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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by lolademariam: 12:04pm On Mar 22, 2015
ckmayoca:


There is a process called rigging. Its already in place. Wait n see. A close source to pdp said so.
yes, I agree wit u. A friend of mine told me now dat 4rm d above, dey send a msg 2 INEC officials in Lagos dat PDP must win South West with all cost.

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by PassingShot(m): 12:04pm On Mar 22, 2015
Koolking:


If you believe the coming election can never be rigged you are on your own. The miracle of rigging which PDP has perfected at the federal level is a jinx that is yet to be broken. The miracle might still happen. Same with APC which has the perfected the Miracle of rigging in Lagos State. It's more unlikely for PDP to break the jinx in the governorship race unless they up their rigging antics.

Consequent upon the alove, the statuos quo might remain. However, change at the federal and change in states - better for the country. Its a conspicous fact that the incumbents have failed woefully.

Rigging cannot be completely ruled out of this election but the possibility and magnitude has been drastically reduced with the use of PVC and card reader. Plus the fact that APC is as strong as PDP now will make the task far more difficult for PDP to rig this presidential election as in the past.

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Jaydenphoenix: 12:04pm On Mar 22, 2015
This is just a prediction. Also, a simple majority decides the presidency, not amount of states won. Just do ur part on the 28th and wait for the result. Simple.

May the best candidate win.

My choice is my business.

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by soludo93(m): 12:05pm On Mar 22, 2015
It's either the punch is remarkably bias or has presented a mere speculative guess for gullible Buharists to consume. These are the unfortunate guesses by a national daily:

1. In Borno, Buhari has been a political factor since
the first day he declared his ambition to contest
the presidency of Nigeria in 2007.
Shame! Buhari contested election against obasanjo in 2003.

2. Adamawa- The state boasts of
ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the APC;
Buhari’s wife; former Chairman of the PDP,
Bamanga Tukur; ex-EFCC Chairman, Nuhu
Ribadu, among others.
You hurriedly mentioned Atiku as an opposition but failed to mention Jonathan Zwingina who led delegates that voted against Atiku in 2011 primaries. Marwa and incumbent governor are others in your impaired judgement.

3. To suggest that Buhari would gather 25% of Votes in Rivers because of Amechi is the same as saying that GEJ would win Bauchi because the seating Governor is a member of PDP.

4. Lagos - You underplayed the population of non-indigenes in Lagos and that will be the shock of your life.
5. The minister of education and former governor of Kano state doesn't deserve a mention but you hurried to peg Sanusi against GEJ, who had settled their indifference. Sanusi neither has a political structure nor a grassroot support like Shekarau.
Punch is seriously anemic in reporting national issues. People will stop patronizing them after 29th of March.

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:06pm On Mar 22, 2015
otr1:

With the bolded, you've automatically given it to APC. Prove me wrong next week, APC will win those states, though PDP will perform better in Kwara.

Kaduna is an unknown quality. The average indigene is very politically sophisticated. I expect it to be 50-50 there...with the Northern part going to APC and the southern part going to PDP. Kaduna also has a high number of non-indigenes living in the capital and Zaria(APC stronghold)..who work at the federal govt instiutions/offices there...who may prove decisive.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:07pm On Mar 22, 2015
kristen12:
Most people that are screaming Buhari, will vote for Jonathan; and people saying Jonathan will vote for Buhari.
Politics is about betrayal
day dreamer,, is high time u wake frm ur slumber
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nelgenius4me(m): 12:09pm On Mar 22, 2015
The APC mouth piece has spoken again. The election proper will speak for us. I pray the election will be very peaceful. All this media manipulation is capable of causing violence.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by abdulabbakar(m): 12:09pm On Mar 22, 2015
Mynd44 :

Yes GEJ will win Ogun, Oyo and Lagos
tongue
He needs more than a miracle

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by datribune: 12:10pm On Mar 22, 2015
Come may 29th GMB shall say "so help me God". SAI BUHARI

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by AniTech(m): 12:10pm On Mar 22, 2015
''By and large, the pendulum swings to Buhari. Having considered all the permutations, there's no way Jonathan can win the 2015 presidential election if it's conducted on 28th March 2015 with the Card Reader. The momentum behind Buhari is like a hurricane''

spot on!!1

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by MrALIVE: 12:12pm On Mar 22, 2015
ckmayoca:


There is a process called rigging. Its already in place. Wait n see. A close source to pdp said so.
no amount of rigging will make buhari to lose this election

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Janedoe26(f): 12:13pm On Mar 22, 2015
ckmayoca:


There is a process called rigging. Its already in place. Wait n see. A close source to pdp said so.

Heard same on friday. Hence some form of confidence emanating from the PDP camp. Even if GEJ wins, we all know how.

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by saintandsinnerz: 12:13pm On Mar 22, 2015
Raiders:
Stop comparing the Israeli election with Nigeria election because its 2 different systems. Also God doesn't invovle in politics because God is not a politician. Just like in sports, The best person always win in politics.
Anyway, I don't agree with you that GEJ/PDP is going to outright win in SS and SE states. There are millions of Southerners like me who are not going to vote for GEJ because he didn't live up to expectation during his 5 yrs in office. I am not going to vote for a president simply because he is from my region or religion. I think APC is going to do well in most SS and SE than in 2011 because many Nigerians are not happy with the current state of the country. I also believe that APC will get more than 25% in most SS and SE states as long as the elections are free and fair from rigging.

Are you not tired of the bolded statement? That you are from SS do not change anything! Please drop that line it is getting boring already
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Sooroptimist: 12:14pm On Mar 22, 2015
dagbokoncept:
All APC warriors on nairaland are busy shouting sai Buhari. The PDP candidate(GEJ) still have an edge over that of the APC (GMB). Buhari should not expect such huge amount of polls in 2015 election unlike the previous elections. Their Underaged voters, foreigners, cows and horses would not be able to participate in Saturday's election. I have been in Maidugiri for 5 years, the southern part of borno are dominated with Christians who will vote massively for Gej on saturday even not for anything, the agony they are living due to Bokoharm insurgency. So also Adamawa, Gombe.Gej till 2019 nothing can stop that!


Go and look at all the election result from the beginning of 1999 and come tell me if PDP has ever even won any election in Borno before

The Boko Haram issue is even an albatross on Jonathan's neck not Buhari.......The only people using Religion and Ethnicity as a campaign tool against Buhari are the bigot Igbos( not all of them)

Every sane,detribalised and clear-thinking Nigerian know that Jonathan de;liberately refused to do anything about the Boko Haram for 5 good years in order to spite the North until recently when he knew he will be facing elections

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:14pm On Mar 22, 2015
soludo93:
It's either the punch is remarkably bias or has presented a mere speculative guess for gullible Buharists to consume. These are the unfortunate guesses by a national daily:
1. In Borno, Buhari has been a political factor since
the first day he declared his ambition to contest
the presidency of Nigeria in 2007.
Shame! Buhari contested election against obasanjo in 2003.
2. Adamawa- The state boasts of
ex-Vice President Atiku Abubakar of the APC;
Buhari’s wife; former Chairman of the PDP,
Bamanga Tukur; ex-EFCC Chairman, Nuhu
Ribadu, among others.
You hurriedly mentioned Atiku as an opposition but failed to mention Jonathan Zwingina who led delegates that voted against Atiku in 2011 primaries. Marwa and incumbent governor are others in your impaired judgement.
3. To suggest that Buhari would gather 25% of Votes in Rivers because of Amechi is the same as saying that GEJ would win Bauchi because the seating Governor is a member of PDP.
4. Lagos - You underplayed the population of non-indigenes in Lagos and that will be the shock of your life.
5. The minister of education and former governor of Kano state doesn't deserve a mention but you hurried to peg Sanusi against GEJ, who had settled their indifference. Sanusi neither has a political structure nor a grassroot support like Shekarau.
Punch is seriously anemic in reporting national issues. People will stop patronizing them after 29th of March.
My brother, the article get be. But it is like expecting PressTV to analyse Israel's election in favour of Benjamin Natayahu. Even USA media and all the "phantom" polls gave it to opposition but Natayahu's party still won majority. Many people are yet to come to terms on the reality of our political structure.

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by israelbenzion: 12:17pm On Mar 22, 2015
after closing following the Tuesday Israeli elections where polls and surveys such as this one consistently gave electoral victory to the Zionist Union, and yet the results saw the ruling Likud Party win overwhelmingly, I strongly believe the PDP will carry the day. there is a vast difference between polls and reality, more so when the polls are being conducted by Punch Newspapers which is perceived to be sympathetic to the opposition.

Like GEJ, Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu was the butt of negative propaganda by forces bent on unseating him. Their slogan and rallying cry was "anyone but Bibi (popular nickname for Netanyahu)". Electoral defeat was all bit certain for netanyahu and his party. Polls showed Zionist Union winning the largest number of seats to form the next government. A few days to the election, Bibi went all out on a frenzied campaign, just like GEJ is doing now. he begged and cajoled and pleaded and promised and recanted and affirmed. the election came. shaming the polls, Netanyahu won convincingly.

Little wonder GEJ rushed to congratulate him. Their stories are the same.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:17pm On Mar 22, 2015
taharqa:
Punch been an official APC newspaper, what other predictions do we expect from then.

But what really got me laughing is the claim in this hacked job if an article that over a million people came to welcome Buhari in Motion Hill when he came to campaign in Oyo.

I mean, must you openly lie in other to push an agenda, APC??
So Punch newspaper was also 4 APC,when it published Ayo Fayose post on General Buhari.
U no get sense.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by hush15: 12:20pm On Mar 22, 2015
WisdomFlakes:




http://www.punchng.com/news/310199/#comment-2750496

Mods, I need you to the needful. Here are a few excerpts of Tom Ikimi concerning the political terrain in nigeria. While I believe the projections up there is false cos I know a lot of northern states that will go 50/50 between Jo and Buhari, I will like you to give this a front page staus so people are more informed in political decision making when casting their votes.

Excerpts from interview with Tom Ikimi.

THIS IS THE FIRST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF NIGERIA THAT THE OPPOSITION HAS BEEN SO ORGANIZED SO MUCH SO THAT THE INCUMBENT IS NOT SURE OF BEING RETURNED. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THE SCENARIO?

This claim has turned out now to be more apparent than real and is, indeed, not an accurate portrayal of the history of strong opposition organization in the political history of Nigeria.

Buhari, Jega and Jonatrhan
In the late 1960s, two major parties, UPGA and NNA, emerged through the amalgamation of political parties with similar political and ideological tendencies and partly skewed towards the sectionalist arrangements of the period. These were the NNA, formed by the amalgamation of the Northern Peoples Congress (NPC) and the South West based Nigerian National Democratic Party (NNDP), led by the Premier Chief S.L. Akintola.
On the other hand, the other big and strong party, which was the opposition party, was UPGA. This was an amalgamation of The National Council Of Nigerian Citizens (NCNC), the Action Group, the Northern Elements Progressive Union (NEPU) and the United Middle Belt Congress (UMBC).
In the Second Republic, although the NPN was the ascendant party, the UPN was a formidable opposition party but was hobbled by its narrow sectional base.
The Third Republic featured the SDP and the NRC as two national formidable political parties. I was honored to serve as the pioneer Chairman of the NRC. I have always desired a balanced polity in which the opposition is strong enough to be an alternative platform ready to assume the role of government.
This would assure effective checks and balance in the polity. My experience in the days of the SDP and NRC gave me remarkable insight into this option. I eagerly pursued, with some dedicated colleagues, the creation of the All Progressives Congress (APC).
The entry of the APC into the nation’s political firmament was received across the nation and beyond with great joy and happiness. We proclaimed a new party with a clarion call of CHANGE as we strongly believed that we had created a party that would pursue democratic principles with an emphatic culture of internal party democracy.
I thought we had finally broken loose the shackles of tribal, regional and religious politics unlike the NNA of 1960s that was founded on the premise of securing national electoral power through a coalition of fundamentally ethnic-based parties involving the intrinsically “North for northerners”, Hausa-dominated NPC and the essentially schismatic Yoruba party, the NNDP. That assumption which seemed feasible under the regionalist Independence Constitution was that this sectionalist alliance as a formidable political party would win federal power.
Those who hijacked the APC dwelt on that erroneous assumption based on the archaic 1960 theory that a Yoruba South West and a Hausa-Fulani North West Nigeria alliance will produce electoral victory. The APC democratic credentials were put to test in its very first convention  where the self-styled “leader of the party” successfully plotted and executed the installation of cronies as the party’s National Executive. In a desperate effort to build a team that was solely designed to unseat President Goodluck Jonathan, PDP break away governors were  recruited.
It should be noted, as it is already evident, that the assumption of automatic and unanimous votes from the two zones, the North West and South West, for the APC is not realizable. Today, the hold of the APC over the South West has been dented in states such as Ekiti and Ondo; its hold has crashed in Ogun State – due to the soaring profile of the SDP and PDP in that state; in Oyo   – due to the PDP and ACCORD, while in Lagos, a major break through has been secured by the PDP, not only because of the very diverse electorate, the charismatic PDP governorship candidate – Jimi Agbaje, but the total rejection of the Lion of Bourdillon.
President Jonathan has an airtight support in the South-South and South-East where Buhari would not secure the mandatory 25%. President Jonathan will secure more than 60% of the votes in the North Central and not lass than 50% in the North East and North West. His return as President of Nigeria for a second term is assured.

OPINIONS ARE DIVIDED ON THE REASONS OF SECURITY ADDUCED FOR SHIFTING THE POLLS FOR WHICH GOV’T IS BEING BLAMED WHEREAS MANY BELIEVE INEC WAS NOT READY. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

While various opinions being peddled around speculating on the rationale for shifting of the polls, the compelling facts that eventually rendered February 14 unsuitable were quite simply the obvious security situation, and INEC’s unpreparedness.  Both these reasons were plainly valid.
The security situation in the north eastern states of Adamawa, Borno and Yobe was such that if elections had been held, large numbers of Nigerians would have been disenfranchised. In this context, which ever party lost could use the fact of low voter participation to generate interminable post-election crisis that the country does not need. Conducting the elections in those States with swathes of territories still disrupted by Boko Haram would have been a very daring undertaking and definitely not in the interest of election personnel.
Therefore the decision to shift the election dates and vigorously address security has achieved two objectives. First was to demonstrate President Jonathan’s determination to enfranchise voters wherever they may be located. This is significant because some of these areas are assumed to be opposition zones. Secondly, the decisive, speedy and stunning victories of the Nigerian forces have resulted in the liberation of virtually all of the north eastern territories previously under Boko Haram. This liberated condition automatically provides the opportunity for the voters in these areas to exercise their franchise that would not have been possible if the elections had been held in February.
With regards to INEC, I found it very strange that the Chairman of INEC, Professor Attahiru Jega, failed to disclose to the public the actual reason he postponed the elections. In his presentation to the Council of State a few days before he made the postponement announcement, he had admitted that a number of critical elements for free, fair and credible elections were not yet in place. As at the 7th of February, the date of his world press conference, of the 68.8 million Nigerians registered to vote, only 45.8 million had collected their Permanent Voter’s Cards (PVCs).
This meant that a total of 23 million (33.8%) registered voters had not yet collected their PVCs. It was obvious that it was not logistically possible for INEC to complete the distribution of the said 23 million cards in the one week left before the elections. If INEC had proceeded with elections on the 14th of February, 23 million registered voters would have been disenfranchised.
The skewed distribution of cards affected states that were not necessarily PDP states.
The issue of card readers, which INEC proposed to use, is a new device based on a new technology that had never been demonstrated or tested in situ in any Nigerian locality or previous elections. The first tests only recently carried out three weeks after the 14th of February recorded massive failure. For some unknown reasons, Jega is determined to throw Nigeria into unprecedented confusion with this ill designed contraption otherwise referred to as card readers on the 28th of March…

HOW DO YOU SEE THE PRESIDENTIAL POLL PLAYING OUT BETWEEN JONATHAN AND BUHARI BASED ON YOUR PERCEPTION OF THEIR STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES. THE PLATFORMS BOTH ARE CONTESTING ON ARE STRONG. BEYOND THAT, JONATHAN HAS THE POWER OF INCUMBENCY. BUT BUHARI IS ALSO POSITIONED AS THE RARE ANTI-CORRUPTION CRUSADER WE NEED.

I would say that earlier on my belief that President Jonathan has a good strong chance of winning the election derived from perception. I am now firmly convinced that, in fact, he will win the election resoundingly. This is based on the strength of rousing public awareness that woke to his spectacular accomplishments under his Transformation Agenda covering several strategic spheres including education, agriculture, aviation, roads and railway, industry such as motor car manufacturing, power and the economy.
He as President is leader of a broad based party which is not owned by any individual but a party that is well rooted across the entire nation with more than 70% of the local councilors being PDP members. Jonathan, educated to PhD level, is of the prevailing generation and in sync with the new Nigeria.
General Muhamadu Buhari, contesting the presidency for the fourth time, was in office as Head of State some 32 years ago when he  dethroned the democratically elected government of President Shehu Shagari.He is remembered as the ruthless military leader who seized power and would not entertain anyone discuss any plan to return the country to civil democratic rule. Politicians remember him, how aggressively he hunted down key politicians across the length and breadth of the country.
This hunt was selective as he manipulated the escape of selected tribal friends. He was the author of the infamous Decree 2, an instrument used to muzzle the press. Tunde Thompson and Nduka Irabor, among others were imprisoned. Death sentences were recklessly passed on civilians through the instrumentality of a hurriedly enacted decree back dated! Plea for mercy from inside and outside Nigeria on some of the condemned civilians, including a woman, was ignored. He ordered the selective trial of politicians for alleged corruption and jailed those from a part of the country to ridiculous terms of hundreds of years each.
Buhari has failed to make the presidency three times. After the 2011 elections, he wept publicly and announced that he was not going to present himself again in contest for the presidency. It is true that over the past 16 years, he has managed to acquire a good crowd of die hard followers from a number of his homeland constituencies.
Political contractors from southern Nigeria, particularly from a South West state, cashing in on the North-South political rivalry, the religious issue and the insecurity in north eastern Nigeria, have virtually recruited the general and persuaded him to recant on his 2011 proclamation not to contest again. These political contractors see Buhari’s candidature as the convenient route for them to grab Nigeria.
Those parading Buhari, singing a song of CHANGE, have now been challenged by many to define the change they are really talking about and whether they are talking of moving Nigeria from the digital age of today back to the analog age of 1983. The media is now awash with the Transformation projects executed by President Jonathan and many are arguing that those successful projects are indeed the change that you can see.
The GMB handlers, who advised the general to steer clear of an open debate with Jonathan, have tried hard to formulate a platform for their man creating a false image of him as an anti-corruption man. This is pure balderdash!! My first assignment as adviser to government in 1994/95 was to prepare the memo on which basis the PTF – Petroleum Trust Fund-was created. As Chairman of this juicy portfolio over which the general enjoyed unfettered control, the PTF was funded with a total of around 180 billion Naira between 1994 and 1999.
The general failed to curb stinking corruption in the organization but authorized more than 70% of the funds to be spent in his own part of the country. An Interim Management Committee, headed by his own kinsman, Haroun Adamu, discovered that over 25 billion Naira was stolen under GMB watch in PTF. I suppose this fact is recorded in the OBJ watch since he set up the Haroun Adamu Interim Chairmanship. GMB cannot claim to be an example of anti-corruption.
As Federal Commissioner for Petroleum Resources, it was discovered that $2.8 billion of Nigeria’s oil money was withdrawn from the Midland Bank London and the funds lodged into an account in a bank where it generated interest amounting then to over 400 million pounds which vanished into private pockets.
The entire anti-corruption and integrity campaign has collapsed and the final nail on the coffin of that campaign was the airing of The LionOf Bourdillon.  As for the issue of security as it pertains to the menace of Boko Haram ravaging the North East, it is now also clear who really were supporters of the Muslim fundamentalist attacks on Nigeria but mischievously turned around to blame President Jonathan. President Jonathan was left to equip a military, army, air force and navy, over night. He has done a yeoman’s job that during the last four weeks the insurgents have been virtually cleared from Nigerian soil.
The overwhelming opinion across the country at this time has swung in favor of President Jonathan and it is obvious that the overall peace and stability of Nigeria will be guaranteed by his election.

DO YOU REGRET LEAVING THE APC, WHICH HAS, TODAY, BECOME THE MOST FORMIDABLE OPPOSITION EVER TO THE RULING PDP?

It was an experience of great joy and satisfaction for me to host and lead the process that gave birth in February 2013, at my Abuja residence, to the All Progressive Congress (APC) with the successful unification of the major opposition parties – ACN, ANPP, CPC and a part of APGA.
Several failed attempts had been made by various people since 1999, to strengthen the opposition by uniting a number of the opposition parties. This had not been successful for a number of reasons prominent among which was always personal interest and ambition. Consequently, most well known leaders, particularly in the ranks of the former ACN, never thought it would be possible to achieve the unification. As soon as it became apparent that we would succeed, a number of them, notably the current self proclaimed leader of the party moved in to seize control of the party and has since employed every means to retain his hold.
It became clear to me that an agenda was brewing as the main objective of the new party. This included a move to install General Muhamadu Buhari as President with Bola Ahmed Tinubu as Vice President notwithstanding the facts that both men are Muslims with credentials I do not agree with. Most of my colleagues in the top leadership of the party also became aware of this trend. They merely grumbled about it but seemed not able to muster the courage to openly fight against it.
The first National Convention was an abysmal failure. The event was a mere charade at which a cabal succeeded in installing a group of cronies as the party National Executive. Core leaders of the legacy parties found themselves trapped in this arrangement, which turned out to be the construction of a framework dedicated to just one objective, which was to bring down President Goodluck Jonathan and install Buhari and Tinubu.
Notwithstanding Tinubu’s failure to make the ticket recently for this election, I am convinced that Professor Osinbajo has only been brought in as a stepping-stone and much has been spoken about this already. I observed the negotiations between ACN and CPC in 2011 at which Tinubu insisted that Pastor Bakare, who was already picked as running mate to Buhari by CPC, should provide an undated letter of resignation as Vice President. The pastor refused and so the negotiations broke down.
My quest for an alternative political platform in the country was not motivated towards fulfilling any personal ambition to contest for executive power but I hold firmly that it is in the best interest of our country to have a credible structure of two strong political parties that would guarantee the necessary checks and balances in the system. Notwithstanding the negative trends exhibited by the APC at this time, I believe a robust political contest has, at last, arrived. But this is not the time to cede government to a desperate upstart commanding a vengeful army of flatterers all with a mission of stampeding an illusory enemy.
In conclusion, I have no regrets at all leaving the APC as I have always viewed a political party as a congregation of like-minded persons who become welded together in a close-knit brotherhood in a manner beyond mere friendship. I find the APC now a collection of strange bedfellows of very ambitious people of diverse interests all constantly plotting against each other

http://www.vanguardngr.com/2015/03/presidency-why-the-north-should-wait-till-2019/

Cc: ishilove, barcarnista, severus snape,

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by shammah1(m): 12:21pm On Mar 22, 2015
Buhari can't get the whole Lagos. It'll be 50/50. Remember that 70% of Lagosians are non indigens. PDP are still very strong here
ROCKJ1:
This election would be a tough one... if only Goodluck had worked harder, he won't be finding it so difficult now. Imagine GMB with Kano and Lagos? The 2 most populous states.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Rhozabeth(m): 12:22pm On Mar 22, 2015
appini:
Punch failed to add Bayelsa state to Buhari's stronghold in their dreamland.

Oyegun in Edo state is well known as a conman without no political value.

For your information, Edo, Rivers, Imo, Ogun will fall for the PDP.

Oga u are a liar, I don't see Edo and Ogun falling into pdp! I really doubt if pdp exist in Ogun at the moment because they are not audible and visible!!!
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Ngwakwe: 12:23pm On Mar 22, 2015
Mynd44:
In Barcanista, Ngwakwe and Anonimi's voice, GEJ will sweep the South West.

grin

I can't make anything from this trash by punchng hence it's meaningless to challenge their premises as the publisher has nothing neutral or balance to offer.

Seven days to go, I pray you accept the result as a Democrat.

However, Saturday's presidential election will certainly be inconclusive with the pendulum swinging to President Jonathan's favour.

The gods have spoken.

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:23pm On Mar 22, 2015
israelbenzion:
after closing following the Tuesday Israeli elections where polls and surveys such as this one consistently gave electoral victory to the Zionist Union, and yet the results saw the ruling Likud Party win overwhelmingly, I strongly believe the PDP will carry the day. there is a vast difference between polls and reality, more so when the polls are being conducted by Punch Newspapers which is perceived to be sympathetic to the opposition.

Like GEJ, Israel's Prime Minister Netanyahu was the butt of negative propaganda by forces bent on unseating him. Their slogan and rallying cry was "anyone but Bibi (popular nickname for Netanyahu)". Electoral defeat was all bit certain for netanyahu and his party. Polls showed Zionist Union winning the largest number of seats to form the next government. A few days to the election, Bibi went all out on a frenzied campaign, just like GEJ is doing now. he begged and cajoled and pleaded and promised and recanted and affirmed. the election came. shaming the polls, Netanyahu won convincingly.

Little wonder GEJ rushed to congratulate him. Their stories are the same.


Not exactly.

Bibi's major theme in the last weeks....there will be no Palestinian state...which managed to swing some undecided voters.

Then there is the Iran Nuclear issue.

GEJ may win...if he takes the SS, SE, Middle Belt...and 1/4 of the votes in the far North....and SW....and that might not be enough.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:23pm On Mar 22, 2015
chamboy:
Buhari has less Paid Supporters unlike GEJ... GEJ would get a shocker of his life, Especially from so called Pdp controlled States
There will be no shock for GEJ from the south east and south south states...Amaechi will be disappointed in Rivers.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:24pm On Mar 22, 2015
kheart:
Gej cannot win Niger, gombe, adamawa and Kaduna even for dream. #fact#
I tell u my brother. Most of people will be shock by next week.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by teufelein(f): 12:24pm On Mar 22, 2015
Buhari is finished!

The plaintiffs are also contending that Gen Buhari lied on oath and ought to be tried for perjury when he declared in an affidavit submitted to INEC that his secondary school certificate was with the Military Board.
The claim, they argued, was found to be false as the military authorities denied having such document in its possession.
The plaintiffs posited that allegations of forgery and perjury are too weighty to be ignored by the police which has a constitutional duty to investigate all allegations bordering on crime in the interest of justice and that all efforts made to make the police perform its duties have proved futile.


http://leadership.ng/news/419255/buharis-certificate-pro-jonathan-lawyers-drag-igp-to-court

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by shammah1(m): 12:24pm On Mar 22, 2015
Who told you?
kheart:
Gej cannot win Niger, gombe, adamawa and Kaduna even for dream. #fact#
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:25pm On Mar 22, 2015
PassingShot:


Rigging cannot be completely ruled out of this election but the possibility and magnitude has been drastically reduced with the use of PVC and card reader. Plus the fact that APC is as strong as PDP now will make the task far more difficult for PDP to rig this presidential election as in the past.

Good to hear this from you.Since you agree all rigging avenues have been blocked, I don't want to hear complaints of rigging when PDP eventually emerges victorious

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Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by otr1(m): 12:25pm On Mar 22, 2015
bushdoc9919:


Kaduna is an unknown quality. The average indigene is very politically sophisticated. I expect it to be 50-50 there...with the Northern part going to APC and the southern part going to PDP. Kaduna also has a high number of non-indigenes living in the capital and Zaria(APC stronghold)..who work at the federal govt instiutions/offices there...who may prove decisive.

The voting population of Kaduna South can't match that of the North.
Honestly, I will be surprised if GEJ polls up to 25% of the votes cast.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Sobeautiful: 12:26pm On Mar 22, 2015
Raiders:
Stop comparing the Israeli election with Nigeria election because its 2 different systems. Also God doesn't invovle in politics because God is not a politician. Just like in sports, The best person always win in politics.
Anyway, I don't agree with you that GEJ/PDP is going to outright win in SS and SE states. There are millions of Southerners like me who are not going to vote for GEJ because he didn't live up to expectation during his 5 yrs in office. I am not going to vote for a president simply because he is from my region or religion. I think APC is going to do well in most SS and SE than in 2011 because many Nigerians are not happy with the current state of the country. I also believe that APC will get more than 25% in most SS and SE states as long as the elections are free and fair from rigging.
Millions of southerners like you that will vote buhari... I'm sure u are not talking about SE and SS. But incase u are, that's laughable. As for God not being involved in politics, my dear for your info, God rules in all affairs of men. If you like call it politics or any other thing. He enthrones and dethrones. He knows who is performing and who is not. He knows who is corrupt and who is not (especially with the type of 'honest' stalwarts in apc). Have u heared of the woman caught in adultery? U will discover that none of them could stone her because they were all guilty of the same crime. That was God's judgement. So let's do away with all pretence and hypocrisy. It's good some of u have closed your eyes to all GEJ has done. Give a dog a bad name in other to hang it, like those calling him bad are better than him. Do me a favour vote against him like you said. It's a matter of hours the winner will emerge. Let's keep our fingers crossed and may the best man win.
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by rexmozee0167(m): 12:26pm On Mar 22, 2015
Paper analysis......Jonathan all the way
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by kristen12(f): 12:27pm On Mar 22, 2015
fakeprophet:

day dreamer,, is high time u wake frm ur slumber
Hey!! STFU
Re: Jonathan Vs Buhari: How They Stand In 36 States, FCT - PUNCH by Nobody: 12:27pm On Mar 22, 2015
appini:


Chief strategist

chief strayegist dat failed to make mulikat speaker. I just dey laugh

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