RE: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Buhari Is Championing Nepotism – Junaid Mohammed

Dr. Junaid Mohammed, the author of Buhari Is Championing Nepotism, is a full-fledge Hausa Fulani and, by extension, a Northerner just like Buhari. Dr. Junaid Mohammed is not accusing Buhari of favouring his ethnic Hausa/Fulani Northerners in federal appointments but of favouring his relatives and friends. Oluwatoyin Adepoju consciously and deliberately has supplanted Junaid Mohammed's accusation of nepotism against Buhari with tribalism or ethnicity. Toyin stated, "The Africans on the French team are there bcs (because) they are the best. Not bcs (because) they are anybody's kinsman." When Cornelius Hamelberg referred to the large concentration of people of African descent in the French national football team in comparison with Buhari's appointments, his discernible intention for any lettered person was to illustrate that ethnic origin of people appointed by Buhari is of no significance provided they are competent and they can deliver on what they are appointed to do. It is not enough for Oluwatoyin Adepoju to tell us that those who are appointed into offices are not the best Nigerians, he must be able to tell us the names of best Nigerians that have been side-stepped in appointments.

 

Toyin wrote, "In the name of justice, what evidence of achievement exists to justify the Nigerian ruler filling most federal positions with ethnic/religious affiliates from the most educationally and economically backward region of Nigeria?" Quantitatively, the number of western educated Nigerians may be more in the South than in the North but has Toyin any evidence that there are more qualitatively western educated in the South than in the North of Nigeria? In the eight years of Obasnjo's and six years of Jonathan's presidency, their governments were dominated by southerners with heavy academic qualifications but crude oil they could not refine, electricity they could not generate, pipe-borne water they could not produce, steel they could not produce from Ajaokuta Steel Mill Limited and the nation's finance they could not manage but were perfect at employing ghost workers. And you say the North is backward economically, may be because in the 21st century, Northerners still roam about with cows to produce beefs to wet the mouths of millions of southerners but comparatively in your economically developed Southern Nigeria, farmers still use cutlasses and hoes in producing basic food items in farming e.g. cassava and yams.

 

While it is your right not to like Buhari politically, you should not go as far as distorting his statement to drown him in your own ocean of blood. You wrote, ".... or Buhari threatening the 'dog and baboon would be covered in blood' if he (Buhari) lost the 2015 elections,..." What he actually said was 'dog and baboon would be covered in blood if the 2015 elections were rigged. There is nothing wrong in saying that the electorates would resort to violent protest if the elections were rigged but in your own mythical world, you have dishonestly changed, if the 2015 elections were rigged to if he (Buhari) were to lose the 2015 elections. That is neither fair nor honest of you.

 

It is often touted that Nigeria has about 300 ethnic groups and you are seriously agitating, "We need ethnic self-determination. All ethnicities need to decide whether or not they wish to remain in the Nigerian contraption and terms of exit or remaining." What happens if everyone of the 300 ethnic groups wants to be a sovereign state? How do you draw the boundaries between sovereign states of Eromi, Esan, Auchi, Sabogida-Ora and Benin in the present day Edo state? I find it difficult to understand the wisdom of your idea that 'divided we are strong and united we are weak.' It is just like saying that a tree would make a forest!!

S.Kadiri 
 

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From: oluwakaidara1@gmail.com
Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 07:43:21 +0100
Subject: Re: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Buhari Is Championing Nepotism – Junaid Mohammed
To: usaafricadialogue@googlegroups.com

Cornelius,

You uncritical approach helps to sink your boat faster.

The Africans on the French team are there bcs they are the best. Not bcs they are anybody's kinsman. Africans in football are described as being both big and fast and so ideal for the game. Africans have also distinguished themselves globally in boxing, with Muhammed Ali epitomizing that achievement. The same goes for the track and field accomplishments represented by such athletes as Usain Bolt and the members of the US track and field teams. It is not possible to view football and track and field on  a global scale and not see Black people at the apex in various countries, in spite of all the entry restrictions into the West placed as barriers to African immigrants.The conditions that contribute to Kenya's global achievement in track and field are known. The Williams sisters and Tiger Woods are not representative of Black presence in those sports, although the life trajectories that have enabled their dominance of their sports are well known , along with the colossal physical power and determination represented by Serena Williams  enabling her being world no 1 in tennis, exemplified by her recent  historic 22nd grand slam title win  at Wimbledon, are on display for the whole world to see.

In the name of justice, what evidence of achievement exists to justify the Nigerian ruler filling most federal positions with ethnic/religious  affiliates  from the most educationally and economically backward region of Nigeria?

Buhari represents the dregs of Islamic civilization, an unmodern, medieval anachronistic group who are either uneducated in modern learning, as Buhari is, or even if they are, conspire to keep their people uneducated and poor, so they may continue to be useful as unthinking acolytes in securing the power base of these parasites.

Thus,  Buhari's Muslim North is the most educationally and economically underdeveloped region of Nigeria,  a region whose leaders have saddled Nigeria with the culture of mediocrity represented by insisting on low cut off marks for their indigenes in entrance exams to federal educational institutions instead of working hard to educate their people as the West and the East in particular did with their own regions, yet these other regions and the rest of the nation are disadvantaged  by being required to present high grades for entry into the same institutions, then this terrorist supporter of Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorist murderers  fills federal positions with ethnic/religious  affiliates from a particularly  underdeveloped region and you think Nigeria is going anywhere in a hurry?

It is not a crime to be underdeveloped, and at an even lower level than  other members of a generally underdeveloped nation. But it is a crime to either slow down the development of others as well as of oneself or ensure that development remains a mirage across generations for others and even for oneself, by trying to use one's underachieving  region in dominating others, through a culture of keeping one's constituency chronically underdeveloped educationally and economically, encouraging them to feed on a diet of fanatical, dogmatic religion, while struggling to cow the rest of the nation to your barbaric mindset through a culture that encourages regular pogroms of those outside your region but living in your region, through coups staged by your members in the national army, through terrorism, such as Boko Haram and Fulani herdsmen terrorists, through threats of terrorism such as Atiku threatening Nigeria with violent change bcs a Northern Muslim was not made PDP 2011 Presidential candidate or Buhari threatening the 'dog and the baboon' would be covered in blood' if he lost the 2015 elections, and proceeding to create an army of appointees from this dognmatised class to ensure perpetual continuity in power even after other groups have allowed themselves to be misled in supporting  your ascension to power, that being a summary of  how we got to the current  hell in Nigeria at the hands of the right wing fascist Northern Muslim group to which Buhari belongs.

Anytime you think I have written anything unfactual about that charlatan, let me know and ill consider responding. But ill not respond to a  challenge that is not serious. Your current challenge is unserious bcs you are making a comparison which anyone can see does not hold, in the spirit of  people like you who keep insisting Nigerians must live by low standards and therefore be assured of perpetual mediocrity in the community of nations. I am responding now only bcs I am in the mood to.

We need ethnic self determination. All ethnicities need to decide whether or not they wish to remain in the Nigerian contraption and the terms of exit or remaining. This oil inspired integration is a deadly scam daily costing many lives, the latest being the recurrent murders of non-Muslims in the North by the fanatical Muslims who define Northern Nigerian Islam.

toyin

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 11:52 PM, Cornelius Hamelberg <corneliushamelberg@gmail.com> wrote:

Oluwatoyin Adepoju,

The "incongruity of (my) position" ?

Which position ?

I counted at least seven Africans in the French National Football Team – and a few more on the substitute bench. They could have all come from Kaduna, what do you care...

Like a Judas priest or like one of the devils possessed by an evil spirit you have been bombarding this forum with endless anti-Buhari diatribes and misleading information through which we have got to understand that your unforgettable position on Brother Buhari is not made of gold, rather, is fashioned by a heart carved out of stone.

No matter. I'm sure that your heart beats for Nigeria. Maybe, also Biafra? (That would be a business earthquake of Brexit dimensions)

"medieval mind set" Who? Brother Buhari?

And the Constitution?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wg_Y3HXp4sU

On Sunday, 10 July 2016 20:18:17 UTC+2, Oluwatoyin Adepoju wrote:

Cornelius Hamelberg,

It seems you have forgotten my position on Buhari.

I was alluding to the incongruity of your position, not its validity.

I dont consider that character worthy of my efforts to point out his mendacity which some of us saw for what it was before the country was deceived into putting him in a job from where he unleashes a medieval mind set on the nation.

toyin

On Sun, Jul 10, 2016 at 6:24 PM, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye <opini...@gmail.com> wrote:

The last time I checked, this was an interview given by Dr. Junaid Mohammed, the man who has built a reputation for his pro-North mindset, but who in this interview chose to sing a new tune. I wonder why the "author" or the "interviewer" should be the butt of attacks here, instead of the man whose views he merely reported? And how does merely reporting an interview translate to someone wishing that Buhari surrounded himself with South Easterners? I doubt if Dr. Junaid Mohammed would go to the extent of proposing that. The way we reason in Nigeria can at times be very strange...

On Thursday, July 7, 2016 at 1:50:19 PM UTC+1, Ugochukwu Ejinkeonye wrote:

Buhari Is Championing Nepotism – Junaid Mohammed

 …His Relatives Dictate Aso Rock policy

*President Buhari

Interview by Ishaya Ibrahim (Acting News Editor)

Muhammadu Buhari's relatives are the ones dictating policy in Aso Rock for 170 million Nigerians, adding nepotism to the festering allegation of narrow mindedness levelled against the president, who critics say surrounds himself with Northerners in running national affairs.

Junaid Mohammed, radical politician and Second Republic lawmaker, named at least seven relatives of the president who are the power behind the throne in the Villa – apart from the heads of all vital security agencies who are from the from the North.
In a telephone interview from his base in Kano, Mohammed accused Buhari of giving key positions to his cousins, nephews, and in-laws, and is therefore guilty of the corruption he is trying to fight.
Mohammed, a virulent critic of former President Goodluck Jonathan, and originally a supporter of Buhari, said nepotism compromises Buhari's ability to rule the country well, fight corruption, and deal with rogue lawmakers who pose a threat to his administration.

CLICK HERE TO READ THE INTERVIEW


http://ugowrite.blogspot.com.ng/2016/07/buhari-is-championing-nepotism-junaid.html

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