THE PDP PRIMARY, CHOICE OF VP AND 2019

By Charles Ogbu

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has just ended its national convention in Portharcourt with the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, emerging as the party's presidential flag bearer for the 2019 election.

The next question on the table is, from which zone will the party pick its Vice Presidential candidate?

Before expressing my views on this, I like to clarify my position with regards to Nigeria as a country:

I reasonably believe that Nigeria, as presently structured, is fundamentally flawed and must either be restructured to allow the regions develop at their individual pace or balkanized to allow her different peopleS go back to how they were living before the almagamation. Any other thing aside these two is only but a cosmetic solution to the problem.

Yet,

As a practical man, I am not unaware of the fact that neither restructuring nor balkanization will fall from the sky. While pursuing the above two options and seeing as I have no weapon to achieve my aim militarily, I have to work with the limited options available no matter how inadequate those available options appear.

I am a REALIST, not an IDEALIST.

We have two major political parties (PDP and APC) with two major candidates (Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar) and JUST FOUR MONTHS TO A CRUCIAL GENERAL ELECTION. One of the two candidate, President Buhari has conclusively proven to be a murderous genocidist. The remaining one, Atiku, though not without his own baggages, is far better than his main opponent. it will be romantically foolish of me to claim to want an end to Buhari's murderous rule and still adopt a non-challant attitude in the political activities that will see to his (Buhari's) end.

Anyone who want Buhari out has only one option here and that option is to vote Atiku Abubakar not necessarily because he is good. He may not be. In fact, he may be bad but even bad is still better than worse and Buhari is certainly worse if not worst.

At this point in time, I believe we need more Realists who understands the EXISTENTIAL THREAT we face under the Buhari presidency than Idealists who will spend the whole time writing beautiful ideas of how Nigeria can be transformed EVEN WHEN HE KNOWS THAT GENERAL ELECTION IS JUST FEW MONTHS AWAY AND THAT NONE OF HIS IDEAS WILL SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY WITH A DARK HEARTED MAN SUCH AS BUHARI IN POWER.

Let me add that should Buhari win a second term, we should just prepare to have him as a life President because that is his real aim as shown in the speed with which he placed all the security as well as other critical institutions in the hands of his kinsmen. So, once again, this is no time for idealism.

NOW, HERE IS MY THOUGHT ON PDP VICE PRESIDENTIAL SLOT:

First, we must be careful not to start fighting over the sharing formula for the animal whose body is still in the forest, alive. Every effort should be on how to kill the animal first and bring it home. So the PDP must be strategic and not allow mawkish sentimentality guide it here.

Strategically speaking, the PDP does not need to worry about placating the Southeast with the VP slot. That will amount to wasting scarce resources making an ally of one who is already your ally. Ndigbo have no intention of voting for Buhari for obvious reasons. So giving them the VP slot won't bring any extra electoral value to the PDP. Ndigbo are like that male child who, having lost his father, doesn't really care who remarried his mother as long as he keeps getting the chicken leg his late father used to gift him with every festive season. The "chicken leg" here represents a level playing field. An average Igbo man wants nothing but a level playing field where he can actualize his full potentials.

The South South, of course, has the PDP chairmanship slot already. With the two region already in the bag for the PDP, plus the herdsmen ravaged Middle Belt to some reasonable degree, the party needs to focus on splitting Yoruba votes by all means possible.
Most Yoruba progressive are fully aware that the position of the VP in the current APC govt is nothing but meaningless tokenism which has only benefitted Tinubu and company Nigerian Limited. With a very influential Yoruba as the VP, PDP has a very good chance of getting reasonable votes from the region as all those uncomfortable with Bola Tinubu's influence in the Southwest will see it as a good opportunity to break his greedy hold.

COMING TO THE NORTH AS A WHOLE ,

The biggest political capital Buhari rely on is the fear factor which is a product of his strong hold on the Northern almajiri who see him as a god and are ever ready to spill blood for him. Good news is, he is not the only one who has control over Northern almajiris. Former Kano state governor Musa Kwankwanso and his Jigawa state counterpart Sule Lamido control the same if not more number of almajiris combined. It was Kwankwanso who pulled almost 2million votes for Buhari as governor during the 2015 Kano magic votes. He would later boast how he used almajiris to remove Jonathan. Aminu Tambuwa as a sitting governor at the heart of the caliphate (Sokoto) should be able to bring something to the table.

Should all the Presidential Aspirants, who are all Northerners, agree to pull their material, human, financial as well as almajiri resources to work for the success of Atiku, no amount of Unclad manipulation will save the lifeless one from going back to his cows in 2019.

Buhari will try to rig with the help of INEC and the Transmission police IG who coincidentally was the Kano state police Chief under whose watch the Kano INEC REC was burnt to ashes alongside his family in what some people claim was an attempt to cover up the 2 million magic vote. But I believe that the ex Generals plus the Aspirants are not unaware of the fact that Buhari will finish them if he gets a second term so I like to believe that seeing as they are masters in the game of rigging themselves, they have a plan to use their international clouts to checkmate Buhari's rigging plan. Again, the election will be held simultaneously so there will be no 30,000 policemen for Mr transmission to use in intimidating opposition members.

Everybody with en own write up

Very practical suggestion.
I support it.

Buhari is no match for Atiku and who is Atiku to split Buhari votes in the North?

Hold your poisoned chalice... Prof. Osinbajo is the only way !!!

Built2last:
THE PDP PRIMARY, CHOICE OF VP AND 2019

By Charles Ogbu

The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) has just ended its national convention in Portharcourt with the former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, emerging as the party's presidential flag bearer for the 2019 election.

The next question on the table is, from which zone will the party pick its Vice Presidential candidate?

Before expressing my views on this, I like to clarify my position with regards to Nigeria as a country:

I reasonably believe that Nigeria, as presently structured, is fundamentally flawed and must either be restructured to allow the regions develop at their individual pace or balkanized to allow her different peopleS go back to how they were living before the almagamation. Any other thing aside these two is only but a cosmetic solution to the problem.

Yet,

As a practical man, I am not unaware of the fact that neither restructuring nor balkanization will fall from the sky. While pursuing the above two options and seeing as I have no weapon to achieve my aim militarily, I have to work with the limited options available no matter how inadequate those available options appear.

I am a REALIST, not an IDEALIST.

We have two major political parties (PDP and APC) with two major candidates (Muhammadu Buhari and Atiku Abubakar) and JUST FOUR MONTHS TO A CRUCIAL GENERAL ELECTION. One of the two candidate, President Buhari has conclusively proven to be a murderous genocidist. The remaining one, Atiku, though not without his own baggages, is far better than his main opponent. it will be romantically foolish of me to claim to want an end to Buhari's murderous rule and still adopt a non-challant attitude in the political activities that will see to his (Buhari's) end.

Anyone who want Buhari out has only one option here and that option is to vote Atiku Abubakar not necessarily because he is good. He may not be. In fact, he may be bad but even bad is still better than worse and Buhari is certainly worse if not worst.

At this point in time, I believe we need more Realists who understands the EXISTENTIAL THREAT we face under the Buhari presidency than Idealists who will spend the whole time writing beautiful ideas of how Nigeria can be transformed EVEN WHEN HE KNOWS THAT GENERAL ELECTION IS JUST FEW MONTHS AWAY AND THAT NONE OF HIS IDEAS WILL SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY WITH A DARK HEARTED MAN SUCH AS BUHARI IN POWER.

Let me add that should Buhari win a second term, we should just prepare to have him as a life President because that is his real aim as shown in the speed with which he placed all the security as well as other critical institutions in the hands of his kinsmen. So, once again, this is no time for idealism.

NOW, HERE IS MY THOUGHT ON PDP VICE PRESIDENTIAL SLOT:

First, we must be careful not to start fighting over the sharing formula for the animal whose body is still in the forest, alive. Every effort should be on how to kill the animal first and bring it home. So the PDP must be strategic and not allow mawkish sentimentality guide it here.

Strategically speaking, the PDP does not need to worry about placating the Southeast with the VP slot. That will amount to wasting scarce resources making an ally of one who is already your ally. Ndigbo have no intention of voting for Buhari for obvious reasons. So giving them the VP slot won't bring any extra electoral value to the PDP. Ndigbo are like that male child who, having lost his father, doesn't really care who remarried his mother as long as he keeps getting the chicken leg his late father used to gift him with every festive season. The "chicken leg" here represents a level playing field. An average Igbo man wants nothing but a level playing field where he can actualize his full potentials.

The South South, of course, has the PDP chairmanship slot already. With the two region already in the bag for the PDP, plus the herdsmen ravaged Middle Belt to some reasonable degree, the party needs to focus on splitting Yoruba votes by all means possible.
Most Yoruba progressive are fully aware that the position of the VP in the current APC govt is nothing but meaningless tokenism which has only benefitted Tinubu and company Nigerian Limited. With a very influential Yoruba as the VP, PDP has a very good chance of getting reasonable votes from the region as all those uncomfortable with Bola Tinubu's influence in the Southwest will see it as a good opportunity to break his greedy hold.

COMING TO THE NORTH AS A WHOLE ,

The biggest political capital Buhari rely on is the fear factor which is a product of his strong hold on the Northern almajiri who see him as a god and are ever ready to spill blood for him. Good news is, he is not the only one who has control over Northern almajiris. Former Kano state governor Musa Kwankwanso and his Jigawa state counterpart Sule Lamido control the same if not more number of almajiris combined. It was Kwankwanso who pulled almost 2million votes for Buhari as governor during the 2015 Kano magic votes. He would later boast how he used almajiris to remove Jonathan. Aminu Tambuwa as a sitting governor at the heart of the caliphate (Sokoto) should be able to bring something to the table.

Should all the Presidential Aspirants, who are all Northerners, agree to pull their material, human, financial as well as almajiri resources to work for the success of Atiku, no amount of Unclad manipulation will save the lifeless one from going back to his cows in 2019.

Buhari will try to rig with the help of INEC and the Transmission police IG who coincidentally was the Kano state police Chief under whose watch the Kano INEC REC was burnt to ashes alongside his family in what some people claim was an attempt to cover up the 2 million magic vote. But I believe that the ex Generals plus the Aspirants are not unaware of the fact that Buhari will finish them if he gets a second term so I like to believe that seeing as they are masters in the game of rigging themselves, they have a plan to use their international clouts to checkmate Buhari's rigging plan. Again, the election will be held simultaneously so there will be no 30,000 policemen for Mr transmission to use in intimidating opposition members.

I agree 100%. ATIKU / FEMI OTEDOLA ticket will do the magic.

Nemesis001:
Atiku should never make the mistake of picking a VP outside SOUTH EAST or else, Igbos will decide to support Buhari in other to get the presidency in 2023.

what the dude is saying makes a lot of sense..........read the write up again

Yusuf54:
Buhari is no match for Atiku and who is Atiku to split Buhari votes in the North?

Buhari enjoyed a lot of sympathy votes in 2015
The myth surrounding him has been blown away by cluelessness and incompetency..
The anti corruption war is a mirage

This time around... You will be amazed

Nemesis001:
Atiku should never make the mistake of picking a VP outside SOUTH EAST or else, Igbos will decide to support Buhari in other to get the presidency in 2023.

Atiku should chose a vice from the sw simple. The Ibo's stand a better chance at the presidency with an Atiku presidency.

Buhari will never hand over to an igbo man. It can never happen. He knows igbos hate him with passion and he hates igbos as well, and we don't care. In the same way Atiku cannot be president without significant votes from the SW. So if igbos are interested in securing the presidency, it can only happen through the PDP.

The igbos have been loyal to PDP since inception of the 4th republic and will surely be rewarded with the presidency when power returns to the south if PDP wins next year. But this can only happen if significant votes come from SW.

My counsel for PDP is to chose a Lagosian. A Lagosian as VP will seal Lagos for PDP. Osun will go to PDP and the rest will be shared perhaps tilting more to APC but with Lagos in the box, PDP will win the SW and that will go a very long way to secure the seat for PDP.

Let the igbos take a chill. APC will not give igbos the presidency even if we give them all the votes from anambra to ebonyi.

meccuno:
what the dude is saying makes a lot of sense..........read the write up again

I and my friends have sat down to analyze this issue already.

1.The Igbos will feel marginalized again for not been given any representation at the Federal level.
2. South East delegates gave him the highest votes.
3. IPOB will tell every of their members never to vote a Yoruba man as VP.
4. A sit at home will be declared in the SE cos none of their own son is contesting.
5. This same Atiku was the one shouting that Igbos have been marginalized for too long.

He will lose fatality cos Yorubas will surely vote for Apc and Osibanjo.

Nemesis001:
Atiku should never make the mistake of picking a VP outside SOUTH EAST or else, Igbos will decide to support Buhari in other to get the presidency in 2023.

My friend shut the hell up
Igbos don't need any VP post

The battle ground for votes is in the north and South West
Being a northener and Picking a sw technocrat as VP makes a lot of sense

The SE and SS are already under the umbrella ...

dokie:


Atiku should chose a vice from the sw simple. The Ibo's stand a better chance at the presidency with an Atiku presidency.

Buhari will never hand over to an igbo man. It can never happen. He knows igbos hate him with passion and he hates igbos as well, and we don't care. In the same way Atiku cannot be president without significant votes from the SW. So if igbos are

Will South West vote against APC that already promised to make sure power returns to SW by 2023

Nemesis001:

I and my friends have sat down to analyze this issue already.

1.The Igbos will feel marginalized again for not been given any representation at the Federal level.
2. South East delegates gave him the highest votes.
3. IPOB will tell every of their members never to vote a Yoruba man as VP.
4. A sit at home will be declared in the SE cos none of their own son is contesting.
5. This same Atiku was the one shouting that Igbos have been marginalized for too long.

He will lose fatality cos Yorubas will surely vote for Apc and Osibanjo.

You and your friends should quit discussing politics
Talk about football instead

Go ahead and sleep... Your analysis are irritating

zombieTRACKER:


My friend shut the hell up
Igbos don't need any VP post

The battle ground for votes is in the north and South West
Being a northener and Picking a sw technocrat as VP makes a lot of sense

The SE and SS are already under the umbrella ...

You should shut up your mouth and think for once.


Which SE and SS is under any umbrella? Don't you ever try to join the 2 regions together laye e.

Which technocrats do SW have that can pull up to 1million votes Nonsense

Nemesis001:

Will South West vote against APC that already promised to make sure power returns to SW by 2023

To rescue the country from lifelessness is a task that must be achieved by well meaning citizens...

Go sleep APC zombie supporter ... Stop spewing rubbish online
Trying to be clever by half ... See the thing advising PDP

zombieTRACKER:


You and your friends should quit discussing politics
Talk about football instead

Go ahead and sleep... Your analysis are irritating

Same way your sense of reasoning is senile and outdated. Nonsense


Come and force Igbos to vote Atiku then.


Any PDP without Igbo VP is automatically an Ofe Nsala party. Atiku will lose woefully in the East.

zombieTRACKER:


Buhari enjoyed a lot of sympathy votes in 2015
The myth surrounding him has been blown away by cluelessness and incompetency..
The anti corruption war is a mirage

This time around... You will be amazed

Sympathy votes ko Silencer votes ni..Ajekun iya ni e o jeeeeeeeee

Nemesis001:

I and my friends have sat down to analyze this issue already.

1.The Igbos will feel marginalized again for not been given any representation at the Federal level.
2. South East delegates gave him the highest votes.
3.[s] IPOB will tell every of their members never to vote a Yoruba man as VP[/s].
4. A sit at home will be declared in the SE cos none of their own son is contesting.
5. This same Atiku was the one shouting that Igbos have been marginalized for too long.

He will lose fatality cos Yorubas will surely vote for Apc and Osibanjo.

IPOB have no say in this election,her members have no PVC.

Nemesis001:

You should shut up your mouth and think for once.


Which SE and SS is under any umbrella? Don't you ever try to join the 2 regions together laye e.

Which technocrats do SW have that can pull up to 1million votes Nonsense

You have been noticed Afonja

He should not make that mistake, of thinking that the Igbo votes are in the bag thereby taking us for granted, worst come to worst, Igbos will boycott the election.

zombieTRACKER:


You have been noticed

You sound more like the Afonja here. Supporting S

Atiku to field a Yoruba VP, are Igbos fools?

zombieTRACKER:


To rescue the country from lifelessness is a task that must be achieved by well meaning citizens...

Go sleep APC zombie supporter ... Stop spewing rubbish online
Trying to be clever by half ... See the thing advising PDP

See this Ewedu guzzler trying to push Atiku into pit.


Check my previous posts and save yourself from embarrassment. Nonsense

This man get BAAAAAAAAD MOUTH O!
Chai!!

Anyone who want Buhari out has only one option here and that option is to vote Atiku Abubakar not necessarily because he is good. He may not be. In fact, he may be bad but even bad is still better than worse and Buhari is certainly worse if not worst

paramakina202:

IPOB have no say in this election,her members have no PVC.

You will cry after the election. Ofe Nsala loading.

diebuhari1:
You sound more like the Afonja here. Supporting S

Atiku to field a Yoruba VP, are Igbos fools?

Igbos don't need any VP position... It should go to the SW...
PDP needs the position to bargain for votes
Targeting and matching APC strongholds

Stop being petty

First, we must be careful not to start fighting over the sharing formula for the animal whose body is still in the forest, alive. Every effort should be on how to kill the animal first and bring it home. So the PDP must be strategic and not allow mawkish sentimentality guide it here

Killing THE LIFELESS!!!!

zombieTRACKER:


Igbos don't need any VP position... It should go to the SW...
PDP needs the position to bargain for votes
Targeting and matching APC strongholds

Stop being petty

So why do Yorubas need the position since Igbos don't? You think Igbos will troop out en masse to vote Atiku if he abandons Igbos to pick a Yoruba VP? Igbos will rather boycott the election.
Are you well at all?

Strategically speaking, the PDP does not need to worry about placating the Southeast with the VP slot. That will amount to wasting scarce resources making an ally of one who is already your ally. Ndigbo have no intention of voting for Buhari for obvious reasons. So giving them the VP slot won't bring any extra electoral value to the PDP. Ndigbo are like that male child who, having lost his father, doesn't really care who remarried his mother as long as he keeps getting the chicken leg his late father used to gift him with every festive season. The "chicken leg" here represents a level playing field. An average Igbo man wants nothing but a level playing field where he can actualize his full potentials.

Absolutely correct!

Nemesis001:

See this Ewedu guzzler trying to push Atiku into pit.


Check my previous posts and save yourself from embarrassment. Nonsense

Shut Up kid .. You opened this moniker on 30 Sept
Atiku picked Gbenga Daniels for a reason..
You know nothing about politics... Go sleep

Nemesis001:

You will cry after the election. Ofe Nsala loading.

Cry for what?
If you like eat Ofe okazi thats your business.