Why You Should Not Vote Buhari Come 28 March, 2015

2015 Elections

Buhari as generally known was the 7^th Head of State of Nigeria, and he lasted in office from 31 December 1983 – 27 August 1985. He Preceded Shehu shagari and was succeeded by Ibrahim Babangida. He was also Governor of the Northern Eastern State and was in office from 31 December 1975 – 27 August 1976 and he succeeded Musa Usman.

Muhammadu Buhari was born on 17^th December 1942 (age 72) in Duara, Nigeria. He is a Nigerian by birth and an active member of the All Progressive Congress (APC) political party and he is an a Muslim. His official website is www.thisisbuhari.com

In his military career his allegiance was to Nigeria and he served in Nigerian Army from 1961 – 1985 where he got the rank of a Major General.

He unsuccessfully ran for the office of the president for three (3) years (2003, 2007, 2011) and now, he is also a candidate for the 2015 Presidential Elections.

Buhari was one of the participants in the coup that saw Nigeria’s first self appointed Head of State Aguiyi Ironsi and other Igbo officers and also Adekunle Fajuyi, the military governor of the western region assassinated in July 28 1966. He was appointed Governor of the North-Eastern state by General Murtala Mohammed in Febuary 1976.

He was appointed as the Federal Commissioner (now known as Minister) for Petroleum and Natural Resources and was also the chairman of the NNPC.

$2.8 billion allegedly went missing from the accounts of the NNPC in Midlands Bank in the UK, which made Former President Ibrahim Babangida accuse him for being responsible for his fraud.

Major General Buhari led the coup of December 31, 1983 that saw the Democratically elected government of Shehu Shagari overthrown. He was appointed Chief of General Staff (the de fact No. 2 in the administration) after the murder of Tunde Idiagbon. Muhammadu Buhari suspended Nigeria’s 1979 Constitution.

Buhari threw anyone who criticized his government into jail, which saw Nigerian’s afro-beat singer Fela Kuti arrested and sentenced to ten (10) years in prison. But Fela Kuti was freed after 18 months, when the Buhari government was deposed in a coup d’etat.

In 1984, Buhari passed Decree No. 4, the Protection Against False Accusations Decree, considered by scholars as the most brutal press law ever in Nigeria. Section 1 of the law states “Any person who publishes in any form, whether written or otherwise, any message, rumour, report or statement […] which is false in any material particular or which brings or is calculated to bring the Federal Military Government or the Government of a state or public officer to ridicule or disrepute, shall be guilty of an offence under his decree”. The law added that journalists and publishers found guilty are subjected to a 10,000 Naira fine and 2 years in prison.

Buhari was so tough that a famine which existed in the east of Niger was tagged “El Buhari”. Another of Buhari’s inhumane ruling was his War Against Indiscipline

(WAI) launched on 20^th March, 1984. Where unruly civilians were made to form neat queues under the nose of whip-wielding soldiers. Any civil worker that is late to work is made to “Frog Jump”. Any student above 17 caught in exam malpractice would get a 21 years jail sentence. Counterfeiting and fire-starting could lead to the death penalty.

His regime saw critics from many, including Nigerian’s first Nobel Prize Winner Wole Soyinka, who in 2007, wrote a piece called “The Crimes of Buhari”.

About 500 politicians, officials and businessmen were jailed for corruption charges under the reign of Buhari.

In 1985, Major General Muhammadu Buhari was overthrown.

In 2003 he contested for presidency as a candidate of the All Nigeria People’s Party (ANPP). He was defeated by the People’s Democratic Party’s candidate, Olusegun Obasanj0, by a margin not less than eleven million votes.

In 2007, his main challenger was Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, who was the candidate of the ruling party, PDP. In the election, Buhari could only claim 18% of the votes, while Umaru Yar’Adua claimed 70%. Buhari rejected this figures though.

The ANPP later agreed to join Yar’Adua’s government but Buhari opted not to join.

In March 2010 Buhari left the ANPP for Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) which he helped its formation.

In April 2011, Buhari was CPC’s presidential candidate, running against the then serving President Goodluck Jonathan of the People’s Democratic Party. The election was stained with violence, which saw 800 lives lost across the country, as Buhari’s supporters attacked Christians in the country.

In spite of the of assertions from Human Rights Watch, whose election verdict was “among the fairest in Nigeria’s history”, Buhari claimed the election was faulty and warned that “if what happened in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon would all be soaked in blood”.

Buhari won 12,214,853 votes coming second to the incumbent president Goodluck Jonathan who claimed 22,495,185 votes and was declared the winner.

Now in 2015 again, Buhari representing the All Progressive Congress (APC) is also a candidate of the presidential elections.

Buhari has now claimed to reunite Nigeria if he is voted in to power, to stop violence and the killing of innocent civilians and also to respects civilian’s civil rights. How possible is this when his track record above is the opposite of what he claims. How can he rule Nigeria democratically when all he has done is killing and leading coup d’états and jumping from one political party to another.

Your vote is your power, use it wisely. Do not place your thumb for someone who is ready to shed blood if he loses, for someone who you cannot guarantee his democratic leadership qualities, who has reached an age of senility, whose cruelty can never be erased from the face of earth.

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Why You Should Not Vote Buhari Come 28 March, 2015