gidson12:

bunch of failures, if una(SW) like make una no vote 4 goodluck, shebi una get ACN, while not vote 4 buhari your odua candidate, GOODLUCK go still win, up SS, up Goodluck, cry o, na we get aso rock 4 d nxt 8yrs, yes i said it 8yrs

gidson12:

@ SEFAGO,
God o, see bad belle, hope it pains you wella, your northern brothers and you westerns had ruled this country to its sorry state, now with GOODLUCK we can behold some gleam of light from the dark hole your brothers dumped us in, is that your heartattack, i repeat 'if u like go hang your self' SS rules, and we go hold am 4 d nxt 8years cos u guys(SW) would still love to vote him in again, cos he's better than your Obasanjo, up SS,

Ileke-IdI:

Clear up the air for me a bit.

Why did the alliance truly fail gan sef?

Crude Oil:

Same question applies to SE/SS. Jonathan would not have won if they didn't vote for him.

~Bluetooth:

mr Buhari caused it  !
I can't remembered when SE was called to the table for a possible alliance ?

~Bluetooth:

mr Buhari caused it  !

Finding answer to apathy in the west

In the country's western region, voter turnout was a little more subdued. In Lagos, Oyo, and even Kwara State, the dismal turnout has already sparked passionate discussions. A voter in Ilorin, Akinlekun Mojeed, said the people were more concernced about who ruled over their local affairs than who became president.

The state chairman of the Nigeria Bar association, Salmon Jawando, thought that the success of last week's turnout may have been responsible for this week's failure. "So many people came out with their voter's cards to vote last week but could not find their names on the voters register, and that must have been discouraging," he said. Talk of intimidation may also have played some part. Anu Ibiwoye who was an ACN candidate for the Senate in last week's parliamentary election, was allegedly kidnapped by unknown persons.

The situation was probably worse in Oyo State where voter apathy was clearly evident, although the election was peaceful. NEXT visited Unit 10, Ward 9 at Mokola area of Ibadan North Local Government around noon when voter accreditation was ending and noticed that only 345 of the registered 1,113 names were accredited for the election. Lam Adesina, the former governor of the state, attributed this to a long-standing disconnect between the federal government and people living in the component states.

Speaking with journalists shortly after casting his vote at his Fefele area residence, Mr Adesina blamed former President Olusegun Obasanjo's combativeness in support of the ruling party which had reportedly destroyed the interest of most people in the southwest in politics at the centre. Lanre Adeleke, the Oyo state director of the Jonathan/Sambo Presidential Campaign Organisation, thought turnout was low because many political parties in the country did not have candidates. According to him, about 40 of the existing parties had adopted the candidacy of President Jonathan and this undoubtedly affected the disposition of party members to the election.

Abiola Ajimobi, governorship candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria in the state said it was easier for the people to relate to candidates for the national assembly and governorship seats than those gunning for the presidency. The national coordinator of the Coalition of Democrats for Electoral Reform, Ayo Opadokun, said the heavy presence of security operatives in major areas could have scared people who wanted to come out and vote. There are those who also blamed the poor turnout on the mishandling of the ACN/CPC merger, but one of the architects of the failed accord, former governor of Lagos state, Bola Tinubu gave the matter short shrift. "The alliance is bleeding now, let it bleed to death and then we can do the postmortem," he said.

fstranger5:

Did you even follow the news at all?

The alliance failed because they were all selfish and none of them trusted the other party. Buhari to the best of my knowledge doesnt seem to comprehend the 'koko' behind the whole alliance shitz

~Bluetooth:

How was Acn greedy ? Buhari as president,bakare as vice and cpc as the platform of the alliance. . .so what's in it for Acn ?

fstranger5:


So blame Bakare? or better still blame the system

For starters, Bakare cannot resign at this stage, the law does not allow that.  And to expect a trained lawyer to sign a post-dated form, presented by a world renown crook, is the height of disrespect for me.

The point here is that, it is everyone's fault, and at the same time, it is no one's fault.

BTW, ACN approached CPC, not the other way round. CPC was confident in their ability to pull it off. It seems ACN was not sure that they could win, so ACN is needed, in this scenario, to make the biggest sacrifice, not CPC.

~Bluetooth:

Acn meeting cpc for an alliance doesn't makes sense to me.

Both cpc and pdp needed SW votes and Acn is neutral.

Buhari lost out because he thinks he can win in the region without any alliance with Acn even when the NASS election showed that he can 't win the region.

fstranger5:

Whether it makes sense to you or not, that is what happened. ACN approached CPC. We all know ACN wasnt winning the election, so ACN approaching Buhari was just a matter of time. Only an ediot wouldnt realize that. Buhari alone is a party. He could have run as independent and would still have pulled off the same number of votes as he did yesterday.  RIbadu on the other hand doesnt have that kind of acceptability, neither does Fola Adeola.


Yes. The older folks in the SW may have preferred Buhari to Jonathan, but this is the 'Kokolet' generation. And, in a way,  The Facebook generation. There is no way, they would have preferred Buhari to Jonathan. So, even with ACN/CPC alliance, GEJ would still have won. Buhari knew that already. He only wanted 25% of the SW votes, nothing more, nothing less.



Hindsight is 20/20

~Bluetooth:

whether you like it or not,[s]Acn gave it to Jonathan because of a failed alliance with cpc[/s].that has been established and it will continue to be so that the golden opportunity to dislodge pdp was discredited by buhari.

fstranger5:

^^^

In the grand scheme of thing, SE and SS do not matter.

They are inconsequential.

fstranger5:

^^^

In the grand scheme of thing, SE and SS do not matter.

They are inconsequential.

fstranger5:

Arrant Nonsense!

Even without campaigning for Jonathan?  Even when there was serious confusion 48 hrs leading to the election?

ACN ko, LP ni!  GEJ won squarely, independent of ACN's influence.

~Bluetooth:

Acn won all NASS assembly elections in SW yet you are still arguing that jonathan won SW region without any form of agreement ? Fyi,only osun state did not agree to the deal and that is the only state Acn won in ! Use your head,please.

~Bluetooth:

Acn won all NASS assembly elections in SW yet you are still arguing that jonathan won SW region without any form of agreement ? Fyi,only osun state did not agree to the deal and that is the only state Acn won in ! Use your head,please.

fstranger5:

^^^

In the grand scheme of thing, SE and SS do not matter.

They are inconsequential.

~Bluetooth:

Acn won all NASS assembly elections in SW yet you are still arguing that jonathan won SW region without any form of agreement ? Fyi,only osun state did not agree to the deal and that is the only state Acn won in ! Use your head,please.