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22 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE
22 REASONS WHY BUHARI DOES NOT DESERVE YOUR VOTE - Submitted by Original_Rascal (not verified) on March 16, 2011 - 10:38. Originally By: Kekere ekun and Co. Co...mpiled by: Original_Rascal. In my books, Buhari is a pretentious anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a man's journey in public life matters. For the follwoing reasons I cannot vote for Buhari.
1. He is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. The way he jailed Lateef Jakande, Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Pa Adekunle Ajasin, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed Awwal Ibrahim, the then Niger State governor, who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Naira and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. He also allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers who's land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.
(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.
(b) Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. When he died, he had only one undeveloped plot of land to his name.
(c) Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whe he died, he never had any property anywhere in the world except the one he had built from his sweat as long term teacher and school principal in Owo township.
2. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three men, innocent men in my book, by public execution.
3. He jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian on stories that were factually true under Decree 4. He had told the Nigerian journalists then that it did not matter whether the story reported was true or not, if his regime did not like it, the writer would go to jail.
4. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the MMA against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, the then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases was supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo.
5. He jailed Fela Anikulapo -Kuti on trumped up charges under an emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buhari's administration that said it has "decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all."
6. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of a Northern population majority
7. He is an Islamic fundamentalist, the Bin Laden of Nigeria, who told his northern followers never to vote for anyone who was not a muslim.
8. He is a coup plotter.
9. He has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the Petroleum Trust Fund of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha.
(a) He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-caled trust fund.
10. He was in full support of all the atrocities of Sani Abacha against the Nigerian people. There is no single record of his criticism of Sani Abacha during those dark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.
11. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagari's Vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman.
12. Ikemba Emeka Ojukwu, another Igboman who returned from 13years exile just a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Buhari.Up till today we are not told what was Emeka's offence.
13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison for immediate medical attention.The then Governor of Ogun State,Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death.
14. Buhari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President,the same individual who overthrew an elected President? Never!
15. Plus Buhari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwe's wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhouse news of the death of another of Mbakwe's two wives. One (I can't remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.
16. Buhari's henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago....Nigerians have very short selective memory. Shame
17. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem people at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the Nort......h. If in doubt read El Rufai's testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll Yar'Adua's election in 1999.
18. Buhari is unforgiving. When he "took over" by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very very long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo ('The Mallams are coming') and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote that people should watch out for that "gangly officer from the north" after Buhari gave a no holds barred speech at some Army functions where he was reported to be very openly pro Fulani and pro Islam to the exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments.
19. Buhari intolerance is worse than Obasanjo's. When he was adopted as the ANPP's candidate on the night of the party's Primaries without prior warning to the other candidates (and a few of them protested), Buhari got up and made a speech that those people must be disciplined. I subsequently saw him on BBC's "hard talk" and he frightened me and the interviewer with his archaic and fundamentalist intolerant views. His understanding and articulation is very much in doubt.
20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abacha's demise, Buhari said that Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! Despite millions of Dollars recovered from banks around the world and the Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari still said that Abacha's stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!! Why? Because Abacha set Buhari up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.
21. Buhari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Buhari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Buhari has never apologised at anytime.
22. Buhari executed Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). 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. and At the time Ogedengbe committed the crime it did not carry that punishment. If we must live as civilised citizens we must go by the rules. Article 11.2 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights reads: "No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission WHICH DID NOT CONSTITUTE A PENAL OFFENCE, under national or international law at the time when it was committed. NOR SHALL A HEAVIER PUNISHMENT BE IMPOSED THAN THE ONE THAT WAS APPLICABLE AT THE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing to do - and for as long as we will have people who refuse to see the truth only because their heroes are inching to rule when they have not purged themselves we will continue to wallow in misery.
If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial, egoistic, religious, fundamendalist, conscienceless human beings like MOHAMMADU BUHARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of track record, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?
I cannot in good conscience support Buhari's candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds.
I just think we need to discuss this on this website. What is your take on this article?
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Comment by JAANE ARMAN on March 27, 2011 at 12:56am -
Brazil built a power plant of 120,000 MW in 3yrs with a loan which they also paid back in 3yrs. South Africa gave a contract for a 5,000 MW power plant at a cost of just $3b!!! PDP spent $17b in 12yrs yet electricity remains a priviledge
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Comment by JAANE ARMAN on March 27, 2011 at 12:54am
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In 2011, GMB is not alone. He's supported by a team of volunteers online and offline like me, who never voted for him before. We didn't vote for him, because we didn't know. We didn't know that he supervised and birthed our only existing refineries. We didn't know that what he did in road construction while in the PTF hasn't been matched by 12yrs of the PDP, even though we claimed they were lopsided. We didn't know that in his time as head of state he reduced inflation from 23% to 4%, by fiscal discipline and a homegrown economic team (not achieved under any other era, even military). We didn't know that there was no religious crisis while he led.
We didn't know that JJ Rawlings of Ghana took over 2yrs before him, and killed all the corrupt leaders, while GMB merely gave his own, long-term jail sentences. We didn't know that the hospitals and universities around the country never witnessed as much benefits they got from the PTF from any government after or before his time. We did not know, that this man haven been in all the oil sectors in Nigeria, has no petrol station, much less a refinery or an oil rig like so many of our leaders. We never voted him, because we did not know.
But now we know... We know that he has follower-ship in the north that money can't buy. We know that those who follow him are poor, and follow him out of hope and belief in his values. I have met old men who know him, who have said... "All I need from Buhari is his word, I can take it to the bank". Now we know that here is someone that has been in everything to make him a Dan-Something, but didn't take the road.
We feared he was an Islamic fundamentalist, but he challenged us to provide any human being who can point at anything he did to show the same. His Cook and Drivers... two roles that can be influenced to have your life are Christians. In his passion for discipline, he has pulled down mosques, punished emirs, and followed principles over the respect of people.
Then this year, to the utter shock of the world, he picks the most radically outspoken no nonsense Christian Preacher in Nigeria to be his vice
Now we know, that it's about the values, not religion and certainly not the fact that he becomes the first (correct me if I'm wrong) Nigerian president without multiple wives or an array of concubines.
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Comment by Abdallah G on March 24, 2011 at 12:10pm -
Late giv u hint about ur article.
1-5 You percieve him wrong, all dis thing r manipulation of Obasanjo n co, not Buhari.
7-8. Buhari is not saying you should vote muslim only, and if he say so why he choose Bakare to be his vice.
10- Abacha and Buhari r not in the ethinic group n the dont have any interrelation with each other, it only by d office the related to in PTF.
16-Buhari is not visiting kano for his rally campagin because of Mohammed Abacha,read Daily trust march,21 /2011.
17- 99% works in Abuja,kaduna, lagos etc r from south south, south west, not Northerns.
I think u miss perceive Buhari n he is the good leader we have, all other r by self interest o interest of rulling party.
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Comment by Amaka Connie on March 24, 2011 at 10:51am -
Anyone can say anything, words will not remove my meat from my hand now so I dont care. This post was for us, Nigerians to see, address, discuss rethink, and keep in mind anything we deduce from the article posted. I am not the originator & I did not post it bcos I am supporting any Political party bcos now I dont have presidential candidate yet but I will vote rightly. One thing I have refused since is the fact that Buhari headed 6 states, chairman, VP and now at old age want to head Nigeria; Nigeria is 50 does not mean only old people should head us. He was supposed to pick a younger candidate and pour all in his head into this person if he like God father him, I dont care! He can be someone's mentor for good. GREEDINESS/SELFISHNESS is what is making him come forward. By their Fruits we shall know them.I refuse to make Nigeria old. MY VOTE COUNTS!!!
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Comment by jikanshafa on March 24, 2011 at 9:06am -
You are entitled to your opinion whether you are actuated by malice, hatred, religious bigotry or sectionalism. May be you should take to street campaigning against him, it may help your cause, but I think Nigerians are wiser and they do not need you to tell them what to do with their votes. Mind you Buhari was a military administrator of not only one state of the federation, he was a minister, he was a head of state and a head of a rich parastatal but has no luxury mansions at foreign countries, Abuja, Lagos, Kaduna e. t .c. Or do you mean to tell us that Nigerians deserve corrupt rulers and so they should not vote for Buhari because as some people used to say "HE IS TOO HONEST FOR NIGERIA" .Anyway, whatever religious belief we hold or practice, let us pray to God for a better Nigeria.
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Comment by JAANE ARMAN on March 23, 2011 at 8:18pm
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That article was not only in bad taste, it is also unfair and passes fallacy as fact. in most part. By all means, it would be foolosh for anyone to suggest that Buhari was a saint or infallible as a human being, but compared to others in the race with him now, he is clearly the best!
It is enough for me that WIKKILEAKS revealed that of all past leaders in Nigeria, Buhari is the most investigated yet nothing has been found against him. For this reason, as the leaks submitted, it is doubtful if the elite would ever want him to rule because they fear what he could do to their interests! Case closed. Buhari has responded at various fora to some of the various allegations in that writeup but people will still believe what they want to believe.
Just a few issues.
1. Buhari did not appoint Abacha's son as gubernatorial candidate. The party voted him in the primaries and when it seemed as if the choice was going to be jettissoned by the party chiefs, the court overruled them. If CPC flouts court order, these same people will still say Buhari does not respect the rule of law! Is there any part of the constitution that says because of his father's past, a full-blooded citizen of Nigeria cannot join a political party of his choice. I have no personal affection for the Abachas whatsoever, but what is happening can only happen in a democracy. The courts decide even when it runs against the grains of morality and the true democrat complies. When PDP rolled out the drums to celebrate an ex-convict and tried to rate him in the class of a Mandela or national hero, what did this writer do?
2.The 53 suitcases issue has been flogged and overflogged. The facts are that the Emir of Jokolo, a 1st class Emir and father of Buhari's ADC arrived the country with his entourage at the same time a Nigerian ammbassador who was returning to nigeria to assume a new posting returned with his 3 wives and 17 children. The suitcases in question belonged to the entire group mentioned. They even counted the women's handbags as part of the 53. Haba!. Don't forget that these people were travelling on diplomatic passports and by international conventions, you don't search diplomatic luggage unless there is a highly suspected security breach. By the way, does it make sense to launder 53 cases of money (cash) INTO the country? I thought people took money abroad for laundering, not the other way round. All investigations by successive governments about this matter came up with nothing. If there was any substance to this, do you think Buhari would still be walking the streets of Nigeria a free man? Obasanjo's several attempts to probe him turned up NOTHING!
3. For God's sake, Buhari presided over a military government. All over the world, military governments operate martial law which is why the first casualty of military governments is the constitution. Buhari made it clear in enacting Decree 4 that he would tamper with press freedom because of the peculiar situation of the country at that time. Yes Thompson and his colleague were jailed but for what? They published an ambassadorial list that had not yet been approved. That, in any government is a SECURITY DOCUMENT. Such lists are never made public until consultations have been made with the destination governments and the ambassadors okayed by them. To publish that before the due processes have been followed was nothing but foolhardiness in the name of a scoop. Where is the place for responsible journalism? Apart from those two. who else was jailed? Compare that to IBB that shut down newspaper houses. How come we have such a short sense of history? To compare a military government with a democracy is stretching facts too thin. For the records, retroactive laws did not begin with the military. Pls read the Onabule article quoted below. Decree 2 under which those guys were executed was promulgated to checkmate two ills that were plaguing us and giving us a bad name at the time - drug peddling and bunkering. Nigeria was BLEEDING through bunkering. Buhari put an end to it. Today, it has become big business. Singapore, Saudi Arabia, and even many other DEMOCRATIC nations have the death sentence for drug peddling. If there is anything that has dented Nigeria's image till today, it is drug trafficking. I know how many times i have been pulled aside for special search at airports all over the world simply because i carry a green passport. I wish that decree was still in force! In spite of all these, It is also on record that Buhari never took any decision without consultation with other members of the then Supreme Military Council. IBB singlehandedly took us to OIC!
4. Even under Obasanjo as Military Head of State, hear what he said about Buhari in his book NOT MY WILL
"Muhammadu Buhari as a member of the SMC & as the head of the petroleum dept was by nature taciturn & introvert. But he took any work given to him very seriously & if he failed at whatever he did, it would not be because he did not put his best, in fact, his very best. He was as reliable as he was hard working & HONEST"
– Olusegun Obasanjo ("Not My Will", University Press Ltd., Ibadan, 1990, Pg 59
Duro Onabule, a staunch apologist of IBB has this to say. You can read him on this link http://sunnewsonline.com/webpages/columnists/onabule/2011/today-18-... .
He wrote this first in 2007 but has decided to reproduce it because of its relevance. Also pls take time to read the Fayemiwo interview on these linkshttp://www.pointblanknews.com/os1891.html and
http://www.pointblanknews.com/os1939.html
5. If a man could pursue justice in the courts of law at all levels in this country for about 50 months between 2003 and 2008, then what further proof of being a democrat and subscribing to the rule of law does anyone need?6. Islamic fundamentalist? Find something else to say. His driver of many decades is a Christian and from Plateau State! IBB took us to OIC, not Buhari. OBJ took us to Islamic bank, not Buhari. Sharia Law came into effect in the North under a CIVILIAN DEMOCRATIC regime of OBJ, not under Buhari. He could have done it then by military fiat, he did not.
As for the rest of the article, a point-by point response is needless.
Let the PDP hatchet writers continue to rehash the same old junk. It's a sign that they have run our of ideas. Buhari still stands taller than the rest. And that is why I and many millions of Nigerians who desire change WIL VOTE FOR HIM!
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Comment by jonah saidu on March 23, 2011 at 5:01pm -
u are write bro, we don't need old leaders, we need young fresh individual
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Comment by Dr Moshood Rajah Oyeniyi on March 23, 2011 at 3:59pm -
Good Revelation, thanks. FOOD FOR THOUGHT FOR FELLOW NIGERIANS.
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Comment by JAANE ARMAN on March 22, 2011 at 8:36pm
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In that case, Nigerians needs to wait for a longer time. No bright future anywhere near in sight. someone sid it right: the way people are, the way the leaders they will be given- reasonable people, reasonable leaders. Vice versa
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Comment by Olajide Adewunmi on March 22, 2011 at 3:59pm -
Note,am not support of him or canvasing for him but let forget the pass remember "forgive us as we forgive those that sin against us".
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