-#Babanowthatyouarethere# make sure there's no fuel scarcity, epileptic power supply and look into the running of NCC-

During the 2015 electioneering campaign, there
were signs that showed that Buhari would win.
This signs were less paid attention to but they
were a pointer to what was imminent.
Such signs were;

1. COINAGE OF FEBUHARI; This coinage was
not paid for by anyone. It was passionate
Nigerians who saw the name Buhari in February
and decided to make it a name for Buhari. Even
Fayose in one of his advert heaved a sigh of
relief that FEBUARI was gone.

2. TWITTER TRENDS; out of love and genuine
supports, there were different topics trending on
twitter about Buhari. The first one to be so
popular was the one started when Buhari came
back from London. #Babawhileyouweregone#
where Nigerians informed him of happenings
since he left the country. There were other ones
like #Babawhenyougetthere# and the one after
the election, #Ivotedbaba# and
#Babanowthatyouarethere# the trend was too
much and intimidating that the presidency had
to pay for one #GEJwins# which still did not
trend like the ones above.

3. ONLINE POLLS; Sahara Reporters was the
first to carry out a poll on the 2015 presidential
elections. The outcome was quashed by the
presidency calling Sahara Reporters APC media.
Reno Omokri started his own and the president
was being beaten black and blue before
associates and colleagues were called to come
and vote to stop the embarrassment. When the
president started leading by a shameful 1% he
closed it. AIT after showing a documentary that
is geared towards tarnishing the image of the
President Elect, decided to test the how deep
the believed cut they gave to him was by
starting an Online poll but Nigerians
Resoundingly voted Buhari. This made AIT to
come up with one of the most flimsy excuse
ever seen from a media house that there was
massive vote from the same IP address over
and over. An excuse that was disputed by
experts in the field. Nairaland.com decided to
conduct theirs few weeks before the election
when the outcome came out i knew Baba was
home and dry.

4. IRRELEVANT DOCUMENTARIES: In what
appears to be the most shameful campaign of
hate, calumny, mudslinging and total show of
shame by a ruling party, there were
documentaries on some principal characters of
the Opposition Party. First was the documentary
on Buhari then on Tinubu and Amaechi. I could
remember my Primary six younger sister asking
me why they were showing all these about
Amaechi when he was not contesting for
anything. A documentary that was aired late at
night, in English, and some of its content were
false. Buhari was even shown most times in his
military Uniform and in an Authoritative manner
that some people mistook the documentary as
one praising Baba. No wonder after the Tinubu
documentary, Nigerians responded by saying. "
Even if you show baba and Tinubu stealing all
the money in central bank we would still vote
for them"

5. FAYOSE & FFK's COMMEDIES: I was one
person that wanted Fayose and FFK to continue
with their rants and comic campaigns. Imagine
FFk saying they would report Buhari to God for
not providing his Certificate. Fayose even
showed us pictures and name of the hotel
where he feels Buhari was. That Buhari Was
receiving treatment and never traveled nor billed
to speak at Chatham House in London. FFK
went ahead to let us know about Tinubu's
mouth odour and Lai's pampers. Many Nigerians
never took this guys serious.

6. OBAS BLESSINGS AND ALLEGED OYEDEPO'S
GATE OF HELL; To me the Obas blessings was
just a formality. Because they changed nothing.
But Jonathan Needed anything to assure him of
victory. Whether Oyedepo said he will open the
gate of hell on those against Jonathan or not, i
just knew the President was sinking badly. A
case that has involved opening hell is beyond
repair.

7. PAID CHATTAM HOUSE PROTESTERS;
Before Buhari was set to speak at Chatham
house in London, there were news that there
would be paid protesters who would carry
placards and try to disrupt the event. It was so
but in a very funny manner. Some of the
protesters said they don't even know why they
were there while the organizer said it was her
job to gather blacks for such assignments.
Some of the protesters were from other country
and have been paid to just carry meaningless
placards. If it has gotten to the point where
protesters are bought, then the president re-
election was a Herculean task already. I said to
myself.

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source; http://www.enlightennigeria..in/2015/05/trivial-signs-that-showed-buhari-would.html

What about the coinage GMB and "Sai Buhari" which didnt exist in his previous campaigns of 2003;2007 and 2011

jikjimmy2:
What about the coinage GMB and "Sai Buhari" which didnt exist in his previous campaigns of 2003;2007 and 2011

That's a good point maybe the writer forgot

These signs were a window in which many could pip through the outcome of the presidential election.

sai baba

Ah... The Nostalgia.

jikjimmy2:
What about the coinage GMB and "Sai Buhari" which didnt exist in his previous campaigns of 2003;2007 and 2011

" Sai Buhari" has always been there! Maybe u did not know. It was there in in 2003, 2007 and 2011. It jus was not as popular as 2015!

jikjimmy2:
What about the coinage GMB and "Sai Buhari" which didnt exist in his previous campaigns of 2003;2007 and 2011

sai baba, sai buhari and mai gaskia has always been very popular words since buhari has been contesting since 2003 but the lagos media courtesy of tinubu and co hyped everything in the south.
The writer forget to add the massive attack on GEJ and the demonisation of 'PDP' by the same lagos media.

Nonsense!

Ops You forgot Goodlock is a bad luck to Nigeria by MBAKA

OduaVanguard:
Ah... The Nostalgia.

Abi I felt it too

CharliParker:
Ops You forgot
Goodlock is a bad luck to Nigeria by MBAKA

that one was big na nd even shook the east. but this ones were things of less value.