Here are some snippets of Buhari's antecedents...

Buhari truncated the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo's free education programme for the whole South West region of Nigeria thereby preventing many of the youth from getting quality education.

The military dictator cancelled the Lagos Metro line project which Chief Lateef Jakande who was the then governor of Lagos state had committed to developing in order to mitigate against the traffic situation Lagosians face today. Chief Lateef Jakande had borrowed $60-75Million to execute this project. Those funds went down the drain. The military dictator cancelled such grand development ideas and initiatives.

As the head of PTF, the self-consumed dictator truncated the infrastructural development of Bayelsa state by refusing to provide funds required for major projects which would have led to a fast paced development of the state and region. Thereby, depriving the citizens of the state the much needed development as a newly created state. He strongly believed that the PTF funds were for the development of the north!!! A non-oil producing north!!! And that was exactly what he did. All projects that were embarked on during his tenure focused on the development of the north with crumbs from his table being sent to the south...

When the PTF fund was about to be probed on how it was utilised vis-a-vis the purpose for the fund, Buhari's cousin Gambo died mysteriously as he was to testify on the inquest at the parliament. The said Gambo was the MD of the sole consulting firm that consulted for Buhari while he was at the helm of affairs at the PTF.

Thus he deprived the South south region of the much needed development both infrastructural and educational and today he can not admit and apologise to the same people he comes to seek their vote.

What does a military dictator have to offer when he disrupted a budding democracy and wants to have a second opportunity in the same democratic state he once destroyed forcibly. He truncated a budding democracy when he overthew the democratically elected government forcefully. (That is what he used the military weapons to do...)

Buhari spurred the consecutive military rules that ravaged and raped Nigeria of her innocence and growth opportunities for if he had not disrupted the Shagari led democratic government; who knows where Nigeria would have been in terms of development.

We are grappling today with the ruins left behind by past military administrations... Our visions have been blurred by the military oppression doled out to all and sundry during this man's government and that of his successive fellow military men.

Today we blame civilians for the nation's misfortune; forgetting the very beginnings of the problems as we were governed by greedy looters who wore uniform.

Today, we do not have competent military men who can fight for us... the reason being that the time these military dictators would have used in preparing themselves to be useful in Nigeria's future, they squandered it preparing for military coups and takeovers which ravaged and stripped the nation and her people of every thread of dignity and understanding of democracy and of right thinking civilians.

Today he poses as if he is a saint and the solution to the nation's woes and wants to confuse Nigerians to thinking that we 'bloody' civilians (as we were called during his reign) can not solve our problems and that he is the military civilian that would bring succour.

He leaves me with no choice but to think that if he Buhari was still in the military, he would have organised a coup to topple the government. Instead of leave us civilians to chart the course of our democracy and our destiny. Thus, he is very bitter and pained that he is no longer a serving soldier but now has to go through the democratic process for which he sought to destroy to be elected...

What an irony of life!

Change the country was all we asked JONATHAN

VERY SIMPLE QUESTIONS!!!!

Rather he changed

The Currency
Oil Price
Plate Number
Driver's License
UNILAG to MUNILAG
Our Girls to Married Women

Was that what we needed or asked Jonathan to do?

BUT HE FAILED ALL

Buhari truncated the late Chief Obafemi Awolowo's free education programme for the whole South West region of Nigeria thereby preventing many of the youth from getting quality education.

Unfortunately we are bearing the brunt of it day in day out right here on nairaland

Somebody should give me a handkerchief

cycline404:
Change the country was all we asked JONATHAN

VERY SIMPLE QUESTIONS!!!!

Rather he changed

The Currency
Oil Price
Plate Number
Driver's License
UNILAG to MUNILAG
Our Girls to Married Women

Was that what we needed or asked Jonathan to do?

BUT HE FAILED ALL

Young man calm down. What's your definition of failure?

In 2008, Prior to the election in America, Obama proposed a National Infrastructure Reinvestment Bank that would invest £30 billion over 10 years, with the promise of creating two million jobs for the people of the United States. He had to be pragmatic in prosecuting those plans without adding to the already obscene debt that has grown by four trillion dollars under George Bush.

Fast forward to 2015, the unemployment rate in America has fallen to 5.9 percent as the labour force participation rate fell to 62.7 percent, its lowest level since February 1978. Remarkable progress? Sure it is, but it needed six solid years to happen.

Just like Martin Lurther King would say; Change does not roll in on the wheels of inevitability, but comes through continuous struggle.

Now my good friend, If President Jonathan has got on ground a worthy initiative which is taking quite a while to yield fruition, would you still deem it right to label him a failure?

You lot need to understand that a sustainable and lasting change takes many years to implement, more especially in a nation like Nigeria where the past administrations have taken their time to make a mess of the country.

You don't have to keep hollering for CHANGE when you don't fully understand the term neither do you have to be on the lookout for CHANGE when it's quite clear that some opposition figures in the country are presenting hitches to the idea.

Progress is a slow painful slog best stripped of fancy gimmicks, a greater Nigeria can't just emerge within a 4-year time frame.

Buhari from how I see it isn't a visionary, he's more of a desperate dictator who'd do about anything to get into power - such man cant offer you change.