REASONS WHY BUHARI WILL NOT WIN THE 2015 ELECTIONS. # He truncated the Nigeria democracy in December, 31 1983- sacked a democratically elected government of Alhaji Shehu Shagari. Buhari cited corruption as the reason, but surprisingly, Buhari left Alhaji Shagari in HOUSE ARREST and threw his powerless deputy DR Alex Ekwueme in PRISON out of tribal sentiments. Ekwueme was tried, but found not wanting, while Shagari was not tried. # He REFUSED to ATTEND the OPUTA PANEL, even though complaints tabled against him involved gross abuses of power and blatant assault on the fundamental human rights of the Nigerian citizenry- Killed Barthlomew Owoh, Bernard Ogedengbe and Lawal Ojuolape with retroactive laws. # He sent soldiers to ransack the residence of Elder Statesman, Chief Obafemi Awolowo, seized his international passport and offered no reasons for the action. # Selectively jailed Sam Mbakwe (best performed governor in the history of IMO state) Bisi Onabanjo, Bola Ige, Jim Nwobodo, Aperture Aku (he died as a result of maltreatment in prison), Busari Adelakun (he died in prison) among others who got as high as 144 years jail term. 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, and Shehu Kangiwa, Sokoto State Governor who conducted and supervised the famous Bakolori Massacre of poor peasant farmers whose land were appropriated without compensation to remain under house arrest. # Chief Adekunle Ajasin (then Ondo State governor) was tried and re-tried three times before Buhari’s punitive tribunal because of Buhari’s dissatisfaction, but acquitted of all charges of corruption, and still he was not released, but detained indefinitely. # Alhaji Shehu Shagari granted pardon to Odumegwu Ojukwu, but when Buhari came to power, he clamped Odumegwu Ojukwu into jail without any charge against him. # He once asked MUSLIMS TO VOTE ONLY MUSLIM in a country with many religions. # He executed 75% of PTF projects in the NORTH and distributed the remaining 25% among other regions when he was the PTF chairman. # He was the chairman of PTF, but claimed he does NOT KNOW how billions Naira got missing. # He was a military head of state who knows he would be overthrown, but COULD NOT DO ANYTHING because his deputy was not around. # He said that ACN is corrupt, but because of his presidential ambition now surrounds himself with those he described as corrupt ACN members. # He could not allow the economies of demand, supply and internal production factors to determine the prices of commodities but used SOLDIERS TO FORCE price control. # He did not allow his government to be criticized and UNJUSTLY ARRESTED those who criticized his government. Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor were jailed for ‘writing truth’ about diplomatic posting. Audu Ogbeh, an internal critic and reformer, spent months in unjust incarceration. Kola whole Awotunde was detained for 1 year without trial for writing against government. # Fela Anikulapo languished in jail for years for being in possession of foreign exchange that he had legitimately received for the immediate upkeep of his band as they set off for an international engagement. But Buhari curiously allowed 53 suite cases to come into Nigeria unchecked. # Ebenezer Babatope spent the entire tenure of Buhari in detention, because he once warned the media that Buhari was an ambitious soldier. Babatope’s father died while he was in Buhari’s custody, the dictator remained deaf to every plea that he be at least released to attend his father’s funeral, even under guard. # At PTF Buhari brought in the late Ahmad Salihijo ( his in law) and other boys without informing us. We didnt know that he engaged them as consultants without our knowledge and consent because we are all members- late Group Captain Usman Jibrin ( October, 2009). # It is a record that Buhari’s military regime is the only one in Nigeria’s history that failed to promulgate a program for return to civilian rule. # Buhari remains “perpetually unelectable”, as a result of his “insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus”. – Malam Nasir El’ Rufai. # “I have repeated that several times. The mathematics of Nigerian politics is against him (Buhari) and I don’t see any electoral advantage that he might have”- Chief Richard Akinjide. # What has Buhari got to offer? We certainly don’t need expired leadership- Tinubu (March 2011). # Buhari has not always governed, even when he was Military Head of State, other were governing for him and when he was chairman of the PTF, others were doing it for him- Atiku Abubakar ( 2010) # Buhari is the only Nigerian senior military officer who failed all the senior examinations in the history of the Nigerian military. He is a weak leader who does not understand the differences in culture and religion in Nigeria- IBB (December, 2014) # The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future...In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. – Wole Soyinka. These were mere sample cases from among hundreds of others. By settling for Buhari, the APC shot itself in the foot. Drafting in Osinbajo cannot change this. Buhari has contested for the president with Okadigbo as running mate in 2003, with Ezeoke as running mate in 2007, and Tunde Bakare as running mate in 2011. In all, he lost. Now, Osibanjo is up with him. Doesn’t this mean anything to those marketing him? Okadigbo and Ezeoke are good politicians and he failed with each of them. Bakare is a church owner and has followership and he failed with him. The problem is not the choice of his running mate. He is the one the voters rejected in all the elections not his running mate. Settling for a pastor will still come to the same failure. He has failed with politicians and a GO. What else is left to trade? Nothing. Buhari is NOT the RIGHT PERSON
Posted on: Sun, 18 Jan 2015 20:46:30 +0000
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