Monday, January 30, 2017

USA Africa Dialogue Series - Re: Buhari not competent to govern any country – Kperogi

congrats to Farooq for his courage here, but, I wonder why anything nothing Buhari has done is unanticipated to those who have followed his history and the ideological context in which he operates.

What would have been shocking would be if he were to have transformed into a true national leader.

That would have been a polity restructuring  earthquake of historic proportions.

toyin




On 30 January 2017 at 10:09, Oluwatoyin Vincent Adepoju <toyin.adepoju@gmail.com> wrote:

Interview

Buhari not competent to govern any country – Kperogi

A former ardent supporter of President Muhammadu Buhari and Associate Professor at the Kennesaw State University, Georgia, United States, Farooq Kperogi, tells BAYO AKINLOYE that Buhari has failed many who had high hopes of him

With your criticisms of President Muhammadu Buhari and his administration, it appears you're against him. Is it that you hate the President?

I am neither against him nor do I hate him. On the contrary, my criticism of the (President Muhammadu) Buhari administration's tragic missteps and rank incompetence is animated by love – tough love.  If you were familiar with my work, especially my 'Notes from Atlanta' weekly column in the Daily Trust, you wouldn't ask this. I was one of Buhari's advocates in the run-up to the 2015 (presidential) election – and even before then. You can check the records. For instance, in 2012, when pundits – and (ex-President Goodluck) Jonathan's media team – tore him to shreds for saying kare jini, biri jini (Hausa for 'the dog and the baboon will be soaked in blood'), I vigorously defended him.

In 2015, when he was ridiculed for saying 'President Michelle of West Germany', I also defended him with all the resources of logic and erudition I had. I explained to Nigerians that Buhari wasn't 'clueless' but was suffering from age-induced memory lapses colloquially called 'senior moments' in (United States of) America. Even when he visited the US in July 2015 and made his infamously unwise comment that he didn't give a hang about people from the deep south who didn't vote for him, I defended him because I thought he realised his error and retracted what he said in the same speech. As recently as November 19, 2016, I defended him against false charges that he contributed millions of dollars to Hillary Clinton's campaign. I can go on, but that's irrelevant now.

But even in my support for him, I've also been critical and cautious. I called him out when he refused to declare his assets. I criticised what I called the embarrassing 'Arewacentricity' of his appointments, and so on. Now, it is obvious to me that Buhari doesn't have the preparation, the competence, and the moral strength to govern any country. It's a sobering epiphany.

Are you former President Goodluck Jonathan's apologist then?

Me, a Goodluck Jonathan apologist? That has to be the funniest thing I've heard all my life! In case you didn't know, I am the first person to call Jonathan 'unfathomably clueless' in my April 16, 2010 article titled, 'Dr. Goodluck Jonathan, that was embarrassing'. It was my recapitulation of his visit to the US when he was acting president. 'Clueless' became his middle name (thereafter). I am also the first person to call for an 'Occupy Nigeria' protest with my October 22, 2011 article titled, 'Fuel Subsidy Removal: Time to Occupy Nigeria!' which went viral in Nigerian cyberspace. Everyone knows that the 'Occupy Nigeria' protests were a major, decisive turning point in Jonathan's administration. And, as records of my columns show, I never relented in my criticisms of Jonathan until he was voted out of power – and even after. I am doing to Buhari now what I did to Jonathan then.

What do you think about Buhari's anti-corruption crusade?

Is there any anti-corruption crusade? As I said many times, Buhari's so-called anti-corruption fight is the most invidiously selective, the least transparent, the most brazenly unjust, and the silliest joke in Nigeria's entire history. Here is a man who doesn't give his corrupt political opponents the benefit of the doubt. He orders their arrest, jails them, and uses the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission to smear them in the media on the basis of allegations, but tells astonishingly bald-faced and easily falsifiable lies to defend, deflect, minimise, and excuse the corruption of his close aides and political associates. You call that anti-corruption crusade? Please!

What do you make of Senator Shehu Sani's 'insecticide and deodorant' statement to describe Buhari's fight against corruption?

It's a perfect, poignant metaphor to encapsulate the scorn-worthy lies, deceit, double standard, and crying unjustness of the Buhari administration's so-called anti-corruption fight. In Buhari's Nigeria, there are two judicial standards for fighting corruption. The first standard is that the president's opponents are always guilty until proven innocent – and they can never be proven innocent. They are always already condemned by the mere fact of being the president's opponents. The second standard is that the president's corrupt aides and associates are always innocent –until they are 'cleared' by the president who has now reduced himself to the pathetic position of the 'Clearer-in-Chief of Executhief Corruption.'

Isn't that a serious indictment against a man considered as 'Mr. Integrity'? Has Buhari lost his integrity?

Perhaps Buhari never had any integrity to start with. It was our desperation for a hero that caused us to dress him in borrowed robes. What man of integrity would lie that he took a bank loan to buy his presidential nomination form while two of his children were enrolled in a United Kingdom university? What man of integrity would have a multimillion-naira house in Abuja but lied that he had modest houses only in Daura, Kaduna, and Kano? What man of integrity would be afraid to publicly and transparently declare his assets after promising to do so? What man of integrity chooses to be the sole signatory to his presidential campaign's bank account to which millions of poor, struggling Nigerians donated tens of millions of naira and not give an account of how he spent the money? What man of integrity perpetually surrounds himself with corrupt people and, worse still, defends their corruption?

People who are intimate with President Buhari told me several months ago in the heat of my unrestrained enthusiasm over his emergence as president that he was morally and temperamentally unsuited to fight corruption. They said the undue premium the president places on 'personal loyalty' causes him to ignore, excuse, and even defend the corruption of his close associates. I was regaled with troubling tales of the mind-boggling corruption against close, loyal aides that he swept under the carpet at the PTF (Petroleum Trust Fund), The Buhari Organisation, and at the defunct CPC (Congress for Progressive Change). They say likes attract. You can't be a man of integrity and continually surround yourself with corrupt people. I can go on; but it is obvious that Buhari isn't the man of integrity he has been alleged to be.

In the current situation of things, some people have said there is no difference between Jonathan, alleged to have allowed corruption to fester under his watch, and Buhari – accused of glossing over corruption allegations against his close aides. Do you see any difference between the two?

The only difference between Jonathan and Buhari is that Jonathan made no pretences to being anything other than an everyday Nigerian politician dedicated to mindless hedonism. Everyone knew Jonathan was corrupt and that he found comfort in corruption. He even said stealing was not corruption, and that corruption was inevitable. But Buhari grandstanded about being the scourge of corrupt people. He erected a false moral pedestal and stood on it. But his government is shaping up to be one of the most audaciously corrupt governments in Nigeria's history. In light of the unravelling of the corruption that pervades the Buhari government, the government now deploys unintelligent lies, annoyingly sterile propaganda, and unimaginative chicanery to deflect people's attention from the irredeemable disaster that it is.

Does it bother you that Buhari seems bent on having the acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission, Ibrahim Magu, confirmed as the commission's substantive chair, despite the Department of State Services' report on him and the Senate's refusal to confirm him?

It doesn't matter who the chairman of the EFCC is, so long as Buhari himself isn't serious about fighting corruption. The EFCC is nothing more than the poodle of the president. He instructs it to go after his opponents but to spare his associates. Even if you bring an angel to head the EFCC, the angel can only be as effective as Buhari wants the angel to be. So it's actually pointless who the chairman of the EFCC is. Buhari's war on corruption is already lost before it has even started. If I were him, I would just call off the charade and apologise to Nigerians for taking them for a ride.

It appears that Nigeria's intelligence outfit, the Nigeria Police and the EFCC, are tied to the government's apron strings. What do you think can be done to make these security agencies more independent of political control?

I had hoped that Buhari would use his second coming to build enduring institutions that are independent of and unencumbered by loyalty to personalities in power. Because of the extreme personalisation of power in our politics, there is frankly nothing that can be done other than to have a president who really and truly allows the agencies to operate unfettered. People have suggested that the heads of the security agencies should be appointed by independent, professional bodies. While I see the merit in the suggestion, the fact still remains that the president can manipulate the independent, professional bodies to do his or her bidding.

Former US President Barack Obama is famous for saying 'Africa doesn't need strongmen, it needs strong institutions'. But strong institutions don't come out of thin air; they are built by strong men through the strength of their personal example. I had hoped that Buhari would be the strong man who would build strong and enduring institutions that are fiercely independent. I was naïve.

Some are expressing fears that what happened to former President Umaru Yar'Adua during his ill health and eventual death may befall Buhari. Do you think those fears are misplaced?

I see eerily uncanny similarities between the public management of Buhari's health and that of the late Yar'Adua's. I once wrote an article in June 2016 titled, 'The Yar'Aduaisation of Buhari's Health by His Media Adviser', where I called attention to the unhealthy and unhelpful secrecy around the president's health. The issues I raised in that article are still relevant today, although I must give the president credit for always handing over to the vice president (Prof. Yemi Osinbajo), as the (Nigerian) Constitution demands, each time he travels abroad for an extended period. Yar'Adua never did that; nor did Obasanjo. I hope the president survives his current indisposition. In spite of my strong disagreements with his policies, I wish him well.

What do you think is the way forward in all this just as some are calling for the resignation of the President?

If Buhari resigns, that would be wonderful. It is obvious by now that he is superintending the most unprepared government in Nigeria's history. He has absolutely no business being president. The presidency is above his pay grade. Every day in Nigeria is worse than the previous day, and there is no hope in sight. But should Buhari decide to stay on in power in spite of his proven incompetence and cluelessness, we have no option but to wait until his tenure expires. All we can do is put his feet to the fire and hope that he would get a clue and do – or get the right people to help him do – the right thing.

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      And that was the reason igbos didn't vote for him because we knew he has nothing positive to offer Nigeria and Nigerians. He will only make things worse for the poor. Apart from that, his is a wicked man.




      Some of us in SW did not vote for him too, go and look at the election result.

      Today, I walk tall to say I did not vote for failed Buhari. Having gone through 1980s I know the kind of hardship that Buhari can bring & he is not disappointing.





      This is the problem, when some of us were talking, people like you refused to listen.

      If you are an adult during Buhari first coming you will have known better that Buhari will not be able to deliver. Secondly, Buhari ideology is not applicable in 21st century. Thirdly, Buhari is not knowledgeable about economy, something he accepted but he failed to educate himself. To kill it, Nepotism which we never see in him just surfaced during his second coming thereby setting him against his APC team & causing in-fighting. Lastly, we are now seeing him as religion bigot & this is worse off as he might set the country on fire if not stopped.




    Buhari has acheived more in less than two years than what goodluck acheived in more than 5 years. Thats why we voted the moron out. You ibos voted goodluck out of tribalism not based on performance, and you have refused to commend buhari because things didn't go your own way in the last election, forgetting that was what hausas endured while goodluck was on, they never said they were going, they didn't become traitors and secessionists, they never were disrespectful to Goodluck, the way you people insult Buhari on social media and his facebook page. but few of you have realized hate doesn't give any result and are now embracing apc n buhari. My advice is that if you can't beat them you join them.





    Dimwit! Eternal parasitic slaves and Empty boast.

    You have just exhibited your hallmark - lies, propaganda and no substance.

    WHY DONT YOU MENTION 5 THINGS BUHARI ACHIEVED? NEPOTISM,TANKED ECONOMY, N510/$, N145 FUEL & N200/LTR KEROSENE. NO ROAD, DARKNESS, KILLINGS, BUDGET PADDING, CORRUPTION, WITCH HUNTING OPPOSITION, POLICE STATE, RENEWED ELECTION FRAUD, ETHNIC DIVISIONS AND MORE

    RETROGRESSIVE IDIOTS!




    Was that truly the reason?




    Not because you knew, no one could know that.




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      Ajayi Balogun thanks you. You could know who would do well. If you review the persons past objectively. A leopard never changes it's spot. It's hard to change habits in old age. That was the only reason if you must know. What you need to ask is what guides your decision. I think one major reason alot of people made mistake on Buhari is that they did not know him. They have no record of him and their anger did not allow them check. Alot of people here were not adults when he led as a military president. Secondly they did not think alot has changed. People are more exposed now and the world has moved on. Buhari never moved with the apparent technological advancement and thriving democracy. How can a man with WAEC education lead effectively. Alot happens in numbers. A truly educated fellow is a liberated fellow. Your thinking is global. Buhari does not just fit.
      It's so sad Yorubas acted out of hate and we are all paying for it.
      Any BSc. holder who voted Buhari simply let's me know he has no regard for his certificate. Now if you do not have regard for your certificate, don't expect Buhari to regard it. Now implications are that positions bright minds and learned people should occupy will be given to people like Dalung without apology. The effect goes on.
      For me this is not tribal that is why I still have respect for northerners like Sanusi and the Yaradua family.




      I agree with you to an extent, GEJ was a good man before he became president, but he wasn't a good leader. Well, we've seen bad people turn good and vice versa. No one could ascertain the future.




    My brother,igbos






    Even yemen? Or somalia or sudan? Nawa oh is he that bad?





    Thank you Farooq. This is one of the biggest scandal and misadventure (yet again!) to hit this nation. Buhari's incompetence and and cluelessness!
    Is this nation really cursed? A lot of people had high hopes for this man and he has turned to be another turd. When will this nation get it right with right leadership? This is so sad!!!!




      You're the one that's cursed sir, people like you is why we are where we are today as a nation. You contribute nothing to the development of the country yet you blame those trying to do something. Every sensible person realized this country was destined for a recession no matter who won the election except by a stroke of luck crude oil prices doubled. A country that has been abused and grossly mismanaged can't be fixed overnight, we want to continue doing the same things we've done over the years and expect the country to change. Buhari might not be the president to make Nigeria great but he's definitely the president we need to slow things down, otherwise we would have had a worse ending.





    You obviously do not know what you are talking about. Buhari the president we need to slow things down? Your lack of knowledge about the man and what governance entails is the exact reason why this clueless man who is promoting command economy in the 21st century got into power in the first place. Plus, the FX corruption happening now makes the one under Jonathan a child's play, And you completely glossed over what farouk said about his being corrupt and shielding his corrupt staffers. All you can do is jump to the comparison of Buhari and Jonathan, that typify's how shallow your thoughts are. Isn't it a disaster that a man we hoped could rescue us is now becoming a worse monumental disaster? That we had a big problem with Jonathan now meant we should die with bigger problems under Buhari? Broaden your thoughts and horizon please.




    Let him be firm and EQUITABLE in tackling corruption!




      Be realistic and objective, how do you think Buhari can fight corruption by himself. Corruption is a menace that has eaten deep in our system so much that it's now our culture. Fighting corruption must be a systematic thing which must permeate the entire system. The executive, judiciary and the legislature are the foundation upon which the building blocks of corruption is laid. The president on his own may be serious about the corruption war but he's neither the prosecutor nor the investigator. A system where you steal a large enough money to bribe both the EFCC and the Judges cannot be changed overnight. What are the people looking at when people steal these huge funds, a governor can't steal a dime without the connivance of so many public servants. We the people need to wake up and ask questions of our leaders at every level, things can only change when we ourselves change. Buhari as a man has branded himself over the years as a man of unquestionable character, it's time for us to prove him right or wrong.




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      Please donote make excuses for Buhari. If you take over as a manager in firm from a former manager that did not do well, your job is to fix things not complain. If he knew he was incompetent why want power at all cost to the extent of promising to spill blood. You know sometimes I just feel it's a good thing Buhari got this power after all. That way all doubt is cleared. Nigerians will never have to vote for anyone who has questionable certification. Like the Toronto saga.
      Face it. He has failed woefully and if you knew he could not do it alone why fight for presidency as if it's a do or die affair?
      I don't need stories like this from people like you. Reasonable people who were very responsible for ensuring he won have admitted it was a mistake so, who are you?




    Buhari mis-stepped immediately he deviated from his initial promise that he would draw the line & ensure no new corruption & will not dwell on the past. The fight against corruption was partly responsible for the devaluation of Naira that we are facing today as lots of people try to take away stolen money quickly by changing them to Dollars.

    Unearthing past corrupt activities also created diversion as the country could not articulate its strategy to address the fallen price of crude & even the agitation of NDA.

    One lesson here is that any President who brought hardship irrespective of his good intention will be shown the way out.

    I support the call that Buhari should resign but have we evaluate Osibanjo to know if he is up to the task? We cannot be doing trial & error with leadership.




      I dove my hat for that wonderful submission. Your response above to the guy saying all SW flocked to PMB,s camp in the last 2015 election was also very great. You know the problem was the emotion that came with the need to remove GEJ then.The emotion beclouded the reasoning of many supporters of PMB that some can even do anything like harm you if you dare criticise PMB. Personally,PMB was the hard choice with the direction and situation in the country then, but I knew you cannot leave PMB with the destiny of the country. He has to be constantly monitored and criticized objectively. That was not the case until everything started falling apart.He went about dividing his own house with the 97%and 5% nomenclature. In elementary political calculus differentiation is meant for pre-election. Once the election is over, integration should start from the domain that are hostile to you before or during election because in politics there is no permanent friends but interest.




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      God blesd you for your last line. See fusion of mathematics and politics. You can only get this as an educated fellow. Differentiation and integration.
      Bro you killed it.
      We will vote for educated sound minds with impeccable antecedence and achievements going forward. This is why the White man is better. After a war they open arms to their opponents and everyone works together for development.




    I wish you well in your quest for the quick fix leader you seek.





    Unquestionable my foot. How long did it take LKY to fix Singapore? Can you compare the moral decadence in Singapore then to the current state of things in Nigeria? Buhari is not just the right man for the moment, accept that.




      Is Nigeria Singapore? The people of Singapore fixed their country under the leadership of Lee Kuan Yew. At any rate you have the same amount of balls as Buhari so you can contest the next election and change Nigeria like Singapore in 2 years.





    I said equitable! Whoever said that he should fight corruption alone!




      so you agree that we all need to come together to fight corruption at every level. Buhari is a politician, politicians don't do what the people don't reinforce, so Buhari is choosing his battles carefully. We need to put pressure on this government to do what we want and follow through instead of just whining. Democracy is participatory, otherwise the leaders will just do what they like as the case in Nigeria. #OccupyTheNatinalAssembly could not gather up to 500 people to match on the National Assembly because no one was dashing them money.




    Nobody forced him to contest though.




    And this man claims to be a professor? Some professor indeed. Every dummy in Nigeria who saw Buhari mess Nigeria up in 1984 can testify of his cluelessness, incompetence, lack of integrity, corruption, ineptitude, nepotism, ethnic bigotry, and Islamic agenda. Buhari has been and is an unrepentant dictator and hypocrite. Our so called professor who was one of his rabid supporters needs an education! You should publicly apologize to Nigerians for manipulating them with their lies of "dressing Buhari in borrowed robes " in your search for a hero. Look at your hero! You and your likes have helped destroy a nation, and you should stop pretending to be a public analyst. You lack the credentials.




    Buhari is competent enough to rule northern and western Nigerian!




    Guy it's too late now. You all voted for him. Deal with it. Unless God decides to take him out. He's ur president now.




    "President Michelle of Germany" and "Hillary campaign donations" are just too dumb for excuses. Ask Chancellor Angela Mikel to pronounce Buhari, Kperogi or Keita and be ready to laugh your head off. Must we always adapted to the Europeans way of life? Daga ina kake (where are you from)? Berlin or London? Inan gidan mahaifinki a Ingila (where is your father's house in England)? The last I checked, you are from a remote hamlet in Niger state just like humble self. Have you ever met a European trying to speak your dialect? Stop trying to Europeanize all of us.
    The manufacturers of the Hillary campaign donations knew very well that folks you will dwell on it. 10-year olds in the US know that no foreign donation is allowed to their election campaign funds. You drew unnecessary attention to the hoopla with your vacuous articles. Hey Kperogi, verbosity will never solve any problem. If PMB is not qualified, run for the presidency in 2019. Just by having some college degrees, you think you know it all and have what it takes? Many of you Nigerian PhD holders are big time shame to the country. You all talk, talk and talk. And when given the opportunity to serve, you all always messed up. Former President Goodluck Jonathan, his minister of finance, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala and his press secretary, Ruben Abati each hold a PhD. In the end, they led Nigeria into depression. Using the word recession is sugar-coating the horrible economic problem they deliberately put Nigeria into. That's very sad!
    Donald Trump did not resort article writing and loud noises and Adama Barrow did not resort to chauvinistic bravado to be presidents in the US and The Gambia now. Obviously, you and other so called educated Nigerians lack the backbone the type Trump and Barrow have. Mr. Kperogi, Trump is half educated as you but you are half smart as he. Getting things done is not by yapping but by action. Action speaks louder than word.




    Where are the people saying PUNCH is only interested in attacking GEJ?





    ''Now, it is obvious to me that Buhari doesn't have the preparation, the competence, and the moral strength to govern any country. '' This is a very cruel and arrogant lie! Being a professor does not mean you know everything. In the long run, it is God who enthrones leaders. Do you know more than God?

    Thank God He does not think the way we humans do. All God requires of a person He will use are simple things like - that he be willing to serve, that he lives a spartan life, that he will not multiply wives and wealth to himself, that he be sober, not given to alcohol - in short that he must have self-control. All these are in Deuteronomy chapter 17 and dotted all over the Bible. If PMB does not meet these criteria, i don't know which of our leaders meet them except Pa Awolowo.

    And God prepares His leaders by taking them through a school of humility and that was why He allowed PMB to lose elections 3 times before allowing him the 4th time. He became the 4th president of the 4th republic on the 4th try and the election results were announced on the 1st day of the 4th month. I am just a grandma with a whole lot of faith but i know i can see the hand of God in PMB's election at this time. We need to let him work and stop the hate and arrogant speeches - for the sake of Nigeria!




    Who knows this foolish non entity, you support someone and take away support in less than 2 years. Does this fool know the population of Nigeria?..... Or he thinks we are talking about iceland with only a population less than 400000 persons.




    We all have IBB to thank that he saved us from Buhari's first coming, imagine Buhari with all these powers in an era of no internet, mobile phones and the communication technologies we enjoy today? Surely Nigeria today would have been a picture better imagined. Farooq is on point and may God say us from our new oppressors.




    The presidency is above his pay grade. I just love this expression. Highly above his pay and education grade.




    You and tinubu decive our people to buy empty can.......you should be ashamed




    The truth is that the president should do Nigerians a favour and just resign. Forget those grandstanding and supporting him, they are simply afraid to admitt the shame. This president does not have what it takes to govern a country like Nigeria. He is not even prepared at all. He has contested for this many times and one must be forgiven to think he was prepared to do something. Maybe his only agenda for all those many years of efforts was just arewacentrist agenda. Thats the only achievement i have seen from him.
    He has failed. His anti corruption is a charade and should be stopped. It is just a deciet to decimate his opposition. He shamelessly clear his allies and those loyal to him of any corruption. The looting of the treasury has continued unabetted.
    Every day in Nigeria is worst than the previous day. There is no hope at all that tomorrow will be better. Many people wish him dead but i dont. It is wrong to wish a fellow humans dead. Some blame igbos for hating him so much. But these people has continued to think backward and african, just like their president. That a people hated you that much for a long time, you blatantly refused to address their concerns as a politician, instead resolved on vendetta shows you are not a good leader. Those that hate him or wish him dead are not even asking to be be given the presidency, but that he should just go, anyone else but him is acceptable to them. The leader should go back and ask himself some questions. The truth is that the whole country is grumblling. Forget those clapping and praising, it is normal, it is politics.





    I think the southwaste myopic thinkers who voted the incompetent president are regretting this now. am happy they are beginning to wake from their slumber. cowards




      Baby factory product who is now a refugee in foreign land, did they tell you how your self professed hero ran away naked to Ivory Coast at the footsteps of OBJ? Did they tell you how he earnestly begged Shagari for Pardon? What can be more cowardice than a man refusing to die for his conviction or what he believes in? Often you use some vocabularies without any knowledge of their meanings whatsoever! If you went into a war ill-equipped, ill-prepared and you call that heroism or bravery, then you are the greatest stupid and foolish generation ever known in human history.





      Did you even read the comment I responded to? So when the nonentity called my people cowards, did that have to do with voting for Buhari? Is that related to the subject matter Judge Uche?




      Jokes apart, Ain't your people cowards - particularly your leadership who sacrifice their publicly-avowed and long-help principles and demands for mere political appointment which is ephemeral and short-term.




      Go and ask the man who boastfully led you into war and wasted the lives of millions of you and then ran naked to Ivory Coasy in search of asylum. He couldn't wait to die for what he purportedly believed in. Again shamelessly he was begging Shagari for pardon. Your block head which is a generational problem will not allow you to know that bravery is not going into a war ill equipped, ill prepared. According to Jesus Christ any king who goes into a war without adequate preparation and without making a good assessment of his opponent, is very foolish. That is exactly what you are FOOLISH, STUPID AND BRAINLESS.
      My people who supported Jonathan during his first term and ridgt from when he was denied the Acting Presidency post, rejected Jonathan on the second term because they were not satisfied with his performance. Just like Buhari needs to perform to earn their continued support otherwise he will also be rejected. That is mature politics! I don't know what that has to do with cowardice, invalid!




    You are an incestuous products from yorobaland. Cowards!





      David baby factory is not the worst crime in Nigeria. If it were the only crime in Nigeria and exclusive preserve of the Igbos, Nigeria would have become the most technologically developed nation in Africa, if not the world.

      There are worse crimes in Nigeria and these crimes are responsible for the collapse of Nigeria politically and socio-economically. And guess what, these crimes are the exclusive preserve of non-Igbos.

      Do you want me to mention the crimes?




    Buhari has failed the Nation except a cohort of his close beneficiaries. At the present momentum of things especially with his highly biased support of mass killings, his lack of firm response to it, his dysfunctional curtailment of corruption and obtuse management of economy, I do not know how he will keep his integrity intact by 2019!




    Kperogi should be apologising profusely to Nigerians for helping to promote Buhari's presidential bid rather than this sanctimonious piece.
    If he had only given a little thought and common sense to Buhari's actions during his first coming ought to have realised long before now the man's glaring incompetence and unsuitability.




      Farooq, you don finish this man O!

      "What man of integrity would lie that he took a bank loan to buy his presidential nomination form while two of his children were enrolled in a United Kingdom university?
      What man of integrity would have a multimillion-naira house in Abuja but lied that he had modest houses only in Daura, Kaduna, and Kano? What man of integrity would be afraid to publicly and transparently declare his assets after promising to do so?
      What man of integrity chooses to be the sole signatory to his presidential campaign's bank account to which millions of poor, struggling Nigerians donated tens of millions of naira and not give an account of how he spent the money?
      What man of integrity perpetually surrounds himself with corrupt people and, worse still, defends their corruption?"

      Let me add my own - What man of integrity will answer these questions to our satisfaction?




      He took loans for presidential nomination because his children's are more important to him. He spend his own money to finance his children's education in the UK. That is love and smartness!
      Compare PMB's house to the mansions built by IBB in Minna, OBJ in Abeokuta, GEJ in Otuoke and you can easily see the huge differences. Right now, PMB earns only one salary as president. He forgoes his army and former head of state pensions. Check it out instead of making loud and vacuous claims here.




      A sin is a sin is a sin! Compare, compare, compare, who cares! A sin is a sin is a sin! Your countryman Fulani Kperogi that wrote the article is the one you should vent your spleen on. Buhari is rapidly falling and failing. I was also a converted supporter of him. When he spent 6 months struggling to form an 'arewacentric' cabinet, that was when I knew we need to go back to the drawing board. When he did not see anything wrong with the killing of Shiites by the army he is the CIC, when he says nothing about the massacre of Southern Kaduna Christians through the Jihadist pogrom program. The blunt reality of Buhari's government is that he is turning into a disaster!




      How do you try to find out the truth or something close to it if you are not comparing and contrasting numerous information you are hearing?
      I guess you believe anything from PDP and nothing from APC. I am not a member of any party but 'am willing to give PMB some time to fix whatever co can fix. You never said anything when the last regime ran the Nigeria down in recession. Kperogi is a noise maker. If could do better than PMB, let him run in 2019. There is problem in Kaduna also in Rivers states. There a governor in each state so, let the governor solve the problems and leave PMB out of your braying. When almost all loopholes are now closed, no more free money like before you call it "Buhari's government is turning into a disaster". You are of those screaming that they are hungry? Stomach infrastructure!




    You deserve no answer when you said that PMB spent 6 months to form an "arewacentric cabinet". If I ignore you, many will think
    you are factual but you are very wrong. Do you know that there are 5 Igbo officials in the "arewacentric cabinet. So Ngige, Onu, Emefiele are from Katsina state? You folks must stop raying for nothing.




    To think that this man is a professor baffles me most when I cried to the high heavens that Nigeria has no business going back to the twentieth century to look for solutions in a twenty first century world many people thought I was mad today how market?




    Point of correction prof, Buhari is not competent to govern any local government.




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