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You are welcome to the MATCH TWO of NAIRALAND INTERSCHOOL DEBATE SECOND EDITION. Currently IBADANPOLY is topping the table with total point of 68...
The subject matter for this debate is "2015 General election: a reflection of the people's will or an outcome of political vendetta?", the contestants are to drag the topic from both ends, something like a tug of war, as OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY supports (2015 General election: is a reflection of the people's will) while IBADANPOLY opposes (2015 General election: an outcome of political vendetta) the motion.

Let it be known that the school with the highest total score in this group stage runner-up will advance to the final, hence, the fight for a spot in the finals CONTINUES.

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The competition on this thread will be between two intellectuals; OBAFEMI AWOLOWO UNIVERSITY VS IBADAN POLYTECHNIC

TOPIC:
[size=15pt]2015 General election: a reflection of the people's will or an outcome of political vendetta?[/size]


DATE: 14TH JUNE 2015
TIME: 7PM

CHIEF HOST
Seun GCFR-NL
Mark Zuckergerg of Nigeria
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CHAIRMAN
lalasticlala

MODERATOR
Olawalebabs
Fynestboi
Richiez

COORDINATOR
Fattybabakay
Miscallenous

JUDGES
JARUS
Tgirl4real


PARTICIPANTS
OAU
miracy
microflux
bolaji73
Oluwatola93



IBADAN POLY
samyscholar
Darrytoz

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JUDGING CRITERIA (10 marks each)
1. Presentation (opening, flow, closing,
response to judges questions,
audience questions and contestants
rebuttals)

2. Logic of arguments

3. Strenght of facts, examples, cases.

4. Persuasiveness

5. Demonstration of knowledge and
understanding of the subject


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JARUS
TGIRL4REAL
OBINOSCOPY
MYND44
CARACTA
UJ-SIZZLE
MATHEWBRIGGS
HIDENTITY

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Miscellaneous

Representing OAU.....

Microflux
Miracy......

Representing IBADANPOLY


samyscholar
Darrytoz

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Jarus
Tgirl4real

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Judges can notify their presence if available. . . .
Debaters get ready for some action. . .

Present

7pm I hereby declare this debate open!

1st speaker of OAU please you can now post your argument.

Fynestboi:
1st speaker of OAU please you can now post your argument.

MIRACY
MICROFLUX

Owkaay o!!let's see how this goes..

TOPIC:

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2015 General election: a reflection of the people's will or an outcome of political vendetta?[/size]

IF OAU participants are not ready IBADANPOLY1st speaker can you please post yours....




samyscholar
Darrytoz

patiently waiting......

2015 General election: a reflection of the people's will or an outcome of political vendetta?

Good day to the esteemed judges, erudite coordinators, fellow debaters, and the informed spectators. I am Darrytoz, the second speaker of The Polytechnic, Ibadan. I stand for: 2015 general election: an outcome of political vendetta.

VENDETTA: a bitter, destructive feud, normally between two families/parties, clans, or factions, in which each injury or slaying is revenged.
FEUD: a long-lasting quarrel or war between families, tribes, parties etc.

Many believe the March 28, 2015 presidential election was the most keenly contested and most divisive presidential race in Nigeria history. Never before were Nigerians so divided along ethnic and religious lines. In the June 1993 poll, the presidential candidates of the two parties in the race - Social Democratic Party's M.K.O Abiola and National Republican Convention's Bashir Tofa were Muslims. Abiola, a Yoruba Muslim, polled more votes in Kano, Tofa's home state - an indication that religion and ethnic considerations played very little role in the election.
In 1999, the two main presidential candidates- People's Democratic party's Olusegun Obasanjo and Alliance for Democracy's Olu Falae not only were both christians, but Yoruba.
In 2007, the scenario was similiar as the two leading presidential candidates - PDP's Umaru Yar'Adua and Muhammadu Buhari of All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) not only were both fulani Muslims, but from the same Katsina state.
The 2011 presidential race presented three main candidates. PDP had Goodluck Jonathan, an Ijaw christian, who became acting president after the death of his boss, Yar'Adua.
This time, abandoned by the ANPP governors, Buhari decided to run on a new platform - Congress for Progressives' Change (CPC). Another fulani Muslim Nuhu Ribadu ran on the platform of Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), a party with a strong following in the political boisterous South-West.

However, the 2015 presidential election proved to be a different kettle of fish. For the second time, Jonathan, an Ijaw christian, found himself squaring up against Buhari, a fulani Muslim. Two peace accords by both presidential candidates notwithstanding, the APC and PDP campaign organisations hurled hate messages at each other. PDP campaigners tagged Buhari an Islamic fundamentalist. At some point, he was even accused of supporting the Boko Haram insurgency. This perhaps explained why all the five South-east states combined gave Buhari a mere 198,199 votes.
The situation wasn't much different in the six south-south states where Buhari polled a total of 369,360 votes.
The 11 states in the south-east and south-south gave Buhari 567,819 votes, about 100,000 votes short of the 660,762 votes his PDP rival Jonathan polled in Anambra state alone.


It couldn't possibly be otherwise because what Nigerians witnessed is a reprise action, literally a return bout between Buhari and Jonathan, who slugged it out in the 2011 election. In that previous encounter, Goodluck Jonathan carried the day, and remained in office after using up Umar Yar'Adua's unfinished term.

Since Nigeria's independence in 1960, political power has alternated between the predominantly Muslim north and predominantly christian south, an informal strategy to forestall the country's polarization. Jonathan assumed the presidency when president Umaru Yar'Adua, a northern Muslim, died in 2010. He gave private assurances that he would finish Yar'Adua's term and wait until 2015 to run for president because it was still "the north's turn". But Jonathan ran for reelection in 2011, thereby violating the system of power alternation. Following the announcement of Jonathan's victory, the north made accusations of election rigging. Rioting broke out across the north, resulting in the greates bloodshed since.

Each time I try to convince myself that you sometimes win by giving up, I am faced with the question- in what world do you leave the ring and declare victory? Well, maybe in the world where your giving up is a sacrifice, a martyrdom of your ambition. Where your giving up is to prevent a nation from going up in flames and burning beyond recognition.
There seems to be a new trend of political opponents who lost out in elections to make phone calls. This act was fashioned along the now popular phone call of March 31st 2015, made by the outgoing president in conceding defeat. It is no mistake to say that the singular act of the president save Nigeria a lot of destruction, bloodshed, death and eventual fragmentation.
The actual loser of the election has been commended for his famous and unexpected act of sportsmanship. He has been called the technical winner for saving the nation a great deal of doom that was predicted as possible aftermath of the general election. Thank you.

REFERENCES
www.news24.com.ng
www.thisdaylive.com
wsw.vangardngr.com
pointblanknews.com
www.punchng.com/opinion