₦airaland Forum

Ends rift as in how?

Which rift? Is it the minimum wage rift?

NLC should pls explain this "ends rift" stuff, I'm not understanding.

So?

EkunKekere:
You mean from the intelligent side? The side that isn't made up of slaves who feed on spittle from Fullanus slave masters?

I think you know where you belong regardless of the garbage you just typed.

Pls stop quoting me, I'm done.

Any need telling us?

Just arrest and prosecute them with evidence.

EkunKekere:
Yes god bless the Nigerian army for yet another technical victory.

One of them spotted. They are many from that side though

Good news for Nigeria and Nigerians.

Sad news for those people from that side. They will soon start tongue lashing the military.

God bless pmb
God bless Nigeria and Nigerians

abdulazeez1002:
Those people from that side who are always "the most qualified" for any job will soon come up with his credentials showing how unqualified he is. Lastly, they will tell you it is quota system, if not they are the most qualified.

Cc simplyleo

Exactly jor my brother.

Shehu sani the blogger trying to remain afloat even as a private citizen.

If most of the Nigerians in SA are medical practitioners, lecturers, engineers etc as widely believed, how do you link them to tradermoni? Is tradermoni not for very small scale business mostly by not too old market women?

What exactly is the blogger saying here?

The FG should give adequate support to those Nigerians who chose to return home and begin a new life

Apart from taking responsibility for their return and shelter for some days, I don't think the federal govt is obliged to start pampering anyone because he/she is a returnee.

I think apology is mostly tendered when one admits guilt and in some cases feel remorseful.

But from all indication, the SA govt has not agreed being at fault in anyway. Abi na political apology she dey demand for? Then, in her capacity as What?

Less some casual comments from some SA citizens, the govt has not really admitted being at fault and comments by ordinary citizens can't be take as the official position of the govt.

Very good one.

God bless Nigeria and Nigerians
God bless The Nigerian Armed Forces

Now, he has directed they be evacuated from SA, which is most appropriate to at least save lives.

But the stubborn ones (of course we know them) will rather stay back in that same SA and continue throwing insult at him while their brethren in Nigeria clap hands in support and even go to social media to throw more insult.

When the attack gets reignited, these same people who refused to comply with simple instructions to at least save their own lives will still be the first again to start shouting, "we don't have a president".

Those people from that side who are always "the most qualified" for any job will soon come up with her credentials showing how unqualified she is. Lastly, they will tell you it is quota system, if not they are the most qualified.

If not the above, it will be her hijab-less outfit they will focus on, because she is the daughter of an elite (a kind of turning to religion).

Some will even explain in details how the married girl is now the mistress of the speaker, thinking all girls behave like their sisters.

Good news for Nigeria and Nigerians.

Bad news for those people from that side.

PapaBaby:
If the forgers knew the implications of the dates why did they use it? Like everything with Buhari, he used unprofessional people to produce the fake result. Says do much about the man's incompetence. Tinubu would have provided him experts at Oluwole.

And it is you that detected this serious error in the certificate? Clap for yourself.

I think you can furnish the lawyers with this gross discrepancies to finally nail buhari. As in, how come he is 72 yrs old and his certificate reads 2015, the year he won the election.

Because e be like even the lawyers no see the flaw in the certificate, pls alert them immediately.

Nonsense and ingredients.

PapaBaby:
Forgery is a crime in Nigeria.
Buhari should have been prosecuted, and damn the consequences. There are many people in prison for lesser crimes.

PapaBaby:
Did you not read the article?

And you think the so-called "forgers" don't know the implications of the dates abi?

This must be the weakest and lamest of all the empty noise about this certificate, making effort to create a non existent controversy, just so that it will later be said "since it is controversial" bla bla bla

PapaBaby:
Who told you PDP visited Cambridge? Stop relying on Tinubu's Thenation newspaper for your news. It makes you sound idiotic.

So all these noise about his certificate is just local? No visit to the body that awarded the certificate for verification? Then on what ground would gej had prosecuted him?

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President Goodluck Jonathan came under pressure to prosecute Candidate Muhammadu Buhari over various allegations in the run-up to the 2015 presidential election — but he declined and eventually lost to the former military head of state.

Mohammed Bello Adoke, who was attorney-general of the federation and minister of justice under Jonathan, made this revelation in his memoirs, “Burden of Service: The Reminiscences of Nigeria’s Former Attorney-General”, which is due for release in Nigeria on September 16.

He said politicians brought up the issues surrounding Buhari’s secondary school certificate, the execution of three convicted drug couriers under a retroactive decree in 1985 and the 2011 post-election riots in which hundreds were killed as grounds for the arrest and prosecution of the flag bearer of the All Progressives Congress (APC).

“Buhari was accused of being in violation of the provisions of Sections 131 of the 1999 Constitution on minimum educational qualification and Section 31 (3) of the 2010 Electoral Act which required that copies of his school certificate be attached to the INEC Form CF001. Buhari did not attach the certificate. Law suits were filed in court. In all, there were 13 court cases challenging his eligibility, the most prominent being the one filed by a certain Chukwunweike Okafor. Indeed, many private citizens went to court to challenge Gen. Buhari’s eligibility,” Adoke wrote in the book published by Clink Street Publishers in London and New York and seen in advance by TheCable.
“While the controversy was raging, a West African Senior School Certificate (WASSC) purportedly issued by the Katsina State Ministry of Education suddenly surfaced on the internet. On the face of it was the picture of a 72-year-old Buhari. It was dated 21 January 2015 (meanwhile, Katsina State was created in 1987). 

The certificate also contained a grading scheme that was not in use in 1962, around the time he was said to have sat for the examination. This generated public outrage as people were questioning the authenticity of the certificate and whether, indeed, Gen. Buhari had the requisite qualification or had committed forgery. A lot of petitions were sent to the Office of the Attorney-General of the Federation requesting that Buhari be prosecuted for forgery and INEC be advised to disqualify him.

“In one instance, I received a letter from a lawyer asking for a fiat to prosecute Buhari on the ground of certificate forgery. I was constrained to deny the application as the lawyer had not furnished me the requisite material upon which I would exercise such discretion. Beyond applying for a fiat, the lawyer was also required to show evidence of having made a complaint to the police. A report detailing the outcome of the investigation was essential to ground such a fiat.”


THE MIMIKO CONNECTION

Adoke said at a point, Olusegun Mimiko, then governor of Ondo state and member of Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) — the party Jonathan belonged — asked that the lawyer be granted the fiat.

“A week later, I met up with Dr Olusegun Mimiko, then Governor of Ondo State, at his request. After the exchange of pleasantries, he brought up the issue of the lawyer’s request for a fiat to prosecute Gen. Buhari and appealed to me to grant it. I informed him that, regrettably, I was unable to grant the request for a number of reasons. I reiterated my response to that lawyer. 

I emphasised to Mimiko that the candidate in question was a former Head of State. In my opinion, even if he had no certificate, being a retired General in the Army, he must have passed Staff College which was more than an equivalent of the WASSC. I added that as a former Head of State, Gen. Buhari’s experience would be more than ‘an equivalent’ of a school certificate. I drew attention to the provisions of Section 318 of the Constitution to support my assertion,” Adoke narrated.

“When I left Mimiko, I became worried that there was something going on in the political environment that I was not aware of. I drove straight to the President’s residence. After recounting my interaction with Mimiko and the uncanny feeling that was bothering me to him, he calmly responded: ‘Do what is right.’

“Having had the presidential assurance to ‘do what is right’, I decided to be pragmatic… I knew my job was well cut out for me. I was a member of the National Security Council. I knew the implications of a breakdown of law and order were Buhari to be disqualified. Besides, President Jonathan had persistently assured the world that his ambition was not worth the blood of any Nigerian.”


THE PINOCHET TREATMENT

Adoke said it was not just the certificate issue that was being used against Buhari.
“There was also the retroactive sentence and execution of three Nigerian citizens under his watch as military Head of State. At 8:30 am on 10 April 1985, three young Nigerians were tied to the stakes at Kirikiri Prison and executed by a military firing squad. Bartholomew Azubike Owoh, 26, a former employee of Nigeria Airways, Lawal Akanni Ojuolape, 30, a spare parts dealer, and Bernard Ogedengbe, a 29-year-old sailor, had been sentenced to death, separately, by a military tribunal in December 1984,” he wrote.

“They were found guilty of illegal possession of cocaine and heroin, punishable by death under Decree No. 20 of 1984. The death penalty was introduced after the offences had been committed. Despite the public outcry, the law was applied retroactively… In 2015, Buhari was being called upon to account for his past. People were ready to resuscitate the matter by liaising with the three families concerned to institute a suit against Buhari in the UK with a view to getting him arrested and put on trial under the principle of ‘universal jurisdiction’.

“Under this principle, former Heads of State could be prosecuted outside their countries for crimes committed while in office. General Augusto Pinochet’s case provided a good precedent for that contention. On 16 October 2008, the former Chilean dictator was arrested in London following his indictment for human rights violations by a Spanish magistrate for crimes allegedly committed by him while in office. He was held for over a year by the UK authorities before he was released, most likely on compassionate grounds because of his old age. He had ruled Chile for 17 years and had been accused of committing numerous human rights violations.

“I turned down all those who approached me to trigger the universal criminal jurisdiction principle to get Gen. Buhari arrested and put on trial abroad. The political future of Nigeria, I maintained, needed to be developed by allowing healthy contestation for office. I refused to have a hand in the attempt to give Buhari the Pinochet treatment. I briefed the President about it because some mischief-makers were already calling me a Buhari sympathiser for not toeing their line. I was branded a closet APC member too. The blackmail was sickening.

“President Jonathan, however, agreed with my position that we should not play the Pinochet card. He thought the government would be seen as encouraging ‘bad politics’ if we succumbed to that call. He was under intense pressure from some associates to use any means necessary to stop Buhari but he opted to participate in competitive politics in a fair and credible manner, not taking undue advantage of any quick-fix scenario that was presented to him. I strongly believed, on my part, that the electorate should be left the freedom to exercise their political judgment. It was not for us to use our institutions and the instruments of law to hound anybody.”


THE LEMU PANEL REPORT

There was also the Lemu Panel Report that some people were eager to use against Buhari, Adoke alleged.

“Since 2011, there had been pressure on me to prosecute Buhari after the post-election violence in which over 800 people were killed. He was captured on video appearing to use violent language to incite his sup- porters during the campaigns. But I felt that those words were uttered in the heat of the moment as passions were inflamed. In any case, having won the election in 2011, Jonathan felt more compelled to build peace and assuage frayed nerves. Putting Buhari on trial would have further polarised a nation in which ethnic and religious sentiments are easily mobilised for political purposes. Based on these considerations, I declined to put Buhari on trial,” he wrote.

“The option was available, too, to refer the matter to the Office of the Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes against humanity. It involved loss of lives due to electoral violence. We could have claimed that the political environment was such that would not allow for a fair trial in Nigeria and would have referred the matter to the ICC as governments in other countries were doing to their political opponents.”

He said the government of Jonathan decided not to go that route “not because we could not, but because it would further fracture the fragile peace in the country”.

If Jonathan was desperate to stop Buhari, he could still have gone ahead with the prosecution and damned the consequences, Adoke wrote.
“The best I could have done as Attorney-General was to resign. But he could have appointed another willing Attorney-General to prosecute the matter. It is very important to stick this point at the back of our minds,” he further wrote.




https://www.thecable.ng/exclusive-jonathan-was-under-pressure-to-prosecute-buhari-says-adoke-in-new-book

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Such a heap of garbage. And what stopped him from prosecuting Buhari.

Keep parading the lame certificate nonsense.

With all these noise, nothing substantial has been presented to prove buhari wrong even with their visit to Cambridge.

Cambridge has issued a statement regarding this certificate clearly in favour of the president, clowns should come up with proof that Cambridge lied instead jumping from one branch to another like confused monkeys.

ihitenansa:
Quoting and requoting your own very self using multiple monikers is a clear sign of joblessness.. Try get job,..no matter how impossible it is this bughari era

Omenka, abeg come see wahala o, I no fit laff.

Na him confidence dey funny me pass.

People dey ooo.

omenka:
I was shocked to my bones reading his comments. Wasnt he the same person attacking the president in agreement with Dino melaye for the president's act of sending an envoy rather than going himself?

Na wa o.

Dude is obviously confused.

His wailing used to have direction but now, na broken compass the baba dey use o, no bearing at all and I'm gradually feeling for him, as in pity him.

I think I have an idea of what he is actually passing through, but even at that, dude has lost bearing. Sometimes, I come across his comments, I simply shake my head and move. Honestly, he is confused.

And after doing that, you expect the Southies to start breast feeding Nigerians in SA abi.

Or are you not aware some stubborn ones have vowed not to leave SA?

Nigerian govt should better turn blind eye to reprisals in Nigeria or minimal control exactly the way the SA govt is doing it. Gradually, water go find him level.

Shebi dem no gree board the free flight wey govt send to go pack dem because SA is better than Nigeria? Abeg make dem face their wahala and stop disturbing us.

I disagree.

Patience Jonathan's cousin deserves the credit.

He should have married her on credit na. Shebi she don get her kayan lehe?

Foolishness of the highest order.

Honestly, I never Robert Mugabe is this intelligent until I read his quotable quotes.

“It's only in South Africa that an illiterate villager thinks a qualified medical doctor from another African country, is the reason for his unemployment.”

Exactly what is happening right now.

“If all women in the world decide to pause sex until the cure for aids is found, men would find the cure in 30 days.”

I agree 100%

“It is hard to bewitch African girls these days. Each time you take a piece of their hair to a witch doctor, either an innocent Brazilian girl gets hurt, or a factory in India catches fire.”

This man is a sage

“If you can shave your eyebrows completely and redraw them with an eye pencil, don't ask for money to do your hair, you can equally shave your head bald and draw the weave of your choice.”

Abi o

“Nothing makes a woman more confused than being in a relationship with a broke man who is extremely good in bed.”

Very true.

“Some of the girls today can't even jog for five minutes but expect a guy to last in bed for two hours. Your selfishness demands a one week crusade.”

I taya o.

“God is the greatest inventor ever, he took the rib of a man and invented a loud speaker.”

The funniest and one I like most.

greatermeme:
Only mad people take Obj seriously!

I agree with you in view of the fact that ipob now take Obj very seriously and indeed worship him.

TheExecutioner:
Yes he's definitely an achiever. Because the rampant poverty in Kano state ranks as ab achievement going by the extremely low performance standards of APC

One can only imagine what percentage of that 5 million dollar bribe was spent on buying this award.

One however need not imagine the peanuts that simpleton leo is usually given for licking up his master's vomit like ewedu soup

Well, like I told you the last time, depending on my mood, once in a while I may notice your followership and that depends on how dedicated you are, to at least heighten your morale. So let me just increase your morale, at least today. So you need to be more dedicated to your servitude if you want regular appreciation from me. I hope your morale is high now.

Meanwhile, Yes, I'm the ass-licking simpleton Leo, the same character you keep following around like a diseased housefly, such is the height of poppycock.

I will not give you this rare privilege of responding again if you don't work harder, so I will now sit back again and observe your dedication to my servitude.

Bye for now.