Muhammadu Buhari,
No doubt he is the ‘best’ contestant right now, oldest, is brave or should be, he has been the C-in -C before now, and mostly likely is the BEST commando ‘naija’ needs to eliminate corruption and instil discipline as this has been the focal point of his campaign, and judging by his antecedents. He, in the debate identified indiscipline amongst Nigerians as one of the reasons we are not yet on the road to our own cannan land. Wonder how he intends to carry this out, would he reinvent the KAI(kick Against Indiscipline) programme to tackle this, would they have more effect in a civilian democratic environment? Or he doesn’t mind tampering on human rights of fellow Nigerians? Nigeria is a multi -party, multi-culture, multi-lingual, multi-you, multi-me, multi-problems, multi-marriages, multi –challenges, multi-powers, multi-religion etc….So therefore Nigeria needs a Multi Tasking Ability efficient President from a multi tasking capable political party manifesto and this I doubt that buhari nor the CPC has this, even though I totally agree that corruption is the major problem of Nigeria at this point in our history, I still DOUBT if buhari would be able to do any other thing except corruption, even when he was asked on the famous NN24 debate what he felt about the present day Nigerian educational system, buhari said there was nothing wrong with it, clearly this man has been in retirement for a very long while, and he didn’t even have a plan for the health sector, and I doubt if he as any other plan except anti-corruption, please can he tackle corruption and indiscipline without making plans for the educational and other sectors? Even though I know buhari would have ministers in charge of this ministries should he emerge, but am afraid that these ministries would prefer not to even work and send budgets for approval because of the fear of buhari, we might start having 20% budget completion, but trust that the remaining money to make 80% would be intact, but there would be no real improvement in the polity.
The General’s CPC is a party created solely for his purpose to be able to contest the Presidential election, we can’t clearly say this is what CPC stands for, but the good shoulders of buhari look safe enough for Nigerians to land on.
Nuhu Ribadu
He is 50 years, has been in service for a while now, he man who held the most ‘irritating’ job in Nigeria; Police….ah….I can’t do that job but in spite of that fact that he came from a professional generation of 20 naira corrupt men and WOMEN, he earned international respect for himself and the country for the opposite of what his mates are best known for, he sent the biggest of them all from IG Tafa to Fayose to Alams, the sleepless nights he gave Ibori and co, and the irony of it all is that unlike buhari he took orders from an incorrigible corrupt ‘above’ but still manage to do the right thing, he worked against a system and process that protects the corrupt, remember the immunity clause, against all odds he performed, and even though we can ‘rightly’ accuse him of merely running Obasanjo’s (the then President of Nigeria) errands, but the real question is where the so called Obj’s enemies not Nigeria and EFCC enemies? And why I respect Ribadu is that up till now nobody has been able to accuse him of using the EFCC to corruptly enrich himself.
He is young, his party the ACN has the political base and popularity to contest a Presidential election, going by his antecedent he can fight corruption probably not as best as the general, but I expect that he and his party would be able to run a multi tasking government, as the case with the famous Babatunde Raji Fashola in Lagos state, that he, armed with his party manifesto has touched all areas of lives of Lagosians .
Goodluck Ebele Jonathan (GEJ)
The incumbent President running on the platform of arguably the biggest political party in Africa (as they claim, but in naija na dem) the PDP, that has failed the hopes and aspirations of Nigerians. Unlike his opponents he didn’t get the party’s ticket on a platter of gold, he had to sweat for it, and his ‘hard work’ was rewarded as he even won in his closest rival’s home state, and gave the unimpressive Jubril one vote. But Goodluck just doesn’t seem to have the charisma, the character, the will power to effect changes that Nigerians yearn for, the boldness, the guts, he looks like someone that would be easily tossed around, the etcs of a Nigeria’s President, and the way he emerged in the primaries as just made him more deep-necked into corruption, ‘unholy covenants’ , questionable agreements etc that would most likely weigh him down in his government should he emerge. He has had too many godfathers, too many ‘undisciplined people’ cut some really bad deals, and should he emerge, would he be able to fight corruption? Would it mean he would investigate publicly the allegations of money laundering levelled against someone like a close relative of Dame, his wife, etc.
Some good stuffs have happened and others, been initiated in the short while that he has been in helms of affairs, but Nigerians do not just understands the methods Goodluck uses to achieve this things, categorically the amount of money he spends.
Pat Utomi
The economist who is the Presidential candidate of the SDMP(Social Democratic Mega party), to me in my own opinion would have been better off now as a vice-Presidential candidate for a major political party, maybe not the PDP because of their own rotation and the death of a northern President in office, but following the political weather we have now, an indigbo vice presidency won’t hurt the Ibos who believe they have been cheated in the ‘rotation’ federal character system, with the hope of now becoming President, instead of forming another party that has no single seat in neither state assemblies nor federal chambers and just dividing the votes of the opposition more to the advantage of the ruling party.
Ibrahim Shekarau
Oh, the candidate making waves now like a new hit, the present governor of Kano state who has done nothing but to impress and continue to win voters affection due to his calmness, maturity, depth knowledge of issues and articulacy at the ongoing Presidential debate. Contesting on the platform of the ANPP, the funny part is ANPP used to be a bigger party before, they as at 2003 were controlling at least nine states in the country, but what happened? After the buhari’s expulsion/withdrawal, the defection season that saw even sitting governors defect, after accepting the carrot of the late Yardua unity government. Now it seems that shekarau is standing alone with not much political structure, he has programmes for Nigeria, but he and his party does not just have the Presidential political structure, but let’s see.
Dele momodu ncp & chris okotie fP
These duo, oh what can I say, at least they make a name for themselves as contenders in Nigeria’s history, I wish them all the best, and I hope they get appointments.
Comment
If buhari can show us that he would deliver quality healthcare, world class education standards, scientific innovations and not just instil discipline and fear into the heart of Nigerians, then we would go for him.
If Goodluck can appear more brave enough, stop running away from challenging situations or even create one, instead of creating more environments with dbanj and in a way make Nigerians believe he would not keep corrupt people around him i.e be able to come out quickly and clean from all the unholy alliances he has been being keeping just to get to office. Then its him.
If shekarau can muzzle a more powerful, VISIBLE political national structure, then its him.
If Utomi could just understand the political weather now, and see that even the indigbos do not believe that 2011 is their time(apologies in case), and they would naturally support a northerner now, with the view that when power is agreed generally back to the south it would be them. (We cannot deny that the rotation system invented by the PDP in 1999 is still alive, hence the north claiming ‘right’ to 2011, after OBJ a southerner spent 8years, but my hope is that the issues of rotation and zoning would be voted away this April and Nigeria gets to choose Nigerians to lead them based on merit.
If the Ribadu/buhari collaboration could work before election, instead of dividing the opposition to the advantage of Goodluck. And if Ribadu can assure Nigerians that there won’t be an overbearing influence of some few godfathers, then its him.
Thanks to you all readers, God bless Nigeria!!!
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