Curled from http://www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/jonathan-sweeps-s-west/

Goodluck2uNigerians. 7 gboza 4 Dr JEGA.
J - Jonathan
E - Ebele
G - Goodluck
A - Azikiwe.

U c how God works? D election wz done 2 fulfil all righteousness. D truth is we already kw dat God had already enthroned him. No man can curse who God has blessed. It's a pity dat dsame Pst Bakare who finished Buhari in University of Ibadan turned out 2 be his running mate. What a shame? God is on d throne & dis is a new dawn 4 Nigeria. God bless u all, yes even ur enemies will come & celebrate with u. Those who laughed @ u will come out in mass 2 laugh & celebrate with u. Goodluck 9ja.

Our SE brothers are messing up this thread because the result is not in their favor. I pity you.

http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/04/16/nigeria.elections/index.html?hpt=Sbin

I was reading comments on CNN in the link above and i am just laughing, this person called anonymous80 is just bashing any anti-Nigerian comment, its so funny.

Tinubu Speaks On Botched ACN/CPC Merger, Cautions Buhari Against Blackmail

THE WILL



LAGOS, April 16, (THEWILL) – Former Lagos State Governor and leader of the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu has cautioned the presidential candidate of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), General Muhammadu Buhari on making derogatory comments over the failure of the ACN and the CPC to reach a working alliance ahead of the Presidential election which held today nationwide.

Bola Tinubu spoke during a question and answer session with journalists after his accreditation to vote in the election in Alausa, Lagos.

On why the alliance failed?


The story is not different from what the National Chairman said last week. It is very unfortunate that the two serious national parties could not solve the problem earlier than now. We have been at it for quite some time now. You all are aware of the National Democratic Movement, which Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was a member before he moved back to the People’s Democratic Party (PDP). The movement was left with Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, General Muhammadu Buhari and us. From that moment on, it would have been a good opportunity to form an alliance. It is not about individual. It is about the need to form a strong structure.

So what transpired?


At that time, there was no Congress for Progressive Change (CPC). What we had was The Buhari Organisation (TBO). Suddenly, CPC was registered. To me, at that stage, instead of a merger to form a unified platform, they started talking about alliance. Alliance in a presidential system has never worked. You need to form a common platform with a common manifesto to be able to work together and be able to educate the people on the difference between the common platform and the constituting parties.

When the merger plan did not work, they dragged us back. I will not blame any person. But Buhari, as a leader who is highly experienced, and has been a statesman and contested election twice and has complained of rigging and irregularities in court for a long time challenging the process, he should have seen that it is not wise to bring CPC in at the time we were rooting for a merger. But we still respected him and wanted to continue with the merger plan, but he said he wanted an alliance. So, the merger was suspended.

However, if you want alliance, instead of a merger, you must be ready to negotiate, give, take and make sacrifices. But it is unfortunate that we are so self-centred and selfish to the extent that it beclouds our patriotic sense. They do not want to give, but want take. We suspended the alliance talk till after the National Assembly election, the result of which showed that Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) has better strength and better spread than CPC. So, we should be the leader in the alliance.

But they want to keep the presidential candidate as well as the running mate, in an alliance where we should be the leading pack. Now, the alliance is not strong enough to produce the senate president, neither can it produce the House of Representative Speaker, so what are we going to get in return? I am ready to sacrifice my two legs to be amputated, but you are not even ready to sacrifice your index finger. They were offering us cabinet positions which you can change your mind tomorrow and sack at will.

When did the ACN back up then, was it after the offer of cabinet positions?


We were still ready to go along with the plan in the interest of the country. But we later discovered that while we were negotiating the alliance, they are also speaking with the Save Nigeria Group (SNG), to which they have conceded the slot of Vice Presidency. We accepted him, but asked him to surrender the vice presidential slot. If we do not have that, our platform, which we have laboured so hard to build, will be in danger.

So we proposed a merger which will be implemented after the election. We could not afford to jettison our symbol because it is the symbol of economy, especially for the poor. But we were ready for a joint logo that will show the broom on one side and Buhari’s pen on another side as a new logo for the future. The negotiation went to that extent. Yet, they refused to commit to that plan. At that point, it became clear that they are only after using us to win election, without having any regard for our platform. We decided at that point to cancel all suggestions and look at things holistically.

Why did the ACN not push for a candidate from the younger generation?


We actually did because globally, younger people are taking over governance. They are producing better results, even the very conservative Russia is shifting ground for the younger generation. Our candidate is younger than others. Ribadu is a lawyer and an institutional man. He built Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), which became a deterrent to widespread irregularity, from the scratch. When Ribadu was at EFCC, Buhari was one of the principal advisers of EFCC. Both of them have a long family history when Ribadu’s father was a parliamentarian. So, he could have become our national hero and our own Mandela, by supporting Ribadu.

So, may be, the election will throw up a run off. Then we can resume the alliance talk. But I got a text from Chief Bisi Akande this morning that “General Buhari on Voice of America radio today said that ACN has already sealed a deal with the PDP for some cabinet post and Speaker of House of Representatives.” That is false, if it is true that Buhari said so. It is blackmail. I do not expect somebody of his calibre to make such statement. We are going to remain committed to our manifesto.
On the meeting between the ACN and President Goodluck Jonathan?

If President Jonathan will invite the leadership of the ACN to even have a discussion on collaboration, he has done well. It means he has shown the desire to win the election. But what has Buhari done? Has he ever willingly contacted the leadership of ACN privately? Until we were rallied by some leaders who wanted us to form the alliance, Buhari never took a single proactive step. I do not believe a man running to be the President of Nigeria and not Emir of Katsina should have the needed flexibility. To be a good leader, you have to be flexible and accommodating

may GOD help this country from clueless aspirants frm the north who believe they are born to rule.
No way ,na GEJ we want.

^^
Tinubu is a master strategist . . .wow !

He really is! the man is very well spoken! im impressed! Shame he doesnt deliver as well as he does dpeak!

How came there are so many invalid votes in the North? How come the North are registering all these kids?

Good Luck once again Jonathan! with Goodluck u have come this far same godly goodluck follows u tru this electing process.

Princek12:

How came there are so many invalid votes in the North? How come the North are registering all these kids?

Why is that a surprise, the north doesn't have the real population it claims, not then, and not even now. So if you have a village of 100 eligible adults, you simply add 300 underage kids to the mix, and viola, you have 400 voters, and all most likely voting for a particular candidate

Tinubu, Fashola Lose Wards to Jonathan

Do you mean to say "Tinubu, Fashola SOLD Wards to Jonathan"?

omo alaro:

Do you mean to say "Tinubu, Fashola SOLD Wards to Jonathan"?

How is that remotely possible?Well,unless twas Tinubu and Fashola that voted in those places or u attended their rally and can confirm that YES,they indeed asked their supporters to vote for PDP.

What I've come to conclude from this election are:
People are voting for individuals not parties.

Tribalism and religious affiliation eats deeper than the general corruption we yell abt daily.

good thread

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PU: 37/02/10/013 FCDA Qtrs kubwa abuja

Things I've learnt this election

1.    Region and religion still speak louder than common sense
2.    The north has one voice, the rest of the country keep dividing themselves
3.     All southerners who supported Buhari cast their vote,
4.    We can get things right, if we fix our mind on it, so there's hope. Kudos to all Nigerians for an above average election.
5.    SAI BUHHHHHAAAAARRRRRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII


Deductions
1.   Region bias in these elections is a backlash of the zoning formula of the PDP, it supplie food for the fodder
2.   The south stand to lose more if Nigeria divides. We'll just keep breaking and breaking,

musKeeto:

The south stand to lose more if Nigeria divides. We'll just keep breaking and breaking,

Yes, you are correct because We the Core Niger Deltans would not want to accommodate the likes of Ibori, GEJ, Uduaghan, etc

Excerpt from 234next.com
Too close to call

It will be foolhardy to predict the results of this election before all the counting has been done and that will take a while still. Although the electoral commission had promised that all results would be declared within 48 hours, that rule has been followed more in the breacch than in the observance. Putative results however indicate that the next president would either be Mr Jonathan or Mr Buhari. If Mr Jonathan wins, it would be a remarkable achievement for a man who not only hails from the little state of Bayelsa with the lowest voting population of 591,870 votes, but also was a relative unknown and did not have much of a national political base when he became the vice president.

On the other hand, if retired General Buhari emerges victorious, it would be an indication that Nigerians are tired of the status quo and voted against incumbency with all its benefits including financial resources and the power of patronage. It would be a great victory for Mr Buhari's supporters.

Many analysts still doubt that the winner will emerge in this round. Mr Adesina predicted a runoff because according to him, none of the candidates would win the required 25 percent of votes or the two-thirds of votes required at the end of the exercise.

Mr Jonathan is not particularly happy with such a scenario.

"I pray that we do not go into by-election because of the cost implication," he said after casting his vote yesterday afternoon at polling unit Ward 39 of Ward 3, Otuabala.

"Nigeria is a big country and to calculate one round of election, if you calculate the amount of money to pay adhoc staff and security agencies, it is a collosal sum of money. So even for the economic reason and to reduce tension,

we pray that whoever will win should do so at the first ballot."

Mr Shekarau had one piece of advice for his fellow contestants: "If the elections are free, fair and credible, then the participants should accept the verdict of the people."

It is advice Nigerians will like to see heeded.


 That is enough an advice for you all the election results poster. Learn from what happened last week, who laugh last laugh best.

@Adamuhassa

 Where is your INEC person announcing these votes from? JEGA promised to announce live on TV, so where are you getting yours from?

As we await the BOGUS results of SS/SE which are to come last, please be informed and reminded that Dying with Dignity is Better than Living as Slaves!

^^
If you want to die, then go and die and stop disturbing us with "Dying with Dignity".

you guys should please continue in your fantasy results,I do not give a dam about the results you paste here as they are all fake.only last week,this same site said Senate president lost his seat and other false results that was churned out from people on this site.Stop all these falsehood or I will personally trace all those involved and take appropriate actions against them.

MR Jega, I'd suggest u increase Corper's Pay for this elections. They've done a wonderful job so far. They are in d Battle front facing the heat n u are paying just 7k per election and collating officers who just write results these soldiers(Corpers) conducted by stayin under the sun Mon-Eve get 25k HABA!!! This is UNFAIR, Some even without physical Security.In Agaie LGA,Niger State.No security for most Corpers!!!!

aze:

from Musa Dauda

Mairago LGA Katsina PUs 4,6,8,12,13

PDP 477,248
ACN  8
CPC 422,190
ANPP 4,452
DPP 234

Voided votes 54,373 (due to excessive multiple hoof like thumb prints)

Dammit, I don't like eating blue bokoto.

I laugh in tongues, Enough of voting for tribalism and religion, it sucks!! GEJ will WIN cos he is truly loved by most nigerians,

Going to thank God for his victory today, northernans are full of wayo, see underage PLENTY for my centre, Crap!!!


GEJ- President 2011-2015. And if he delivers well, 2015-2019


No time!!!

SW all to GEJ,latest news fr radio 9ja shows that GEJ has 100k plus and buhari has 2k in EKITI.And also hands down in LAG.So wot else

SW all to GEJ,latest news fr radio 9ja shows that GEJ has 100k plus and buhari has 2k in EKITI.And also hands down in LAG.So wot else

Tinubu: Buhari Shouldn’t Resort to Blackmail

There is no let-up in the war of words between the Action Congress of Nigeria and the Congress for Progressive Change over their failed bids to patch an alliance to dethrone the Peoples Democratic Party. 

ACN national leader and former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bolaji Tinubu, Saturday reiterated his party’s position that CPC’s presidential candidate, Major-General Muhammadu Buhari[rtd] killed the alliance. 


His comments on the alliance came just as the electorate in Lagos made a U-turn in their voting pattern by casting their votes for President Goodluck Jonathan of the Peoples Democratic Party. 


As results from polling units in the state trickled in Saturday, Jonathan was leading other candidates, including ACN’s presidential candidate, Nuhu Ribadu, by a wide margin. 


Governor Babatunde Fashola could not even deliver his polling unit to Ribadu. 
Although Tinubu, escaped losing his polling unit to the PDP by a measly margin of 26 votes, the PDP swept other polling units in his Alausa Ward, an indication that he would lose the ward to the PDP when all results are collated. 
Tinubu, who opened a fresh can of worms on why the alliance failed, warned Buhari not to resort to blackmailing the ACN to defend his hard stance on some issues during negotiations between the two parties. 
He told reporters in Ikeja before he cast his vote that but for the unyielding position on Buhari’s part, the alliance talks would have been successful. 


His words: “It is very unfortunate that the two serious national parties could not solve their problem earlier than now. We have been at it for quite some time now.
“You all are aware of the National Democratic Movement, of which Alhaji Atiku Abubakar was a member before he moved back to the PDP. The movement was left with Attahiru Dalhatu Bafarawa, General Muhammadu Buhari and us. From that moment on, it would have been a good opportunity to form an alliance. 


“At that time, there was no Congress for Progressive Change. What we had was The Buhari Organisation. Suddenly, CPC was registered. To me, at that stage, instead of a merger to form a unified platform, they started talking about an alliance. 
“An alliance in a presidential system has never worked. You need to form a common platform with a common manifesto to be able to work together and be able to educate the people the difference between the common platform and the constituting parties.”  
Tinubu said when the merger plan did not work, Buhari said he wanted an alliance, forcing the suspension of merger talks. 
“However, if you want alliance, instead of a merger, you must be ready to negotiate, give, take and make sacrifices. But they did not want to give, but want take. 
“We suspended the alliance talks till after the National Assembly election, the result of which showed that ACN has better strength and a better spread than the CPC, so we should have been the leader in the alliance. 
“But they wanted to keep the presidential candidate as well as the running mate, in an alliance where we should have been the leading partner. 
“Now, the alliance is not strong enough to produce the senate president, neither can it produce the House of Representatives Speaker, so what are we going to get in return? 


“They were offering us cabinet positions, which you can change your mind tomorrow and sack at will,” he said. 
Tinubu said the ACN proposed a merger to be implemented after the election but Buhari refused to buy into the plan, strengthening suspicion among ACN members that  the CPC wanted to use ACN only to achieve Buhari’s presidential bid. 
The ACN leader said he was surprised when he received a text message from the party’s national chairman, Chief Bisi Akande, stating: “General Buhari on Voice of America radio today said ACN has already sealed a deal with the PDP for some cabinet posts and Speaker of House of Representatives. 
“That was false, if it is true that Buhari said so, it was blackmail. I would not expect that somebody of his calibre would make such statement.” 
He confirmed that he met President Goodluck Jonathan in Lagos and there was nothing unusual about it. 
“If President Jonathan will invite the leadership of ACN to even have a discussion on collaboration, he has done well. It means he has shown the desire to win the election.


“But what has Buhari done? Has he ever willingly contacted the leadership of ACN privately? Until we were rallied by some leaders who wanted us to form the alliance, Buhari never took a single proactive step. 
“I do not believe a man running to be the president of Nigeria, and not Emir of Katsina, should not have the needed flexibility. To be a good leader, you have to be flexible and accommodating,” Tinubu added. 


Meanwhile, results from polling units in Lagos Saturday showed Jonathan was leading other candidates by a wide margin. 
This was in contrast to the voting pattern on April 9  when voters in the state had voted massively for ACN candidates, giving victory to all the candidates it presented for the National Assembly election. 
However, the tide changed in Saturday’s presidential election as the personality of the candidates, rather than party loyalty, swayed the voters. 
At Fashola’s polling unit 001 in Itolo area of Surulere, Jonathan had majority votes of 141 to ACN’s 77 votes. Even Buhari beat Ribadu to third place with 90 votes. 
In almost all other polling units in Fashola’s Ward G3, Jonathan was leading with Buhari coming behind him. 
 Ribadu came third in a contest which many people believed he would win considering the dominant influence of the ACN in the south-west. 


At Polling Unit 002 in Ward G3, PDP had 64 votes to 30 votes and 8 votes respectively won by CPC and ACN. The same trend was maintained at Polling Unit 003 where PDP had 103 votes; CPC 88 and ACN only 26 votes. 
Also at Polling Unit 004, PDP scored 152 votes; CPC 63 and ACN 25 while at Polling Unit 005, PDP maintained the lead with 142; CPC 68 votes and ACN got 31 votes. 


But at his ward in Alausa, Tinubu marginally won by 166 votes against PDP’s 140 votes. CPC had 26 votes. However, results from other polling units in Tinubu’s ward defied bookmakers’ predictions. 
The PDP’s lead in some parts of the state sparked heated debate among the masses, which trouped to the polling units to check the election results. Most of them wondered how PDP won most of the polling units. 


However, it was gathered that contrary to the belief of many ACN supporters, PDP won Lagos because the ACN did not prosecute its presidential campaign as diligently as it is doing for its campaigns for the governorship and legislative elections. 


A source said the party had pumped most of its money into the two elections and this had depleted its war chest for the prosecution of the presidential election. 


Besides, past voting pattern in the state shows that the electorate voted PDP at presidential elections in 2003 and 2007, even though it would vote ACN in the governorship and legislative polls.

Source: http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/tinubu-buhari-shouldn-t-resort-to-blackmail/89784/

By the power bestowed upon me, I hereby declare Goodluck Ebele Jonathan the president of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. All haters should jump into the River Niger.

make una read yahoo news ooo!

"Buhari says he won't go to court if he loses but that doesn't mean us, his supporters won't fight. We are ready. We're going to look for Kalashnikovs, bazookas , There is no going quietly this time," he said, to cheers from the darkness.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110416/wl_nm/us_nigeria_elections

Does anyone thinks of GEJ having 25% spread and Buhari having simple majority so leading both to a runoff? Unconfirmed report says 18states in the North are now under BB with a huge success to show for it.

onome25:

may GOD help this country from clueless aspirants frm the north who believe they are born to rule.
No way ,na GEJ we want.

those children are below 15yrs