Quote: "I know in a free and fair elections Buhari was the rightlful winner."

This statement shows the kind of naivety or delusion or both under which Gen. Buhari and his supporters operate. Although having contested the presidency two previous times, by the time of this election Gen. Buhari was again contesting under a party with no political base - no governors, no assembly men, no local council chairman. That first of all shows you that Gen. Buhari:
1) seems to care only about himself and himself only in the presidency;
2) is not a person that can work by finding common ground among a diverse set of peoples/nationalities - that is a lot since we are talking about Nigeria.

Okay, with no real base in the north Gen. Buhari came down south to seek support, with the same attitude. Is anyone suprised then that he could not work out a deal with ACN? Instead, he settled for another non-politician with almost no political base in the SW as his VP. After all these missteps, he blames ACN - ACN was supposed to throw away all their hard-earned relevance down-south to put Buhari in the presidency? Examine yourself General.

He went into the election talking all kind of jazz about lynching people who rig, on the one hand. On the other hand, the same violence-talking Gen. Buhari foreclosed the only legal means to challenge an election by calliong our judiciary system as a waste of time. He had nothing to say about the obvious underage children that filled up the north's voter numbers and their caught-on-camera-voting in both elections. To be sure, PDP probably benefited from underage voting in the elections as well. This is the kind of open illegality that northern politicians have visited on Nigeria over and over again -the practice of extreme sharia, a senator openly challenging the constitution by marrying a 9-year old, Yar'adua's unconscionable absentee presidency/Turai dominion, and the behavior of the NPLF in the lead-up to the elections are just a few other examples.

Does anyone think that if a northerner were president and a southern presidential candidate talked violence before the elections that candidate would not be under arrest already - even if only house arrest? Especially after refusing to call for calm until precious lives were already lost after the elections. Gen. Buhari is not a nationalist by any yardstick.

Not to condone the vote inflation that occured in the SS&SE, but without that excess zealousness on the part of PDP (basically to avoid a run-off) Gen. Buhari actually stood no chance of winning, or getting a runoff for that matter - unless "spending political capital" to achieve political ends is not how politics works anymore. As I have said before, the SS&SE message was: if you 've got underage voters, we have got thumbs aplenty or as we are currently hearing, votes can easily be inflated.

The north must realize the kind of indignity the rest of the nation suffers when their politician behaves like they own us all - as VP, GEJ SHOULD NEVER HAVE BEEN TREATED THE WAY HE WAS TREATED DURING YAR'ADUA'S ILLNESS. Can anybody imagine what would have happened if OBJ had falling sick and incapacitated for an extended period? Atiku would have completely taken over the presidency, even if the constitution did not support it. Well, the corollary is that GEJ would be a dog's uncle if the north were banking on built in rigging (underage voting and the like) to win or force a runoff, and his supporters fail to reply in like manner. Fool me once, shame on you; fool me twice, shame on me goes the saying.

If we have to be a nation then people have to learn to follow rules, otherwise it becomes an animalistic do-me-I-do-you nation of chaos. GEJ had to wait for the National Assembly and the courts in order to assume office after Yar'adua's illness. Similarly, Gen. Buhari has rightly determined he was wrong in foreclosing the courts and is heading there as we speak to challenge the election. Although I would really say that he has little to no chance of winning, that is what he should do rather than banking on "lynching" mobs to reclaim his "phanton mandate".

It is not suprising then that after leading a phantom party to the elections, choosing a person with phantom political base in the SW as his VP, getting trounced in the legislative elections and losing the presidential electioins Gen. Buhari's supporters have no qualms talking about a phantom "free and fair election in which they KNOW Buhari is the winner". But, this is mere scrambling to win some governorship and other seats come April 26th, so that the north's vote for CPC in the presidential election would not be clearly shown to be based on sectional interests. In reality that vote was mainly sectional in nature, and the April 26th elections will show that - PDP has substantial political capital up north, and like ACN in the SW is not going to throw it away just to make some planless General look good.

For me, the fame of Gen. Buhari has always been more myth than reality - his real records are nothing to write home about. His political career is over - even if the presidential elections were to be re-done, and that is not going to happen any time soon.

GenBuhari:

Your work is not done yet
Keep working for election of CPC Governors
These elections so far have been a farce!
I know in a free and fair elections Buhari was the rightlful winner.
Since Buhari created the CPC we would continue to support CPC.
Comrades , please start strategizing for getting CPC Governors elected.

muami:

@MeGaSteEt: I am going to sue you for causing me personal injury. You made me fall off my chair laughing uncontrollably until I strained my ankle  

Sorry bros.

The only advice wey I get for the guy, make him go listen to;

Stereo Man's - Sensiman

A line from the song
If e no good for your brain, QUIIIITTTTTTTT!!!!!

Koruji. Great post. I think it deserves a separate thread of its own though. . . perhaps as a post mortem of Buhari's campaign.

Now I see why Beaf can safely call you names.

The first caveat to any online poll is IT IS NOT SCIENTIFIC!!! The IpSos poll which was scientifically designed did that GEJ will get 60% of the votes only a few days to the elections.

With this kind of reasoning, GREAT THANKS TO THE ALMIGHTY THAT BUHARI FAILED TO MAKE IT TO ASO ROCK

Here is a Scenario for You: - INEC Result Compared to a Case where we take 15% of PDP votes away and leave all the others alone - GEJ still wins handily!!!

[table] INEC-Results % PDP Vote minus 15% %
PDP 22,495,187 60 19120909 56
CPC 12,214,853 32 12214853 35
ACN 2,079,151 6 2079151 6
ANPP 917,012 2 917012 3
PDC 82,243 0 82243 0
Total 37,788,446 100 34,414,168 100
[/table]

GenBuhari:
@Beaf,
NL polls are more credible than these massively rigged election results

Thanks, ekt_bear, I 'll create a new thread for it.

ekt_bear:

Koruji. Great post. I think it deserves a separate thread of its own though. . . perhaps as a post mortem of Buhari's campaign.

ekt_bear:

Koruji. Great post. I think it deserves a separate thread of its own though. . . perhaps as a post mortem of Buhari's campaign.

Seconded!