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Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by lexy2014: 1:41pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Greystone: These things u have outlined as what we wish 4 Nigeria, cannot b guaranteed in d next four years |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Naughtytboy: 1:42pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
KingWarri:Abi |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by axponline: 1:42pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
I love the election results (if what has been reported is fairly accurate). I am an Atiku supporter but I accept he did not have the political support all over the country to overcome PMB. However, I am still happy with the results. WHY 1. It reflects the peoples will in the various localities. People voted for the candidate mostly and not the party as was the practice in the past. 2. It got rid of those greedy ex governors who are or who were aspiring to be senators e. Saraki, Akpabi, Ajimobi, Uduaghan etc 3. All the traitors that joined APC in 2015 to get elected and then decamped to PDP have mostly been shown the way out. e. Saraki I don't think it is premature to congratulate PMB and pray that God would give him the wisdom to lead the country better than he did previously. 1 Like |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Blazebond(m): 1:43pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Shit analysis,an election filled with irregularities and violence,my friend go back to abeg,you are a zombie. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Superman7: 1:43pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
OP, this thread would have been accepted if this were a free and fair election. So you want to pretend that you don't know that this is the worst and most rigged election in the history of Nigeria? I have said it before, Buhari knows that he cannot win a free and fair election because Nigerians are tired of him, so he decided to force himself on us again. God will punish him!! 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by RevenGeMission: 1:45pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
You sha like to dey make some people cry midolian: 1 Like 1 Share |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by jaxxy(m): 1:45pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
KingWarri: I mean she’s trying to teach us lessons learnt in 2019 election so let’s be real. 1st time I’ve ever seen ballot boxes been burnt live. The north can put all their eggs in one basket bt the east can’t? Every region has a right to choose as they feel. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Starks: 1:46pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
op u are a good political analyst. good point very good. thumbs up Mann.. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Mbryt: 1:47pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
am flummoxed with people's comment about the election been rigged , when the alimajiris and northern are preparing for this electionlike thier life depends on it to favou their likes (BUARI). The people here started like and share on Nairaland , twitter and facebook. the yought here started argument on social media some of them don't even have have their PVC we saw some of them busy playing football on election day and you are coming back here to castigate the fact that buari won through rigging. Congratulation in advance buari till 2023. 3 Likes |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by chuckjonesbaba(m): 1:47pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
midolian: Even a new born baby knows what really happened |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by olaolaking: 1:47pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
midolian:Maybe he attempted to bomb nairaland |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by chuckjonesbaba(m): 1:47pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Kenzykingson: Lol |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by webtutorr: 1:48pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Trashes..........., shiiiiiiits..... |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by SmartyPants(m): 1:51pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Social media indicators certainly were accurate when viewed through the proper perspective. APC's support base in the southwest has clearly been significantly eroded which was unexpected. As the majority of Nigeria's social media users are located in the south in general, clearly social media accurately indicated that Buhari would not have an easy ride anywhere in the south. Now the mistake would have been assuming that the social media sample was representative of the entire Nigeria. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by SexynSerious(f): 1:52pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
All these things would be true, if the results are not being MANIPULATED. Bottom line, the people voted but the voted have not been counted. What we have today is a systematic award of votes. Nothing more nothing less. midolian: |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by menesheh(m): 1:53pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Miscellaneous: Each time it happens, I will follow you laugh and congratulate the perpetrators since we all love the way things are going. Afterall, here is me in Enugu, the most peaceful state in Nigeria. 1 Like |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by omoharry(f): 1:55pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
princegeo:Exactly my thought. My problem is the Fulani Headmen and the encouragement they are getting from Pre. Buhari. Any way Nigerians have made thier choice so did the MB/NC. The way they have decided lay their bed so they will lie on it in the next for years .I fear for this country any way under Buhari's administration 1 Like |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Alex80s(m): 1:55pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
You forgot to mention that elites voted for Atiku especially in the South. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by supereagle(m): 1:56pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Great one indeed. The Igbos will not learn anything, bitterness is in them. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Kenzykingson(m): 1:56pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
olaolaking: Loooolz is like you guys don't know that someone can intentionally jail his self for some months That's what most Nigerian guys like doing now, for me i have jailed myself for almost 3years making my cool forex trade money till Nigeria starts working then we can unjail our self's #ndimmaduself |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by CoolAmbience(m): 2:00pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Naughtytboy: You must be related in one way or the other to Obasanjo...please, where can I find him? |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Nobody: 2:01pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Show me the forex way na. Me I'm doing binary options. Kenzykingson: |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Konquest: 2:02pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ Great post! Great analyses! I salute those Nigerians on all sides for voting their minds because this election mostly reflected the actual voting pattern... and I congratulate PMB/PYO again in advance of their impending victory at the 2019 polls. I salute the NW/NE especially for delivering the very clear lead for PMB. In the SW I salute Ekiti State for giving PMB victory in all the local governments and winning the 3 Senatorial Districts. #4+4 Mafia! PS: With Dangote Petrochemical Refinery, Lekki, Lagos coming on stream by end of 2019/2020 which will drop the pump price of petrol to about N50 per litre and the new standard guage railway lines that are being finished - such as the Lagos-Abeokuta-Ibadan-Kano and the Lagos-Calabar line that will start in the next government... the cost of living WILL drop for all Nigerians, and they will be happier in their daily lives and not be hostile again! All the best! midolian:^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ ^^^^^^ It is now crystal clear that Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress is heading for a crushing defeat of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party. There had been surprises and upsets in many states as the results were announced, but not predicted was that the APC candidate, vilified on social media by PDP warriors, on the pulpits by bigoted hate preachers, would return a resounding victory against PDP. Here are some of the lessons learnt in the February 23 election: 1. Social media power overrated: If elections are won on Twitter and Facebook, President Buhari would by now be writing his handover notes and be preparing to tend his cows on his farm in Daura. But the limitations of the social media platforms especially Twitter have just been exposed by the results of the election. The candidate of the PDP got more retweets, more likes for tweets by supporters on Twitter, but such preferences count for nothing in the real voting. For information, although there are over 92 million Nigerians using the internet, not all of them are connected to the social media platforms. According to some verified statistics, about 25 million Nigerians use Facebook, with 16 million being active users. Twitter users are in several millions, representing just 8.83% of social media users. At 8.29 %, users of Pinterest are surprisingly close to users of Twitter. Instagram commands just 2.0 per cent and Facebook 78.47 per cent as at 2018. This may explain why the orchestrated campaigns of falsehood and calumny against the APC candidate did not get much traction going into the election. As past elections had shown in Nigeria, the people who vote are the ordinary people, the peasants, petty traders, artisans who are not wired to the social media platforms. And they have spoken in favour of the candidate they believe is the greatest friend of the ‘Talakawa’. 2. Elite power, pulpit power has been smashed by the results of the election. [/b]Those hate preachers who abused the pulpit to command their congregation to vote for the PDP have been put to shame. Elite in the north and south who believe Buhari has been ‘bad business’ and worked vigorously to dethrone him, now also know their powers are limited. The ordinary masses hold the master key to ‘people power’. Buhari, like in 2015, has overcome elite gang up and conspiracy of the churches. In Abuja, the votes recorded in Kubwa, Garki, Mbappe and some other places with a wide Christian population and civil servants against Buhari were to some extent offset by farmers living in the villages around the capital. 3. [b]Politicians who put a lot of score on endorsement now should know better. The Afenifere in Yorubaland and the various political groups largely failed to mobilise the votes for Buhari in the region, despite their endorsement. The results in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo were too close to show that the people did not heed the instructions of the groups. Ohanaeze was also rebuffed to some extent in the south east states. The Northern Elders Forum of Ango Abdullahi, the Middle Belt Forum, the Arewa Consultative Forum need some reality checks about their power as opinion moulders. 4. The fourth lesson is that Igbo appeared to have learnt some lessons from their one-basket political disposition in 2015. In 2019, they did not put all their eggs in one basket, as they gave Buhari more than 25 per cent in Ebonyi, Abia, Anambra and Imo. Only Enugu gave Buhari the snub as the opposition recorded a thumping victory here, 355,553 votes to Buhari’s 54,423. In Lagos, however, Igbo voting pattern like suspected in 2015, unsettled their Yoruba hosts, leading to threatening inter-ethnic hostility. Yoruba believe that Igbo should always support their interests, afterall ‘When in Rome, one is expected to behave like the Romans’. 5.All politics is truly local. Kwarans demonstrated this in the way they humiliated the PDP and its chief strategist, Bukola Saraki, rejecting the campaign of ‘better Nigeria’, ‘making Nigeria work again’, for home grown wild fire campaign of ‘O To ge’, which translates to “Enough is Enough’. The campaign dethroned Saraki from Kwara central senate seat and smashed the PDP into political irrelevance, with the APC recording 308,984 votes, two and a half times more than the 138,184 votes recorded by the PDP. In Daura, Katsina, voters showed the APC senatorial candidate that he needed to settle with them as they clobbered him, by voting for the Accord Party candidate, in the same polling unit, where Buhari recorded over 700 votes to three for Atiku. In Kogi state, Dino Melaye won a return ticket to the Senate despite all the controversies he generated. He will need to thank fumbling ex-police chief, Ibrahim Idris for making him popular with his people. And in Bauchi, speaker Yakubu Dogara survived his expected political demise and won fourth term ticket in his Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal constituency. 6. Buhari is the only politician in Nigeria today with a solid home base. President Buhari has proven once again that he is the Awolowo, Aminu Kano of our time, posting overwhelming victory in his home state of Katsina and other states, such asd Kano, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kaduna, Jigawa in the North West that he had consistently won since 2003, when he made the first bid for Nigeria’s presidency. Buhari also showed commanding presence in the North east. Atiku failed to show such political force in his state of Adamawa that he won with a few thousand votes. Then to show how Buhari has gathered much political traction since elected in 2015, he had a strong showing in states, such as Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa, with high Christian population, that Atiku thought he would have won convincingly, based on the propaganda that Buhari is anti-Christian. Buhari similarly cut inroads into South South and South East states, denying Atiku any Tsunami effect from the zones. 7. Finally, lies, falsehood do get their comeuppances in the fullness of time. This election has proven this. Buhari in the run-up to the poll was the target of so many vicious lies and propaganda. The most reprehensible lie was that he was a clone from Sudan planted in Aso Rock. He was also painted as a hater of Christians, who allowed Boko Haram to seize a Christian girl Leah Sharibu. They accused him of promoting an Islamisation agenda and of being an ethnic bigot who favoured his region in appointments. Some even said he had finished Nigeria with foreign debts, a claim that was not supported by available facts. The opposition will need to invent new lies now as the President has posted a most crushing defeat of their candidate. http://www.nta.ng/news/politics/20190226-some-great-lessons-learnt-in-nigerias-presidential-election/ |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by CoolAmbience(m): 2:04pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
gidgiddy: This one nor fit get sense...make una leave am abeg. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by emaduka: 2:08pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
his northern supporters didnt sake their life to defense their vote unfortunate southern supporters sake their life to defense their votes |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by Dee60: 2:14pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
ruby360: You should produce some facts on what he has done wrong. Facts, not assumptions. OBJ said that the tradermoni was idiotic and some people bought that. For long, finance organisations have been talking about building the economy from the base. What is the wrong in lending to people that will never be accepted by the commercial banks? All the funds loaned out to those traders is not up to one-tenth of what some civil servants pocket for themselves and their girlfriends. Anyway, I hold briefs for no one. But why bring a church into this argument? A church will not and should not act on what is written in social media. They need facts. Whoever has the facts should write to them. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by raumdeuter: 2:14pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Correct |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by akinszz: 2:18pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Helgreenluv:they are balaam prophets of our time 1 Like |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by kristisking(m): 2:19pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
midolian:What a myopic write up. Even devils know this election was massively rigged. Broad day robbery. |
Re: Some Great Lessons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by PremiumLeaks: 2:21pm On Feb 26, 2019 |
Dee60:Wow bravo bro, your piece is quite insightful! Lesson 15 is so so true! You see this whole nonsense started in 2015 and I thought they will learn from that misadventure but nope, they never learn! On nairaland and on social media, all one saw was unprintable slurs at the same people you want votes from! The northerners might not make noise on social media but they sure know how to get back at u with their votes!! 1 Like |
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