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With this development, APC will comfortably win Ondo state. Ondo south senatorial district used to be PDP stronghold. With Mimiko taking over the structure of the party at the state level, former PDP party leaders like Femi Agagu and co were not comfortable with him leading the party. Their decamp to the APC will really affect the chances of the PDP even in their stronghold in the southern part of the state.

The polls will reveal the fact i'm always stating on this forum, that Mimiko decamping to the PDP will cause more harm to GEJ reelection bid.

Mimiko has flopped his 2nd term and woe betides anyone that associates with him at the polls. The anger and frustration of the people of the state will be taken against such person.

How come people dont even pause to consider what someone says before rushing to issue rebuttals and abuses at the person. If the story is true or not, time will tell. But it smacks of low level intellect for you to just rush to counter what someone says and even issue abuses at the person before making proper findings.

God bless incoming president Mohammad Buhari!

tit:
that your plan no go work!
The NE is a PDP stronghold!
that is why boko haram has been attacking the region using their toehold in bORNO STATE to wreck havoc on all the pro-Jonathan communities there.
Their plan no go work at all, at all!

Calebosko:
buhari shud cal his guys to order so that it can hold

This seems to be PDP's calculation all along. To ensure there will be massive voter apathy in the north and especially the NE. That is why the military seems to be on systematic stand down and boko haram is gaining the upperhand.

The military only makes moves to reclaim territories after there is serious public outcry. Their stance also during this war has been mainly defensive and not offensive as would be expected.

For those playing politics with the lives and livelihoods of millions of people in the Northeast, nemesis will catch up soon.

We can all see feeble attempts by paid PDP online crooks on the first page trying to use reverse psychology claiming destabilisation of the NE will affect PDP's strong support there, when all Nigeria knows the NE with a voting strength of almost 5 million persons is a Buhari strong hold.

I have been saying this and will say it again, the election result of the Northeast is what will show the world the real sponsors of BH.

Despite all the propanganda on media, the people in the NE are still the closest to BH, and they are very much aware of the political BH killing them and they will give their verdict at the polls!

Notwithstanding the desperate efforts of the political BH to deny them this right at speaking through the polls. The few that will succeed in voting will tell the world in clear terms the people encouraging the BH onslaught and making the Army stand down.

dunkem21:
Na wa o.

How small girls thing dey taste sef?

No so una dey start.

sapientia:
By the time the igbos make this mistake wey dey hungry them.. their eyes go open and it will be too late by then.

Which mistake? Electing someone who will sanitise Nigeria is now a mistake?

Buhari will perform better than GEJ 10 times and anybody that loves this country should encourage and support him.

I thought you were going to be smart enough to put some of their speeches here for us to analyse instead of talking in abstraction and making insinuations.

aresa:
Very unintelligent and shallow comment from an old man..


What a shame..

He is not an old man. I know him.

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

You PDP guys irritates me with this your religious and ethnic bigotry.

Why can't u guys just play politics without ethnoreligious foolery??

http://www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-does-not-deserve-second-term-mend/


Kai. This people will make Jona to be having High BP oh.

Uppercuts from different angles.

hahaaaaaaaa. I no fit laugh oh

The Chairman himself of the Peoples Destructive Party (PDP) is already seeing the handwriting on the wall that the party is going down.

DeLaRue:
At this point, one has to be cautious about apportioning percentages to either candidate in a State like Ondo.

Ondo South - places like Okitipupa and the riverine areas tend to vote PDP, whoever the candidate is. I understand this is because of Agagu who was from that area and also, I am told, did quite a bit for the riverine areas. Those areas should deliver a decent amount of votes to GEJ, assuming even they can stomach his well-documented inadequacies.

In Akure here, those who plan to vote Buhari are so passionate and eager to do so, and their anger is palpable. GEJ's support is either too lukewarm to be noticed or his supporters are a little ashamed to confirm their support in public.

Either way, things don't look good for GEJ in Ondo State.

You really know Ondo state from the analysis you wrote up there. You are right, the south has some considerable PDP supporters. And coupled with the fact that they are close to the Ijaws. But generally Ondo state is fed up with GEJ. And what will cause the major damage now is the association of GEJ with Mimiko the governor. Mimiko coming to the PDP and hijacking the structure vexed some of the earlier members away. In addition, Mimiko's 2nd term has been a disaster and the revenge will be taken on anyone Mimiko is presenting for any elective post.

I have been telling PDP guys on nairaland since. I don't know why they keep living in a fools paradise. I'm from Ondo state and I can boldly say Buhari will have nothing less than 65% of the votes cast.

elipheleh:
Obviously the APC rats here who go about selling false propaganda here from sahara reporters with made up pictures of Igbo men and using Ohaneze ndi Igbo and Igbo names for selling their propaganda cares.....

Thought the Buharist said they didn't need our vote? Why all the propaganda?

Pls grow up. The world is leaving u behind to rot in your myopic tribalistic views. Nobody has the time to be doing what you term propanganda. You must be very dull for you to believe ALL igbos do not support Buhari.

If you are an intelligent person, definitely you should know that all human beings does not reason the same way. Buhari still has some support in the east. Although, majority support GEJ, no one is disputing that.

There is no where APC as a party has ever stated that they don't need Igbo votes. Infact they have been clamouring for Igbo votes all along.

It is just the way you tribalise everything that made your fellow bigots at the other side to always reply you in your own coin.

elipheleh:
https://i60.tinypic.com/1ze8ne0.jpg

THIS IS Buhari IN WAR FRONT AGAINST BIAFRANS AT Owerri, WERE MILLIONS OF BIAFRAN CHILDREN, WOMEN and MEN DIED DURING THE WAR OF EXTERMINATION BY THE ZOOLOGICAL REPUBLIC OF niGERia 1967-1970.

Today some stupid Igbos topped the highest donor to their muderer and Jihadist Buhari, to campaign and possibly rule niGERia again to at least wipe them out completely from the surface of the Earth.
Shame On Ndigbo.

1st Picture: CAPTAIN MUHAMDU BUHARI(1st from left in pix) Col. D. Bamigboye (2nd from left in pix) Olusengu Obasanjo OBJ (Behind in pix)

Yes that is Captain Buhari, a professional soldier carrying out his duties in keeping the country as one. Stop maligning his person, otherwise your generation may suffer the consequences.

If you have specific evidence against Buhari, bring it forth, otherwise PLS SHUT YOUR TOXIC MOUTH.

NONSENSE!

This is just a sensational writing to stimulate sentiments. I can see the level of support Buhari is getting is getting you panicked,hence this write up to stir up sentiments.

Curlieweed:
The way things are going I can see Buhari converting to Christianity to contest the 2019 elections. That would be next logical step after failing twice with pastors.

This clown is playing the religious card to a disgusting extent.

With the way things are going, Osinbajo may eventually convert Buhari to a Born-again Christian before they complete their 4-year term in 2019.

I'm serious about this. RCCG guys sure knows how to win souls. With the successes their Administration will deliver to Nigeria, and with the robust working relationship both will have, Osinbajo may end up converting Buhari to a christian.

PDP goons are terrible and shameless LIARS!

Here is His Excellency, Muhammadu Buhari visiting the Archbishop of Canterbury in 2013.

GMB!

The People's General

I just love this Buhari.

I can feel it! Real development is coming to Nigeria.

Quality of life to all! Not just the rich & the looters.

Sai Buhari 2015-2019

Yes I agree with you. The onus falls on PDP supporters to adhere. If you have observed the political discussions on this forum, for the APC guys, they always attack PDP directly emphasizing that they have spent 16 years in central power without achieving much. They then proceed to attack the governance of President Jona emphasizing its failures.

Now coming to the PDP guys, what they do most times is to reply by abusing the North saying they have born to rule mentality, insulting the South West and calling them slaves, insulting Muslims and calling them terrorists, they also proceed to demonizing Buhari and Tinubu. They find it very hard to stick to the PDP vs APC issue. They always take the discussion to an ethno-religious perspectives.

This writer made some sense but I still disagree with his subtle method of encouraging regional politics. Our political landscape has matured more than that. And it is to the benefit of the nation as it fosters unity, peace and harmony and thus development when all tribes are well represented in the major political parties.

And all persons has an active role to play in encouraging unity. There is no better way to show this unity than for different tribes to be well represented in the parties having national coverage.

Good people of Nigeria, pls let's do away with this archaic political system of Igbo, Hausa, Yoruba, etc party.

Well, this seems to be happening already anyway, albeit at a slow pace, because if one analyzes the political landscape of Nairaland it shows that the two major political parties has support base across the tribes.

Playing unhealthy regional politics is just like playing with a keg of gun powder that can explode anytime and throw the nation into anachy.

The onus is on the youths to effect this change. Please lets leave the bitter tribal politics played by our parents and let's encourage politics played on conviction, unity, equity and progress to all parts of the country!

I wish you all a happy, peaceful and prosperous 2015.

APGA, NDIGBO AND ROAD TO POLITICAL PERDITION

DECEMBER 31, 2014 BY UCHE IGWE (PUNCH NEWSPAPER)


The fate of my brothers and sisters from the South-East in the current political permutation is difficult to locate. I have tried very hard but I cannot get my hand around it. Without being patronising, it just seems that they are nowhere. Apart from waiting for a few crumbs to fall from the incumbent government, one can hardly notice a coordinated presence of Ndigbo in the Nigerian political landscape today. As a student of Nigerian political history, I have found this situation very surprising and in some ways both unacceptable and inexplicable.

For a people that had many of their prominent sons and daughters at the forefront for the struggle for independence, one is very worried how they beat such a progressive and seemingly permanent retreat from national political relevance and prominence. Many will suggest that it was as result of the civil war. That could be part of it. The civil war generated a lot of bad blood and inter-ethnic suspicion and tension for Ndigbo among other entities in Nigeria. But that happened almost 50 years ago. Are the Igbo still suffering the hangover of war and are other ethnic groups in Nigeria united to punish them because they fought the war or are their political problems self-inflicted? Are the Igbo architects of their own misfortune? How strategic have they been in their political engagement and mobilisation?

I will be inclined to the latter than the former that Ndigbo are the cause of most of their problems in the country since the civil war. The inability of Ndigbo to regain some prominence in the scheme of things is partly their own making. It is not unconnected to the fact that unlike other geopolitical zones, the Igbo have been unable to rally round a common platform.

The Yoruba in the South-West did it with the Alliance for Democracy that later became the Action Congress of Nigeria which merged into the All Progressives Congress. The northerners rallied round the All Nigeria Peoples Party and the Congress for Progressive Change which later merged into the APC. The only political party that would have provided hope for Ndigbo to engage constructively with the Nigerian project, the All Progressive Grand Alliance was invaded by greedy, selfish and crafty politicians.

The story of the rot in APGA is simply distressing. Since December 2004, the incumbent National Chairman toppled the leadership of the party by elbowing out the former Chairman, Chief Chekwas Okorie, through a judicial ambush, it has been one crisis after another, one litigation after another for the party. Currently, one of the party stalwarts, Chief Maxi Okwu, is asking the Supreme Court to set aside the Court of Appeal ruling of July 2014 and uphold the judgment of the Federal High Court of January 15, 2014 that says that the party’s April 8 national convention was valid. If he gets victory, that will render most of the decisions taken by the current leadership null and void. Besides this litigation, the tenure of the chairman should have long expired by the first week of December.

However, in his usual gestapo style, Chief Victor Umeh afterwards assembled his loyalists to an emergency congress that he presided over where he surreptitiously proposed an amendment into the party’s constitution that granted him and his cronies an additional 120 days in office. Those who are familiar with the happenings in the party suggest that the chairman who doubles as a senatorial candidate wants to continue to take charge of the party until after the 2015 elections.

In running the affairs of APGA, Umeh is famous for not tolerating dissent. For him to have his way, he stifled internal democracy in the party completely. The media is awash with his “exploits” in all the states where effectively two different factions are today competing to be recognised by the Independent National Electoral Commission after the parallel primaries.

The case of Imo State throws light on the extent of confusion created in the party’s just concluded primaries. Two people are each laying claim to being the rightful governorship candidate for the party as two parallel congresses held in two different locations in the state. The first congress was organised by the state executive led by Prince C.C. Nwaka at the Jesus Family and Friends Hall behind NUJ Press Centre which produced Chief Okey Ezeh as the party’s torch-bearer. While the second one was organised by the same state executive led by Peter Ezeobi which produced Emmanuel Iheanacho. Although the Nwaka-led executive was said to have emerged through a state congress as demanded by the constitution, his rival was said to have been handpicked and singleheadedly installed by the national chairman. This impasse is almost replicated in all other states and may affect the electoral chances of APGA in Imo State.

The intractable crises in APGA have continued to diminish the chances of expansion of the party in the zone. How can a party that controls only one-fifth of the zone speak for Ndigbo? Instead of investing time to expand the fortunes of the party and consolidate in the region, the party’s leadership is aloof.

The last primaries were a sort of bazaar. Apart from formal and informal contributions received from aspirants, the governorship forms were sold at N12m each. The party’s Senate nomination forms went for N5m, House of Representatives forms sold for N3.5m while the nomination forms for the House of Assembly went for N1.5 million. In one of the states, the party sold more than 100 forms for the House of Assembly which amounted to more than N100m. Even delegates at the ward level were made to pay as much as N3,000 before contesting the delegate elections. All these funds accrued to a party that barely has national spread. This does not include subvention which the party is said to receive monthly from Anambra State.

I do not want to make hasty generalisations here but I sense that the same things that have distracted APGA from seizing the opportunities to grow within the South-East are the same things that have hindered Ndigbo from forging a united political front nationally.

Today, the biggest support base of President Goodluck Jonathan is among Ndigbo. If one may ask, do Ndigbo really have a stake in the Jonathan Presidency? What do they have to show for it except a few hand-outs who a few opportunists and political cheerleaders masquerading as leaders go to Abuja to collect? The South-East zone remains the only one that still does not have up to six states. Its infrastructure continues to decay. The Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway is still a death trap. The same as the Imo end of the Owerri-Port Harcourt Road. If you visit Aba, you will feel sorry for Ndigbo. The town has been abandoned for hoodlums. Most of the boys who used to trade in Ariaria market have all abandoned their shops and crafts to at best street trading and at worst kidnapping.

The time for political awakening of Ndigbo is here. They cannot continue to be at the sidelines of Nigerian politics. Let us start by insisting that the right people lead the only surviving Igbo political platform, APGA. Year 2015 is by the corner and Ndigbo can no longer stand aloof for some political lightweights to keep parading themselves as Igbo leaders through political manipulation. Ndigbo should wake up and take their zone from these agents of transactional politics.

Copyright PUNCH.

Contact: editor@punchng.com

http://www.punchng.com/opinion/apga-ndigbo-and-road-to-political-perdition/

Integrity all the way

And the wind of change continues to blow!

Sai Buhari!

mecusbosco:
He never said he commanded them. He simply said he told them which any other citizen of the country could do. U just wasted space here talking..........

It's u that actually wasted space. Read my comments again more slowly this time around so that u can grasp everything and tell me where I stated that he 'commanded' IG and DSS?

For your information I quoted him directly from the source of the news.

Fake account created by PDP touts to discredit GMB.


Fake Twitter Account To Discredit Buhari Surfaces

fake twitter account by a certain Ima Sadiq, tweeting @imamsadiq123 has surfaced to discredit the Presidential candidacy of General Muhammadu Buhari of the opposition All Progressive Congress.

The account which was started on Friday and has some 51 followers is posing as a Buhari supporting Islamic cleric, suggesting that Buhari’s singular mission in Aso Rock is to entrench the Shariah law. Already vigilant social media users have rubbished the twitter account as an attempt to discredit Buhari’s candidacy by echoing the propaganda that have been used over the years to portray Buhari as a religious fanatic.

Tolu Ogunlesi, journalist and social commentator, who has been blowing the whistle on the account told Sunday Trust that “it is obviously a fake account. Clearly is someone who is being mischievous, someone who wants to pose as a Buhari supporter to exploit religious tensions.”

The profile picture of the twitter handle was initially that of the US first openly gay imam, Daayiee Abdullah, and when this was pointed out, the operator of the handle changed it to that of Washington DC Masjid imam, Abdul Alim Musa.

The twitter handle has attracted pro-Jonathan supporters, including the PDP Youth Frontier (@PDPYF) which have engaged the purported imam to further explain his tweets.

This was one of the exchanges on the twitter account: PDP Youth Frontier @PDPYF: @imamsadiq123 You mean you don’t believe that Nigeria is a secular state? Are you supporting Buhari bks he Believes in Shaaria law?

Writer and publisher, Eghosa Imasuen says the kind of social media users that have engaged the handle are “the same robots that are paid N100,000 monthly.” “It would be tragic if it wasn’t so transparent,” he said. Popular blogger and tweeter, Japhet Omojuwa also speaking to Sunday Trust said there is an antecedence of something like this.

“The Modus Operandi looks like something we have seen before with the Wendell Simlin scandal. The idea is to make it look like a Buhari supporter and enforce all the things that have been said about him in the past. “I have asked for it [the account] to be reported to Twitter. It is a good thing that it is being ratted out so that the impact can be checked,” he said.

Earlier in the year, Presidential aide, Reno Omokri, sent out documents in the name of a certain Wendell Simlin trying to associate former Central Bank Governor Sanusi Lamido Sanusi of being behind Boko Haram

The president’s senior adviser on social media however forgot to remove his digital signature on the documents and was widely condemned for his action and attempt at spreading false information on a perceived opponent of the Jonathan government.

http://saharareporters.com/2014/12/29/fake-twitter-account-discredit-buhari-surfaces-sunday-trust

Someone pls tell me why the PDP and their cohorts are trying to use blackmail to gain support? I think they are finally seeing the handwriting on the wall and they are getting desperate!!

After all the abuses and castigation they subjected Buhari to, they discovered that it is not working and now they want to try another method. The level of propanganda they are even playing is pathetic to say the least. This is capable of throwing the country into confusion and chaos.

Imagine such desperation to the extent that their paid online goons are now using Islamic cleric's picture that is readily available on the internet to create social media accounts, and then proceeding to making inciteful comments with those accounts just to get christians worked up and hateful of muslims. Is that not wicked and devilish?

With the level of desperation being displayed, it is getting obvious by the day, that the govt of Jona needs to be shown the door. And with this level of desperation, I wont be surprised if an independent investigation panel indicts GEJ's govt for this Boko Haram wahala.

And imagine this one, a dumb and talkative Minister (who had earlier undergone trial for murder) stating that he has told the IG and DSS to arrest people making certain comments, who does he think he is?? Someone pls enlighten me. Does a Minister have a command over the IG and DSS. The level of impunity in this administration seems to know no bounds. Very sad I must say.

Algebra12:
Did you see the " No trading" sign?
I thought prof is a SAN?

So he is the policeman that will enforce the law right?

jmaine:
Surely Barcanista, even though the guy swag was doused severely by the ruthless gladiator called Datolee . . . . .

Barcanista shook the arena after his decampment to the APC

Barcanista really tried against that guy's onslaught that day. Barcanista proved himself as an all-round guy. I was deeply impressed. He was attacked left, right, front, back, and was even ambushed by several guys using the weapons provided by that datolee and he was still able to stand his ground.

Berem (she has taken so much abuses and threats, but still flying the APC flag high)

or

Barcanista