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I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by timbuktwo: 12:44am On Mar 15, 2011 |
From GARBA MUHAMMAD, Kaduna Tuesday, March 15, 2011 Ribadu Photo: Sun News Publishing More Stories on This Section The presidential candidate of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Mallam Nuhu Ribadu has said he would not hesitate to step down for a northern candidate if the need arises. Ribadu’s disclosure came even as he expressed the belief that what the North was working towards, was to get the best candidate that could challenge the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the April elections. He, therefore, expressed the need for the progressives to support one candidate to confront the PDP, which, according to him, “is a problem. ACN today is a northern party because I am the candidate.” Speaking in Kaduna during the weekend, Ribadu said although he was not an advocate of zoning, he was optimistic that the north would do better if given the opportunity to produce the President. He added that those who wish the country well would have to come together to save Nigerians from the shackle of PDP’s failure. “It is amazing when Jonathan talks about change, change for what? When you talk about change we are talking about new ideas and generational change. I believe we can also change the political forum in the country but it will require hard work and dedication. “Jonathan did not pardon me because I have not done anything wrong. When you fight corruption, it also fights you back. Last year, I was a fugitive. I never nursed the ambition of becoming the president, but thank God for the situation I found myself today. “There were attempts on my life twice. I still have my car sprayed with bullets. Since I left the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), I have never called Obasanjo and I have nothing to do with him. “Fundamentally, the problem of religious and ethnic crisis in Nigeria is as a result of leadership failure. If you do not take care of the Police, the Police will not take care of you. Last year, over 400 police officers lost their lives while discharging their duties nationwide. “Gowon and his deputy were Christians, so I have chosen a Nigerian who probably happened to be a Muslim. “Jonathan is playing politics with education, given the allocation to education in the national budget. Therefore, the creation of new universities when over 12 million graduates do not have jobs is not the solution of Nigeria’s education problem. The PDP government is worse than that of Mubarrak in Egypt,” he added. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by timbuktwo: 12:47am On Mar 15, 2011 |
first nplf, then shekarau, now ribadu. everyone is falling in line behind buhari. can jonathan really win this election? |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by jason123: 12:53am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Na wa oooo! |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Ibime(m): 2:05am On Mar 15, 2011 |
We need to question who is behind these background moves to collapse the Northern candidates into one. If such characters are the same old corrupt oligarchs, then any Northern consensus candidate (Buhari) will be compromised and will be no better than the PDP option. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by ekubear1: 2:14am On Mar 15, 2011 |
If Ribadu steps down, 80%+ chance that Buhari wins. Only thing keeping GEJ afloat atm is Ribadu splitting the opposition votes. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by jumobi1(m): 5:26am On Mar 15, 2011 |
So Ribadu is working for a President from the North? Man. These Politicians are all the same clowns. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Onlytruth(m): 5:52am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Posted by: Ibime
I dey laugh o! Ibime, I thought you'd be happy that GEJ may lose? Bros I no know where you stand o. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Onlytruth(m): 5:55am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Never expected anything less from Ribadu. I'm not easily fooled. Ihe agwo muru anaghi agha ito ogologo. Last time he was in the states, I took one look at him in person and something didn't feel right about him. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by EMANY01(m): 6:07am On Mar 15, 2011 |
I love it just as a number of discerning people suspected .What they fail to realize is that should they try that Jonathan will win hands down and much as i do not like the ACN (i am not a pdp hog by the way) Ribadu pulling out shortly before the contest will consign him to political oblivion as well as ensure that those voters the party has cultivated and aroused in the south west will simply reject him(since hes pulled out already and Buhari at the polls.My point is the southern voters have been encouraged to not view their choices at this election through primordial ethnic/sentimental lenses Ribadu pulling out at any time before the race for Buhari's benefit will be counter productive.Southern voters even those in the west will see this as the strategy of the north to regain power and the manner in which the would have done this will make them even more suspicious of Buhari they will simply revert to sentiments and vote a candidate from the south who has a chance of winning. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by egift(m): 6:32am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Please step down in time. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Beaf: 6:36am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Why is anyone surprised? Goodluck Jonathan [the incumbent] is from a very small ethnic group, Sadly, even if he were the best person for the job, northern Nigeria would never accept it. He is not electable. http://www.economist.com/blogs/baobab/2010/11/interview_nihu_ribadu |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Kobojunkie: 6:43am On Mar 15, 2011 |
@OP, might be a good idea to get another perspective on this story. I am not a Ribadu maniac myself but much of what is contained do not seem to line up with what we know so far of the man Ribadu. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by bkbabe97y(m): 7:03am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Am I the only one that sees that this story is as fake as Pam Anderson's ti*tties?! This story was planted to paint the Northerners as tribal and bigots. . . . failed! Fake. Relegate this shiyyt to the trash can! |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by AbuMaryam1(m): 7:05am On Mar 15, 2011 |
EMANY 01:Good analysis |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by bkbabe97y(m): 7:07am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Onlytruth: Surprisingly, uve "taken" millions of those same "looks" at Orji Kalu, Ojukwu and ur other greedy, thieving, "IBB-SUPPORTING" Ibo brothers. . . . did you ever feel something wasnt right about them too?! Im*becile! |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by naijaking1: 7:25am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Ibime: Good morning How's the coffee smell? |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Nobody: 8:58am On Mar 15, 2011 |
BE FAST ABOUT IT, STREAMLINE BEHIND BB. ALL OTHER PARTIES SHOULD PUT BB FORWARD LETS SEE HOW PDP will do their magic. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Gbawe: 9:39am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Onlytruth: You took one look at him and "something didn't feel right" ? Na wa OOOO. First he is a "spoiler" for GEJ then we hear he is "OBJ's inside man" . Yet , the truth is that Ribadu , since returning from exile, has always shown a readiness to put Nation above self. He was ready to step down for Buhari during the alliance talk , and if this article is correct , he is still ready to do same because he genuinely believes , above everything else, that "those who wish the country well would have to come together to save Nigerians from the shackle of PDP’s failure". It would be good if we had more leaders who could behave as selflessly as Ribadu . Shame Jonathan is not made of the same stock as Ribadu otherwise he would see he could serve Nigeria best and write his name in gold by conducting a free and fair election that will remove a lot of crooks everywhere . The senate could have been purged somewhat and many States would have the Governors the people want . What is a better template for enduring development than that ? Instead the very same people destroying Nigeria (eg Alao-Akala) are certain to return , to do further damage, as per deals made with GEJ . |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Nobody: 11:15am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by SkyBlue1: 11:24am On Mar 15, 2011 |
Ribadu might be eroding his support with his own utterances. I thought Buhari and Ribadu would understand that some of the support Jonathan receives is due to the fact that he is not a "northern" candidate and hence a perceived break from the worn out zoning idealogy people were getting fed up with and wanted to fight against. Making such utterances might just lose him support of some who might have despite the urge to fight against zoning, still supported him. Zoning is no longer a popular idealogy and anyone even remotely alluding to such (either directly or indirectly) by their actions or utterances should be prepared to lose some progressive support (but possibly gain ethnically driven support). If Buhari even makes this mistake it might cost him. We need a president of Nigeria, not one of the north or south (if not you might as well split the darn thing up). |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Gbawe: 11:56am On Mar 15, 2011 |
timbuk two: http://dailytrust.dailytrust.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14034:shekarau-im-not-stepping-down-for-anyone&catid=2:lead-stories&Itemid=8 Shekarau: I’m not stepping down for anyone . |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by blacksta(m): 12:40pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
Nigerians are very tribalistic. doubt if the story is true anyway. If Buhari is the man to fix the country why not? I will prefer not remain in darkness whilst a failed Southerner is the president of Nigeria. 10 months of a failed GEJ is enough evidence to try another alternative Presidential post is not an experimental post and definitely luck wont get u anywhere. Please refuse to be sentimental your future and children's own are at stake. Vote on policies and Sentiments |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Ibime(m): 3:17pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
@ Onlytruth & Naijaking!!! There is a reason we live in a democracy, and that's to QUESTION everything. You would be retarded to take any Nigerian at face-value. Though I support Buhari, it's simply due to lack of a better option, not because he's the best thing since sliced bread! Should Ribadu step down, Buhari would still get my vote (although I have no vote). Its a win-win situation for the South as far as I'm concerned if Buhari wins. (a.) Nigeria as a whole get better governance OR (b.) The South becomes aggrieved and starts agitating. Both options suit me just fine!!! |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Nobody: 3:24pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
The "North" knows more than the "South" in these things. I wont be suprised if at the dying minute, Ribadu abandons ACN and Tinubu in the cold. Yet my vote is going to Jonathan not becuase he is from the south, but because he is the President Nigeria needs for now. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Pharoh: 3:35pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
We all knew these all along and that's why i have never supported any core northern candidate, they are all the same thing. The northerners are very good in political strategy and the south will always be fooled believing in democracy and modernism. The north are always prepared to the battlefield and see what he is saying that any northern candidate is better than any southern candidate. This is an insult and am ashamed that these people receive any form of support in southern Nigeria. There is no two ways about it, the presidency stays in the south or the country will go up in flames. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Nobody: 3:48pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
I have told them that the "Sai Buhari" movement is more of religious/ethinic movement than a politcal movement. Some of us are not fooled by it. Yet, my main reason for voting President Jonathan is not neither Religion nor Ethinic. Between him and the opportunist military officer, I chose him any day any time. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Jbenue: 3:51pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
I am seriously dissapointed here I am rooting for Ribadu to show Nigerians a progressive way of doing things and then he goes and says something like this it is very very dissapointing indeed, now I wish Fashola had run, |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by Jamesakume(m): 4:21pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
Whoever spreads these baseless stories should just stop, Ribadu represents the hopes and yearnings of 80% of the youths of this country, it would amount to a betrayal. We should be talking of Hurricane ACN sweeping away the non-functional PDP, together with all their experienced criminals. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by 4dgood: 4:23pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
I wonder why we would have so many comments on this topic. @Timbuk two, you put everything except the title of your post in quotes. You would have done well to post a link to wherever you got your cock and bull story from. I'm guessing you are one of those GEJ zombies going about twisting stories and formulating false ones too. Let us know the source of your lies and just in case of next time, be sure your title is included in your post. This one is a joke. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by joan1: 4:41pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
Its quite unfortunate that they have been trying to discredit Ribadu, its just some weeks to election and that shows how baseless this story is. Ribadu represents the change we truly need. |
Re: I’ll Step Down For A Northern Candidate - Ribadu by daresmith: 4:49pm On Mar 15, 2011 |
Can't you all see? He just put everything he said in quotes except the reason we all came here. Get your facts right and stop using these dirty tactics. |
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