Dive-Bomber:


Exactly!!! Is it the birthright of the hausa/fulani to rule? What is all this pls? Why can APC not present Rochas or Fashola as presidential candidate and then a hausa/fulani as vice?

Who is born to "siddon loo" for heaven's sake?

Nawaoooo!

atlwireles:

How come the numbers eluded him in his previous 3 attempts

CyberG:

Your premise is completely FLAWED when you emphasis getting the office and relegate the track record and performance of the office holder to the background! This is why the country is not moving forward! I would rather have an unknown person as president who would create an environment like the one I live in the West rather than someone from my family who will keep Nigeria the way it is or unable to make any changes, can you do the same? Clearly not because you are here advocating Rochas (just say you want Ibo close to the presidential office or as president) but note that your wish does not and can never translate to that of the majority! In my opinion, Ibos will NOT vote for anybody else except GEJ and they've said that over and over again, why do you insist on pretending that we don't know that?

A solid strategy is for the APC to field someone who has the will, track records and courage to change Nigeria, not a ball-less president and people like Buhari and Fashola have shown that so far! Their records speak for them very loudly! Going to choose a candidate from the SE or anywhere who will continue the unprogressive policies you people have complained about so many times is downright reprehensible! Those two choices already guarantee approximately 2/3 of the entire population of Nigeria and then, they can move out to contest for votes in Iboland, SS and MN by selling their policies and manifestos, maybe they will get another 10 - 15% not the gambling approach you so mentioned! Let Ibos prove they can rise above parochial sentiments by not voting 99% for a GEJ who is yet to do anything for the 99.99% of the ordinary ibos in iboland as appointment of Ihejirika, Iweala, Oduah, etc will do nothing for the ordinary ibos! When a change of government happens, they will all be replaced but a change of government will not remove the roads and infrastructure which the ordinary ibo man can use to improve his or her business and maybe develop further to attract more people or investment! People care about having enough to eat, a decent place to sleep, good clothes to wear, peace and a happy life and whatever party or leader brings that is far more profitable than a leader from your clan who does not do anything for his people! Let Ibos first show that they will not follow a GEJ or any leader blindly but someone who can be accountable and who will put the people's interest first and then the rest of Nigeria can trust them with leadership in 4 years! Should they continue the way they have been going about it, note that GEJ will get only a maximum of another 4 years and after that, what can Ibos expect? Truth is Yar'adua's death truncated the "slot" of the north and leadership will most likely return there and then after 8 years, they pay you back in the same coin by supporting everyone else except Ibos who refuse to see beyond their noses! A word is enough for the wise!

atlwireles:

How come the numbers eluded him in his previous 3 attempts

atlwireles:

How come the numbers eluded him in his previous 3 attempts

eye4eye:


Do you know the meaning of rigging? We have never had an election where the incumbent or PDP candidate did not rig the election. Buhari has always been a victim of rigging; especially in 2003 and 2007.

atlwireles:

Buhari will win the same states he won 2011. The election will see some changes in the southwest. A Buhari/Fashola ticket is a non starter for many Christians in the southwest. Pretend all you want in nairaland, that is the simple truth.

Obiagelli:
funding wasn't there as such hence his campaign was limited to a few states

atlwireles:

Rigging from whom Please show me the saints in Nigerian politics?

CyberG:

I am a Christian and I DO NOT CARE ABOUT MOSLEM-MOSLEM ticket! There are countries that are ALMOST 100% MOSLEMS and they are FAR BETTER than ALL CHRISTIAN or the current dullard christian-moslem ticket you are selling GEJ and Sambo!

atlwireles:

You are not an undecided voter

eye4eye:


I don't know how to educate a militant on oil overdose. Doing so will be action in vain.

eye4eye:

Are you?

Afam4eva:
Going by this premise then who's more qualified than Fashola in APC? It seems APC are more interested in winning than actually presenting the ideal candidate. For now, APC is trying to win an election and they would present someone they feel will help them win as opposed to someone who has a track record of performance. The best they can do is to reach a compromise between the two. I really don't care about APC neither do i care about any party cos i'm confused right now and i'm finding it difficult making a choice. I could care less if APC presents an Igbo candidate. I'm only saying what i nthink will be the deal breaker for them.

CyberG:

Stop pretending as though you don't know that Yar'adua's death cut short whatever "slot" the north had and that alone is enough for any fair minded person to see why the north will most likely get back in the saddle after 2015 or 2019! You cannot hold the previous years of military rule against them of course because military knows neither north or south - the ill advised coup of January 1966 is what precipitated the several years of military rule you now cry about and we all know you people are responsible for it!

atlwireles:

You are not an undecided voter

Dive-Bomber:


I agree with you that in all fairness power should return to the north most likely in 2019. However, GEJ might hand over to someone from the MB, after all they are also northerners and Nigerians too; it must not be the hausa/fulani. And a south easterner would be set as vice president. This will ensure that somehow, power comes to the SE eventually.

Don't you think the middle-belters deserve a short at the presidency too or must it be hausa/fulani or is the MB no longer part of the north? Besides, we can hardly trust this country with the hausa/fulani for a long time especially because of all that has been happening recently in the north.

CyberG:

And an undecided vote would vote for a GEJ in 2015 when his life has not changed one bit in the PAST 6 years?? Look, there is nothing wrong in making a bad decision, recognize it was a bad decision and deal with it by making a better one! Nigerians made a bad decision in 2011 and should correct it by choosing differently in 2015. What has the average Ibo gained from a GEJ president, not what a Ihejirika, Oduah, Iweala and co. have gained! Where is the Niger bridge (he wants to build it by concession, and if that ever happens it means people will be paying tolls to use it), how about the dry port in Onitsha, is it now working and ferrying millions of tons in cargo? Are all the federal roads tarred? Look, there is no point to deceive yourself, leadership, real leaders do not need a religion to be the best they can possibly be but shady politicians and people always pander to narrow interests like religion, tribalism and demonization of the opponent - that is what you are doing here!

atlwireles:

I don't like speculation, even Awo did not surpass 60% in yorubaland, talk less of fashola. The level of angst in the yoruba christian community, will be on full display come 2015.

CyberG:

And an undecided vote would vote for a GEJ in 2015 when his life has not changed one bit in the PAST 6 years?? Look, there is nothing wrong in making a bad decision, recognize it was a bad decision and deal with it by making a better one! Nigerians made a bad decision in 2011 and should correct it by choosing differently in 2015. What has the average Ibo gained from a GEJ president, not what a Ihejirika, Oduah, Iweala and co. have gained! Where is the Niger bridge (he wants to build it by concession, and if that ever happens it means people will be paying tolls to use it), how about the dry port in Onitsha, is it now working and ferrying millions of tons in cargo? Are all the federal roads tarred? Look, there is no point to deceive yourself, leadership, real leaders do not need a religion to be the best they can possibly be but shady politicians and people always pander to narrow interests like religion, tribalism and demonization of the opponent - that is what you are doing here!

I am convinced that if Buhari's regime had lasted any more than the 2 years it did, Nigerians would have experienced a tyranny far worse than that of Abacha. It should come as no surprise that he does not even acknowledge the excesses nor the wanton corruption which characterised the later regime.

It is one thing to clamour for a leader who can tame the scourge of corruption but quite another to knowingly embrace someone whose irredentism bubbles to the surface every so often.

Lest I be misunderstood, I accept that Buhari does posses some positive qualities which set him apart from most of his contemporaries. While I have nothing against him contributing his quota to nation building in some other capacity, it is my considered view that there has not been enough contrition or atonement to merit another shot at the Presidency.

The grounds on which General Buhari is being promoted as the alternative choice are not only shaky, but pitifully naive. History matters. Records are not kept simply to assist the weakness of memory, but to operate as guides to the future. Of course, we know that human beings change. What the claims of personality change or transformation impose on us is a rigorous inspection of the evidence, not wishful speculation or behind-the-scenes assurances. Public offence, crimes against a polity, must be answered in the public space, not in caucuses of bargaining. In Buhari, we have been offered no evidence of the sheerest prospect of change. On the contrary, all evident suggests that this is one individual who remains convinced that this is one ex-ruler that the nation cannot call to order.

Soyinka's reminder about the importance of history in 2007

Gbawe:

Ordinarily, I would agree with you but these are 'extraordinary' times for Nigeria. Nigeria is now a very aberrant nation where we witness 'madness' not seen anywhere else displayed with brazen aplomb !!! Buhari remains one of the few Nigerians who has the unflinching bravery, integrity and resolute character to dismantle the cesspit of corruption and criminal oligarchy destroying Nigeria.

Buhari, anytime and any day, is one of a very few number of Nigerians capable of totally putting AGIPS , cabals, 'interest groups' and ruinous hands out of business so Nigeria can thrive. In fact many will start making plans to head out the minute it is obvious Buhari may become the President. I do not doubt at all that Buhari can drastically change and sanitize the system in 4 years. He can then hand over to a younger protege. That is the quickest template for Nigeria's development for me

edo.girl:


As for Buhari, I agree he has some flaws, but I take comfort from the fact that as an experienced leader, he will know that pushing the country in one extreme direction or the other will imperil unity even further. I also know that when all is said and done, the constitution has a lot of inbult defences against a wantonly autocratic Presidency.

What entices me to Buhari is that he holds out that prospect, that hope, however small, of a Nigerian President who will genuinely fight corruption. For me, that is the most important quality I desire in the next Nigerian leader.

GEJ is painfully incapable, so he is certainly not an option for me. Sorry.

agabaI23: You are making a mistake if you think a leopard will change its spots. This kind of assumption is one the mistakes women make when they wanna get married to a man they know they are not compatible with. 'He has flaws but I will change him' only to start calling out 2 weeks into marriage.

Buhari is a sectional extremist and he will not change. 2011 was just 2 years ago! That year Buhari believed that the vote of a section of the country is all he needed to rule and openly disregarded a whole section. A national leader doesn't do that even when he knows he has issues. People intensify effort in opposition strongholds but the real clueless one thought it stupidity.

Hope of fighting corruption?
The corruption index of Russia is high above that of Nigeria but thats all about it. They are a world power as we speak.
And for your information you don't fight corruption by jailing the perceived corrupt individuals. You fight it by eradicating poverty from the root. This present administration is doing that even though most people will not acknowledge that.

And by the way, the president doesnt give orders to the judges to jail. The court determines who is jailed. The technical loopholes in our constitution is exploited by the lawyers to free the accused. Will the president jail them unlawfully? He will be a dictator and that kind of imprisonment was only possible in 1984 not now.

Moreso, the judicial system is overtly corrupt because the system including you is corrupt and the judges are the product of the system. You will have to sack all the judges first and replace them with ones imported from mars or heaven.


Buhari cannot function in this present dispensation.

By the way if Buhari can form an alliance with Tinubu, I will naturally question the so called hope or maybe say that it exposes him for who he is, a power monger who will do anything to get power including forming unholy alliance.

APC =Agrieved peoples congress is the association of old brigade who like chameleon are changing colours as a survival strategy in order to remain relevant politically. They still remain the PDP guys that Buhari and his friends maligned.

Who is deceiving who?

eye4eye:


Your mind is made up! Go ahead and vote for hopelessness and cluelessness you currently have. It is your choice. You don't do something the same way and expect a different result. If you agree with the way Nigeria and corruption is at the moment, Jonathan is your man. But if you want Nigeria and corruption to a bare minimum, then Buhari and someone else is the presidential ticket to get there.

agabaI23: You are making a mistake if you think a leopard will change its spots. This kind of assumption is one the mistakes women make when they wanna get married to a man they know they are not compatible with. 'He has flaws but I will change him' only to start calling out 2 weeks into marriage.

Buhari is a sectional extremist and he will not change. 2011 was just 2 years ago! That year Buhari believed that the vote of a section of the country is all he needed to rule and openly disregarded a whole section. A national leader doesn't do that even when he knows he has issues. People intensify effort in opposition strongholds but the real clueless one thought it stupidity.

Hope of fighting corruption?
The corruption index of Russia is high above that of Nigeria but thats all about it. They are a world power as we speak.
And for your information you don't fight corruption by jailing the perceived corrupt individuals. You fight it by eradicating poverty from the root. This present administration is doing that even though most people will not acknowledge that.

And by the way, the president doesnt give orders to the judges to jail. The court determines who is jailed. The technical loopholes in our constitution is exploited by the lawyers to free the accused. Will the president jail them unlawfully? He will be a dictator and that kind of imprisonment was only possible in 1984 not now.

Moreso, the judicial system is overtly corrupt because the system including you is corrupt and the judges are the product of the system. You will have to sack all the judges first and replace them with ones imported from mars or heaven.


Buhari cannot function in this present dispensation.

By the way if Buhari can form an alliance with Tinubu, I will naturally question the so called hope or maybe say that it exposes him for who he is, a power monger who will do anything to get power including forming unholy alliance.

APC =Agrieved peoples congress is the association of old brigade who like chameleon are changing colours as a survival strategy in order to remain relevant politically. They still remain the PDP guys that Buhari and his friends maligned.

Who is deceiving who?