Why You Should Not Vote Buhari Come 28 March, 2015
Why You Should Not Vote Buhari Come 28 March, 2015
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| 2015 Elections |
Buhari as
generally known was the 7th 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 17th 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 20th
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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