Chika Onyeani, the author of 5 REASONS GEN. BUHARI WILL LOSE HIS FOURTH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA is an impostor cum anarchist, otherwise the title of his write-up ought to have been, '5 REASONS GEN. BUHARI SHOULD LOSE HIS FOURTH PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IN NIGERIA.' But as an impostor Chika has made his personal opinion to be that of all Nigerians and from that point of departure he decided that Gen. Buhari will lose his fourth presidential election in Nigeria.
The five barefaced falsehood which Chika Onyeani has advanced to discredit Gen. Buhari are not new and can be likened to the character of goats who will adamantly return to eat cassava irrespective of repeated severe flogging by the cassava owner. However, the falsehood in item 2 and 3 of Chika Onyeani's essay deserves to be corrected. He wrote, "And since the return to democracy ... Buhari ... has run for presidential elections three times, each time as head of a political party that he formed." The Presidential candidate of APP (All Peoples' Party) in 1999 was Olu Falae but in 2003, members of APP appealed to Buhari to be their Presidential flag bearer, which he accepted. Before 2007 elections, APP had changed its name to ANPP and of which Buhari won the Presidential primary. The declared winner of 2007 election, Umaru Yar'Adua, admitted that the election was flawed but promised to form a national government of major political parties. Although the ANPP leaderships encouraged Buhari to challenge the result of the Presidential election in the court, the then Chairman of the ANPP, Ume Ezeoke, went behind Buhari to send a list of ANPP would be ministers to Yar'Adua. After losing the case against Yar'Adua, Buhari left ANPP to form CPC party on whose platform he contested the Presidential election in 2011. It is therefore a gross misrepresentation of facts to say that Buhari had formed three different political parties under which he had contested presidential elections. The truth is that after being betrayed on election petition issues he formed only one party, which was CPP. The present APC is an amalgamation of several political parties including CPC. The presidential primary election of APC that was held in Lagos on 10 December 2014, was contested by five candidates of which Buhari emerged a winner.
The five barefaced falsehood which Chika Onyeani has advanced to discredit Gen. Buhari are not new and can be likened to the character of goats who will adamantly return to eat cassava irrespective of repeated severe flogging by the cassava owner. However, the falsehood in item 2 and 3 of Chika Onyeani's essay deserves to be corrected. He wrote, "And since the return to democracy ... Buhari ... has run for presidential elections three times, each time as head of a political party that he formed." The Presidential candidate of APP (All Peoples' Party) in 1999 was Olu Falae but in 2003, members of APP appealed to Buhari to be their Presidential flag bearer, which he accepted. Before 2007 elections, APP had changed its name to ANPP and of which Buhari won the Presidential primary. The declared winner of 2007 election, Umaru Yar'Adua, admitted that the election was flawed but promised to form a national government of major political parties. Although the ANPP leaderships encouraged Buhari to challenge the result of the Presidential election in the court, the then Chairman of the ANPP, Ume Ezeoke, went behind Buhari to send a list of ANPP would be ministers to Yar'Adua. After losing the case against Yar'Adua, Buhari left ANPP to form CPC party on whose platform he contested the Presidential election in 2011. It is therefore a gross misrepresentation of facts to say that Buhari had formed three different political parties under which he had contested presidential elections. The truth is that after being betrayed on election petition issues he formed only one party, which was CPP. The present APC is an amalgamation of several political parties including CPC. The presidential primary election of APC that was held in Lagos on 10 December 2014, was contested by five candidates of which Buhari emerged a winner.
The third item in Chika Onyeani's diatribe against Buhari is a stinky intellectual diarrhoea when he said that Buhari is lawless and not answerable to Nigerians. Yet, part of the open letter written by Buhari to APC delegates at the Party's Presidential candidate primary election, Wednesday, 10 December 2014, read, "My Dear Delegates, .. I have placed myself before you seeking your help to nominate me as your standard bearer for our progressive party, APC. Personal ambition does not drive me in this regard. I seek to be the next president of our beloved nation because I believe I have something to offer Nigeria at this time of multiple crises. Insecurity, corruption, and economic collapse have brought the nation low. Time is past due that we work together to lift Nigeria up. I am ready to lead Nigeria to its rightful future.
I do not intend to rule Nigeria. I WANT TO DEMOCRATICALLY GOVERN IT WITH YOUR HELP. I seek a Nigeria where Christians and Muslims may practise their faiths in peace and security, a Nigeria that is just and where corruption no longer trespasses into our institutions and national behaviour and a Nigeria where our diversity could be used for our national prosperity." Chika Onyeani!! A lawless person who is not answerable to Nigerians cannot and will not write in the manner that Buhari has done. It might be asking for too much from you to expect that you should comprehend the contents of Buhari's letter if you are one of those people Jesus referred to in the Bible (Mathew) when he said, "Seeing they shall see but shall not perceive, hearing they shall hear but shall not understand, because their ears are wax grossed."
If Jonathan is lawful and answerable to Nigerians, let him release the International Audit report on NNPC about the missing $ 20 billion crude oil earnings that has been submitted to the Ministry of Finance since the middle of November 2014.
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