Donclaracuzo:
What you have to bear in mind is that ndi Igbo doesn't play clannish politics like the Yorubas. Ndi Igbo didn't vote for A.D presidential candidate cos the party was more of a regional party and can't accommodate the interest of the whole. The Yorubas made Nigerians to understand that Action Democracy was Yoruba party hence flying Olu Falae as their interest. That is why up to this moment, you are still hearing Obasanjo was not Yoruba candidate and it was Olu Falae that was the Yoruba candidate. Ndi Igbo and the rest of Nigerians saw that and embraced PDP that was formed as a pan Nigeria political party. Don't drag ndi Igbo into your clannish tendencies. They don't believe in kparakpo politics. They are pan Nigerians.

What about Awolowo in 1979 & 1983? Did Ndibo saw him as a regional candidate?

Let's now agree Awolowo is a regional candidate, why did Ndibo voted against Abiola even when all other Southerners and Northerners voted for him in 1993?

Bro, Ndibo are haters, you don't need to sugarcoat it. Right since 1959, Ndibo always vote against Yoruba interest so quit all this long talk.

LegendHero:


You are a shameless liar and a deceptive person.

—In 1998 Jos convention, Ekwueme contested against Obasanjo and he was defeated because the North supported Obasanjo against him. Igbos never found PDP, that party was collectively founded by both North and South.

—Even in 2003, Ekueme contested against OBJ in the primaries even when other people conceded.

—What about 1993, It was only the Igbos that voted against Abiola in the South, did we not know the history?

Even in that 2003, Ohaneze threatened brimstone and they only gave in because they know the Igbos can never defeat the re-election of Obasanjo and Buhari was a more deadlier enemy. So they licked their vomit and supported OBJ for re-election.

You see how Falae spoke, he mentioned that the Yorubas have no reason to vote the Igbos but the man just thought because of turn by turn, some Yorubas should reconsider.

For me, all these old guys are on their own. Afenifere and Falae are more leaning towards the PDP previously and it’s normal that they are antagonizing Tinubu right now while trying to peg it on Peter Obi and some turn by turn stuffs.

This was the full result of the 1993 Presidential elections as published on Medium https://medium.com/@obiigbokwe/full-results-of-june-12-1993-presidential-elections-in-images-6d5d5e4a492e

When you say Igbos voted against Abiola, I wonder what you mean by that. Abiola won 57% of the votes in Anambra state. He got 41% of the votes in Abia state (105,000 votes), 48% of the votes in Enugu (263,000 votes), and 45% of the votes in Imo (159,000 votes). In fact, the only state in the eastern region where Abiola got less than 40% of the votes was Rivers state, which is still 370,000 votes from Rivers residents

So please explain what you mean by the bolded because it's clear Abiola didn't win in most SE states but nearly half of the people in those states voted for him

You always talk about Yoruba interest and not Nigerian interest. That's the clannish attitude I am referring to. Even in the Abiola election, ndi Igbo pulled numbers of votes for MKO but Yorubas keep denying it. Morever, did yorubas also considered that ndi Igbo were far from the military regime of Buhari and Abacha and were offered an opportunity to be in the mainstream politics and government with Bashir Tofa/ Sylvester Ugoh(an Igbo man)ticket if they had won. Also, ndi Igbo were agitating to be fully in national politics as they were fully marginalized as at that time. Did the yorubas forgot that That Tunde Idiagbon served as the 6th Chief of Staff, Supreme Headquarters (second-in-command) under military head of state of General Muhammadu Buhari from 1983 to 1985, that Chief Ernest Shenekon was made an intern head of Nigerian state from 26 August 1993 to 17 November 1993, also, Oladipo Diya served as the Chief of General Staff, the de facto Vice President of Nigeria under Abacha regime from 1993 to 1997. Why do Yorubas always have sense of entitlement and forgot that their are other tribes within the south that they can share things with. Why do they always believed that what comes to the south is theirs? Ndi Igbo have shown friendly hands and olive hands to Yorubas severally. They should continue with their hatred on ndi Igbo. They are watching!

LegendHero:


What about Awolowo in 1979 & 1983? Did Ndibo saw him as a regional candidate?

Let's now agree Awolowo is a regional candidate, why did Ndibo voted against Abiola even when all other Southerners and Northerners voted for him in 1993?

Bro, Ndibo are haters, you don't need to sugarcoat it. Right since 1959, Ndibo always vote against Yoruba interest so quit all this long talk.

Not in Nigeria, nothing for IPOB.

Is not by force for a Yoruba to vote for Tinubu he isn't the only Yoruba candidate that's contesting for president there's Adewole Adebayo of SDP.

LegendHero:


You are a shameless liar just like your Ibo progenitors.

Igbos never voted Abiola and Obasanjo was never a Yoruba candidate in 1999. It was out of your irrational behavior that made you vote OBJ in 1999 against Yoruba interest.

Yoruba are selfish and wicked just like Afenifere and Pa Falae thinking they can please the hateful Ibos who have no word “Love” in their dictionary.

Atiku is a Fulani that intend to rule after Buhari in a stretch, the Igbos never direct the magnitude of hate against him as much as they directed against Asiwaju, do you ever ask yourself why?

Na only foolish Yoruba person go vote Ibo. Because Ibo were in Yoruba shoes on four different occasions and they voted against us at every time.

The irony here is an Ibo person calling someone else drug pusher. Something that even your Obi of Onitsha is the chief drug pusher and for every 100 Nigerian arrested for drug, 99 of them are Ibo and the remaining is a baby factory offspring from another hairy Ibo woman.

any Yoruba wey vote igbo, may Ogun kill am instantly as he thumb print am

Beverlyjean:


Thats y most of u yoruba people are foolish... u people are the main reason this country is a disaster... dint u people vote for buhari just because of osibanjo when it was glaring that Jonathan was a better candidate and it was the first time ever the south south was president ...despite the Hausa fulani hold power for sooo long... ur mumu reasoning can't also male u know that the same hausa fulani u worship annulled the election , while it was an Igbo man that declared him winner of the June 12 election... and I'm sure its garri that u soak daily , and u are here saying u rather vote the one that will throw u dipper into misery , just because of tribe... the igbo man will never go hungry... even if the economy is zero ... its the likes of u go hear am.... if osibanjo was Apc presidential candidate and okorocha , Andy Uba or uzodinma were running against him, igbos will vote osibanjo... during 2003 election, Igbos voted Obasanjo ahead of their son okadigbo because the Igbos knew Buhari wasn't the best option , they even disregarded Ojukwu who contested under APGA .... if u like vote the disastrous drug master, na una go hear am...

Jonathan was a better candidate? Someone that almost 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped during his rule that's competent the disgrace and insult Nigeria receive from the world that we have the reputation of poverty,corruption and insecurity cause of him and the highly corruption going on in his Administration that minister of petroleum embezzled 90 billion dollar and almost 2 million barrel of oil was missing plus a 2 billion dollar for the military was missing and Jonathan didn't punish them c'mon we know Buhari is a bad president you can't blame the voter cause everyone was tired of his rule but we can blame them for voting for Buhari a second time. And your insult towards the Yoruba is disgusting cause some of them don't want to vote for a igbo candidate and Tinubu isn't the only Yoruba candidate that's contesting for president there's Omoyele sowore and Adewole Adebayo of SDP
Just because you people voted for obasanjo that doesn't mean the Igbo did the Yoruba a favour.

GOD FORBID BAD THING,TUFIAKWA.
MAY IPOB CONTINUE TO LABOUR IN VAIN, AMEN.

Kingbeewillsee:


Jonathan was a better candidate? Someone that almost 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped during his rule that's competent the disgrace and insult Nigeria receive from the world that we have the reputation of poverty,corruption and insecurity cause of him and the highly corruption going on in his Administration that minister of petroleum embezzled 90 billion dollar and almost 2 million barrel of oil was missing plus a 2 billion dollar for the military was missing and Jonathan didn't punish them c'mon we know Buhari is a bad president you can't blame the voter cause everyone was tired of his rule but we can blame them for voting for Buhari a second time. And your insult towards the Yoruba is disgusting cause some of them don't want to vote for a igbo candidate and Tinubu isn't the only Yoruba candidate that's contesting for president there's Omoyele sowore and Adewole Adebayo of SDP
Just because you people voted for obasanjo that doesn't mean the Igbo did the Yoruba a favour.

Yes, Jonathan was a better candidate in actuality while GMB was a paper tiger. We have seen 6yrs of GEJ vs 8yrs of GMB.. it’s like night and day. Now in Abj, worship places are manned by civil defense corp…This country is in a driverless motion.

Kingbeewillsee:


Jonathan was a better candidate? Someone that almost 200 schoolgirls were kidnapped during his rule that's competent the disgrace and insult Nigeria receive from the world that we have the reputation of poverty,corruption and insecurity cause of him and the highly corruption going on in his Administration that minister of petroleum embezzled 90 billion dollar and almost 2 million barrel of oil was missing plus a 2 billion dollar for the military was missing and Jonathan didn't punish them c'mon we know Buhari is a bad president you can't blame the voter cause everyone was tired of his rule but we can blame them for voting for Buhari a second time. And your insult towards the Yoruba is disgusting cause some of them don't want to vote for a igbo candidate and Tinubu isn't the only Yoruba candidate that's contesting for president there's Omoyele sowore and Adewole Adebayo of SDP
Just because you people voted for obasanjo that doesn't mean the Igbo did the Yoruba a favour.

I repeat most of u are mentally sick... so u are comparing this dead evil government to Jonathan's... the chibok girls saga was orchestrated by the north to sabotage his government and the person that the druggie selected as his running mate has been accused as the master planner

Beverlyjean:


I repeat most of u are mentally sick... so u are comparing this dead evil government to Jonathan's... the chibok girls saga was orchestrated by the north to sabotage his government and the person that the druggie selected as his running mate has been accused as the master planner

Yea i agree a wealthy northern is financing boko haram why can't Jonathan government make a crackdown on terrorist financial and punish them is he that weak he can't go after them and am not a supporter of BAT and shettima plus just cause buhari government is bad doesn't mean we should be nostalgic towards Jonathan era.

BigIyanga:

Yes, Jonathan was a better candidate in actuality while GMB was a paper tiger. We have seen 6yrs of GEJ vs 8yrs of GMB.. it’s like night and day. Now in Abj, worship places are manned by civil defense corp…This country is in a driverless motion.

Yes Jonathan was better than Buhari but if Jonathan had won the 2015 election don't you think Buhari would have been elected for 2019 or maybe yet contested for the election.

Kingbeewillsee:
Is not by force for a Yoruba to vote for Tinubu he isn't the only Yoruba candidate that's contesting for president there's Adewole Adebayo of SDP.

I'm voting Adewole Adebayo. I listened to the man on Arise TV today. He is brilliant and his party has got good plans. I'll rather waste my vote than vote for people who have at one time or the other stolen our money, eg Tinubu, obi and Atiku.

LegendHero:
Below is 1998 PDP presidential primaries result. Even after the larger North conceded to the Yoruba because of MKO issue, the Ibos still contested against OBJ and same thing was done for Falae in AD before the merger with APP.

Same people will now come today to guilt trip uninformed Yoruba liberals forming woke online by saying the Ibos supported us.

—Obasanjo 67.98%

—Ekwueme 21.36%

—Don Etiebet 4.35%

—Graham Douglas 2.91%

And the rest shared the remaining.

It good you posted what happened during the primaries. When the general election approached, Yoruba abandoned Obasanjo while Igbo saw him to the presidential seat. Yoruba went for Olu Falae.

Idiko1:


It good you posted what happened during the primaries. When the general election approached, Yoruba abandoned Obasanjo while Igbo saw him to the presidential seat. Yoruba went for Olu Falae.

Because the Yorubas know at that time, Falae was the person with the ideology of Awolowo. That is why in the entirety of the SW, we voted for him with over 90% of the votes.

Let me ask you a question, if Peter Obi and Hope Uzodinma are on the ballot today as the only presidential candidate of the 2 major parties, who will the Igbos vote? Peter Obi right?

Now if the Yorubas vote for Hope Uzodinma, will you in the future acknowledge that Yoruba support Igbo interest?

Obasanjo as at 1999 was part of the old brigade. Old military guys who held this nation to ransom, a vote for him back then continued the military hold on Nigeria. How can you fight against military government with the blood of our comrades spilled and still went ahead to vote an ex-military as the anchor of a new democracy?

socialmediaman:


This was the full result of the 1993 Presidential elections as published on Medium https://medium.com/@obiigbokwe/full-results-of-june-12-1993-presidential-elections-in-images-6d5d5e4a492e

When you say Igbos voted against Abiola, I wonder what you mean by that. Abiola won 57% of the votes in Anambra state. He got 41% of the votes in Abia state (105,000 votes), 48% of the votes in Enugu (263,000 votes), and 45% of the votes in Imo (159,000 votes). In fact, the only state in the eastern region where Abiola got less than 40% of the votes was Rivers state, which is still 370,000 votes from Rivers residents

So please explain what you mean by the bolded because it's clear Abiola didn't win in most SE states but nearly half of the people in those states voted for him

You like semantics.

Check your map, in the whole South, the region that voted against Abiola in the South is the South East. Only SE states and Rivers voted against Abiola in the whole South.

When we say Igbos do not support Abiola, we make reference to the whole Igbo states. In that election, more Igbos voted against Abiola than those that voted for him. That is what we mean. Even Buhari in 2019 got some sizeable votes in Imo & Ebonyi but yet history record it that the Igbos did not vote Buhari. That's because history look at situation as a whole.

Let me tell you, Igbos have the right to vote against Abiola because they owe the Yoruba no favor they need to repay in 1993. But, we Yorubas also have the right to talk about that history that the Igbos were the only region that voted against Abiola in the South so that future Yoruba kids will not be guilt tripped by Igbos in the future.

LegendHero:


You like semantics.

Check your map, in the whole South, the region that voted against Abiola in the South is the South East. Only SE states and Rivers voted against Abiola in the whole South.

When we say Igbos do not support Abiola, we make reference to the whole Igbo states. In that election, more Igbos voted against Abiola than those that voted for him. That is what we mean. Even Buhari in 2019 got some sizeable votes in Imo & Ebonyi but yet history record it that the Igbos did not vote Buhari. That's because history look at situation as a whole.

Let me tell you, Igbos have the right to vote against Abiola because they owe the Yoruba no favor they need to repay in 1993. But, we Yorubas also have the right to talk about that history that the Igbos were the only region that voted against Abiola in the South so that future Yoruba kids will not be guilt tripped by Igbos in the future.

I agree with you that Abiola lost the winning votes to Tofa in 3 out of 4 SE states in 19993.

But you see, the problem in Nigeria is not really just the corrupt leaders but also the enabling and complicit citizens. Here you are playing a very unnecessary tribal card like you're the one providing food and the needs of SW residents. You can't stop him because people are educated, informed, different, and not everyone plays the tribal card like you're doing.

Despite the efforts of politicians who may have worked against against Abiola, almost half of the residents of the SE voted for Abiola. He got 48% of the total votes in the SE to Tofa's 52%. In places like the US, such states are called battleground states. It means that their votes could swing either way depending on how the campaign and issues go. This means that politicians need to sell themselves better to the people.

You see why a random nairalander like you can't stop Peter Obi? He will win thousands or millions of votes in the SW if he sells himself to them. The polls are already indicating that he's doing a great job. People know what's good for them and these days they're doing their own research.

In contrast, Buhari got only:
6% of the votes in Anambra compared to Abiola's 57%,
14% in Enugu compared to Abiola's 48%,
28% in Abia compared to Abiola's 41%,
30% in Imo compared to Abiola's 45%

So Buhari in anyway doesn't match up to Abiola's popularity in the SE despite being president.

obaaderemi:
I'm voting Adewole Adebayo. I listened to the man on Arise TV today. He is brilliant and his party has got good plans. I'll rather waste my vote than vote for people who have at one time or the other stolen our money, eg Tinubu, obi and Atiku.

Abi naw the man made some interesting point it's a shame that our Democracy isn't based on competence, ideology and merit but based on party affiliation, sentiments and tribal and religion. I keep telling people Tinubu isn't the only south West candidate that's contesting for president. A lot of our politician don't join party based on ideology but for popularity and desperation.