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: Buhari is a self-acclaimed anti-corruption Czar, yet he served under late Sani Abacha without complaining of corruption. In the same period Buhari served as PTF Chairman under Abacha, Nigeria was named the 2nd most corrupt country in the world in 1996 by Transparency International; the most corrupt country in 1997 and 3rdmost country in 1998. Buhari didn’t resign or protest. He dismissed the TI Report with a wave of the hand. Can he do the same if such report says Nigeria is the most corrupt country in 2014? I know that Buhari would protest and call President Jonathan names.
Buhari as a man of
integrity as he claims should have done what Tai Solarin, Duro Onabule and
Ebitu Ukiwe did under IBB’s regime. IBB’s attempt to take Nigeria into the Organization
of Islamic Countries (OIC) made his Chief of General Staff, Ebitu Ukiwe to
resign. Ukiwe maintained that Nigeria, as a country, should not be a member of
a religious organisation. Individual organisation can take up membership of
religious organisations, but not the country. IBB made Tai Solarin the chairman
of Peoples Bank with no fund and power to run it; he resigned and tendered his
apology to Nigerians. Buhari has not apologized to Nigerians for working for
the most corrupt govt in the world then, but he still maintains that Abacha
didn’t loot Nigeria dry even as Abacah loots are still being sent back to
Nigeria.
When he took over
power by the gun, he supported rigging because it favoured him. But now, he is
shouting of rigging.
Hear him:
“The last general election was anything but
free and fair.
The only political parties that could
complain of
election rigging are those parties that
lacked
the resources to rig.”
– M. Buhari (First Speech after Military
Coup, 31 December, 1983)
2.
He Is A Religious Fanatic And Extremist: Buhari believes that his religion is
superior to other religions and that Koran supersedes our constitution. In
2001, he gave his total support for Sharia with this statement:
“I will continue to show openly and inside
me the total commitment to the
Sharia movement that is sweeping all
Over Nigeria. God willing, we
will not stop the agitation for the
total implementation of the Sharia
in the country.”
- M. Buhari (August 27, 2001)
He made the above
statement after he had gone to BBC Hausa Service to condemn the then Vice
President, Atiku Abubakar for urging Muslims states who adopted Sharia to return
to the status quo.
If you think that
these statements mean nothing, then envision what would happen if a notable
Christian political leader from the south make the same statement about spreading
Christianity across Nigeria.
Prior to the 2003
elections, he made another shocking statement:
“Muslims should only vote those who
will promote Islam. We are more than the
Christians if you add our Muslim brothers
in the West.”- M. Buhari (2003)
3. He Introduced Kidnapping And
Smuggling Into The Nigeria System: The story of Umaru Dikko is already well
known that repeating it here amounts to tautology. However, Buhari and his ADC
Col. Mustapha Jokolosupervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash
against the protests of Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku (an APC
bigwig), was the former DG of Customs. Do you still need to know why Buhari has
never accused Atiku of being corrupt?
4. He Is Not A Man of His Words: Buhari
cried in public and said he won’t contest elections again, yet couldn’t keep
his words:
“This campaign is the third and last one for
me; since,
after it, I will not present myself again for
election
into office of the president.” – M. Buhari
(April, 2011 at the Int’l Conference
Centre, Abuja)
Then again in 2014, he swallowed his words with this:
“I humbly present myself to all Nigerians and
to God, seeking
to be elected as APC’s presidential
candidate.” – M. Buhari
(Oct., 15, 2014 Eagle Square Abuja)
5. He Is An Ethnic
Bigot Who Thinks That Vendetta Is Fighting Corruption: After Buhari and his
boys overthrew the govt of Shagari with the sole reason that the govt was
highly corrupt, he locked up Dr. Alex Ekwueme – the then VP in Kirikiri
maximum prison but
left Shagari – the president and Head of govt in his mansion. Ekwueme was tried
by the tribunal set-up by Buhari and the tribunal declared that he was even poorer
than he was before he came into office. Yet, Buhari jailed him and allowed
Shagari to relax in his mansion.
He gave Dede Sam
Mbakwe 100-year jail term for stealing nothing and also went after his wife.
Ambrose Ali was tried for an undeveloped plot of land and he was jailed for 75
years with heavy torture that led to blindness and later death. Jim Nwobodo and
Lateef Jakande were jailed for 100 years for stealing nothing. Adekunle Ajasin
was tried by a military tribunal and found innocent. Buhari ordered a fresh
trial, he was found innocent again. Buhari changed the tribunal and tried him
again. He was still found innocent. Buhari still jailed him. But, Buhari left
his personal friend – Awwal Ibrahim – the then highly corrupt governor of Niger
State who was arrested at Heathrow airport with £14 million. Awwal was never
jailed. He was placed under house arrest in his mansion like Shagari for just
two weeks and indeed released.
6. He Is A Coupist: Buhari has no moral
ground to stand for an election in Nigeria because he’s a destroyer of
democracy and can never benefit from it. He overthrew a duly elected govt and
ruled illegitimately until he was kicked out. For those that claim he was
invited, go read the recent interview by Chief Ebenezer Babatope on why Chief
Solomon Lar was imprisoned by Buhari.
7. He Doesn’t Talk or Act Like An
Elder-statesman: He makes provocative statements that are capable of putting
the country in crisis. This attitude caused the death of over 800 innocent lives
including about 10 Corp members after he lost the 2011 elections. A man who
considers himself as an elder-statesman and wants to rule Nigeria again should
not be talking this way:
“God willing, by 2015, something will happen.
They either
conduct a free and fair election or they go a
very disgraceful
way. If what happened in 2011 should again
happen in 2015,
by the grace of God, the dog and baboon would
all be soaked
in blood.” – M. Buhari.
“2015 will be bloody…” – M. Buhari
Buhari snubbed the
same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice
Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Buhari knew how important reconciliation
is to the stability of democracy, yet he refused to appear before the panel.
8. He Cannot Formulate
A Good Economic Policy: True to that, Buhari is the only former Head of State
without a legacy. Not even one, despite ruling with iron-fist for 2 years. Someone
said, Environmental sanitation is his legacy LOL
and I ask, how has
that improved our economy? Or is Nigeria now the cleanest country in the world
with a booming tourism industry? And again, those that attended his declaration
were disappointed as he couldn’t present a manifesto on how he can solve the
numerous problems confronting Nigeria. We keep hearing from the Buharists: “I
will fight corruption; I will stop corruption; I will end corruption.” How? By
mouth? Recall what BBC said about Buhari’s economic policy:
“Buhari’s attempts to re-balance public
finances by curbing
imports led to many job losses and the
closure of businesses.
These losses were accompanied by a rise in
prices and a
decline in living standards.”
His economic policy
started the devaluation of naira. During Shagari/Ekweme’s regime, $1 =N0.550
but before the end of his tenure in 1985, $1 = N0.894.
9. He Clamped Down On The Press: With
the infamous Decree 4, he closed down Newspapers, arrested and jailed many journalists
such as Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian Newspaper on stories
that were factual. He 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.
At a point Tai
Solarin became the only voice who could speak as he stood at the road corner
and was distributing leaflets detailing the various atrocities of Buhari. He
arrested and jailed him. In prison, he was denied his asthmatic drug. He was
released by IBB and later died of complication from the torture he suffered in
prison.
10. He Is Not A Man of Principle And
Integrity: Since 2003, Buhari has been jumping from one party to another in his
desperate and endless quest to rule Nigeria. He started with ANPP in 2003 to
CPC in 2011 and, now in APC. He might abandon APC for another party if they
deny him ticket.
11. He Has No Regard For Human Rights:
Mrs. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked for reporting what Dr.
Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was
traced to Buhari’s account at Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won
her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and was financially
compensated.
Dim Emeka Odimegwu
Ojukwu, who returned from 13 years exile, just a little over a year then, was
as well locked up in Kirikiri Prison by Buhari. Up till today we were not told
what his offence was. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him
to be taken out of prison for medical attention. The then Gov. of Ogun State,
Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely
death.
For using the
US$2.8bn to sing, Buhari jailed Fela Anikulapo-Kuti on trumped up charges under
emergency law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was
ordered to do so and apologised to Fela. It was Buhari’s administration that
said it has “decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all.”
Buhari used
retrogressive law to execute three Nigerians: Lawal Ojuolape (30), Bernard
Ogedengbe (29) and Bartholomew Owoh (26). One of those three – Ogedengbe –was
executed for a crime that did not carry capital punishment at the time it was
committed.
12. He Is Corrupt: That a blind man
doesn’t see the sun don’t mean the sun is not up in the sky. That Buhari has
not been jailed for corrupt practises doesn’t mean he is not corrupt, after-all,
nobody has jailed IBB, OBJ etc., yet people say
they’re corrupt.
Buhari has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the N25
billion missing in PTF of which he was the chairman. Shagari incurred Buhari’s
wrath when he decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that
disappeared from
NNPC account and traced to the Midland Bank, London. Justice Ayo Irikefe panel
was set-up and Saraki headed the Senate committee. The following were unequivocally
discovered:
Firstly, a judicial
panel was set up to trace the $2.8billion (Justice Ayo Irikefe panel).
Secondly, a senate
committee was also set up to trace the $2.8billion (headed by the elder
Saraki).
The findings of the
senate committee were reported live on NTA by Vera Ifudu.
Buhari overthrew
the govt to burn and shred the evidence. Buhari got Vera Ifudu sacked.
Vera Ifudu and the
NTA went to court. Vera Ifudu won her case, got reinstated and was paid compensation.
A man that procured
a loan of N27.5million to purchase his presidential form using man-know-man
approach is definitely corrupt. Buhari ought to live by example.
13. He Is A Pretender And Deceiver:
Buhari claims that he has no foreign bank account, no booming business, no
house in Lagos or Abuja. He has 2 houses: one in Katsina and the other in
Kaduna. Yet he has been contesting elections since 2003 and pursuing it up to
the Supreme Court with his team of SANs. The minimum appearance fee for a SAN
at the Presidential election case at the Supreme Court is N25 million. Where
did he get this money? Can he tell us his sponsors? He borrowed N27.5 million
to buy a form, yet he moves around in Chattered aircraft each time he wants to
fly which is costlier than owing one. Buhari is definitely a pretender.
14. He Is A Tribalist: Since his days
as a Head of State, he only appointed his people in important positions. As the
chairman of PTF, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem at
the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the North. He
used the company of his in-law – (Salihijo Ahmad), Afri-Projects Consortium in executed
all the projects. He shamelessly executed about 74% of the projects in the
north and 26% in the entire south according to PTF Situation Report (Vol 2,
98).
15. He Has Soft-spot For Boko Haram:
Buhari made the following statements which support Boko Haram:
“The
declaration of state of emergency in three
Northern states of Adamawa, Borno and
Yobe is a
grave injustice against
the North.” – M. Buhari
(Liberty Radio, June 2, 2013)
“…when the
Niger Delta militants started their activities in the
South-South,
they were invited by the late President Umaru
Yar’adua. An
aircraft was sent to them and their leaders met
with the
late President in Aso Rock and discussed issues.
They were
given money and a training scheme was
introduced
for their members. But when the Boko Haram
emerged in
the north, members of the sect were killed”. – M.
Buhari
(Liberty Radio, Kaduna May 14 2012)
But on Ombatse, his tone changed because they killed Fulanis:
“…But those
that killed the 56 security men must be hunted
and
prosecuted no matter how long it will take because this is
the bottom
line about law and order, and security in the
country.
They can’t be forgiven, they can’t override the
constitution,
Nigerians are being hurt and killed in their duties
and those
that killed them must be brought before the law.” –
M. Buhari
16. He Is Anti-development: Buhari
stopped the Lagos metro rail even when the military Administrator for Lagos
State, alerted him that on the clause in the contract ($60 million metro rail
project) agreement that would yoke the state into debt, if the contract was
cancelled unilaterally. He replied:
“Mudashiru, I don’t
care”. Although the fund for the execution of the project which would have
given Lagosians an intra-city light train transport system would not have come
from Buhari’s Supreme Military Council, Buhari, cancelled this project of the
state government, with ethnicity on his mind. Till date no Nigerian city has
metro rail. Buhari out of jealousy of the leadership acumen of Dede Sam Mbakwe,
he stopped all the wonderful projects initiated by him in Imo State when he
overthrew the Shagari’s govt. Yet, Buhari left the govt without a legacy. What
a man!
17. He Hates Education: Just like Boko
Haram, Buhari is a supporter of the almajir system. No wonder President Goodluck
Jonathan is the person that established the first and only federal university
in Katsina State – Buhari’s State and 100s almaijiri’s model schools across the
northern region. People like Buhari are against the almajiri schools.
18. He Is Weak: It is a fact that Tunde Idiagbo
was the brain and pillar behind the govt of Buhari. No wonder Buhari was thrown
out in what was regarded as a Palace Coup when Idiagbo went to Mecca. If Buhari
that ruled with absolute power and iron-fist couldn’t protect his govt from
being overthrown by junior officers, how could he safeguard and protect Nigeria
in this turbulent time.
19. He Is A Product of Corruption And Nepotism:
The manner and swiftness Buhari rise in the army can only be possible in a
system where nepotism reign supreme. At 21, Buhari was cadet trainee; at 23 he
was promoted as Commander 2nd Infantry Battalion; at 25 he was
appointed Brigade Major, 2 Sector 1st Infantry Division; at 28, he was promoted
Brigade Major and Commander, 31st Infantry Brigade; at 29 he was promoted
Assistant Adjutant-General 1st Infantry Division Headquarters; at 34 he was
appointed the military governor of North-Eastern State; at 39 he was appointed
Chairman NNPC and GOC, 3rd Armoured Division, Jos, 1981-83; at 42, he shot his
way to Dodan Barracks as Head of State. Most of these promotions were with no
further education/training.
Buhari’s kids and
people still use Quota system education (to enable them go to school) and
federal character for them to get jobs. Imagine when a kid from Ebonyi State
needs to score minimum of 112 in Common Entrance exams and
another kid from
Sokoto (a state that is older than Nigeria), Yobe etc., need only 9 and 2
respectively in the same exam. Remember that these kids wrote the same exam, in
the same country, at the same time and answered the same questions. What
corruption is worse than this? Yet Buhari has never
condemned it.
20.
Buhari Is Just Perpetually Unelectable: To those that still think Buhari would
one day rule Nigeria again, ask Nasir El-rufai, he has the answerl
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