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I had assumed all along that all my records were in the custody of the Military Secretary of the Nigerian Army. Much to my surprise, we are now told that although a record of the result is available, there are no copies of the certificates in my personal file. This is why I formally requested my old school the Provincial Secondary School, Katsina [which is now known as Government College, Katsina] to make available the school’s copy of the result of the Cambridge/West African School Certificate. This will be made available to the press the moment this is available.

However, before we obtain that, let me say for the record that I attended Provincial Secondary School, Katsina. I graduated in 1961 with many prominent Nigerians, including General Shehu Yar’adua, former chief of staff at the Supreme Headquarters, and Justice Umaru Abdullahi, a former President of the Court of Appeal. We sat for the University of Cambridge/WASC Examination together in 1961, the year we graduated. My examination number was 8280002, and I passed the examination in the Second Division.

The bolded quote is an indictment of the Nigerian Army. How come they have copy of the letter from the principal (testimonial), but they do not have a copy of his WAEC certificate or any other certificate he obtained while on military courses around the world? Is the Army insinuating that Buhari did not submit his WAEC certificate before admission into the army or he submitted it and the army misplaced it. Either way the Army has a lot of explaining to do.

What the Army did is even a bridge of trust on a colleague (retired). They did not need to go into the admission and result details of one of their boss. They should have just say "we have the sertificates " or "we do not have the certificates ". It is like a banker revealing the account details of a client or a colleague without the consent of the account owner.

Then why was the army only fixated on the WAEC certificate, what about other certificates obtained by Buhari under the sponsorship of the army? Why did the army spokesman not give details of other courses and certificates he obtained around the world? Did the army not recognize those certificates?

mikeansy:
The man has said people are approaching the Army for clarification of this and clarify the army has done. If he stops at copies then more people will write the army on the assumption that they must have originals. The man is just making the point that they don't have any version of this certificate, whether original or photocopy.

The statement from the army is truly professional and clearly states the facts.

Don't also forget that the Army took the pains to confirm the letter from Buhari's former principal which they did not need to mention.

They could have left their statement at "we do not have Buhari certificates whether photocopy or original"!

The problem with you TAN brigade is that you people cannot read and comprehend. The army spokesman did not clarify anything, the statement on Buhari's certificates did not make us wiser than we were before the press release.

Read this statement and tell me if it said anything new;
Neither the original copy, Certified True Copy (CTC) nor statement of result of Major General M Buhari's WASC result is in his personal file.
It did not tell us that a copy of Buhari's WAEC results was not in his personal file. An original copy or certified true copy of the results were not expected to be in his file. Only a photocopy should be there. The originals should only be sighted during the admission process.

Then this quote below is the most senseless statement i had ever heard

It is a practice in the NA that before candidates are shortlisted for commissioning into the officers’ cadre of the Service, the Selection Board verifies the original copies of credentials that are presented.
However, there is no available record to show that this process was followed in the 1960s.

This also does not convey any useful information. Did the army sight Buhari's original WAEC certificate or not/ If he does not know he should have just said so, instead of disgracing the whole Nigerian Army. He is implying that the Nigerian army of the 60's was incompetent. A standard army would court marshal this officer. Is he now saying that it was in the 70's that the Nigerin army started vetting the certificates of recruits? So all officers admitted into the Nigerian Army in the 60's had questionable qualifications?

mikeansy:
there is nothing malicious about the statement

The Army Spokesman could not have possibly comment on what was seen at the time because he was not one of those who enrolled Buhari in the Army. He can only comment on the contents of his records.

Buhari should approach WAEC and produce his certificate. Otherwise even if APC wins Buhari will not be President as he will be disqualified and the courts will establish this!

The statement is malicious because no one was expecting the army records to contain Buhari's or any other officer's original cerfificates. He should have just stopped at " we have copies of his certificates", full stop. The "original copy, Certified True Copy (CTC) nor statement of result " was highly unneccesary.

Disqualified on what Basis? Because he refuses to show you his certificate? Are you telling me that what you can comprehend from the statement of the army spokesman is that Buhari did not submit a WAEC certificate before admission into the army? Please let me know your comprehension ability.

akpanoka:
This can only happen in Nigeria. A man was enlisted based on. A mere letter from a Principal who probably was an uncle, brother or family friend. And the Man couldn't update his papers upon enlistment and shamelessly grew to become a General based on a letter of recommendation.

Am sure this is the change they preach.

In a sane society, those following and projecting Buhari would have hidden their faces in shame

Is it that you are unable to read or that that you have comprehension deficit syndrome. Did the army say they are not in possession of copies of Buhari's WAEC certificate? Where did you read that Buhari was admitted into the army with only a mere letter from the principal?

Francis5:
FULL TEXT: The Nigerian Army has once again denied being in possession of the academic credentials of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari.

This was disclosed today, January 20, by the Director, Army Public Relations, Olaleye Lajide during a press conference in Abuja.

Brig. Gen. Lajide had earlier stated that Buhari’s certificates were with the army and were intact.

However, an official statement has been released to declare the army’s final stance on the matter. It reads:

Gentlemen of the Press, I am pleased to welcome everyone back from the Christmas and the 2015 New Year festivities. On behalf of the Chief of Army Staff, officers and soldiers of the Nigerian Army, I wish you all a happy and more fulfilling 2015. Since our last media briefing on 31 December, 2014, some issues relating to the Nigerian Army have occurred and this briefing is holding specifically to address them.

I will begin with the Major General Muhammadu Buhari certificate controversy.

Gentlemen, let me state clearly that the Nigerian Army holds the retired senior officer in very high esteem and respect and would not be a party to any controversy surrounding his eligibility for any political office. Suffice to state that Major General Buhari rose steadily to the enviable rank of Major General before becoming the Head of State of our dear country in December 1983.

The media hype on retired Major General Muhammadu Buhari’s credentials as well as the numerous requests made by individuals and corporate bodies to the Nigerian Army on this issue have necessitated that we provide the facts as contained in the retired senior officer’s service record.

Records available indicate that Major General M Buhari applied to join the military as a Form Six student of the Provincial Secondary School, Katsina on 18 Oct 61. His application was duly endorsed by the Principal of the school, who also wrote a report on him and recommended him to be suitable for military commission. It is a practice in the NA that before candidates are shortlisted for commissioning into the officers’ cadre of the Service, the Selection Board verifies the original copies of credentials that are presented.

However, there is no available record to show that this process was followed in the 1960s.

Nevertheless, the entry made on the NA Form 199A at the point of documentation after commission as an officer indicated that the former Head of State obtained the West African School Certificate (WASC) in 1961 with credits in relevant subjects: English Language, Geography, History, Health Science, Hausa and a pass in English Literature. Neither the original copy, Certified True Copy (CTC) nor statement of result of Major General M Buhari's WASC result is in his personal file.

I hope this explanation will put to rest the raging controversy surrounding the secondary school credentials of Major General Mohammed Buhari as it affects the Nigerian Army.

The bolded statement is unneccesary and malicious, how do they hope to possess the original copy, Certified True Copy (CTC) or the statement of result of any officer of the Nigerian army. It is obvious that only copies of certificates that should be with the army. The Army would have sighted the originals of all certificates presented before admission.

BackDatAssUp:
Despite its relative autonomy in those early years, NNPC was hopelessly inept. In the wake of allegations of massive fraud, including an improper withdrawal of more than $4b from the corporation’s accounts in the late 1970s, the newly elected President Shehu Shagari (1979-83) in March 1980 instituted a tribunal to probe allegations.

NNPC’s oversight and regulatory role over the industry was virtually non-existent, due to a combination of low capacity, sheer inaction, and simply a proclivity of the corporation to break the law.

Agreements with IOCs lay around for years without ratification, and the IOCs often acted as if the corporation never existed. NNPC’s accounting system was an unmitigated shambles; the corporation had never prepared and submitted audited accounts.

The industry under NNPC up to 1980 was so dismal that the tribunal— even with its full judicial powers to subpoena witnesses and information —could not reconcile crude oil production and sales figures from the various arms of government. The panel recommended the pruning of the power of NNPC and the streamlining of its operation for increased efficiency.

The limitation of the panel is underlined by the tribunal’s failure to summon Generals Obasanjo and Muhammadu Buhari, who as national ruler, and oil minister NNPC chairman respectively “supervised the NNPC and controlled oil sales during the period in question.

Now tell me truthfully, has the petroleum ministry and the NNPC change in terms of the parts i bolded. Is the NNPC more accountable, efficient and law abiding than 40 years ago? had anything changed?

Where did the report indict Buhari for directly being involved in the stealing of $2.8 billion (or is it $4 biilion). The report rightly listed what was wrong with NNPC then. The same commitee today would list exactly the same thing.

Is is amazing the way PDP/TAN tries to rewrite history. Nothing concerns the alleged missing $2.8billion with Buhari. The money was said to have been missing in 1978 when Obasanjo was head of state and Buhari was petroleum minister. Obasanjo set up a commitee to look into the allegations and it reported that no money was missing. Remember Fela's song on the episode, Fela laid the blame squarely on Obasanjo and did not even mention Buhari's name. How do you then link money that was alleged to have gone missing in 1978 to a coup that took place in 1983/84?

WHY IS NOBODY ASKING THE MOST RELEVANT QUESTION.

WHAT ABOUT DIESEL AND KEROSINE? WHY DID THE REDUCTION NOT AFFECT KEROSINE AND DIESEL ALSO?

My favourite high school drop out is Professor John Moffet. He was the first,if not the only the student to be admitted into Cambridge University for a Phd degree without first obtaining a bachelors degree. In fact he never completed high school. He got admission solely on the recomendation of Albert Einstein. He later rose to become a professor of Physics.

I will write his profile when i have time. Today is monday and there is work to do.

What About Kerosine, Diesel and aviation fuel? will their prices be reduced or we will continue to buy Kerosine at N120 per litre and Diesel at N150 per litre?

Let then talk about subsidy. At N87 per litre, is there still subsidy on petrol? Is GEJ still going to be doling out billions or is it trillions of naira to licenced importers? What is the amout paid to importers per litres now? What about the 2015 budget, how much is the petrol subsidy budgeted for this year? What about SUre-P, how much subsidy payments is going into Sure-P

Over to you TANoids, we need answers before we know wether to celebrate or continue crying.

[size=14pt]Winston Churchill[/size]
Winston Churchill was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945 and again from 1951 to 1955. Widely regarded as one of the greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, Churchill was also an officer in the British Army, a historian, a writer (as Winston S. Churchill), and an artist. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature, and was the first person to be made an honorary citizen of the United States.

At the start of the second world war in 1939, the then prime minister, Neville Chamberlain was forced to resign and General Winston Churchill was appointed prime minister to lead Britain to war with Nazi Germany. His steadfast refusal to consider defeat, surrender, or a compromise peace helped inspire British resistance, especially during the difficult early days of the war when the British Commonwealth and Empire stood alone in its active opposition to Adolf Hitler. Churchill was particularly noted for his speeches and radio broadcasts, which helped inspire the British people. He led Britain as Prime Minister until victory over Nazi Germany had been secured.

Independent and rebellious by nature, Churchill generally had a poor academic record in school, for which he was punished. He was educated at three independent schools: St. George's School, Ascot, Berkshire; Brunswick School in Hove, near Brighton (the school has since been renamed Stoke Brunswick School and relocated to Ashurst Wood in West Sussex); and at Harrow School from 17 April 1888. Within weeks of his arrival at Harrow, Churchill had joined the Harrow Rifle Corps.
Blenheim Palace, the Churchill family home

Winston started attending Harrow School, he was listed under the S's as Spencer Churchill. In his first year at Harrow he was recognized as being the best in his division for history, however, as the boy with the lowest grades in the lowest class, and he remained in that position. Winston never even made it into the upper school because he would not study the classics.

Rebellious by nature, he generally did poorly in school. Flunked sixth grade. After he left Harrow, he applied to the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, but it took him three times before he passed the entrance exam. He graduated 8th out of a class of 150 a year and a half later. He never attended college.

[size=14pt]Roman Abramovich[/size]

Roman Abramovich is a Russian businessman, investor and politician. He is currently ranked by Forbes as the 15th richest man in the world. He is the owner of Chelsea Football Club.

Roman Abramovich was born 24 October 1966, he was born into a Jewish family of Latvian origins in the southern Russian city of Saratov. During the Second World War his grandfather and grandmother were forced to leave Latvia, only to be repressed in the USSR. Abramovich’s mother, a musician, died when he was only 18 months old. When he was three, his father died in an accident at a construction site where he worked as a supplier.

Roman was raised in his uncles' families, living first in Ukhta, in the Komi Republic, and then in Moscow.
He attended simple state schools and was, at best, an average student. Information on his university education is controversial. Some sources suggest that he attended the Ukhta Industrial University, while others point to The Gubkin Russian State University of Oil and Gas in Moscow.

Both universities deny his attendance. In Abramovich’s official biography it is stated that he graduated from the Moscow State Law Academy in 2001, but rumours still circulate that he dropped out.

[size=14pt]Frank Lloyd Wright[/size]


Frank Lloyd Wright was an American architect, interior designer, writer, and educator, who designed more than 1,000 structures and completed 532. Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time.

Frank Lloyd Wright born in Richland Center, Wisconsin on June 8, 1867. His parents, William Cary Wright and Anna Lloyd-Jones, originally named him Frank Lincoln Wright, which he later changed after they divorced. When he was twelve years old, Wright's family settled in Madison, Wisconsin.

Frank Lloyd Wright Attended Madison High School. In 1885, he left Madison without finishing high school to work for Allan Conover , the Dean of the University of Wisconsin's Engineering department. While at the University, Wright spent two semesters studying civil engineering before moving to Chicago in 1887.

In Chicago, he worked for architect Joseph Lyman Silsbee. Wright drafted the construction of his first building, the Lloyd-Jones family chapel, also known as Unity Chapel. One year later, he went to work for the firm of Adler and Sullivan, directly under Louis Sullivan. Wright adapted Sullivan's maxim "Form Follows Function" to his own revised theory of "Form and Function Are One." It was Sullivan's belief that American Architecture should be based on American function, not European traditions, a theory which Wright later developed further. Throughout his life, Wright acknowledged very few influences but credits Sullivan as a primary influence on his career.

I am starting this series of people who changed the world and attained leadership position without having an academic degree, a lot are high (secondary) school drop outs. Although most of these people have poor academic background, they can be regarded as geniuses in their chosen career whether it is politics, business, religious or social sphere.

This series was initiated to counter the wrong notion held by Nigerians that acadenic qualification correlates to success in politics and business. This is the reason why Nigerians strive to accumulate academic degrees without acquiring the leadership skills neccessary to succeed in business and politics.

[size=14pt] John Major [/size]
John Major was elected on November 28, 1990 as England's prime minister after the resignation of Margret Thatcher. Major was Conservative Party leader until 1997 when he lost to Tony Blair and his Labour Party at the polls.

Major was born at St. Helier Hospital in Sutton, Surrey, the son of Gwen Major, née Coates, and former music hall performer Tom Major-Ball who was 64 years old when John was born.[3] He was christened John Roy Major but only "John" was recorded on his birth certificate. He used his middle name until the early 1980s.
Attended primary school at Cheam Common and from 1954.
Attended Rutlish School in Merton.

Major left school at the age of 16 in 1959 with three O-levels in History, English Language and English Literature. He later gained three more O-levels by correspondence course, in the British Constitution, Mathematics and Economics. His first job was as a clerk in the insurance brokerage firm Pratt & Sons in 1959. Disliking this job, he quit, and for a time he helped with his father's garden ornaments business along with his brother, Terry Major-Ball. Major joined the Young Conservatives in Brixton at this time.
Major was 19 years old when his father died at the age of 83 in 1962. His mother died eight years later in 1970 at the age of 65.

After a period of unemployment, Major started working at the London Electricity Board in 1963 which is where incidentally his successor as Prime Minister, Tony Blair, also worked when he was young. He later decided to undertake a correspondence course in banking. Major took up a post as an executive at the Standard Chartered Bank in May 1965 and he rose quickly through the ranks. He was sent to work in Jos, Nigeria by the bank in 1967 and he nearly died in a car accident there.

ochigboandy:
U just so dumb!

Typical TAN. Your 4 senseless posts gives you away easily. It seems there are no academic requirements whatsover to become a TAN.

What exactly are you insinuating? That a person without an academic degree is not fit to hold leadership position? Are you saying that no other qualification is valid except an academic qualification? You people are the real illiterates. I cannot believe that someone with an IQ beyond 50 can make these insinuations.

The most important academic qualification in any society is a secondary school certificate. Any body who possesses a secondary school certificate or its equivalent is deemed inteligent enough to pursue any career he/she wants to. The person can join the military. The person can even become a professional by taking professional exams like ICAN, NIA(Nigerian Institute of Architects), Institute of Personel Management and myriads of other professional bodies, without ever getting a university degree.

If you insist that only persons with University degrees are fit to become president of Nigeria, then you are excluding a large segment of the Nigerian population. You are excluding the retired Military personels from vying for office. All former military political office holders like governors, senators (including the senate president), etc have no other academic qualification save their secondary school certificate (WAEC).

So because you possess an academic qualification means you are smarter that all other Nigerians that don't? Do you even know what it takes to be a general or its equivalent in the Nigerian military? Ask others if you are ignorant. Before you gain promotion from one rank to the other you are obligated to take the courses and exams for the new rank you are vying for. The courses and exams are taken in foreign institutions with foriegn instructors, especially for the senior ranks. A soldier who fails is either not promoted or retired. To become a general is the hardest of all, you go for courses in the US, UK, India and some other countries. If you fail you most likely will bw retired. Believe me you people parroting illiterate can never pass these exams.

As i have said before, the people that have made and continue to make the most significant impact on the world possess very little academic qualifications.

coolscott:
The thing with power is production has increased but distribution is still a mess.
The new companies say they underestimated the mess the distribution network was.
They will sort it out eventually anyway.

By how much has the power production increased? How many new power plants was built by the GEJ administration?

Why is lies synonymous with Goodluck Jonathan. Even under Abacha regime, power generation never went below 2,500MW, except there was temporary system failure. Obasanjo left about 4,000 MW and after 8 years PDP is celebrating the same 4,000 MW.
Do you think all Nigerians are illiterates like your hero and heroine?

kayjasper:
I was in conversation with a United Nation official yesterday and we were talking about the acquisition of warships by ethnic militant Tompolo, in a country were our brave soldiers are being starved off equipment. He told me point blank that in every major conflict he has assessed or being involved in as a UN official it all started with one fellow choosing to ARM an ETHNIC MILITIA as against the national army of the country, sometimes deliberately depleting the army before the violence starts.

I first got reports of Niger Delta militant Asari Dokubo buying military helicopters and hardware from diplomatic intelligence sources about 2 years ago. Shortly after that he was arrested in Benin Republic but released upon the intervention of our government. What I can see is very clear, JONATHAN is leading an effort to create an alternate military force in the Niger Delta to force the hands of the generality of NIGERIANS when the time comes. How else can one explain Tompolo a man once declared wanted for killing our soldiers now effectively taking over the duties of our navy?

Where is all the money coming from? Do you think the arms are being bought for boat parade or regatta? No they are to kill NIGERIANS.

JONATHAN has never been able to rise to fill the position of the NIGERIAN Presidency, he acts like an ethnic war lord and at the rate he is going he is going to push us into the path of Liberian and Sierra Leone, while silly people are busy cheering him on.

I have taken it upon myself to write a letter of complaint and warning to the United Nations Secretary General to pay attention to what JONATHAN and his cohorts are doing in Nigeria, seemingly pushing the country closer to a violent ethnic crisis.

This crisis would consume the entire African continent if not checked.

This morning I received this in my in box, and I couldn't help but shudder that we are dealing with really devious human beings who have mistakenly found themselves in power. Their attitude and body language says it all:

"I'm really amused that we are all screaming murder years after the deed was done? It's well over 3 years that I have been screaming the overall plans and strategies of the south-south vs the behemoth Nigeria, i.e, their eventual emancipation! For the sake of many who have not read or few who have taken these posts as scare mongering by Oyenuga Lanre Paul, I'll re summarise them here. To free their region of the shackles of endless exploitation and domination by the rest of Nigeria, the south-south decided as follow:

1). Cripple the Nigerian Army's capacities to engage in sustained warfare: thus the encouragement of BH and decimation of the army's hardware and personnel.

2). Ensure Nigeria is economically destitute and unable to spend on warfare: thus the unprecedented looting of the treasury, resulting in our current vulnerability. Okonjo Iweala is not 'coordinating' for nothing.

3). Is the military takeover of our coastal waters by the south-south, which is what the coastal waterways protection contract with Government Tompolo was designed to guarantee. Let no one be deceived, less than 0.5% of our military, (including naval and air force) personnel can swim in an 8 foot deep pool, not to mention a river or coastal waters. Thus, how do you engage these toughened militia in their coastal waters, when we couldn't tackle BH in plain view?

4th). Is the intense frustrations of the oil producing companies by the south southerners nouveau-riche to hand over the onshore production bases to them by forced sale or outright disruption of their operations. As we chat here, 70% of the onshore operations have been sold off by the major players like shell, Mobil, etc.

As well as the training of ex militants as pilots under amnesty Anyone doubting my claims of warning about these can browse through my timeline.

IF THE SOUTH-SOUTH PULLS OUT TODAY, WE ARE SITTING DUCKS! The South-East are tagging along with the south-south, for obvious reasons

Thank you my brother for seeing the obvious truth. I had been screaming since the amnesty program started that the jonathan version of the amnesty program is just a guise of creating an alternative army, to be deployed after the tenor of the present administration - either 2015 or 2019. Jonathan is creating an alternative army and navy by arming over 26,000 ijaw youths.

It is a pity the Igbos and some south south tribes are cheer leading him on, they would be the first to bear the brunt of the Ijaw army when they start enforcing the Kaiama declaration.

I believe Jonathan's refusal to attack the Boko Haram Insurgency is a delibrate ploy to weaken the military and the Nigerian state.

With Boko Haram in the North and Ijaw Militants in the south Nigeria is indeed sitting on a keg of gun powder

Remarkable:
people

When people say the world is laughing at us cause of GEJ, I ask myself, what will they do when /if Buhari was the one ruling... they'll probably weep for us.

Chineke ekwela... its GEJ we know! Bst president we have ever had; no matter what the north want to do to blackmail this hard working man... whom God has blest? (if you don't know the response, na your won problem lol)

So did the world weep for us in 1984 when Buhari was ruling us?

Who Knows GEJ? TAN, Government officials, Ijaw militants? It is you TAN brigade that is blackmailing other Nigerians and not the other way round.

GEJ is the most incompetent president the world has ever withnessed. He refuses to take responsibility for any thing. He abdicates his responsibilities to others in the pantheon of presidents

Dahjhi:
This is what always happens in our politics which I failed to understand.. Vice(s) n deputies having resonable certs than thier bosses... Same happened with Aregbe nd Tomori of osun state... A zoologist to An Arch, A lawyer deputizing a Waec holder... Something is going wrong

It is not only in politics, this also happens in Business. The CEO's of the biggest companies in Nigeria and indeed the world almost always has less academic qualifications than his deputies and staff. Dangote without a Bachelors degree has many PHD holders as drivers. Even Warren Buffet without a high school certificate has many professors on his pay roll.

If you study history, you will realize that the people who had the most significant effect in societies had no outstanding academic qualification.

Leader ship qualities is inate, it cannot be taught at a university

Richard6:
Nigerians will never see beyond their eyes, we usually reason in parallel pattern. During elections, all these politicians will emerge with their chameloenic colours, going from place to place in disguise, saying impossible things and making empty promises, playing good saints, good fathers and mothers and blind-folding the ignorant ones, etc.

Are you not a Nigerian? or are you a rare breed of Nigerian that see beyond their eyes? Beside how does one see beyond his/her eyes?

All politicians make promises, sometimes empty promises, the key is to hold these politicians to their promises and vote them out if they fall short of expectations.

Am not here to side anybody or support anybody but let the truth be told. Everybody is shouting CHANGE! CHANGE!!. Everybody is condeming Jonathan's administration as if its the worst administration in Nigeria political history. Everybody is shouting CORRUPTION! CORRUPTION!!.

You are supporting jonathan. I am certain you are a TAN, because you are spewing the same lies and propaganda TAN brigade has been churning out since Buhari became a formidable opponent. Everybody is shouting change because change is what Nigeria needs right now. We cannot continue along the path we had been going the past 15 years. Even in advanced countries, the people clamour for change after a party had been in power for up to 10 years, even if the party is doing well. It is only in Africa and third world countries that a party or leader will remain in power for 40 years without any change.

Bokoharam has made it openly that the only person they will listen to and stop their evil attacks on Nigerians is Buhari. If Buhari so much loves this country, must he have to wait til he becomes the President before he speaks to Bokoharam to stop their terorism? What is more corrupt than seeing what is right which you can do for your country and you leave it because you are not the president? Is that not wickedness and corrupt?

Please provide us with a link to where Boko Haram said they will only listen to orders from Buhari before they stop attacks on Nigeria, Nigerians, Emirs, Mosques, churches, markets, garages, etc.

if you think all that is neccessary to stop the Boko haram insurgency is a word from Buhari, then i think you are living in a dream world.

Am not saying Jonathan is better, am not campaigning for Jonathan, I may not even vote that day but lets be wise. The country may not be what we expected it to be..Yes but Nigeria is such a big country that is so corrrupt since 1960 even when Buhari was the President, so why is it the bone of contention? Somone lost election and said the country will be in problem and ungovernable...is this supposed to be coming from a good person or a corrupt-free-man? To wipe corruption away from this country is not as easy as people think not to talk of when you have oppositions fighting the president of a nation. Every conutry has what its known for which can never be changed no matter who is the President.

You are blabbing here and there with no sense whatsoever. Who told you Nigeria was so corrupt since 1960? were you born then? Yes few officials were corrupt back then, but majority of Nigerians back then were honest and corrupt free. Nobody accused the Gowon administration of being corrupt, nobody accused the Muritala/Obasanjo Government of corruption, it was during the 2nd republic government of Shagari that corruption started to spread like cancer. Buhari's government attempted to stem corruption already taking root in Nigeria (yes he used some Draconian and Machavellian methods). but IBB condorned and promoted corruption. By the time the civilan administration of Obasanjo came to power, corruption had already taken root and became part of Nigeria's culture. Obasanjo made very little dent in fighting corruption, but it is this Government that promoted corruption to the level of run away corruption we have today. Jonathan is just not interested is fighting corruption but instead is actively promoting it.

Politicians now go about doing things they know they cant do if not because they want people to vote for them. Am sure somebody like Atiku would have come to east and west, visit all the villages in the east and west, meet all the Igbos and Yorubas, eat and dine with them if he had won APC primaries. Can Atiku on a normal day come to East or West to do all these things. Buhari is now a good man, friend of the Igbos and Nigerians but he has the power to stop Bokoharam from killing the innocent Nigerians yet he wont do it because he wants to use it as political means of getting to the presidency or because he is not the president. Wasting of innocent blood and corruption..which one do you prefer? If Nigerians are afraid that if Jonathan remains in power, that Bokoharam will never stop...take it from me..ONE DAY the innocent blood that are being wasted in this country will definitely come fight for JUSTICE.

Senseless blabbing. Did Atiku not contest presidential elections in 2007? Did he not meet with Igbos and Yoruba then? I am at loss what this your post is all about, apart from showing hatred for Buhari and Atiku

Let us be wise, let us vote wisely..vote and support whom your conscience says you should vote and support. There is no Government wothout corruption and there is no Government that will ever be free of corruption so long this country NIGERIA is concerned.

Although no government can be 100% corrupt free, no government promote corruption like the present one. Which other president in the world had ever said corrupt people should not be sent to jail. Governments the world over tries to fight corruption and reduce it to the barest minimum. Here the government dont even view stealing of public funds by officials as a crime.

How is yam pounding by women a campaign issue? Are women complaining that men are forcing them to pound yam? or is yam pounding a manifesto of APC?
There is hardly any working class or business woman that physically pound yam for her husband or even herself. Even city housewives do not bother ponding yam. The decision of who to pound yam lies with the family and not the president. The president cannot direct all Nigerian women to stop pounding yam.

Also about Baby factory. The decison to have babies, how many babies and not to have babies at all does not lie with the president but the individual Nigerian families. So i do not understand how this can be a campaign issue.

If Patience cannot give Goodluck children, that is their personal problem, it has nothing to do with Nigerian women in general.

Buhari denied me the chance of seeing my father in the early stage of my life. He arrested and detained Fela in Kirikiri for the same number of years I was growing up without a father,

I am confused by the above statement. Abeg how long was fela in Kirikiri and how long did Buhari rule as head of state? Fela was lock up for barely one year abd Seun is saying that Buhari denied him the chance of seeing his father in the early days of his life and so he grew up without a father. I just dont get it.

If Seun is bitter because he did not see his father for one year, what does he want Mandela children to say?

If General Buhari is too old for public office at 73, how come Doyin Okupe is still holding public office? How old is Dr. Doyin Okupe? I had tried searching for Dr. Okupe's history online but i came out blank. It seems Dr Okupe is hiding is profile from the public.

I suspect Dr Okupe cannot be less than 65 years old. He may be even up to 70 years.

"Before 2011 nobody voted with voters card, people vote themselves, but in 2015 people are getting voters card"

This is the most senseless statement i have ever heard. If people did not vote with voters card, what did they vote with? What does people vote themselves mean? Is he saying he won the last elections without valid voters and valid votes? I am sure he meant nobody had permanent voters card, but people were able to vote with temporary voters cards.

"Arresting corrupt people will not stop corruption"

So what should be done with people caught for corrupt practices? Reward them? It is like saying arresting people with not stop armed robbery. Very stupid statement.

"Somebody says he will catch people and throw them to kikikiri"

Kirikiri was built for a reason, or should kirikiri be closed down and demolished? Buhari said he would catch corrupt people( convicted by the courts of course) and throw them into kirikiri (prison). In China they do worse to corrupt people, they kill them.

"There is nothing like corruption any more, There is no corruption in the military"

Did he really say Nigeria is now corruption free? I do not believe he said that while remaining sober.

"Nigeria ladies so you want to vote to go back to the kitchen and DIE there or you want to liberate yourself"

Librate themselves from who? Who had been holding Nigerian ladies back in the kitchen all these while? It certainly cannot be Buhari, because the General Left government 30 years ago. PDP has been at the helms of government for 15 years, so any liberation at all would be from the PDP.

"Okah was procured from South Africa to assassinate me on October 1st"- Jonathan

How come we are hearing this for the first time? I thought he said the attack was carried out by some northern leaders and not MEND, who are his brothers that he knows. How come even the south african courts did not accuse henry okah of plotting to assasinate the Nigerian president. It seems President Jona is looking for sympathy here.

President Goodluck Jonathan has absolved the Movement for Emancipation of the Niger Delta, MEND of complicity in the bomb blasts which claimed over scores of lives as the country was celebrating its golden jubilee independence anniversary in Abuja yesterday.

In his first public reaction to the bomb blasts which took place less than a kilometre away from Eagle Square where he was inspecting a military parade in commemoration of the nation’s 50th independence anniversary yesterday, President Jonathan said terrorists were behind the deadly explosions and not MEND.

However, MEND had not only claimed responsibility for the deadly attacks, the militant had in an e-mail messages to some media houses warned of the impending attacks and advising people to evacuate areas close to the venue of the independence celebrations about an hour before the explosions went off.

Contrary to this claim,President Jonathan however absolve the group of responsibility for the attacks in his address at a colloquium in Abuja by the ECOWAS Parliament.

Jonathan, at the event which was organised to celebrate African countries which are also marking their golden jubilee anniversary this year also delared that MEND is not a terrorist group.

“What happened yesterday was a terrorist act and MEND was just used as a straw; MEND is not a terrorist group,” the President said.

Source - http://www.pmnewsnigeria.com/2010/10/02/mend-not-responsible-for-bomb-blasts-jonathan/

But today President Jonathan called MEND a terrorist group that was sent to assasinate him. When did become a terrorist group according to the president?

This is a DSS that was disgraced by Ogwuche in court after the Federal government spent so much resources to extradite from Sudan. This is the same DSS that we expect would have enough evidence to successfully prosecute a case of "planing to Hack" INECs database.

Multiple registration where? in a church, an association, a political party or INEC? So in this case, who is the complainant? I still ask what laws have APC broken by multiple registration of its own members?

Furthermore, Mr Agbaje warned that Niger Delta Ijaw militants could shut the country's economy down if President Goodluck Jonathan was not returned to power next month.

I used to have very high regards for Mr Agbaje, until the above statement. If Mr. Agbaje telling the over 60million registered Nigerian voters that they must vote for Jonathan out of fear of Ijaw militants? Is he saying people should no longer vote out of conviction but out of fear?

I am sure he will be the first to scream Genocide if Buhari is elected and he takes on the militant and their supporters with full military might. If Buhari apply the Odi treatment, all the people talking tough now, will change tone and scream, genocide against defenseless civilians.

Samchelsea:
This is what we call killing your critics with your actions
I bet you 80% of people against this revelation don't even know the implication of what APC just did but surely as times goes on their eyes will be cleared because the truth is being unraveled day by day

Please make that 99%. I have no idea of the implication of what APC did, can you educate us?

What is the DSS's concern with multiple registration of APC members by APC? Can Mrs Olga please quote the sections of the law that APC broke and the punishment for such offense?