jaxxy:
Sm people are idiots. There is no correlation Jonathan’s election was 80% free and fair and that’s why he accepted defeat and congratulated the winner

To congratulate Buhari wud be a disservice to democracy and putting a stamp of approval on a poorly and disgracefully conducted election. Maybe 40% free and fair.

Buhari has won by hook or by crook let him continue and do his best to finish well.

Mightyhaiz:
in immhotep voice,.. What has been seen,...

shehuolayinka:
I do not know much about sports, but I know what good sportsmanship is. Diego Maradona, the Argentine football shaman, was a great player, but he is not celebrated as much as Pele of Brazil. One fatal flaw detracts from Maradona’s genius – hubris.

Maradona is known to be a sore loser. He curses, barks and brawls in defeat. As a matter of fact, his ‘’legend’’ is stymied by his repulsive foibles and deportment.

Politics is like football. It is a game. One side wins and the other side loses. It should not have to be a hara-kiri – ‘’it is victory or death’’.

Nigeria has been good to Atiku Abubakar. He has thrived and flourished on the backs of the country. He was a former chief of customs; he was elected governor, and then, he became, perhaps, the most powerful vice-president in Nigeria. Atiku has seen it all, and he has had it all.

I had expected the former vice-president to react to the judgment of the Supreme Court, which dismissed his appeal against President Muhammadu Buhari’s election victory, as a statesman. I was disappointed by his barb.

He did a ‘’maradona bawl’’.

‘’The Nigerian judiciary, just like every estate of our realm, has been sabotaged and undermined by an overreaching and dictatorial cabal, who have undone almost all the democratic progress the Peoples Democratic Party and its administrations nurtured for sixteen years, up until 2015,” he said.

“Today, the nail has been put on the coffin and the gains we collectively made since 1999 are evaporating, and a requiem is at hand.’’

Really, even if the judiciary has been ‘’sabotaged’’ as he said, Atiku has been a beneficiary of the good, the bad and the ugly in this supposedly flawed institution.

I recall in 2007, the Supreme Court was on the ‘’side’’ of Atiku in his mortal combat with former President Olusegun Obasanjo. The same court that Atiku vilifies today held that Obasanjo cannot declare his seat as vice-president vacant.

We are a nation in dire need of statesmen and not hangmen or agents of disruption. But I must contrast my view on Atiku’s bearings with the fact that Buhari would have said much worse or even done much worse if he had lost at the apex court.

When the president lost the 2011 election, he issued threats which led to an outbreak of violence across the north. I was in Kaduna at that time, and I witnessed the unrest — stoked by a man who has sponged off the country all his adult life.

There is victory in defeat.

President Jonathan conceded the 2015 election to Buhari before the final collation of results was done. He called Buhari to congratulate him on winning the election despite pressure from ‘’devious elves around the throne of power’’ to pervert the will of the people.

Really, no matter how some persons may try to trivialise what Jonathan did, defeat is a bitter pill to swallow. It takes strength of character to concede to another.

READ MORE: https://thebelltimesng.com/2019/11/03/what-atiku-can-learn-from-president-jonathan-in-defeat-by-fredrick-nwabufo/

Shoodboi:


I was going to type the above until I saw that the author already did.

Buhari and Atiku are birds of the same feather. They just don't flock together.

Both are criminals and despots unworthy of even becoming class captains.

But in nation where tribal and religious sentiments have overtaken common sense, they ended up as president and vice.

jaxxy:
Sm people are idiots. There is no correlation Jonathan’s election was 80% free and fair and that’s why he accepted defeat and congratulated the winner

To congratulate Buhari wud be a disservice to democracy and putting a stamp of approval on a poorly and disgracefully conducted election. Maybe 40% free and fair.

Buhari has won by hook or by crook let him continue and do his best to finish well.

mu2sa2:
Why stop at 80% - add the the remaining 20% to make it a perfect election. Your fellow ipob will still give you the likes. Same with 40% - why? Drop it to 0% for maximum likes from your fellow Nnamdi kanu disciples. God continue to bless the federal Republic of Nigeria and shame detractors of "our dear natve natve land."

1mrprolific7:
Since Buhari has been the most mentioned name in Nigeria this past year, I think Oxford Dictionary should consider creating a space for him in the dictionary.
For example:
Buhari: /boo-ha-ree/ adjective: hard, difficult, painful , troublesome, harsh, wicked, liar, bad, thief.
.Verb: Buhari.
. Past Tense: Buharied
. Present Continuous: Buharying
. Present Perfect: Buharise
E.g:
... Some girls always like to buharise things,
.
... The test was Buharistic,
.
... I had a very Buharied week.
# Buhari: To complicate, make things worse, unbearable.
E.g:
... Please don't come and Buharificate issues here.
... The only way to reduce applicants is to Buharify the process.
... How was your exam? It was Buharific !!!

ZombieTERROR:
There is a great difference between being defeated and being rigged out...

The two are separate scenarios

DonFreshmoney:
Atiku is coming 2023..

mu2sa2:
Why stop at 80% - add the the remaining 20% to make it a perfect election. Your fellow ipob will still give you the likes. Same with 40% - why? Drop it to 0% for maximum likes from your fellow Nnamdi kanu disciples. God continue to bless the federal Republic of Nigeria and shame detractors of "our dear natve natve land."

roscoman:
Mr. Frederick,

With due respect I reacted to your tweet about Supreme Court judgement for February 2019 Presidential elections results.

Sir, If I was in Atiku Abubakar's shoes, I won't congratulate President Muhammad Bihari because from every corroborative and verifiable evidence, Atiku won that presidential election with more than two million votes.

Let me tell you, for any democratic government to survive, Judiciary has to be independent of executive. As long as Judiciary is still under the funding, appointment, controlling of Judiciary, democracy can not survive and can't grow under such a system as we are seeing now.

Yes President Goodluck Jonathan Congratulated President Muhammad Buhari then because the manipulation and falsification of figures with wide electoral malpractices then was not all that glaring.

Aside from that APC machineries was seriously working then about 60% of Nigeria population wanted Goodluck Jonathan to go by all means but they did not critically examine the capacity, ability, international politics and experience of their preferred alternative on ground then. But Nigerians don't know that all these vested interested guys that wants Johnathan go that time was just after their business and personal interest not that they love ordinary common man or they want Nigeria to move forward as a nation.

Mr. Frederick, all the time Muhammad Buhari lost to Obasanjo, Yar' Adua even Johnathan in a presidential elections, did Buhari congratulated any of them even after a longer legal battles ?.


Late former President Umar Musa Yar'Adua was also from Kastina State like Buhari, does Buhari congratulated him when he won 2007 Presidental elections even with a slight margin ?. So we should not be missing words as far as whether Atiku Abubakar should congratulates Buhari when it is glaring that both Inec and judiciary collaborated to give Atiku's votes to Buhari.

Having said all that, why did Buhari refused to signed electoral laws before 2019 general elections ?.

I rest my case here.