₦airaland Forum

[quote author=Greenage post=29092944][/quote]Edo and Tarawa are not for Jonathan. You are displaying too much faith in what you are selling but we are not buying. Also Jonathan is not winning any single state in the south west. The big names don't matter. For the SW, there is the remotest of possibilities that PDP wins one more governorship race but even there wherever it may be ....the core of the people will still switch to Buhari/Osinbajo for presidency.
Buhari is not an unknown quantity in the SW and the APC governors are there to give things a little nudge.

The fact of tribe and religion driving the voting is only partly true. The candidacy of Buhari is actually targeting the perceived weaknesses of Jonathan. No other candidate could have achieved that. You could almost list all GEJ's weaknesses and find a Buhari quality that appears to tackle it.

Kenai:
Actually, I think it's APGA (Dr. Otti) they gave a free ticket there.
APC is virtually non-existent in Abia.

I think I agree with you. APGA is more in touch with the grassroots in the East and don't usually have to worry about Abuja politics.

Childish does not come close to describing this post. It is so silly that no serious comments should be made.

Abia state is a serious indictment of the PDP. I think they have given APC a free ticket here. Mindless stealing by cultists and shady characters. I was a living witness to Okonjo Iweala taking the world bank president to Aba during het first tenure as Obasanjo' s Minster of Finance. You would think successive governments would have followed up to ensure the infrastructure was developed quickly enough to support the potential industrial goldmine that the city would have become but leave it to Kalu, Orji and PDP to really tuck things up royally.

Thank you for this list. We are going to the tax office to find out how much they paid last year.

Truckpusher:
Let me also remind you that this same Jonathan is fighting a battle against an enemy that feels that they own Nigeria because to them the Nigeria you know is their birthright and farmland and they are holding Nigeria and Nigerians by the jugular.
To solve this problem is simple ,call your kiths and kin to order because we here in the Niger Delta are watching and have come to understood their modus operandi.
If Jonathan is unceremoniously booted out either by your action or inaction we would react.FACT.

This is local beer parlour thrash you have posted. You people keep saying this thing tor every mistake that Jonathan makes an it is getting annoying. There is only one commander in chief, please stop making excuses for him.

blemon44:
was it GEJ that kidnapped them?
do you think he is not doing anything about it?

Well he spent sometime wondering whether they were really kidnapped or whether it is personal enemies (obj has revealed that he thinks he has plenty) who planned a fake kidnapping to upset his divine destiny to rule Nigeria for as long as he and Patience want to. The last time he seriously wanted to really do something he was duped by some smarter fake Boko boys who have been paraded by DSS. So for now nothing (absolutely nothing) is being done.

SamAfrik:
I pity this OP. If you are indeed Yoruba then u shd know u can't get up to 5 Yoruba pple from nairaland. Yoruba philosophy has given us the rare ability to stand by d truth and personal conviction always (see d responses u attracted already). Check the history and trend of activism in Nigeria.
Anyway all d best with ur one million match.

You are right.
If he were Yoruba, this post would be written in abinibi language with all the coding and verbal inflections that will make it obvious that it is true Yoruba calling Yorubas.

If this were Amaechi they would say 'used' and 'dumped'.

alexlee50:
This omotola get sense so?

She het well well. In saner countries GEJ won't be running. Think about it.

Jj222:
Buhari notin for u. U think u wil rule naija wit ur boko boys never

Buhari will not be president and this happens. Only a president with down syndrome would be in government, this happens and he is sleeping and waking up normally. Face it folks, the guy in office has serious mental an psychological problem. His aides are managing it but things have exposed him many times.

ROSSIKE:
Since when did ''almost completed'' become an achievement? Fact is in sheer economic terms, Nigerians are far better off today than they were in 1985. Incomes and living standards have improved by all measurements. In the 1980s university lecturers could barely afford to ride cars, food (especially meat) was expensive, etc etc. Nigeria Airways may not be flying but we have ARIK and other indigenous airlines now competing to bring prices down, our airports are a lot better now, and the railway system has been revitalised, with China recently signing a $12 billion contract to build a massive coastal line in the south. A high speed standard gauge line between Abuja and Kaduna is virtually completed. In 1985 Buhari was busy cancelling the Lagos metro line, while today, the initial phases of the Lagos metro are close to completion under civilian rule. Today we have indigenous car manufacturers like INNOSON, computer manufacturers like Zinox, and even mobile phone makers in the country. Heck we even have the first black built satellite hovering in space today. I think we've come a long way since '85.

The metroline Buhari cancelled was unviable and could only have been completed without foreign loans at cut throat interest. Please always verify your facts. The project had not even secured full right of way and land acquisition. To put it into perspective IBB overthrew GMB to correct the regime's non listening attitude, why did he not finish the metroline. Even Jakande who started it later became like prime minister to Abacha, why did he not revisit the project?. Please always apply depth in your thinking. As for high speed rail and other high fallutin infrastructure projects let me let you in on a secret. Anybody who becomes governor or president today will meet in office hundreds of proposals for everything under the sun coming from the best of the best of manufacturers of trains, power plants, fertilizer plants, refineries, solar plants et.c.. They will send you the proposals direct from the corporate offices in Europe, US and China along with offers of financing so you don't even have to worry about the money. Even the lowest IQ monkey can pick and choose but it is not that simple and white elephant projects are the norm. The only positive difference individual governments can make is in the project management capacity of that government and also its ability to link the isolated projects in a way that provides synergy. The only gov t that knows what it is doing in that respect is the LASG.
Most of Jonathan's infrastructure projects are being done with Chinese Exim bank loans, sometimes they still vote money for the same projects chop it after sharing with legislators. I want you to do an independent investigation of many instances of double entry tricks like this littered all over the budgets of the Jonathan admin. Some projects started as PPP but it is the federal government that is paying for it from a foreign loan and the profits are going to private pockets after completion. Pockets that have not contributed a dime.
So good luck on your fancy high speed rail and many thanks to China that developed a cheap technology for fast rail and who have to sell their excess steel that wad becoming a problem. We also have to thank them for their marketing skill and financing offers which package offers are extended for almost all other countries that are also buying it including parts of Europe.

ROSSIKE:
Since when did ''almost completed'' become an achievement? Fact is in sheer economic terms, Nigerians are far better off today than they were in 1985. Incomes and living standards have improved by all measurements. In the 1980s university lecturers could barely afford to ride cars, food (especially meat) was expensive, etc etc. Nigeria Airways may not be flying but we have ARIK and other indigenous airlines now competing to bring prices down, our airports are a lot better now, and the railway system has been revitalised, with China recently signing a $12 billion contract to build a massive coastal line in the south. A high speed standard gauge line between Abuja and Kaduna is virtually completed. In 1985 Buhari was busy cancelling the Lagos metro line, while today, the initial phases of the Lagos metro are close to completion under civilian rule. Today we have indigenous car manufacturers like INNOSON, computer manufacturers like Zinox, and even mobile phone makers in the country. Heck we even have the first black built satellite hovering in space today. I think we've come a long way since '85.

The metronome Buhari cancelled was unviable and could only have been completed with foreign loans at cut throat interest. Please always verify your facts. The project had not even secured full right of way and land acquisition. To put it into perspective IBB overthrew GMB to correct the regime's non listening attitude, why did he not finish the metroline. Even Jakande who started it later became like prime minister undelete Buhari, why did he not revisit the project. Please always apply depth in your thinking. As for high speed rail and other high fallutin infrastructure projects let me let you in on a secret. Anybody who becomes governor or president today will meet in office hundreds of proposals for everything under the sun coming from the best of the best of manufacturers of trains, power plants, fertilizer plants, refineries, solar plants et.c.. They will send you the proposals direct from the corporate offices in Europe, US and China along with offers of financing so you don't even have to worry about the money. Even the lowest IQ monkey can pick and choose but it is not that simple and white elephant projects the norm. The only positive difference individual governments can make is in project management capacitu of that government and also its ability to link the isolated projects in a way that provides synergy. The only gov t that knows what it is doing in that respect is the LASG.

doctokwus:
This is strictly based on my fair assessment using inec's voter total for each state and assuming @best 70% voter turn out.Power bases av also bn taken into consideration.
Also less dan 100,000 votes I tag 0
Votes(m). GMB. GEJ
SE
-Abia. 1.4. 0. 1
Anam. 1.75. 0. 1.3m
-Enugu. 1.3. 0. 1m
Ebonyi. .87. 0. 700,000
Imo. 1.6. 500,000. 800,000

-Swest
Ekiti. .75m. 300,000 300,000
Ogun. 1.86. 1.2m. 200,000
Osun. 1.29m. 800,000. 200,000
Ondo. 1.55m. 2000,000. 1.0m
Oyo. 2.0m. 1.3m. 300,000
Lagos. 6m. 3.5m. 1m
-SS
Edo. 1.4m. 700,000. 400,000
Delta. 1.9m. 200,000. 1.2m
Bayelsa. .47m. 0. 300,000
A/ibom. 1.7m. 0. 1.2m
Rivers. 2.4m. 500,000. 1.0
C/rivers. 1.02m. 0. 700,000

-Ncentral
Benue. 1.4m. 400,000. 500,000
Kogi. 1.2m. 200,000. 600,000
Kwara. 1.12m. 600,000. 200,000
Nassara. 1.2m. 600,000. 200,000
Niger. .72m. 300,000. 200,000
Plateau. 1.9m. 200,000. 1m

-NEast
Adamawa 1.7m. 500,000. 600,000
-Bauchi. 1.83m. 1.2m. 300,000
-Borno. 2.7m. 1.3m. 0
-Gombe. 1.2m. 600,000. 300,000
Taraba. 1.3m. 300,000. 6000,000
Yobe. 1.2m. 600,000. 0

-Nwest
Jigawa. 1.8m. 1m. 0
Kano. 5.1m. 4m. 500,000
Katsina. 2.9m. 2m. 0
Kaduna. 3.5m. 2m. 500,000
Kebbi. 1.6m. 1m. 200,000
Sokoto. 2.0m. 1.2m. 0
Zamfara 1.7m. 1m. 0
Total: 28.2m. 18.3m
Buhari from MY OWN projections wins,topping gej in d west,Neast and Nwest while gej wins in seast,ss and ncentral but wt less numb of votes

GEJ does not win North Central i keep saying this. The margin of defeat of Jonathan will be greater than this.

stanech:
They misread Nigerians because buhari is in the past. Electing buhari is like taking. A time travel back to 1983

Nigeria's 1983, 84 and 85 was better than now.
Check out the graduates of that era, the universities, civil service, the standard of roads that were built.
All our refineries were under expansion or completed. Not a single refinery has been built since then.
Nigeria airways was flying, NNSL had all the 22 ships.
There was Ajaokuta almost completed.
Petrochemical plant almost completed.
To make matters even more interesting, the Nigerian army and air force then were actually stronger than now even with a much lower budget.
The joke is on any young man who thinks the past was worse than now.
If I were Buhari I would actually run with that message, ..'bring back the glorious and dynamic past'..

kestolove95:
GEJ cant nd will never win taraba..

Jonathan cannot win North Central. I don't know why people think religion is the only issue.
Tribalism is another important issue in the north as well as the vote pulling brand od Buhari/Idiagbon.

Jonathan will do well in Lagos and Ogun. Ondo and Ekiti will be disappointing for him.

Imo votes for Buhari will not be up to that number however I think he will win there.
Why people still think Imo State people follow other mainstream Ibos is still strange to me. GEJ by name, life orientation and behaviour is close to Anambra/Enugu/Ebonyi than Imo/Abia and that fact is not lost to people.

Ibos are above all motivated by the urge for vengeance against imagined hurts. This mass emotion is causing the collective folly of supporting the sinking Jonathan regime against all dictates of common sense.

They read the mood of Nigerians well. The two issues are CORRUPTION and INSECURITY. They have brought the general who will solve corruption problems and the VP who will sanitize government and JAIL corrupt people.
There is mortal fear not only in the PDP but the entire sleazy socio-economic corruption construct put in place by a well connected minority to steal the collective patrimony of all Nigerians.
On May, 2015 expect oil thieves, fuel subsidy scammers and others applying for long term visas out of Nigeria.

After firefight scenes.

temitemi1:
GEJ will vote ur father right U and ur buhari should go and DIE!!! GEJ till 2019!!!

The man GEJ actually looks like he wants to go and rest. Please read his body language. The Naira is now 190 to the dollar, oil price is down to $55 and will crash to $45 in June. To pay the salaries of government workers is becoming a problem and the war in the north east is costing N20bn a month thanks to generals that your man is too scared to oppose. There is nothing more to chop in government and your man is no more interested. You guys pushing him are just being wicked

koikoi2:
It is only God who can install a president. All d sai Buhari will not translate to anything gud except God has chosen him in heaven but in this case it's Jonathan dat heaven has chosen.

We Nigerians can decide to chose Buhari but God has not chosen him.

God's decision is final.

Many heads will roll again in 2015,

The dogs and d baboons will be soaked in blood again in 2015 but at d end Jonathan will be d president.

God can allow many fo*lish ppl in d north to die just for Goodluck to be d president of this country.

GEJ till 2019

God's annoiting on Jonathan ended in 2014. We actually concede that God wanted him in office to do certain things which a lot of people say he did not do. He has been told that his annoiting has expired and should have chosen any other Nigerian from any tribe to push up within the PDP. What we have now is a manifestation of greed and fear of being jailed for corruption. If we allow him in 2015, he won't leave in 2019 for the same reason he is not leaving now and everyone knows it and some people are ready o pay the supreme sacrifice and burn the country if he does not. That is why I am actually very worried for him. His future does not look too bright at the moment.

Whynotthetruth:
Sincerely, what do you need from this regime that they aren't addressing presently? What change does Buhari represent Change to parochialism Has he acquired any new ideas or is he planning to use 1984 solutions on a 2014 challenges That's disaster for sure...What's his roadmap to a better Nigeria Let him present it for all to see if he had any, which I doubt. I will provide you security, employment, food etc HOW How will he do it

You people are very annoying. New Ideas. What new ideas has Jonathan espoused?. You people are making him sound like some intellectual even when the guy is modest enough to have admitted that he lacks this very quality.
Buhari and Idiagbon did some very innovative things to the Nigerian economy at a time we were almost wrecked by international conspiracies.

You are being very ignorant when you say Buhari is promising 1984 solutions. Please read the 2015 budget document. Nigeria has come full circle to 1984 - Import substitution, exchange control, banning of imports, reduction in govt expenditure, taxation of luxury goods that is what the PDP gov t has come back to. Please read wide and pray for understanding. The people who are running America are not the Obama's, Obama is a symbol of power. The true power holders are in Federal Reserve Bank, top investment banks and top socio economic research institutes and the average age is 70. It is very dangerous to say the old and genuine is worse to the young and fake.

Soyinka would never endorse Jonathan. I this is independent of the fact that he has serious agro with Buhari when he was a dictator and his views on military men in politics is clear. He criticizes even OBJ his friend for sport.
Soyinka' s children are serving freely under APC governments but that will not stop criticizing Buhari the candidate and Buhari the President if that happens

SeverusSnape:
Maybe cause he's the lesser evil. As a neutral commentator that I am, I believe that Buhari is not a good option, APC should have fielded a better candidate. Buhari is a bad brand.

And nobody should give reason(s) to vote for GEJ, vote for your choice candidate.

This is self defeating and you are not being honest. You want GEJ just for tribal and religious reasons. A lot of us are against him for what he is, he does not have the personality to be a good President, he is weak, corrupt and thinks only of himself. He would have done well in any role in life that does nott involve affecting the lives of millions of other people. If PDP had allowed many of the southern potential candidates to contest primaries and win a lot of people would have supported them. The Presidential elections is not about a party but a person. You are giving the mandate of Head is State, Head of Government and Commander In Chief to only ONE MAN and this is the problem with PDP, there are some very good ministers but the President serving is very bad, one of the worst.

Franchise21:
Jerry Gana, 5 billion!!! Where da heck did dat money emanate frm?? Ppl r dying cos of poverty n see hw dey r wasting our resources... There is God ooh!!!

This man was an ordinary professor turned MAMSER chairman turned....

Buhari for President. How long do we have to keep saying this. Change has come to Nigeria, who is going to stand in the way of God?

Nigeria is a shallow country. This is a suspected Boko Haram founder, now cleared by the SSS saying Boko Haram was formed in 1992. What some people have told their children is that it was started in 2011 by 'northern elders' to remove Jonathan from power. The truth is always very far in this country because people who are eating government money have enough idiots among the poor ready to buy their stories because of tribal or religious connections

Hemanwel:
Apostle Johnson Suleiman has just said in his
on-going Sunday service that Jonathan is
coming back again in 2015. He emphasised God said there was no better alternative.
It can be recalled that some of his 2015 prophecies are already coming to manifestation.E.g,he prophesied that Bamanga Tukur will be disgraced out of PDP, inter alia

This one is not a prophecy and I think the man of God made that clear he was expressing an opinion,...''no better alternative''... I think Suleiman would be proved wrong in February. A lot of prophets have predicted a Buhari win so let us wait and see.

omenka:
His students are who we ask for!!

LOL
We have seen only one - Patience Faka Jonathan, this was clearly stated in many publications that she was GEJ' s student. If there are no other students coming forward, it means Peshe was home educated by only one teacher.

Muazu is campaigning for Buhari. This is the message the Nigerian masses want to hear. There are probably 90million Nigerians voting only less than 5000 of them have something to fear from Buhari' s persecution and these people are all billionaires who don't have any visible means of income.

Keep it up Muazu. The next thing you should say is that Buhari will seize all private jets, yatchs, unoccupied mansions and any free private Nigerian funds outside Nigeria that is more than $200million then you will double the votes for Buhari.

Jonathan's Second Class Upper at that period in Nigeria is extremely commendable and I think is of the highest quality amongst his other qualifications. The masters and PHD all look like low quality stuff. You can get most of these in Nigeria just by being helpful to your academic supervisors any lobbying.

The second class upper in zoology at that time must have demanded real hard work and painstaking application.

However is record in the educational sector as President and is overall performance in office is very poor and I cannot vote for him.