TechyGuy:


You and the guy you quoted are actually the ones who have no clue what you are saying.
Did Buhari not say Abacha, whose loot, they are still discovering after 15 years, is not corrupt?

honeric01:

So you mean with all the thing jonathan said about having boko haram in his govt and azazi saying pdp is boko haram, you still can't comprehend?

I now see why everyone is taught same thing in class, yet majority still fail.

Put your brain to use for once na, haba!

God's Mercy:
No. A man who truncated a democratically elected system on Dec 31, 1983 is not fit to pilot the affair of the country. We need open minded individuals and not religious bigots. May God guide and lead us to chose a man after His heart.

sholatech: No, I will not vote for him

Sincere 9gerian:
"GEJ is not the threat here"

LWKMD. Who DEMOLISHED the weeping general the last time?

jimmayoy: If buhari should contest against GEJ i ll vote for him.Buhari ll reduce corruption in nigeria,he ll tackle the mess in nnpc,he ll tackle the mess in nepa and he ll not grant presidential pardon to people like alamesia.He would nt ve choosed a pastor as a running mate if he planned to islamize Nigeria.Beleive me that team would ve taking us far by now if we had giving them the chance.what is the difference between where we were in 2007 and now,we are not making any progress with GEJ and if we make the mistake of voting GEJ again,we all ll live to regrate it,unfortunately u people ll still say things like he is a good man,its the people around him that ll not allow him to perform.How can we be this maopic?A nonperformer is a nonperformer.

Seenyo: yes a million times over! Why shuld i vote a clueless scumbag?

noblezone:

You make me laugh bro
1. Nigeria is a not a nation! Nigeria is rather a failed experiment of the British colonial masters.
2. I cannot be a patriot Nigerian! I used to be but not anymore: my little niece was denied admission to a federal govt college, while those she out performed by far were admitted on the excuse that she is not from catchment area. The last job application I wrote (before I started struggling on my own), I was instructed to write my state of origin at the back of my envelop. Quota is used rather than competence. I cannot be patriotic to a Nation where I don't have equal rights with fellow citizens. Let me not talk about my kinsmen slaughtered daily in their numbers especially in Northern Nigeria as if they are goats.
3. My niece should get an apology from Nigeria first before I will start thinking of how to apologies to Nigeria.
4. My allegiance and patriotism is reserved to Biafra: the emerging "Japan" of Africa.

maxwello.yg:
lol..funny question..u wan make we elect him and give him power to islamize nigeria? walahi not while i am alive, else i go comot nigeria go mali, with my entire villagers..una go hear am,.buhari was a dictator nd he fit islamize 9ja,he no go send any maga, dat boko lord?

Knowledge9000:

I try not to reply comments that come no where to the vicinity of reason. Go and study history my friend and understand why Abacha was murdered and the rubbishing of his name with alleged loots. The same people that are rubbishing Abacha name are the same people that are rubbishing Mugabe, Gaddafi's names, same that said Idi-Amin Dada eats human flesh; and some of us african actually believe this nonsense...we need massive re-education of our people and must start from you...Fool! Go and study deeply before you reply or engage me as I have strong background in global and regional economics relating to every African countries and why their Leaders have been murdered.

Knowledge9000:

I try not to reply comments that come no where to the vicinity of reason. Go and study history my friend and understand why Abacha was murdered and the rubbishing of his name with alleged loots. The same people that are rubbishing Abacha name are the same people that are rubbishing Mugabe, Gaddafi's names, same that said Idi-Amin Dada eats human flesh; and some of us african actually believe this nonsense...we need massive re-education of our people and must start from you...Fool! Go and study deeply before you reply or engage me as I have strong background in global and regional economics relating to every African countries and why their Leaders have been murdered.

TechyGuy:

I supported Ribadu in the last general election but gradually moved towards GEJ as I have refused to be among such group that constitute the opposition. I'm still kind of open to any candidate like Ribadu, Oshiomole, Pat Utomi etc.
The fact that opposition started saying GEJ has failed even before 100 days in office, speaks a lot about their desperation.
The likes of Lai Muhammed, El-rufai, Fashakin has done more harm to opposition than PDP has, they don't just know yet. They have labelled themselves disgruntled, power seeking, pessimists. They actually are not criticizing because they want the president to perform. They WANT HIM TO FAIL! They are the most unpatriotic set of Nigerians one can ever think of.

emmatok:

PDP demolished, Buhari this happened both during OBJ and GEJ era.

Try see the bigger picture.

Did you notice how Yaradua was used by OBJ against the Northern elites.

Thesame way GEJ was used to change the political structure.When most SS governors are against GEJ.

Buhari will never be allowed to rule.

Nigeria needs a real revolution.

Prof. Owah:
God forbid evil, for all i know, Buhari has noting to offer Nigerian. let him peacefully retire or..........

GenBuhari: [size=18pt]Buharinomics - General Buhari’s economic program marshaled out to salvage the nation in 1984 [/size]

http://www.elombah.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=5720:is-general-buhari-the-problem-with-nigeria&catid=36:pointblank&Itemid=83

Buharinomics was General Buhari’s economic program marshaled out to salvage the nation in 1984. He summarized the objective of his economic policy (as articulated in the 1984 budget) as follows: "To arrest the decline in the economy, to put the economy on a proper course of recovery and solvency, and to chart a future course for economic stability and prosperity" (West Africa, May 14, 1984). He had previously done similarly, in March while receiving the visiting Sudanese President, Gaafar Nimeiri. Upon his inquiring of what the new military government had in mind for the nation it then ruled, Buhari said to him: "The priority [of his administration] is for economic recovery, providing employment opportunities, improving people's living conditions, consolidating internal security and ensuring foreign respect" (Africa Now, March 1984). In a nutshell, Buharinomics set out to arrest the decline in the economy and refocus it towards recovery. Buharinomics was to wean the nation off consumerism and profligacy, while channeling it towards frugality and productivity. To accomplish this, the government was to cut down on its expenditure, engage in more efficient restricting and controlling of foreign exchange outflow, undertake the revival of the country's productive capacity (concentration was on agriculture), and broaden government's revenue base.
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The first test of Buharinomics was implemented to revive the comatose banking industry and arrest local currency hoarding. In April 1984, the government ordered a change in the color of the Naira. This action was dubbed the “real coup” by unscrupulous business men and politicians who had almost eliminated the need for commercial banking in Nigeria by keeping their moneys under their mattresses or by trafficking them into neighboring West African countries. This currency change, which forced all holders of the naira notes into exchanging them for the new naira notes at commercial banks, infused billions that had remained unaccounted for into the banking industry and eliminated counterfeited currencies, which had inflicted inflationary and other nefarious effects on the economy. This measure had an immediate revitalizing effect in the banking industry and was an unqualified success. Banks that were close to collapsing became vibrant again, to the extent that some of them began to hire hitherto unemployed Nigerians.
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To cut down on government expenses, the federal work force was cut by 30% and imports for 1984 pegged at 4 billion pounds (mostly on basic foodstuffs, spare parts, and raw materials for local industries), against 14 billion pounds spent in 1983. To ensure that Nigeria remained respectable on the international business world, Buhari committed to honoring Nigeria’s debt payment schedule irrespective of the limited earning potential of Nigeria. In August 1984, Buhari was on one of his meet-the-people nationwide tours, which he began as soon as the administration got on its feet. Everywhere he went, the people embraced him, coming out en mass and ushering him tumultuous cheers and unreserved applause. In one of his speeches to the people (this one in Owerri), he reiterated Nigeria’s commitment to honoring its debts, the dire economic situation notwithstanding. "The task of this administration is how to persuade Nigerians to understand that for a number of years to come, we would be paying debts, the roads may be long and thorny but we believe that on our shoulders lies the responsibility to save our fatherland from devastation that has resulted from mismanagement" (Newswatch, February 18, 1985).
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Buhari could not have been any more correct in his statement above. Assuming Nigeria took no further loans, its breakdown of loan repayments was as follows: 3.9 billion naira ($4.4 billion) in 1985, 3.7 billion naira ($4.19 billion) in 1986, 2.8 billion naira ($3.2 billion) in 1987, until a decrease to 703 million in 1991 (Concord Weekly, May 6, 1985). Nigeria’s precarious financial situation made it impossible for it to finance capital projects and meet up its balance of payment obligations. With oil export pegged at 1.3 million barrels per day by OPEC, borrowing from external sources became necessary. To this effect, Nigeria proposed borrowing 1.795m naira to finance its capital project from the IMF. The patriotism with which General Buhari handled Nigeria’s dealings with the IMF was the highlight and beauty of Buharinomics.

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In order to qualify for the loan, IMF gave Nigeria certain conditions which must be met. In 1984 when the naira exchanged for $1.34, the IMF demanded a minimum of 60% devaluation of it. Buhari refused, agreeing only to a "crawling peg"—a mechanism whereby government would realign the currency gradually, forestalling or minimizing economic and social dislocations because of such drastic devaluation of its currency. In addition to the devaluation of the naira, IMF demanded that government took other drastic actions: (a) The government must remove its subsidy on petroleum. (b) It must curtail its expenditure. (c) Government must rationalize its tariff structures. (d) It must put a freeze on its wages. (e) It must put a total end of non-statutory transfers to State governments, (f) Government must at least institute a 30% raise on interest rates—government resisted this because the decline in its revenue earnings and its debt obligations made it almost impossible to raise interest rates without triggering inflation (West Africa, May 14, 1984).
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The Nigerian government and veteran economists in Nigeria (like Aluko, Onosade, Okigbo, etc) could not make sense of being asked to devalue its currency when Nigeria’s imports were in dollar and its export (fixed quantity of oil) was also in dollar. The implication of devaluation was that Nigeria would pay more to import lesser quantity of goods than it did prior to any devaluation. It would also export the same amount of oil it exported before any devaluation and derive lesser revenue than it received before any devaluation The impacts of it debt payment would have harsher effect on the citizenry if the naira was devalued. This did not make any economic sense to Buhari; it struck him as an insult on the intelligence of the African. Finance Minister Onaolapo Soleye and Alhaji Abubakar Alhaji who led the Nigerian delegation to the last negotiation in Washington were chewed out by US Federal Reserve Chairman, Paul Volcker, for presenting the Nigerian governments rejection of most of these recommendations. For rejecting the IMF conditions and the loan, the Buhari administration got into the black book of Washington. Already, it had earned the dislike of 10 Downing Street for cutting down Nigeria’s imports from the UK by about 350%. In any case, without the IMF loan, government was still in a bind as to how to finance capital projects and pay for imports, especially spare parts for local industries, food items, etc. At this juncture, the genius and resourcefulness of Buharinomics illuminated to the delight of the African.
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First, the administration sent Oil Minister Tam David West to OPEC to seek a raise in the quantity of oil that Nigeria could export. If OPEC agreed, Nigeria would expect to generate extra revenue in the long run from any increase of its oil quota and this would assist tremendously in augmenting the shortfall in the nation’s purse. Professor West came back empty handed—the US and Britain had put pressure on their puppets in OPEC (like Saudi Arabia) to refuse Nigeria’s request.
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To counter OPEC’s bluff, the Buhari administration entered into a $2 billion barter trade agreement with four countries. Nigeria daily bartered 200,000 barrels of oil as follows: (a) completely knocked down parts for automobiles from Brazil. (b) Construction equipment from Italy (c) Engineering equipment from France, and (d) Capital goods from Austria. This barter trade took care of the administration’s need to have borrowed money but it intensified the ill will the US and Britain had for Nigeria. By bartering this oil, Nigeria was: (a) solving those needs which the proposed IMF loan was geared toward. Doing so without borrowing or feeling the pains of spending the meager amount generated from its OPEC approved 1.3 billion a day oil export is the stuff an economic wizard is made of. (b) Britain had been cut off as Nigeria’s major supplier of the goods which the countries in the barter agreement sent to Nigeria. (c) The US usurious money lenders were denied the chance to suck Nigeria dry through the IMF loan. (d) American and British oil companies were irate that the oil being bartered would flood the oil market, cutting in on their profits. (d) The oil being bartered was oil that used to be illegally bunkered before Buhari put illegal oil bunkering artist out of business. For once, an African country had put positive economic mechanism in place to salvage its ailing economy without swallowing IMF’s poison pills.
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As far as America and Britain were concerned, there was a price to be paid by this Buhari, who thought he was smart enough not to accept subservience to their authority. To begin with, a London newspaper (The Financial Times) published Nigeria’s barter trade agreement with Brazil (which, in truth, was done in secrecy because Buhari treated some aspects of his economic policy as State secret). The British thought it was going to incite OPEC against Nigeria since OPEC as a body did not support oil bartering. Oil Minister Tam David West, in a press conference, said, “If a nation believes it is part of its strategy for national survival to do this [barter trade], why not?” To assure OPEC that Nigeria was not indulging in barter trade in order to pull out of OPEC, he added ”Our strategy is to stay in OPEC and make its presence felt, and work together on programs that will be for the economic interest of all” (Concord Weekly, May 6, 1985). There is more to this barter trade than time will permit one to detail in this piece. For now, it is worth noting that it was the major reason for which Britain and America wanted the Buhari administration overthrown.
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The counter trade showcased Buhari as a visionary. He made America and Britain feel silly and they swore to get him out of office. When Babangida took over, on his maiden speech to the nation he promised to revisit the counter trade agreements. Within two weeks in office, September 17, 1985, he setup a panel to review it and recommend to his administration how to revive the economy without the use of counter trade. Babangida rolled back counter trade at the behest of his imperialist masters and at the detriment of the Nigerian nation and people.

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By the time the Buhari administration was overthrown in August of 1985, Buharinomics was beginning to yield dividends. For example, the inflationary rate had fallen from 23.2% in 1983 to 5.5% in 1985. Nigeria did not regret rejecting the IMF loan because it was meeting its obligation of prompt debt payment and the bartered goods were, to some extent, holding up within the austerity measure which had been in place since the Shagari days. Food was becoming reasonably available for two reasons: (a) The emphasis paid to agriculture had resulted in abundant food harvests, especially yam tubers. (b) The border closure made it impossible for unscrupulous business men to continue smuggling food items into neighboring countries where they sold for twice their value in Nigeria.

Had Buharinomics continued for at least five years, Nigeria would have joined the Asian tigers in economic growth and self reliance. We know that to be true because Babangida came into office and did everything the IMF asked and the Nigerian economy took a dive into the gutter and has not recovered yet.
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for the corrupt, the fear of Buhari is the beginning of wisodom

MiloRambaldi:

And u think this man has better ideas? Have u heard any of his ideas on power, economy, policing? This man is empty, and worse still possibly a bigot.

Obinoscopy: And you honestly think Buhari has better ideas and common sense?

Where specifically did I say I was going to vote for Buhari?

GenBuhari: Interview from 2010, begins at 2:00mins


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtF3fCpw97Y

Sincere 9gerian:
".Buhari ll reduce corruption in nigeria,he ll tackle the mess in nnpc,he ll tackle the mess in nepa and he ll not grant presidential pardon to people like alamesia"

Buhari will do this and that. We don hear. BUT what has Buhari and his party the, CPC, DONE (not will) so far in Nasarawa state? They'v been in charge for about 2yrs now.

We'v read your list of of Buhari will do this and that BUT show us examples of work DONE in the ONLY state his party is in control of NOW. I asked the question before and NO ONE has provided any answer. We are waiting!