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arsetalks: He is not running. PDP is reportedly forming an alliance with him so the iidiot's supporters can vote for whoever PDP present.

why insult them

We will prefer a million Gbenga daniel to Tinubu so you are the iddioot here.

sexyseun: OGD Again? Can one run for governorship as many times as possible? Because gbenga daniels did two tenure as a governor of ogun state

They didn't ask him to run but to support PDP thats all

The reality is that with Tinubu still in APC, APC is going down in the SW starting with Ekiti because APC has nothing to offer us.

egift: It is a known fact. Just search on Google for - Association of Witches and Wizards of Nigeria - in fact they are more into politics than sorcery

LOOOOL Nigerian politics sha !

God bless Femi

This is the undiluted truth.

By Femi Aribisala

To be truly progressive, the APC must not just talk progressivism, it must walk progressivism.
The fact that Nigeria is a country with some 350 ethnic groups makes it imperative that we must always be politically mindful of ethnic, religious and regional considerations. Failure to do this on the idealistic grounds that the quality of our public officials is more important than their ethnic and religious origin is bound to be problematic.

Nigerians are yet to believe, if we ever will, that the competence of a president is more important than his ethnicity. In any case, the background of a president is without prejudice to his ability. There is no ethnic group in Nigeria that does not have people who can be excellent presidents. However, if issues of federal character and ethnic-balancing are not addressed in Nigerian politics, even the best presidential materials will become ineffective.

The average Nigerian is not a sophisticated voter. Therefore, people like me will continue to analyse Nigerian politics from the perspective of the need for regional and ethnic-balancing.
Northern agenda
The APC is seen as a vehicle for Northern domination of Nigerian politics and many people are implacably opposed to this. Although the APC claims not to subscribe to zoning, everyone knows its 2015 presidential candidate must come from the North, otherwise the centre will no longer hold. Certainly, all those insisting the North must regain power have flocked to the APC precisely because they see it as the vehicle for realizing their dreams.

There is also widespread perception that the APC is sympathetic to the Boko Haram. Fani-Kayode, a former APC member, complained that the APC is the political wing of the Boko Haram in the same way that Sinn Fein was the political wing of the Irish Republican Army in Britain. Indeed, for the longest time, some APC members were Boko Haram apologists. Murtala Nyako even claimed the Boko Haram was a Southern hoax. He called it a “phantom.” Muhammadu Buhari sought political amnesty for the Boko Haram; demanding the insurgents should be given the same golden handshakes as the militants of the Niger Delta.

Therefore, it will not be easy getting non regionally-chauvinistic votes for a Northern APC presidential candidate in 2015. If that Northerner is a Muslim, it would be harder still. The Boko Haram insistence that Nigeria must become a Muslim Caliphate and the systematic bombing of churches and killing of Christians in the North ensures that religion will be a major factor in the coming election.
Southern strategy

While Muslims may have no qualms voting for a Christian president, Christians are likely to see the defeat of an incumbent Christian president by a Northern Muslim as succumbing to Boko Haram. That feeling is unlikely to be assuaged by a Southern Christian vice-president, in the same way that the demands of some Northerners for a Northern president have not been assuaged by the fact that the current vice-president is from the North.

The blunder of Atiku Abubakar in stating that the North will not be voting for President Jonathan in 2015 betrays the Northern bias of the APC. If the North will not be voting for a Southern candidate, why would the South vote for a Northern candidate?

A Southern Christian presidential running-mate in 2011, in the person of Pastor Tunde Bakare, did not help Buhari, who remains a hard sell in the South. Buhari was only able to muster a measly 391,922 votes from the South, out of a total of over 38 million votes cast nationwide. That is conclusive proof that fielding Buhari yet again as the Northern presidential hopeful, on a fourth time lucky gambit, is bound to fail. Chances are Buhari would get even less votes this time out than he did in 2011.

The challenge for the APC is to get Southerners to vote for a Northern APC presidential candidate in 2015, in spite of the current regional and religious polarization of Nigerian politics.

The APC desperately needs a Southern politician to balance its Northern presidential ticket. However, such politician cannot come from the South-East or the South-South.

In spite of the presence of men like Rochas Okorocha of the South-East, and Rotimi Amaechi of the South-South, the APC has little chance of getting significant South-East and South-South votes. These geopolitical zones remain Jonathan strongholds. Their voters are not likely to agree to truncate Jonathan’s South-South presidency in exchange for a Northern president and a South-South or South-East vice-presidency. If APC is to get vital Southern votes in 2015, the answer lies in the South-West; a region of residual APC/ACN political strength.
Game-changer

The APC needs a vice-presidential candidate with sufficient political clout to galvanise South-West votes. There is only one man in South-West politics today that can conceivably marshal bloc South-West votes for the APC in 2015. That man is none other than Babatunde Fashola! As far as the APC is concerned, Fashola is the game-changer!

This truth will be very bitter for die-hard Tinubu supporters. But the fact is that Fashola, and not Tinubu, is now the poster-boy for the APC in the South-West. In spite of having the second-largest bloc of voters among the six regions in the country, the South-West had the least number of voters in 2011. Only 34% of the South-West’s 14 million voters bothered to vote. Fashola could conceivably invigorate South-West voters in a way no other politician currently on the horizon can.

Fashola as APC vice-presidential candidate will do for a Northern candidate what Bakare could not do for Buhari in 2011; he will clean up South-West votes. If nothing else, Fashola has a legacy of eight years of tarring roads, building bridges and planting grass and flowers in Lagos. Moreover, he does not come with the political baggage of Bola Tinubu, who has become a political liability, even in the South-West.
Unlike Tinubu, Fashola has not antagonized the Afenifere and the Yoruba Obas. Indeed, the coming regional elections in the South-West are shaping out to be as much about the need to bring an end to the domineering politics of Tinubu as anything else. With Tinubu on the ticket, allegations of certificate forgeries, inordinate land-grabs, nepotism, alpha beta scams, toll-gate deals and anti-democratic manipulations will come to the fore. Therefore, in contrast to Tinubu, Fashola is a breath of fresh air.

Neutralisation of Tinubu
A Fashola vice-presidency would have the added political bonus of spelling the end of the political pretensions of Bola Tinubu in the South-West. Vice-president Fashola will quickly upstage “party leader” Tinubu. A Fashola vice-presidency would mean, to all intents and purposes, the passing of the baton from Tinubu to Fashola. It would spell the end of the self-appointed “godfather” of South-West politics. Therefore, Tinubu can be expected to say to a Fashola vice-presidency: “over my dead body!”

But the fact of the matter is that the APC only has a chance in the coming presidential election “over the dead body” of Tinubu. Tinubu must be marginalized in any marketable APC equation. Any attempt to accommodate him inordinately, as happened in the rigging of Oyegun as party chairman with the collusion of APC governors, will turn far more ugly and disastrous for the party than it was the last time. To have any reasonable chance of success nationally, APC must have a viable South-West policy. That means its presidential ticket must be built around one man: Babatunde Fashola.

Fashola as APC vice-presidential candidate would be a stroke of genius for the APC in addressing yet another liability of the party: its widespread perception as a Muslim party. This perception has come about because Bola Tinubu’s ACN never ever fielded a non-Muslim candidate as the governor of any South-Western state. When the APC registered as a political party with INEC, 17 of its 18 board-members were Muslims. For months until recently, all members of the APC national executive were Muslims. Foolishly, the APC even rationalized its earlier plans for a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket on the pages of the newspapers.

However, the vice-presidential candidacy of Babatunde Fashola would prescribe a Northern Christian as APC presidential candidate, for the simple reason that Fashola is a Muslim. The emergence of a Northern Christian as APC presidential candidate would open many doors closed to the APC politically. In one fell swoop, it would dispel all notions that the APC is the political arm of the Boko Haram because the last thing the Boko Haram want is a Christian president.
Changing of the guard
APC fools no one by talking power shift and then touting people like Buhari and Kwankwaso as its presidential hopefuls. How does another Hausa-Fulani president of Nigeria speak power-shift? This is Atiku’s bargaining-chip; that power needs to shift from the North-West and the North-Central to the North-East. Unfortunately, apart from supposedly having a fat war-chest, Atiku is not sell-able as president of Nigeria. He has tried before and failed woefully. In any case, Atiku is a Muslim. There is need for power shift in the North from Moslems to Christians in defiance of Boko Haram threats.

A Northern Christian as APC presidential candidate will achieve this. It will make the party more attractive in the predominantly Christian South, where voters may be dissuaded from voting for a Northern Muslim president in this era of Boko Haram insurgency. It will also open the APC to Northern Christian votes which might not be forthcoming otherwise. It must be pointed out that there are far more Christians in the North than many realise. Adamawa, Benue, Nassarawa, Plateau and Taraba all have majority Christian populations; while Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Kaduna, Kogi, Kwara and Niger have significant Christian populations.
For the APC to have even a look-in in the coming presidential elections against an entrenched PDP, it needs a fresh slate from the political has-beens of Atiku, Buhari and Kwankwaso that it is still currently touting as its presidential hopefuls today. To be truly progressive, the APC must not just talk progressivism, it must walk progressivism. A Northern Christian presidential candidate will definitely give political backbone to APC’s progressive pretensions; neutralising the damage done by its earlier suicidal plans for a Muslim/Muslim presidential ticket.
- See more at: http://www.vanguardngr.com/2014/09/northern-christian-presidential-candidate-apc/#sthash.7Eul31mK.dpuf

egift: This organization has always been an integral department of the PDP. They have gotten a front row since Jonathan came to power.

Hahahhahaha I died

So you mean they are PDP members

HonourablePomk: With the way you ranting here i guess you didn't read my post well enough to understand it...Buhari is not better neither is Jonathan best but this coming election choose wisely from your speech i guess you didn't know the kind of government Buhari was operating you need more of political education if you say GEJ is the the best to rule over this country

I will be as objective as I can because I work for no one, Gbawe among others works for APC while Nigeriavenom among others is PDP

So according

Buhari is not good

GEJ is not the best (but better true or false)

So who do you propose ?

Atiku

Sorry sir, we reject your Greek gift of selling APC to us. We know your antics but I will give you benefit of doubt here

If you truly want change then you can start to mention likes of Mimiko after all he is neither PDP or APC but already hates APC

Why is that sir ?

God bless yoruba people

barcanista: I am finding things funny... Many things are happening so fast...
1. Jonathan was made candidate of PDP
2. The Military suddenly had upperhand against the insurgents
3. Shekau was reportedly killed
4. The "negotiation" was said to be making progress
5. The Chibok girls are allegedly released

All in the space of 1 week!!!!! Something is fishy...

Meanwhile:
1 the Ayo weapon deal is being silenced
2. US has called for ihejirika's investigation
3. Sheriff has been indicted with. Calls for investigation.

It is either "the presidency" became too smart overnight or they are behind these things to score "cheap" political goal!!!

It really looks fishy to me as well. Not to lie

anonimi: I see that you are so excited that you forgot what you posted on another thread less than six hours ago today =>
So APC has been campaigning just as you allege that PDP has been doing.
APC = PDP = APC
Stop the HYPOCRISY, will you

Thank you o

honeric01: Truth indeed! supporter of APC indeed.

when you say, focus, what is focus to you?

Your truth to me sounds shaky and unbalance, your comments look unstable too.

so tell us in clear term what is true to you politically.

What is true is speaking the truth not by propaganda

Shoprite is NOT LASG job but a private investment

Lekki-epe express way is not LASG but private investment because if it is then we should not be paying toll gate on it

Ikoyi-Lekki bridge is not LASG but private investment because if it is then we should not be paying toll gate on it

All parks in Lagos state are not LASG but privately owned

I can go on and on

so stop lying that it is fashola's work rather it is a private job.

Stop the propaganda

ilugunboy: Oniro osi...

How much is Dosunmu paying you?

Looool I wish oh Make Dosunmu see say I dey work for them oh

On a real though we should stop this voting based on lies and propaganda

If APC drops GOS, I will support them but I know Tinubu wants Ambode (an ode) so its a no no for me.

Ahmeduana: GOD KNOWS THAT WHEN IT COMES TO SOCIAL MEDIA OR INTERNET WAR, apc IS AS DIRTY AS MY ANUS!

honeric01: Like you ain't one of them. see you trying to form neutral.

Hahaha, Looool me paid ? I wish I was at least that will be extra income for me

I was an APC supporter in fact a die hard fan which you know of. I speak the truth and was partisan towards apc because

1. It is ethnically aka I am Yoruba
2. They claim to follow Awolowo ideology which I am a follower of
3 they claim to be " change" which we true Nigerians crave for.

Now ACN turning to ApC has completely lost focus on what they stand for. They turned themselves in pride full power hunger hyenas that will do anything even kill ( Lagos) to get to power.

As a well meaning Nigerian, I cannot be part of such .

PDP APC are all made up of the same sets of people but APC added hypocrisy to theirs which you know.

I gain nothing if APC or PDP are in power. They can all go to hell for all I care but evil happen when good men fail to speak the truth.

Billyonaire: I am paid by the President himself. I cant work for anyone lower than a sitting President. If you are interested in promoting this great son of a fisherman, from the family of canoe makers. The man who has become symbol of hope to the children of the poor, from villages unheard-of, just send me an e-mail, and you will be inducted to the 40 Laptop Crew in preparation for 2015 defeat of APC.

Wow !!!!

feedthenation: Property plus unemployment is a bad combo for Nigerian youths.

No wonder our youths can't organise a simply revolution because the politicians have pocketed them.

Which means they can't make simple, intelligent discussion in the current political climate.

God bless you, this is why you will see an online moniker justify why a 71 yr old ex president is better than a 54 yr old civilian or how Tinubu is the best thing that has ever happened to democracy.

Likes of Donald Duke and Mimiko are insulted by these same people

calebo101: It's not surprising when some people sit down and tell you why a 70 years old politician is the best Nigeria can present[b][/b]. You simply know they have been paid.

You can imagine

Jmain: Lolz you mean Babapupa, Agbameta, mafiaman, plaindealer and recently aresa.

Don't forget berem, Gbawe , Ngene

All they do is promote APC, encourage Corruption and twist the truth to their favour.

Notice all their post is on the political section and its all about how good APC is and how bad PDP is.

In fact they were so good even I alj harem fell for their gimmick . Looool .

Nairalanders shine your eyes

"I usually use corruption and ethnicity to attack," he said.

This is the exact way these APC people attack by using ethnicity aka Yoruba to twist the minds of Nigerians

I was caught in their online hypnosis as I am a Yoruba man first ! But never again, I hope other Yorubas open their eyes before its too late.

moyinoluwabun: APC Tinubu declared Rig and Roast if election is rigged, election was eventually free, fair and credible. Now, PDP declared wrong judgement/bias judge and attack. We all know PDP knows how to Rig on election day while APC knows how to use court proceedings to manipulate. They better allow d sleeping dog lie else Fayose and team won't take simple with dem, d beast in dat guy may manifest if they push him to d wall.

Gbam

Smh for Nigerians

Anyway its way better than a autocratic party

Ngene ukwenu, gbawe, berem etc I hope your conscience troubles you as you deceive gullible Nigerians for your pay master

Please what business does tinubu own that afforded him 166 houses in Lagos apart from 20 in ikoyi alone.

Keep enjoying your brown envelopes . Evil youths.

Yomieluv: Yes from touts like him.

Abi o

Yes we do need to rescue Nigeria from People like you and likes of Bode George.

RebelLeader15: Do you reside in Ekiti state?

They don't.

They are children to APC leaders safely locked up in USA and Uk saying rubbish to Nairalanders

arsetalks: How come it is Fayose that is unleashing terror on a law court?

No worry, he nor go Tey again, una go hear am. Fayose = Thuggery.

So what does Jagaban mean in yoruba then

See Fayemi bribing people with rice and his wife disgracing Yorubas with stomach infrastructure. These APC people think we are fo..ols

kuderrich: don't mind dem jare,they tot they cud dictate things for us, they are bunch of fo*ols who can nt even win their unit nt to talk of ward.

Lol they think they are popular when we all know they use touts and rigging to intimidate us. Oluwa ti ju won lo.

We must fight for our collective right ! Whether Tinubu APC likes it or not !

DWJOBScom: [size=18pt]We gradually going back to Justice Salami era who took sides out of empathy to APC[/size].......

You truly understand. They don't want to the wish of we true yorubas to prevail !!!

imoleay0: Ani eranko ni e, Evil 11 is an elite branch of Ekiti aPc.

Aja ni won. Ika de ni won

egift: You mean your support for touts to intimidate the court of law

If it was in favour of APC, the same TANiods will be calling the same youths paid thugs, boko haram members, etc.

Support touts ? NO

Support Kangaroo court process like that of Ayo Salami ? YES !!!!!

seanet02: TAN mobiliser

How ?

Will late Gani Fawehinmi have allowed such ? Was it not the same man/group of people that chased Gani with thugs out of the court room

Will Late Obafemi Awolowo have allowed such ? Was it not the same man/group of people that insult his legacy and family name.

I can go on and on. I benefit nothing from either parties but the truth will always be there for us to see.