datribune:



If Shagari regime is what democracy is about may nigeria never hav democracy. On Anyday, at anytime anyone dat is familiar wit nigerian history will take Buhari's dictatorship over d civilian misrule of d criminal national party of nigeria (NPN) d ancestor of d present dysfunctional PDP. Under Shagari, d thieving politicians wrecked d economy & plunged d nation into d greatest recession in our history & accumulated an unprecedented debt burden on d nation which Buhari started paying & which decades later OBJ completed. Buhari has done it b4, he will do it again.
SAI BUHARI

iykofias:
getout of here, go peel egusi for ur mama

Dreal1247:
But he that comes to equity, they say must come with clean hands. Are Buhari's hands clean?

peckhamboi:
Seun, why are you bringing this irrelevant issue up at this time.

The coup happened over 30 years ago and I remember vividly there were wild jubiliation all over the country after the coup.

I personally was happy that there was a coup at that point in time because the level of looting was the same as Jonathan's administration.

customized07:
This man can't help but show his furious attribute, he will unleash his true colour if he wins.

notoriousbabe:
it was just an advice not an insult,stop making mountain out of a mole hill

ichidodo:
His coup set Nigeria back from Second World Nation with a stable economy, infrastructure and welfare package for the people to a Third World Nation with poverty,cancelled or dismantled infrastructure delivery systems, wild spread economic shortages and hunger....Now he wants to come back and finish off the rest IBB didn't give him time to destroy or the little GEJ has managed to resucitate and revive??.....Since he isn't sorry for his disservice to the people then we don't need his service at his old age never mind sending Nigeria back to the fourth world or stone age...

DeCritique:


An advice that included calling Seun, the prestigious owner of this site a hen? Haba bros, fear God na! Imagine calling your lecturer a hen! And you think say you go graduate??

Davo93:

This is one of those areas I have issues with Mr Buhari. Much more than he not been apologetic about what he did back then, I want to be sure if this man believes in Democracy. The same military man that truncated a democratic setting of a nation because he felt it was corrupt now wants to democratically rule the same nation. Mehn, Nigerians are not fools!

Like you suggested, Mr Buhari could have mobilized some of his children(today's military heads) to take after him and solve the corruption problem we have in this nation. Probably GMB now understands that decadence in a democratic system can be solved in a democratic way?!

I will continue to say that the sole reason why many of us may consider voting Buhari in the next poll is just because GEJ is unapologetically condoning corruption. Thus, most of our resources are lost to that course. We believe corruption level will reduce for the mean time when GMB comes on board.

Notwithstanding, I will continue to tell Buharists that GMB is not a Saint like many of his warriors portray him.

babadee1:
In that case then Obasanjo was also guilty because he was aware of and gave tacit support to Murtala's coup. He transitioned into a civilian president in 1999 and I've never seen you or anybody else raise the issue.

notoriousbabe:
abeg leave the guy jo

DeCritique:


Babe you don reason am na? It's highly lugubrious... A case of pisma disma.... *voice trails off*!!

duni04:
Buhari took democracy in Nigeria back 20years after the Coup of 83'. Corruption or not, the beauty of democracy is in the right of the majority, not the armed, to select and remove their leaders. Buhari stole that right from millions of Nigerians when he thwarted our democracy. He should have waited for Nigerians to remove Shagari through the ballot box. Who knows, if Buhari hadn't seized power and suspended our democracy, we'd have had the chance to select better leaders at the polls and our democratic institutions would have had a solid foundation right from the 80's. And instead of apologising, he's still adamant that he did nothing wrong.

Seun:

Apologies, I'm trying to embrace the idea of GMB as president, but I just felt really bothered by the statements above,


The interview happened very recently.


Every president has enemies - for example, the millions who voted against him. If the president is overthrown, those people will jubilate.

spankyflex:
what rubbish,so your history class told u Nigeria wasnt ripe for democracy after over twenty years of independence?

babadee1:


But Google is obviously not your friend though.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_North_Korea

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elections_in_Cuba

notoriousbabe:
seun own too much for here,I like as the guy give am upper cut

datribune:
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WE KNOW OUR HISTORY. Buhari took over nigeria in d worst economic recession in our history. d thieving politicians of d NPN d ancestor of d current PDP looted d nation to bankruptcy to d extent dat no one would borrow d heavily indebted Nigeria any more money. There was no food, no money. Soap, milk, sugar etc popularly called essential commodities disappeared from d shelves just like in Zimbabwe. d federal govt could not pay staff salaries. Few states were able to apply d IMO FORMULA - (half salary) pioneered by Kalu Idika Kalu d then Imo state comm 4 finance. Multinationals like kingsway, UTC, PZ etc left d country. Daily more people became unemployed. In short d economy collapsed.
When GMB took over he paid a huge part of d external debt incurred by d thieving politicians, d rest of which OBJ paid recently . He rejected d IMF loan & its slavish conditionalities. He refused to devalue d naira & thru economic ingenuity he kept d inflationary rate between 3-5% & d exchange rate at $1 to 1 naira. He reversed d rot of d Shagari years & made d economy & d country buoyant again. He did it b4, he will do it again.[/s]

Seun:

Did Murtala's coup terminate a democratic government? (Answer: no)

peckhamboi:
Seun, why are you bringing this irrelevant issue up at this time.

The coup happened over 30 years ago and I remember vividly there were wild jubiliation all over the country after the coup.

I personally was happy that there was a coup at that point in time because the level of looting was the same as Jonathan's administration.

duni04:
Buhari took democracy in Nigeria back 20years after the Coup of 83'. Corruption or not, the beauty of democracy is in the right of the majority, not the armed, to select and remove their leaders. Buhari stole that right from millions of Nigerians when he thwarted our democracy. He should have waited for Nigerians to remove Shagari through the ballot box. Who knows, if Buhari hadn't seized power and suspended our democracy, we'd have had the chance to select better leaders at the polls and our democratic institutions would have had a solid foundation right from the 80's. And instead of apologising, he's still adamant that he did nothing wrong.

PassingShot:


Mismanagement of fund cannot equate to stealing, looting and corruption.