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Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by justise: 6:35am On Dec 22, 2010
Abuja — Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation has been accused of forging an opinion polls that was recently circulated to media houses for publication.

But, the Director, Media and Publicity of the Atiku Abubakar Campaign Organisation, Malam Garba Shehu has told Leadership yesterday on telephone that the organisation have incontrovertable evidence to support the opinion poll.



The result of the opinion polls, which the campaign organization said was conducted by the International Institute of Social Science Research (IISSR) based in the United Kingdom- published recently in some newspapers, put Alhaji Atiku Abubakar ahead of other presidential aspirants in the 2011 general elections.

In a press statement issued in Abuja yesterday by a political monitoring group, the United Nigeria Forum and signed by its National Coordinator, Alhaji Seidu Umar Yelwa, the group said the opinion polls was forged to deceive the electorate and manipulate the political space.



According to the group, "Nigerians woke up on Monday the 8th of November 2010 to read a story that had been cleverly planted in all the papers to the effect that a reputable London based research body, the International Institute of Social Science Research (IISSR) had conducted a survey giving Atiku an edge over other presidential aspirants of the PDP.

"While we are not bothered about the bid to project Atiku as a leading presidential aspirant, we are concerned about the need to travel the 2011 road with caution and sincerity, since statistics has been likened to a dummy, which can be employed for whatever purpose.



"The problem we have with the Atiku survey is that the subject matter cannot be accessed on the World Wide Web, the internet, which is the main research tool of this era. Does a goggle/yahoo/ search yourself. What we have seen that is close to the group claimed to have conducted the survey for Atiku is an organisation that concerns itself with market survey in the United States of America. There is also The Hague based Institute of Social Science Research, which is not the organisation Atiku claimed conducted the research."

The group blamed the media for publishing unverifiable statement sent to them by Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation with the aim to manipulate them in the ongoing electoral process.

"Now to what do we blame the inability of the media to conduct even this most elementary due diligence that would have exposed the real intention of the survey? We will leave that to your imagination, however, it is worthy of note that some of the papers refused to put a reporters name to the story. Perhaps that was to afford them the chance to deny in the future," the group said.


It added: "Now, the story of that 'survey' is coming alongside a rash of other pro-Atiku stories in the papers, this puts a lie to the claim of camaraderie amongst the northern presidential aspirants who are in the vanguard of promoting ethnic and sectional interests within the PDP. It is also clear that Atiku and others are not occupying a level playing field in the race they jointly put together.

"We noticed that the Atiku Abubakar campaign organisation has been spending more money and been more visible in recent weeks than any of the consensus seekers.

Now, there is the need to search if the 17 northern wise men would eventually pick as their representative, a man who dreams up unverifiable research bodies to give the media imaginary research surveys. We believe that there should not be any form of desperation by any of the aspirants if service is the word", the political monitoring group added.

http://allafrica.com/stories/201011180396.html
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by justise: 6:35am On Dec 22, 2010
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by Beaf: 6:59am On Dec 22, 2010
A thief will always behave like a thief. embarassed
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by Ymodulus: 10:33am On Dec 22, 2010
@beaf if not because you are from the Niger Delta region, i would have called you a DAFT. Can you tell me how this article relates to atiku been a thief?
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by rasputinn(m): 10:51am On Dec 22, 2010
Beaf:

A thief will always behave like a thief. embarassed

Exactly,Atiku is a thief,there's no bigger thief than him now so desperate to get a chance to steal at the presidential level
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by 4reigningqueen: 12:29pm On Dec 22, 2010
Am not surprised.he was vp for 8yrs bt had no impact.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by scorpion1: 1:03pm On Dec 22, 2010
Turakin corruption should give us the name of the website of the research institute so we can know them and their pedigree. Its a shame in this age and time of the internet.

The foolish men like Atiku still think Nigerians still live in the stone age they used to live in. A bloody Cameroonian that was given citizenship in this country in 1961 wants to hold us to ransome.

Lets call a spade a spade.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by OvieE: 1:22pm On Dec 22, 2010
Ymodulus:

@beaf if not because you are from the Niger Delta region, i would have called you a DAFT. Can you tell me how this article relates to atiku been a thief?



Don't you know that a thief will come out and formulate an opinion so people can vote for him. A thief will always be a thief. Opinion swing election just for you to know that.

Atiku boy,
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by Nsiman(m): 1:38pm On Dec 22, 2010
@ ymodulus, atiku is doing political laundering, imagine that and he can't even say its false to be sincere to the electorates
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by youngay: 1:42pm On Dec 22, 2010
Atiku no amount of manipulation can take u to that sit. Idiot
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by marcus1234: 1:46pm On Dec 22, 2010
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by Nobody: 1:59pm On Dec 22, 2010
Ymodulus:

@beaf if not because you are from the Niger Delta region, i would have called you  a DAFT. Can you tell me how this article relates to atiku been a thief? 
Atiku has been and will always be a loser. We all supported him when he was being dealt with by uncle sege, now we all know why OBJ messed him up.  He (Atiku) is a desperate fool who has no respect for authority.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by gangar(m): 2:17pm On Dec 22, 2010
Even a s a thief, he must be a modest one(Atiku). How come he wants to manipulate a poll on the net, but doing it on 20margin. U guys shold grow up and stop wasting ur energies on trivialities.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by ROCKJ1(m): 3:01pm On Dec 22, 2010
i dey laugh o!
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by asamuel: 3:29pm On Dec 22, 2010
I have always said Atiku cannot lead us. He is a thief sorrounded with corruption charges home and abroad. He is a polygamist with wives accused of money laundering. He is a homosexual. Now he is doing yahoo yahoo on PDP website just to win primaries. That guy will carry drugs if he becomes president. I dey laugh oo!
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by Meldrick(m): 3:44pm On Dec 22, 2010
What do you expect from Atiku? This is what he is best at. Beware Nigerians
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by Solozzo(m): 3:48pm On Dec 22, 2010
I expect members of this forum to be persons of high intelligence and maturity and should be able to uphold the spirit of natural justice that looks at both sides of a case without bias and base judgement on evidence/ We have just read a report and where is the evidence that Attic doctored opinion polls results. Also where is the evidence that he stole more than OBJ did while they were in power. The big problem Atiku had is OBJ undlying love for power and his megalomanic unforgiving spirit and his fear of being punished if Atiku gets to power. But we know OBJ makes bad choices as evidenced by his choice of Yar'adua Jonathan team of poor leadership, OBJ is still the unseen hand blocking atiku and brainwashing Nigerians that he is more corrupt than himself, Atiku may not win the presidential elections but lets see how GEJ plays out his hand in the future,
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by daphil: 4:21pm On Dec 22, 2010
"expect members of this forum to be persons of high intelligence and maturity and should be able to uphold the spirit of natural justice that looks at both sides of a case without bias and base judgement on evidence/ We have just read a report and where is the evidence that Attic doctored opinion polls results. Also where is the evidence that he stole more than OBJ did while they were in power. The big problem Atiku had is OBJ undlying love for power and his megalomanic unforgiving spirit and his fear of being punished if Atiku gets to power. But we know OBJ makes bad choices as evidenced by his choice of Yar'adua Jonathan team of poor leadership, OBJ is still the unseen hand blocking atiku and brainwashing Nigerians that he is more corrupt than himself, Atiku may not win the presidential elections but lets see how GEJ plays out his hand in the future",


@ Solozzo, I am happy you admitted that Atiku stole our money, although he did not steal as much as OBJ.
Do you think a thief is qualified to rule you?
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by snowdrops(m): 4:26pm On Dec 22, 2010
what did he forget in aso rock that he wants to go back and collect.

some "ego" i supposed.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by seanet02: 4:27pm On Dec 22, 2010
Typical poverty development party, they can forge anything including Happiness of the people
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by asamuel: 4:33pm On Dec 22, 2010
Atiku will carry cocaine if he becomes president!
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by Nsiman(m): 4:38pm On Dec 22, 2010
@ solozzo, yesterday this issue came up and some1 gave a link which is inaccessible yet atiku's group said an int'l organisation did the polls, bros, we can't be foolled again because its dawn
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by sheriffman(m): 5:04pm On Dec 22, 2010
I am dissapointed in d Atiku Campaign organisation for thinking us fools and trying 2 play on our collective intelligence.I just googled d name of d said agency IISSR and I came up with a blank.the closest I got was INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR PRISON STUDIES.If a poll was truly comducted then I can say that it was 4 aspirants who should be in prison.Though I prefer GEJ 2 Atiku,and have also been shamed by his campaign org in their defence of GEJ's candidacy an aspirant involved in forgery and manipulation should be laughed at and dat was wat OBJ did.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by bisiaet: 5:24pm On Dec 22, 2010
I knew it before this time that such poll of a thing is a big lie no poll done anywhere so i'm not surprise at all.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by Nsiman(m): 6:08pm On Dec 22, 2010
Atiku rigging online polls never conducted
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by rasputinn(m): 6:11pm On Dec 22, 2010
Atiku ti ku oooo
I dey laugh ooooo
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by BetaThings: 7:04pm On Dec 22, 2010
GEJ's defenders are swarming and very prolific. Has the hourly pay been increased again? I know that the 2011 budget has provisions for increased vote for the presidency, but I did not know they have started spending it! or maybe there is some bridging finance?
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by chizillar(m): 7:18pm On Dec 22, 2010
[size=28pt]All of you here[anti-atiku] are high on drugs. Go back to history and read the story of Atiku. He was a multi-millionnaire in the 80's and 90's.He is a business mogul, man of ideas and principles. He is better placed than Goodluck on terms of competence and content. Secondly, he has better appeal.[/size]
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by BankyC1: 7:22pm On Dec 22, 2010
This man will never cease to amaze me. wat will he do next,
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by bisiaet: 7:23pm On Dec 22, 2010
It is a big dissappointment. I know a lair will always be a lair, a thief will always be thief no matter what. I still wonder why these Atiku of a thing is so worry about Gej so much just seeking way to bring him down at all cost BUT the simple fact is If Atiku, Ibb, Ciroma or the rest clown called politician are not happy with Gej standing as aspirant under PDP in 011, please let them quit PDP for God sake is it by force they must be in PDP to achieve their goals? Let them take a path of honour and say my hands up in as far Gej will contest i'm moving away to other party simple as that. They should quit if Gej is not quiting for them they should quit for Gej for God sake.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by category(m): 7:25pm On Dec 22, 2010
chizillar:

[size=28pt]All of you here[anti-atiku] are high on drugs. Go back to history and read the story of Atiku. He was a multi-millionnaire in the 80's and 90's.He is a business mogul, man of ideas and principles. He is better placed than Goodluck on terms of competence and content. Secondly, he has better appeal.[/size]

So because he is a business monkey, that makes him better
placed than GEJ abi?
Some pple reason wif their anus instead of their head.
Re: Atiku Accused Of Forging Opinion Polls by chizillar(m): 7:31pm On Dec 22, 2010
[size=28pt]Aside, don't get me wrong. I have nothing against Goodluck afterall we finished from same University. The problem with him is that he is not a presidential material. He is weak & loves covering up corrupt individuals he calls friends[corruption cover up specialist]. He doesn't even have influence and doesn't inspire.

Atiku should be our president in 2015. He has done so much for democracy in Nigeria and need be rewarded. he has better plan for Nigerians.
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