COMMENTS OF SOME KEY NIGERIANS ON GENERAL MOHAMMADU BUHARI. PRESIDENT SHAGARI ”After the Army toppled our democratic regime it has option but to install Buhari as head of state so as to avoid credibility problems, especially in the sight of the international community because of his being an epitome of integrity.” PRESIDENT OBASANJO ”There are only two honest and reliable Nigerians – myself and Buhari. All what the PDP is saying of Buhari being a fundamentalist are mere hot lies. They just fear him. He is as reliable as he is hardworking, honest and incorruptible.” GEN. ABDUSALAM ABUBAKAR ABDUSALAM “Buhari was honest and sincere in all his conduct that perhaps, only very few Nigerians could match him in integrity.” PRESIDENT JONATHAN “Gen. Muhammadu Buhari was a true patriot, respected former head of state, elder statesman and a nationalist.” LATE GENERAL SANNI ABACHA AT PTF INAUGURAL SPEECH ”I have realized our collective mistake in over-throwing you. I have seen the terrible damage which our action caused to the Nigerian psyche. I am most sorry. Please, come and do what is best known about you. Patriotic service to the nation.” PRESIDENT IBRAHIM BABANGIDA ”If Buhari quits PTF job as he promises, and as we knew him to mean his words all along, I will support the idea of scrapping PTF as no one else can do the job like him. I respect Buhari. He was my boss. He was an honourable man. And I can say this anywhere.” ALHAJI ISIYAKU IBRAHIM PDP BOT MEMBER “As a member of PDP BOT, I decided personally to donate N5,000,000 to Buhari’s campaign organization because of my firm belief in his ability to right all the nation’s wrongs-. ALHAJI ISIAKU IBRAHIM PDP BOT MEMBER MEMBER, PDP BOT MEMBER (at a Book launch in Kaduna) – “Buhari is as clean as the book I am holding.” SEN. MAKARFI FORMER GOVERNOR OF KADUNA STATE. He was a Governor (a former Kaduna State governor)- “If the truth must be said, Buhari remains the only real threat to PDP whether he runs for the presidency or not due to his wider followership among the masses that now hate the elite circle.” BALARABE MUSA A FORMER GOVERNOR OF KADUNA & A POLITICAL ACTIVIST Was a Governor (a former Kaduna State governor) – Punch January 21, 2011 – “General Buhari rose from the rank of a Lieutenant in the army to a General. At one time, he was a GOC. He was later appointed Military Administrator of the old North-East. He was in the Petroleum Ministry as minister. In December 1983 he became Head of State via a coup. During the late General Sani Abacha’s regime, he headed the Petroleum Trust Fund (PTF) before former President Obasanjo scrapped it. But I read in the papers where the General himself said after obtaining his CPC presidential form, which cost him over N5 million, he is now left with less than a million naira in his account. Now, my task is to challenge all of us to ensure this man becomes president. General Buhari deserves to be given a chance. When he became Head of State after the 1983 coup, thousands of Second Republic politicians, including me, were picked and locked up by the junta. But even in Kirikiri I discovered that the NPN elements among us were giving bribe to prison officials to ensure they got a double ration of food. It dawned on me that people who can offer bribes even in Kirikiri have no reason to be our leaders. Buhari was vindicated.”
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