The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to unfortunate statements in the media made by former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in which he allegedly predicted bloodshed in 2015 and labelled the Federal Government led by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as "the biggest Boko Haram".

But perhaps the most unfortunate part of the statement was the portion in which Buhari said that, "Since the leaders now don’t listen to anybody but do whatever they wish, there is nothing the north can do."
We find it very sad that an elder statesman who once presided over the entirety of Nigeria can reduce himself to a regional leader who speaks for only a part of Nigeria. We now understand what his protégé and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El’Rufai, meant when he wrote in a public letter in October of 2010, telling Nigerians that Buhari remains "perpetually unelectable" and that Buhari's "insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known." Who can know Buhari better than his own political associate?

Come to think of it, as the CPC presidential candidate in the 2011 election, how many states in the Federation did he visit to campaign for votes? Buhari never bothered to campaign in the southern part of the country and consistently played up the North-South divide to the chagrin of patriotic and well-meaning Nigerians. As the results revealed, Nigerians will never vote for anyone who wants to divide the country. Is Buhari going to continue to be a sectional leader?

The Federal Government led by President Jonathan is not Boko Haram. Boko Haram means Western Education is sin. That being the case, one wonders how a government that devoted the largest sectoral allocation in the 2012 budget to education could be said to be Boko Haram. Between 1983, when Buhari forcefully seized power from the democratically elected administration of President Shehu Usman Shagari, and 2012, no other administration has committed the same quantum of resources as the Jonathan administration to education in the part of Nigeria that has witnessed the most Boko Haram-related insecurity.

Only on April 10, 2012, President Jonathan commissioned the first of 400 Federal Government Model Almajiri Schools, equipped with modern facilities such as a Language Laboratory, Qur'an Recitation Hall, classrooms and dormitories as well as a clinic, vocational workshop, dining hall and quarters for the Mallams. As Nigerians read this, more of such schools have been completed.

We now challenge Major General Buhari (rtd) to tell Nigerians what he has done, whether in his capacity as the head of a military junta or in his private capacity, to bring education to vulnerable children. If he cannot live up to this challenge, perhaps he has to reassess who really is Boko Haram.

Buhari claims that the Federal Government does not listen. Such an accusation ought not to emanate from a man overthrown by his own hand- picked colleagues in the military for refusing to listen to advice and behaving as if he had a monopoly of knowledge.

It is on record that the Federal Government led by President Jonathan is a listening administration hence its decision to pursue all means of resolving the Boko Haram insurgency including through dialogue.

When Buhari says that "if what happens in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, ‘the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood", we hereby state that it is Buhari himself who does not listen. He has obviously refused to listen to the Nigerian People, the European Union, the Commonwealth Monitoring Group, the African Union and a multitude of independent electoral monitors who testified that the 2011 elections were free and fair and "the best elections since Nigeria returned to civil rule."

Indeed, such a reaction from Buhari is not totally unexpected since he has become a serial election loser who has never taken his past election defeats graciously even when such elections were generally acknowledged to be free and fair.

Still on the issue of Boko Haram, we wonder what locus a man whose party's Secretary General, Buba Galadima, told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in December, 2010, that the Federal Government is underestimating the support base of Boko Haram, has to accuse a government that has been threatened on camera by the leaders of Boko Haram of itself being Boko Haram?

Major General Buhari (rtd) also boasts of his knowledge of the Petroleum Industry because of his time as Federal Commissioner for Petroleum. We wonder why he did not boast of the infamous scandal that occurred in that ministry where under his watch billions of Naira (in the 1970s) were reported stolen, a matter which led to the setting up of the Justice Ayo Irikefe panel.

Finally, we wish to make it known to Buhari that given his reference to "dogs and baboons", perhaps his best course of action would be to travel to the zoo of his imagination because President Goodluck Jonathan was elected by human beings to preside over human beings and it is human beings who will determine what happens in Nigeria at any material time not "dogs and baboons".

REUBEN ABATI
Special Adviser (Media & Publicity) to the President
May 15, 2012.

Source:http://saharareporters.com/press-release/buhari%E2%80%99s-prediction-bloodshed-2015-and-comments-boko-haram-sad-and-unfortunate-preside

Good response from Abati. Buhari will continue to lose till death

First of all, Reuben abati you have 0 credibility. Second, I will vote for anybody who wants to divide Nigeria. 3rd. I stand with Buhari by saying that the federal govt led by Jonathan is the biggest boko since he has not done anything to prove otherwise. 4th how can jonathan be talking about corruption in the petroleum industry during buhari when he set and is still keeping a world record. 5th. This entire release is egocentrical, petty and thus thrash! 6th. Resign now jonathan

Finally, we wish to make it known to Buhari that given his reference to "dogs and baboons", perhaps his best course of action would be to travel to the zoo of his imagination because President Goodluck Jonathan was elected by human beings to preside over human beings and it is human beings who will determine what happens in Nigeria at any material time not "dogs and baboons"[color=#000000][/color]

Best line

To be honest, I am with GEJ on this. You can't be treating the Country abeg !.

Present your candidate and let PDP present theirs, May the best candidate win chekena

All this "baboon and dog socked in Blood" Would not help anyone.

All you need to do Gen Buhari is to support Fashola, Sanusi/ Rochas or someone around that level and step back.

[size=16pt]We now challenge Major General Buhari (rtd) to tell Nigerians what he has done, whether in his capacity as the head of a military junta or in his private capacity, to bring education to vulnerable children.[/size] If he cannot live up to this challenge, perhaps he has to reassess who really is Boko Haram.

I am waiting patiently for this!!


What has Buhari done in his capacity to bring Education to the vulnerable children of Northern Nigeria.

Even Ibori, the supposed king of Corruption established a Private University in his Village, Atiku established University in his village, Igbinedion and the rest of the thieves can boast of contributing to Education in Nigeria.

I want Buhari and the Dogs and Baboons to show me just one school that he has painted or one science laboratory or any school he has donated books to. Just one.

PapaBrowne: [size=16pt]We now challenge Major General Buhari (rtd) to tell Nigerians what he has done, whether in his capacity as the head of a military junta or in his private capacity, to bring education to vulnerable children.[/size] If he cannot live up to this challenge, perhaps he has to reassess who really is Boko Haram.

I am waiting patiently for this!!


What has Buhari done in his capacity to bring Education to the vulnerable children of Northern Nigeria.

Even Ibori, the supposed king of Corruption established a Private University in his Village, Atiku established University in his village, Igbinedion and the rest of the thieves can boast of contributing to Education in Nigeria.

I want Buhari and the Dogs and Baboons to show me just one school that he has painted or one science laboratory or any school he has donated books to. Just one.

He may show you a blood bank instead

this is reuben "zero credibility" abati's reaction, not gej's. gej lacks the ability to come up with anything remotely close to this. 4kin deadhead.


you fcukas can sugarcoat s.hit all you want... each and every man deserve a turn...and babylon deserve to burn.

Truth is bitter,but shd always be told.If GEJ has not bn d disaster many pple av now come to realise,there wudnt b d avenue 4 d likes of Buhari to show dere face again,talkless uttering dis kind of provocative statement.So hate d aboki much as u wud,an avenue for d bitter truth was provided by d fisherman

bayooooooo: The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to unfortunate statements in the media made by former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in which he allegedly predicted bloodshed in 2015 and labelled the Federal Government led by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as "the biggest Boko Haram".

But perhaps the most unfortunate part of the statement was the portion in which Buhari said that, "Since the leaders now don’t listen to anybody but do whatever they wish, there is nothing the north can do."
We find it very sad that an elder statesman who once presided over the entirety of Nigeria can reduce himself to a regional leader who speaks for only a part of Nigeria. We now understand what his protégé and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El’Rufai, meant when he wrote in a public letter in October of 2010, telling Nigerians that Buhari remains "perpetually unelectable" and that Buhari's "insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known." Who can know Buhari better than his own political associate?

Come to think of it, as the CPC presidential candidate in the 2011 election, how many states in the Federation did he visit to campaign for votes? Buhari never bothered to campaign in the southern part of the country and consistently played up the North-South divide to the chagrin of patriotic and well-meaning Nigerians. As the results revealed, Nigerians will never vote for anyone who wants to divide the country. Is Buhari going to continue to be a sectional leader?

The Federal Government led by President Jonathan is not Boko Haram. Boko Haram means Western Education is sin. That being the case, one wonders how a government that devoted the largest sectoral allocation in the 2012 budget to education could be said to be Boko Haram. Between 1983, when Buhari forcefully seized power from the democratically elected administration of President Shehu Usman Shagari, and 2012, no other administration has committed the same quantum of resources as the Jonathan administration to education in the part of Nigeria that has witnessed the most Boko Haram-related insecurity.

Only on April 10, 2012, President Jonathan commissioned the first of 400 Federal Government Model Almajiri Schools, equipped with modern facilities such as a Language Laboratory, Qur'an Recitation Hall, classrooms and dormitories as well as a clinic, vocational workshop, dining hall and quarters for the Mallams. As Nigerians read this, more of such schools have been completed.

We now challenge Major General Buhari (rtd) to tell Nigerians what he has done, whether in his capacity as the head of a military junta or in his private capacity, to bring education to vulnerable children. If he cannot live up to this challenge, perhaps he has to reassess who really is Boko Haram.

Buhari claims that the Federal Government does not listen. Such an accusation ought not to emanate from a man overthrown by his own hand- picked colleagues in the military for refusing to listen to advice and behaving as if he had a monopoly of knowledge.

It is on record that the Federal Government led by President Jonathan is a listening administration hence its decision to pursue all means of resolving the Boko Haram insurgency including through dialogue.

When Buhari says that "if what happens in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, ‘the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood", we hereby state that it is Buhari himself who does not listen. He has obviously refused to listen to the Nigerian People, the European Union, the Commonwealth Monitoring Group, the African Union and a multitude of independent electoral monitors who testified that the 2011 elections were free and fair and "the best elections since Nigeria returned to civil rule."

Indeed, such a reaction from Buhari is not totally unexpected since he has become a serial election loser who has never taken his past election defeats graciously even when such elections were generally acknowledged to be free and fair.

Still on the issue of Boko Haram, we wonder what locus a man whose party's Secretary General, Buba Galadima, told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in December, 2010, that the Federal Government is underestimating the support base of Boko Haram, has to accuse a government that has been threatened on camera by the leaders of Boko Haram of itself being Boko Haram?

Major General Buhari (rtd) also boasts of his knowledge of the Petroleum Industry because of his time as Federal Commissioner for Petroleum. We wonder why he did not boast of the infamous scandal that occurred in that ministry where under his watch billions of Naira (in the 1970s) were reported stolen, a matter which led to the setting up of the Justice Ayo Irikefe panel.

Finally, we wish to make it known to Buhari that given his reference to "dogs and baboons", perhaps his best course of action would be to travel to the zoo of his imagination because President Goodluck Jonathan was elected by human beings to preside over human beings and it is human beings who will determine what happens in Nigeria at any material time not "dogs and baboons".

REUBEN ABATI
Special Adviser (Media & Publicity) to the President
May 15, 2012.


Source:http://saharareporters.com/press-release/buhari%E2%80%99s-prediction-bloodshed-2015-and-comments-boko-haram-sad-and-unfortunate-preside

Chei!!!!! I wish words were like boxing...this would have KNOCKED THE BLOOD THIRSTY VAMPIRE THE Zap OUT!!!!!

Mr. Globe:
First of all, Reuben abati you have 0 credibility. Second, I will vote for anybody who wants to divide Nigeria. 3rd. I stand with Buhari by saying that the federal govt led by Jonathan is the biggest boko since he has not done anything to prove otherwise. 4th how can jonathan be talking about corruption in the petroleum industry during buhari when he set and is still keeping a world record. 5th. This entire release is egocentrical, petty and thus thrash! 6th. Resign now jonathan

YOU ARE SIMPLY STUPID

Intending Public Office Holders should be subjected to independent psychological evaluation.

I swear, the last paragraph is simply classic!

Buhari is finished! The man doesnt have the political sagacity to preside over a diversed country like Nigeria and he talks too much without thinking through. This man will never rule the Nigeria that Igbos are part of,shikena!

doctokwus: Truth is bitter,but shd always be told.If GEJ has not bn d disaster many pple av now come to realise,there wudnt b d avenue 4 d likes of Buhari to show dere face again,talkless uttering dis kind of provocative statement.So hate d aboki much as u wud,an avenue for d bitter truth was provided by d fisherman

My mum sat me down and told me about the civil war..i swear if you see war you wont survive it..pray it never happens.....

nice talk

PapaBrowne: [size=16pt]We now challenge Major General Buhari (rtd) to tell Nigerians what he has done, whether in his capacity as the head of a military junta or in his private capacity, to bring education to vulnerable children.[/size] If he cannot live up to this challenge, perhaps he has to reassess who really is Boko Haram.

I am waiting patiently for this!!


What has Buhari done in his capacity to bring Education to the vulnerable children of Northern Nigeria.

Even Ibori, the supposed king of Corruption established a Private University in his Village, Atiku established University in his village, Igbinedion and the rest of the thieves can boast of contributing to Education in Nigeria.



I want Buhari and the Dogs and Baboons to show me just one school that he has painted or one science laboratory or any school he has donated books to. Just one.

@papabrowne,
i'm not cpc or buhari campaigner,One cannot compare the education system in nigeria durring buhari military regime to the one we currently have,the education system was good then and you might be right if you said he doesn't educate his people to go to school,ibro and atiku are out of it,the last time i check those school are not for the mases, too expensive for ordinary man to send his children there,the education system in Nigeria now has collapse that we now have so many private Uni,those days i don't think we have any private uni and i'm not in support of buhari for that statement but i will vote anyone who is qualify to lead this country,pdp government is a shame to democracy, and i share the sentiment with Buhari and general Azazi that pdp is the real Boko haram and Boko Haram is pdp

alj harem: To be honest, I am with GEJ on this. You can't be treating the Country abeg !.

Present your candidate and let PDP present theirs, May the best candidate win chekena

All this "baboon and dog socked in Blood" Would not help anyone.

All you need to do Gen Buhari is to support Fashola, Sanusi/ Rochas or someone around that level and step back.

He is not threatening rather warning the government to do what is right to avert blood letting. One man! One vote! If GEJ had perform all these talk would have been needless

Even without been a visionteller..we all knows that 2015 will be bloody..the best option is prayer..and if u have opportunity to travel oversea..better..cos 2015 will change nigeria history..- pray God help us..so naija won't divide..

Mr. Globe:
First of all, Reuben abati you have 0 credibility. Second, I will vote for anybody who wants to divide Nigeria. 3rd. I stand with Buhari by saying that the federal govt led by Jonathan is the biggest boko since he has not done anything to prove otherwise. 4th how can jonathan be talking about corruption in the petroleum industry during buhari when he set and is still keeping a world record. 5th. This entire release is egocentrical, petty and thus thrash! 6th. Resign now jonathan

u talk wel broda

Are you really educated?? #justaninnocentquestion

belovedaja: Good response from Abati. Buhari will continue to lose till death

belovedaja: Good response from Abati. Buhari will continue to lose till death

belovedaja: Good response from Abati. Buhari will continue to lose till death

Sharap jooor...him never answer nysc na buhari b him problem. Idiot

For all I banks care Buhari stand a better man for the presidency than that crippled slow for nothing GeJ. God help 9ja

The Federal Government led by President Jonathan is not Boko Haram. Boko Haram means Western Education is sin. That being the case, one wonders how a government that devoted the largest sectoral allocation in the 2012 budget to education could be said to be Boko Haram. Between 1983, when Buhari forcefully seized power from the democratically elected administration of President Shehu Usman Shagari, and 2012,[color=#000099][/color]
Take note of that meaning for Boko Haram.

bayooooooo: The attention of the Presidency has been drawn to unfortunate statements in the media made by former Head of State and presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Major Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) in which he allegedly predicted bloodshed in 2015 and labelled the Federal Government led by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, as "the biggest Boko Haram".

But perhaps the most unfortunate part of the statement was the portion in which Buhari said that, "Since the leaders now don’t listen to anybody but do whatever they wish, there is nothing the north can do."
We find it very sad that an elder statesman who once presided over the entirety of Nigeria can reduce himself to a regional leader who speaks for only a part of Nigeria. We now understand what his protégé and former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Malam Nasir El’Rufai, meant when he wrote in a public letter in October of 2010, telling Nigerians that Buhari remains "perpetually unelectable" and that Buhari's "insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well-known." Who can know Buhari better than his own political associate?

Come to think of it, as the CPC presidential candidate in the 2011 election, how many states in the Federation did he visit to campaign for votes? Buhari never bothered to campaign in the southern part of the country and consistently played up the North-South divide to the chagrin of patriotic and well-meaning Nigerians. As the results revealed, Nigerians will never vote for anyone who wants to divide the country. Is Buhari going to continue to be a sectional leader?

The Federal Government led by President Jonathan is not Boko Haram. Boko Haram means Western Education is sin. That being the case, one wonders how a government that devoted the largest sectoral allocation in the 2012 budget to education could be said to be Boko Haram. Between 1983, when Buhari forcefully seized power from the democratically elected administration of President Shehu Usman Shagari, and 2012, no other administration has committed the same quantum of resources as the Jonathan administration to education in the part of Nigeria that has witnessed the most Boko Haram-related insecurity.

Only on April 10, 2012, President Jonathan commissioned the first of 400 Federal Government Model Almajiri Schools, equipped with modern facilities such as a Language Laboratory, Qur'an Recitation Hall, classrooms and dormitories as well as a clinic, vocational workshop, dining hall and quarters for the Mallams. As Nigerians read this, more of such schools have been completed.

We now challenge Major General Buhari (rtd) to tell Nigerians what he has done, whether in his capacity as the head of a military junta or in his private capacity, to bring education to vulnerable children. If he cannot live up to this challenge, perhaps he has to reassess who really is Boko Haram.

Buhari claims that the Federal Government does not listen. Such an accusation ought not to emanate from a man overthrown by his own hand- picked colleagues in the military for refusing to listen to advice and behaving as if he had a monopoly of knowledge.

It is on record that the Federal Government led by President Jonathan is a listening administration hence its decision to pursue all means of resolving the Boko Haram insurgency including through dialogue.

When Buhari says that "if what happens in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, ‘the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood", we hereby state that it is Buhari himself who does not listen. He has obviously refused to listen to the Nigerian People, the European Union, the Commonwealth Monitoring Group, the African Union and a multitude of independent electoral monitors who testified that the 2011 elections were free and fair and "the best elections since Nigeria returned to civil rule."

Indeed, such a reaction from Buhari is not totally unexpected since he has become a serial election loser who has never taken his past election defeats graciously even when such elections were generally acknowledged to be free and fair.

Still on the issue of Boko Haram, we wonder what locus a man whose party's Secretary General, Buba Galadima, told the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) in December, 2010, that the Federal Government is underestimating the support base of Boko Haram, has to accuse a government that has been threatened on camera by the leaders of Boko Haram of itself being Boko Haram?

Major General Buhari (rtd) also boasts of his knowledge of the Petroleum Industry because of his time as Federal Commissioner for Petroleum. We wonder why he did not boast of the infamous scandal that occurred in that ministry where under his watch billions of Naira (in the 1970s) were reported stolen, a matter which led to the setting up of the Justice Ayo Irikefe panel.

F[b]inally, we wish to make it known to Buhari that given his reference to "dogs and baboons", perhaps his best course of action would be to travel to the zoo of his imagination because President Goodluck Jonathan was elected by human beings to preside over human beings and it is human beings who will determine what happens in Nigeria at any material time not "dogs and baboons".
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REUBEN ABATI
Special Adviser (Media & Publicity) to the President
May 15, 2012.

Source:http://saharareporters.com/press-release/buhari%E2%80%99s-prediction-bloodshed-2015-and-comments-boko-haram-sad-and-unfortunate-preside

@ bolded good that even federal govt can now notice blood thirsty monkeys and baboons living in northern Nigeria ,That is the problem,that is the problem, now they have acknowledge that monkeys and baboons lives among them federal govt should not waste time to silence them,dont worry about their hungry foot soldiers those ones na moi moi

I think most Nigerians still prefer Jonathan to Buhari,,,

Lets face the fact,,,Northernas will never rule again,,, this they know quite alright,,,

Any way,, if they want Nigeria to divide,,, me i dey ready to pack go my Delta state,,,

where 2 elephants fight........ i dey laff.

felix200: I think most Nigerians still prefer Jonathan to Buhari,,,

Lets face the fact,,,Northernas will never rule again,,, this they know quite alright,,,

Any way,, if they want Nigeria to divide,,, me i dey ready to pack go my Delta state,,,

yessoooo

The person that will return to zoo is he who study zoology and animal science.

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