are evidence of a near failed state. It is the job of the government to provide for its citizens whether at the local, state or federal level, and should they the government at all levels fail to meet the yearnings of its citizens, they should be voted out!. Plain and simple.

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

If there is no portable water in my village, my governor has failed--no matter his party. It is not the job of FG to provide potable water in my village. But it is the job of the FG to maintain the federal road that passes my village. If my village has no potable water and the federal road is not maintained, I have to 'attack' both my state government and the FG. If I attack the FG and leave out my state government because the governor is in my party, then I am the worst of hypocrites! That's my point. And it seems you are getting it now. To me, for one to be shouting FG every now and then and leaving one's governor because he is in one's party means that tomorrow if that party comes to the centre and starts fumbling one will look the other way.

barcanista
You are a very ignorant man, not even your exposure to foreign countries could influence your shallow thought process. Nigerians DID not elect any commissioner to run this country. The President takes a decision and gave loads of Promises with NO ONE being fulfilled almost 3 years after and you come here talking gibberish.
You further exposed your ignorance by saying Kano State don't have pipe-borne water. You are just a pitiable doofoo
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

I don't do insults. It is the hallmark of small minds. Anybody who cannot make his point without throwing insults about is a small mind. Insults don't win fans. Learn how to argue without insults. It will do you good.

Perhaps, unlike you, I have lived in Kano, at Nasarawa GRA in the city. I know Kano very well and have been to interiors like Dawokin Tofa, Rimin Gado, kabo, Gwarzo Karei LGAs etc. My cousin still lives in the the house I vacated at Nasarawa GRA. He can't help it as his job still keeps him there. So, I know what I am talking about when I say potable water is a luxury in Kano, not just in parts of the city but in the local governments too. In July this year, there was cholera outbreak in Kano. Cholera is water-borne. It is rarely an issue where potable water is a given. So, insulting me for saying what I am sure of is not one of the qualities of a gentleman.

I hope you know that Nigeria is not a unitary state. It is a federation where there are exclusive, concurrent and residual lists. Things are done based on that list. The Federal government has its job cut out. The states also have theirs. The three tiers of government run the country.

Regarding the non-fulfillment of promises, is it not what all politicians do? I was living in Lagos when Tinubu was campaigning for Fashola. That campaign was anchored on the building of the 4th Mainland Bridge, Light rail, etc. Has he fulfilled all his 2007 promises? Why haven't you raised alarm over that? Or didn't Lagosians vote him in? I have not argued that FG has lived up to expectations. Rather, I have argued that none of the tiers of government have. And I challenge you to present the state or local government in Nigeria that has performed just one-tenth of its obligations to its citizens.

And talking about subsidies, why are you not presenting all sides of the argument? What has the state governments done with their share of the savings? The total removal of subsidies was not a decision taken by FG alone. It was a decision taken in concert with the state governments. Even though subsidies were not totally removed, the states have a share in the money being saved from the extra N32 saved from the increase in pump price of PMS. What has your state government done with his. You have the RIGHT to know just as you have the RIGHT to know what FG has done with its share. Asking FG and leaving out your state is being biased. In climes where things work, people demand accountability first from the government closer to them. That way, they make accountability as a national ethic. Turning the other when it's a state and then asking for accountability when it's FG is double standards.

joseph1832

Dude kindly stick to the topic, questions were asked and those questions need answers to placate the Nigerian masses.

Buhari is not the president of Nigeria, all what Jonathan and his aides said is written above in black and white. How many of his promises has he kept?. Even with the #BringBackOurGrils saga, the army openly said they know where the girls are, since all this time why haven't they attempt a rescue operation(covert or overt) instead they went to sign this yeye cease fire agreement with them.

We shouldn't shy away from the truth. GEJ has a lot to answer for.
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Why didn't you tell the Buhari campaigners above me to stick to the topic? You are trying to play politics with fuel subsidy forgetting that the subsidy issue was backed by all state governors including the progretheives governors. Have you forgotten so soon that Oshiomhole, Fashola and Amaechi said many times during the subsidy saga that subsidies were unsustainable? Do you remember Oshiomhole speaking in that town hall meeting organised by Nduka Obiagbena of This Day? Have you forgotten that state Commissioners for Finance still meet and call for the total removal of subsidies? Don't you know that the state governments also get their shares in the money saved from the difference between N65 and N97 which was the money saved from the increase in fuel price? You forgot that these promises were based on the earlier N120 which would have been the pump price of fuel had the subsidy been totally removed. By the time you take time to find out what your local government chairman and state governor are doing with your money you will realise that you are ignoring the elephant in your room.

Let me ask you one question, why has no one asked why Lagos, Rivers, Akwa Ibom and Kano State governments cannot provide ORDINARY potable water for their statEs despite the huge allocations they are receiving? Why must over 60 per cent of people living in the MEGA CITY of Lagos be using well water? Do you remember that there was cholera outbreak in Lagos some time this year? Do mega cities have cholera issues? How many local government areas in your state have dilapidated libraries let alone functional ones. You guys come here to lambast the FG when those closer to you can't even do the basic things. Where I live, council trims the grasses on the main roads and fumigate the streets every now and then. Just last week someone came to my house, saying that the state government sent him to exchange my old electric bulbs with energy-saving bulbs. There is a library by my house owned by the council and I go there to borrow books for my daughter. People, especially old men and women, go there for lessons on how to manage arthritis, diabetes and asthma as well as how to avoid or detect stroke. I am registered with an ambulance and should there be any emergency, the council ambulance will come immediately.

If you cannot demand good governance from your state and local governments, demanding it from FG smacks of hypocrisy. I am for criticism of the government. But it has to be across the board. No government in Nigeria does one-twentieth of what it is suppose to do. Yet, you guys hypocritically come here daily to criticize FG as if there is this government that has turned its state to Eldorado. We still see decrepit schools in Lagos, Akwa Ibom and Rivers State. The number of Alimajiris in Kano is still 'balooning'. Potable water is a luxury in these states. Corruption is still the same at all levels. All these hypocritical criticisms do you no favors, hence people have now developed propaganda fatigue.

I accept that the FG has not met expectations. But I insist that governments at all levels and across parties have not met expectations. As such, criticizing the FG and pretending that state governors from a certain party are performing, to my mind, is the hallmark of hypocrisy.

Another thread to promote a criminal with neither vision nor ideas. Since he was kicked out on 27 August 1985 by his fellow felon he has done no other job apart from his PTF misadventure, a job meant to rehablitate him.

Even an older Obasanjo has been gainfully occupied in different local and international initiatives. But this coupist known as Buhari thinks the only way to survive is to be in government.What is plan for Nigeria? Nothing! Just the abstract 'I will fight corruption'. With Tinubu, Fayemi, Sylva?

What did Buhari even achieve as a Head of State? What was that exceptional thing that he achieved that will make us return him, a criminal by Nigerian laws? Did he turn Nigeria into heaven? Did he eradicate corruption? He was a product of corruption himself. Yes, coup plotting is a crime. It is corruption.

Nothing bad in criticising the government. But promoting a criminal who set Nigeria back 50 years is the highest form of corruption.

What was your minimum wage during Abacha? What was our population then? What was government spending then and now?. How much was allocated to states then and now?
It is just like comparing how much Fashola gets for Lagos now and what the Marwa had without factoring many other things.

What was the value of the Naira then? How much has the dollar risen and fallen since then? For instance, if you go by the value of dollar, you will find that the $2.8billion Buhari looted in 1978 as NNPC boss is over N2trillion today.

It is mischief to use the nominal value of money to make such comparisms. It is only the mentally lazy that will buy this very unintelligent analysis.

As governor of North East, what did Buhari achieve?

[quote author=barcanista post=27225875]The SE has always been voting incumbents even against their Son, unlike the North and SW

---------------------------------------------------------

Another hollow submission that suggests that the OP thinks politics in Nigeria started in 1999.
Sure, he does not know of NCNC/UPGA in the 1960s, NPP in the 1980s and even in the early 1990s when Iwuanyanwu and Nzeribe cleared the SDP and NRC votes respectively in the SE before IBB cancelled the primaries and came up with the Option A4.


The OP will be the first to label the SE sentimental and tribalistic, but based on his warped argument on voting pattern he has unconsciously shown those who are parochial, narrow-minded and insular.

Another lame analysis standing logic on its head. Yorubas vote their sons and when reminded of 2011, the dance steps changed to Bakare and Adeola not being politicians bla, bla, bla. Is the premise no longer that Yorubas vote their sons? Pray! Are Bakare and Adeola Ibibio?


Don't make categorical statements when you don't understand logic.



And then he conveniently forgot that ABIMBOLA DAVIDS, a Yoruba went to court to scuttle June 12 and not Arthur Nzeribe. Cherry picking history! So much for an analyst.

The honesty Buhari needs

By Abimbola Adelakun


I first met Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd) at a press conference in 2010; he made quite an impression on me. He was at his charming best that night until moderators called for one last question. Then, I asked why he insisted on the contradiction of using the title of “General” while trying to be a civilian president.

My question was to probe if, by holding up his military title, he was passing a message about the kind of president he would be.
Buhari dropped all affability and responded in a rather offended tone,
“Because I earned it!”

He added he was not one of those who promoted themselves in the army without merit; it was deserved. I felt his response was rather arrogant, although later, I had a rethink. Maybe, his insistence of being a “General” was an honest self-presentation. That Olusegun Obasanjo expunged “General” from his titular achievements does not mean someone else should do it.

The second time I had to ponder Buhari’s “honesty” was while reading his 70th birthday interview in The SUN. It was shocking to read his justification of the decree with which his regime used to execute three young men. After so many years, Buhari still refuses to admit that his method of applying the law was wrong — morally and judicially. I was disturbed by Buhari’s sense of morality and wondered if, again, he was being his honest self, was arrogant, or he is simply a man who doesn’t think about things. By the way, after reading that interview, whatever respect and support I had for him whittled down.

Since then, I have read many articles about Buhari. His admirers talk endlessly about his “unimpeachable integrity” while others argue otherwise. Both sides have merits because, truly, Buhari is a bundle of contradictions. It is a shame that there has not been any engaging scholarship that has studied him –or other past leaders — in depth. What we have dotting our landscape are largely hagiographies written by hungry scribblers in need of quick naira notes. Nigeria is that kind of a place where intellectual jerks sit amidst the ruins of once upon a glorious university to write “bitter truths” about which ethnic professor was the first to climb to the moon with a ladder.

The Buhari personality deserves critical historical analyses. He is consistently sold as an honest man, one austere to the point of martyrdom; that his incorruptibility makes him the perfect candidate to cure the cancer of corruption that has practically eaten up Nigeria. But these promoters consistently fail to answer why Buhari who has never touched public funds has no problems mingling with corruption czars in Nigeria? The man has contested presidential elections thrice; it will be nice to know who his campaign sponsors are and what they do for a living. If he ever becomes president, will he throw the book at them and have them probed for corruption? If he decides to overlook their past, will that not mean he has to do same for the corrupt elements in the PDP too? These are no easy answers, I admit, but they are necessary to challenge the myth that he can solve Nigeria’s corruption problems.

Speaking of honesty, why is Buhari prepping for 2015 presidential race when in 2011 he announced he was contesting the third and final time? If he cannot stand by his own word now, how can he do so if he becomes president and he is faced with very complex situations that will tax his integrity?

I am definitely aware that Buhari has the constitutional right to run as many times as he chooses. He is donning his Messiah toga again even though his candidacy on the APC ticket signifies desperation and opportunism on his part and stagnation on his party’s. He is like an old masquerader who insists on doing the same energetic traditional dances on old trembling legs. His aides say he is above God in the PDP imagination but this is patently delusional. What reason does anyone have to fear Buhari?

If we take away the image of the incorruptible leader from him, what really is left? Does his contribution to national issues –from the questions of corruption to Boko Haram to federalism to electricity to poverty to Niger Delta to all that afflict us — show that the man has a higher grasp of issues more than President Goodluck Jonathan (who, by the way, still remains as clueless as ever)? If we compare the rhetoric of Buhari in 2003 with that of 2007, 2011 and 2013, are we likely to come off with the picture of a leader who has been seasoned by time? One who has –within the span of 10 years — improved on his understanding and articulation of the many problems of Nigeria?

Or, all we will see is a man who rides the horse of war-against-corruption to death because he does not have more vibrant ideas? (Personally, I wonder if Nigerian leaders are corrupt because they lack the necessary foresight they need to perform or they fail to perform because their imagination is quenched by corruption?)
Mine is by no means a trivialisation of the endemic nature of corruption but if we analyse issues more carefully, is Nigeria’s problem wholly that of corruption? How come Asian countries manage to make progress despite the corruption in their systems? Is corruption Nigeria’s problem or something actually worse but manifests as such? The underlying sentiment of turning Buhari into a magic bullet is based on isolationist thinking that fails to situate a complex problem in proper context.

If Buhari himself will be honest with himself, he should own up that he is not what Nigeria needs, at least anymore. His 2015 candidature will be more of a distraction from main issues in a way that will allow incumbent forces a leeway back to power. Of course he can play a major role but his talk of if-my-party-fields-me-I will-contest is more of a forked tongue oratory than actual humility. It will not hurt him to admit that what Nigeria needs is not a man with a good image but someone who has a vision, and the energy and charisma to drive it; and that he is just not that person.





Source: http://www.punchng.com/opinion/viewpoint/the-honesty-buhari-needs/

omenka Absolutely!!! Not even single publication in which the PhD holder/lecturer is a corresponding author!!

Epic failure!!

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

And you think a corresponding author is always the one who did most of the research? Nope! Anyone can be a corresponding author. In fact, a professor can conduct a research, write it up and allows a graduate assistant who helped with proof reading to be the corresponding author. Come to think of it, what makes one a corresponding author? It is just that the article was sent to the publishers through one's email account. Nothing more!

Some people say we need change. There is nothing wrong with that. But how can Buhari be change? How can bringing back somebody who ruled us from 1983-1985 be change? If APC presents Buhari then they have to change their slogan to retrogression.

Change is something NEW and not something OLD, something SOUR, something STALE. Honestly, Buhari is STALE. This old wine is certainly stale.