In my books, Bull-hari is a pretentious anti-corruptionfighter. The trajectory of a mans journey in public life matters. For the following reasons I cannot vote for Bull-hari: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 Niara and dollars to be put under house arrest is my evidence. Healso allowed Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers whos land were appropriated without compesation to remain under house arrest.1(a) Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after.1 (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.1 (c) Pa Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Whehe 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 MMAagainst 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 supervisedby 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 wasBull- haris administration that said it hasdecided 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 majority7. 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.9(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 thosedark days when Nigeria was on precipice. It shows that he is a patriot of convenience and as such unfit to lead the country.11. Bull-hari, as part of his tribalistic practices placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi while he locked up Shagaris 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 exilejust a little over a year then was as well locked up in KiriKiri Prison by mean-hearted Bull-hari.Up till today we are not told what was Emekas offence.13. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Bull-hari 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. Bull-hari ransacked the house of our late sage, Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. Which civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Bull-hari as President,the same individual who overthrew an electedPresident? Never!15. Plus Bull-hari having Sam Mbakwe in jail, went for one of Mbakwes wives. He established himself again for what he was/is letting Mbakwe receive in jailhousenews of the death of another of Mbakwestwo wives. One (I cant remember his name now; Odenigbo?) also died in jail.16. Bull- haris 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. Bull- hari discriminated against personsfrom 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 Rufais testimony where he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll YarAduas election in 1999.18. Bull-hari is unforgiving. When he took over by coup in 1983, he even remembered an article written a very verylong 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 Bull-hari 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. Bull-hari 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), Bull-hari 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.20. The evil genius, IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Bull-hari. On the10th anniversary of Abachas demise, Bull-hari 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, Bull-hari still said that Abachas stealing remains an unproved allegation!!!!Why? Because Abacha set Bull-hari up likean emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions.21. Bull-hari snubbed the same Nigerians he now wants their votes by refusing to appear before Justice Oputa Truth and Reconciliation Panel. Despite the fact that Bull-hari knew how inportant reconciliation is to the stability of democracy. Bull-hari has never apologisedat anytime.22. Bull-hari 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 DIDNOT 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 ATTHE TIME THE PENAL OFFENCE WAS COMMITTED. Killing people with retroactive laws is not the civilised thing todo - and for as long as we will have peoplewho 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.23. Let’s informed Bull-hari that Lateef Jakande’s $60 million metro rail project forLagos, which he cancelled immediately after he over-threw the Second Republic, has now accumulated a debt profile of over $3 billion for Lagos State, making the state the most indebted state to Paris Clubin the federation.24 Let also remind Bull-hari that GbolahanMudashiru, his Military Administrator for Lagos State, alerted him on the clause in the contract agreement that would yoke the state to this debt, if the contract was cancelled unilaterally, and that he replied Mudashiru, that he didn’t care a damn.Though the fund for the execution of that project which would have given thepeople of Lagos an intra-city light train transport system would not have come from Bull-hari’s Supreme Military Council, General Bull-hari, as Military Head of State, cancelled this wonderful project of the state government, with ethnicity on hismind.25. Let us again tell him that his action of jailing Dr Alex Ekwueme, then Nigeria’s vice president, from Anambra, and keeping President Shehu Shagari, from Sokoto State in a house arrest in Ikoyi wasalso ethnically fired.26. So also was the shorter end of the stickhe handed the South, as chair of Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF), in the execution of projects.27. Shagari’s regime (1979-1983), incurredBull-hari’s wrath when it decided to investigate the US$2.8 billion that disappeared from the Midland Bank, London account of the Nigerian National Petroleum Cooperation, (NNPC), during General Obasanjo’s era as military head of state that preceded Shagari’s. Dr. Olusola Saraki, Turaki of Ilorin, was the majority party leader of the Senate at the time and he headed the Senate Committee set up to trace the stolen money after some three years of clamour for such an investigation by members of the civil society. The money was traced to the Midland Bank London branch fixed account of Bull-hari, Obasanjo’s appointeeas military head of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company. The Committee’s report was presented to the Senate duringthe tail end of Shagari’s regime in 1983, sothe House decided to deal with the mattersoon after the 1983 general elections.28. He locked up without trial, politicians and critics including Fela Anikulapo-Kuti,notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Vera Ifudu, who was an NTA reporter then, was sacked through his prodding as military ruler, for reporting what Dr. Olusola Saraki had told her in an interview about how the missing money was traced to Bull-hari’s account ata Midland Bank London branch. Vera eventually won her case of wrongful dismissal in court against the NTA and wasfinancially compensated.29. Abacha rehabilitated Bull-hari with thechairmanship of the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before he (Abacha) died in 1998. When Obasanjo returned to power in May1999 as civilian president, he found that over 2.5 billion naira had not been properly accounted for in the PTF and that there was not much on the ground to show for the colossal expenditure the agency was claiming. On the day Obasanjo announced the scrapping of the PTF, a non-staff brother-in-law of the boss,allegedly serving as his conduit on some PTF projects, died suddenly from what appeared to be heart failure.30. Bull-hari’s conflicting statements on the money laundering charges involving his ADC in 1984 on the 53 suit cases saga, has indicted him.31. He should reveal to us his health status… Bull-hari at 72(?) yr old is a clear liability on Nigeria and Nigerians is Nigeria a health insurance scheme?If Nigerians reward dangerous, insensitive, dishonest, mean, cruel, partial,egoistic, religious fundamentalist,conscienceless human beings like MOHAM-MALU BULL-HARI with the presidency of Nigeria with his kind of trackrecord, then why do we still wonder why Nigeria has not and will not make it?I cannot in good conscience support Bull-haris 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 per cent sure that Bull-hari will never again rule Nigeria.
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