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VOL.3 No.15 N200
Buhari: A chance to save Nigeria
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RESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari cleared all the doubts and suspicions about him and the 2019 election, when he told the National Executive Committee of the All Progressives Congress (APC), his party, that he would be contesting for the presidency again. Like people trained to trail such moments, they jumped on their feet applauding the availability of Buhari to serve again. It is typical; it has been the lot of the country since the Buhari presidency. A CERTAIN pretence to civility and civil and democratic rule has established itself, bringing along further pretences that the future of Nigeria is too important to be discussed.
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Buhari is the key proponent of that bent position, befuddling national thought in ways that would have been considered impossible until his arrival. NIGERIA, the Nigerian, have been in doubt since he bestrode the national sphere on 29 May 2015. Almost everything about him has added to the discomfort of Nigerians. He has failed to harness several opportunities that presented themselves for him to prove that his leadership, whenever he shows it, would benefit all Nigerians.
PRESIDENT Buhari has been decidedly divisive, in words and in deeds. He threatens Nigerians. He has no soothing words for those who hurt. He has sided with marauding, who kill with the most bestial methods. His presidency has inexhaustible reasons that support the attacks that Fulani herdsmen unleash on Nigerians. IN Abia, Adamawa, Benue, Delta, Edo, Enugu, Kaduna, Kogi, Ondo, Oyo, Taraba, Yobe, Zamfara, and other States where Fulani herdsmen have unleashed their uncommon
venom on peoples and properties, President Buhari’s attitude has been that the people, the victims, the attacked, the survivors, should accommodate their attackers, who often threaten and execute other attacks. FEW things have rankled Nigerians more than these attacks that have become routine, and get minimal condemnations from the President. Rather, his officials justify them and blame the victims for not accepting that they should live by dictates of Fulani herdsmen. They
occur so frequently that it s challenging to track them. Lives are lost, villages are pillaged, burnt, agricultural economies are at unending threats from Fulani herdsmen, who have vowed to live by their own rules. THERE are instances that reveal the nonchalance of the Federal Government and the security agencies while these hoodlums wreak havoc on people and property. Emir of Zurmi, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, in Zamfara State said of an attack on the village: “These terrorists are known to us. Their major hideout is in a village called Kagara, very close to Bafarawa in Sokoto State, and a
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From BONIFACE OKORO, Umuahia, CHUKS EZE, Enugu; CHINEDU NWAFOR, Abakaliki; NATH OMAME, Port Harcourt, CHUKS COLLINS, Awka; COLLINS UGHALAA, Owerri; THEO RAYS and IBE NWACHUKWU, Onitsha
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RESIDENT Muhammadu Buhari’s decision to throw his hat in the ring for another shot at the Presidency has generated mixed reactions from across the broad spectrum of the Nigerian public, with many faulting his decision on account of age and ill-health while others insist it is his constitutional right to seek re-election after his first term as President of the Federal Republic. Buhari, 77 next year, indicated his re-election inter-
• It is his constitutional right • He should consider his age, health • Insecurity, poor economy against him • Ndigbo waiting for him • A sea of heads at OPEC PDP North West zonal rally in Katsina. quota bites See another picture on P41 Nigeria P17
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Where’s Nnamdi Kanu? • Abaribe’s headache
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S the resumed trial of Mazi Nnamdi Kanu, leader of the Indigenous People of Biafra, IPOB, comes up again on 26 November, there are indications that the proceedings may still go on without the IPOB leader in Kanu.
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Igwe Ojoto: Okafor heads to court