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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by gberra: 10:23am On Apr 16, 2017
NgeneUkwenu:
Buhari Re election is a done deal! If you are not happy relocate to Kuje Prison!
Lagoon is way better. It saves costs, very effective & easy to manage.

Igbos always cry embarassed.

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by igwebuike01: 10:24am On Apr 16, 2017
Look at how empty buhari defenders sound??

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by mynd1(f): 10:27am On Apr 16, 2017
IVORY2009:


Bros how far?
I dey fine!

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by spanzed(m): 10:34am On Apr 16, 2017
madridguy:
Sai Baba till 2023 Dole.
so what happens if we don't vote him again for second term?

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by NgeneUkwenu(f): 10:36am On Apr 16, 2017
spanzed:
so what happens if we don't vote him again for second term?

Your vote is inconsequential! You didnt vote him before and he still won. What do you think has Changed?

All these ipob youths eh!

lalasticlala Front page

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by sanandreas(m): 10:36am On Apr 16, 2017
Religion would what would destroy us just like Syria turned to ruins. The North should not forget America, Britain and France would definitely protect the South because of their interest.

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by gberra: 10:39am On Apr 16, 2017
In the same vein, the support for Gej in the SE is also religious simply because he idolizes corruption.

Igbos always cry embarassed

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by spanzed(m): 10:49am On Apr 16, 2017
NgeneUkwenu:


Your vote is inconsequential! You didnt vote him before and he still won. What do you think has Changed?

All these ipob youths eh!

lalasticlala Front page
Young lady calm down.....I am not against the presidents second term I guess when the time comes his achievements would speak for him....
Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by NgeneUkwenu(f): 11:16am On Apr 16, 2017
gberra:
In the same vein, the support for Gej in the SE is also religious simply because he idolizes corruption.

Igbos always cry embarassed

Don't mind them!

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by kings20(m): 11:21am On Apr 16, 2017
Destined2win


I hope you are not a northerner??!!
Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Yyeske(m): 1:03pm On Apr 16, 2017
Mintek:


...because he wrote the truth?

You're obviously one of the gullible "Buharideens" (SouthWest Chapter) the writer talks about.


delusional and brainwashed yoot, not your fault anyway

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by obonujoker(m): 1:50pm On Apr 16, 2017
Buhari cannot win again... he has failed... well except if Christians stupidly vote for him again....

Christians are more than Muslims

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Destined2win: 2:12pm On Apr 16, 2017
kings20:
Destined2win



I hope you are not a northerner??!!
No
Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Ganiyat72(f): 2:33pm On Apr 16, 2017
Yyeske:
delusional and brainwashed yoot, not your fault anyway
My follow yoruba muslim, we will vote foe our saviour buhari even if we are dying of hunger in our USUN IDP camp.

Sai babaa

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by hucienda: 2:36pm On Apr 16, 2017
By this article, one can hearby declare a new prophet to add to the ranks of the religion ...

Prophet Buhari

One supposes he'd give prophet mohammed a good run for his money up north and who knows, some places down south. Karl Marx probably had Nigeria in mind when he spoke on religion and opium.

And this new prophet, thou shall criticise not!
angry

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Ojiofor: 3:04pm On Apr 16, 2017
spanzed:
Young lady calm down.....I am not against the presidents second term I guess when the time comes his achievements would speak for him....

Go and wash your mouth with detergent for calling an uglyman a young lady.

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by 7lives: 3:08pm On Apr 16, 2017
Peerogi or whatsoever he called himself should just accept that Buhari is God sent or jump into the lagoon.
If Buhari is not the will of God for Nigeria at the moment how will he be the president.
When people carry the Bible and refuse to read how will they not be confused?.
A woman once invited me to a vigil and the purpose of that vigil is to pray for Good Luck Jonathan's re- election.
And I asked her why do we need to pray now for him to win the election afterall he won the first election without our prayers?
The woman said the organizing pastors want us to pray because " all the money in Nigeria is in the hands of Muslims " I was shocked and disappointed because their so called vigil is motivated by envy and hatred, how am I sure they were not paid to organize these vigils.
How can we call ourselves Christians when our ways and thoughts are perverted like this?.
Upon all the prayers and vigils, Buhari a Muslim won, does it mean Buhari's Allah is more powerful than my Jehovah? NO.
Jehovah is just doing what he knows is right for us and this is why anyone attacking Buhari is just wasting his or her time.

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Nukilia: 3:15pm On Apr 16, 2017
The next election will not be on religious, party or ethnic lines it will be based on candidates with high IQ and candidates who have blue prints for complex problem solving. cool
Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Nukilia: 3:19pm On Apr 16, 2017
7lives:
Peerogi .

Forget religion and let's ask critical questions, let's demand accountability from our leaders.

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by hysteriabox(m): 3:31pm On Apr 16, 2017
zicoraads:
Full article on the link. This is just a snippet.

Although Buhari himself isn’t a deeply religious person, his open, full-throated but politically motivated (some would say opportunistic) support for Sharia (at a time no other former president of northern Nigerian Muslim extraction was willing to do so) caused him to be wildly popular among northern Muslim masses and the conservative clerical elite of the region.

Now, Islamic clerics in the north preach that Buhari is divinely ordained to be president and that criticism of his policies amounts to blasphemy. That’s why northern Muslim critics of Buhari like me are seen as heretics—or, worse, not even Muslim at all. I recall a northern Nigerian university teacher and foreign-based PhD student exclaiming “SubhaanAllaah!” when I first shared my criticism of Buhari with him during a WhatsApp chat. He was so distraught you would think I committed blasphemy. So it isn’t just northern Nigerian Muslim masses that literally worship Buhari.

Given the oversized influence of Islamic clerics in shaping public opinion in Muslim northern Nigeria, no amount of logic, evidence-based reasoning, economic hardship, etc. will make the littlest dent on Buhari’s popularity in the Muslim north.

In his widely shared articled titled, “Advice On Buhari Media Centre,” Dr. Aliyu Tilde beautifully captured the complicity of the conservative northern Nigerian Muslim clerical establishment in the deification of President Buhari.

“The same thing applies to religious leaders who are invited to the villa (by the President, said one of them) for the same purpose of propaganda,” Dr. Tilde wrote. “They return and tell their followers all sorts of stories that they have met an angel there and witnessed miracles at the foot of Sinai. I just heard a Whatsapp audio of one of them from Sokoto who was telling his followers, amidst Allahu Akbar, this kind of stories: Buhari ya yi kira. Kuna ga sai a zauna?…kun san da Nijeriya ba ta da uba. Yanzu na tai uba. Na je villa, na ga abin ban mamaki… What a shame."

It’s interesting that Buhari was particularly unpopular with the northern Nigerian Muslim clerical establishment in the 1980s. He was resented for a number of reasons. His wife then, as now, made sartorial choices that didn’t conform to the clerics’ expectations of a Muslim woman. Buhari also banned open-air preaching, stopped/drastically reduced state sponsorship of Hajj, and forbade the building of new Jumu’ah mosques without the permission of emirate councils.

This put him at odds with Muslim clerics, particularly the emergent Izala sect, which now enjoys hegemony in northern Nigeria. Sheikh Abubakar Mahmood Gumi, in fact, said during a preaching session that “Allah will not forgive the regimes of Shagari and that of Buhari because they blocked the way of Allah.”

Fast-forward to the 2000s and Buhari’s support for Sharia when it wasn’t politically wise to do so, especially by a former head of state, set the stage for his deification and worship by a clerical elite that a generation ago invoked curses on him. In a way, Buhari is reaping the “benefits” of the choices he made in 2001.

Now millions of people in the Muslim north would rather die than withhold support for Buhari, however much his government’s policies, or lack thereof, smolder them. Support for Buhari in the Muslim north isn’t just politics; it’s now religion. There is no precedent for this in Nigeria’s history.

www.farooqkperogi.com

Lol

I agree with u
It reminds me of what I saw written on the wall close to a primary school. It was obviously written by one of dem students at some point in time.
It read kumai yayi sada, baba buhari ka yi ka dawo.
Means "everything is now so expensive, baba buhari please do and return"
This simply means thew north are blind to what true governance is. All they know is what his clerics tell dem, regardless of outcome or consequence. So, an average muslim up north would rather die in poverty dan be ruled by anybody unislamic, no matter how credible


But, I dare to slightly differ.
Some weeks ago, when pmb was still in uk, I went to buy gas. There I saw some guys sleeping under cool dogon yaro tree. As they talked, I overheard as they wished pmb never returned. Another said even if Allah brings him back, he ll not stay in asorock for ever. They lamented the suffering

I also remember travelling from jos to bauchi. The passsngers extolled former governor Muazu but rained down curses on APC n pmb.
Kano was worse- I was in a keke napep with a woman. She was discussing with the rider. They both were blasting baba, saying he should forget reelection.

Bottom line, pmb isnt as mysterious as the north put him out to be

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by freeze001(f): 4:34pm On Apr 16, 2017
Yyeske:
Whoever wrote this should be burnt at the stake, not fit to be a human being

The writer is Farouq Kperoogi. Barely 2 years ago, u were all blind supporters of d Daftus on board. Now he's trying to reveal the truth he chose to hide or conveniently ignore prior to 2015 elections, he is no longer fit to be human and should be burned. Why are y'all easily given to violence? Do u not have any regard for human life?

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by ephi123(f): 6:50pm On Apr 16, 2017
INTROVERT:
Whether he is a god from heaven, hell, sokoto or, akwaibom He is leaving office on or before 29-5-2019 angry

grin grin

INTROVERT haff vexed today.

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Flintstone06(m): 6:50pm On Apr 16, 2017
DropShot:
I guess those who voted in the PDP Twitter poll are all Northerners as well.

Cry cry babies everywhere.

Dont use that to measure anything.. The southerners voted on twitter but when the election day comes, the cows and goats will vote in kano

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by masseratti: 6:52pm On Apr 16, 2017
INTROVERT:
Whether he is a god from heaven, hell, sokoto or, akwaibom He is leaving office on or before 29-5-2019 angry
for sure or Nigeria breaks

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Nobody: 6:52pm On Apr 16, 2017
Religion has always been the preferred tool of the northern elite.

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by ephi123(f): 6:54pm On Apr 16, 2017
donmalcolm21:
Eph123 remember what i told you yesterday about the majority north bringing back buhari again because of religious connotations.



I pray i get out from this country before then

They can only try, it's dead on arrival.

If only the North can stand on its own, they can then be ruled backward to the 10th century sef if they choose, rather than try to drag the whole country into backwardness with them.

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Sanusi666: 6:55pm On Apr 16, 2017
Just like your burnt your brain whilst smoking your burnt tyre concortion. Receive new sense Alhamajiri


Yyeske:
Whoever wrote this should be burnt at the stake, not fit to be a human being

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Flintstone06(m): 6:56pm On Apr 16, 2017
Nukilia:
The next election will not be on religious, party or ethnic lines it will be based on candidates with high IQ and candidates who have blue prints for complex problem solving. cool


This is not the British election bro...

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Re: "Support For President Buhari In The North Is Now Religious" - Farooq Kperogi by Flintstone06(m): 6:57pm On Apr 16, 2017
obonujoker:
Buhari cannot win again... he has failed... well except if Christians stupidly vote for him again....

Christians are more than Muslims


More you say? Where?

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