GenBuhari:

How can reliabe online polls on nairaland consistently give Buhari more than double the votes of GEJ, yet election results give GEJ double  of Buhari's votes.

You cannot get this level of discrepancy from sampling error alone.

Buhari is the president in my eyes

GenBuhari:

I would be a raving loony, if I were to sit back and accept rigged elections and delude myself that Iam living in a democracy.

GenBuhari:

Rigging is when elections is not free and fair

Rigging is when the numbers do not stack up

Rigging is where many thousands of officials are bribed to ensure that ruling party wins

Rigging is where TV stations during news broadcast fail to mention the main opposition whilst all other parties are mentioned and the ruling party have 80% of air time of the entire news programme.
Why are you disgracing your hitherto honourable self this way?

Rigging is when all reliable online polls consistently give Buhari a 60- 75% of the overall votes whilst GEJ was getting approx 20-25%, yet when the results were announced, GEJ has double the votes of Buhari.
CAN YOU TELL ME THE NUMBER OF PEOPLE THAT PARTICIPATED IN THIS YOUR ONLINE POLLS? ARE THEY UP TO 1 MILLION?Nigerians have been cheated again.

londoner:

Buhari had set the north up to react this way in the event he did not win, we all discussed this when he and Bakare began making utterings  even before the election took place.

I am quite disappointed in Buhari actually, once again his ego seems to be getting in the way, just like that blast TV debate he refused to turn up to.

Even if he disagrees with the result, this is his opportunity to take the route set out by law.

Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak won the country's first contested presidential race, according to a preliminary count Thursday, an expected victory in a vote that was crucial to his claims of democratic reform but was marred by allegations of irregularities, AP reported.

Mubarak took 78 percent to 80 percent of Wednesday's polling and opposition candidate Ayman Nour took 12 percent — a respectable showing for a relative unknown and one that could propel him to greater political prominence

Iraqi officials say President Saddam Hussein has won 100% backing in a referendum on whether he should rule for another seven years.
There were 11,445,638 eligible voters - and every one of them voted for the president, according to Izzat Ibrahim, Vice-Chairman of Iraq's Revolutionary Command Council.



Not a very serious day, not a very serious vote and nobody places any credibility on it

Ari Fleischer,
White House spokesman
The government insists the count was fair and accurate.

Saddam Hussein - who has ruled Iraq since 1979 - was the only candidate.

Voters had been urged to show their support for the Iraqi leader in defiance of the demands for military action against him from the US and Britain.

During polling, many voters trampled American flags and some signed their ballot-papers in their own blood in a display of loyalty to their leader.

GenBuhari:

so accepting rigged elections is not silly?

Cue:

Dis is not politics.dis is simple math.u will say av come again, GEJ Polled 22,104,589 votes against Buhari's 12,023,992.The gap is therefore 10,080,597.Some people wey no pass math for school dey complain about votes from south east/south.GEJ's total votes from SE=4,985,246.SS(xcept ACN's Edo)=5,576,435.total GEJ for SE+SS=10,561,681.So assumin NOBODY from SE+SS voted GEJ,Buhari will lead him by only 481,084 votes!How on earth could buhari have won?

Mariory:

Don't mind the clowns. Let them keep fooling themselves. As a Ribadu supporter I can categorically hold my hands up and say he (Ribadu) was trashed. Even in the SW that was supposed to be his power base. GEJ is definitely the people's choice for better or for worse.

Ileke-IdI:

If the SW nation gave much thought for this election, you'd have seen the likes of Tinubu/Obj protesting.

The election would have been debated in court right.

ekt_bear:

Gbawe, he won, yes. But he padded his margin of victory substantially. You don't care about this? You don't see it as wrong? As rigging? 80%+ turnout in a place where people are saying turnout is low?

ekt_bear:

Gbawe, he won, yes. But he padded his margin of victory substantially. You don't care about this? You don't see it as wrong? As rigging? 80%+ turnout in a place where people are saying turnout is low?

GenBuhari:

How can reliabe online polls on nairaland consistently give Buhari more than double the votes of GEJ, yet election results give GEJ double  of Buhari's votes.

You cannot get this level of discrepancy from sampling error alone.

Buhari is the president in my eyes

Mariory:

Where did you hear turnout was low? I heard turn out in places like Cross River was very high.

Gbawe:

Man mi , I have always seen you as moderate and calm but you suddenly seem unduly agitated and I really don't know why. As an intelligent person you will probably realise that GEJ won convincingly . He won easily also. Perhaps the problem is that some of us are not comfortable being proven wrong by the wide margin GEJ established over Buhari.  

My opinion is that rigging will not disappear overnight in Nigeria . I also think that GEJ is not averse to rigging or giving himself undue advantages . Nonetheless , he should be praised for how he refrained from the uncouth rigging seen in the past even if only because of the realisation that , for many reasons , he cannot get away with rigging as others before him have done . I can only ask folks to go to court if they are unhappy . I am sorry that I cannot join any pious agitation of how GEJ "cheated" when as a well-educated person , with decent research skills , I was able to use my own family and the family of close friends , from the SW region, as a sample ratio to establish that Jonathan has far more support than Buhari even if , personally , I did not want that to be the case .  Rigging should be challenged in Court . I remain firm on that but I also remain convinced , beyond doubt , that Jonathan won convincingly .

b]Jonathan clears polls in Anambra[/b]
As expected, President Goodluck Jonathan swept more than 98 per cent of the total valid votes cast in Anambra State.
According to the result of the election announced in the early hours of yesterday by the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 1, 145, 169 votes out of the 1, 157, 339 valid votes, leaving the other parties with 12, 170 votes. General Muhammadu Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)
(SUN NEWSPAPERS)

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/apr/18/national-18-04-2011-003.htm

muami:

[Anybody who says the margin GEJ gave his opponents in the SE and SS is high was living in a dreamland in the build up to the election. CPC does not have even one councillor in the SE+SS,most of the states there are governed by PDP and yet Buhari did not do any significant campaign there. Even Buhari knew there was no way he was going to get anything reasonable from these place which was why he was looking ahead for a runoff with the hope that he would win majority votes through Northern votes. Truth is: Buhari lost not because the results from SE and SS were different from what he expected but because he did not win the Northern votes as he expected.

ekt_bear:


So in other words, the 4 or 5 million+ extra votes he gave himself in the SS and SE to you seem unavoidable, just part of the ordinary state of affairs? Yes, I agree, it wouldn't have changed the final outcome, only the margin of victory. But a guy giving himself 80% turnout when the reality on the ground was more like 50 or 60% should be a big cause for concern, in my opinion.

In any case, I would suggest that your own party (ACN) learn from this and think very well about how they'll secure 80%+ turnout when their own candidate is running in 4 years time. This is generally a difficult task to do in most elections and most countries where voting isn't compulsory. . . unless one has access to lots of fake ballots.

Anyway, I've said my own piece. . . I'll leave it at that. Plan now, or you'll be bitten in the @ss in 4 year's time when he uses this same rigging strategy.

aloy-emeka:


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