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Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback: 9:20am On Jan 24, 2018
UncleJudax:
Good! Like i said in my first reply, i admire your intelligence. I really do.

What we have to do now is to go beyond rhetorics. No more empty promises...we have to be shown a blueprint...Not i will do this and that...but how would you do it?

Buhari was touted to be all that...but that was it...hot Air!

Yes we have to got to listen to candidates from smaller Parties...and what we also have to do is punish politicians who jump ships. If we vote in Kowa and allow PDP and APC members to mass-migrate, then nothing will change.
You have spoken like a patriot and not a partisan.

Indeed, if we vote a new party and allow vagabonds from the old order to migrate into the new party, nothing will change eventually.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback: 9:01am On Jan 24, 2018
Ejanla07:
d guy is a pained BMC ZOMBIE. he ll only stop supporting buhari d moment osibanjo is kicked out like is been planned
You must be a pained PDP operative.

Whether PDP or APC, we are not voting for you guys.

Go and find a decent job to do like the rest of us.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback:
obailala:
You two Jonathanian cocksuckers should have a grip on yourselves and accept that GEJ is history and history for good. You cant keep wailing over your 2015 loss for the rest of your lives. GEJ was useless, and he was booted out. Now PMB is proving useless, he also would be booted out. It's 2018 guys, 2015 is far gone, move on from this your jonathanian wailings and have a life.
Those guys are still living in denial.

In their bigoted minds, all who sacked Jonathan are bigots.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback: 8:54am On Jan 24, 2018
LordAdam16:
Trash!

Buhari was touted as a frugal and incorruptible man. But was he really? Or you are one of the educated illiterates who find it perplexing to do a simple Google search.

All of Buhari's kids were studying in the UK in 2015. Jonathan's kids were studying in Nigeria.
Buhari had 3 houses. Jonathan had 3 houses.

Jonathan was a realist!

He knew the system was the issue and he sought to close loopholes. Your impatient dimwits felt it wasn't good enough, that you needed a strong man. Now the strong man is there with same faulty system effing him up and you can't bring yourself to admit you were wrong.

You claim oil revenue was increasing while reserves were falling? Do you really want to argue that.

We just came out of a global financial crises and oil slump in 2009/2010. By 2011-2012, it was time to rebalance the books and get projects started. Between 2012 and 2013, the reserves increased, then in 2014, with the oil slump it understandably fell.

In that time, this man built new rail networks, new universities, new rice silos, even gave N100b to the states to try to solve the herdsmen-farmers clashes.

Where do you think the money for those projects came from?

You are daft, and I actually think people like you shouldn't be allowed to vote. You do not have the mental capacity to take a proper civil decision.

Buhari has been a disaster. There is nothing Buhari is doing today that is surprising to the 12 million people who voted against him in 2015. It's all down to the 3 million M0R0NS like you who suddenly believed an unrepentant bigot and uncivil illiterate without a WAEC certificate would be able to run the 22nd largest economy in Africa.

Dufus!

-Lord
Nothing Jonathan did surprised me either as I saw through him to be clueless, hence my decision to vote for Nuhu Ribadu in 2011.

So I reckon those who voted for Jonathan then were daft, but some managed to overcome their daftness to join hands with us who were never deceived, and we sent our useless employee packing.

You are one of the moro.ns who refused to be cured.

But then I ask again, what made the SouthWest and North Central sack a Jonathan they earlier voted in 2011, at a time when the same Buhari was contesting with a Yoruba Christian and Pastor called Pastor Tunde Bakare?

What suddenly changed to make them "bigoted moro.ns who could no longer tolerate athe same Southern and Christian Jonathan they had previously elected?

What changed was they saw the dunce and cluelessness in Jonathan. Something some of us saw in 2010.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback: 8:21am On Jan 24, 2018
obailala:
I supported Buhari in 2015 but would join the bandwagon booting him out in 2019. Buhari failed in even in the most little things.

But then, not a single cell in my body regrets booting out the last cancer called GEJ.
Bros, even the most insignificant things, Buhari chose that he must fail.

Let him go and fail in his village.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback: 8:19am On Jan 24, 2018
luvinhubby:
Trying to lie to one's self is okay, at least it will make you feel good.

The question here is all about choices, trying to justify one wrong choice of yesterday with current realities of today is self-deceit to say the least.
The only grouse of the bigots against GEJ was his perceived stance against cooruption and that was the premise upon Buhari was heralded into Aso rock and they failed, till date, to sincerely own up that our federation is so poorly structured that corruption will always thrive, but the bigots choose to blame a person instead of the system for our state of affairs.

I voted GEJ in 2015, because, objectively, he had a better approach to governance than was canvassed by Buhari then and those of you that labelled him a failure to vote in a perpetual failure have being shown to be failures themselves.



But sha........Sai baba till 2023.
You can blame a person for not fighting corruption, especially if the indicted are his own employees in his cabinet. That was were Jonathan failed and were Buhari has also failed woefully.

But according to you, those who blamed Jonathan are bigots, so those blaming Buhari for not fighting corruption in his own cabinet are bigots too?

However the "bigots" who blamed Jonathan have been vindicated.

Money just dey flow yafun yafun till reserve almost empty. If Jonathan had been returned to power and with crude oil selling so low, by now we will have only 25 Cents left in our foreign reserves, while people like you will tell us all to keep quiet and stop being bigots to the Jonathan regime.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback:
UncleJudax:
To be honest with you, i like your reasoning...#progressive. However, you are also on the wrong side of History... You voted in Buhari to bring "change" based in what? Intergrity? Those who didnt will equally argue that Buhari has been a bigger disaster than Jonathan. It was a loss-loss.

But again, you are right, anybody who performs poorly should be sent back Home.

Anybody who wants to lead has to be properly evaluated. We have to ask questions. We have to Check Track Record... Buhari didnt really fail cos Many people knew from His record, He was not fit.
Buhari was touted as a frugal and incorruptible man.

Having had the disaster of Jonathan for 5yrs with a treasury that was emptying as oil income was increasing, those qualities touted in Buhari became very attractive.

No president is an economic genius, rather they try to build a sound economic team. So we expected any President to do so. However the political will of the president to grow the economy is what you look out for.

We saw the will in candidate Buhari to revamp the economy and fight corruption, while we saw the denial in candidate Jonathan who as the incumbent believed he was doing a good job despite emptying our treasury and borrowing more funds and with a determination that he will not fight corruption.

The mistake made is that we did not give the other candidates from other parties the chance to sell their agenda to us. They did not have the robust platform of APC or PDP, and we also were too lazy to seek them out.

It was mandatory to sack Jonathan, it was not mandatory to elect Buhari, but we did.

I campaigned for Buhari and was so disappointed when I couldn't get to vote for him as I did not have the PVC released to me by INEC, and eventually I was away on a project.

Now I know I had been saved the trauma of voting a useless president.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback: 7:52am On Jan 24, 2018
luvinhubby:
The holy book says.....'Wisdom is justified by it's output(fruits)'.

The state of the nation and the welbeing of it's citizens then and now justifies those that were wise or foolish in 2015.

That Goodluck may have been a failure based on the assesment of certain bigots in Nigeria and made them decide for an illiterate dumb old man as an alternative, clearly outlines the deficiency in the intelligency quotient of all those that rooted for uhari against Goodluck then.


The choice between Nigerians in 2015 was between going forward and going backwards and those who choose Buhari and APC in 2015 clearly choose a reverse mode for Nigeria, despite every effort to make them see reason.

It is not about voting out those that failed, it is all about the sensibilities certain persons who out of tribal and religious bigotry, believed that a Buhari was better than a GEJ in 2015 and i clearly choose GEJ and current happeings have vindicated my choice.


Sai baba till 2023
You mean going forward towards an empty treasury?

If Jonathan was still president when crude sold for $27pb, would we still have any cents left in our foreign reserves?

You are one and same with those tribal and religious bigots who felt they must retain Jonathan because he is from the South and a Christian.

The happenings of the Jonathan regime also vindicated my choice not to vote for him in 2011, as I voted for Nuhu Ribadu.

Out of tribal and religious bigotry, some will still vote to retain Buhari, just like you guided by same emotions, voted to retain a useless Jonathan in power.

You were the "Sai Barbarians" of the Jonathan regime who felt every criticism was because the president is from a certain tribe or religion. You are no different to the people now castigated as the BMC crew, who have no conscience and wanted to return a failure to power.

Did the PhD touting Jonathan ever display any intelligence while in power, for that to have been a reason to reject the less educated Buhari?

So I reckon that the failure assessment of the Buhari regime that you also criticise daily, is the assessment of certain bigots in Nigeria, since the failure assessment of Jonathan was done by certain bigots?

Dude you are the Bigot who chose to see nothing wrong in the failure and cluelessness of Jonathan. Just as we have bigots who are still ready to die for a useless Buhari.

You are a man who has continued to lie to himself daily over the failure of the Jonathan regime, and the well deserved sacking.

Jonathan failed and was kicked out, Buhari has failed and will be kicked out too.

See what opinion FFK had when Obasanjo wrote the letter to Jonathan. Was FFK a bigot too, who then became cured of his bigotry in time to help Jonathan win reelection?

“OBJ has finally closed GEJ’s chapter with his letter. Jonathan is finished- mark my words. Abati should shut up and let his boss speak for himself on this one.
The Ebora Owu has spoken and the issues that he has raised are too serious to be ignored or to be responded to with amatuerish and cheeky insults and slurs from a mere staff of the Presidency.
The President should find the courage to personally answer the charges and address the message rather than get his aides to attack the messenger. As Baba said, Jonathan is “bleeding Nigeria to death”. It is time for change.
God used Obasanjo to put Jonathan in power and, by His grace, He will use that same Obasanjo to remove him.”
Politics › Re: Why Did Nigerians Believed In Buhari Before? by Throwback: 7:34am On Jan 24, 2018
I believed he would fight corruption, as opposed to the incumbent Jonathan who was proudly campaigning on behalf of corruption while seeking for votes in Enugu.

Also considering the coalition of seasoned technocrats who rejected a continuation of Jonathan's disaster, I believed he will draw from a rich pool to populate his administration.

Instead, he made the mistake of appointing a corruption seeking and useless ethnic champion as chief of staff, and from then onwards, all other appointments became a disaster.

Mr integrity also showed himself to be a hypocrite when he began seeking health care services in the UK, despite his early condemnation of such.

Buhari came into power with no plan, and is even leaving with no plan for his life after sack.
Politics › Re: Northern Youths Back OBJ, Say He Is The Architect Of What We Have Today by Throwback: 7:24am On Jan 24, 2018
Why is it hard for a president to realise he has failed woefully?

Is there some form of sensory disease afflicting Aso Rock, that entraps its occupants from reality?

Can Buhari really swear with his Koran that he his fighting corruption in his own administration?

I still remember this useless Buhari campaigning that "If we don't kill corruption, corruption will kill Nigeria".

Anyway, all that na meditation for Buhari as he rests in his Daura house in 2019, Just like Jonathan began meditating in his Otuoke house from 2015.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback: 6:58am On Jan 24, 2018
Haganah:
Lols. If you had the power to see the future how come you did not see that Buhari/Osibanjo was a failed option during the elections?

Or were you blinded by tribal sentiments and chose to vote bacause our brother will become VP?

Abeg!

Buhari will contest in 2019 and win smoothly. Deal with it! Osibanjo will be kicked out in the coming weeks.

Deal with with it!
When you realise that the same Buhari using a Yoruba
Christian and Pastor running mate, had contested an election with the same Jonathan and lost to Jonathan in 2011, then any rational mind would ask to know what changed to make Jonathan lose in the SouthWest and Middle Belt 4 years later.

If those who voted in Jonathan over a patriot like Ribadu in the 2011 election had the power to see the future, would they have made the mistake of voting in the retarde.d clown to power? A president who was hell bent on emptying the treasury despite the immense oil income, a corruption facilitator and protector, a weak and pretentious human whose employees did not even take his directives seriously, and an incredibly clueless yet educated dunce. But they made a mistake and learnt how useless he was and sent him packing.

Simply put, Jonathan was a useless failure, and ethnic and religious sycophants chose to return him to power but they failed woefully.

Same way ethnic and religious sycophants and beneficiaries of this equally useless administration will also try like those who voted to return Jonathan, and they will likewise fail.

It is your own destiny to always find yourself on the wrong side of history. When people are set for change, you are always bent on retaining the failed status quo.

I repeat, a useless president will always be sent back to his village. We have returned one to Otuoke on a canoe, we will return this one to Daura on a wheel barrow.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback: 11:29pm On Jan 23, 2018
Haganah:
No wahala!

Buhari will rule till 2027 or ti he dies followed by el rufai.

We have joined the sophisticated crew!
And again, you will still vote and lose like you did the last time trying to retain a failed and useless incumbent.

You are always at the wrong side of history.

We will continue to change our failed leaders till we get it right.

I will never retain a failure in power.
Politics › Re: Voted For Buhari, But Regretting It Now? Fall In by Throwback:
luvinhubby:
You people are very funny jokers, it is pay back time for us, Buhari till 2023, i will campaign and vote for Buhari come 2019 election.

It is our own turn to turn deaf ears to the voices of those that refused to listen to our own voices in 2015.



Una think say na only certain persons from certain places dey mean !!




Sai baba till 2023. angry angry
Please tell us who you voted for?

I reckon you voted for the other Moro.n called Jonathan? The one that was assessed globally and aptly termed as an ineffectual buffoon.

The sacked president who till this day ponders on why he was deemed to be the head of a corrupt government by the US and UK governments, yet he cannot reflect on his Nwobodo Peugeot campaign speech in Enugu, or his pardoning and political revival of a corruption convict called DSP Alams who was then gifted a seat in the senate that should be revered? He even failed to use his gumption and hindsight to reflect on the corruption cases of his many aides and party executives like Olisah Metuh who got government funds for party affairs directly executed for him.
Yet this special retarde.d moro.n still wonders as to why he was considered by decent societies and goverents as corrupt?
Some mothers truly have 'em.

The only president who was unable to add new savings to the foreign reserves, instead he ran it aground despite earning more petrodollars than all previous governments combined.

That you campaigned to reelect a colossal failure like Jonathan, makes you no different than the dolts who are still campaigning to reelect the current idiot in Aso Rock.

Partisan party sycophants like you who have no conscience beyond the need to have their party win, will always end up disappointed as more Nigerians realise that no failure deserves a 2nd term in office.

I will never retain a failure in office. You tried to and you failed woefully with Jonathan, and will also fail with Buhari.
Politics › Re: Tinubu Denies Visiting Buhari Over Obasanjo by Throwback: 10:45pm On Jan 23, 2018
It's very obvious it was a coincidence of an already scheduled meeting.


Buhari is too slow and too useless to even attempt any spontaneous or urgent political reaction to Obasanjo's letter on the same day.
Politics › Re: Why We Haven't Disciplined Anyone Over Maina's Recall - Oyo-ita Reveals by Throwback:
Buhari and his fake integrity.

What a useless government that needs over 3months to investigate a simple matter involving accessible members of the same government.

Going by their speed, it will take the Buhari regime 1 decade to investigate the Fulani herdsmen atrocities.

Buhari, just like his regime, is brain dead.

A man who is mentally dead cannot even be threatened that he is finished.

A dead Buhari has now been reminded of Maina by OBJ's letter. What a useless human being Buhari is.

My disappointment cannot be quantified.
Politics › Re: Obasanjo’s Statement On Buhari: We Won’t Comment Now – Presidency by Throwback: 7:27pm On Jan 23, 2018
NgeneUkwenu:
Buhari Will Contest And I Will Vote For Him....Get Your PVC ready and Vote for your candidate ...


OBJ Contested For 2nd Tenure and Wanted The 3rd Till He Was stopped!

Nigerians will determine the fate of Buhari at the poll and not a letter from an egocentric corrupt ex leader...
Ogbeni, you never realise that you're alone on the lonely road to re-elect a useless human being?

So useless even his own family do not support him.

Abba Kyari, Monguno, Daura and Ngeneukwenu would be the only 4 votes for Buhari. Even Buhari will mess up his own vote because he is that useless.
Politics › Re: Obasanjo’s Statement On Buhari: We Won’t Comment Now – Presidency by Throwback: 7:25pm On Jan 23, 2018
Buhari is a failure that must be sacked.

It is my patriotic duty to sack this Buhari regime.
Politics › Re: 2019: Atiku Meets With Leaders Of Arewa, Yoruba And Ohanaeze Youth Groups (PICS) by Throwback: 7:09pm On Jan 23, 2018
Atiku should have known by now that we the people will not make a buharic mistake twice.

He should go home to his many wives and runs girls.
Politics › Re: Obasanjo’s Letter To President Buhari (Full Text Of The 13-paged Letter) by Throwback: 6:12pm On Jan 23, 2018
metronaija5:
https://16745-presscdn-0-7.pagely.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/obasanjo.jpg
THE WAY OUT: A CLARION CALL FOR COALITION FOR NIGERIA MOVEMENT
Special Press Statement
By
President Olusegun Obasanjo

Since we are still in the month of January, it is appropriate to wish all Nigerians Happy 2018. I am constrained to issue this special statement at this time considering the situation of the country. Some of you may be asking, “What has brought about this special occasion of Obasanjo issuing a Special Statement?” You will be right to ask such a question. But there is a Yoruba saying that ‘when lice abound in your clothes, your fingernails will never be dried of blood’. When I was in the village, to make sure that lice die, you put them between two fingernails and press hard to ensure they die and they always leave blood stains on the fingernails. To ensure you do not have blood on your fingernails, you have to ensure that lice are not harboured anywhere within your vicinity.

The lice of poor performance in government – poverty, insecurity, poor economic management, nepotism, gross dereliction of duty, condonation of misdeed – if not outright encouragement of it, lack of progress and hope for the future, lack of national cohesion and poor management of internal political dynamics and widening inequality – are very much with us today. With such lice of general and specific poor performance and crying poverty with us, our fingers will not be dry of ‘blood’.

Four years ago when my PDP card was torn, I made it abundantly clear that I quit partisan politics for aye but my concern and interest in Nigeria, Africa and indeed in humanity would not wane. Ever since, I have adhered strictly to that position. Since that time, I have devoted quality time to the issue of zero hunger as contained in Goal No. 2 of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN. We have set the target that Nigeria with the participating States in the Zero Hunger Forum should reach Zero Hunger goal by 2025 – five years earlier than the UN target date. I am involved in the issue of education in some States and generally in the issue of youth empowerment and employment. I am involved in all these domestically and altruistically to give hope and future to the seemingly hopeless and those in despair. I believe strongly that God has endowed Nigeria so adequately that no Nigerian should be either in want or in despair.

I believe in team work and collaborative efforts. At the international level, we have worked with other world leaders to domicile the apparatus for monitoring and encouraging socio-economic progress in Africa in our Presidential Library. The purpose of Africa Progress Group, which is the new name assumed by Africa Progress Panel (APP), is to point out where, when and what works need to be done for the progress of Africa separately and collectively by African leaders and their development partners. I have also gladly accepted the invitation of the UN Secretary-General to be a member of his eighteen-member High-Level Board of Advisers on Mediation. There are other assignments I take up in other fora for Africa and for the international community. For Africa to move forward, Nigeria must be one of the anchor countries, if not the leading anchor country. It means that Nigeria must be good at home to be good outside. No doubt, our situation in the last decade or so had shown that we are not good enough at home; hence we are invariably absent at the table that we should be abroad.

All these led me to take the unusual step of going against my own political Party, PDP, in the last general election to support the opposite side. I saw that action as the best option for Nigeria. As it has been revealed in the last three years or so, that decision and the subsequent collective decision of Nigerians to vote for a change was the right decision for the nation. For me, there was nothing personal, it was all in the best interest of Nigeria and, indeed, in the best interest of Africa and humanity at large. Even the horse rider then, with whom I maintain very cordial, happy and social relationship today has come to realise his mistakes and regretted it publicly and I admire his courage and forthrightness in this regard. He has a role to play on the side line for the good of Nigeria, Africa and humanity and I will see him as a partner in playing such a role nationally and internationally, but not as a horse rider in Nigeria again.

The situation that made Nigerians to vote massively to get my brother Jonathan off the horse is playing itself out again. First, I thought I knew the point where President Buhari is weak and I spoke and wrote about it even before Nigerians voted for him and I also did vote for him because at that time it was a matter of “any option but Jonathan” (aobj). But my letter to President Jonathan titled: “Before It Is Too Late” was meant for him to act before it was too late. He ignored it and it was too late for him and those who goaded him into ignoring the voice of caution. I know that praise-singers and hired attackers may be raised up against me for verbal or even physical attack but if I can withstand undeserved imprisonment and was ready to shed my blood by standing for Nigeria, I will consider no sacrifice too great to make for the good of Nigeria at any time. No human leader is expected to be personally strong or self-sufficient in all aspects of governance.

I knew President Buhari before he became President and said that he is weak in the knowledge and understanding of the economy but I thought that he could make use of good Nigerians in that area that could help. Although, I know that you cannot give what you don’t have and that economy does not obey military order. You have to give it what it takes in the short-, medium- and long-term. Then, it would move. I know his weakness in understanding and playing in the foreign affairs sector and again, there are many Nigerians that could be used in that area as well. They have knowledge and experience that could be deployed for the good of Nigeria. There were serious allegations of round-tripping against some inner caucus of the Presidency which would seem to have been condoned. I wonder if such actions do not amount to corruption and financial crime, then what is it? Culture of condonation and turning blind eye will cover up rather than clean up. And going to justice must be with clean hands.

I thought President Buhari would fight corruption and insurgency and he must be given some credit for his achievement so far in these two areas although it is not yet uhuru!

The herdsmen/crop farmers issue is being wittingly or unwittingly allowed to turn sour and messy. It is no credit to the Federal Government that the herdsmen rampage continues with careless abandon and without finding an effective solution to it. And it is a sad symptom of insensitivity and callousness that some Governors, a day after 73 victims were being buried in a mass grave in Benue State without condolence, were jubilantly endorsing President Buhari for a second term! The timing was most unfortunate. The issue of herdsmen/crop farmers dichotomy should not be left on the political platform of blame game; the Federal Government must take the lead in bringing about solution that protects life and properties of herdsmen and crop farmers alike and for them to live amicably in the same community.

But there are three other areas where President Buhari has come out more glaringly than most of us thought we knew about him. One is nepotic deployment bordering on clannishness and inability to bring discipline to bear on errant members of his nepotic court. This has grave consequences on performance of his government to the detriment of the nation. It would appear that national interest was being sacrificed on the altar of nepotic interest. What does one make of a case like that of Maina: collusion, condonation, ineptitude, incompetence, dereliction of responsibility or kinship and friendship on the part of those who should have taken visible and deterrent disciplinary action? How many similar cases are buried, ignored or covered up and not yet in the glare of the media and the public? The second is his poor understanding of the dynamics of internal politics. This has led to wittingly or unwittingly making the nation more divided and inequality has widened and become more pronounced. It also has effect on general national security. The third is passing the buck. For instance, blaming the Governor of the Central Bank for devaluation of the naira by 70% or so and blaming past governments for it, is to say the least, not accepting one’s own responsibility. Let nobody deceive us, economy feeds on politics and because our politics is depressing, our economy is even more depressing today. If things were good, President Buhari would not need to come in. He was voted to fix things that were bad and not engage in the blame game. Our Constitution is very clear, one of the cardinal responsibilities of the President is the management of the economy of which the value of the naira forms an integral part. Kinship and friendship that place responsibility for governance in the hands of the unelected can only be deleterious to good government and to the nation.

President Buhari’s illness called for the sympathy, understanding, prayer and patience from every sane Nigerian. It is part of our culture. Most Nigerians prayed for him while he was away sick in London for over hundred days and he gave his Deputy sufficient leeway to carry on in his absence. We all thanked God for President Buhari for coming back reasonably hale and hearty and progressing well in his recovery. But whatever may be the state of President Buhari’s health today, he should neither over-push his luck nor over-tax the patience and tolerance of Nigerians for him, no matter what his self-serving, so-called advisers, who would claim that they love him more than God loves him and that without him, there would be no Nigeria say. President Buhari needs a dignified and honourable dismount from the horse. He needs to have time to reflect, refurbish physically and recoup and after appropriate rest, once again, join the stock of Nigerian leaders whose experience, influence, wisdom and outreach can be deployed on the side line for the good of the country. His place in history is already assured. Without impaired health and strain of age, running the affairs of Nigeria is a 25/7 affair, not 24/7.

I only appeal to brother Buhari to consider a deserved rest at this point in time and at this age. I continue to wish him robust health to enjoy his retirement from active public service. President Buhari does not necessarily need to heed my advice. But whether or not he heeds it, Nigeria needs to move on and move forward.

I have had occasion in the past to say that the two main political parties – APC and PDP – were wobbling. I must reiterate that nothing has happened to convince me otherwise. If anything, I am reinforced in my conviction. The recent show of PDP must give grave and great concern to lovers of Nigeria. To claim, as has been credited to the chief kingmaker of PDP, that for procuring the Supreme Court judgement for his faction of the Party, he must dictate the tune all the way and this is indeed fraught with danger. If neither APC nor PDP is a worthy horse to ride to lead Nigeria at this crucial and critical time, what then do we do? Remember Farooq Kperogi, an Associate Professor at the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States, calls it “a cruel Hobson’s choice; it’s like a choice between six and half a dozen, between evil and evil. Any selection or deflection would be a distinction without a difference.” We cannot just sit down lamenting and wringing our hands desperately and hopelessly.


http://www.metronaija.ng/full-text-obasanjos-13-page-letter-president-buhari/
Who will get Buhari a presidential wheel barrow to make his departure in 2019?
Politics › Re: Obasanjo’s Letter To President Buhari (Full Text Of The 13-paged Letter) by Throwback: 6:10pm On Jan 23, 2018
Buhari is gone with the winds. His presidency is already ending in a shameful failure.
Politics › Re: Femi Fani-Kayode Reacts To Obasanjo's Letter To Buhari: "Matter Closed" by Throwback:
hucienda:
Recall the derision especially after the elections - the number of mockery threads here sure was something.

Turns out they, the former eastern region together with Ekiti, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa and Nigeria's Capital Territory - albeit by hair's breadth - were indeed prescient. They stood for what is right and were spot on about the character of Buhari.

They might have lost the election but have stood right in history for generations to come.

When future generations study this present, they will know those states stood for posterity at that juncture in history.

When their grandsons and granddaughters ask them where they stood, they will simply reply they stood to be counted for what is right despite all.
Stop reveling in your choice to support a failed president Jonathan.

You are like the current "Sai Barbarians" who still think Buhari deserves a 2nd term. You lot believed an ineffectual buffoon also deserved a second term.

While you chose to support an already established Moro.n for a 2nd term, others chose to accept he was a Moro.n and needed to be replaced, but the replacement turned out to be a Moro.n like his predecessor.

When that historic election is revisited, the only conclusion is that Nigerians made a choice between two human errors.

When the history of the Jonathan administration is told, the new generation of Nigerians will wonder how a president can bankrupt his country in a time of immense crude oil earnings, such that foreign reserves that were piled in a time of austerity was almost emptied in a time of flourish. They will wonder how a presidential candidate who is the incumbent can conveniently campaign for the sustenance of corruption as a national culture, and promising never to arrest or prosecute cases of corruption, while berating his opponent for previously prosecuting a state governor for funds ($5.1m) he ridiculed as Peugeot money. They will wonder how an educated man with a PhD could be so mentally retarde.d that he claims America will know the whereabouts of petro-dollar funds that should have accrued from our own oil business. They will wonder how a country can be so helpless that Islamic terrorists were blowing the brains of male students in a school dormitory, and kidnapping female students, yet the government attempted to ignore and sweep it away.

Then you can tell them you stood for that same idiot to be part of an ignoble history that sought to reward failure with a 2nd term, just like these present "Sai Barbarians ".
Politics › Re: Femi Fani-Kayode Reacts To Obasanjo's Letter To Buhari: "Matter Closed" by Throwback:
Buhari's presidency is finished, just like the same FFK said of Jonathan when he got his own black note from Obasanjo.

However, in a bid to avoid criminal prosecution for embezzled funds in the Aviation Ministry, the same FFK provided his media services to Jonathan and 17 criminal charges out of 18 were immediately dropped by the Jonathan government.

The same FFK would then later try steadfastly to ensure that a failed and corrupt Jonathan wins a re-election that same FFK had termed as a lost cause.

“OBJ has finally closed GEJ’s chapter with his letter. Jonathan is finished- mark my words. Abati should shut up and let his boss speak for himself on this one.
The Ebora Owu has spoken and the issues that he has raised are too serious to be ignored or to be responded to with amatuerish and cheeky insults and slurs from a mere staff of the Presidency.
The President should find the courage to personally answer the charges and address the message rather than get his aides to attack the messenger. As Baba said, Jonathan is “bleeding Nigeria to death”. It is time for change.
God used Obasanjo to put Jonathan in power and, by His grace, He will use that same Obasanjo to remove him.”
FFK knew that Jonathan was a finished failure, yet for his own criminal survival, he later tried to sell us a failure like the current Buhari sycophants are doing. FFK also did so by becoming not a mere staff of the presidency, but a mere staff of a presidential campaign.
Politics › Re: Obasanjo Calls PMB "Brother Buhari" In His Letter To The President by Throwback: 5:43pm On Jan 23, 2018
Brother is akin to the Chinese and communism.

Obasanjo is implying we have a dictator in power.
Politics › Re: Obasanjo's Letter To Buhari: Reno Omokri Reacts by Throwback: 5:24pm On Jan 23, 2018
clevvermind:
Jonathan is the best. Take it or leave it.
Jonathan is the best in emptying a treasury built by Obasanjo when crude oil sold for a pittance.

Jonathan is a useless PhD holder who should have limited his political participation at the Otuoke ward level.
Politics › Re: Buhari, Tinubu, Akande, Other APC Chieftains In Closed Door Meeting by Throwback: 5:16pm On Jan 23, 2018
How can a man be so useless that all those who supported him to bring about change now deem him a failure?

Buhari should not dare to re-contest. He should no be a fool even if he is a useless failure.
Politics › Re: Obasanjo's Letter To Buhari: Reno Omokri Reacts by Throwback: 5:16pm On Jan 23, 2018
Buhari is so steadfast in his failures.

He must be flogged out of Aso Rock after he loses shamefully if he dares to contest despite his lack of direction.
Politics › Re: Kayode Ogundamisi Reacts To Obasanjos's Letter To President Buhari by Throwback: 5:06pm On Jan 23, 2018
Ok
Politics › Re: Oby Ezekwesili At Police Station, Arrested Along With Other BBOG Members (Photos by Throwback: 4:07pm On Jan 23, 2018
SalamRushdie:
I saw it within six months of his leadership and I immediately retracted any support I had for him
I saw it late because I felt the initial hiccups were due to the poor economy and baby steps that a new administration is bound to have.

However with the failure to conclude the Saraki CCT Trial, the failure to sack SGF David Lawal until the Oke case came up and both were still not prosecuted despite meriting a sack, the medical sojourn to the UK in direct betrayal of a campaign promise, the failure to replace dead ministers until many months, the infighting between EFCC and DSS, the Maina return to service, the herdsmen terrorism that is being overlooked, the board appointments of dead people because a list that should have been released since 2015 was delayed because of the sluggish nature of his government, then the replacement of Oke at NIA by a failed Northerner, when the SGF was replaced by a fellow state indigene from the North, and ensuring that all security agencies and paramilitary corps are headed by Northerners.

No matter how hard I tried to believe that Buhari will become better, his government ensured that it was a case of 1week, 1 scandal.

The failure to reform the police force and the utterly corrupt civil service.

Having realised that even 20yrs of Buhari will never make Nigeria any different to what we had under PDP.

I had to come to the ultimate conclusion that this useless man must be put in a wheel barrow and returned to his village.
Politics › Re: Why Was Ojukwu Given A State Burial By Nigerian Government? by Throwback: 3:44pm On Jan 23, 2018
Jonathan obviously did it to appease his Igbo backbone that still crumbled when met by the full weight of the country.

If he had died under Obasanjo or Yar 'Adua, he would have been buried by only his family.
Politics › Re: "My Nigerian Hut Versus My New York Mansion"; Professor Shades Donald Trump.PICS by Throwback:
Lol!

But I reckon he made his money in the USA to build that large hut in Nigeria, as such the road is not even tarred while the small American house has all the utilities a modern society needs.
Politics › Re: Oby Ezekwesili At Police Station, Arrested Along With Other BBOG Members (Photos by Throwback: 2:24pm On Jan 23, 2018
MARKETfund:
That was when you and your fellow Ostrichs decided to pull out your head from the earth.

As a matter of fact, if you will be truthful to yourself you will recall that many people whom you all termed wailers have continously said it this man is a disaster waiting to happen before your BBOG group made a u-turn just recently and suddenly you are praising them for deciphering that at the late hour.
You call displeasures by BBOG with the government since late 2015 that was less than 5months of the regime as late hour?

Wailers never supported Buhari from the election, so let's not even begin to consider the opinion of those with sour grapes from an election defeat that they can never undo.

The same way patriots sacked a failed Jonathan is the same way patriots will sack this disgraceful and failed regime of Buhari.

The senseless base support of either camp will remain, but the patriots will always swing the polls to ensure a sack for the incumbent, and a victory for the most compelling challenger.
Politics › Re: Oby Ezekwesili At Police Station, Arrested Along With Other BBOG Members (Photos by Throwback: 2:01pm On Jan 23, 2018
This woman is a hero that is deeply hated by those who are still hurt that a slowpoke they love was shown to be an ineffectual buffoon that had to be sacked.

As for the useless slowpoke that is now president, he will also be sent home to his village like his predecessor.

Oby and Aisha Yesufu are patriots who did not need to observe for long before they realised that even the Buhari regime was as equally useless and irresponsible like the Jonathan regime. They saw from the early days what some of us only began to see from mid last year.

As patriots, we will also sack this useless government and many more that fail to realise that we will not settle for failure.

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