By CLEM AGUIYI
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It’s only proper that I begin this postmortem on the Buhari interview by offering him my sincere congratulations on his 70th birthday and also to condole with him on the death of his daughter. May God grant him peace. I can’t tell if my article entitled ‘’2015: Why Buhari will not be president’’ prompted the General to bare it all in his rare but exclusive interview with Saturday Sun of December 22, 2012, but I must however, admit that this week column was inspired by the said interview, hence this attempt at postmortem.
More so, a fellow who claimed to have burnt his voters card because Buhari could not win the 2011 election called me to say that rather than write on ‘’Why Buhari will not be president’’ I should have written: ‘’How Buhari can be president.” Perhaps, this fellow and the Buhari 70th birthday interview added more impetus to my resolve to do this postmortem. In the said interview, Buhari spoke extensively on the N2.8billion missing oil money, 53 suitcases , the War Against Indiscipline, Decree 4, the killing of three drug barons etc.
I align completely with the General on the desirability of the WAI campaign and its lasting impact on Nigerians; many years since after the WAI campaign indiscipline and corruption remain our biggest problems. I also agree with the General that the so-called missing N2.8billion, which Fela Kuti sang about and the 53 suitcases are all stubborn rumours fuelled and sustained by mischief makers. I see no truth in them either . From independence, the Nigeria nation has had the misfortune of having too many ignorant people in power who had no qualms unleashing wicked corruption and plundering of its resources.
Political and military leaders were corrupt, crimes are seen by many as a legitimate avenue for advancement and people in search of solutions turn inwards to ethnic prejudice and religious bigotry. Buhari was an exception; he wasn’t among the brand of raiders who plundered and ruined the nations treasury. I therefore, have no doubt as to whether he was being truthful by his own account of the N2.8billion and 53 suitcases. But I was concerned that in the said interview he blew golden chances and opportunities to expand his political support base, win new converts and present himself as a civilised alternative to inept and incompetent leadership. Some aspect of the interview left me disappointed. the poor attempt to justify Decree ‘4’ fell flat on the face.
Decree 4 remained an ill-conceived law, which his regime could have done without. Journalists as whistle blowers report, inform and educate the public; it is not their responsibility to go to court to prove corruption allegations and cases against public servants. Decree 4 was not just a draconian law targeting media practitioners, it was an anachronistic and unjust law, which ought not to have been formulated. Buhari’s handlers did not do a good job in preparing him for the big future. Nigerians are openly sick and tired of arrogant leaders that sees nothing wrong in their past misdeeds even when such mistakes are obvious and glaring. I expected General Buhari to be able to split between power and moral right; to be able to look back and from hindsight acknowledge that Decree ‘4’ was unnecessary.
I expected him to have used the opportunity of the rare interview to apologise for that obnoxious law that jailed journalists. I had wished to see a Buhari that will in discussing Decree ‘4’ project into the future and advance a case for a more open governance, as against the Official Secrecy Act, canvass support for an expanded Freedom of Information (FOIB), which are a direct opposites of Decree ‘4’. On Decree 20, which resulted the execution of the three convicted citizens, Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26), was nothing but an executive murder.
To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry capital punishment at the time it was committed. I believed then that the military government was wrong and I remain unconvinced by this recent justification of the sordid and absurd event. For those opposed to the killing, our angst is not because we are unmindful of the established dangers of drug trafficking and distribution to the society but on the moral right of making such a retroactive law that carries the weight of capital punishment. In that execution the Buhari’s government was only in a hurry to prove or score a point rather than resolving any problem.
It obviously does no good to Buhari’s future presidential prospect for him to continue to justify what was wrong simply because it was a collective decision of a junta led by him. An outright apology will not bring back the three killed drug barons but would have portrayed Gen. Buhari as a better enlightened leader who will not repeat the same past mistakes if given another chance. I am therefore, dismayed to see Buhari walk himself right into the same situation with General Ibrahim Babangida (as per June 12 annulment) with the hope that Nigerians will judge him fairly.
Buhari, in the interview, made allusions to his being a deeply religious man without expanding on his tolerance of other faiths in a pluralistic democracy. In Nigeria, the term deeply religious unfortunately connotes different meanings. In recent time the growth of radical Islam has become a major threat to the peace and security of the nation. Every week several members of the radical Islamic sect, Boko Haram, are captured and killed by security forces but the Islamists have no trouble attracting new recruits from within the impoverished Muslim North. In crude terms, the rate of production of Islamists prepared to turn to terrorism is greater than that at which they are being killed and captured.
Whether Buhari is that leader that will eventually quench the deep reservoir of hatred and desire for revenge brewing up across the length and breadth of Nigeria, especially in the North, remain unclear. I nevertheless expect northern leaders like Buhari to be able to speak out strongly against Boko-Haram, that the Boko Haram messages are not Koranic but heretical and does not represent true Islamic fervor. I expect him to be able to lead or join efforts that will dilute the ideology of extremism among Northern youths so as to decrease the support for the Boko Haram model among radicalized Muslims. Generally, the Buhari interview is a welcome development for his supporters and I wish him luck.
As we all say goodbye to 2012 , a year that impressed no one, I wish to urge my fellow compatriots not to lose hope in the future of Nigeria, even though the nation may be ‘suffering from some kind of national psychosis with our social system shattered on its knees like a bruised and battered elephant staggering towards an abyss with the ground crumbling under its feet. Will it fall?’. Yes, the current leadership may not have invented all of Nigeria’s problems but it has helped squander the time and opportunities required to repair its broken state; it is not true that the Nigerian project is so far gone that it cannot be rebuilt or built even better. All that stands in the way is a clear plan and clear resolve on our part and the clear understanding that we have no need for further misplaced efforts. I want to believe, as Goodluck Jonathan said, that 2013 will be better, especially after his single plea that we judge his performance at the end of the 2013 magical year.
For years, we have talked and talked about corruption and poor leadership but many times when we have the opportunity to make a change we fail woefully. Time and again that path forward has been blocked, not only by the corrupt political class and biased electoral umpire but by our lack of political courage and candor to stand by our conscience. The bleak and menacing future beclouding us will not vanish by itself and this is a future we do not wish to consign to our children. To reshape our destiny is not an idea too big or too difficult to achieve if we think of tomorrow, try and work harder for the future. We must sustain the hope and believe in a brighter future for this nation for it is our faith in the future that will sustain us as a people.
The security challenge we face today is not the last battle we will fight as a nation; the corruption we fight now will not be the last time we hear of the epidemic; the bad leaders we have will not be the last of the vultures; we have been through crisis; we have been through many rough roads and through a vicious civil war and we survived them all because we believed in the future of one Nigeria, one nation. Obstacles will come, there will be storm but we must continue to hold on to our unity and unyielding faith that by tomorrow, sooner or later, better and brighter days will come.
No chance in hell.
Dats not so good. Mistake here and dere and far fetch. Killin 3 convicted ppl is by far better dan wat we are wetnessin today. U choose to give more emphasis on what u feel is the negetive side thats wy u dont have much to talk about as against the mountain of postives- unequal by any livin leader we had.
balakuv, you are so wrong in your first sentence brother man; when you take life just because you wanna prove a point is very wrong. Those people he killed with retroactive decree did not stop or slowed drug trafficking in Nigeria.
He killed those guys to show that he had power; and what goes around will surely come around, he lost a daughter recently right? one down two to go unless he ask for forgiveness from Allah.
Wale, you will also die one day when the time comes and we all will die at our set time….Buhari’s daughter died at her time. Babaluv is right to some extent bcos when Buhari govt was discontinued by IBB, subsequent govt did not take penalty to prevent drug trafficking seriously so the consequences are obvious today.
It is quite clear that buhari is part of the problem, it will only remain the dumb ones who will not see the true colour of buhari. Why make this presidential thing a matter of life and death? Why shed so much blood through boko haram to achieve his aim of getting to be president of nig? Why is he so greedy? There are only three types of ppl who want him to be president, those who don’t understand the type of person he is, those not inteligent enough to use their own minds and his boko haram and their other supportes and sympatisers. And for those who are saying that he is not corrupt, where did he get all the money he is using in all his campaigns? he only retired as a soldier how much is his pension? Didn’t he say that blood will flow if he did not become president and that is happening now.
You as as ignorant as your statement. You are even dumber than Buhari supporters by voting for this clueless GEJ. If you dont know that Boko Haram is just another bad creation by PDP, those mentioned and quizzed so far happens to be serving PDP senators. Have you heard of what politicians called campaign contribution? Buhari ran a people oriented campaign and not a rented crowd as done by PDP. Show Nigerians who Buhari bribed in the course of his campaign? Can this be said of GEJ and PDP? We all know how that frog-eyed lady in charge of Petroleum Ministry forced oil marketers to cough out N50/liter to finance GEJ’s campaign. Don’t be gullible, just wake up from your slumber and ignorance.
I quite agreed with you
Why should you agree with such dumb explanation. Going by your name you will support anything Buhari. Please note that he will never ruled Nigeria as one again.
How much did you contribute to his campaign? And who are the other contributors? If there are other contributors why are they doing it in secret and if buhari is not corupt why accept money from corupt ppl to fund his campaigns? I still insist that the way he is going about this thing gave him out. The writer is wasting his time advising buhari because a leopard will not change it’s colour by dipping itself in water
Yes, he did not say that blood will flow if he did not become president. And what is happening now is the actualisation of the statement created by those who are bent on retaining power at all cost. The bloodbath in Nigeria today, is a creation of those in governance. They recruit the killers and give them a detailed brief on what to do and where to strike.
The government and its agents promoted the non existent statement that “Buhari called for bloodshed”.
The same way a hit gang is created to terrorize the country. Thus giving a semblance to what was used to dent Buhari’s profile.
Those of us that know him will never forgive the state for creating this confusion.
It is quite clear that buhari is part of the problem, it will only remain the dumb ones who will not see the true colour of buhari. Why make this presidential thing a matter of life and death? Why shed so much blood through boko haram to achieve his aim of getting to be president of nig? Why is he so greedy? There are only three types of ppl who want him to be president, those who don’t understand the type of person he is, those not inteligent enough to use their own minds and his boko haram and their other supportes and sympatisers. And for those who are saying that he is not corrupt, where did he get all the money he is using in all his campaigns? he only retired as a soldier how much is his pension? Didn’t he say that blood will flow if he did not become president and that is happening now…
WHICH WAY NIGERIA.
While the world looks towards American young Obama for leadership and not Papa McCain or Romney,young British Cameron and not Gordon,our Igbo-Nigerian British young Shadow Business Secretary Chuka Umunna(MP),1st Black Polish MP and a young Igbo-Nigerian,the country is busy celebrating the continuous governance of the country by the ruling old and stylishly wiping away of the young generation.
While the world has moved on with attempts to carry the young along and tapping into the wide and modern intelligence of the young and as well appreciating the old,the Nigerian ruling old wants everything for themselves and by themselves and forever.
Why would the ruling class be talking about the growth and future of the young while President Jonathan at his age and having served as Governor,Vice President and President,still wants to be the Nigerian Mugabe ?
How would the young grow while Obasanjo who served as a military Head of State,Civilian President,the ruling party’s(PDP)Chairman of the Board of Trustees is still kicking to be in leadership for life.
At a very old age,Anenih who has been in corridor of power was appointed by President Jonathan to Chair the powerful Nigerian Ports Authority board.
Babangida and Buhari who bulldozed their way to leadership as Heads of State,are still hungry to return to the newly refurbished Aso Rock.
After 33 years,Bamanga Tukur who was Gongola State Governor,is still the ruling PDP chairman.
Governor Peter Obi who miraculously was installed by the APGA machinery,still keeps Nwa-Obualor,his aged trouble shooting agent in his leadership circle.
What is Martin Elechi doing in power as the Ebonyi State Governor at the age of 80years while the educated and unemployed youths are either selling scratch MTN cards or busy gaining employment from the recruiting kidnapping industry.
If David Jonah Jang was a one time Governor of Benue State,why is he still in power as the Governor of Plateau State.
How is Ogbonnaya Onu helping out if after serving as the Governor of Abia State,remain the one and only ANPP national Chairman.
How about Major General David Mark,who was Governors of Niger and Ogun States,and 28years after,the Senate President.
After 36years,Former Governor Murtala Nyako of Niger State is today,Adamawa State Governor.
With the bitterness in the youth of today over this systematic style by the corrupt selfish old brigade,to keep crushing the hope for the tomorrow’s,the struggling poor and the wiped away middle-class,do we now see why the youth are into Boko,kidnapping and other criminal activities.
Dr Chris Ngige after ruling Anambra State is still after another Governorship ticket at the age of over 60 yrs. My question to them is when are they going to retire and enjoy their looted money. I urge the youths to hold on tight to their votes and never allow it to slip away. Think of good governance and think of youths in power.
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All Commentators here should understand that only God is perfect. God grants men grace to function in some dimension of God’s attributes. The type of leadership any nation seeks is dependent on the problems being faced by the nation. What Nigeria needs today is a president that is visionary, courageous, problem solver, truthful, detribalised, committed to ensure the laws of the land are adhered to and lead with the fear of God. It is not that we lack men and women bestowed with these qualities but honestly the political class preferred to instal mediocres in other to continue to live the type of lives bigger than the nation at the detriment of all. It will be interesting if we have the likes of Donald Duke, Pat Utomi, Ribadu, Elrufai, Ekwesilesi, Folashola etc line up in 2015; the election will be interesting. These are detribalized and have been courageous in taking decision within the their influence: either good or bad. GEJ should just help in conducting a free and fair election so that he will ever be remebered with his name written in gold. The issue with GEJ, he likes to consult everyone considered as important and at the end decision is watered down. He got there with luck and the day to day running of govt is beyond luck which its clear he cannot handle.
Chairman, your position is straight to the root of the matter. Honestly, the interview of the General exposed so much, especially those intelligent enough to use their minds. He is portrayed by his supporters as General Saint with Zero tolerance on corruption. Yet neither his supporters nor himself has told us where he got all the money he has been using to single-handedly fund political party for years running. I ask it again, “General, where did you get all the money you are using to fund your political ambition? Since, as one said in the last forum, that you do not even own a house in Abuja, who are your sponsors? Why should you keep your sponsors secret? If your sponsors are faceless, won’t you mortgage Nigeria to your sponsors if your ambition sails through? No person gives our curious minds the answer!
(2) On his Achievement as North East Governor
Asked, what his major achievements were in the North East as governor. He answered, “I think the way the state was divided into three…” Is that all he could remember he did? It was then Borno, Bauchi and Gongola. Now they are Yobe, Tarab, Bauchi, Gombe, Adamawa and Taraba; and these are the hot spots of Boko Haram.
If there is problem in Nigeria today, it is from this North East, which Buhari governed. It was because he laid wrong foundation. All he achieved for the people was their division without interest in Western Education, when himself studied in UK. Hear him, “In April 1962, I went to the United Kingdom (UK), Mons Officers Cadet School.” “The interest was built while I was in secondary school …when General Hassan was in Sandhurst, we were in secondary school in Kaduna. His father, the Emir of Katsina, Usman Nagogo, used to ask him to go and talk to the senior students who were in form four to six, to get them interested in the military. And we were told that he deliberately wanted a military cadet unit in Kaduna Secondary School. Then, it was limited to Federal Government Colleges or Government Colleges and we had a military cadet unit, which I joined.”
Our Northern brothers should fall back on likes of Buhari and ask him why he failed to give others the opportunity wonderful, visionary leaders like the Emir of Katsina and his son General Hassan had for the young men like him. They should pause for once and think.
Buhari, should admit he failed his people in his time as one of the few enlightened fine Northern military officers. It is clear that the problem of North East/Boko Haram is illiteracy and religious demonism. If Buhari, gave the people the opportunity that Emir of Kaduna gave to people like him, we wouldn’t have what we have today in the North East. They were all channeled to Western kind of education and Western military training that promoted discipline in him, but he couldn’t lay that same foundation in the people, creating the loophole for the rooting of Islamic radicalism.
He should first admit his failures in many parts of his involvement in political administrations – regional and national, and then we could begin to take him a little more seriously. Take the interview from any angle, his worldview shows a man that lacked sound political, moral and economic judgments. He could have been one of the finest military men, but not on the political turf.
D’ Lord’s B, we had a deal towards Ndigbo in 2015 and i have not seen u work in that line. All u have been doing is spending all of ur time to condemn those perceived as enemies and also to deform a good known character. 2015 will come and go, you will be crying foul against Ndigbo later. U are sleeping right now and good at blaming others as the cause of your sleep. Where i differ from u is that if God gave grace to someone to have certain positive attributes, pls acknowledge and appreciate such so that such will be attracted and flow around u …If all u do is to deform characters, it will be difficult to see a credible Ndigbo candidate since by principle they will never ever be attracted near people like u and u may not even recognise them when u see one!
Thank you so much for conceding that Ndigbo should present a credible son acceptable to all Nigerians for 2015 as a deal. I hope that every other person on this forum should join with you, being one of the finest voices of the fine General Buhari. You could elucidate more. You only came to this “deal” because you read sense into our presentation. That is how we are challenging our people to become organized and to stop running around GEJ or even Buhari as beggars, playing second fiddle. I hope you could help me tell them that at least there are non-Igbos like you who are willing to cast their votes if a credible Igbo son is presented to Nigerians for 2015. I hope that GEJ would agree with you and throw his weight behind it. I hope Tinubu would agree with you and offer ACN platform. I hope Buhari would agree with you and throw his weight, announcing that CPC has ceded the office of the Presidential candidate to Ndigbo come 2015, and that all that remains is for Ndigbo to present a credible candidate. Being the founder of the party, Buhari could instill discipline on the candidates. The tide would turn. Let this fine man, say to Nigerians, “Come 2015, Buhari will use all his might to support Ndigbo under CPC platform.” Then you will see if there are credible men or not among tens of millions of Ndigbo. Money matters in this issue.
Secondly, my brother, there is no element of defamation of character in any of my propositions or opposition. They are all about issues, not a person. I acknowledge what WAI did, ethically, to the Nigerian polity under Buhari-Idiagbon junta. Who castigates Murtala Muhammed. In six months, he engraved his name in gold. No person cares where he came from.
But to shortcut a simple question about Buhari continues to gender contentions. He wants to be President of Nigeria under a democratic dispensation when people are quite enlightened. People born when he was the military governor of NE or even 1978 when he was the Minister of Petroleum can only judge him by history; and he needs to answer them. Think about the two issues now raised here. (1) Where did the General get his funding for political ambition in a place like Nigeria that is money driven? It is just morally right that he gives the answer. Abati came up and implied it was ghosts (since GEJ knew nothing about it) that flooded Abuja with GEJ’s NO VACANCY posters and the issue was doused. If Buhari cannot give the simple answer of his source of funds or sponsors, then he could not be seen from a different perspective as the thieving politicians we have today. That is not a defamation of character. Is it my good brother?
(2) If the General did for the North East what General Hassan and Emir of Katsina did for him – He said they were persuaded to pick up military careers and given Western Education, do you think we would have the problem in the North East as they are today? Tell me of a truth, which part of the North is the most backward educationally, North West, North Central or North East? Where is the haven of this problem trying to tear Nigeria apart? In any society that is sane, you look back to those who governed the areas and bring them to justice. He made a retroactive law to brutally teach drug pushers lesson. What if the six states of the North East brave it to review their past and reason for backwardness as many claim is the reason for Boko Haram struggle, definitely, Buhari should be called to answer for his period of stewardship because he is alive. Awo is still revered in the West for entrenching education in the West.
All I am saying is that you people should look beyond the surface and make right judgment. If we do not spend time to answer you back we promote ineptitude. When we are marketing somebody, or somebody is marketing himself, he should be ready to listen to divergent voices. It is not a casting aspersion to pick up issues raised by the contender or gladiator. Even the Lord Jesus asked His disciples, “Whom do men say I am” before He asked them particularly, “who do you say I am”
Buhari has had stints on governance at regional and national levels with flawed judgments from analysis of all his postulated achievements. Obama was forced by the Congress to drop Rice, the fine ambassador of US for the top job of Secretary of State because of Benghazi incident that led to the death of American Ambassador to Libya. Sound judgment on vital issues matter and one flawed judgment could spell political doom. We are not picking up on General Buhari as a person but his judgments. He raised up issues. Literate society go back to history to corroborate or disclaim a contenders position and self acclaims.
So, my brother, we are not wasting our time writing rejoinders or proposing equity in the polity. God bless the age we are in. At least you can read my thoughts. Now on a forum like this, we can make our little informed opinion about one who wants to be our President. If it could readjust the mindset of a couple of electorates then we are happy. Some of us want people like you to stop a little bit and think more.. Together, we would bequeath the generations after us a great nation where opinions matter. I love your stand, especially ethical stand. But then we need some deeper judgment based on wider range of issues. I hope we would one day meet outside this forum
D Lord’s B, i understand u..I will support a credible Ndigbo candidate anyday because naturally an igbo man is a goal getter and hard working. My worries with Ndigbo when it comes to Power and election is that they have no strategy. Buhari may not be interested as a candidate for 2015 but opposition will not want him quite because with him u can easily be assured of getting very reasonable votes in the north, same for South West with Tinubu but u can hardly name any ndigbo son that can pull 40% of igbo votes outside the manipulation /rigging power of PDP. In the way the igbo governors supported GEJ with the do or die mode is needed for the igbo cause. Unfortunately each of the current governors would want to be nominated as President and none of them is credible. For me, it is easier for a Buhari or a Tinubu to support a credible ndigbo candidate than for any of the current ndigbo governors to support any credible ndigbo candidate outside them. If Jonah gives lots of dollars to the ndigbos in PDP to support him and to abandon the credible ndigbo candidate of an opposition, they will easily do so. You can be rest assured that if Jonah emerged as PDP flagbearer and the oppostions got it right in merging with an obvious credible candidate. Over 65% of the votes in the north and SW might be cast for opposition but are u sure of SS and SE based on the strong affinity for Jonah even in the face of his cluelessness. This is why the oppostion may be afraid of nominating the ndigbo in 2015. They may want to take a risk for no 2 or no 3 position. NDIGBO should go sit and work out a clear workable strategy and agenda that can be easily supported by other tribes.
My good friend, Usabram, I cannot say otherwise as you submitted here. If you could read my posts that directly affect Ndigbo and the Nigerian project on other issues of national importance you will understand we are fighting this battle from all fronts. GEJ’s plans are simple: Buy over SE and SS, split Northern bloc vote and pick up some from S/W. You cannot beat Buhari’s clout in the North, nor Tinubu’s in the West. It did not take Buhari many months to establish CPC to give PDP the run for their money. ACN now firmly holds to the West. Imagine what it would look like in 2015 when North is now divided btw PDP and Buhari politically, with the radical Northerners on Buhari’s camp.
That is the level of Buhari and Tinubu’s political forces in the polity and truly speaking you cannot say that of any Igbo politician as you rightly said. No so-called leader of Ndigbo of any political party faults GEJ or joins the millions of ordinary voices clamouring for power shift to S/E come 2015. Their mystic silence is not because they are strategizing to take power but because they are playing safe; some having already sold their consciences, some to be shielded from corruption charges after leaving office; others to perpetuate themselves. That is why 2015 now seem to be a battle btw North and GEJ, instead of S/E against GEJ
The truth, however, is that their acquiescence does not represent majority of Ndigbo who are fed up with PDP and GEJ as well as the Nigerian project. Therefore, they do not care about political party any more, but who is interested in their common interest in the Nigerian project. Unfortunately, Nigeria practices party politics, and parties determine who is credible or not; and who is credible is a function of who commands the wealth within the party or who boasts of the greatest godfathers; and godfatherism continues to perpetuate corruption as they determine who makes the cabinet or not, even if a saint becomes the President.
I just want to assure you and the opposition alliance that if cedes the Presidential ticket to Ndigbo and PDP fields GEJ, opposition party would win S/E bloc vote. Even if rigged, it would be overturned in courts. Recall what happened in Imo State btw Rochas and Ohakim. Imo would have burned had INEC declared Ohakim and PDP winner of the gubernatorial election. Believe me, PDP’s rigging machinery will and cannot give PDP Anambra, Imo and Abia votes, even if Buhari goes to the classroom and picks up a political green horn from Igbo land. An average Igbo man is fed up with GEJ, PDP and Nigeria and does not trust Buhari. That is the truth. It is turning to frustrating apathy that would unleash terrible consequences.
I foresee 2015 would be definitive for Ndigbo because after Ndigbo have been betrayed by their present-crop of praise singers and PDP and opposition had snubbed Ndigbos’ cry for equity proper political revolution would take place in Igbo land with very strong anti-Nigeria sentiment. Then it would become clear to Ndigbo that they must foster unity because North, West, and SS would have completed the cycle of betrayal and rejection of Ndigbo as equal partners in the Nigerian project. It is only then that Ndigbo would finally wake up to become a bloc force. We will not stop until we achieve this!
I dont think killing of those 3 drug barron was the solution to drug exportation. Rather other barons exploited another techniques in carrying out their illicit trades to western countries. The Boko Haram founder, Mohammed Yussuf was murdered by the police with the hope that killing him will put an end to BH insurgence which was limited to Maiduguri, the capital city of Borno State. But what happen today? It spring up to other states in the North. Odi massacre in Bayelsa State is another typical example, which OBJ ordered the mighty of the military to bring to their kneel for killing 9 security agents. What happened there after? Does this act put an end to the militancy? NO! Rather it gave birth to militancy in Niger Delta. Therefore, Buhari should bury his head in shame and apologise to Nigerians and also pay compesations to the Guardians journalists that were used to test run his unpopular decree 4. Also the fanilies of alledged drug barons that was unjustly murderd should be compesated accordingly.
I did not expect less in the manner of responses of journalists around Decree 4, as they keep emphasing same over and over. I also would be as sentimental if in their shoes. But for God sake let’s see beyond beyond decree 4 and help the thinking pattern of the nation. Deeply, Nigeria is not ready for a Buhari because if a Buhari sworn to an oath he will carried it to the letter. If you give a Buhari the constitution as a guide, you can be rest assured he will follow it doggedly and ensure the rich and poor allign to the law of the land. This is why they call him mai gaskiya (Mr. truth) in the north. We all prefer to go to pray and fast at the top of the mountains than loosing our freedom in lawlessness. Towards a better nation requires lot of sacrifices. Clem Aguiyi should know by now that a Buhari will not cajole, sweet talk or bribe anybody to say things in another way to suit a 2015 race. It seems Nigeria still prefer a leader that has the combinational characters of IBB, OBJ and GEJ. A leader that would deceive to have cancelled decree 4 but close down several news media for months for any little provocation, a leader that will cajoled us to mumuly go for an election 3 times in 2 yrs and anulled all, someone that would pretend to have set out to do so much but will do so little and in our gullibility we will still praise such, a leader that reversely move the nation backward until we have nothing good to transfer to our children. We are all part of the blame to the direction of doom as we taste after and crown deceivers as leaders.For me, I pray that quality candidates with the fear of God should be presented before us in 2015 and that God should help short circuit any deceivers and pretenders as candidates…..Amen!
On Bharam and Buhari: If you are in the north, you will understand that Bharam sect is evil in all ramification and all dread them. No one discuss BH publicly in the north unless u want hacked in the night. Most people would rather prefer Buhari to be shouting at the top of his voice condeming Bharam. So they think Buhari is immuned to Bharam bombs to give him the impetus to talk unguidedly. The man condemn Bharam in a wisely manner in the level of the porous security limitation around him. He said no religion support the ideology and the senceless killings and he knows no member of Bharam. If not that the govt is weak, the sect ought to have been crushed. Gumi that is hitting on BH has heavy Federal govt security arrangement around him. All notable northern leaders as Buhari are all hiding their heads in Abuja. Bharams are senceless devilish sets that eat evil. They are not like OPC that seems reasonable o.
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Those of us that witnessed Buhari/idiagbon regime do not require any write ups to appraise him. He is strict, prudent, passionate. He however was not a good manager of men. His deputy was the de-facto leader that gave the regime the dynamic outlook while Buhari was colorless and laid back. Buhari’s regime was overly northern in orientation. He did not have a broad national outlook. He harshly overthrew an elected government so he was guilty of treason. The he handled the trial of politicians for corruption seemed nepotic in excusing the president of his ethnic stock and hounding others of lesser authority. Importation was left to a cabal of alhajis to dispense import licenses. There was great scarcity of essential commodities due to price control policies and corrupt import control. There were long queues for basic amenities with Buhari’s soldiers flogging people into lines in fear. When he became PTF chairman under abacha, extra monies from increase in petrol pump price were concentrated in his care to spend. He spent up to 80% of the funds in building express roads, dams etc all over the north even in scarcely populated places but he did virtually nothing in the SE and SS where the oil was mined. Buhari could have made a good ahmadu bellow or premier of the north but never president of Nigeria since that is where his love and passion ends. During the last presidential debate, he could not articulate any coherent plan for the country only mouthing the need to punish corrupt politicians, angst over the citing of the NIPP projects outside the north. He did not believe in privatization and would probably have scuttled the power sector reforms. His last presidential campaigns concentrated mainly in the north with disdain for other regions.
On PTF and construction pls nailed the truth which is still obvious today. People clamored for the benefit of indigenous companies on PTF. Companies like Dantata and Sawoe did a beautiful job in the north, companies like RCC also tried their best in SW but with SE and SS indigenous companies failed their people big time: the Iwuayanhu and others were apology. Remember Dantata and Sawoe built some good roads around Abuja and competing with JB. Our own even with the fact that they had first class from school and later owned construction companies..all they do is aweful. Unfortunately, we gave the owners of these failed companies chieftancy titles. Take it, i am from SS. Yaradua awarded PH to Yenogoa road: less than 100km. The construction company ate the money under the watch of the son of the soil as President but preferred multitude to be flying Helicopters into Yenogoa. This is one of the reason i am not sentimental about tribes: they are emperors. Are you going to now blame Late Yaradua for awarding or not awarding as u are blaming Buhari.
Usbram u must be stupid to say ss and se ate their contract money, then they ate the money what did yara dua govment did to them? Did he cogratulate them or left them alone?, foolish man who doesnt know when they play wit ur inteligent, i dont even think ur from ss as u said, ur from bokoharam region, fool lik u.
Usbram u must be stupid to say ss and se ate their contract money, then they ate the money what did yara dua govment did to them? Did he cogratulated them or left them alone?, foolish man who doesnt know when they play wit ur inteligent, i dont even think ur from ss as u said, ur from bokoharam region, fool lik u.
Nigerians dont want u to be our president wait no die u will rull boko haram people when Nigeria is no more they love u but we no we dont want u so please hold ur peace we did not vote for u boko man they still need u for they peace talk in soudi arabia the blood of the innocent souls that ur poeple kill can never allow him to smell there agane.happy new year to u all.
there is still hope for Nigeria
Our main problem is we are waiting for a Saint to come down form Heaven to rule us. The problem is we still not vote for the angel if he comes.. cause he problemly will not be igbo or yoruba or hausa…
What else do you need Buhari to say about Boko Haram before you belive he dispise them. He said in his intervie hen asked to represent themn.. the boko haram does not have any justification to kill any soul and he can not reperesent people who can not come out to tell the world what they are negotiating for. And he also belive that the third Boko haram is the PDP.
When he die we will talk of the president we never have..
You are not God! Will u hang itself if he becomes the next president but I am very sure you will be in jail because people like you are part of the problems in Nigeria.