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[color=#000000]This goverment has rolled back any gains Nigeria has made on human rights in the last 19 years!![/color]

This was predictable but people who thought they knew better and those who were PAID to sell "snow to Eskimos" brought back 1984.

[color=#000000]They are pretending to be surprised.[/color]

Goodluck if you fall for that one. People who had always, always had their eyes on 2019 & 2023.

[color=#000000]Buhari was just a stepping stone (damn the collateral damage and loss of LIVES) to their political and material ambitions. [/color]

If his first term was like this you can be sure people will be paying direct taxes and homage to Bourdillon.

No kidding.

Give them an inch, they take your world.

When all you just want is fair claim to the rewards of your legitimate hustle and live a comfortable fulfilling life as a responsible citizen of a responsible state.

AZeD1:
Yes I know.
But Clinton wasn't secretary of state in 2016.

Oil was found in Borno in 2016 but the post says the Nigerian in Texas was not affected by the oil slump because of a field in Borno hadn't been discovered?

“The very terrorism that seems to be deterring oil exploration in reality can help illicit extraction, forcing residents to flee and giving cover to under-the-table oil traders. In 2015, a year when overall oil prices dipped 6 percent, Lawal’s Erin Energy stock value skyrocketed 295 percent—the best-performing oil and gas stock in the United States.”

The reference to the 'oil slump' and Lawal's good fortune was general and not specific to the field in Borno (Erin Energy stock is US based)

roundman:
Who addresses this man as a senator?somebody that stole his way to the Senate,my country self.

Rainfall and voter apathy helped a great deal

AZeD1:
So Clinton as secretary of state in 2010/2011 didn't label Boko Haram a terrorist organization because she knew Oil would be found in Borno in 2016 ?

Really?

Going by your line of questioning, you do realise that oil prospecting was ongoing in 2010/2011?

Lassa fever is killing hundreds these ones are hear playing politics

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/03/lassa-fever-deaths-rise-110-nigeria-official/

But Tinubu wasn't allowed to run with Jonathan as VICE PRESIDENT.....

so he didn't have all he wanted under Jonathan

Really?

The same Debola who along with Chude collected funds from Amaechi to market Buhari?
https://www.thenigerianvoice.com/news/194010/i-took-a-risk-with-chude-adebola-to-handle-the-presidential-campaign-and-they-did-a-great-jobro.html

The same one behind the Buhari in Suit Photo?
https://www.kemifilani.com/2015/10/how-rotimi-amaechi-debola-williams.html

The same Debola who along with Chude marketed APC - One Dollar = One Naira, Millions of Jobs for youths?

Is this guy okay at all?


http://www.herald.ng/lost-39-million-rivers-fund-fraudsters-amaechi/

that's how Madam Lola Shoneyin whose father was jailed by Buhari joined the campaign trail
(her father is a member of APC)

https://www.nairaland.com/4461538/lola-shoneyin-vote-buhari-jailed

More

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According to this twitter user there's more than mets the eye with Buhari, Chagourys, Tinubu, the Clintons and Eko Atlantic City









Links refered to in the posts are listed here

http://blog.godreports.com/2016/07/nigeria-did-clintons-state-dept-go-light-on-boko-haram-due-to-donations-to-clinton-foundation/

https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2016/08/17/politics/clinton-foundation-chagoury-state-department/index.html

http://www.vogue.co.uk/article/naomis-clinton-connection

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-clinton-donor-chagoury-20160828-snap-story.html?outputType=amp

These and other videos online show the depth of the deceit

Op you sef

This Channels TV footage shows at about 8:24 minutes Madam Abike Dabiri mocking the former President and clearly stating in response to a question on the Disability Bill that 'If Jonathan refuses to sign it, Buhari would'.

Question: Why has the bill still not been signed after 3 and a half years!


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

https://guardian.ng/news/group-urges-buhari-to-sign-disability-bill-into-law-2/

lestat:
You made not one point, you tried too hard to twist this around to shine a distasteful light on her but you failed.
Your rant came off as drug induced and lacking any coherent objectivity

I suggest you take a seat and think long and hard about your capabilities so next time you don't falter so badly

Thanks for the advice

As in you have a reason

And its making sense to you?

Anyway, no be una fault

Really

Thank God for you and your son ma.

Comprehensive healthcare for all is a basic right for ALL citizens, no matter the social status. It goes beyond affordability to skill and proficiency of the personnel. Something similar to the UK NHS (NOT the US healthcare system)

Nigerians deserve a truly efficient healthcare system.

And Medical personnel deserve their due remuneration and complimentary equipment to aid and save lives.

Nigeria CAN and SHOULD get this right!


Happy Birthday Toluwalase

As a small aside, 28 years ago someone told of ground breaking, world class research that was carried out at the University of Ibadan about 10 years prior (38 years ago to date). He lamented that at that time circa 1990 such research that had been done could no longer be carried out or replicated due to lack of equipment etc.

There is no standing still in nature. If you don't progress, you're actually 'retrogressing'.

(smaller print so as not to detract from the thread - this message is for Madam Oby)


Fine

We know who Femi Adeshina is
We are now knowing who YOU are

If for anything fighting for the Chibok Girls and Leah Sharibu shouldn't only be done via Sit-outs. Minus the Sit-outs you should never have let up under this present government (which you literally campaigned for - No? Semantic Obscurantism)

It is most ironic, surreal and sad that that which you accuse Mr. Adeshina of broaching - 'Semantic Obscurantism' is what you engage in on your Twitter timeline while blocking dissenting views to yours.

It is dissapointing that those who dish out criticism are very bad at taking it themselves, it shows some sense of superiority, a sense of 'I cannot make mistakes' 'I cannot be wrong'

Bashir you wey follow cause dis problem dey yarn?

Alphafeezay:
It takes maturity and courage to admit the person you campaigned and voted for has failed.
Buhari has failed!

I totally agree with the maturity in owning up to one's mistakes but this I dare say this is different.

Many who voted in my opinion were influenced by role models who told them Buhari was an upright man, a dogged fighter of corruption and a straight shooter, many were born in the 80s and didn't 'taste' Buhari for themselves.

Madam here from her one-on-one experience knew who Buhari was but chose to believe her had changed when there was no tangible proof to show that.

The question is why did she believe that the same man who was innately draconian would do an about face and become a democrat even after listening to his outbursts each time he lost previously at the polls.

This does not however mean that she cannot take a step back and change her mind on him.

I'm simply saying we need to do a personal review and asesment of our decisions so that we don't repeat the same mistakes all over again.



The history lesson is good....

however, we have a very deep problem at hand.

The current set of leaders have shown beyond reasonable doubt that they will not leave even if they lose the elections.

This is besides the fact that they have since pocketed the electoral and security agencies....

How time flies and then you realise you might have been quite naive or foolish in the past.

Madam Shoneyin who actively campaigned for Buhari in spite of her being a learned writer who could easily have researched Mr. President is the latest would be signing of Wailers FC

This is her 2015 article (anyway Dad is a member of APC so no lele)

Possibly the worst year of my life was 1984. I was 10 years old and blissfully unaware of the changing face of Nigeria’s political landscape. And a rather unyielding face it was – that of Muhammadu Buhari who had recently overthrown Shehu Shagari, a democratically elected president. For Buhari, this was a necessary coup d’etat because Nigeria was being overrun by corrupt politicians. However, his regime would have a devastating impact on my family’s fortunes.

For the first time, at the close of the school term in Edinburgh, my father wasn’t there to pick us up. My older brother, aged 15, took charge and we made our way to Heathrow. Touching down in Nigeria, it was my mother who met us at the airport. She didn’t smile, perhaps couldn’t; her mouth was turned down at the corners like she was being flattened by existence. Something was wrong, clearly. I waited until we were settled in the car and piped up: “Where’s Daddy?” Without turning to glance at me, my mother answered: “He’s in jail.” She always had an aversion to bullshit but even, for her, that was pretty cold. For the rest of the journey, I thought about my Daddy who returned the cash to the phone company when our account was credited with thousands of naira; Daddy who, born into abject poverty, personified what it meant to work really hard and make your own dreams come true, in a hopefully new meritocratic Nigeria.

On getting home, one of my older brothers explained that Buhari’s deputy, the uncompromising, much-feared Colonel Tunde Idiagbon, had commanded that all government contractors in Ogun state had received a notice to appear before a special committee. My dad honoured the invitation and presented all the papers to show that it was in fact the government that owed his company money. He was given two options: to pay a large amount (that no one quite understood how they arrived at) or go to jail. On principle, my dad said he wasn’t going to pay money that he didn’t owe. He was not alone. I have a group of friends with whom I am forever bound by this shared ordeal of seeing our fathers treated like criminals. And as it was for many, this period signified the beginning of financial ruin.

My father spent six months in jail and came out a different man. For one, he started clapping at our solemn family devotion in the mornings, something we never did. He explained that that was what they did in prison. He was never a big talker but seeing him work at adjusting to normal life was painful for everyone around him.

Before his release, the two giant crushers and all the machinery and equipment that belonged to his civil engineering firm were liquidated. As children, our lives changed too. We were placed in state schools and said goodbye to our privileged lifestyles.

My dad is 87 now and he’s an active member of the local advisory board of the All Progressive party, the opposition party that has recently adopted Buhari as the presidential flag-bearer, 30 years after his first outing as a military head of state. Like many Nigerians, my father was saddened when he heard President Goodluck Jonathan claim that “stealing is not corruption”. With 24% unemployment, there are limited opportunities for young people, making them easy fodder for militants in the southernmost parts of the country and dreaded religious fundamentalists in the north. People clamour for leadership.



For the last three weeks, I have been travelling with the presidential campaign team and I have had the opportunity to listen to people and interview them. I have also had a personal need to understand this man Buhari who has run for the highest office a record three times. At the beginning, I admit I had doubts and misgivings. It’s hard not to when you’ve been stung before. But after several conversations with him, I have come to understand what the mass hysteria is all about and why Nigerians would vote for this soft-spoken but highly principled 72-year-old.

It’s quite simple and, having worked as a schoolteacher for years, I can use a school setting in my analogy. Kids like a teacher to whom they can give the runaround but when it’s crunch time, they favour an environment where the teacher is firm, one where clear boundaries have been set. Having a president who is widely described as “clueless” may have seemed to many like an opportunity, but the goodwill that Jonathan enjoyed in 2011 has been frittered away. These days, governors in the opposition parties are starved of funds and harassed when they don’t do the bidding of a first lady who campaigns for her personal candidates. Many Nigerians believe that it is time to return to one of the few faces of anti-corruption in Nigeria’s political history. Even my wrongly-imprisoned Dad would recognise that Buhari’s ambition was to stem corruption.

Unlike many Nigerian past presidents, Major-General Buhari does not have a huge mansion. You won’t hear about him owning a bank or sitting on the board of banks. Neither does he own expansive farmland. In fact, he wrote to the minister of finance requesting that he only receive 10% of the allowance that all past presidents receive on a monthly basis. Overwhelmingly, his lack of greed and personal venality means people trust him. Within a democratic dispensation, whatever excesses Buhari’s singlemindedness at tackling corruption might have shown 30 years ago can and will be curbed.

He has surrounded himself with a brilliant, savvy team of young Nigerians and I much enjoy the passion with which he talks about his three main priorities: unemployment, insecurity and education. For some Nigerians, he might not be an ideal candidate but for many more, people want anything but Jonathan. And even better it’s someone that they feel they can believe in.

Lola Shoneyi is a Nigerian novelist and poet. She wrote this piece for the Guardian




https://www.abusidiqu.com/general-buhari-jailed-father-can-offer-nigeria-fresh-start-lola-shoneyin/