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BY OUR REPORTER ON NOVEMBER 18, 2012 OPINION
By KEHINDE OLAOSEBIKAN

Alhaji Lam Onaolapo Adesina, Oyo State Governor from May 29, 1999 to May 29, 2003, passed onto glory peacefully on Sunday, November 11,2012, after over 73 years of a very successful sojourn on earth. Alhaji Lam rose to the pinnacle of all his callings in life. He got to the zenith of his career as a teacher. As a social crusader, he got state recognition and was tagged ‘prisoner of war’; and politically, he did not only realize his ambition of becoming the governor of his state, he achieved the extra-ordinary by installing a governor, not while in power but eight years after he had left office. Since Sunday, torrents of tributes have been pouring in from various quarters, all extolling the virtues of Alhaji Lam Adesina .

He has been described in many superlative words, establishing the fact that Alhaji Lam was a great man. But how great really was the husband of the benign Alhaja Sarat Adeola Adesina? As his Chief Press Secretary while he served as the Governor of Oyo State, I will transmit a story of how the former governor tamed a former Military Head of State and prevented what could have led to the Nigerian second civil war. It was on October 13, 2000, when words went round that General Muhammadu Buhari was leading the Arewa team to the governor’s office to confront the state over alleged killing of Fulani herdsmen in Saki, Oke Ogun area of the state. General Buhari did actually telephone the governor that he was leading a team to his office. In less than 30 minutes after the General informed the governor of his visit, we noticed that the entire secretariat was already filled with lorry loads of our brothers from the North.

This created some tension but we kept our calm. At about 2pm, General Buhari arrived in a long convoy at the Governor’s office in company with the former Governor of Lagos State, General Buba Marwa, Alhaji Aliko Muhammed, Alhaji Abdulrazak , Alhaji Hassan and some others. They all wore long faces. In fact, the anger and venom in them was very palpable as all pleasantries extended to them were largely shunned. “This is trouble”, was the expression on the faces of all of us in the Governor’s office. Shortly afterwards, the Director of State Security Service (SSS) and Commissioner of Police arrived. But their presence did not change anything particular on the fears that had gripped majority of us.

The two security chiefs did not come with troops; they came almost alone. The meeting was called to order after Alhaji Lam serenely walked into the Executive Chambers in his well-embroidered multi-colour lace. Introductions over, General Buhari spoke of his mission to the governor’s office. Emitting fire, the General accused the governor and the government of Oyo State of complicity in the killings of over 68 Fulani people in Oke Ogun area and perversion of justice. His words: “Your Excellency, our arrival here is to discuss with you and your government our displeasure about the incident of clashes between two peoples… the Fulani herdsmen and merchants are today being harassed, attacked and killed like in any war in Saki.

In May, 2000, 68 bodies of Fulani herdsmen were recovered and buried under the supervision and protection from a team of Mobile Police from Oyo State Command. “ That some arrests were made by the State Police Command in the massacre with their immediate release without court trial was said to be ordered by Oyo State authorities and they were so released to their amazements. Then, consequently, the mass release of the arrested suspects gave the clear impression that the authority was backing and protecting them to continue the unjust and illegal killings of Fulani herdsmen…” According to the General, they wanted immediate stoppage of the killings, justice and compensation for the mass killing of the Fulani.

As weighty and indicting the General’s allegations were against the governor, Alhaji Lam Adesina remained unperturbed as he only fired back with his own well- coordinated arsenal in form of robust explanations and engagements. Alahji Adesina identified all the points raised by the General and simply asked the heads of the organizations directly involved to respond to the allegations. First to speak was the Commissioner of Police who debunked all the claims made by the General. Instead of the allegation by the General that the natives killed the Fulani, the Police commissioner said pointedly that the opposite was the case. “ The killings of the natives by the Fulani were duly reported to the police and of course, we could not make arrests because as soon as they kill, they migrate to other areas.

Who are you going to arrest? So that is the problem”. On the contrary, on the killings of the Fulani which he said, was as result of “piled up anger”, the commissioner disclosed that arrests had been made and the suspects still in police custody. Next was the Director of Security Service who equally tore all of General Buhari’s claims to shreds. “The natives don’t have problem with the Fulani who are residents but those who come in. They don’t care for anybody. They just go ahead and when they graze farms, whoever cares to challenge them runs into trouble. You said 68 people were killed, and people driven away. I am not saying there were no killings but it cannot be more than five.

The petition was on the harsh side; there was nothing like that.” Not done yet, Governor Adesina called in his Deputy, Barrister Iyiola Oladokun; and his SSG, Chief Michael Koleoso, both from Oke Ogun and the Chairman of the local government of one of the affected areas, Mr Ademola Alalade. They stated the true position of things in the area, corroborating the submissions of the security chiefs. At this point, all the tension and apprehensions evaporated. Trust Lam any day! He must rub it in. He spoke for about 20 minutes and the Generals were at the edges of their seats for the entire period.

They were like chickens that have just been thoroughly beaten by the rain. Lam Adesina said: “ Before I thank you for this visit, you have come to tell me something, I also want to tell you something and that is to make an appeal. General Buhari is a former Head of State, Brigadier Marwa governed Lagos for some time and with credibility…. So, you are national leaders of this country. Even though by accident of birth, you are from the North, so you can be born anywhere, may be next time when I am coming to the world I will be born in the North or the South South. My appeal will be that effort must be made to unite this country and that will be to the best interest of all Nigerians.

I am appealing to the Arewa Consultative Forum under which auspices our distinguished Nigerians are here. In recent times, they have been sending wrong signals to a number of us who believe in the unity and peace of Nigeria. You have been too critical of the efforts of the federal government. I am saying this because Nigeria at this point cannot afford to break and the words you northern leaders utter are very weighty. In the South here, we normally analyze them critically.” On all the allegations, Alhaji Lam Adesina said: “From what they have written in the petition, this government is completely blameless because we don’t interfere either with the judiciary or with the police functions.

I always converse peaceful co-existence, living in Oyo State and Nigeria as a whole. We are all Nigerians and that is what we have been preaching all along and we shall continue to be Nigerians , no matter the present or immediate problems which will be solved by the grace of Allah. I want to say also that we really have to appeal to our people, the itinerant Bororo people that they should be less aggressive. It is not good, it is not right; coming from somewhere, then, you just pass through farm lands cultivated may be with the person’s life savings and then overnight, everything is gone. That is not right, even Allah does not approve of that. We even wonder when they talk about this people carrying dangerous weapons

. I ask, do they really believe in Allah? When you just take life like that and go away! Are we not forbidden not to take human life? So, I think General Buhari, General Marwa, you have to educate them…. “It is my pleasure to inform you that at the Presidential Lodge, we have made some arrangements for refreshments so that before you go, we can refresh together.” General Buhari and his team did not wait for any refreshments.

http://sunnewsonline.com/new/?p=11046

NO AMOUNT OF LIES AGAINST GMB CAN STOP HIM.
THE SEASON HAS COME FOR REPENTANCE,OP

Hmm..should I say their grievances correspond to the saying "blood is thicker than water"?

General Muhammad Buhari’s supporters (Buharists) are giddy. Giddy about their folk hero. Giddy about his entry into the 2015 Presidential fray. Giddy about the crowd he pulls. Never mind the fact that the crowd is virtually limited to the north. To be precise, the Muslim north. And, to be more precise and bring this issue home, the north that was excised from Nigeria by the late Gideon Orkar. They tell whoever cares to listen that Buhari is the solution to ALL Nigeria’s problems. Really?

To be sure, Nigeria’s problems are legion. Ranging from preference for consumption above production; lack of direction and focus; misplaced priorities; poor leadership choices; unintelligent followership and, of course, to the omnibus problem of corruption.

Buharists do not only want us to believe that their man has the answer to all of Nigeria’s problems. Rather, they believe that he is the answer. All we need to do is vote in Buhari and the problems enunciated above will disappear. Wow! That amounts to an ascription of omniscience. A trait supposedly an exclusive preserve of God. Is Buhari God? Methinks not.

Buhari is man as man could be. With all the foibles and personal flaws. It is these flaws Buhari supporters want to sweep under the carpet. But we have been sweeping so many things under the Nigerian carpet for a long time. The Nigerian eagle has been rain-beaten prior to amalgamation in 1914; post-amalgamation; pre-Independence in 1960, and since. The carpet has no more space for dirt. In fact, the stench emitted from under the Nigerian carpet suffocates. It kills initiatives. It stifles growth. It discourages enterprise. It promotes cutting corners. It deifies common criminals and disparages true heroes. The carpet has also become a landmine for unwary travelers.

A major issue swept under the Nigerian carpet prior to amalgamation was wealth production and distribution. When British imperialists landed on our shores, they realized the need to wean the colony from the British treasury. It sought to make the colony self-sustaining. Hence, the vibrant Southern economy was needed to prop the North. It has been so doing for over hundred years.

Add to this the British empowerment of the northern power elite. Pliable and a ready tool for neo-colonialism, the northern power elite was propped. By contrast, southern leaders, (particularly Chief Obafemi Awolowo) were systematically weakened, and even imprisoned on trumped up charges. Census figures were cooked up in bizarre and a “in-your-face” fashion that saw arid regions of the north having more population than coastal south. Conscription into the military was heavily rigged in favor of the north. Religion was exploited by the predominantly Muslim north to kill, maim and keep in fear Christians and southerners resident in the north.

Permit me to note that all stated above is not new. It is well known. But it bears repetition in the frenzied, giddy and emotional adoption of Buhari by some southerners. My reason for this will become pretty obvious soon.

To drive home this point, let us make a brief comparison of Buhari and another Fulani military officer; Retired Colonel Abubakar Umar. On the issue of religion, you know where Umar stands: religion is a personal matter. Hence, as brigade commander in Bauchi, he gave order to shoot Muslim rioters on sight. Will Buhari do that? And, don’t give me that Maitatsine Uprising story. The Maitatsine sect was not Islamic in the strict sense of the word. The sect rejected the hadith and the sunnah. Their leader was from Northern Cameroon. Boko Haram (BH) is a Fulani contrivance to regain political control. Thus, while Buhari equivocated in his condemnation of BH and never call for its annihilation, Umar actually ordered Islamist rioters killed.

Second, Umar retired into ostrich farming since leaving the military in protest against the annulment of June 12, and by extension condemned the usurpation of power by the goggled General. In contrast, Buhari worked for the goggled General whose tenure remains the most sordid in the entire Nigerian history. By so doing, not only did he endorse the Abacha regime, gave it a much-needed credibility; but by extension, he endorsed the killings of SW leaders, their forced exile, the foisting of an atmosphere of fear in the SW, the unbridled looting of our commonwealth and the annihilation of our leadership cadre.

Finally, while Umar had consistently rebuffed attempts to draft him into politics, Buhari had gleefully accepted and even renege on his promise not to run for elective office after his last misadventure. Perhaps there is something alluring about power that makes a man’s word meaningless. A “born-to-rule” mentality?

Buhari has never hidden his representation of the Fulani stock. To him, he is first a Fulani before being a Nigerian. Thus, in 2002, he led an Arewa delegation to late Lam Adesina who was governor of Oyo State. The delegation’s mission was to protest the killing of Fulani herdsmen by Oke Ogun farmers in the northern fringes of Oyo State. Never mind the fact that prior to this time (and even till date), Nigerians from the Middle Belt Savannah to the Southern Mangrove regions have been subjected to insistent and indiscriminate attack by Fulani herdsmen. Farmlands have been ravaged. Farmers have been killed. Villages have been scorched. Women have been raped. Sometimes in the presence of their helpless husbands. Pregnant women have been ripped open. Entire communities have been made desolate. The Fulani herdsmen have turned into terrors that move by night. They are indiscriminate arrows that fly by daylight.

If you doubt me, ask regular travelers along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway. You must never stop to change a flat tyre on the Lagos end of the Long Bridge. A Retired General was mowed down by arrow-shooting Fulani herdsmen. He never lived to tell his story. Another young man was lucky. He barely survived with machete cuts. Maybe the arrow was exhausted from its pod! Ask Yewa people in the western region of Ogun State. They have been crying out about atrocities of Fulani herdsmen. A newly married woman was raped and wasted by the herdsmen. Farmers are now afraid of tilling the soil, lest they come to sudden desolation in the hand of these killers of the jungle. Ask a community in Ebonyi State that was recently vandalized by Fulani herdsmen. Ask Berom people in Plateau State. They have been living in constant fear of unprovoked attacks by Fulani herdsmen. Berom communities now sleep with an open eye as these killers use the stealth of the night to scorch entire villages. Farmlands have been abandoned. Even the people have not been granted age-long respect for the dead as the agents of death visited their trade at a Berom funeral where one of their representatives was killed. The people of Southern Kaduna fare worse. Tell them to vote for Buhari and see whether you will live to tell your story.

In the Akoko region of Ondo State, a stretch of road was under siege from armed robbers for a long period of time. These men waylaid travelers between Akungba and Isua. They dispossessed, wounded, and killed travelers. It was really traumatizing for passengers as they never knew when the marauders would strike. Until one day with the resolve of the local community and help of traditionalists, the marauders were caught. Needless to say that they turned out to be Fulani herdsmen!

Given all these, interested readers would like to know when the statesman in Buhari trumped the irredentist in him. Unfortunately, there is no record of the man aspiring to lead the nation condemning the criminal Fulani herdsmen – no matter how tepid. Is this the man being promoted as the answer to our national problems? Is he coming to power to complete the annihilation of the Middle Belt and other parts of Nigeria who have lived in perpetual fear of Fulani murderers for years? A final solution? Can we get real for once?

The Fulani Bororo is a borderless nomadic ethnic group that cuts across the entire West African landscape; from Mali in the North to Nigeria in the South. The security implications of an irredentist’s statement of: “soaking the land with the blood of dogs and baboons” must never be lost on us. A borderless, itinerant, combative, killer ethnic group provides a steady stream of fighters. BH taught us this lesson. When a supposed statesman wears the toga of an ethnic champion our sanity must be questioned if we adorn him as a nationalist. Should there be a problem between a Malian Fulani and a Yoruba from Nigeria who do you think Buhari as President would back?

http://nigeriapulse.com/buhari-and-the-looming-contest-for-the-soul-of-nigeria-1by-aro-odofin/

9jii:
NO AMOUNT OF LIES AGAINST GMB CAN STOP HIM.
THE SEASON HAS COME FOR REPENTANCE,OP

You are kidding me. Lies? Season of Repentance? Please point out the lies and counter them point by point with the truth. Remember do not attack the messenger- deal with the message.

THE NIGERIAN NATION AGAINST GENERAL BUHARI


By Wole SOYINKA

This intervention has been provoked, not so much by the ambitions of General Buhari to return to power at the head of a democratic Nigeria, as by declarations of support from directions that leave one totally dumbfounded. It would appear that some, myself among them, had been overcomplacent about the magnitude of an ambition that seemed as preposterous as the late effort of General Ibrahim Babangida to aspire yet again to the honour of presiding over a society that truly seeks a democratic future. What one had dismissed was a rash of illusions, brought about by other political improbabilities that surround us, however, is being given an air of plausibility by individuals and groupings to which one had earlier attributed a sense of relevance of historic actualities. Recently, I published an article in the media, invoking the possible recourse to psychiatric explanation for some of the incongruities in conduct within national leadership. Now, to tell the truth, I have begun to seriously address the issue of which section of society requires the services of a psychiatrist. The contest for a seizure of rationality is now so polarized that I am quite reconciled to the fact it could be those of us on this side, not the opposing school of thought that ought to declare ourselves candidates for a lunatic asylum. So be it. While that decision hangs in the balance however, the forum is open. Let both sides continue to address our cases to the electorate, but also prepare to submit ourselves for psychiatric examination.


The time being so close to electoral decision, we can understand the haste of some to resort to shortcuts. In the process however, we should not commit the error of opening the political space to any alternative whose curative touch to national afflictions have proven more deadly than the disease. In order to reduce the clutter in our options towards the forthcoming elections, we urge a beginning from what we do know, what we have undergone, what millions can verify, what can be sustained by evidence accessible even to the school pupil, the street hawker or a just-come visitor from outer space. Leaving Buhari aside for now, I propose a commencing exercise that should guide us along the path of elimination as we examine the existing register of would-be president. That initial exercise can be summed up in the following speculation: “If it were possible for Olusegun Obasanjo, the actual incumbent, to stand again for election, would you vote for him?”

If the answer is “yes”, then of course all discussion is at an end. If the answer is ‘No’ however, then it follows that a choice of a successor made by Obasanjo should be assessed as hovering between extremely dangerous and an outright kiss of death. The degree of acceptability of such a candidate should also be inversely proportionate to the passion with which he or she is promoted by the would-be ‘godfather’. We do not lack for open evidence about Obasanjo’s passion in this respect. From Lagos to the USA, he has taken great pains to assure the nation and the world that the anointed NPN presidential flag bearer is guaranteed, in his judgment, to carry out his policies. Such an endorsement/anointment is more than sufficient, in my view, for public acceptance or rejection. Yar’Adua’s candidature amounts to a terminal kiss from a moribund regime. Nothing against the person of this – I am informed - personable governor, but let him understand that in addition to the direct source of his emergence, the PDP, on whose platform he stands, represents the most harrowing of this nation’s nightmares over and beyond even the horrors of the Abacha regime. If he wishes to be considered on his own merit, now is time for him, as well as others similarly enmeshed, to exercise the moral courage that goes with his repudiation of that party, a dissociation from its past, and a pledge to reverse its menacing future. We shall find him an alternative platform on which to stand, and then have him present his credentials along those of other candidates engaged in forging a credible opposition alliance. Until then, let us bury this particular proposition and move on to a far graver, looming danger, personified in the history of General Buhari.


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 Buhari’s coup staged? Judging by the conduct of that regime, it was not against Shagari’s 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 from 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 ‘dis’pline’, 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 strictures 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 needle’s 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.

http://saharareporters.com/2007/01/14/crimes-buhari-wole-soyinka

Before you vote Buhari make an informed decision by understanding his antecedents. Don't let him soak the dogs and the baboons with blood win or lose. His contest is a double edge sword. If he loses, the dogs and the baboons will be soaked in blood by his acolytes. If he wins, the ubiquitous terrorist group known as "Fulani herdsmen" will run amok thereby soaking the blood of dogs and baboons in blood with Buhari's tacit support.

Nigerians beware, you can't win with Buhari because tail you lose, head the Fulani irredentists and terrorists win!

omonuan:
Before you vote Buhari make an informed decision by understanding his antecedents. Don't let him soak the dogs and the baboons with blood win or lose. His contest is a double edge sword. If he loses, the dogs and the baboons will be soaked in blood by his acolytes. If he wins, the ubiquitous terrorist group known as "Fulani herdsmen" will run amok thereby soaking the blood of dogs and baboons in blood with Buhari's tacit support.

Nigerians beware, you can't win with Buhari because tail you lose, head the Fulani irredentists and terrorists win!

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Keep it coming....we are used to this from you TANDriod.

Remember you still need to create another Anti-Buhari thread b4 12 midnight today to meet your target.

najoke:

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Keep it coming....we are used to this from you TANDriod.

Remember you still need to create another Anti-Buhari thread b4 12 midnight today to meet your target.

You guys are as intolerant as your boss Buhari. Where is your decree 4 when you need it most? You have no room for dissension. Omonuan is right. Buhari is a bigot in all phases and we can't ignore this fact. Truth smashed to the ground will rise and rise again. We don't want the dogs and the baboons to be soaked in blood because at a minimum that is animal cruelty. At worse, it is blue murder when human blood is used to soak the dogs and the baboons.

You think Fulani Herdsmen are a menace now? Wait till Buhari Wins!

najoke:

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Keep it coming....we are used to this from you TANDriod.

Remember you still need to create another Anti-Buhari thread b4 12 midnight today to meet your target.

How come you and other Buhari rabid supporters do not allow opposing views? Unlike you, I am not on anybody's payroll. I am independent and can think for my self. Buhari does not deserve the hero worship. How about asking him to refund the $2.8 billion alleged to have disappeared under his watch for starters?

As erudite Wole Soyinka stated, Buhari is not what his propagandists portray.

sufido123:


You guys are as intolerant as your boss Buhari. Where is your decree 4 when you need it most? You have no room for dissension. Omonuan is right. Buhari is a bigot in all phases and we can't ignore this fact. Truth smashed to the ground will rise and rise again. We don't want the dogs and the baboons to be soaked in blood because at a minimum that is animal cruelty. At worse, it is blue murder when human blood is used to soak the dogs and the baboons.

You think Fulani Herdsmen are a menace now? Wait till Buhari Wins!

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yeah...cant wait for him to win.
Thanks

omonuan:


How come you and other Buhari rabid supporters do not allow opposing views? Unlike you, I am not on anybody's payroll. I am independent and can think for my self. Buhari does not deserve the hero worship. How about asking him to refund the $2.8 billion alleged to have disappeared under his watch for starters?

As erudite Wole Soyinka stated, Buhari is not what his propagandists portray.

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ok...next!

najoke:


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yeah...cant wait for him to win.
Thanks

Sorry guy....he can't win. His time has passed and he needs to slither into the mist of time.

At least, its better than GEJ's Mumu tendencies.

ba7man:
At least, its better than GEJ's Mumu tendencies.

I'll take a meek mumu over a ravanchist that is a linchpin to bloodletting any day.

Which Nigerian, dead or alive, doesn't have the two qualities?

Also, weren't revanchism and ethnic/religious bigotry the catalyst that got GEJ there in the first place?

And also the primary tools his leadership is about?

Idi.otic thread!

omonuan:


Sorry guy....he can't win. His time has passed and he needs to slither into the mist of time.

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We hear you......where is the next thread?

SirShymex:
Which Nigerian, dead or alive, doesn't have the two qualities?

Also, weren't revanchism and ethnic/religious bigotry the catalyst that got GEJ there in the first?

And also the primary tools his leadership is about?

Idi.otic thread!

You don't need to resort to ad hominem attacks to make your point. Buhari holds other people in contempt. The rules do not apply to his tribe and people close to him. He does not hide his irredentism. No disguise and he speaks not nor act like a presidential material. How can a reasonable leader say that he will soak the dogs and the baboons in blood?

Buhari simply has no veneer of civility.

if you don't like buhari 2015.
my friend chad is not far.
aso rock here we come
“…Though Tribe and Tongue may
defer, In brotherhood we stand…”
Our strength can only come by
the unity we make of our
diversity.
#saiBuhari2015

omonuan:

You don't need to resort to ad hominem attacks to make your point. Buhari holds other people in contempt. The rules do not apply to his tribe and people close to him. He does not hide his irredentism. No disguise and he speaks not nor act like a presidential material. How can a reasonable leader say that he will soak the dogs and the baboons in blood?

Buhari simply has no veneer of civility.

That's not an ad hominem. It's just ascribing the right adjective to the thread/article based on its content. I'm not a fan of the Buhari man. However, if you're going to run a smear campaign against the man, or character assassinate him - make sure it's about something the opposing party isn't guilty of.

In case you don't understand what revanchism is about, I'll make it simpler for you. GEJ's rise/incumbency was built on the South South, despite being the cash cow of the country, has been treated like a conquered territory since independence. Hence he was chosen/selected to rule, and that has been the nucleus of what his tenure is about. That's classic revanchism right there. And when you look at his utterances, and how he has been able to further divide the country, along the deep-rooted fault-lines...GEJ is also an ethnic bigot.

Also, it depends on how you define civility. GEJ has the Ijaw militants as his mouthpiece for threats and violence. And I honestly don't see any difference between the two.

So, what's this thread about, since it's a case of the kettle and the pot, in context of the critique?

jumas:
if you don't like buhari 2015.
my friend chad is not far.
aso rock here we come
“…Though Tribe and Tongue may
defer, In brotherhood we stand…”
Our strength can only come by
the unity we make of our
diversity.
#saiBuhari2015

Why have you not moved to Niger republic since you don't like GEJ? How about the caliphate of Sambissa forrest?

SirShymex:


That's not an ad hominem. It's just ascribing the right adjective to the thread/article based on its content. I'm not a fan of the Buhari man. However, if you're going to run a smear campaign against the man, or character assassinate him - make sure it's about something the opposing party isn't guilty of.

In case you don't understand what revanchism is about, I'll make it simpler for you. GEJ's rise/incumbency was built on the South South, despite being the cash cow of the country, has been treated like a conquered territory since independence. Hence he was chosen/selected to rule, and that has been the nucleus of what his tenure is about. That's classic revanchism right there. And when you look at his utterances, and how he has been able to further divide the country, along the deep-rooted fault-lines...GEJ is also an ethnic bigot.

Also, it depends on how you define civility. GEJ has the Ijaw militants as his mouthpiece for threats and violence. And I honestly don't see any difference between the two.

So, what's this thread about, since it's a case of the kettle and the pot, in context of the critique?

You are engaging in the fallacy of tu quo que or as the Yoruba would say you nko? By your logic if Adekunle is caught stealing a goat, he should be absolved because Emeka stole a goat and was not caught and punished. This is not how the country will move forward. I am sure you've heard the mantra: two wrongs don't make a right!

Jonathan has not made any ethnocentric statement that is as outrageous or despicable as Buhari. If you want to attribute statements made by supporters then Buhari will still be worse off when you count Ciroma and "Junior" Muhhamad, yea I called him that because he is infantile just to mention but a few Northern Hawks.

You want to know what this thread is about? It is about the truth regarding Buhari. He is simply not the messiah.

omonuan:


You are engaging in the fallacy of tu quo que or as the Yoruba would say you nko? By your logic if Adekunle is got stealing a goat, he should be absolved because Emeka stole a goat and was not caught and punished. This is not how the country will move forward. I am sure you've heard the mantra: two wrongs don't make a right!

Jonathan has not made any ethnocentric statement that is as outrageous or despicable as Buhari. If you want to attribute statements made by supporters then Buhari will still be worse off when you count Ciroma and "Junior" Muhhamad, yea I called him that because he is infantile just to mention but a few Northern Hawks

No. In this context, since it's a competitive environment, and they're both vying for a position. You can't point a finger at your opponent, when the other four are pointing back at you. That's hypocrisy. You just have to call a spade a spade, without sentiments. And you're being sentimental here.

Also, isn't GEJ the same man that goes from one tribal enclave to the other, in a divided country, whipping up one ethnocentric sentiment, after the other? - hysterical.

Anyway, when you have an interesting and educative thread, with intelligent critique - don't forget to create a thread for it. However, this is just utter nonsense. It reeks of a hack job by a political jobber.

OP, ALL what you have come up so far has been tried in the past 5 years, but UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU GUYS they did NOTHING to stop Buhari from becoming even MORE POPULAR in the SW, than he ever was.

So you definitely need to try MUCH HARDER to come up with something NEWER, MUCH BIGGER AND MUCH NASTIER than all this over-rehashed stories if you really want to stand EVEN A SLIM CHANCE of stopping the people of the SW region from overwhelmingly voting for him in 2015.!

Those of you who read history should know THE SHEER FUTILITY of your desperate attempts to stop a PEOPLE'S GENUINE DESIRE for a change. It is like trying to use your hands to stop A POWERFUL STORM that advances towards you!.

The message that you need to start drumming in the thick head of your clueless master is this: THE SAME STRONG DESIRE FOR CHANGE that helped him to be so overwhelmingly elected in 2011, is what is going to SWEEP HIM ASIDE in 2015, along with all the morally bankrupt, corrupt and heartless cabal that he has been protecting, instead of protecting the interests of the ordinary Nigerians!.

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LogicPower:
OP, ALL what you have come up so far has been tried in the past 5 years, but UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU GUYS they did NOTHING to stop Buhari from becoming even MORE POPULAR in the SW, than he ever was.

So you definitely need to try MUCH HARDER to come up with something NEWER, MUCH BIGGER AND MUCH NASTIER than all this over-rehashed stories if you really want to stand EVEN A SLIM CHANCE of stopping the people of the SW region from overwhelmingly voting for him in 2015.!

Those of you who read history should know THE SHEER FUTILITY of your desperate attempts to stop a PEOPLE'S GENUINE DESIRE for a change. It is like trying to use your hands to stop A POWERFUL STORM that advances towards you!.

The message that you need to start drumming in the thick head of your clueless master is this: THE SAME STRONG DESIRE FOR CHANGE that helped him to be so overwhelmingly elected in 2011, is what is going to SWEEP HIM ASIDE in 2015, along with all the morally bankrupt, corrupt and heartless cabal that he has been protecting, instead of protecting the interests of the ordinary Nigerians!.

Your master will lose. Just tell him not to soak the dogs and the baboons in blood when the die is cast.

LogicPower:
OP, ALL what you have come up so far has been tried in the past 5 years, but UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU GUYS they did NOTHING to stop Buhari from becoming even MORE POPULAR in the SW, than he ever was.

So you definitely need to try MUCH HARDER to come up with something NEWER, MUCH BIGGER AND MUCH NASTIER than all this over-rehashed stories if you really want to stand EVEN A SLIM CHANCE of stopping the people of the SW region from overwhelmingly voting for him in 2015.!

Those of you who read history should know THE SHEER FUTILITY of your desperate attempts to stop a PEOPLE'S GENUINE DESIRE for a change. It is like trying to use your hands to stop A POWERFUL STORM that advances towards you!.

The message that you need to start drumming in the thick head of your clueless master is this: THE SAME STRONG DESIRE FOR CHANGE that helped him to be so overwhelmingly elected in 2011, is what is going to SWEEP HIM ASIDE in 2015, along with all the morally bankrupt, corrupt and heartless cabal that he has been protecting, instead of protecting the interests of the ordinary Nigerians!.

You have presented no statistic to show how popular Buhari is in the SW. The Yoruba do not want to make the same mistake Afonja made with Alimi. This led to the loss of Ilorin to the Jihadists. I trust the Yoruba, you can't fool them twice.

The first post on this thread showed how Lam Adesina of blessed memory educated your mentor Buhari about peaceful co-existence. Buhari had gone to Ibadan looking stern and thought he would remind the Yoruba who was the boss. He left the scene with his tail in between his legs utterly disgraced.

We don hear this before you can even report it 100 times but guess what? We are still voting GMB

LogicPower:
OP, ALL what you have come up so far has been tried in the past 5 years, but UNFORTUNATELY FOR YOU GUYS they did NOTHING to stop Buhari from becoming even MORE POPULAR in the SW, than he ever was.

So you definitely need to try MUCH HARDER to come up with something NEWER, MUCH BIGGER AND MUCH NASTIER than all this over-rehashed stories if you really want to stand EVEN A SLIM CHANCE of stopping the people of the SW region from overwhelmingly voting for him in 2015.!

Those of you who read history should know THE SHEER FUTILITY of your desperate attempts to stop a PEOPLE'S GENUINE DESIRE for a change. It is like trying to use your hands to stop A POWERFUL STORM that advances towards you!.

The message that you need to start drumming in the thick head of your clueless master is this: THE SAME STRONG DESIRE FOR CHANGE that helped him to be so overwhelmingly elected in 2011, is what is going to SWEEP HIM ASIDE in 2015, along with all the morally bankrupt, corrupt and heartless cabal that he has been protecting, instead of protecting the interests of the ordinary Nigerians!.

Political jobber? That is arrant nonsense. You do not know me. Your resort to ad hominem attack is asinine. Unlike you, if GEJ has done what Buhari has done, I will call him out on it. Buhari is simply uncouth and unpresidential as is buttressed by his unguarded untterances.

With this news " i will not vote buhari again"

I will make my family vote against him.

We cant trust buhari to keep to the agreements made wit our yoruba elders.
I'm just an inlaw to yoruba group.

If buhari can lead such deletes in such a mission then i concour that he is a bigot,
He even said in kano that abacha loot no money and that abacha is not corrupt.

omonuan:
Before you vote Buhari make an informed decision by understanding his antecedents. Don't let him soak the dogs and the baboons with blood win or lose. His contest is a double edge sword. If he loses, the dogs and the baboons will be soaked in blood by his acolytes. If he wins, the ubiquitous terrorist group known as "Fulani herdsmen" will run amok thereby soaking the blood of dogs and baboons in blood with Buhari's tacit support.

Nigerians beware, you can't win with Buhari because tail you lose, head the Fulani irredentists and terrorists win!

buhari is here to become our president.

Buhari an islamofascist Calls for 'total' Sharia in Nigeria

Lagos - A former military ruler of Nigeria, Muhammadu Buhari, has called for the introduction of 'total' Islamic law across the country, reports said on Monday.

Buhari, who ruled Nigeria from a coup in December 1983 to his ouster in 1985, told a seminar in Kaduna, northern Nigeria, at the weekend that the strict Islamic law code known as the Sharia should be introduced in full across Nigeria.

"I will continue to show openly and inside me the total commitment to the Sharia movement that is sweeping all over Nigeria," Buhari said, quoted in press reports.

"God willing, we will not stop the agitation for the total implementation of the Sharia in the country," Buhari said.

Northern Nigeria is mainly Muslim but southern Nigeria is mainly Christian and has led criticism of the introduction of Islamic law in a dozen northern states in the past 18 months.

Africa's most populous country has been shaken repeatedly in the past by religious unrest. In February 2000 between 2 000 and 3 000 people were killed by Christian-Muslim riots in Kaduna over the introduction of Sharia.

Call for Sharia across the country

Buhari's comments were interpreted by the southern-based papers as a call for the imposition of Sharia all across the country, even in the mainly Christian south.

"Buhari calls for Sharia in all states," was the headline of the respected newspaper The Guardian.

Buhari's comments were defended by supporters as simply a call for the full implementation of Sharia in areas where Muslims predominated.

But the comments are the second by Buhari that have courted controversy after he called earlier this year for Muslims to vote at the next presidential elections only for someone who would defend their faith.

This was criticised by the press as a call for voting along religious lines, as well as an attack on the current president, Olusegun Obasanjo, who is a Christian.

Buhari made the latest comments at a seminar organised by the Supreme Council for Sharia in Nigeria, a newly set up body attended by northern state governments and Islamic scholars.

"It is a legal responsibility which God has given us, within the context of one Nigeria, to continue to uphold the practice of Sharia wholeheartedly ... and to educate non-Muslims that they have nothing to fear," he said.

"What remains for Muslims in Nigeria is for them to redouble their efforts, educate Muslims on the need to promote the full implementation of Sharia law," he went on. - AFP

http://www.news24.com/xArchive/Archive/Calls-for-total-Sharia-in-Nigeria-20010827

omonuan:


I'll take a meek mumu over a ravanchist that is a linchpin to bloodletting any day.

Goodluck with your choice.

The bloodletting under the "meek Mumu" is the 2nd highest since the Civil war though.