BUHARI'S BLACKMAIL & PERJURY

Source: thewillnigeria.com

On Tuesday 13th January 2015 Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, the APC Presidential candidate gleefully announced at a campaign rally in Enugu State that he would solve the boko haram insurgency in just two weeks if voted into power.

The cheering news will of course gladden the hearts of millions of gullible and credulous Nigerians.

Deep thinking Nigerians must have a second introspective reflection of Gen. Buhari's undiplomatic boasting of his ability to end the boko haram insurgency if elected president on February 14th 2015.

If Gen. Buhari can end the northern sponsored boko haram, why does he need to wait till he becomes president before solving this cancerous northern-elite inflicted war to make Nigeria ungovernable for President Goodluck Jonathan.

Gen. Buhari's purported solution to the boko haram war is an unconcealed blackmail and a Greek gift which holds the whole country to ransom in a barter for the peoples' votes.

A simple dictionary meaning of BLACKMAIL reads thus: “The use of threat or other form of pressure to influence someone”. Buhari's veiled threat about solving the boko haram tragedy with the speed of a summersault is a big affront and insult to the entire Nigerian nation and its intelligent people.

Nigeria's Tompolo had enormous influence over his co-freedom fighters and he exhibited the highest form of patriotism and nationalistic fervour in convincing his colleagues to lay down arms to embrace peace and the eventual amnesty for the unity, peace and prosperity of Nigeria. If not for this noble act in 2009, by now Nigeria would have been a permanent mendicant waiting for the crumbs from the international monetary fund to pay monthly salaries and allowances.

The Indonesian, Malik Mahmud showed the same streak of untainted bravery and unadulterated nationalism when he led the Aceh delegation to the Helsinki Peace Deal. It therefore behoves on Gen. Muhammadu Buhari to choose the path of patriotism and honour to end the boko haram menace and write his name in the golden annals of Nigerian history. The APC has had a long romance with boko haram-protecting boko haram interests, castigating President Goodluck Jonathan whenever a boko haram member is killed, glossing over boko haram atrocities and atrocious throat slitting, using their enourmous international influence to block the international community that once united against boko haram.

The APC has never for once publicly denounced the inhuman atrocities of boko haram which they daily unleash on the Nigerian populace. They send their Agents round the whole world, scheming and plotting the exacerbation of the boko haram conflict and seeking for ways to either completely overthrow President Goodluck Jonathan or make governance very impossible for him.

Some unidentified Northern elite then assembled a high caliber team of about 20 American scholars from America's ivy universities to draft a lengthy professional thesis concluding that boko haram should not be designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) because it was poverty and hunger based.

If boko haram is poverty and hunger based, how come they are even more equipped than the federal army of Nigeria.

In all the nooks and crannies of this great country the poorest people are the dwellers of the Niger Delta especially those whose abodes recede far into the brackish swamps of Nigeria's riparian creeks.

The Ijaws still carry these disdainful strands of poverty and neglect in their memory just like the sparrow gingerly carries its straws to build its nests.

I have listened to some learned northern professors professing that boko haram is poverty and hunger based and that President Goodluck Jonathan denied the north of needed infrastructure to nip the boko haram Islamic Jihad in the bud.

In a recent press interview, Nigeria's Former Military President Gen. Abdulsallam Abubakar while joining Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo's political campaign to oust President Goodluck Jonathan called for a “change of leadership because of intractable insurgency, elite mistrust, poverty and penury as a result of glaring economic hardship”.

Gen. Abdusallam Abubakar is the least qualified Nigerian to insult our sensibilities with this unsolicited and misguided barrage or moral counseling. Or is this new Association of Nigerian Army Generals (ANAG) sending us a coded message.

All Nigerians know how poor and frustrated the General was before he became impromptu military president and after just one year of looting and plundering he became one of Nigeria's richest billionaires.

Please Gen. Abdulsallam Abubakar, spare us all these fairytales about change. Is it President Jonathan that invented poverty and penury in Nigeria? Abuja today is a worthy state capital of international status. Gen. Ibrahim Babangida built up Abuja. What inputs can we trace to you and your mentor OBJ in Abuja. Go to Greece, Spain, China and even Russia and you will be shocked with their level of economic hardship.

When about 200 Chibok girls were captured in April 2014, the APC did not chide boko haram but only castigated President Jonathan for not providing security for the girls. The complicity of APC and the Borno State Governor was proved beyond proof.

When the West African Examination Council represented by its Nigerian Head of National Office averred that the Borno State Government was advised about the insecurity of Government secondary school in chibok. APC has always been on same page with boko haram. APC is a alias for boko haram. APC is a synonym for boko haram.

Gen. Mohammadu Buhari also fluffed a golden opportunity to amicably settle the boko haram issue once and for all, and empower northern youths just like some of the Niger Delta freedom fighters were empowered. When the federal government almost perfected a Peace Deal with boko haram, boko haram gave two conditions for the peace talk to succeed.

The first condition was that the venue would be in Saudi Arabia and their 2nd condition was Gen. Buhari's choice as their spokesman and head of their delegation. They said Gen. Muhammadu was the only trusted Nigerian who can put their cards squarely on the negotiation table. But Gen. Buhari let this beautiful opportunity to slip by. A great opportunity to stop the senseless throat slitting and horrendous and inhuman killings. Buhari by his refusal to end the boko haram bloodbath added his name to those to be judged and held responsible by God for the over 15,000 souls already lost and about a million Internally Displaced Persons (IDP) who have been rendered homeless due to boko harams massive destructions and arson.

Apart from the above criminal felony and blackmail, Gen. Muhammadu Buhari also added perjury to his litany of crimes. It was discovered by inquisitive and eagle eyed Nigerians that INEC aided and abetted Gen. Buhari in committing perjury by swearing to an affidavit that his academic credentials were attached to the INEC form whereas no certificates were attached. Gen. Buhari shamelessly defended the incredible and indefensible constitutional breach by saying all his certificates were with the Nigerian Military Board. As it is, Gen. Buhari has flouted Article 131 subsection (D) of the 1999 federal government constitution which clearly states that a presidential aspirant should “have been educated up to at least school certificate level or its equivalent”.

In reference to this very serious act of perjury, the equally academically starved Buhari campaign organization responded naively thus “everyone knows that Buhari is a product of Daura Primary School and Provincial Secondary School (Now Government College), Katsina.

How many Nigerians know about General Buhari's imaginary educational background as most enlightened Nigerians know that Gen. Buhari is academically a tabula rassa. In a veiled reference to Gen. Buharis illiteracy, Nigeria's former vice President, Alhaji Atiku ABubakar confirmed that 70% of Northerners are stark illiterates. He disclosed this at a book launch in Abuja on November 6, 2014.

Gen. Buhari's criminal activities are increasing on a daily basis with unimaginable impunity. Gen Buhari believes that he is far above the law and this is a man who wants to be president to uphold the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria which he is battering with reckless abandon.

APC has suddenly gone dumb as the party's loquacious image-maker Lai Mohammed who earlier claimed that Gen. Buhari's certificates were seized by the Military Board due to the December, 1983 coup'd'etat could not find a solution to this fraudulent certificate forgery.

Written by Ben Nanaghan.
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