killuminati:
You no go fit understand. You are not in the spirit. You need deliverance. People wey get sense pass you and your papa na dem dey there. Sorry.

No mind am. With this mindset he is of no use to himself so he no need to understand wetin GMB dey talk.

ghost1718:
when did muslim start Believing in jesus

Hey stop dt rubbish u saying. Muslims have always believe in Jesus Christ as prophet isha. so wat kinda question are u asking

ionsman:
Next President. ...
In Jesus Name.
Inshah Allah....

Amen and amen and amen!

The Crimes of Buhari”–By Prof. Wole Soyinka

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the- scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order Buhari? Need one remind anyone – was one of the generals who treated a Commission of Enquiry, the Oputa Panel, with unconcealed disdain. Like Babangida and Abdusalami, he refused to put in appearance even though complaints that were tabled against him involved a career of gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry. Prominent against these charges was an act that amounted to nothing less than judicial murder, the execution of a citizen under a retroactive decree. Does Decree 20 ring a bell? If not, then, perhaps the names of three youths – Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26) do. To put it quite plainly, one of those three Ogedengbe – was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital forfeit at the time it was committed. This was an unconscionable crime, carried out in defiance of the pleas and protests of nearly every sector of the Nigerian and international community religious, civil rights, political, trade unions etc.

Buhari and his sidekick and his partner-in-crime, Tunde Idiagbon persisted in this inhuman act for one reason and one reason only: to place Nigerians on notice that they were now under an iron, inflexible rule, under governance by fear. The execution of that youthful innocent for so he was, since the punishment did not exist at the time of commission – was nothing short of premeditated murder, for which the perpetrators should normally stand trial upon their loss of immunity. Are we truly expected to forget this violation of our entitlement to security as provided under existing laws? And even if our sensibilities have become blunted by succeeding seasons of cruelty and brutality, if power itself had so coarsened the sensibilities also of rulers and corrupted their judgment, what should one rightly expect after they have been rescued from the snare of power. At the very least, a revaluation, leading hopefully to remorse, and its expression to a wronged society. At the very least, such a revaluation should engender reticence, silence. In the case of Buhari, it was the opposite. Since leaving office he has declared in the most categorical terms that he had no regrets over this murder and would do so again. Human life is inviolate. The right to life is the uniquely fundamental right on which all other rights are based. The crime that General Buhari committed against the entire nation went further however, inconceivable as it might first appear. That crime is one of the most profound negations of civic being. Not content with hammering down the freedom of expression in general terms, Buhari specifically forbade all public discussion of a return to civilian, democratic rule. Let us constantly applaud our media those battle scarred professionals did not completely knuckle down.

They resorted to cartoons and oblique, elliptical references to sustain the people’s campaign for a time-table to democratic rule. Overt agitation for a democratic time table however remained rigorously suppressed military dictatorship, and a specifically incorporated in Buhari and Idiagbon was here to stay. To deprive a people of volition in their own political direction is to turn a nation into a colony of slaves. Buhari enslaved the nation. He gloated and gloried in a master-slave relation to the millions of its inhabitants. It is astonishing to find that the same former slaves, now free of their chains, should clamour to be ruled by one who not only turned their nation into a slave plantation, but forbade them any discussion of their condition. So Tai Solarin is already forgotten? Tai who stood at street corners, fearlessly distributing leaflets that took up the gauntlet where the media had dropped it. Tai who was incarcerated by that regime and denied even the medication for his asthmatic condition? Tai did not ask to be sent for treatment overseas; all he asked was his traditional medicine that had proved so effective after years of struggle with asthma! Nor must we omit the manner of Buhari coming to power and the pattern of his corrective rule. Shagari’s NPN had already run out of steam and was near universally detested except of course by the handful that still benefited from that regime of profligacy and rabid fascism. Responsibility for the national condition lay squarely at the door of the ruling party, obviously, but against whom was Buharis coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagaris government but against the opposition. The head of government, on whom primary responsibility lay, was Shehu Shagari. Yet that individual was kept in cozy house detention in Ikoyi while his powerless deputy, Alex Ekwueme, was locked up in Kiri-kiri prisons. Such was the Buhari notion of equitable apportionment of guilt and/or responsibility.

And then the cascade of escapes of the wanted, and culpable politicians. Manhunts across the length and breadth of the nation, roadblocks everywhere and borders tight as steel zip locks. Lo and behold, the chairman of the party, Chief Akinloye, strolled out coolly across the border. Richard Akinjide, Legal Protector of the ruling party, slipped out with equal ease. The Rice Minister, Umaru Dikko, who declared that Nigerians were yet to eat f’rom dustbins – escaped through the same airtight dragnet. The clumsy attempt to crate him home was punishment for his ingratitude, since he went berserk when, after waiting in vain, he concluded that the coup had not been staged, after all, for the immediate consolidation of the party of extreme right-wing vultures, but for the military hyenas. The case of the overbearing Secretary-General of the party, Uba Ahmed, was even more noxious. Uba Ahmed was out of the country at the time. Despite the closure of the Nigerian airspace, he compelled the pilot of his plane to demand special landing permission, since his passenger load included the almighty Uba Ahmed. Of course, he had not known of the change in his status since he was airborne. The delighted airport commandant, realizing that he had a much valued fish swimming willingly into a waiting net, approved the request. Uba Ahmed disembarked into the arms of a military guard and was promptly clamped in detention.

Incredibly, he vanished a few days after and reappeared in safety overseas. Those whose memories have become calcified should explore the media coverage of that saga. Buhari was asked to explain the vanished act of this much prized quarry and his response was one of the most arrogant levity. Coming from one who had shot his way into power on the slogan of discipline, it was nothing short of impudent. Shall we revisit the tragicomic series of trials that landed several politicians several lifetimes in prison? Recall, if you please, the judicial processes undergone by the septuagenarian Chief Adekunle Ajasin. He was arraigned and tried before Buhari’s punitive tribunal but acquitted. Dissatisfied, Buhari ordered his re-trial. Again, the Tribunal could not find this man guilty of a single crime, so once again he was returned for trial, only to be acquitted of all charges of corruption or abuse of office. Was Chief Ajasin thereby released? No! He was ordered detained indefinitely, simply for the crime of winning an election and refusing to knuckle under Shagari’s reign of terror. The conduct of the Buhari regime after his coup was not merely one of double, triple, multiple standards but a cynical travesty of justice. Audu Ogbeh, currently chairman of the Action Congress was one of the few figures of rectitude within the NPN. Just as he has done in recent times with the PDP, he played the role of an internal critic and reformer, warning, dissenting, and setting an example of probity within his ministry. For that crime he spent months in unjust incarceration.

Guilty by association? Well, if that was the motivating yardstick of the administration of the Buhari justice, then it was most selectively applied.

The utmost severity of the Buhari-Idiagbon justice was especially reserved either for the opposition in general, or for those within the ruling party who had showed the sheerest sense of responsibility and patriotism.

Shall I remind this nation of Buhari’s deliberate humiliating treatment of the Emir of Kano and the Oni of Ife over their visit to the state of Israel? I hold no brief for traditional rulers and their relationship with governments, but insist on regarding them as entitled to all the rights, privileges and responsibilities of any Nigerian citizen. This royal duo went to Israel on their private steam and private business. Simply because the Buhari regime was pursuing some antagonistic foreign policy towards Israel, a policy of which these traditional rulers were not a part, they were subjected on their return to a treatment that could only be described as a head masterly chastisement of errant pupils. Since when, may one ask, did a free citizen of the Nigerian nation require the permission of a head of state to visit a foreign nation that was willing to offer that tourist a visa? One is only too aware that some Nigerians love to point to Buhari’s agenda of discipline as the shining jewel in his scrap-iron crown. To inculcate discipline however, one must lead by example, obeying laws set down as guides to public probity. Example speaks louder than declarations, and rulers cannot exempt themselves from the disciplinary structures imposed on the overall polity, especially on any issue that seeks to establish a policy for public well-being. The story of the thirty something suitcases it would appear that they were even closer to fifty – found unavoidable mention in my recent memoirs, YOU MUST SET FORTH AT DOWN, written long before Buhari became spoken of as a credible candidate. For the exercise of a changeover of the national currency, the Nigerian borders air, sea and land had been shut tight.
Nothing was supposed to move in or out, not even cattle egrets.

Yet a prominent camel was allowed through that needles eye. Not only did Buhari dispatch his aide-de-camp, Jokolo later to become an emir- to facilitate the entry of those cases, he ordered the redeployment as I later discovered – of the Customs Officer who stood firmly against the entry of the contravening baggage. That officer, the incumbent Vice-president is now a rival candidate to Buhari, but has somehow, in the meantime, earned a reputation that totally contradicts his conduct at the time. Wherever the truth lies, it does not redound to the credibility of the dictator of that time, General Buhari whose word was law, but whose allegiances were clearly negotiable.

On the theme of double, triple, multiple standards in the enforcement of the law, and indeed of the decrees passed by the Buhari regime at the time, let us recall the notorious case of Triple Alhaji Alhaji Alhaji, then Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Finance. Who was caught, literally, with his pants down in distant Austria. That was not the crime however, and private conduct should always remain restricted to the domain of private censure.

There was no decree against civil servants proving just as hormone driven as anyone else, especially outside the nation’s borders.

However, there was a clear decree against the keeping of foreign accounts, and this was what emerged from the Austrian escapade. Alhaji Alhaji kept, not one, but several undeclared foreign accounts, and he had no business being in possession of the large amount of foreign currency of which he was robbed by his overnight companion. The media screamed for an even application of the law, but Buhari had turned suddenly deaf. By contrast, Fela Anikulapo languished in goal for years, sentenced under that very draconian decree. His crime was being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. A vicious sentence was slapped down on Fela by a judge who later became so remorse stricken at least after Buhari’s overthrow that he went to the King of Afro-beat and apologized.

Lesser known was the traumatic experience of the director of an international communication agency, an affiliate of UNESCO. Akin Fatoyinbo arrived at the airport in complete ignorance of the new currency decree. He was thrown in gaol in especially brutal condition, an experience from which he never fully recovered. It took several months of high-level intervention before that innocent man was eventually freed. These were not exceptional but mere sample cases from among hundreds of others, victims of a decree that was selectively applied, a decree that routinely penalized innocents and ruined the careers and businesses of many.

What else? What does one choose to include or leave out? What precisely was Ebenezer Babatope’s crime that he should have spent the entire tenure of General Buhari in detention?

Nothing beyond the fact that he once warned in the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier who would bear watching through the lenses of a coup-detat. Babatope’s father died while he was in Buhari’s custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his father’s funeral, even under guard. I wrote an article at the time, denouncing this pointless insensitivity. So little to demand by a man who was never accused of, nor tried for any crime,much less found guilty. Such a load of vindictiveness that smothered all traces of basic human compassion deserves no further comment in a nation that values its traditions.

But then, speaking the truth was not what Buhari, as a self-imposed leader, was especially enamoured of enquire of Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor both of whom, faithful to their journalistic calling, published nothing but the truth, yet ended up sentenced under Buhari’s decree. Mind you, no one can say that Buhari was not true to his word. Shall tamper with the freedom of the press swore the dictator immediately on grabbing office, and this was exactly what he did. And so on, and on, and on………

All i can hear Buhari saying 'I will kill more youths if you elect me again','I will ban nairaland because i hate insult'. GEJ till all dictators die.

You even forgot about darkness from lack of light

yommys01:
Let me see what we are sticking with.

Boko haram?

210 naira to a dollar

unemployed youths having to pay 1,000 naira each to apply for a nonexistent job?

$20bn developing legs and running away from the treasury

Our girls missing

For me and my house hold, we already know GEJ. We know GEJ can't be better than GEJ ( maybe worst ). GMB the democrat we do not know. He can possibly be worst than GEJ but he could as well be better than him.

In the absence of someone better, I will gladly vote for GMB.

If 200 girls can go missing, then how sure am I that I am safe? How sure am I that my sisters, mother and wife to be are safe?

If youths can die while being made to apply for a job that does not exist, who says I am safe?

If the north can be abandoned, who says my region the South West won't be abandoned soon too?

[size=15pt]Can we have the link to GMB's channels interview of today pls?[/size]

ghost1718:
when did muslim start Believing in jesus

since 0BC

ghost1718:
when did muslim start Believing in jesus

We muslims see Jesus as [/b]a servant of God, His prophet and one of God's most beloved, and believing in him as one of God's messanger is one of the basis of the Islamic faith, if you don't then you are not a Muslim. [b] Guess your question has been answered.

ghost1718:
when did muslim start Believing in jesus

Muslims Have alway believed in Jesus (May the peace and blessings of Allah be upon him). At the mere mention of his name, we shower blessings of Allah on him. I think it up to you to read and understand your bible properly.

GenBuhari:
You even forgot about darkness from lack of light

The person you want to vote for is a dictator and a bad news to Nigeria. Read Soyinkas article. slowpoke!

msmon:
Listen, any muslim that doesn't believe in Jesus(Prophet Issa) is not a true muslim.






Is This Student Dumb Or Smart? (See Picture)
www.nairaland.com/2116332/student-dumb-smart-picture

Do you believe in Him as the Christ, your Saviour?

ghost1718:
when did muslim start Believing in jesus

Any Muslim that does not believe in Jesus is not a true Muslim.


Niger state Governor said so


The name of Jesus appeared more than the name of Mohammed in the Koran(no disrespect for Mohammed)

Mhmm,if our refineries were producing enough petroleum products for the country during his time,did he tell us why he signed a deal with Petrobas of Brazil to be exporting crude oil to them for refining and importing refined petroleum products frm them?

datribune:


He explained his party manifesto. He gave his plans on security, corruption & d economy & how all these were really inter-related. He went down memory lane & told us about how d refineries used to produce enough petrol 4 local consumption. He told us how d NNPC pipelines were built thereby stopping d distribution of fuel by road not too long ago wit d attendant saving in costs, human lives & prolonging d longevity of d roads - bottom-line : we must refine petroleum in nigeria. In a survey conducted when he was in NNPC, Nigeria was found to be capable of making more money frm gas than petrol. He would look into dat. He addressed d issue of power generation & how he would address d distributive aspect. He talked about mining, construction etc. He said quite a lot & lived up to what some people hav always known about him. He is very well informed & experienced. d media propaganda against dis man is really unfair. He has my vote.

Champele:
All i can hear Buhari saying 'I will kill more youths if you elect me again','I will ban nairaland because i hate insult'. GEJ till all dictators die.

Elect me again? This is what happens when people start hearing voices in their head

lambey1:
I am a Nigerian but I can not hear what buhari says..wat happens if God forbids he wins and attends AU or UN meetings?

In a country were even a cleaner needs a B.Sc certificate to gain employment...but here a man who can't show us his certificate is who u want as president...
Does he knows how it feels to study..read day n night..spend money here n dere juz to attain academic excellence..

If he has practically shown no interest in furthering himself academically since 1961 juz like OBJ did how den will he revamp or "change" d educational sector...

A man who cannot even debate against fellow candidates is who u want as a president.?

A man who in several occasions instigated violence in ds country e.g post election violence 2011...

I won't go further but pls if sm1 will earn a masters and still find it difficult to gain employment in did country den a man without certificate should not vie for any political post talk more of being d president...

N to those saying even though GMB brings his NEPA bill as certificate..I tink u should re think...

NIGERIANS BE WISE

Stop holding on to straws. We ar looking 4 a leader.
GEJ has a PHD in d study of animals but his govt will go down in nigerian history as one of d weakest, most corrupt & clueless.
GMB is an alumni of d prestigious US War College & also an alumni of d institution now called d NDA. His secondary school released his statement of result. Cambridge also released it on their websites but u TANoids who suffer frm OCD, "d doubters disease" will always do what u do best - doubt. No surprises there. Some of u ar so delusional dat u even doubt d Chibok abductions. OCD bad ooh. smh.
In leadership terms, comparing an inept & failed president to d head of a corrective govt dat saved d nation frm d brink of economic collapse in d worst recession in our history is like comparing an ant to an elephant. Keep things in perspective - WE AR LOOKING 4 A LEADER. SAI BUHARI

Painfully read through the whole pages not one post of anything of significance Buhari said at this gathering

ionsman:

My guy am a christian from the south south okay.
I put the two there to reiterate my stance that we are one.

bro 1000likes...dis is d most sensible comment i have cn on nairaland..u jst got one more follower

jingh:
where were you when Jonathan ran away in 2011

Abeg Goan sitdown u hear me, shebi u wantu give us change! Start d change in d little possible way, don't use Jona has an excuse 4 Buhari...mtcheww

I won't be voting in the coming elections. I believe we need a change from the status quo but i'm yet to see any change agent. Tinubu, Buhari and Atiku are no change agents! Its like we're planning to replace one set of miscreants with another set. The only reason most people are joining the "Change" bandwagon is because they just want something new, not necessarily because they believe any of these dubious personalities championing and chrousing change are capable of implementing any kind of change. Imagine Bukola saraki and Sani Yerima calling themselves change agents!
Buhari is old and can't even communicate anything to anyone. He knows absolutely nothing about the modern challenges of running a nation. His campaign slogan is locking people up and his economic agenda is strong naira against the dollar! He's still trapped in the 70's!

#WeMustVoteChange

kingslly:
Mhmm,if our refineries were producing enough petroleum products for the country during his time,did he tell us why he signed a deal with Petrobas of Brazil to be exporting crude oil to them for refining and importing refined petroleum products frm them?

They were not refining 4 us. It was an ingenious, creative, & highly successful idea. It was a barter  arrangement wit Russia & Brazil whereby we gave dem crude oil & they gave us CKD 4 our industries.
d thieving politicians whom Buhari eased out of power had run d economy to bankruptcy. d IMF saw an opportunity to hold our country to ransom & foist on our hapless & severely weakened nation d neo-liberal economic policies of d IMF wit its several slavish conditionalities including d devaluation of d naira. GMB called their bluff. He rejected d IMF loan & refused to devalue d naira. His economic team under d then min of finance, Dr Onaolapo Soleye devised dis ingenuous system of barter 4 oil. It was highly successful & it stabilized d economy. d inflationary rate was kept at between 3-5% & d exchange rate at $1 to 1 naira. SAI BUHARI

larryberry2000:


Would these put food on your table?
Common sense is not common

And you think buhari will put food on your table..... nor go hustle, dey wait make GEJ come marry wife for you before you vote am... EKPA

ionsman:

My guy am a christian from the south south okay.
I put the two there to reiterate my stance that we are one.

By the way,muslims believe in Jesus.There is whole chapter named with is mum name MARYAM known as MARY in english.Whoever disbelieve in him in islam is not a muslim.but has a prophet of God not his son.

Come and eat income?

Clefcentfelix:


Elect me again? This is what happens when people start hearing voices in their head

#GMB..

If u not voting then you have disenfranchised yourself.
So what is the point of your contribution to this thread?

duni04:
I won't be voting in the coming elections. I believe we need a change from the status quo but i'm yet to see any change agent. Tinubu, Buhari and Atiku are no change agents! Its like we're planning to replace one set of miscreants with another set. The only reason most people are joining the "Change" bandwagon is because they just want something new, not necessarily because they believe any of these dubious personalities championing and chrousing change are capable of implementing any kind of change. Imagine Bukola saraki and Sani Yerima calling themselves change agents!
Buhari is old and can't even communicate anything to anyone. He knows absolutely nothing about the modern challenges of running a nation. His campaign slogan is locking people up and his economic agenda is strong naira against the dollar! He's still trapped in the 70's!

buhari is leading on every side no doubt about that winning with huge margin. this election am seeing here is not about money ,rice and kerosene but about change we desire.this is d change we need.by d grace of God d will of God will prevail.

Im not paid to fight any war online,so i don't care for my mistakes as long as your dumb head understands it.

Clefcentfelix:


Elect me again? This is what happens when people start hearing voices in their head

Buhari is not a man of words - he is a man of action; this is what we need now.[quote author=Smartestelvis post=30357947][/quote]