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Re: The Igbos And Yorubas Should Live With This Truth: by oyatz(m): 10:10pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
Let me explain to you how Political parties determine the success of candidates. 1) Political parties like the PDP and the APC have party structures with members, supporters and fans in every ward in each LGAs. 2) These party structures go out during campaigns to convince prospective voters to vote for their parties. 3) There are politicians in every ward, LGA and States who have PERSONAL ambitions to be councillors, Chairmen, House of Assembly Members,House of Reps members,Senators, Governors, Ministers, Ambassadors, etc. These people rely on political parties to actualize these dreams and the possibilities of achieving these dreams will be brighten if their parties also produce the president. 4) Tribal/Regional solidarity may not necessarily work for the PERSONAL interests of certain politicians. Infact, it may work against it in some cases. Non-members of political parties wrongly assume that working for one's tribesman to become the President will always meet one's PERSONAL interests. This is a great fallacy. For instance,if Amaechi and Timi Sylva had worked for Jonathan in 2015, they won't be where they are today. 5) If these aspirants/contestants work for the opposition or allow the opposition party to win easily in their domains, they will be working against their own successes. For instance, APC Governorship candidates in Sokoto, Delta or Adamawa State will mobilize for the APC presidential candidates in their domains. Allowing PDP to have it's ways in these States mean it will become twice more difficult for them to win in their own elections. Tribal and/or regional solidarity are inferior to PERSONAL Survival/Interests in Nigerian politics. 5) Awolowo like all other mortals had his areas of strengths as well as weaknesses. He has played his parts in the evolution of Nigerian democracy and political development. No matter how pleasant or unpleasant these parts were, they can't continue to determine our political destiny perpetually. Life is dynamic and change is inevitable. LabDNA: |
Re: The Igbos And Yorubas Should Live With This Truth: by oyatz(m): 11:02pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
Bros you don't seems to understand my points. There's nothing you write on this forum, if it doesn't align with the PERSONAL interests of politicians, they won't support it. For instance, there is no amount of thread opened on this forum about Igbo presidency that will make politicians like Atiku, Saraki, Tinubu, El-Rufai, Tambuwal, Osinbajo or Kwankanso to drop their presidential ambitions. Atiku was the strongest proponents of zoning in the PDP primaries of 2011 and 2015 because such arrangements would be in his PERSONAL Interests and disenfranchised President Jonathan who was then his strongest opponent. However the same Atiku will strongly kick against zoning the PDP Presidential ticket in 2023 because such arrangements will hurt his PERSONAL ambition. In reality,what we perceived to be collective interests is actually summation of several individual interests. LabDNA: |
Re: The Igbos And Yorubas Should Live With This Truth: by oyatz(m): 11:15pm On Apr 09, 2020 |
You can make your points without this childish insults. The NEC of each party will determine how to pick their flagbearers. Each party has his catchments areas of strengths which is NOT the same for all parties. The game is different from when Nigeria had only one dominant party called the PDP and general elections were just formalities to ratify and legalize the PDP arrangements. LabDNA: |
Re: The Igbos And Yorubas Should Live With This Truth: by YeeboMuslim: 12:00am On Apr 10, 2020 |
LabDNA:Lol Did you read the gist on how Fayemi wants to be a deputy to a Northerner in 2023 ?? We also have our plan B. We won't leave aso rock soon , definitely not 2023. Go figure !!! We want to enjoy like the Ibos did from the first republic through 3rd republic.
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Re: The Igbos And Yorubas Should Live With This Truth: by DabuIIIT: 1:21pm On Apr 11, 2020 |
mrvitalis: Their reasoning these days is worse than a barbarian. |
Re: The Igbos And Yorubas Should Live With This Truth: by DabuIIIT: 1:24pm On Apr 11, 2020 |
Iamgrey5:But the igbos still have their land and their obi still is their traditional ruler... Do you have your ilorin? Do you have a major oba in ilorin? And you say you have defeated the Fulanis.....I laugh in Afonja |
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