Former Head of State and Presidential Candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, has again warned of massive bloodshed ahead of 2015 polls, saying that unless transparency and justice characterised the
conduct of the 2015 general elections, “the monkeys and baboons will be soaked in blood”.
Buhari stated this yesterday when he received a delegation of CPC members from Niger State in his Kaduna office.
Similar calls led to the blood bath that visited post-2011 April polls, in which 10 coppers perished in Bauchi alone.
On March, 2011, General Buhari (retd), called on his followers to “lynch” anybody who attempts to rig the April polls.
“You should never leave polling centres until votes are counted and the winner declared and you should lynch anybody that tries to tinker with the votes,” Buhari told a large crowd of supporters.
Prior to this last call for blood yesterday, Buhari had always said that “Electoral fraud’ll attract violence in 2015”. He had also said that Nigeria “is ripe for a revolution”.
Yesterday the Former Head of State and presidential candidate of the CPC in last year’s presidential election described the Goodluck Jonathan administration as the biggest Boko Haram in the country. Buhari said the government has two options to conduct free and fair elections in 2015 or face humiliation from the people.
And then added the clincher: “If what happens in 2011 should again happen in 2015, by the grace of God, the dog and the baboon will all be soaked in blood.” He said, a bloody dispute might erupt within the country’s political class.
Buhari stated: “The magnitude of corruption and insensitivity in Nigeria leadership is legendary, but that there is a storm of awareness now. “God willing by 2015, something will happen. They either conduct a free and fair election or they go a very disgraceful way”.
On the question of whether he would run in 2015 presidential election or not, Buhari said the CPC leaders should organise themselves first while he reconsidered his position as to whether he will contest or not. Buhari said he would make up his mind on the 2015 presidential election when his party reorganises.
Buhari said: “That’s what I told those who have visited me in the past, but the press wrote that I said I have changed my mind about re-contesting.”
Addressing Niger State CPC members, who visited him in Kaduna, the former military leader noted that “since the leaders do not listen to anybody but does whatever they wish, there is nothing the North can do”.
He added: “I will like to quote Prof. Ango Abdullahi, who said there are three Boko Harams, including the original one, led by Muhammed Yusufu, who was killed and his supporters tried to take revenge in attacking the law enforcement agencies and politicians.
“There is another developed Boko Haram of criminals, who steal and kill. The biggest Boko Haram is the Federal Government.”
The former Head of State noted that the Jonathan administration has destroyed the petroleum industry, saying what is happening in the industry can only happen under the type of the leadership Nigeria has now.
He said: “There’s nowhere in the world where such things happen. There’s nowhere in the world where a government can increase the cost of petroleum product by more than 120 per cent. It is most insensitive. Besides the air people breathe, the next important thing to them is petroleum.
“Unfortunately, I know more about the petroleum industry than others in the government, because I was there for over three years as a leader. We started with Port Harcourt refinery producing 60,000 barrels per day. It was upgraded to 100,000 barrels per day. Another one was built there, also in Port Harcourt, producing over 150,000 barrels, making a total of 250,000 barrels per day. These were slated purely on Nigeria’s crude oil.
“I personally asked the owner to sign the contract for Warri and Kaduna refineries, 100,000 barrels each. There were more than 20 depots, more than 3,200 pipelines and there was even a time we were exporting 100,000 barrels per day of refined products. But the current leadership has destroyed the industry.”
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