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Continued from Part 22He does not believe who does not live according to his belief (Thomas Fuller)If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side (Orson Scott Card)  equel to the preceding Part of this article; one can say, without a shred of fear or equivocation, that Buhari has compromised himself, and would have no moral right to fight corruption, assuming he wins the election. The pertinent question would be if Buhari still has a reason to remain in the race, as a result of the fact that the two pillars on which his campaign was standing, have been weakened? The Nigerian military is wiping out the insurgents, so, Buhari can't claim again that he wants to rule in order to tackle insecurity. And now, he would pardon the corrupt ones, as long as the corrupt acts were perpetrated before May 29, 2015. He has no need of being in the race again (the General surrendered even before the start of the "war"). I agree with Chief Edwin Clark and his analysis that Buhari has gotten himself out of the presidential race. Chief Edwin Clark, said that having compromised his stance on corruption by promising not to punish corrupt officials between 1999 and 2015, Gen Muhammadu Buhari has lost his unique selling point - fight against corruption - and as such has lost the major plank of his campaign. Chief Clark noted that it is widely believed that Buhari's new stance on anti-corruption fight was to avoid dealing with one of the key leaders of his party, the All Progressives Congress, Sen. Bola Tinubu, who is perceived to have corruptly enriched himself while in office as Lagos State governor between 1999 and 2007. In Chief Clark's words: "General Muhammadu Buhari has always anchored his campaign promises on two cardinal planks: to wipe out insecurity and corruption. With the renewed offensive against the terrorists leading to the killing and dislodgement of the Boko Haram anarchists, the first campaign plank of Buhari has been given a technical knockout by President Goodluck Jonathan and the whole world is witnessing the reclaiming of all territories hitherto held by Boko Haram. This leaves him on a one legged platform. Again, on the remaining - corruption - General Buhari himself got jittery and gave himself another technical knockout when he said that he will not probe past leaders. With this development, Buhari has conceded that he has nothing more to offer the good people of this country. In fact, I make bold to say that he is now standing for nothing and like they say he can fall for anything."Methinks that the Buhari and his Party, APC, are losing it, and are only raising one false alarm after another, fabricating one momentum after another. Is that how to win election? Femi Aribisala advised the APC that "You don't win an election in Nigeria by being the champion of social media. You don't win by renting crowds to fill up your rallies. You don't win by putting up your billboards everywhere while tearing down those of your opponents. You don't win by master-minding in the media a false sense of the inevitability of your victory. When you do all this successfully, you simply end up deceiving yourself. You win elections by mounting an effective ground-game at the grassroots level; designed to bring out the people on Election Day to vote for you. Instead, APC strategy was to stampede the electorate into victory. The design was to proclaim victory even before the election, laying grounds for protests and acrimony in event of defeat". Tinubu raised a false alarm that the military was drafted to his house to kill or arrest him, and it turned out to be false. Tinubu raised another false alarm that the PDP and the Presidency offered him the position of vice president in an Interim National Government (ING), if he would part company with General Muhammadu Buhari, and that was false, as PDP sees Tinubu as living in his own paranoid delusion and also as a victim of his own horrific and terrifying hallucination. President Jonathan described Tinubu's claim as a lie, adding that "Those who seem determined to pull down this country with lies, with black information, are the enemies of this country and do not deserve to be given the opportunity to occupy, to enjoy opportunities that they do not deserve." Then again, The APC started crying wolf where there was none, that the presidency has order the EFCC to arrest some APC chieftains. The APC even went as far as forging a letter which it circulated. But now, we know that there was no such order from the presidency in that regard. What is APC trying to achieve by dwelling on falsehood? Is this all about winning? Buhari, although knackered, can't claim to be a changed man; he is churning out threats after another, showing that he is yet to wane his military mentality, as Orson Scott Card (1951) wrote that "In order to learn, one must change one's mind". Nigerians should listen to Buhari's body language and utterances to know that he is still a bully. Buhari threatened to withdraw his support for the Abuja Accord that he signed promising to eschew violence and countenances capable of submerging the electoral processes into the ocean of chaos and disorder. Remember that President Goodluck Jonathan, Buhari and 9 other presidential candidates signed an agreement to refrain from violent acts and inflammatory speech before, during and after the elections. Buhari's threat to pull out of the Accord was the same kind of attitude that led Nigeria to civil war, when Gowon returned from Aburi, Ghana, in 1966, where he signed the Aburi Accord with Ojukwu, that would have prevented the war from taking place, only to recant against the Accord, thereby forcing Ojukwu to declare the Republic of Biafra in order to safe his people from further persecution, deaths and annihilation. Buhari is a threat to the electoral process; he is violence personified, if not perpetrated personally, at least by his supporters and hangers-on, he also refused to take part in the presidential debate. George kerley, reacting to Buhari's threat, wrote that "If for anything, APC and their goons deserve a lot more than what they are getting from the PDP folks. These APC elements have lied, maligned and blackmailed the President and PDP beyond belief. They lied about stolen billions. They maligned the President and the administration in foreign media. There is nothing these wimps did not do to demonize this government". Because of Buhari and his bullying mentality, anybody not shouting "Sai Buhari" is threatened by Buhari's supporters. Not long ago, Governor Sule Lamido of Jigawa State expressed disgust over what he described as the level of threat some northerners were facing for not supporting the presidential ambition of Buhari, warning that the type of siege mentality being inflicted on the people was the beginning of the failure of the opposition All Progressives Congress, APC, at the polls. Many northern PDP members have complained that Buhari supporters do not allow them to campaign for the party and President Goodluck Jonathan in the north. Lamido said that "The fear of Buhari is the beginning of leadership failure; therefore Nigerians and the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, government must stand up to its mandate". Lamido also warned that the siege mentality which the people were currently experiencing in the north because of Buhari would backfire. Lamido also pointed out that Buhari is the only individual decorating the APC as a party, as it (APC) lacks the political ideology and do not have a strong team that can liberate Nigeria from its current political and economic problems, concluding that the greatest mistake Nigerians would make "is to give their mandate to an individual who does not believe in democracy". In his words: "If you remove Gen. Buhari from APC, most of other members that rally behind him in the party lack sincere commitment and focus that Nigeria requires at this present time," Vanguard also reported that its investigations revealed that most residents, who wear caps depicting them as natives of some southern parts of the country were being molested by street urchins as "infidels"." Just as Plato (429-347 BC) wrote that "Strange times are these in which we live when old and young are taught in falsehood's school. And the one man who dares to tell the truth is called at once a lunatic and fool", Many Nigerians think that the Ekiti state governor, Ayo Fayose, is mad, but, he's one of the few persons warning Nigerians of the dire consequences that would result from the election of Buhari as the president. I may not agree with Fayose all the times, but, he has been consistent in exposing Buhari and APC's follies. Those accusing Fayose of having mental disorder should examine themselves well too. Fayose may be loquacious but, he's hardly wrong! Ayo Fayose's latest was his statement that "the All Progressives Congress (APC) and its presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd), no longer have the moral right to participate in the forthcoming polls having lied to Nigerians on several occasions". He then urged Buhari and his party to withdraw from the race. Fayose noted with dismay the contemptuous manner in which the APC and Buhari hold Nigeria and its people, vowing that Nigeria will never be ruled by deceit. Hear him; "In saner climes, you can't lie and be discovered to have lied repeatedly as done by the APC and still want to stand for elections. The new deceit from the APC is to use a photoshopped picture of Buhari for posters in Lagos, making him look like a 50 year old man, whereas he is as old as my mother and cannot survive the rigors of office even as a governor not to talk of President of Nigeria. It was appalling that despite being found to have lied on several occasions, the APC has never deemed it necessary to apologise to Nigerians for trying to deceive them.
To be continued! Read more: http://www.bodedolu.com/edwin-clark-accuses-buhari-obj-amaechi-tinubu-saraki-kwankwaso-other-apc-leaders-of-corruption/#sthash.a1Ae2Nnq.dpbs http://elombah.com/detail.php?world=30815 http://elombah.com/detail.php?world=30672 Please watch these: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=og46zjjVwDM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGxSjaT3xnk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uG3hulTU3ig TIT BITS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmvT7B3u7II https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f8dgA0TDXvs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q8neWnRundw&list=RDq8neWnRundw#t=2 THE THANX IS ALL YOURS!!! Continued from Part 22  |
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