It's so amaze me to see people trooping out and strongly defending this man called BUHARI. Please members, what's so special about him , is YAR'ADUA not better off taking into account his experience under the the democratic system and his zeal to continue wit the present lovely reforms by the Obasanjo administration.

Question: Whats so special about Buhari?
Answer: Absolutely nothing. Last time i checked, he is a retired Army General _{and dat alone disqualifies him}

The man is beyond reproach. He is desciplined, honest and very patriotic. In the histroy of Nigerian kleptocratic leaders, Buhari is the only man to have come out unblemished. He doesn't have Bells schools or various farms spread across Nigeria. He doesn't have billions stached in foreign banks a la Babangida.
When he ran PTDF which Atiku and Obasanjo looted with abandon, he did it with style.
Please read on
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THERE are several attributes of the presidential candidate of the All Nigeria Peoples Party, ANPP, which should single him out as the candidate for whom to vote. In his own way, he is patriotic, at least, as head of state, he was courageous enough to tell the International Monetary Fund, IMF, and the World Bank, those two agents of financial imperialism, to go and jump in the lagoon. For that, I will always be grateful to him because, if his successor had not been duplicitous in accepting the conditionalities while pretending that the ideas were home grown, we might not be in the mess we were in before Obasanjo came back.

Second, Buhari is honest. In fact, Buhari is so honest that he should be the one fighting the war against corruption not Obasanjo, after the revelations coming out of the Petroleum Develoment Trust Funds, PDTF, episode, the Presidential Library, the Schools at Ota and farms everywhere. All of these and other assets yet to be disclosed were acquired largely since 1999 by a president who was, to all intents and purposes, financially bankrupt. Buhari left offices as former minster of petroleum and head of state without an oil well to his name and without sprawling mansions everywhere; and no presidential library. He certainly did not give a contract worth several millions of dollars to one Andrew Young, a friend in the U.S, to help launder the Nigerian image; a task which would have been left to Nigerian advertising agencies who have a stake in the outcome.

As chairman of the Petroleum Special Trust Fund, PTF, under Abacha, he had another chance for criminal self-enrichment. Indeed, Abacha might have given him the portfolio in the hope that he would “help himself”. But, Buhari, to his everlasting credit, again demonstrated the degree of honesty that is rare in this country by discharging his responsibilities without blemish. Others within the PTF were, of course, not so honourable and there were so many contracts the chairman could not determine whether or not they all represented value for money.

Till today, nobody has ever, even in whisper, accused Buhari of stealing a kobo. Buhari, unfortunately, had come into government at a time when the price of crude oil was racing downwards. Indeed, his was the most unfortunate government in that aspect, due to no fault of his. Yet, if one government must be singled out for managing poverty very well, then the Buhari-Idiagbon regime would justifiably claim first prize. There was discipline in that government and they had embarked on the process of extending that sense of discipline to the entire country. For instance, on one occasion I was in the post office at Bida, Niger State, in line waiting to buy stamps when one rude fellow came in and jumped the queue. Immediately, as if on cue, everyone on the line exclaimed: “You jumping the queue, you will be sorry for yourself if Idiagbon gets hold of you”. And the fellow sheepishly went back to the end of the line. And his government made that sort of impact in less than nine months. One can only imagine the sort of social transformation that would have taken place if the government had eight years to work with.

The discipline the government introduced to NEPA, which, hitherto, had become a monster and totally uncontrollable (just as it is today) would be remembered by those old enough at the time to note the difference between now and then. To be quite candid, it would require more than three columns to write, in detail, all the positive attributes of the Buhari administration and the man himself. Time, however, does not allow that luxury. Perhaps, the opportunity will present itself in the future because the true story of the Buhari phenomenon has not been told yet. So, why then should anyone be apprehensive about a Buhari presidency in 2007? The short answer is; Look at what Obasanjo has done with the presidency, his disregard for the rule of law, for due process, his transformation to the emperor of Aso Rock."

Does that answer your question?

Buhari gets my vote no doubt.

No presidential aspirant is better than Buhari for now. He is discipline and has high integrity.