ovadoze:

Am waiting....

Stockpiles ofmoney of more than $56,000 was found in Ekweme's House. Thankfully, New York Times Article of 1984 captured it. Ekweme neither decline that he owns the money nor did he offer any explanation and was convicted by the tribunal accordingly. Maybe it was my grandfather that kept the money in his bedroom

Brig. Tunde Idiagbon told reporters Thursday that the stockpiles of money ranged from $56,000 found at the home of former Vice President Alex Ekwueme[/b], to $4.5 million at the residence of the last civilian governor of Kono State, [b]Alhaji Sabo Bakin Zuwo.

This is a New York Times Article of 1984
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/21/world/around-the-world-nigeria-says-it-recovers-millions-from-ex-aides.html

Ekweme is still alive and Buhari is still well and strong.

2cato:
Barcanista trying to defend buhari is making you look like a clown that want people to see that the leopard is having no spot on his body.

It is high time I start ignoring you. FAULT my response and let us see how it goes.

Obiagelli:

Why should i waste my time? I am yet to see the Op response to barcanista's post

Don't mind those propagandists

SirHouloo:
Why didn't Jonathan probe NNPC money scandal, Aviation minister's motor and the likes but prefer to witchhunt Sanusi for leaking the secrets? I think we deserve an answer to these too.

Jonathan has a lot of questions on corruption and terrorism to answer. Trust Buhari, an intelligence officer; a lot of revelations will be made.

Omimah:

Jonathan has a lot of questions on corruption and terrorism to answer. Trust Buhari, an intelligence officer; a lot of revelations will be made.

Bros I hope you are following the thread?

Which response? Pro. Ambrose ali used money that was ment for road construction to build the first state university in nigeria and was killed by buhari for that. Mr. Clown i hope you understand.

barcanista:
It is high time I start ignoring you. FAULT my response and let us see how it goes.

For a long time now, the voice of General Muhammadu Buhari (retd) has been a constant buzz on the Nigerian political scene. Actually, for a while — after the election of 2007 — the erstwhile autocratic military head of state rescued himself from the political scene, complaining bitterly and implausibly that he had been cheated out of presidential election victory.

Then, propelled by his unfulfilled appetite for power, he re-emerged soon after. It is entirely understandable that he couldn’t stay away for long.

Any observer of the Nigerian political scene in 1984 has to know that Buhari is a man with an imperial bent and an oversized ego. During his short-lived tenure as Nigeria’s military head of state, he imposed his will as no other had done before or after.

His War Against Indiscipline (or WAI) permeated every aspect of Nigerian life, for better and for worse. He brooked no dissent. His Decree No. 4 was as draconian a law as Nigeria has ever witnessed. Under the decree, many a journalist was imprisoned for questioning Buhari’s policies or even inveighing against military rule.

Some pundits have claimed that many of the dictatorial excesses of Buhari’s tenure were actually attributable to his second in command, the late General Tunde Idiagbon. I am more inclined to believe that Buhari was the ideologue behind the policies and Idiagbon was his strategist.

Not that it matters that much. Buhari was the head of state, and whatever happened under his watch should duly be credited to (or blamed on) him.

The important point now is that Buhari’s tenure was too short to quench his appetite for power. And that’s why, even after publicly shedding tears in 2007 and vowing to leave politics, he came back with more doggedness than ever before.

While Buhari was the flag bearer of the All Nigeria People’s Party, he had little chance of being elected president. His political fortunes improved somewhat when he bolted from the ANPP to form the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in 2010, but it was not enough to hoist the presidential banner.

That’s why Buhari’s claim of being cheated out of the presidency in 2007 and 2011raised serious questions about his political astuteness.

Then Buhari started to push harder for the merger of parties that could challenge the PDP. He must have realised at last that his losses in previous contests had little to do with being rigged out and much to do with his narrow electoral base.

Now with the merger of the CPC and the Action Congress of Nigeria and two other parties to form the All Progressives Congress, Buhari has overcome the problem of a narrow base. And for the first time since his overthrow in 1985, he has a better-than-realistic chance of becoming Nigeria’s president.

Problem is that while Buhari has solved the problem of his narrow electoral base in terms of party formation, he has not shed his narrow political ideology. Rather than truly reaching out and positioning himself as a healing force in Nigerian politics, he is demonstrating ever so convincingly that he is too provincial to be president.

If the APC nominates Buhari for the presidency in 2015, it would be opting for someone who is anything but progressive. And the party is likely to lose the very advantage of its prospective size by the fact that Buhari continues to be divisive and alienating.

There is no better evidence of this than his interview last Sunday in Kaduna with Liberty FM’s Hausa Service Programme, ‘Guest of the Week.’

In the interview reported in the Punch, Buhari blasted the ongoing military campaign against Boko Haram, claiming that they are getting harsher treatment than the Niger Delta militants. Moreover, he attributed the rise of Islamic militancy to the Niger Delta insurgency.

Perhaps, Buhari is not aware that the Joint Task Force that was deployed in the Niger Delta to combat the militancy there used jets, naval gunboats, and armoured vehicles. Perhaps, he has not heard of the razing in 1999 of Odi village in Bayelsa State by the Nigerian military and many more such communities since then.

Buhari rightly points out in the interview that the arming of Niger Delta youth by politicians who were running for office played a major role in the militarisation of the region. What he doesn’t explain is how that gave rise to the ethno-religious campaign being waged by Boko Haram.

The Niger Delta militancy arose in support of a negotiable demand for a more equitable sharing of revenue from the region. And so the militants focused their military campaign against the oil industry and infrastructure. They did not target Muslims or Northerners.

In contrast, Boko Haram is demanding the un-negotiable: the Islamisation of all of Nigeria. And they are bombing churches and killing Christians to advance that cause. How do such demands and atrocities compare with the activities of the Niger Delta militancy?

From his current and previous utterances, it seems certain that Buhari will be a disaster for Nigeria if he becomes president. His apparent disregard for the need for equitable redress of the Niger Delta’s grievances will certainly precipitate a titanic clash in the region.

Significantly, it was during the presidency of fellow Northerner, Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, that an amnesty agreement was reached with the Niger Delta militants, resulting in the beginning of a draw down in their insurgency. If Buhari becomes president, the opposite will happen: he would stoke the militancy by words and action.

Buhari’s evident sympathy for Boko Haram also suggests that he would use his power to push Nigeria ever closer to a theocratic state (in the Muslim mould) than a secular one.

Yet, as is evident in the uprisings in Egypt and Turkey against theocracy-leaning regimes in those countries, Nigerians, including Northerners, will revolt en masse against theocratic encroachments on civil liberties. And so a Buhari presidency is certain to unleash a level of civil unrest that Nigeria has not witnessed in a long time.

In external relations, a Buhari presidency is also certain to damage Nigeria’s relations with the Western world, especially the United States. In fact, it is not an overreach to speculate that Nigeria could become listed as a terrorist state.

The US recently announced a $7 million bounty on Boko Haram’s leader, Abubakar Shekau. If Nigeria elects a president who cuddles the group, the bounty would in effect be on the country.

In the interview with Liberty FM radio, Buhari said that he didn’t join the APC because he wants to be president.

“If APC fails to give me the ticket, I will remain in partisan politics and in the party,” he said. “Anyone the party picks as its candidate, I will support him because I will remain in the APC.”

Buhari is, of course, being coy about his presidential ambitions, and it is hard to take him seriously. What with his early and intense campaigning — with posters all over Abuja, I understand. Buhari does indeed belong in partisan politics, but not in the presidency.

barcanista:
Stockpiles ofmoney of more than $56,000 was found in Ekweme's House. Thankfully, New York Times Article of 1984 captured it. Ekweme neither decline that he owns the money nor did he offer any explanation and was convicted by the tribunal accordingly. Maybe it was my grandfather that kept the money in his bedroom


This is a New York Times Article of 1984
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/21/world/around-the-world-nigeria-says-it-recovers-millions-from-ex-aides.html

The same you that refused to admit a newspaper article quoted by Ngwakwe is quoting a newspaper article, hypocritical isn't it.
You have seriously failed to answer my question, both Ekwueme and Shagari were accused of corruption, the former being the VP and the later being the president but the Vice president was put in jail while the President who should be held more responsible for the activities of the govt was put under house arrest, don't you think that at least both of them should serve similar punishment? My question bothers on the rationale behind the favouritism and not whether Ekwueme was corrupt or not, let's assume that they were both corrupt, shouldn't the punishment be d same?
I don't want to go down to why Buhari toppled d civilian govt, it's a matter for another day!!!

ovadoze:

[s]The same you that refused to admit a newspaper article quoted by Ngwakwe is quoting a newspaper article, hypocritical isn't it.[/s]
You have seriously failed to answer my question, both Ekwueme and Shagari were accused of corruption, the former being the VP and the later being the president but the Vice president was put in jail while the President who should be held more responsible for the activities of the govt was put under house arrest, don't you think that at least both of them should serve similar punishment? My question bothers on the rationale behind the favouritism and not whether Ekwueme was corrupt or not, let's assume that they were both corrupt, shouldn't the punishment be d same?
I don't want to go down to why Buhari toppled d civilian govt, it's a matter for another day!!!

Why should both of them serve the same punishment? one of them was found with $560k dollars and NOTHING was found on the other. How can we "assume" that they were both corrupt when evidence was only traced to the VP and not the President? Did he tell the prosecutors that it was a collective loot? Did you see where a former Kano State Gov, same fulani was jailed for 300years?

As for the Ngwakwe, that doesn't count here. Because the NYT published the a Press Release of the Military Government and if you are into media or PR sector you will understand how release is published. We are talking of 1984 Report

Thank You

barcanista:
Bros I hope you are following the thread?

Yes. Keep it up.

Omimah:

Yes. Keep it up.

Thanks boss

barcanista:
Why should both of them serve the same punishment? one of them was found with $560k dollars and NOTHING was found on the other. How can we "assume" that they were both corrupt when evidence was only traced to the VP and not the President? Did he tell the prosecutors that it was a collective loot? Did you see where a former Kano State Gov, same fulani was jailed for 300years?

As for the Ngwakwe, that doesn't count here. Because the NYT published the a Press Release of the Military Government and if you are into media or PR sector you will understand how release is published. We are talking of 1984 Report

Thank You

your level of coherence falls with each attempt to protect buhari. Now, why was shagari placed in a house arrest if he wasn't found with anything? Please don't tell me he was been monitored so investigations can proceed. Am waiting

2cato:
Which response? Pro. Ambrose ali used money that was ment for road construction to build the first state university in nigeria and was killed by buhari for that. Mr. Clown i hope you understand.

The link Barcanister posted says Ali was arrested for using money meant for road project to give to his party, UPN. He never said he used the money to build Bendel State University, Ekpoma.

Obiagelli:

Why should i waste my time? I am yet to see the Op response to barcanista's post

But it's quite honorable to answer his first, afterall you are in defence of Buhari. Don't fall my hand o, remember i'm your ardent follower.

menabadoo:
your level of coherence falls with each attempt to protect buhari. Now, why was shagari placed in a house arrest if he wasn't found with anything? Please don't tell me he was been monitored so investigations can proceed. Am waiting

You already have the answer. He was being monitored and investigated. If you have something different please let us know

Note: Not all former official were jailed, some were freed because they were clean or rather there wasn't no evidence against them

Omimah:

The link Barcanister posted says Ali was arrested for using money meant for road project to give to his party, UPN. He never said he used the money to build Bendel State University, Ekpoma.

Me just tire for the guy

barcanista:
@2cato and other saTANs

Why Ambrose Ali was jailed...
Ambrose Ali Was Jailed
http://nigeriannewsworldonline..com/2009_11_08_archive.html

I had to read the statement of AMbrose Ali Son and I could extract this from him

According to Wikipedia


From All Accounts, It was clear that Ali was convicted not because he corruptly enriched himself but was because of the N983,000 Road Project that he gave to his Party. Though he claimed that it was the contractor that gave the money to the PARTY through him.

cc: NgeneUkwenu Omenka egift obiagelli etal

Once the Truth is told, the Carpon and his TANiods are left pants-down in the Cold

barcanista
Stockpiles ofmoney of more than $56,000 was found in Ekweme's House. Thankfully, New York Times Article of 1984 captured it. Ekweme neither decline that he owns the money nor did he offer any explanation and was convicted by the tribunal accordingly. Maybe it was my grandfather that kept the money in his bedroom



This is a New York Times Article of 1984
http://www.nytimes.com/1984/01/21/world/around-the-world-nigeria-says-it-recovers-millions-from-ex-aides.html

Ekweme is still alive and Buhari is still well and strong.

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You have brought this link up again to exculpate Buhari from his inhuman action against Ekwueme. This was a MALICIOUS accusation by Buhari/Idiagbon regime to justify their WICKEDNESS when they were looking for legitimacy. And whenever you bring it up, you forget the words of the Eminent jurist, Samuel Uwaifo (JSC) whose panel tried Ekwueme:

“Dr. Ekwueme left office poor than he was when he entered it, and to ask more from him was to set a standard which even saint could not meet”

And please where and when did "Ekweme neither decline that he owns the money nor did he offer any explanation"? Where you at the tribunal to see his defence? You don't have to say what you don't know. Ekwueme has always maintained his innocence.

Ekwueme was rich, VERY RICH before he went into politics. When he started making money legitimately in 1958 Buhari was still in a glorified alimajiri high school. Please read a little bit about the man here: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/alex-ekwueme-as-a-true-political-model/75392/


Let us even assume that Buhari/Idiagbon was saying the truth. Is finding money in one's house became a criminal offence? Shouldn't the issue should be how he came about the money; whether the money was stolen-whether it was public fund.


I think there are some issues you just have to let be in your quest to canonize this criminal coupist, Buhari.

barcanista:
You already have the answer. If you have something different please let us know

barcanista, even toddler will see the truth like daylight. Mind you I'm not a GEJ apologist but an advocate of good governance and democracy, GEJ has faile but buhari is definitely not the answer. Tell me why fela was arrested?

Sibabasibaba1:
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You have brought this link up again to exculpate Buhari from his inhuman action against Ekwueme. This was a MALICIOUS accusation by Buhari/Idiagbon regime to justify their WICKEDNESS when they were looking for legitimacy. And whenever you bring it up, you forget the words of the Eminent jurist, Samuel Uwaifo (JSC) whose panel tried Ekwueme:

“Dr. Ekwueme left office poor than he was when he entered it, and to ask more from him was to set a standard which even saint could not meet”



Ekwueme was rich, VERY RICH before he went into politics. When he started making money legitimately in 1958 Buhari was still in a glorified alimajiri high school. Please read a little bit about the man here: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/alex-ekwueme-as-a-true-political-model/75392/


Let us even assume that Buhari/Idiagbon was saying the truth. Is finding money in one's house became a criminal offence? Shouldn't the issue should be how he came about the money; whether the money was stolen-whether it was public fund.


I think there are some issues you just have to let be in your quest to canonize this criminal coupist, Buhari.[/s]

Who kept the $560k in Ekweme's house? Have Ekweme denied that money was found in his house? And that your nonsense 30 Oct 2010 Article makes NO SENSE and isn't even factual.

egift:


Once the Truth is told, the Carpon and his TANiods are left pants-down in the Cold

They are pathetic trolls

smartcount003:


But it's quite honorable to answer his first, afterall you are in defence of Buhari. Don't fall my hand o, remember i'm your ardent follower.

That he didn't reply barcanista shows his true intentions, i have my answers and like always I BACK THEM UP with links. I wouldn't waste my time digging up link for someone that will just to another argument was i post a link.

Barcanista please answer my question then we will correlate it to the bone of contention. Why was fela arrested?

After seeing the level of obfuscation by Buharists. Prof Wole Soyinka has this to say:

"Addressing a press conference this morning in Lagos, Prof. Soyinka also berated pro-democracy activists and others declaring their support for the candidature of Buhari, saying they needed the services of a psychiatrist."

Don't try wasting your time on them, they lack objectivity, consistency and facts

Ask them question, they quote editorial gossips as facts.

Ngwakwe:
After seeing the level of obfuscation by Buharists. Prof Wole Soyinka has this to say:

"Addressing a press conference this morning in Lagos, Prof. Soyinka also berated pro-democracy activists and others declaring their support for the candidature of Buhari, saying they needed the services of a psychiatrist."

Don't try wasting your time on them, they lack objectivity, consistency and facts

How does Soyinka come into play here? Like others he is entitled to his opinion. We will only engage him if he makes an unsubstantiated claim.

Beside, you are being emotional bros

Barcanista, why was fela anikulapo kuti arrested? Still waiting....

Barcanista, I need to know why fela was arrested before we can take this argument to the next phase.

barcanista:
How does Soyinka come into play here? Like others he is entitled to his opinion. We will only engage him if he makes an unsubstantiated claim.

Beside, you are being emotional bros

One thing I promise you is consistency and willingness to backup my critiquing of Buhari with verifiable facts.

I don't deal on gossips, it is unacademic and counterproductive to my profession.

See you on more intelligible thread.

No one seem to understand why fela and the likes of emeka ojukwu was jailed.

Please can someone provide the list of people buhari jailed and executed let's see if he isn't a tribalist.

menabadoo:
No one seem to understand why fela was jailed.

WHY FELA WAS JAILED 10YEARS
Back in 1984, when Buhari was head of state, the government decided to change the national currency. As part of the exercise, movement of money out of the country was prohibited. Fela came into the country with $5000 of his legitimate earning from Europe. A scenario we must look out here:

1- The existing law
2. The Money was legitimate.

Judge Verdict: The Judge convicted Fela for 10 Years for breaking the law, which the Buhari Government upheld.

My View: It was wrong to jail FELA as exception should have been given to Fela because he earned his money legitimately, though Buhari wanted to be seen as upholding the law no matter whose ox is gored.

barcanista:
How does Soyinka come into play here? Like others he is entitled to his opinion. We will only engage him if he makes an unsubstantiated claim.

Beside, you are being emotional bros

Meaning you cannot engage Professor Wole Soyinka's statements about Buhari's DICTATORSHIP and Human Rights abuse records since they are substantiated.
Duly noted for future reference.