23 Reasons Why Former Military Dictator, Muhammadu Buhari, Can`t Be Nigerian President !!! By Onyeneho Anthony In my book, Buhari is a pretentious, insincere anti-corruption fighter. The trajectory of a mans journey in public life matters. For the following 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 Sam Mbakwe, Chief Ayo Ojewumi on cases that had no foundation and allowed fellow Fulani, Awwal Ibrahim, then Niger State governor, who was arrested at Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling, several millions of Niara, and undisclosed amount in US dollars, to be 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 whose land was appropriated without compensation 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. When 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 innocent men by public execution. He left, untouched, an alleged well known drug baron in Gen. Ibrahim Babangida who later overthrew his government. 3. He jailed Nduka Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian Newspapers 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. 5. He supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash through the Murtala Muhammed Airport against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, then Director General of the Customs who later became the Vice President and a compromised politician himself. This smuggling of the suit cases were supervised by his ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo. 6. He jailed Fela Anikulapo-Kuti on trumped-up charges under a hurriedly promulgated so-called Emergency Law which prompted the sentencing judge to confess that he was ordered to do so and apologised to the late musician. It was Buharis administration that said it has decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all. 7. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because according to him, this would unravel the myth of Northern population majority. 8. 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. 9. He is a coup plotter and a treasonable felon. 10. 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. He has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the Northern Nigeria with the so-called trust fund. 11. 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. 12. Buhari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagaris Vice President, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri Prison. Shagari is a Fulani like him whereas Alex Ekwueme is Igbo. 13. 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, weve not been told what Emekas offence was. 14. Bunari 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. 15. 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! 16. Buhari, while holding Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwes wives. He established himself again for what he is by letting Mbakwe receive in jail house news of the death of another of Mbakwes two wives. One (I cant remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail. 17. Buharis henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State, is Mohammed Abacha, the same person that had/ ran a personal killing squad, co- ordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola & attempted to kill Ibru; and also stashed away money in underground tanks, all less than 13 years ago, Nigerians have very short, selective memory. Shame! 18. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups/faiths; and that as Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/-Moslem people to the detriment of other groups. He concentrated PTF projects in the North. If in doubt, read El Rufais testimony where he wrote about Katsina Boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll YarAduas election in 1999. 19. Buhari is unforgiving and vindictive. When he took over by coup in 1983, 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 function where he was reported to be very openly pro-Fulani and pro-Islam to the exclusion of all else; and, talked about termination of democratic rule. For that, Onabanjo got one of the harshest jail terms and treatments. 20. Buharis intolerance is worse than Obasanjos. When he was adopted as the ANPPs candidate on the night of the partys 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 BBCs 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. 21. The corrupt evil genius of Nigeria, Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abachas 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 Abachas 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. 22. 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. 23. Buhari executed these three youths, i. Lawal Ojuolape(30), ii. Bernard Ogedengbe(29) and iii. Bartholomew Owoh(26). To put it quite plainly, one of those three – Ogedengbe - was executed for a crime that did not carry a capital punishment only forfeit at the time it was committed, and at the time Ogedengbe committed his own 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 itching 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, fundamentalist, conscienceless human being like MUHAMMADU 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 Buharis candidacy on the above grounds. I wish we have intelligent people who know what democracy means. I wish we have civilized minds. However, I am 100 percent sure that Buhari will never again rule Nigeria. For the good of Nigeria, vote any other candidate, but SAY NO TO BUHARI and APC they are all devils in human disguise. Culled, verbatim, from Elochukwu Matthews page
Posted on: Thu, 23 Oct 2014 15:23:38 +0000
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