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Mobilized people.

Lagos State security votes plus bolidoun money can do alot

But majority unmobilzed voters know who they will vote

These are the kind of charlatans that represents apc!

Which other way will he make APC win if not by violence.

What that nonsense he and his boys did at osun

He doesn't know that the collective will of the majority can subdue any slowpoke that thinks violence can win.

My best is SAY ATIKULATE

That songs gives me goosebumps!

A Thread for Zombies to console themselves from the obvious defeat that is coming up!

Take heart bros you loose today and can still win another time.

They listed all enugu state APC members in the campaign committees.

So in all buhari will get about 1000 votes in the whole of enugu! He try sha

Baba has spoken

Op what campaign is more important for atiku than going to the US to finally kill the propaganda APC having riding on.

No state rally can measure up to what atiku gained from that trip.

id911:

He is coming through a chartered jet. He still has some other engagement in the US but he doesn't want to miss the debate so Nigerians won't crucify him. Besides the average flight time from Washington DC to Lagos or Abuja should be about 11 to 12 hours, if I'm not mistaken. Atiku already left Washington DC this morning before 5 am

Atiku has his own private jet and that is what he uses for his foreign and local travels.

Speed and time is not a problem, before 5pm today he should be in Nigeria

He said: “his trip is about engaging partners because he wants to hit the ground running without wasting unnecessary time.”

This last paragraph tells you the people that are serious about leadership

Not some fellows that came in without a plan, took six months to get a cabinet, took 3 yrs to blame the predecessor govt and in the last yr of its tenure started running around like a chicken with out a head to form that it is working.

Wasting our precious four yrs which we should have used to play catch up with far gone nations.

Shawnnn01:
Another foolish thread by foolish tribe of Nigeria. When the FG constructed a university in Ife what was Nnamdi Azikiwe thinking by appointing a pathetic Igbo as it’s VC ?

How many Yoruba did you see opening thread on NL asking if Nigeria can be one ?

When another hopeless Igbo killed the elected prime minister and dragged his lifeless body on the stress of Lagos how many Hausa opened thread querying if Nigeria can truly be one ?

When another foolish set of Igbo slaughtered the premiers of Western and Northern region how many Yoruba / Hausa came to open thread on NL ?
Why do you foolish Biafrans think only you have the right to eat your cake and still have it ? Have you people gone mad for God sake ? What is your problem ?

Rabbid Dog see as you are oozing of tribalism!

Compare and Contrast in Buhari/APC stronghold!

ORIENTATION101:
Another backyard campaign .
Bauchi 25 000 capacity stadium is filled to brim. Pdp should try and use stadiums too
Instead of packing 500 people inside mosque compound

Dude this campaign is local government to local government and each of their venue is filled to the brim.

Bauchi rally is for the whole state if not north east.

And you know kwankwaso can effortlessly fill sani abacha stadium to the rooftops.

post=74687755:
Hahahaha, we shock o!
INEC has 68 parties OFFICIALLY now tho...... seriously!

Officially 91 parties

post=74674223:
Sure, that is so true.
We were just messing around with that tho.
Don't take it too serious.
We pray he finds an helper ASAP.
Case Closed!

And you can't be that helper!?

With this news PDP no longer have any single faction group working against the national leadership anywere in the country unlike the other party that have factions everywhere(ogun kwara Rivers Delta Imo zamfara)

And they say PDP is the dying party

Kashamu has thousands of supporters in ogun and this means more votes for Atiku!

E don dey Red!

VP Osinbajo was booed in a market where he went for thrift business call trader moni, and the chant of PDP, Sai Atiku filled the air.

Do watch


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FzJE727jiJk

DonFreshmoney:
So about 19 kogi youth in the picture is enmasse to you OP..

When will you receive sense? Ehn

Better captioned 19 very hungry youths!

Its becoming undeniable clearer by the day that buhari will go back to daura after May 29 2019 and will be remembered as one of those president that wasted our time.

Atiku should deeply think over this and know Nigerians won't reward even an average performance....If he doesn't raise the performance bar very high,what happened to Jonathan and now buhari will come knocking

Am expecting his cabinet list to be full of world class technocrats and to kick off ASAP....we have wasted lots of time as a nation

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Brillant Piece from a sofisticated Non tribal Nigerian

Its like the writer is totally reading Atiku/Obi minds,

From what i have know about them this is how they actually want to govern Nigeria.

Their Administration will have less rancor and bitterness between citizens like the one we are currently having, from their style of leadership there will be less tension and enmity in the country, Atiku is like someone that will show up in APC convention while as a PDP President show just to show support/love

The US against THEM mentality APC is currently promoting is really hindering development in this country.

By ‘Wale Oluwade

In my article last week, I endorsed the Atiku/Obi PDP presidential ticket and gave my reasons. I mentioned why I believe they are best for the job at this material time. I listed the strengths and weaknesses of both of them and why it was a critical necessity they manage adroitly their character and personality differences for the good of the nation. Now, this piece is about suggestions on a feasible and necessary governance agenda for the duo.



General Guide to Political Governance



For a start, the office of president is way beyond being a policy wonk or technocratic guru. This is where many in the race get it wrong. The office and the occupier need much more than capacity for numbers and statistics. The number one skill required is an abundance of emotional intelligence. Successful politicians the world over possess this. The ability to connect and communicate with the different strata of a multi-complex society, and to empathize almost reflexively. The capacity to assemble superior teams of strong individuals, to think strategically, to rigorously deliver on promises, the courage to take risks and make audacious decisions, to compromise and relentlessly forge win-win relationships. To succeed in a modern democracy you need the foregoing skills without which failure is definite.

The above is the role assigned to Atiku Abubakar. He is a consummate politician, perhaps, the best there is currently. He brings to the ticket the capacity to be a unifier, healer and father figure to a badly divided, polarized and hurting nation. He should use the bully pulpit of the presidency to bring every disparate views, ethnicity, religion and ideology together. He should communicate regularly as he did at the Port Harcourt convention victory speech, when he spoke extempore and connected even with hitherto implacable foes. Atiku is the master-politician; let him do the political business with the NASS and other critical non state actors whose buy in are essential for peace and order needed for growth and development.



An Agenda for the VP



Some more specific responsibilities assigned to the Vice-President in the 1999 Constitution includes being the agent of the President in his exercise of the executive powers conferred on him by the Constitution; (section 5(1)(a)) responsibility for any business of the Government of the Federation, including the administration of any department of government previously assigned to him by the President; 148(1) presiding over the meeting of the National Economic Council (NEC); to be the Deputy Chairman of the following Federal Councils established by section 153 of the 1999 Constitution, namely; the Council of State, the National Defence Council and the National Security Council. This office is not merely ceremonial as imagined, for in the Umaru Yar ‘Adua debacle, the VP had to assume Acting Presidential role, and on more than three occasions under the current administration, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo has had to step in as Acting President also.

Importantly, the VP can only be effective to the extent that the President allows him/her to be. This is why I wrote last week of the necessity that these two develop mutual trust and confidence between each other. Critically, this mutual understanding must be hinged on the foundation that national interest at all times will override all other considerations in their governance activities. Essentially, I pray and hope Atiku if elected will allow his vice, superintend and accomplish the following tasks;

*I hope Atiku Abubakar as President will allow Peter Obi confront the historic injustices in our public service where elected officials live like lords while the rest citizens resort to feeding from the dustbins. Government officials at all levels, but especially at federal and state governments, must realize that they are called to serve the nation and not milk it to death. The wasteful expenditure incurred in needless foreign travels, attending useless and meaningless meetings, conferences and seminars must stop now! The purchase of new automobiles, equipment and other items, in every budget cycle while the old still serves the purpose, must stop forthwith. The benefits and allowances paid to a few workers at the NNPC, CBN, PENCOM, NCC, NAICOM, BPE, NPA, NIMASA, SEC, PTDF and PPPRA is ungodly, unjust, iniquitous and corrupt. This has to stop immediately. Nigeria cannot be borrowing to sustain the obscene lifestyles of a tiny elite while the rest live in penury.

*I hope Atiku will allow Peter Obi confront our opaque, corrupt and inefficient public procurement system designed to fail and which is rigged against the interest of Nigeria. I hope he is allowed to engage with the NASS and cause them to see the need to reduce their gluttony and penchant for corruption and grand theft of our corporate wealth. I hope he will be allowed to preach to them the necessity to tame their bloated and unbridled sense of personal entitlement. I hope he educates state governors on the art of serious governance and not frivolities and demolition of opponent’s houses. The massive hemorrhaging of the economy due to the insatiable appetites of a tiny cabal ensconced in our public service at both federal and state tiers of government must stop now.

* I hope the VP will be allowed to have direct oversight over the key revenue generating government owned enterprises; FIRS, NPA, NCS, NNPC, SEC, CBN, PPPRA, NAICOM, and PENCOM. This is to ensure that all revenues are dutifully accounted for, that proper and up-to-date accounts and audit of management activities in these are maintained, that operational efficiency of these are established in line with their strategic objectives, that embedded wastes and corruption are eliminated or reduced substantially, and critically, to deliberately build up our Sovereign Wealth Fund to not less than $200 billion in four years.

*I pray too that Peter Obi will learn to be more flexible and stoop to conquer in certain instances. Abuja is different from rural Anambra. The powers, principalities and wickedness in ‘high places’ in Abuja are not those kindergarten demons in Anambra (Chris Uba & Co) you easily steamrolled. The Abuja powers and principalities are stark illiterates and very mean. If you don’t believe me, ask Reuben Abati. He once wrote an interesting piece awhile back titled; ‘The Spiritual Side of Aso Villa’. It’s a hilarious piece, but full of vital lessons for the uninitiated in the potency and deviousness of the dark forces at work in the city where essentially the wealth of the nation is daily shared by enemies of state. Many derided Reuben for the article, but not me. I believe him.

Personal Agenda for the ‘President-to-be’

Now, let me offer free consultancy to HE Atiku Abubakar:

*Don’t commit any unforced errors. Nigerians are not voting for you because we think or believe you’re a saint, but rather that you’ll put in a capable shift in office. Whatever mud and vitriol the opposition hurls at you, as much as possible, maintain calmness and composure. Let your handlers deal with it while you keep your eyes firmly on the ball. We know you and we know them too.

*Don’t make unnecessary promises. Keep it simple; (i) Re-structure our governance model. (ii) Eradicate unemployment (iii) Restore security (iv) Diversify the economy (v) And slay the dragons of ungodly cost of governance.

*You need every vote. Don’t commit the strategic blunder of Hilary Clinton in the 2016 US Presidential elections. There are a small group of electorates who will vote on the basis of what they think you can deliver, don’t alienate them. Every ballot counts.

*Don’t be Petroleum Minister. The Yorubas say if they call someone a thief, he shouldn’t be seen playing with his neighbor’s goat. It’s a great thing you already promised to privatize the ‘Secret Society’ called NNPC; please hurry and do so.

*Keep your children far from your presidency. Those burly looking and mustachioed hunks following you around should go and find work to do elsewhere.

*Give all your ministers smart goals and demand accountability from them. Commit them to clear performance management standards. Don’t hesitate to show any of them the way out for non-performance. And promptly make example of them when they break the laws. Same applies to all heads of strategic parastatals.

*No imperial presidency. Nigeria cannot afford it. Reduce substantially, your personal aides, motorcade and presidential air fleet. This is leading by example.

*Do not make excuses for criminals; whether terrorists or herdsmen. Be they kidnappers,armed robbers, looters, or gangsters; be brutal and decisive in dealing with them all.

If you can do these, you would have written your names in gold and ensure your place in the credit side of history. You don’t need to pay me Wazirin. This is a patriotic duty to my fatherland.

This writer can be reached at @WaleOluwade

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/01/04/making-the-role-for-atiku-obi-clearer/

TrueLEADER:
Here they are for me:

1. From the beginning to the very end of his career, as well as his exposure as the VP of this great country, Atiku has demonstrated beyond words or malice that he's a detribalized, all-embrasing and a people person. He has never been known to entertain nepotism, he's rather created strong relationship with every parts of this country and never religious-centric or an ethnic jingoist.

2. He has this personal crave for quality. He would rather bring in a very knowledgeable and expert to handle relevant project than submit it to family and friends. We all saw that happen when he was VP, that was the only and last time we saw new faces and young individuals appointed as ministers. Very competent non-politicians Manning relevant position in government. And if we dive into his business aspects, he has demonstrated that he would rather hand his business to people with capacities and competencies, than to his family and friend. He has zero tolerance for nepotism.

These two traits are all we need. The implications of which are that Once the president unify this nation, without 97% and 5% narrative, knowing that whether they voted for him or not, he's the president of all, then love can being to show the way. Secondly, our economy is bad because people like Adeosun, who lack knowledge of complex economy as ours, was foisted on us. Once competent hands are saddle with the appropriate offices, in no distance time, we will be on the bright side economically.

Brilliant! This sums it up.

senatordave1:
Has pdp ever won jigawa? You haven't heard that index will use incidence forms?

Jigawa has been PDP governed state since 1999,

Apc only temporarily took over last election.

If PDP vehemently resist apc obvious rigging plans....this election is for their taking.

Jonathan didn't have 1/4 of this northern support atiku/pdp is having and only lost by 2 million.

Imagine now with the widespread resentment the populace have against buhari govt(forget the noise of irredeemable buharideens).

If I can suggest, PDP should ask for a volunteer force of 50 voters per polling unit who will aggressively monitor and defend each polling unit then PDP leaders should monitor the transmission of the result at high level.

PDP should keep shaking both the Govt, inec,security agencies with all manner of allegations and outcries, it will unsettle the APC rigging plans and derail their plans.

And someone in all honesty is telling me APC doesn't having a massive rigging plan

The IG is supposed to retire today but buhari won't retire him because he has election duties to perform for him.....service chiefs who are due for retirement since last year coupled with their lacklustre performance of the Nigeria security situation are still in their offices.

Buhari refused to sign the new electoral act and now inec is completing the rigging plan with incidence forms.


And buhari thinks God doesn't intervane and works in a mysterious way when evil is being done.

Releases guidelines on Monday


As part of its strategic plan of action for the general elections starting on February 16, the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) will on Monday release its revised guidelines and voter register to the nation’s 91 political parties.

The commission’s National Commissioner and Chairman, Voter Education and Publicity, Mr. Festus Okoye, confirmed to THISDAY Wednesday that the revised guidelines were ready and would be unveiled for the consideration of the political parties next week.


“We are going to officially release voter register to the political parties on Monday and we are also going to use the opportunity to hand over guidelines and regulations for the conduct of elections to them,” he said in an interview with THISDAY.

THISDAY had obtained a copy of the guidelines from a reliable source last Tuesday. The rules, among others, retains the use of smart card reader and the controversial incidence form.

The Electoral Act Amendment Bill 2018, which was vetoed four times by President Muhammadu Buhari, had sought to extensively reform the electoral process by incorporating mandatory use of smart card reader to the exclusion of incidence form as the mode of accreditation of voters.


The amendment bill also sought to clean up the results collation process, providing for electronic transmission of results from polling units to collation centres.

Following the presidential veto and expression of disappointment by opposition parties INEC National Chairman, Prof. Mahmood Yakubu, had contended that the extant law was sufficient to guarantee a transparent electoral regime, stating that whatever further reforms were needed to straighten out the process would be accommodated by the revised guidelines.

The revised rules obtained by THISDAY, left the opposition parties with little to cheer about as it retained the main features of the guidelines used to regulate the 2015 elections.


The electoral body stated categorically that the regulations and guidelines supersede all other regulations or guidelines on the conduct of elections issued by the commission and shall remain in force until replaced by new regulations or amendments supported by a Decision Extract of the Commission or an official gazette.

It said, “The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) herein referred to as “the Commission” issues the following Regulations and Guidelines for the conduct of Elections (general elections, by-elections, re-run elections and supplementary elections). These regulations and guidelines are issued as a Decision Extract of the Commission of the 21st day of the month of December 2018.”

The regulations and guidelines, it said, would apply to the conduct of elections to the office of the President and Vice President; Governor and Deputy Governor; National Assembly (Senate and House of Representatives); State Houses of Assembly; Chairmen and Vice – Chairmen of FCT Area Councils; and Councillors of FCT Area Councils legislatures.

The electoral umpire said that voting in any election to which the regulations and guidelines apply would take place at polling units and voting points.


It added that in the case of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), voting would take place at Polling Units (PU), Voting Points and Voting Point Settlements (VPS).

INEC explained that Voting Points (VPs) are created out of Polling Units based on multiples of 500 and a maximum of 750 registered voters or as may otherwise be determined by the commission.

It also noted that Voting Point Settlement (VPS) might be created by the commission to facilitate access to voters in new settlements not currently served by a PU, stressing that where a VPS is created, it shall be treated as a Polling Unit.

On accreditation of voters on election day, INEC states in Clause 8(b) that; “No person shall be allowed to vote at any Polling Unit/Voting Point Settlement/ Voting Point other than the one at which he/her name appears in the Register of Voters and he/she presents his/her permanent voter card to be verified by the Smart Card Reader, or as otherwise determined by the commission.

It stated further, “10(a) In accordance with Section 49 (2) of the Electoral Act, a person intending to vote shall be verified to be the same person on the Register of Voters by use of the Smart Card Reader (SCR) in the manner prescribed in these regulations and guidelines.”

It warned, “Any poll official who violates the provision of Clause 10 (a) shall be deemed to be guilty of an offense and shall be liable to prosecution,” adding, “The accreditation process shall comprise reading of the Permanent Voter Card (PVC) and authentication of the voter’s fingerprint using the Smart Card Reader; checking of the Register of Voters and inking of the cuticle of the specified finger of the voter.”

The guidelines in Clause 11(b) retains the use of incidence form, stating, “Where a voter’s PVC is read but his/her fingerprint is not authenticated, the APO I shall refer the voter to the APO II who shall: (i) request the voter to thumbprint the appropriate box in the Register of Voters; (ii) request the voter to provide his/her phone number in the appropriate box in the Register of Voters; (iii) continue with the accreditation of the voter; and (iv) refer the voter to the PO or APO (VP) for issuance of ballot paper (s).”

It added, “Where a voter’s PVC is read but the name of the voter is not on the Register of Voters, APO I shall refer the voter to the PO or APO (VP) who shall issue a Tendered Ballot (TB) to the voter.”

It said, “In the event that the PVC fails to be read by the Smart Card Reader, the APO I shall refer the voter to the Presiding officer or APO (VP) as the case may be, who shall request the voter: (i) To thumbprint in the appropriate box in the Register of Voters; (ii) Provide his/her phone number in appropriate box on the Register of Voters if available; and (iii) Thereafter refer the voter to the PO for the issuance of Tendered Ballot.”

The guidelines also made provision for possible failure of the Smart Card Reader, stating in Clause 13(a) that, if it fails a replacement has to be procured, and where that is not achieved by 2p.m, polling would have to be postponed till the next day for a functional card reader to be provided.

On the use of Cell phone on election day and as part of effort aimed at curbing vote buying, INEC in Clause 11A(iv) said that the polling officer would request the voter to remove his/her cell phone or any photographic device before proceeding to voting cubicle.

INEC also made it clear in the regulations and guidelines that a Polling Agent who aids and abets election malpractices at a Polling Unit or Collation Centre would be disqualified and on the instruction of the Poll Official/Collation Official would be removed from the Polling Unit/Collation Centre and shall be liable to prosecution



https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2019/01/03/inec-retains-smart-card-reader-incidence-form/amp

South easterns should not be cowed with this APC igbo presidency blackmail.

Since they feel atiku candidacy is better interlectually and will do a better job they should go ahead and vote for their choice.

If by majority vote in a free and fair election buhari wins, we will congratulate him and his voters and move on with our businesses and then have zero expectations/ entitlement from his govt....Igbos from history are capable of doing that.

If he decides to do infrastructure in south east or appoint igbos in his new administration good if not we mind our business.

In democracy it is not everybody that will be believe in your capabilities and vote for you.

APC should stop this nonsense blackmail.

kolaaderin:
Contradiction, the same voters that would vote in APC for governorship would cast the same for buhari. Tinubu meant business. You would only wail in serious pain

The presidential Elections comes before the Governorship elections!

A presidential debate will once and for all clear all these nonsense!

Between this(facebookers that can be far away in ogun state) and the calling of buhari liar face to face at national Assembly which one is worse?

post=74147243:
May God bless and protect every one who has the love of the nation at heart along with their families and for all the enemies of the country, may evil and bitterness never depart from their lives along with their families.

God bless Nigeria.

Who are enemies of Nigeria? Those that wont buhari right?!