₦airaland Forum

faqman:
hmm....
it should be secretary to the federal government

I am very worried about our quality of education for you to post this answer. People like you are the type calling other people illiterate.

EasternLeopard:
You got it wrong

NE is full of Christians a range between 40%-60% which is almost half if not 50%

NC is full of Christians a range between 50%-70% which is half if not above half

NW is about 10% Christians


The North votes based on religion


I believe Most SW are now rethinking voting a Buhari who is now seen as an illiterate

The fact is lots of educated SW won't vote Buhari due to the certificate scandal

This is the simplistic argument that is making Jonathan lose elections. Who told you Christians are voting against Buhari?. The Northern CAN has been knocking Jonathan for months. Buhari has an RCCG top member as VP. Christians in the north don't like Jonathan at all they are mainly cowed by the religious dimensions of the Boko Haram bombings. The mist important thing they want from gov t is effective action to stop the insecurity and Uncle Jona has either bungled it or deliberately set things up to reap political gains which have now backfired. Also tribalism trumps religion and a northerner wants his brother in office fjnalky after 16 years. Above all people want Change and that is not even dependent on performance, PDP has held the baton for too long.

On Buhari' s illiteracy only a half exposed young easterner below the age of 40 will call Buhari an illiterate. He was our head of state when I was in university. Student unionists used to accost him during visits and he takes them aside and debates them for hours. Yorubas know Buhari very well and are amused at all the illiteracy noise.

shamecurls:
You dont know Yoruba`s...... If you do, U will know that they all know where they re going cos they re united by language. Cant you see how they delivered Lagos to APC and voted for GEJ as president. GEJ wonr win one western state. If u re familiar with Yoruba people, u will understand. They re exceptionally brilliant people.

I am a Yoruba from Osun State. The Yorubas had good reasons to vote Jonathan in 2011 and better reasons o vote him out in 2015. What they hate most is people stealing in government especially if they not doing the stealing themselves. In Ondo/Ekiti, take Obj and his Fasawe, Are Babalola friends in one basket and then the Falanas of this world and other social welfare leaning activists and what you get is a cooperation of groups opposed to Jona' s perceived gov t of the rich, for the rich. The only negative that Buhari has on his side is Tinubu who is deeply distrusted there.

[quote author=shamecurls post=29557978][/quote]Wrong, wring, wrong. The map has errors.
Rivers State is not sold on Buhari yet and Taraba State may be trending APC. Please don't mark Ondo and Ekiti for Jonathan. They don't know Jinathan there and Fayose got Ekiti governorship via a vocal and politically active young minority of voters. Ondo state is trending APC, they will give their governorship to whom they like, maybe even punish Tinubu again but they will not vote Jonathan. Jona is wearing the corruption toga too fittingly and Ondo man no like thief.

LordMecuzy:
Who told u Benue would go to PDP? Hmmmm well let's wait till then

Benue is not PDP. The PDP governor seems to have bleeped up majorly. Now expecting that the Christian- Muslim divide in North Central will translate to votes for Jonathan is like expecting a woman to keep her virginity till age 40. It is a possibility but a little remote. There are more issues on the front burner when a Buhari is assessed against a Jonathan in North Central

AjFive:
Buhari isn't an illiterate. He's literate.

My grandfather, a military personnel, told me Buhari was his classmate way back in the sixties. He showed me a class picture too - Buhari inclusive. I'll upload later.

Aj_Five

You made an error bringing up this issue. Only illiterates have been calling Buhari illiterate and you dignified them with a response with this information. The next thing, they will be calling on your own grand dad's certificate. The noise about GMB' s academic achievements ring as loud as the extent of unpopularity of Jonathan. The more they drop in the polls and stare disaster in the face the more they bring up certificate issues not to actualky convince anybody but to drown the news that Jonathan won't get up to 25% of total votes cast in February.

This day is any government in power. AGIP. The proprietor of the paper is a suspected PDP card carrying member.

Buhari is the guy

GMB

enigmaotr:
How can an illiterate have a better command of English than a Ph.D like GEJ?

I have been worried about this and thought a little about this and think I have the answer. Unipart is the most unserious university in Nigeria. Most PhD supervisors are actually professors from UNN who have very loaded schedules and work load. Sometimes being respectful and humble will bet you the PhD.

3cycle:
Rubbish.
No one is saying buhari never went to a war college, all we are asking is for his standard 6 result/ WAEC certificate to really prove he is not an illiterate who dubiously found his way to the N.A without meeting requirements.

You read what you posted and are not ashamed of yourself?. This is a non issue for Buhari and he wont even talk about a 35 year old training he took in 1980. But for the lost generation supporting Jonathan it is like a lifeline of a drowning campaign. Keep at it you will soon get tired.

The president postponed the initial inauguration because he lost his sister. I am sure somebody in the presidency cocked up again and forgot to inform all the governors of the change. Weak dis organised presidency. I can't wait to hear Jonathan mount the rostrum to talk. Every campaign stop would be like campaigning for Buhari because the guy can't just stop talking rubbish in public.
GMB 2015 -2019.

Ozin:
One thing I am certain of is the fact that Buhari will lose the Presidential election. The noise is louder now because he now represent ACN,CPC, ANPP and Ameachi put together. There wont be much difference in the Pattern of votes, except the fact that Buhari will now have the ACN,ANPP,CPC and 30% of Rivers votes which put together wont be up to GEJ votes

You need to convert this childish analysis into prayer. The big deceit you are giving yourself is that Jonathan won the 2011 elections which is a bi LIE. The second deceit is that that you don't realize that Jonathan has campaigned for the opposition with regard to corruption. The last deceit is that the West and NC will vote Jonathan e.g..this will never happen.

Abelsconcept:
I've said this another thread and I'll repeat it again:



Buhari can't win the 2015 presidential election. Sadly, Goodluck will continue as the president even though I would want another or better choice but Buhari is a NO NO NO.

See reasons here: https://www.nairaland.com/2079423/5-reasons-why-pdpll-win

Buhari is Yes, Yes, Yes and you know it. Your argument t actually works in the reverse. If the PDP had presented somebody else maybe they would have had a chance. You guys are reading Jonathan wrong and crediting him with popularity, qualities and acceptance he never had. His power had always been dependent on other people's buy in and the unity of some key stakeholders but taking bad advice he has single handedly destroyed that.

FeBuhari is the date, FeBuhari is the man, FeBuhari is God showing his favour to Nigeria.

beopened:
Jonathanians have been holding on to the infantile hope that Ondo and Ekiti voters will vote a man who said 'STEALING IS NOT CORRUPTION'

There is nothing they have not told us yet we always ask ourselves if the Nigerians Jonathanians are hoping to vote GEJ are the ones who loves suffering,who likes the fact that uninterrrupted power supply should forever elude them,who should continually jubilate when a useless government celebrate tarring a 5km road at 1000% the actual cost

Nigerians want change and change they will get from the stifling corruption riddled grip of PDP pharaohnic government

An Ekiti man will never vote a thief and defender of thieves. A lot depends on how the APC handles the state, grassroots politics is the way to go.

DeejayTafari:
Today was the flag off campaign in Port Harcourt for General Buhari presidential ambition..... Rivers people love their governor, how can 1 explain the standing ovation he received wen he mounted the podium to speak to the crowd. The moment his voice came over the speakers, everyone jumped from their seats nd ran onto the field to have a view of the governor nd wen he finished speaking people began to leave the staduim in throngs, nt even caring that buhari hadn't spoken. My deductions from the rally today- For Buhari to win the presidential election will be like a camel passing through a needle, its was very obvious, it didn't matter that the stadium was filled to the brim buhari still spoke to empty seats save his hausa brothers that stood by him close to the podium... Even tambuwal drew more shouts when his name was called than him.

The average of the audience in the rally is probably 27years and a lot of them will be unemployed youths. There is no way they will recognize Buhari ...yet. APC will do serious grass roots campaign. Rivers will go where their governor goes and APC will win governorship and Presidential elections.

barcanista:
He is just waking up from slumber I guess. #BetterLateThanNever

Sai Buhari 2015

He is not waking up. He was flying a kite that elections should not hold in the northwest but the governors shouted NO.

LRNZH:
Wow!
In Akpabio's backyard?
Somebody is in trouble. PDP will panic for real.

This never happened in 2003, 2007 or 2011.
Won't you rather vote for Change?


GMB 2015. Anticorruption is in our DNA.

This is not a hired crowd o. It is easy to tell a hired crowd.
Who was asking about Akpabio's backyard?. Hmmnnn, do you for once believe Akpabio is a fool?...abeg make we leave that mata.
Another thing APC is that well resourced in Akwa iBom, some of the names being mentioned in Akwa Ibom APC are very powerful in their localities and there are quite a number of intra ethnic tensions around. Don't be surprised that a section of the state has hijacked the PDP machinery and grabbed the governorship. This will automatically open up an alternate vehicle in the APC for the opposing side.

backtosender:
Buhari destroyed it. Obasanjo could not revive it. But Jonathan transformed it.
The new air condition train from PH to Enugu this morning.
GEJ is the right man buhari has nothing to offer because he is an old man with old idears and we dont need old model but new model ideas

Correction IBB who is GEJ's Fada destroyed it. Abacha killed it completely put an 80 year old Ibo man as NRC MD during his regime and the trains completely forgot how to move. Obasanjo was the man who actually started this revival of a railway system that you should have had for many years ago but Jonathan is now using to buy your vote cheaply. Anyway thanks to China and their cheap loans and desire to sell that old stock of scrap locomotives and coaches for this. Also thanks to China EXIM bank for the loan that we did not need to do this partial revival but which our children will still pay for.
GMB for president 2015 -2019

glory2glory:
Why not post pictures of thousands who have died under the watch of GEJ. APC is bokoharam? So GEJ is contesting elections against bokoharam instead of arresting them? How would describe GEJ then?

We have to take it so. GEJ is a weakling. He is running against the head of boko haram and cannot arrest him even though he is head of state.
This illogical situation exposes supporters of Jonathan as lacking in intelligence. They continue to insult their candidate daily. Anyway the president campaign of GEJ himself is about to start and I am sure there will be plenty to laugh about or get angry about anytime he opens his mouth, so prepare for drama.

lionduke:
Dickson is heading towards destruction, His main priority now should be how to fortify Mr president's home base, use available resources to mobilize for next months election. But look at him going the way sylva. Time shall tell
GEJ to 2019

When I read stuff like this I get worried for Naija.
It is Jonathan that is heading for destruction by not controlling his wife and permitting her to keep trying to make a governor irrelevant in his own state. If I were the governor, what I will do will be far more shocking than this.
I will quote Rimi for you what he said about him and Abiola. ''I am not in politics because of Abiola". Same way Dickson is not in politics because of Patience Jonathan.

The PDP campaign team went in too early with propaganda about infrastructural development that is now stale.
Jonathan is his own worst enemy and I am sure he cannot campaign himself out of a brown paper bag. It is almost certain that by a ratio of 1:2 almost all that he says and the way he says them will draw a lot of flack from people and the press. I personally am yet to see a politician less lacking in good mass communication skills and a feel for masses of people. My sympathy still goes to his campaign team sha....I say good luck as they are going to need it.

Jchi9876:
Address the message and commot eye for the messenger!!!!!
na kiss Jona Kiss Patience before e snap the pishure??

He looks like a grandmum with makeup doing a fireside chat to teenage grand daughters.

beejay501:
Better an illiterate who means well than the educated thieves who mean evil.Buhari is such an intimidating and fearsome “semi-illiterate” that the super literates in the land have had to go on grueling academic research in yet futileattempts to rubbish him."To his distractors, Buhari is by far the oldest humanbeing ever to aspire to lead a nation. The global icon,Nelson Mandela, fresh from 27 years in prison, became South Africa’s president at 76. Americans who elected John Kennedy president at 41 were the same people that made Ronald Reagan president at 70. Tunisians, progenitors of the recent Arab Spring, have just elected an 88-year old uncle of yours as president in continuation of their revolution".Here is a list of some of the poorly educated but incredibly successful people. TANdroids can google and read about these people of history.1. John D. Rockefeller - Billionaire and possibly the richest man in history2. Steve Jobs - Apple Co-Founder3. Henry Ford - Industrialist and Entrepreneur4. Winston Churchill - UK Statesman and War Leader5. Abraham Lincoln - US PresidentIt is a big shame on PDP that with all their PhD holders, they have only managed to pauperize Nigerians in the last sixteen years of lootocracy.Buhari attended the NDA and graduated with good grades - no question about that.Buhari went to the US War College and he is among the college's top six past graduates - no issues with this as well. So how can a sane human being say such a person is an illiterate?Una no well!

Agreed.
However GMB is not an illiterate. An iilliterate is someone who can't read or write and GMB pursued military and leadership studies up to M.Sc level. Jonathan lacks the right psychology and orientation r leading anybody. He has been lucky, we got angry with a cabal and gave him the presidency but all he has done is let Nigeria down. Let him by go back to Otuoke.

The AD people have been very gracious to Nigeria. Even when oil drops to $10, the region will still be accorded special recognition and economic concentration. However people like the hapless Jonathan and is band of billionaire militants and oil thieves must be voted out and utterly destroyed first.

LRNZH:
This Buhari Movement is becoming an unstoppable force.

I suspect these militants remember the sincerity of the Yar'adua amnesty program vs. the legalisation of oil bunkering through a few benefeciary militants like Tompolo etc.under GEJ.

GMB appeciates their support in trying to help build a solid one Nigeria.
Another election sad news for GEJ. Ohanaeze, do not disappoint. Learn from the trend....

Another proof that GEJ's 6byears in power benefited only very few elites both in the South abd in the North.

GMB 2015 On Course.

That is true. Tom Polo loved Yaradua more than he could level like Jonathan. There is something innately selfish about Jonathan that annoys most people when they get to know him.

BENZINA:
What kind of change do we expect from a 72yrs old man?

Plenty, Google Deng Xia O Ping of China, or simply read your bible about Abraham.

gregg2:
President Jonathan made a 2nd class (upper) from Uniport.
His MSc and Phd certificates are all available.
Buhari should show his certificates

This is idiotic. You are talking lower middle class thrash and distracting your self and the candidate you are supporting. Buhari has met all he requirements for previous elections and he has met this one. He is a qualified Nigerian military officer which is equivalent to B.Sc and has attended a lot of military strategy and leadership courses equivalent to higher degrees. However he has nit claimed any paper qualifications because they are not relevant to the job he is about to do for Nigeria. Academic qualifications are so unimportant that we forgot that Bill Clinton twas a college Professor, Obama another college professor, Putin a qualified lawyer and so on. Only low minded people scared about imminent and total defeat and the setting of history of their candidate as the first elected president to hand over to an opposing candidate are bringing this up to confuse the discourse.

It is ironic that cowardly supporters of a weak kneed president who was too scared to step into office of President six years ago after being thoroughly marginalised by a WOMAN, Turai Yaradua are now the ones trying out amateurish mediocre ideas to confuse the discourse and change topics from the current ones about corruption, incompetence, lack of presidential carriage, lack of honour and disrespect of pdf 've by the incumbent.

doctokwus:
This people self.D stadium was filled ad is expected of akk big weight political rallies.
I even respected GMB the more when he acknowledged that some people were living towards d tail end of d rally due to fatigue.This is an act of a politician not ready to buy your vote,but convinced by his own goodness and qualities and has allowed and expects you to make an honest,unbiased decision yourself based on his qualities.
D days of vote buying are over and no sensible person who want to spend any single day beyond may 29 enduring gej any longer.GEJ's time is up.

Expect this from Buhari, simple honest and dignified humility. The stadium was overflowing but at the time of speeches people were seen tripping out. I suspect it was because they fixed the time for 9am and started 11

Firefire:
Nigerians, do not be deceived by the recent outburst in our political landscape.

Jonathan is the best that can happen to Nigeria at the moment.

Nigeria shall not return back to Egypt and slavery under any Rtd. Army General in whatever disguise.

This is 2015 and not 1985.

You have a voice, your vote is your voice.

One Man

One Woman

One Youth

ONE VOTE!

Vote Wisely.

There is always this tired, ominously unsuccessful air when you people try to promote Jonathan. It always sounds like a a piece of music gone out of fashion or a slang that people are no more using. Jona has done is own an is going home. Go and prepare yourself for the new Nigeria, a corruption free Nigeria, an excellent Nigeria, a disciplined Nigeria. Truth is hard but we have to take it.

[quote author=kagel post=29538714][/quote]This is so dumb. Buhari was already once Head of State and CIC, he had more powers than presidents. He was making laws and running the executive at the same time.