Buhari overtakes Jonathan in Benue, gets 250,000 votes

MARCH 30, 2015 : JOHN AMEH, MAKURDI
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All Progressives Congress Presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari(retd.), has overtaken President Goodluck Jonathan in Benue State, as he now leads by over 250,000 votes.

Jonathan so far has about 186,000 votes.

Results from a total of 19 out of the‎ 23 local government areas in the state were turned in as of 2.26pm today(Monday).

Only four local governments are being awaited.

Jonathan led Buhari until around 11am, when more results came in.

Collation continues…

http://www.punchng.com/news/buhari-overtakes-jonathan-in-benue-gets-250000-votes/

hmmmm

Na so e suppose Be Na

Ko lo Ku ?

I just ejjaaaculatedooooooo

Wow! Wow!! Wow!!! Woooowwww!!!

Sai Buhari!

North Central now has Kogi, Benue, Niger, Kwara in APC's change bag with Lagos, Osun, Oyo. Ondo, Ogun in the same big bag whey Barcanista

PDP bin dey jubilate say dem get Benue i am waiting on results for Plateau

Tanoids, una never see anything

E ti mo meme

Like play like play, Jona going back to otuake and our General is driving into Aso Rock

I am laffing in Ikale

san316:
I just ejjaaaculatedooooooo

na for Patience Jonathan mouth you pour the hot akamu

Barcanista upon all the usless epistle you come and write here about buhari.... Ur eye don clear now ba?
Elections are no longer won with bribery in naija.

kaypound:
Barcanista upon all the usless epistle you come and write here about buhari.... Ur eye don clear now ba?
Elections are no longer won with bribery in naija.

na rookie for politics one pdp chieftain for him street buy am one Gulder and isi ewu e begin miss yarn

Firstly, this is my opinion which was built on interactions, the tempo of the people and the general feeling in the State.

All lot of permutations are being made with most(if not all) showing Benue as a sure state for Goodluck to win convincingly, this permutations are made on the premise that Gabriel Suswam will pull his weight as the sitting governor added to the force of David Mark. Also, some believe that Benue being the only Northern State with a 98% Christian majority and with their experience with the Fulani herdsmen, a vote for a Fulani man talkless a muslim will be a no no for them. All these are far from the reality on ground, the Benue electorate (both in town & grassroots) in this coming elections are perhaps the most politically conscious electorates in the country right now, from the farmer in the thick village to the fisherman in the riverine areas to the white collar jobber in the towns, the political discussions are centred on voting individuals and not party and considerations are placed on antecedents, baggage, goodwill and sense of injustice. The principal supporters of the president in Benue (Suswam, Mark, Ayu, Morro) are actually the principal reasons the president will not be getting a slice of Benue. Suswam is considered by almost all in Benue as the dark spot of the state, in eight years apart from raising the financial status of various girlfriends, putting money in the hands of thugs and cultist, the governor has really not done anything in the State. This is evidenced in the fact that during the President's visit, He had to commission a renovated primary school as the achievement of the governor. Suswam is basically hated by the Benue electorate, so much that the PDP governoship candidate in the state despite being a young man with the potential to move the state forward, has a herculean task to climb because of his association with Suswam, whenever he goes campaigning and tells the electorates to vote for him so as to continue the good works Suswam started, the people ask; what continuity,? the continual owing of civil servants salary (now 5 months), the continual looting of state funds, the continual nonchalant attitude towards the Fulani invaders, the continual funding of babes, or the continual elevation of thugs? To paint a better picture of how Suswam is a liability, Barnabas Gemade a hitherto selfish and unliked politician in the state is now praised to high heavens, simply because he is battling Suswam for the senate sit, Suswam winning Gemade is day by day becoming an impossible task talkless of him garnering votes in his senatorial zone for Jonathan, in fact Suswam is rumoured to have lamented to some close aides about the President's inefficiency in handling INEC and making Jega to fall in line, He is rumoured to have said his and others election is now a tight rope, something that would have been a walk over if only the President had hoodwinked Inec from the get go.

David Mark, though his senate sit is more or less guaranteed, the same cannot be said about his zone's support for Jonathan and/or the governorship candidate. David Mark will be riding on the back of the fact that he paid off every reasonable challenge against him and is smart enough to understand that the general feeling of his people towards Jonathan is low, He has infact through his own campaigns (not the presidential or governorship rallies) managed to sub consciously pass the message across that he is only asking for his senate sit and it shouldn't be confused or mixed up with any other election. Ayu and Morro are political liabilities in Benue, the surest way to lose an election in the state is having them on your train.

Added to all this is Goodluck himself who despite the huge support he got from the state, has managed not to do anything in the state for the past 4years. In addition, the Tivs who have a 70+% majority in the state have been politically side-lined in the national level. Besides, the general feeling in the state is that of a President who has no idea what his job functionality is, mention the name Goodluck in the villages and you will be lucky if you are not vulgarly insulted. Posters of Jonathan are only displayed in a few towns as he is tied with Suswam as one and the same person. It is even said that if Goodluck rigs Benue the best he can get is 30% of the votes, the situation you have in Benue according to the people is a useless Suswam teamed up with an unpopular President and supported by Ayu/Morro who have lost every respect of people against a Buhari who is seen as someone different from the usual, supported by Akume who has a cult following and Ortom, who even though has issues with how he became APC governorship candidate, has lots of respect in the state for giving back to the people by propping up small industries across the state.

Anyone who says Goodluck will win Benue is only living a day dream, for the indigenes of Benue, Goodluck will definitely lose Benue; the question is, how bad will he lose? Discussions are not on whether he will lose or not, discussions are on the extent of his losing.

did I say it or did I not say it??

MzJackBaueress:
Wow! Wow!! Wow!!! Woooowwww!!!

Sai Buhari!

Aren't you just happy?

FemiFaniKayode:


na for Patience Jonathan mouth you pour the hot akamu

Yessooo. She was at the point of saying chaaaai! When d tin just pour fiam.

Fantastic news.

san316:


Yessooo. She was at the point of saying chaaaai! When d tin just pour fiam.

she swallow am??

omenka:
Aren't you just happy?

haha! I am dear.

FemiFaniKayode?

san316:
I just ejjaaaculatedooooooo