Posted on 03/24/2015 9:53:41 PM PDT by piasa
President Obama released a message to the Nigerian people to "highlight the opportunity that the upcoming elections present for all Nigerians to stand together".
The video is part of a multi-faceted Administration effort to press for a peaceful outcome for elections now slated for March 28 and April 14.
Vice President Joe Biden spoke by phone last week in separate calls with President Goodluck Jonathan and his leading challenger, Muhammadu Buhari, the presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
On Saturday, a joint U.S.-UK appeal was issued by Secretary of State John Kerry and British Foreign Secerary Philip Hammond.
Page contains numerous links to related stories including video of Obama addressing the Nigerian people in advance of the election.
So he’s trying to screw up yet another country’s elections, eh?! Who the F does he think he is, anyway? And we really should care. This kind of krap is a major reason so many people around the world hate America.
Duplicitous. ..
I am sure Obama was just speaking on behalf of the muslim brotherhood.
Reports are that Boko Haram, probablt trying to manipulate the elections, has just kidnapped 400 people from a town recently freed by Nigerian government and Chadian troops.
I don’t know about that but would not doubt it. So far looks like a plea for nonviolence but then this is the guy that stirred the pot of violence in Ferguson and Egypt...
My money says whichever side Obama’s backing will lose.
...and Kenya.
Nigerians should elect jhadis? I dont think so.
Boko Haram [sworn to al Qaeda] Kidnaps Over 500 Women, Children In Damasak, Kills 50
Abdullahi Umar
— Mar 25, 2015 | 0 Comments
http://leadership.ng/news/420009/boko-haram-kidnaps-over-500-women-children-in-damasak-kills-50
Residents of the recently recaptured Damasak town in Borno State have said that Boko Haram militants have kidnapped more than 500 women and children from the town, according to report by the Hausa service of the BBC.
Damasak, which was freed this month by troops from Niger and Chad, has again suffered an invasion and kidnapping of women and children by the terrorists.
“They took 506 young women and children (in Damasak); they killed about 50 of them before leaving. We don’t know if they killed others after leaving, but they took the rest with them,” a resident simply identified as Malam Ali told the agency.
“My wife and three of my daughters were among those seized; two of them were supposed to get married this year. Boko Haram said they are slaves, so they are taking them because they belong to them,” he said.
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“We’ve seen the worst possible things you can imagine; after a certain point there was no point in trying to leave. They killed all our friends, our family members, so we just submitted ourselves to God.”
A 40-year-old resident who gave her name as Fana said the insurgent’s had rounded up captives in the main mosque before taking them out of town. She said she saved her two children by hiding them in her house.
Troops from Niger and Chad last week found the bodies of at least 70 people in an apparent execution site under a bridge leading out of Damasak, where the streets remain strewn with debris and burnt-out cars after the fighting to liberate the town.
Nigerian, Chadian and Niger forces have driven militants out of a string of towns in simultaneous offensives over the past month.
According to Reuters news agency, Niger troops had distributed food to a handful of residents who remained in Damasak; few others returned to check their houses but left for the bush again.
Well, they have a “progressive party.”
Looks like Obama is trying to meddle in another country’s election..I wonder if the same media that trashed Boehner and BiBi will do the same with Obama..LOL look at that I made a funny
(RNS) Under the shadow of Boko Haram violence, Nigerians head to the polls Saturday (March 28) to elect a president and a deputy in a vote observers say is critical for the country’s stability and economic progress.
In a twist that might have been difficult to predict, many Christians in Nigeria’s north are backing a Muslim candidate to lead their country away from the brink of violence and chaos.
Muhammadu Buhari, a Muslim from the north and the leader of the All Progressives Congress party, is challenging the leadership of incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian from the south who heads the ruling People’s Democratic Party.
Some Nigerians fear that another term for Jonathan would mean institutionalization of corruption and emergence of more Muslim extremist groups in addition to Boko Haram. And they are willing to pin their hopes on a Muslim candidate.
In February, the Northern Christian Leaders’ Eagle-Eyes Forum endorsed Buhari, saying the country needs a leader who can protect both Christians and Muslims. The nation’s Roman Catholic bishops have not formally endorsed a candidate but appear to lean that way as well.
“The bishops see him as a man of integrity and decency who can fight corruption and Boko Haram,” said the Rev. John Bakeni, secretary of the Maiduguri Roman Catholic Diocese.
Buhari may have helped his chances among Christians by choosing a church pastor as his running mate. Yemi Osinbajo, a senior pastor at the Redeemed Christian Church of God and a former attorney general of the state of Lagos, is from the country’s south, where Christians are the majority and where Jonathan has traditionally had most support.
Buhari, who previously led Nigeria from December 1983 to August 1985 after taking power in a coup, has assured Christians that he has no religious agenda.
Jonathan, meanwhile, faces criticisms of failing to stop the Islamic extremists. Under his watch, Nigerian troops had appeared unable to tackle the militant Boko Haram, which has now allied itself with the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq.
Recently, the military, helped by armies from Cameroon, Chad and Niger, has been able to take back some towns previously captured by Boko Haram.
Religious leaders fear a repeat of the post-election violence of 2011, when hundreds of churches were torched and hundreds of Christians [MY NOTE : IN A MUSLIM TEMPER TANTRUM] killed after Jonathan was declared the winner.
In Nairobi, an official at the All Africa Conference of Churches urged Jonathan and Buhari to show leadership “at this critical juncture in their country.”
“They must urge supporters to remain calm and refrain violence during the elections,” said Solomon Gichira, who is dealing with peace issues at the Africa-wide Protestant grouping.
Meanwhile, church sources say people are returning to their homes in northern Nigeria as the Multinational Joint Task Force, which is confronting Boko Haram, liberates areas from the extremists.
All Progressives Congress party
hmmm.... wonder if there are curious connections ...
Their slogan is... “Change.”
How much do they “charge” to vote?
Is the all-knowing all-wise barky lecturing the Africans that Boko Haram must have a seat at the gubmint table to address their “legitimate grievances?”
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