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Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by adebisi000: 12:27pm On Mar 26, 2015
Dear General Buhari; I would’ve addressed this letter privately to you, but in the expectation that you may not receive it, I decided to make it an Open Letter, in the hope that you would stumble on it, read it and hopefully feel some of the pains and anguish that have been my lot. Having said that, permit me therefore to proceed with the rest of this missive from the grave of innocents departed.

Last night, while I was at my modest home in Katsina, relaxing and probably half-awake, I heard the voice of my cousin who was killed in the North in April 2011 during the post-election violence instigated by your loss of the presidential election. With bloodshot sad eyes, my cousin, looking apparition-like, was wailing “Gen Buhari, why why”. My cousin’s name is (or was) Mallam Yusuf Danfulani, a bright young lad originally from Katsina State, who was slaughtered in cold blood and set on fire by youths chanting “Sai Buhari”, like they are again now chanting in 2015.

Gen Buhari, in case you have forgotten, Yusuf was slaughtered in your name even though he never did any wrong to you, and even voted for you against Dr Jonathan. He lost his life just because the murderers you encouraged by your many hate speeches believed Yusuf to be from middle belt or southern Nigeria, most probably because of his bulky looks and brave, patriotic attempts to prevent the killing of an innocent Youth Corper, Ukeoma Ikechukwu. Even though he cried out in Hausa and Fulfulde, he was still not believed by those you (Buhari) managed to brainwash to see all non-Fulani Nigerians as conspiring to vote against you. In this very case, Yusuf voted for you but his ‘Sai Buhari’ killers never believed he did. Like you, Gen Buhari, the mob was baying for the blood of innocents.

If not for Yusuf’s best friend who was with him and was himself nearly killed, we would not have recognized his charred body that was burnt beyond recognition. And thanks to the same friend for recounting to us the little he could make out at the last moments of Yusuf’s life, the agony he passed through and the most important words he uttered before he gave up. It is the same words I heard him utter last night from the grave: ‘Gen Buhari, why why’. Yet, to this day, you (Buhari) have not cared to apologize or show any remorse, but you instead offered lame excuses for the bloodletting you had instigated, and still instigate. I now ask you this: Gen Buhari, must you always shade blood, like you started doing from 1983, to rule Nigeria? Do you recall how you killed Brigadier Bako in 1983 just so you could take power by force from Shehu Shagari?

General Buhari, Ukeoma Ikechukwu himself was reported missing that same day Yusuf was murdered by your supporters, and finally confirmed dead the following day when his charred remains was discovered in a hooded area. Apparently, your supporters had dragged him out of the open and tortured him before finally snuffing life out of him. Like my cousin, Yusuf, Ukeoma was very young and an innocent. Unlike Dr. Jonathan, they were not contesting against you. Yet, when they were killed, part of Nigeria was killed with them; the same Nigeria that you are now angrily campaigning to rule.

Yusuf and Ukeoma were not alone. Six other innocent Youth Corpers were also murdered in Bauchi, where you Buhari, polled 1,315,209 votes (almost 82 per cent), defeating Dr Jonathan who scored 258,404 votes and did not even hit the 25 per cent mark. The corps members were reportedly chased to a police station where they sought refuge. But the rioters, who were raving mad with bloodlust and chanting “Sai Buhari”, overran the station and murdered the young Nigerians in cold blood. So, Gen Buhari, as you can see from the Bauchi result and it’s aftermath, your supporters even shade blood when you win; still you have no qualms. Today, you are prancing around the nation, arrogant and angry as usual, behaving like you have already won the election; and thus setting up another bloodletting if you are not announced winner.

The story of Obinna Okpokiri is as heart-wrenching as Yusuf’s. The 27-year-old was butchered and burnt to ashes, in the service of his fatherland. Okpokiri’s own circumstances were as gruesome as they could be. He had run to the Corpers’ Lodge as the rampaging ‘Sai Buhari’ rioters targeted Youth Corper polling officers recruited by INEC for the election. As painful death loomed, the young Nigerians contemplated fleeing to the barracks. But they were not lucky enough. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters caught up with them, slaughtered and set them on fire. Like Yusuf, these innocents are human beings and future leaders on the last laps of fulfilling their national duty before moving on to a bright future. But it was not to be because, in your name, Gen Buhari, they were slaughtered, sliced, soaked in petrol and scorched. Reduced to ashes in minutes and in the most callous fashion by those that are not better citizens or humans than them.

General Buhari, while you are now busy inciting another violence, please bear in mind that in 2011, your supporters turned violent in whole 12 northern states as they burned the homes, vehicles, and properties of innocent Nigerians, some of whom are also Muslims and Northerners like you and my cousin Yusuf. Your ‘Sai Buhari’ supporters also targeted and killed Christians and members of southern Nigerian ethnic groups, who were seen as supporting the PDP, and they burnt churches across the north. One particular attack in Bauchi stood out as most heart-breaking. According to Human Rights Watch, on April 17 in Giade, a rural town in northern Bauchi, ‘Sai Buhari’ mobs attacked youth corps members in the town. The Corpers, who were mostly from Yoruba, ran to the local police station to seek refuge, but the mobs stormed the police station. The mob killed the police officer on duty and burned down the police station. They raped two of the female youth corps members and then hacked them to death with machetes, along with five male youth corps members. In total, rioters killed ten youth corps members in that town alone.

A lecturer at the Nuhu Bamalli Polytechnic, Zaria, Kaduna State, described to Human Rights Watch how a mob of Muslims chanting “Change, Sai Buhari” attacked and killed several Christian students, a Christian lecturer and four Muslim students suspected of being PDP sympathizers on April 17: He said “Between 10 a.m. and 12 p.m., they entered the school chanting slogans and shouting: “Where are the Christians and Muslims that supported the ruling party?” They had painted their faces black and were shouting that they needed “change”, the Congress for Progressive Change campaign slogan. The mob had all sorts of weapons – machetes, sticks, and clubs. They started breaking the glass on the buildings. The students ran away but the mob pursued them into the staff quarters and they had nowhere to go. The mob beat them to death. The lecturer they killed was Yoruba“.

Finally, Gen Buhari, let me end this letter by asking you this question: When are you going to apologize to me, to Yusuf’s aged parents, to Ukeoma’s parents, to parents of all innocents murdered by your brainwashed supporters, to Nigeria and to mankind? And here is Yusuf again, asking you from the grave: “Gen Buhari, why why”.
Re: Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by shaddi(m): 12:30pm On Mar 26, 2015
Take your letter to back to the grave angry







LIFE n DEATH HAS NOTHING IN COMMON



SAI GMB
SAI PYO
SAI APC
SAI CHANGE

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Re: Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by webincomeplus(m): 12:35pm On Mar 26, 2015
Even those innocent ones won't blame Buhari for their own death. So, why disturb yourself over a baseless rumor. I challenge you to provide convincing proof that Buhari killed them.
Re: Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by webincomeplus(m): 12:35pm On Mar 26, 2015
Even those innocent ones won't blame Buhari for their own death. So, why disturb yourself over a baseless rumor? I challenge you to provide convincing proof that Buhari killed them.

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Re: Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by ghost1718(m): 12:36pm On Mar 26, 2015
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Re: Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by Babacele: 12:40pm On Mar 26, 2015
PDP SPONSORED 2011 Post election Violent Not GMB.


What Buhari never said 2015-01-09 20:31
Let us set the records
straight. As Nigerians prepare to vote for
progress and change in the upcoming
Presidential elections, it is pertinent certain
popular statements attributed to chief
opposition candidate, General Muhammadu
Buhari are set straight for God and man. Firstly,
did General Buhari ever say he or they will
make Nigeria ungovernable? The answer to
this is a resounding, no!In an earlier write-up
we carefully researched this inflammatory
statement and discovered that it was made by a
then PDP politician, Lawal Kaita from Kaduna.
This is why the late NSA, Andrew Owoye Azazi
said that it was internal PDP politics and their
squabbles on zoning/rotation of the
Presidency that led to the “sudden
sophistication of Boko Haram.” It was within
PDP that the discussion of rotation of the
presidency came up, and Lawal Kaita was
perturbed with Jonathan’s decision to
continuelate Umaru Yar’Adua’s term in
violation of the parties zoning policy.This was
when Jonathan promised to only contest/
occupy the top spot one additional term (in
addition to his completing Yar’Adua’s term)
andalso when some northern PDP stalwarts
and party founders threatened to make Nigeria
ungovernable. There was no such confusion in
Buhari’s CPC and thus no need and reason for
such inflammatory pronouncements fromhis
quarters.When Reuben Abati spun this
statement upon the person of Buhari, the
General took him to courtfor libel and the
court judgment as awarded in Buhari’s favor.
Buhari dragged Abati and The Guardian to
court via suit no. ID/837/2011 and demanded
N1billion damages. President Goodluck
Jonathan then begged Buhari to settle out-of-
court. See in DailyPost of January 13th, 2013:
http://dailypost.ng/2013/01/13/presidency-
begs-buhari-to-settle-slander-case-out-of-
court/.
The empathetic General agreed and Reuben
Abati and the Guardian where the libelous
article was published were made to publish an
unreserved retraction of the slander against
Buhari which they did in the Guardian of July
11, 2013. This is why Reuben Abati is called
Nigeria’s evil genius. Our full article on this
with all references can be read here on
ENDS.ng: http://ends.ng/fact-it-was-pdp-
that-promised-to-make-nigeria-
ungovernable-in-2011-buhari-never-did/Did
General Buhari promise election riots in 2011?
The answer to this is again, no!General Buhari
never prescribed riots or made any threat
related to such in regards to the 2011
elections. He took the case of election rigging
to court and never made a single statement
containing threats in relation to it. The Lemu
panel investigation of the post-election riots
cleared the General of any guilt of complicity.
The General released an exemplary press
statement on the court’s rulingwhich can be
read on SaharaReporters of December 28,
2011: http://
saharareporters.com/2011/12/28/statement-
general-muhammadu-buhari-regarding-
verdict-supreme-court-jonathans-
electionBuhari
did however state that if 2015was a repeat of
the rigging on 2011, there will be a fierce fight
He used the kare jini biri jinni Hausa proverb,
which roughly cuts as ‘the dog and baboon
will be soaked in the same blood,’ but is an
idiom which means, there will be a real battle-
could be legal; could be protests or any other
battle, as this is a mere proverbial statement.
Of course those who wished to paint this
statement with the ‘blood’ contained in it did
so eagerly as we see they have done in many
other of his statements and statements
attributed to him. Read more on the idiom
here, by Dr. Aliyu Tilde on PremiumTimes:
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/
opinion/5195-buhari_vs_pdp_the_dog_and_
the_baboon.htmlThe
third hallmark statement attributed to the
General: did Buhari ever say that a war on
Boko Haram was a war against the north? The
answer to this statement as with the rest is a
resounding, no!Why are all these false
statements attributed to Buhari? Well, for one
reason the General is rather not that
outspoken and is a man of extreme patience
and tolerance who evidently only used legal
means to redress the libel and false
accusations against him planed and
sponsored by the Presidency.So what did
General Buhari say in 2013? He said, the
institution of a State of Emergency in Borno,
Adamawa and Yobe states was a declaration
of war on the north of Nigeria.He did not say
that fighting Boko Haram was a declaration of
war against the north; no, after all he fought
and destroyed not only Maitatsine terrorists,
but also the Habre fanatical forces of Chad. He
clearly understands the need of a real war
against terror; he however saw that Nigeria’s
President and the then army Chief, General
Azubuike Ihejirika who has been labeled a
Boko Haram sponsor by my organization,
ENDS and Boko Haram negotiator, Stephen
Davis, were not fighting any real war against
the terrorists but were silently facilitating the
continued reign of terror and seeking all
meansto destroy the northeast as it is
today.Also read: Dear Buhari!When Buhari
wiped out Maitatsine inAdamawa state, he did
not need to declare any phony state of
emergency. He did not declare one either when
he expelled the Habre Chadian forces from the
19 Nigerian occupied Islands in the
northeast.Today the entire Nigeria saw the
wisdom of elder statesman Buhari’s position
against the declaration of the state of
emergency and the senate thereby refused to
extend the more harmful than good
emergency rule that failed to yield meaningful
results since it was instituted in May of 2013.I
as a proponent of the State of Emergency in
2013 and one of thosewho canvassed and
pushed for it didnot quite agree with the
General at the time but now I understand his
reservations and how this declaration and all
others by the President including his recent
cessation of fire have all been declarations of
war against the Nigerian people, particularly
those being decimated and displaced in the
northeast by French foreign forces being
organized and directed from Idris Deby’s
Chad.In conclusion, the Jonathan government
who without any investigation exonerated
MEND who had claimed responsibility for the
October 1st 2010 Abuja bomb attack, since
then decided to pick on General Muhammadu
Buhari, his most formidable perceived
opponentand in so doing allowed and as some
say, actually supported Boko Haram’s
continued existence and carnage while his evil
genius press and media men and the Femi
twins continued to spew slander upon slander
and libel upon libel against the person of
Buhari, spinning his every proverb out of
context, publishing twisted versions of his
every word and even reflecting other people’s
statements upon him.Proverbs 19:9 says…
who breathes out lies will perish.Indeed the
liars shall perish. For “Their throat is an open
grave; they use their tongues to deceive.” “The
venom of asps is under their lips.” Romans
3:13 ESV.- MyNews2
Re: Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by Nobody: 1:19pm On Mar 26, 2015
Stewpid post
Re: Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by themilanway(m): 1:47pm On Mar 26, 2015
Please ask that cousin of yours to help verify if the ones killed by Abba Moro during the Immigration scam test are done writing their own letters so that the messages can both be passed at once.

Douche bag.

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Re: Letter To Buhari From The Grave Of The Innocents by Nobody: 2:10pm On Mar 26, 2015
Yeah!!! You need take d letter back to dat grave




Clueless youths everywhere sad undecided

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