The Many Unforgettable Sins of Gen. Muhammad Buhari Buhari is a coup plotter. He plotted a coup that ousted a democratically elected president. No civilized democratic society would elect the likes of Buhari as President, the same individual who overthrew an elected President. Before you give me that excuse of his plotting a coup due to corruption, remember that ALL coup plotters alleges their main reason is because politicians are corrupt and there has been break down of law & order. For Buhari to president is like asking a pirate who hijacked your ship & sank it, to become a captain to lead a rescue mission for the ship. Buhari is an ethnic bigot, as part of his tribalistic practices, he placed President Shagari under house arrest inside a palatial mansion in Ikoyi but he locked up Shagaris vice, Alex Ekwueme in Kirikiri. Shagari is an Hausa/Fulani like him while Alex Ekwueme is an Igboman. This action of jailing Ekwueme is ethnically fired! 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 Buharis administration that said it has decided to deal with this Fela problem once and for all. Buhari locked up politicians without trial, and his critics not just Fela who was notorious for clamouring for the exposure of the oil money rogue. Mrs. 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 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. Buhari ransacked the house of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and confisticated his International passport. We were not told what Awolowo did till date. He convinced all the northern political leaders against allowing the National Identity Card program because this would unravel d myth of Northern population majority. Buhari is an oligarch who does not believe in equality before the law. He jailed Chief Lateef Jakande, Mr. Jim Nwobodo, Ambrose Ali, Adekunle Ajasin, Ayo Ojewumi on cases that have no basis. Ayo Ojewumi became blind as a result of his imprisonment over false charges and died shortly after. Prof. Ambrose Alli also became blind as a result of this false imprisonment. Adekule Ajasin was never the same after his eventual release and remained sickly for the rest of his life. Buhari allowed Awwal Ibrahim (Niger State governor), who was arrested in Heathrow Airport in London with 14 million pounds sterling and several millions of Niara & dollars to be under house arrest. He put in place a retroactive law that killed three (innocent) men by public execution. But he left untouched Ibrahim Babangida, an alleged well known drug baron who later overthrew his government. Buhari jailed Ndukar Irabor and Tunde Thompson of the Guardian Newspaper on stories that were factually true under Decree 4 and 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, d writer would go to jail. Busari Adelakun died of ulcer because Buhari refused him to be taken out of prison the immediate medical attention. The then Gov. of Ogun State, Bisi Onabanjo suffered similar fate which we were told led to his untimely death. Buhari jailed Sam Mbakwe, went for one of Mbakwes wives too. He established himself again for what he was/is by letting Mbakwe receive the news of the death of another of Mbakwes two wives while in prison. Buharis henchman and sponsor, CPC governorship candidate for Kano State in 2011, was Mohammed Abacha – the same person that ran a personal killing squad, coordinated the killing of Kudirat Abiola and attempted to kill Mr. Alex Ibru. Buhari is unforgiving. When he was in power in 1983, he remembered an article written long time ago by Bisi Onabanjo titled, the Mallams are coming and a later one in which Onabanjo wrote 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 exclusive of all else and also talked about termination of democratic rule. Onabanjo got a harsh jail terms and treatments. Buhari supervised the smuggling of 53 suitcases filled with cash against the protests of General Tunde Idiagbon and ironically, Abubakar Atiku, former Director General of the Customs, a compromised politician who later became the Vice President. The smuggling was supervised by Buharis ADC, Col. Mustapha Jokolo. Buhari is an Islamic fundamentalist. His ascendancy to the presidential seat will be a booster for his likes. He probably tried to let us know he is not a religious bigot by picking Bakare as a running mate in 2011. But, it doesnt change anything. Buhari 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. Apathy and evil work hand in hand. They are the same basically. Evil wills it, apathy allows it, and apathy - is not bothered so long as it is not personally inconvenienced. We should never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented- Elie Weisel. Buhari is not Boko Haram, but he, like so many of the rest of the Northern leaders including the sultan have not openly and seriously condemned the activities of members of Boko Haram. Being silent in the midst of anothers suffering, even when your in a position to speak against it, you are either tacitly supporting the evil and/or in fact enjoying it. Buhari has never been able to account to Nigerians what he did with the 20 billion Naira of the PTF of which he was the chairman under Sani Abacha and has not been able to point to any project that he prosecuted outside the North with the trust fund. Buhari discriminated against persons from other ethnic groups; as PTF Chairman, he employed an overwhelming number of Fulani/Hausa/Moslem at the detriment of other groups and concentrated PTF projects in the North. El Rufai testified to this, when he wrote about Katsina boys who used the money they made at PTF to bankroll YarAduas election in 1999. Mallam El-Rufai wishes to remind General Buhari that he has remained perpetually unelectable because his record as military head of state and afterwards, is a warning that many Nigerians have wisely heeded. His insensitivity to Nigeria’s diversity and his parochial focus are already well- known. El-Rufai said the whole world is now being ruled by young people and wondered why old blood should continue to rule Nigeria. Obama is 48 and Cameron is 43 for God’s sake. So, why are we recycling leaders that ruled this country very well or very badly 25 years ago? El-Rufai said: “I was 25 years old when Buhari and Babangida were Heads of State and now am 50 and they still want to be. I don’t understand that. I don’t understand that at all and I call on young people of Nigeria to take their future into their hands and ensure in the next election, they vote for a new generation of leaders. We will not make progress until we break the link from the past and move on. 70% of Nigerians are below the age of 40. Many of these young people, the next generation, as they are called, are on internet services such as Facebook & twitter, using Blackberry & if you ask any of these people running for presidency, they will think Blackberry is a fruit. So, we have to move away from there and stop thinking that this leadership thing is all about us or all about individuals. We must put the future of the country at heart and give way to a new generation of leadership. He further said people like President Babangida and General Buhari should just disappear. They should give way to a new set of people with new ideas. Young people preferably. Now I ask, why did El- rufai suddenly turn to Buharis protege? What agreement was reached between the duo that made him start singing praises of a man he castigated and accused of smuggling in 2010? The same El-rufai told us Buharis daughter (who just passed away) was married to an Igbo man. By sharing what someone else posted on Facebook without proper verification. It took the innocent girls death for us to know that she was married to a fellow Hausa Moslem, Captain Junaidu Abdulahi - all in a bid to launder Buharis Islamic image. Buhari is intolerant. When he was adopted as the ANPPs candidate on the night of the partys primaries without prior warning to other candidates and a few of them protested, Buhari made a speech that those people must be disciplined. IBB and his crew similarly ran rings around Buhari. On the 10th anniversary of Abachas demise, Buhari said Abacha stole nothing from Nigeria! This is in spite of millions of dollars recovered from banks around the world and Abacha family signing a formal agreement to return over $1 billion dollars, Buhari insisted Abachas stealing remains an unproved allegation. Why? He said this because Abacha set him up like an emperor and let him use oil money from the Niger Delta to develop the North without supervision or questions. To add insult to injury, 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. He has never apologised at anytime. This is the same way CPC loyalists massacred and lynched Nigerian youth corpers after the last election. A refined politician is expected to tender an apology on behalf of the ignorant loyalists. Buhari refused to apologise. He argued that the mob were angry because election was rigged. Is that sufficient to take the life of another? Buhari forgot or pretended to have forgotten CPC rigged the election too by registering under aged voters. He who comes to equity must come with clean hands and he who seeks equity must do equity. Buhari concentrated on allegations of rigged election rather than on human life. The three men executed by Buhari were 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. Killing people with retroactive laws is not a civilised thing to do. It is murder and same as Aluu 4 incident. He enjoys mostly the support of the North. A man who intends to lead a country as diverse as Nigeria is not willing to get the attention of other ethnic groups. Neither does he attempt to campaign in other regions. If Nigerians intend to remove President Goodluck Jonathan come 2015, then, pitching Buhari against him is definitely not a good idea.
Posted on: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 08:37:08 +0000
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