GUN VIOLENCE IN AMERICA: FOR WHO THE BELL TOLLS NEXT.

Just five people shy of Sandy Hook elementary school mass shooting incident that claimed 26 lives, the Uvalde Texas Robb elementary school mass shooting at 21 victims, now ranks among the highest grossing gun carnage in America. It is sad that such frequent blood spilling has tragically become part of our culture as a society. May the souls of the killed now rest.

25th AMENDMENT: ITS NOW ALL CRICKET.

Madam Speaker Nancy Pelosi once questioned former President Donald John Trump's fitness to remain in office due to what she claimed was his declining mental capacity. Does anyone know what Madam Speaker presently thinks about the incontrovertible case which America is now saddled with? Just curious!

WHO WILL REBUILD UKRAINE?

The West should convert frozen Russian assets, both state's and oligarchs' owned, into a full seizure and set them aside for the future rebuilding of Ukraine. Like the Marshal Plan, call it the Putin Plan.

A HERO IS BORN.

I am staying put. I will not run away and abandon my people. The fight is here in Ukraine. What I need are weapons and ammunitions, not a ride out of town like former Afghanistan President Ashraf Ghani - President Volodymyr Zelensky.

IT IS WHAT IT IS.

"There is too much hate in America because there is too much anger in America." - Trevor Noah.

WORD!

A life without challenges is not a life lived at all. A life lived is a life that has problems, confronts problems, solves problems and then learns from problems. - Tunde Fashola.

NOW, YOU KNOW.

When fishing for love, bait with your heart and not your brain, because you cannot rationalize love. - Mark Twain.

JUST THE FACT.

In our country, you can shoot and kill a nigger, but you better not hurt a gay person’s feelings - Dave Chappelle

DO YOU?.

“What you believe in can only be defined by what you’re willing to risk for it." - Stuart Scheller.

HEDGE YOUR CRISIS.

Never get in bed with a woman whose problems are worse than yours. - Chicago PD.

PROBLEM SOLVED.

'The best way to keep peace is to be ready to destroy evil. If you Pearl Harbor me, I Nagasaki you.' - Ted Nugent.

OUR SHARED HUMANITY.

Empathy is at the heart of who we are as human beings. - Cardinal Matthew Kukah.

WORDS ON MARBLE.

"Birth is agony. Life is hard. Death is cruel." - Japanese pithy.

REPENT OR PERISH - POPE.

Homosexuality is a sin. It is not ordained by God, therefore same sex marriage cannot be blessed by the church - Pope Francis.

CANCEL CULTURE IS CORROSIVE.


FOR SAKE OF COUNTRY.


MAGA LIVES ON: NO RETREAT, NO SURRENDER!

TWITTER IS BORING WITHOUT HIS TWEETS. #RestorePresidentTrump'sTwitterHandle.


WORD.

"If you cannot speak the truth when it matters, then nothing else you says matters.” - Tucker Carlson.

#MeToo MOVEMENT: A BAD NEWS GONE CRAZY.

"To all the women who testified, we may have different truth, but I have a great remorse for all of you. I have great remorse for all of the men and women going through this crisis right now in our country. You know, the movement started basically with me, and I think what happened, you know, I was the first example, and now there are thousands of men who are being accused and a regeneration of things that I think none of us understood. I’m not going to say these aren’t great people. I had wonderful times with these people. I’m just genuinely confused. Men are confused about this issue. We are going through this #MeToo movement crisis right now in this country." - Harvey Weinstein.


RON DELLUMS: UNAPOLOGETICALLY RADICAL.

"If it’s radical to oppose the insanity and cruelty of the Vietnam War, if it’s radical to oppose racism and sexism and all other forms of oppression, if it’s radical to want to alleviate poverty, hunger, disease, homelessness, and other forms of human misery, then I’m proud to be called a radical.” - Ron Vernie Dellums.


WHAT REALLY MATTERS IN LIFE - STEVE JOBS

“I reached the pinnacle of success in the business world. In others’ eyes, my life is an epitome of success. However, aside from work, I have little joy. Non-stop pursuing of wealth will only turn a person into a twisted being, just like me. God gave us the senses to let us feel the love in everyone’s heart, not the illusions brought about by wealth. Memories precipitated by love is the only true riches which will follow you, accompany you, giving you strength and light to go on. The most expensive bed in the world is the sick bed. You can employ someone to drive the car for you, make money for you but you cannot have someone to bear sickness for you. Material things lost can be found. But there is one thing that can never be found when it is lost – Life. Treasure Love for your family, love for your spouse, love for your friends. Treat yourself well. Cherish others.” - SJ

EVIL CANNOT BE TRULY DESTROYED.

"The threat of evil is ever present. We can contain it as long as we stay vigilant, but it can never truly be destroyed. - Lorraine Warren (Annabelle, the movie)


ONLY THE POOR WISH THEY HAD STUFF?

“I’m not that interested in material things. As long as I find a good bed that I can sleep in, that’s enough.” - Nicolas Berggruem, the homeless billionaire.

Saturday, April 23, 2011

BUHARI, ARREST AND TRY HIM NOW FOR CAUSING BREACH OF THE PEACE.

“I would like to thank you very much for the courage and perseverance you have exhibited in enduring the long, tedious and tiring process of registration, accreditation, voting, protecting the vote and ensuring that it counts. May Allah (God) reward you abundantly. May I use this opportunity to inform you that we have commenced consultations at the highest levels to recover your stolen mandate. I would therefore urge you to continue to be patient. As I pointed out in my earlier address to you, it is wrong for you to allow miscreants to infiltrate your ranks and perpetrate such dastardly acts as the mindless destruction of worship places. Needless to say, this act is worse than the rigging of the elections." - Yinka Odumaki, spokesman for Buhari, delivering a message for calm, for and on behalf of defeated CPC presidential candidate Muhammadu Buhari.


Icheoku says analysing the statement issued by the defeated CPC presidential candidate, Muhammadu Buhari, following the alamjiri disturbances in some parts of northern Nigeria, one solution/conclusion only is reachable - arrest and try Buhari now for causing mayhem in the country. Icheoku says this gaunt-looking fundamentalist, who have terrorized Nigerians before and is now terrorizing them again through his supporters, should be arrested for inciting violence and causing mayhem in the country, period. Buhari as a coup-plotting army man had arrested, detained, tortured, tried and imprisoned Nigerian-politicians before; so now that himself is a "bloody politician", he too can also be arrested and tried for offences against the state and people of Nigeria. Icheoku says inciting violence is egregious and Buhari does not have to directly do so by himself, but it suffices if he instigates others to do so on his behalf and the later is inferable from his recent speeches, conducts and mannerisms thus far. A man who was roundly trounced at the polls is now misleading his almajiri-followers into believing that "their mandate was stolen"; and you ask yourself for what purpose other than to infuriate these street urchins and cause mayhem in the land. Who would not be incensed if his thing was stolen; but the tragedy of it all is that Buhari did not win the election nor even came close to winning it to have any mandate, talkless of it being stolen. It is therefore reckless of him to employ such inciting words of a mandate being stolen, while addressing his unreasonable fanatical supporters; who like the mob in Julius Caesar just want to lay their hands on a Cicero. 


Icheoku asks but who gave Buhari the mandate he is claiming because the last available information has it that he lost in the South-south, South-east, South-west and North-central; yet he claims a none existent mandate from Nigerians or is Buhari's definition of Nigeria limited in geography to his core Northwest and Northeastern Nigeria? A very myopic mean man, with a hideous and hidden agenda against Nigeria and Nigerians; he would like to convince himself that he was given a mandate but that it was stolen by the PDP? Icheoku bemoans that Buhari would rather Nigeria goes to hell in a hand's basket if he is not declared the winner of the election than to accept his obvious three-times humiliating rejection by Nigerians; and you wonder what hallucinatory drugs he has been taking lately to be so delusional into thinking that Nigerians gave him a mandate and elected him president? This Buhari was also ignorant of the admonition of Professor Wole Soyinka that history are not kept just to refresh a fading memory but to provide a guide for future actions and Nigerians, during the last presidential election, were correctly guided by the sordid history of the man that wanted to be their president named Buhari into once again, rejecting him at the polls. A history which catalogued his so many crimes and atrocities against the people of Nigeria which made them reject him and to vote against his candidacy at the last polls. But Buhari will not take no for an answer and is now causing trouble in some parts of northern Nigeria. If Icheoku were in a position of authority, Buhari would have since paid dearly for this disturbances and we hereby call on the authorities in Nigeria to make Buhari pay for  his insane crimes of causing mayhem and disturbing the peace in the land. BUHARI IS NOT ABOVE THE LAW and should be PUNISHED SEVERELY to send a message to other my way or the highway fanatics lurking out there!


Further, Buhari thanked his followers for protecting the votes and ensuring it counted; yet he is now ready to throw the same people who "protected the votes and ensured it counted" under the bus. He is instigating them to commit crimes of rioting, murder and arson and be dealt with by the authorities, just because his expectations of becoming president were not met but was overwhelmingly denied by the people of Nigeria. Icheoku asks, how can a man who earlier thanked his followers for "protecting their votes and ensuring that it counted" now make a sudden u-turn and claim that his praises were merely fortuitous and gratuitous; and that they were not worth the saliva he spent making it? If these almajiris "protected the votes and made sure they counted" as acknowledged personally by Buhari himself, where then is his argument of election rigging coming from; except he purposely wanted to cause political disturbance in his Islamic enclave of Northwestern and Northeastern Nigeria? It is akin to approbation and re-probation, such cannot and should not be tolerated by any sane society and for this purpose, Icheoku says Nigeria is a sane society! Such equivocation in speaking, from a supposed political leadership, especially that leading a less educated, less cultured, less civilized and less rational or irrational group of almajiris, who might misread and misunderstand it is unacceptable. 


So it therefore necessary follows that were the unfortunate "miracle" of a Buhari's win to have occurred, he, Buhari, would have by the same token, beat his bony chest in triumph that his followers "protected their votes and safeguarded their democracy?" But for another's win, no; as Buhari will have none of that as he swallowed his earlier words and now forcefully and shameless alleging rigging of an election acknowledged by Nigerians and the rest of the world as very free and fair. Icheoku says this Buhari is crazy as a fox and should be checkmated immediately in order to prevent him from causing further mischief in Nigeria. Now is the time to do it and the heavens will not fall if Muhammadu Buhari is arrested, tried and locked up or even executed for his crimes against Nigeria and Nigerians:- he did same to Nigerians before and if it is done to him now will only be a Karmic law gone its full course. 


Finally, Buhari in his statement claimed that "some miscreants infiltrated his almajiri supporters" and caused the post-election disturbances witnessed in some parts of Northern Nigeria? Icheoku asks, who infiltrated who; since practically all Buhari's supporters are almajiri-miscreants and Buhari is fully aware of this when he solicited them to cause mayhem. Icheoku says Buhari is the miscreant in chief here who had called for lynching of people and did not also frown at the misbehavior of many of his supporters who were causing havoc and even confronting other party's presidential campaigns including the President and the Vice President's. Icheoku says these almajiri-miscreants learnt very well from the master-miscreant-in-chief Muhammadu Buhari and therefore should be punished alongside their master and mentor-miscreant. 


It is also on record that Buhari did not condemn the lives that were wasted by his urchins nor commiserate with the bereaved families but only made allusion to the places of worship that were torched and you wonder if the lives of Christians and southerners meant anything to this Islamic zealot, Buhari. Severally did these imbecilic idiots wrecking havoc and causing trouble in Northern Nigeria kill, maim and burn innocent Nigerians to death without Buhari seeing such nefarious act heinous enough to elicit his condemnation. Rather he maintained his wicked and conceited indifference, calling for change when he is the one that needs to be changed, when he is the one that needs to change his character and demeanor as well as political philosophy. Icheoku like every decent Nigerian apologist is really tired of the nuisance of Buhari and says the Judicial Commission of Inquiry into the political disturbances in the north should be the tool to finally nail this alligator and permanently remove him from the Nigeria political scene. Enough of Buhari, just get rid of his skeletal ass now!

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  1. US, EU want perpetrators of post-election violence prosecuted

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    Written by christian okeke, abuja
    Friday, 22 April 2011
    The heads of mission of the European Union and the United States of America in Nigeria, on Thursday, insisted that those responsible for the post-election violence in the country must face due process and be brought to justice.
    They said they were disturbed by the ongoing violence surrounding the election period.
    In a four-paragraph statement, the heads of mission called for an end to all acts of violence, and for all of Nigeria’s leaders to act responsibly, to respect all electoral procedures and democratic processes, and pursue any legitimate challenges peacefully and within the rule of law.
    While observing that this was an important moment for the country, they urged the electoral authorities to address the deficiencies and concerns which had been identified in a timely and transparent manner.
    In the statement, the heads of mission stated that, ”we have closely followed events in Nigeria during the election period, including by supporting international and domestic observers nationwide. We congratulate the Nigerian people on their commitment to democracy. We welcome that independent observers have commended significant improvements in the conduct of the election, and we look to the electoral authorities to address the deficiencies and concerns which they have identified in a timely and transparent manner.
    ”We are disturbed at and condemn the ongoing violence surrounding this election period. Looking ahead to the remaining elections, we call for an end to all acts of violence, and for all of Nigeria’s leaders to act
    responsibly, to respect all electoral procedures and democratic processes, and to pursue any legitimate challenges peacefully and within the rule of law.
    ”We underline that the lives and livelihoods of Nigeria’s people must be respected, and that those responsible for violence must face due process and be brought to justice.”

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  2. South East CPC disowns Buhari
    •Says presidential election was not rigged in the zone
    From GEOFFREY ANYANWU, Awka
    Saturday, April 23, 2011


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    The controversy trailing the last presidential election took another dimension yesterday when members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) disowned the party’s standard-bearer, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari. They said that the election was the freest ever conducted in Nigeria.

    After the results of the presidential election were announced, Buhari had rejected results in the South East, claiming that the election was massively rigged against him and the party in South East.

    Speaking in Awka, Anambra State capital, chairmen of the party in the five states of the South East, stated: “In all fairness, we wish to state very clearly that the 2011 presidential election was the freest and fairest election ever conducted in Nigeria, though not without minor hitches.”

    The chairmen disclosed that the colossal failure of the party in the zone was rather a product of internal wrangling that rocked the party few days to the election than the alleged rigging.
    In a six-paragraph communiqué entitled, South East CPC Confirms Presidential Election Free, Fair and Credible, read on their behalf by the Anambra State chairman of the party, Prince Chuba Ikeagwu, the CPC chiefs frowned at the assertion by the leader of the party without verifying from them.

    The communiqué read in part: “The South East members of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) received with surprise the news that the just-concluded presidential election was rigged against our party in our zone. In all fairness, we wish to state very clearly that the 2011 presidential election was the freest and fairest election ever conducted in Nigeria, though not without minor hitches.

    “As custodians of the party in the zone, we were embarrassed to hear that the CPC was rigged out in the just presidential polls in the South East. It’s an indictment on our commitment to our party. Facts should have been verified from the leadership of the party in the zone by whoever is concerned before making an official statement on issues that affect us.

    “Our position is not meant to slight or embarrass anybody but to straighten out issues and appeal to those who chose to truncate facts that are capable of creating disaffection among the peace loving Nigerians to desist forthwith. We are neither deaf nor dumb and were in the best position to present issues as they occurred.”

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  3. Eastern Leaders Forum Flays Buhari

    By Chuks Okocha
    24 Apr 2011
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    Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife , Former Governor of Anambra state

    The Eastern Leaders Forum, under the leadership of former governor of Anambra State, Dr. Chukwuemeka Ezeife, has chided the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari[rtd] saying he does not possess the national spread to win the presidential election in a country like Nigeria.

    The group also urged Buhari and his party to publish their own version of the presidential election figures, if the claims that the ones published by the Independent National Electoral Commission were rigged were incorrect.

    It called on Buhari to call his supporters to order as mere condemning the violence unleashed on Nigerians is not enough.

    In a statement signed by Ezeife, the group said: “We appeal to the presidential candidate of the CPC, General Buhari and the party leadership to immediately and honestly call the miscreants they unleashed on the people to order in a more directive and decisive way.

    “Mere condemnation and justification of the reason for the violence are unsatisfactory. May we equally appeal to them to desist from making inflammatory, incisive statements and baseless speculations which tend to expose the anti-democratic demeanor and unpatriotic selfish, attitude of some Nigerian leaders.”

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  4. Buhari should find grace to accept defeat – Fani-Kayode
    on APRIL 24, 2011 · · in NEWS

    By Emmanuel Aziken

    Former minister of aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, has congratulated President Goodluck Jonathan and asked the Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, presidential candidate, Major General Muhammadu Buhari, to restrain himself from inciting the country into a civil war.

    While calling on Buhari to find grace to accept defeat, Fani-Kayode, in a statement, yesterday, called on the CPC candidate to nudge his supporters into giving peace a chance in Nigeria as he warned that the alleged actions of his supporters were inimical to the survival of the country.

    He said: “I congratulate President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan on his victory in the presidential election and I hereby call on General Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) in the election to sheath his sword. I also urge him to tread the path of decency and honour by calling on his supporters to stop killing people and to stop committing all these barbaric and outrageous atrocities in the north.

    “The fact that he didn’t win the election proves that he has been rejected by God and the people and no amount of violence, murder, arson, intimidation, court cases, or litigation can change that. “We must give peace a chance in Nigeria and, no matter what, we must stop the bloodshed, calm everyone down and pull our nation back from the brink. Any attempt to rob President Goodluck Jonathan of his mandate will result in a reaction that would be far worse than anything that has ever been witnessed or experienced in this nation before.

    “I appeal to those around General Buhari to tell him to stop all his tough talk, to cultivate the grace to accept defeat in good faith and to behave like the elder statesman that I have always believed him to be.”

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  5. CAN wants Buhari, others sanctioned over mayhem
    MONDAY, 25 APRIL 2011 00:00 FROM SEYE OLUMIDE (LAGOS) AND JOHN AKUBO, (DUTSE) NEWS - NATIONAL
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    Jigawa branch tasks members on polls

    THE Federal Government has been urged to sanction former Head of State, Maj.-Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) and all identified cohorts before they plunge the nation into another civil war.

    Meanwhile, the Jigawa State chapter of CAN has urged its members in the state and other parts of the north to come out en mass for the governorship and House of Assembly elections, advising them not to be discouraged by the violence that trailed the outcome of the presidential polls in which many people have lost their lives and others injured and displaced.

    President of the Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor, who made the call yesterday while speaking in Lagos, warned that the much-mouthed quest for a united Nigeria will not materialise if the nation continues to allow persons who are fanning the embers of disunity to roam the streets.

    The CAN president said: “I believe in one indivisible Nigeria, but I also believe that if Nigeria is ever going to remain one nation, which I believe it could, then certain persons must be sanctioned because of this continued violence we are experiencing in the northern part of Nigeria.

    “Let us not pretend by always saying the violence is taking place in some parts of the country. People like Gen. Buhari and others like him should not be allowed to roam the streets of this country because they are part of the confusion that has enveloped the nation today.”

    Pastor Oritsejafor argued that the Federal Government had already blamed the CPC presidential candidate for the post-election mayhem in different parts of the north, amid fears by parents whose children are involved in the NYSC scheme in that part of the country, noting that in a decent society, such persons should be made to face the full weight of the law.

    The CAN president said there are several other influential individuals that the security outfits may have identified to be behind the mayhem, wondering why the authorities have not prosecuted them.

    “I don’t know how the Federal Government should sanction sponsors of such mayhem that have left hundreds of innocent Nigerians dead, but I think the government should do something to keep this nation one indivisible entity for the benefit of every citizen,” he stated.

    Explaining reasons for his comments, the cleric said, “I believe that the current violence we are experiencing in parts of the north is because certain highly placed persons in this country magnified the PDP problem of zoning offices and gave the impression to the electorate and the generality of northerners, especially the gullible and illiterates that it was their turn to rule.

    “Basically, what we are seeing today is the fact that they feel that it is their turn to rule. Those people who are perpetrating the mayhem do not know who won the elections and in what place. In fact, you will recall that the violence started long before the INEC chairman actually declared the results and sadly the mayhem is mostly in the states where Gen. Buhari won.”

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  6. According to Oritsejafor, one of the major causes of the problem the nation is currently facing is “the inciting utterances of certain individuals including Buhari who, for example, called on his supporters to protect their votes and lynch anybody attempting to rig the elections.

    The CAN president, who said some people already had a religious agenda at the back of their mind, noted that “everybody wants to run away from that issue. Nobody wants to talk about it and we think that is the way to build a virile and united Nigeria; as long as we pretend and sweep the problem under the carpet we will never arrive at a solid, united, indivisible and powerful Nigeria. There are those who already have a religious agenda and they have been promoting it and working very hard to implement it. They are the people behind violence in different parts of the north for some times now. What they are just doing is taking advantage of the political atmosphere to create the impression that what we are witnessing is political and not religious.”

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  7. ost election violence: Arrest, prosecute Buhari now, CAN tells FG
    By BEIFOH OSEWELE
    Monday, April 25, 2011


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    Following the wave of post-presidential violent protest and destruction of lives and property in some parts of the North, the National President of Christian Association of Nigeria (CAN), Pastor Ayo Oritsejafor demanded the immediate arrest and prosecution of former head of state and presidential standard bearer of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari and all identified cohorts before they plunge the nation into another civil war.
    Addressing newsmen at the Murtala Muhammed Airport in Lagos yesterday, Pastor Oritsejafor warned that the much desired quest for a united Nigeria would remain a mirage if the nation continued to allow persons fanning the embers of disunity to roam the streets of the country.

    Pastor Oritsejafor argued that the Federal Government had already blamed the CPC presidential candidate for the post-election mayhem in different parts of the North, amid fears by parents whose children were involved in the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) scheme in that part of the country, noting that in a decent society such persons should be made to face the full weight of the law. He said there were several other influential individuals the security outfits might have identified to be behind the mayhem and wondered why the authorities have not arrested and properly prosecuted them, stating that there should be no sacred cows.

    “I don’t know how the Federal Government should sanction sponsors of such mayhem that have left hundreds of innocent Nigerians dead but I think the government should do something to keep this nation one indivisible entity for the benefit of every citizen,” he stated. According to the fiery pastor and founder of Warri, Delta State-based Word of Life Bible Church: “I believe in one indivisible Nigeria but I also believe that if Nigeria is ever going to remain one nation, which I believe it could, then certain persons must be sanctioned because of this continued violence we are experiencing in the northern part of Nigeria.

    “Let us not pretend by always saying the violence is taking place in some parts of the country. People like Gen. Buhari and others like him should not be allowed to roam the streets of this country because they are part of the confusion that has enveloped the nation today. “I believe that the current violence we are experiencing in parts of the North is because certain highly placed persons in this country magnified the PDP problem of zoning offices and gave the impression to the electorate and the generality of northerners, especially the gullible illiterates that it was their turn to rule.

    “Basically, what we are seeing today is the fact that they feel it is their turn to rule. Those people who are perpetrating the mayhem do not know who won the elections and in what place. In fact, you will recall that the violence started long before the INEC chairman actually declared the results and sadly the mayhem is mostly in the states where Gen. Buhari won,” the pastor further explained

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  8. Jonathan, Buhari Aides In War Of Words
    TUESDAY, 26 APRIL 2011 04:02 ABIODUN OLUWAROTIMI, WASHINGTON DC, AND SHUAIB SHUAIB, ABUJA
    Presidential adviser on research, documentation and strategy, Mr. Oronto Douglas has blamed the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Mohamadu Buhari for the deadly violence that followed the just concluded presidential election in some parts of the country. Douglas who was cornered by a group of Nigerian journalists at the country’s embassy in Washington DC said that the recent presidential election was free, fair and credible, noting that it should not have resulted in any violence if not that Buhari asked that members of the ruling Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) should be brutally attacked.

    Spokesman to Buhari, Yinka Odumakin in response to the allegation made by Douglas has said the presidency is being economical with the truth to even suggest that the CPC presidential candidate in any way called or encouraged the violence across the north.

    Although Buhari had denied knowing about the post-election riots, but the Presidential Adviser said that the CPC presidential candidate should be held responsible due to a statement credited to him that his loyalists should attack members of the PDP.

    Douglas blamed Buhari for the violence, stressing that all his attributes and that of his followers in the CPC are all about violence.

    “Nigeria has had a good example of the leader of the Black World with the elections process in the country”, he noted.

    Odumakin on his part, said Buhari had on the first day of the violence gone on air to call for calm. He said: “Nigeria would be ungovernable if he had called for the attacks. The violence was a spontaneous reaction of the electorate. They saw that the voters’ input was different from the output in the results.”

    He said Buhari had gone to court after his mandate was stolen in 2003, and again in 2007. But this time round, the violence was the spontaneous reaction of the poor. The presidency, he said has stolen a mandate and it is too hot for their hands.

    Odumakin also said President Goodluck Jonathan and the PDP should surrender what they have stolen rather than come up with outright lies about the causes and origin of the post election violence.

    Douglas, however pressed further that Nigerians as a people had wanted free and fair elections for a long time, noting that that was what they have gotten in the National Assembly and Presidential elections.

    “President Goodluck Jonathan won convincingly in the South West because all the opposition parties in the zone agreed to vote for him during the presidential election due to his credibility and the roles he played by staying clear from the affairs and running of the election tribunals that sacked almost five sitting governors of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP)” the presidential adviser noted.

    He also disagreed with those saying that the results of the presidential elections were manipulated, stressing that the true results of the polls were what the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) announced.

    Douglas, however, hailed the United States and the international observers group that had earlier said that the just concluded presidential election was the best and most successful in the last 50 years in the country

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  9. My advice to Buhari is that since he is bent on ruling by all means, he should just Get his boys in the Army to do it the same way he did before (ie. it by force) or better still declear the ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF AREWA and then become a life president.

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