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No, I'm talking about the population and why the north looks empty.. I was replying the other op

Ttipsy:
so your trying to say, , development and infrastructure are based on politics and size of a state?? as u said Niger state is bigger than south East.

do you have sense at all

Lol. Calm down bro, I see ur getting all emotional with the insults!
There is no time nor place that I have ever indicated or claimed that the Christian majority MB (Benue and Platue) states as part of us(core north), in fact I go through a great length in explaining to my ignorant southern friends who try to sum us all together, that not jus cuz these states are in the north that means we automatically share things in common.. I always let them know that we are two different entities

Are you naturally dumb and stupid! Pls trying to understand before you reply.. I said "significant number of Muslims voted for PDP in SK", of course that won't be enough for them to win a LG as minority

Kaduna and Adamawa state can never be under ur permutation and influence, continue deceiving urself with imaginary tales.. both states have always aligned with the core north with Muslim governors

lol. nobody is dragging Benue and Platue with you, ur suffering from grandeur of delusion.. what's special about those states!! are they more developed than kano, Kaduna, sokoto etc or do they have more IGR??

Keep shouting Almajiri for all I care.. the same almajiri that made u second class citizens in ur own region, the same Almajiri that dictates politics and is governing you, or the same Almajiri that are constantly raping and impregnating ur women, or the same Almajiri that has prevent ur able men from farming

Nowenuse:
Just like I told your almajiri brother above.

My only word for you is to leave Northern christians and middlebelters out of your stupid permutations.
Speak for Hausa fulani & Kanuri people or Northern muslims alone. Never you drag us into your madness cos we are not part of it.

We know our areas that we dominate and we will never allow any idîot to misrepresent us and speak for us.

Only foolish people will come out to say muslims in Kaduna voted for GEJ in large numbers.
Tell them to bring out the breakdown of results LG by LG and you see that PDP never won any Hausa-fulani dominated LGA.

For the last time, any almajiri making any permutation should count only Hausa fulani places like Zaria (northern Kaduna), Katsina, Kano, Zamfara or Jigawa.
Never bring in places like Taraba, Plateau, Nasarawa, Adamawa, Southern Kaduna e.t.c in your stupid permutations.

I'm sure there are a lot of road constructions across the south, these are the ones that are currently uploaded in their page.. I'm sure those from the south will be uploaded soon

StaffofOrayan:
The biggest problem of the South has always been it's useless leaders.
They are no world class federal roads in the south even though we have spent more time in government, as soon as money is released it is immediately swallowed up.

Ask Atiku

madmohamed:
I want to see the south east

Hahahah you said "Hausa fulanis & Kanuris (core northerners) will hardly vote any person who is not a northern muslim unless of course there is no alternative.", which is obviously a lie, so I had to contradict and expose you.. that's why I brought my evidence of Abiola as case study, these are exactly ur words not mine

And then I revealed, uncover and exposed ur hypocrisy in overlooking, turning a blind eye and condoning that fact that the SS/SE never voted for a northern Muslim, but chose to be fixated on the north

you problem is insecurity and inferiority complex, you think u can twist and fabricate facts without anyone challenging you so you can deceive the ignorant south thinking you minority have any influence in the north .. that's why I followed you, non four lies, concoction, fabrication and interpolation will escape me without a rebuttal

Nowenuse:
Suit yourself with your stupid permutations.

I only responded to this thread made by jumper524 because he was making a very big error and mistake to count the votes of Northern christians in 2011 to symbolize a Northern support for a Southern candidate.

He must differentiate between Northern muslims & Northern christians and between Core-northernerns and Middlebelters.

People like us will never allow any nincompoôp or Scallÿwag misrepresent our votes and attribute them to the illiterate and poverty stricken core-north.

Thank you very much.

Hahahaha nyamuri flat.head, ur paltry education should have told you that Niger state alone is twice(2) the seize of the whole SE region! That means you can fit the whole population of SE in Niger state alone and still have space for those in diaspora

SW have gotten a fair share of development too beyond what the north has gotten too e.g railway, roads, investments, wagon assembly plant... that is the essence of playing politics with wisdom, sagacity and insight

While u guys shall continue queuing with ur family for hours for a litre of kerosene.. shebi una no get sense you most get it by force.. I hope u vote PDP again in 2023 presidential election

ikpuchinonye1994:
Some how scantily north is looking like a desert and they still claim to be most populated..seriously, the south is really being cheated..And the fact still remains that most of these roads should have been constructed in the south where there is economic activities going on instead of the North.. The south needs this thing more, after all, the money comes from the south.

I don't care what era it was, I brought out facts and evidence to contradict ur lie and desperation to spread falsehood!!

Yes, Buhari won Benue state, but that's only because almost every state was jumping on the Buhari bandwagon of change mantra.. that's doesn't mean they often align with the core north in their voting pattern

Nowenuse:
The Abiola kind of politics era has long gone.
That was the time Nigerians did not so much care about your religion or ethnicity but rather your credibility. Abiola's ticket was a muslim muslim ticket, who complained then? That era has gone.

Buhari won Benue state in 2015. So you are very wrong.

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Federal ministry of works and house have started with their usual update of road construction across the nation after going for a break because of the presidential election

#FG@Work... On going nationwide road maintenance Programme: North West Wudil-Utai-Achika-Darki-Jagaware Road in Kano State

Your wrong to say "core northerners will hardly vote any person who is not northern muslim", we voted for Abiola against our son

MB state(Benue and platue) and SE/SS have never voted for a Muslim presidential candidate unless there was no alternative too, so I wonder what's ur point!

All I see is you being a two-face hypocrite, who tactically absorb and condone ur voting pattern but castigating the core north for that same issue

Nowenuse:
May I ask where you are from first of all?

Are you aware that apart from Sokoto where the incumbent governor was a PDP supporter at that time, all the states you are listing above are mostly middlebelt states and states with a huge christian population who voted GEJ?

Most of the votes you see from those states above were given to GEJ by Northern christians. Otherwise ask yourself why GEJ did not win in any core-northern states in 2011.

Hausa fulanis & Kanuris (core northerners) will hardly vote any person who is not a northern muslim unless of course there is no alternative.

Northern christians and minorities are the ones who can vote a Southerner without thinking twice.
However, we will not vote for Tinubu. Maybe Osibanjo or Fashola yes.

Tinubu might loss Adamawa state because of Atiku indigenous factor, just like how Buhari lost it

Please don't ever put Kaduna state into ur calculation, unless u want to keep sounding dumb and delusional.. it's a majority hausa/fulani state and have always voted same pattern with the core north

Your talking about "frustration middle belt" like you have any numbers and influence to do that!! Lol you most be hallucinating.. You have never been in a position to outnumber or outsmart the core north politically, so the thought of frustrating doesn't even arise, i know ur desperately trying to impress the ignorant south

Kogi, kwarra, Niger and maybe Nassrawa have always gone with the core north.. I definitely don't see Tinubu lossing any of those states

See how ur confidently dashing out trash, feeling funky and cocksuee.. one would have thought u know what ur saying until he/she goes through ur profile, in how u got all ur permutations wrong

Nowenuse:
Thank you very much.
And people like us will do everything within our power to frustrate people from the middlebelt voting someone like Tinubu.

Though, Ebira & Igala (Kogi) people may vote Tinubu.
Niger people vote together with Hausa fulanis. Tinubu will get Kwara too. However, he should forget the other middlebelt states and Taraba, Adamawa, Kaduna e.t.c

I'm starting to think that their flat.head actually has an effect in the way they think

BlackCrainte:
Atiku will buy it again then.

The flat headed dwarfs that have served PDP all their life's will never challenge that. Hate cant make them rethink.

We northerners will vote for Tinubu, Osinbajo or any individual that comes out of that camp.. You have nothing to worry about

But anything nyamuri is DOA!

Sharrap!! Nyamurai second class citizen, even "minority" seat dey hard u for PDP .. ur in the least of position to indicate who becomes president

I'm a northerner, if Tinubu or Osinbajo contest against Atiku, I'm voting for Tinubu!!

Eartquake1:
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Zombie see how the northerners are playing with your brain

The same Buhari that is wiping the floor with Osibanjo?

Coming from an nyamuri flat.head who queued for hours with his family for a litre of kerosene

ChoCho54:
I stopped reading when I read "northerners are rational"!!

Buhahahahahahaha

People know them for what they are now, nobody takes them serious anymore!! Bunch of pathetic cheat-beaters noise makers.. They are only good for social media publicity

QuotaSystem:
This old man should be wise enough to know Igbo threats & blackmail in Nigeria are expired, obsolete, totally useless & ineffectual.

The SE will either earn the presidency or continue to stew in political irrelevance.

Kiss the truth

Nyamuri flat.heads with threats and chest-beating again.. what didn't we hear with "no leferendum no erection"!!

You guys have been making noise since the inception of Nigeria with no action to back it up.. ur in no position or strength to threaten the country at all!!

Nsonso:
There won't be any need for that. When everyone is on the same boat, it will just be a matter of time. So, keep your weakling soldiers in the North for Bokoharam to continue their shooting practice.

• Southeast Stuck With Atiku, Restructuring

It is not known whether the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) would undertake a post-mortem on its outing in the last general elections. But already, the general impression among the chieftains is that it went into the election without a field marshal.

One of the founding fathers of the party confided in The Guardian that what happened to PDP in December 10, 2017, contributed “immeasurably to the unexciting performance” of the party in the last election, especially the presidential contest.

The source, a member of the PDP Board of Trustees, explained that the election of Prince Uche Secondus as the national chairman at the revival national convention at the Eagle Square, Abuja, showed how far the former ruling party had degenerated.

Listing the names and pedigrees of former national chairmen of the party from inception, particularly late Dr. Alex Ekwueme and Solomon Lar, the BoT member lamented that the national chairman was selected more out of narrow political considerations of some governors than the strategic interest of the party.

He argued that when compared to the chairmen of the former opposition All Progressives Congress (APC), especially Chief Bisi Akande and Chief John Odigie-Oyegun, the PDP chairman presented in carriage and comportment as an aide, rather than the chief executive of a major national political party.

The source asserted that it was a combination of two factors, including need to move the party after a prolonged leadership contest between Senator Ali Modu Sheriff and Senator Ahmed Makarfi’s Caretaker Committee, as well as the urgency to ready the platform for the 2019 presidential election that “forced most stakeholders to swallow the flawed process” that threw up Secondus as national chairman.

Although Secondus was elected national chairman after polling 2, 000 out of 2, 396 votes cast during the elective convention, his emergence was shrouded in intrigues and horse-trading, especially the politics of micro-zoning to the Southwest that preceded the convention.

From the accounts of the PDP BoT member, it could be deduced that the party seems to be enjoying uneasy peace currently. To make matters more challenging, unlike when the party did not have a rallying core in its leadership, the fact that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar contested the 2019 presidential election, has placed him at the pivot of the party’s leadership.

Add to that the perceived split between the national chairman and his state governor, Nyesom Wike, who pulled all the strings, including rallying other state governors to adopt Secondus as consensus choice.

It would be recalled that based on the tardiness of the withdrawal process by some aspirants during the national convention, there were calls on the Makarfi committee to hand over to the BoT.

Prior to his decision to walk out of the convention, one of the aspirants, Prof. Tunde Adeniran, in a statement by his Director of Media and Publicity, Taiwo Akeju, rejected the electoral process, alleging that it was predetermined and compromised through a so-called ‘Unity List’ prepared by Governor Wike and Ayo Fayose.

Adeniran expected to be the beneficiary of the belated consensus arrangement made by some aspirants from Southwest, including former Deputy National Chairman, Chief Bode George; Gbenga Daniel; Rasheed Ladoja and Jimi Agbaje.

The Southwest felt shortchanged by the insistence of the PDP governors on Secondus, despite Fayose’s charge to “losers to take their loss in good faith.”

2023 And Spectre Of Zoning
WITH the recent apex court ruling that refused to upturn President Muhammadu Buhari’s election in favour of PDP and its presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, the party seems to be walking in the shadows of another zoning controversy.

Some party faithful had observed that the PDP and Atiku would have performed better in Southwest if only the presidential running mate was selected from the zone, not only to atone for the misgivings of the December 9, 2017, elective national convention but also give the stakeholders the currency to canvass for votes.

By 2021, PDP should be going for another national convention. That exercise would most likely give indicators as to how the mind of the party leadership is working concerning zoning of the presidency.

Against the backdrop of insinuations that the party was planning to retain the zoning format that paired Alhaji Atiku Abubakar from Northeast and Mr. Peter Obi from the Southeast on the 2019 Presidential ballot, PDP National Publicity Secretary, Kola Ologbondiyan, said no such plan has been mooted.

He said: “For the avoidance of doubt, our party is yet to discuss the 2023 presidential election, overtly or covertly, at any time whatsoever. If anything, the PDP is currently working with Nigerians on how to win the elections in Kogi and Bayelsa states and will not be distracted by individuals who found themselves operating in the highest offices of the land, but failing in governance.”

The party’s denunciation followed the discovery that certain elements in the ruling party that are opposed to powershift to the South decided to fly the kite that PDP was divided on the issue.

Elder statesman, Alhaji Tanko Yakassai told The Guardian that while it would be inappropriate for the ruling party to select its candidate from the North after President Buhari, people should not lose sight of the fact that political parties are wont to choose candidates that would help them win an election.

Yakassai contended that circumstances that predisposed the last military administration to ensure that Southwest produced the President in 1999 are no longer obtainable, stressing that being a democratic dispensation, debates and concessions play great roles.

Gauging from the current situation of PDP, the predominant opinion of stakeholders in Southeast is that the Atiku/Obi ticket should be represented.

A former Southeast governor who did not want his name in print said despite the ambivalent posturing of incumbent governors in the zone, Obi remains a better alternative, adding that retaining the Atiku/Obi combination is the safest way to avert the infighting that could divide the party if the presidency was zoned to Southeast.

Already, perhaps in a bid to quash the Atiku/Obi arrangement, some of the second term governors are said to be scheming to serve as running mate to any other presidential candidate from the north.

And this posturing has given the pervading impression that the Southeast was not ready for the 2023 Presidency, even as other stakeholders in the zone believe that the country’s current structure would not enable a Nigerian President from Southeast extraction to exercise authority.

A former Senate President, Adolphous Wabara, has also aligned himself with the sentiment that 2023 was not ample time for Southeast to aspire for the nation’s top job.

Short of admitting that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar reserves the right of first refusal when the considerations for the zoning of PDP’s presidential candidate would come up in 2023, Wabara argued that being ill-prepared, Southeast lacks the basis to engineer negotiations for the Presidency.

He stated: “As a matter of fact, we have been given our permanent place and limits in our country called Nigeria. However, Nd’Igbo believes that a wise patient dog eats the fattest bone because this too shall pass.”

The Strutting North
The odds seem to be stacked in favour of PDP more than the ruling party. Despite the grandstanding by some APC chieftains, especially Governor Nasir el Rufai, there is a growing perception in the north that leaving the Presidency in the zone after President Buhari’s eight years would amount to a third term.

However, some Presidency cabals fault el Rufai in his quest to succeed Buhari, saying that the Northeast should be considered in the spirit of equity and fairness.

Some in the Northeast APC are disposed to having the Presidency zoned to the South, particularly the Southwest. Although the immediate past Governor of Bauchi State, Barrister Mohammed Abubakar, denied that he was being groomed for the Presidency, the immediate past Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF), Babachir Lawal, said it would be in the interest of APC to zone the 2023 Presidency to Southwest, adding that former Lagos State governor, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, would make a good President.

Yet, while the likes of the former SGF and Adamawa State APC organising secretary, Ahmad Lawan, root for zoning to Southwest, some former governors, particularly, Senators Danjuma Goje, Ibrahim Gaidam, and Kashim Shettima, are said to be interested.

Prior to the nomination of the former Vice President as PDP standard-bearer at the Port Harcourt convention, after Senator Makarfi was persuaded to mellow his ambition, former Governors Sule Lamido, and Attahiru Bafarawa, Ibrahim Dankwambo and Governor Aminu Tambuwal, were the other prominent presidential aspirants from the core north.

None of the above politicians, except Alhaji Bafarawa, has disclosed that he would no longer seek elective office.

Although sources said APC plans to delay the selection of its Presidential candidate in 2022 to see how PDP solves its own puzzle, the idea of retaining the Atiku/Obi ticket sounds a plausible option.

That option depends on how far presidential aspirants from Northwest are persuaded to bury their ambitions and the possibility that no other candidate with proven capacity would arise from the northeast to challenge Atiku.

On paper, the calculation favours the Atiku/Obi ticket, but the snag is the insinuation that the Buhari Presidency could prop up a candidate from the Southeast with a view to breaking the zone.

In the event of such a scenario, the challenge would be whether the Southeast could retain the bloc vote for Atiku/Obi or align with the federal might available to the prospective APC flagbearer from the zone.

It would then boil down to a vote between Igbo presidency and restructuring, which the Atiku/Obi option represents. As the variables would keep changing in the next three years, all options, as Americans would say, remain on the table.

https://guardian.ng/politics/2023-concerns-as-pdp-negotiates-another-rocky-bend/amp/?utm_medium=Social&echobox=twitter_post&utm_source=Twitter&__twitter_impression=true

No room for nyamuri flat.heads

Mokason28:
90% Aboki
Congratulations

Bros I rather vote shekrau as president than any nyamuri flat.head

Lol its unfortunate, that's the reality of things in this country we live in

deji17:
Naija and connection. When will this stop? I heard some people get things on merit in the same country though.

It's connection

deji17:
Oh I see. Your bro is connected then? Or he gets it by merit?

Has construction started yet?

QuotaSystem:
Date not announced yet as they just commenced the construction stage. Most likely before this tenure runs out to prevent political interference due to the fact it's located in Daura.

My bro is part of those studying in China, do he wants to know

deji17:
Are you planning to enroll?