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Op we are voting for PDP!

Whoever wrote that jargon writeup up there should go and collect his 30k!

At least it will be enough to buy food stuff for his family.

Oga femi tradermoni is vote buying simple and short.

They are trying so hard to campaign with restructuring which buhari says he dosen't know what it means.

They ended up saying buhari is doing gradual restructuring! *chuckles* very laughable!

Its like BMC 3 months arrears alert enter today and they were told atiku is taking over the social spaces with intimidating photos of well turn out rallys and endorsements.....and they were seriously warned to buckle up with their propaganda and attacks or loose the BMC work!

Chimok:
The astuteness of Yoruba politics can never be overemphasized and they are always at the forefront of history when its been made.

In 2011 we voted Gej and when its clear he is not performing we voted against and was shown the way out. and that seem that who ever we decide to align with wil certainly be the choosing one.

In the minds of many Yorubas there is this agitation for an alternative candidate other than Atiku but most unfortunately there is none.

Buhari has increasingly made himself highly unpopular, his almost nonchallant attitude to grave issues tearing the polity apart and we are faced with two unfortunate choices to which we must chose one.

And Atiku it is.

If after 4 yrs his administration dosen't perform we throw him out too.

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Just watch as APC steal this idea as usual

When people continously keep shouting and forcing the opinion that atiku is a thief and buhari will trash him in the 2019 polls....then its clear to all that person is seeing writing on the wall and know buhari will loose the election

The nigga is just trying to console himself and bind that oncoming truth anyway possible.

If I want to beat anybody in know am very much stronger than in school back then....i don't go about telling everyone I will beat the guy.... I quietly wait for the fight time.

But when I talk more before the fight, then I know am going to loose and want to use mouth scatter the fight.

Op tell yourself the truth, you know atiku is no push over in this coming election and victory is tilting towards him

Just like Bet9ja the ticket is going smoothly..
Ticket is greening one by one


1) ATIKU will gain more international recognition and endorsements locally and internationally

2) ATIKU will be granted US visa and he will be will be invited by business and pressure groups in US for lectures and briefing.

3) Some prominent aides and supporters of PMB will abandon him before the end of this year.

4) Some APC state governors and Senators will demand the resignation of Oshimole. Oshimole will have problem with the presidency.

5) There will be attempt to remove INEC chairman and postpone 2019 election.

7)Some head of Federal Institutions will be removed because of perceived support for ATIKU.

6)Naira will drop further against dollar and crude oil price will slide to less than 60dollars per barrel. Nigeria may slip back to recession before the end of this year.

9) The court will eventually declare PDP the winner of Osun Governorship election.

10) ATIKU will win 2019 election by over 4nillion vote margin. But their will be attempt to declare the election inconclusive. This will be resisted by Nigerians and international community and..... .

Better still APC/Buharists answer saraki!

id911:
I'm really surprised why the President is foot-dragging on such a beautiful bill. National Assembly really tried on this one. It will sanitize the electoral system in the country.

The president is supposed to be the one championing the electoral law but instead he's the one encouraging rigging by refusing to sign the bill into law but unfortunately some naive people are supporting him on this. I can't believe it

Because they know that can't win in a free and fair election!

So since you know you may not win then refuse to sign it.

And they call him Mr integrity!?

APC govt just won't stop to amaze me!

So US govt shouldn't give atiku Visa so you can continue your propaganda that atiku can't go to the states because he is corrupt.

And you want US to adhere to your wish

And you still accuse US will be partsian if they Grant atiku own wish.


And somebody is telling me these people are alright!

They keep dishing out this lie of increment to 7000 Mwatts but when TCN release its daily generation Data you see average of 3000 MW

Just go to TCN website and see for yourself

And Tax payers money will be spent for this?!

hucienda:
Not advisable to sign any document.

Per chance he is elected president and does considerably well, should the people then be denied the choice to re-elect him? That purported doc should be a no no.

There is nothing wrong with him signing a document.

It shows a mindset of somebody that is coming to work and has laid out plans.

When he does very well in that first tenure, even if the citizens what him to go 2nd term, which they will definitely do, he has already disqualified himself by that document cause its a simple case for anybody who goes to court with it.

In summary this is good for the country!

Igbos said they would only vote any candidate that will restructure this country, Buhari has made it clear that he is not a fan of restructuring

Atiku has been advocating for restructuring for a long while and has shown he will do so

is it not clear to all where igbo votes will go? how is it bad politics to endorse who agress to your demands against the person that has said no.

Atiku Starts Campaign on Monday, to Launch Policy Document

Meanwhile, Atiku is billed to start his campaign on Monday in Abuja with the launch of his policy document, which would entail how he intends to direct the country if he gets into the saddle of leadership next year.

Multiple sources close to the campaign told THISDAY last night that the presidential candidate is rounding off his composition of the campaign machine, which would be a mix of the organisation that delivered him at the primary, the party and former aspirants’ structures.

Atiku was said to have addressed members of his Campaign Organisation last Monday and briefed them on the shape of the emerging structure, telling them that they would be collapsed into a more inclusive electioneering machine that would be used to power him into the presidency.

The party leadership, THISDAY gathered, would meet today to continue the harmonisation of the lists of people being proposed to man the directorates of the campaign.

The PDP presidential candidate had last month announced his ally but also a challenger at the primary, Senate President Bukola Saraki, as the director-general of the presidential campaign.

It also named the zonal directors. Governor Aminu Tambuwal (Sokoto State) was put in charge of North-west; Alhaji Ibrahim Dankwambo (Gombe State), North-east; Dr. Samuel Ortom (Benue State), North-central; Mr. Ayo Fayose, South-west; Chief Dave Umahi (Ebonyi State), South-east; and Chief Nyesom Wike (Rivers State), South-south.

However, THISDAY learnt the comprehensive campaign council might be announced on Saturday

A reliable source told THISDAY yesterday that while the final decision has not been taken, the presidential campaign programmes and activities would be unveiled on Monday.

The source said, “The presidential campaign will start in Abuja on Monday, and the comprehensive campaign council will be announced on Saturday.”

The source said, “He will unveil his policy document in Abuja which entails how he will run the country if elected president.”

However, speaking with THISDAY yesterday, the spokesperson of Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation (APCO), Mr. Segun Sowunmi, said the PDP as a political party has demonstrated over the years that it is a big party, adding that since the coming on board of the National Chairman of the party, Prince Uche Secondus, the party has gone a step further to show how transparent the party has become.

He added that processes of the party and the drivers of the processes are very clear, stressing that the campaign structure for the presidential campaign would not be any different.

He said, “Like you are aware, his excellency has returned a couple of days ago and in a few days I believe, any moment from now, the comprehensive campaign council will be unveiled, which to the best of my knowledge, will be under the leadership of Senate President, Bukola Saraki. All the other members of those committees will be unveiled in due course.

“As for when our campaign will start, I can assure you that we will be starting immediately the whistle is blown for our programmes and activities are well brochure and we will put into be unveiling them one after the other.

“From the way I perceive it, which is not final or authorised or approved, I believe that the first thing that we deserve to do is to bring to the table a comprehensive policy unveiling. And before this unveiling, we would have easily commenced our activities, where we will go, when we will go and the areas we will go will be unveiled.”

Sowunmi said the PDP was ready to hit the campaign trail.

He stated, “We have always been ready, Nigerians are ready, Nigerians are also ready, Atiku is ready, he has always been ready, members of the campaign team, members of the campaigns team are ready, the APCO is ready, they have always been ready, our support groups are ready, they have always been ready, our party faithful across the nation are also ready and I believe that the media and the international community are also ready.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2018/11/15/atiku-gets-igbo-leaders-endorsement-starts-campaign-on-monday/

Ategberoson:
how many northeners watch arise news that have heard this damage against obi?


if I'm to go by el rufia talk I will call it baseless allegations even if obi mastermind his political humiliation in anambra, that had been normalized as Nigeria political tradition


and obi and el rufai should let's hear words. the question is, is it true obi sent Hausa packing and order destruction of mosque during his tenure. that's what I'm expecting him to refute not this el rufai maltreatment. el rufai is not god or a Prince of Nigeria govt

In the same arise interview Peter OBI said that never happened

When Atiku start dividing buhari legendary northern votes, then its becoming clearer by the day that atiku will coast home to victory by February.

even if buhari win 65% of the core north votes, all atiku need there is 35%.

The rest of the country which is clearly in majority and not buhari comfort zone will hand over atiku the victory.

So HSBC and UBC opened office in nigeria just to launder money out of nigeria and CBN gladly gave them licences to open office?

It hasnt occured to the writer that FDI into the country was being channeled in through those banks,

Am not sure if Walmart wants to setup stores in nigeria it can easily move in money through a fidelity bank.

These Buharist self!

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BafanaBafana:
Oshiomole is the first ever real national chairman of a political party in Nigeria. He is not a stooge to anyone.
PDP and their supporters hate him so much because he makes their chairman look like a motor park chairman.

What concerns pdp for this matter

CilicMarin:
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Crap!

Your zombiezm is legendary

CoolAmbience:
Good try but will eventually amount to an effort in futility. PDP hurt Nigeria so bad. Returning them to power would mean total surrender of our lives to a future of uncertainty and shamble experimentation.

Let Atiku and Obi and others use their stupendous wealth and development strategy, in partnership with respective state governments, to fix their states / regions as a model for the country.

We must not allow national-scale testing of 'desperation' in the guise of creating national reform strategy or roadmap for economic revamp.

Enough is enough. People do not have to be in power to help uplift and alleviate the sufferings of person or groups in their societies and communities.

This draws my attention to a certain Dr. Godwin Maduka from Umuchukwu in Anambra state who built and equipped the largest Specialist Hospital in the SE; a high court; magistrate court; police station; roads; over 100 residences for widows and the indigent; worship place; schools; scholarships etc, to enhance the lives of people in his community.

Why didnt you tell buhari to contibute to the society when he wasnt in power

When someone come prepared for a job you will know! Atiku/Obi are so eager to get to work!

The Atiku/Obi presidential ticket and campaign team just had a policy and upcoming campaign strategy meeting at dubai in preparation of the huge task ahead of them of #LetsGetNigeriaWorkingAgain

If tambuwal doesn't even win the sokoto gubernatorial election then it would have been a silly mistake if wike had his way for him to win the PDP presidential primaries

Olohunjedalo:
Exactly! If Biafrans want to leave Nigeria . Let them go! and leave our Land alone !
Go and find some inhabited land somewhere and start your Biafra there!

Which land should they leave and go? Their native Land?

Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari must think history is threatening to repeat itself as he watches his main challenger in February elections, Atiku Abubakar, do what he did three years ago: build a broad alliance to win power in Africa’s biggest oil producer.

Buhari, 75, rode atop a wide coalition to become the first opposition candidate to win a general election in the continent’s most populous nation. While Buhari tapped into a yearning to end years of corruption, Abubakar, 71, is capitalizing on the angst of the elite. He’s portraying himself as the friend of investors and ethnic minorities in his bid to oust the ruling All Progressives Congress.

“What is happening is that the elite now think there’s an option,” said Bismarck Rewane, chief executive officer of Financial Derivatives Co., a risk advisory group based in the commercial hub of Lagos. “Before it was almost a certainty it was going to be a slam dunk for APC. With Atiku, they now have a fighting chance.”

When Abubakar last week reconciled with his ex-boss, former President Olusegun Obasanjo, he took along influential Muslim and Christian clerics. It was a deft move in a country almost evenly split between a predominantly Christian south and a mainly Muslim north and racked by periodic outbursts of sectarian violence that critics say Buhari has managed poorly.

Political Establishment
Added to previous endorsements by most of the country’s ex-military elite, consultations with influential pressure groups in the north, southwest and the oil-rich Niger River delta, Abubakar appears to be having some success at cementing the backing of the political establishment.

“The implicit support of important religious leaders from across faiths is likely to give Atiku’s emerging campaign a further boost in a country where religious leaders wield mass influence,” Malte Liewerscheidt, London-based vice president of Teneo Intelligence, said in an emailed note on Monday.

The importance wasn’t lost on Buhari, who admonished religious leaders in a speech two days after the meeting about the perils of meddling in politics.

“Religious leaders should not be seen to involve themselves in partisan politics or political controversies,” he said. “Otherwise, they risk losing their status and public respect.”


There are ominous signs for Buhari. Despite strong support in the north, he failed in three attempts to be elected president until 2015, when he formed an alliance with key segments of the political elite and defectors from the then-ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

Many of those allies, including Abubakar, Senate President Bukola Saraki, Speaker of the House of Representatives Yakubu Dogara and Sokoto state Governor Aminu Tambuwal, have deserted him. So have former army rulers such as Obasanjo and Ibrahim Babangida, who toppled Buhari’s military administration in 1983.


While Buhari promised in the last campaign to calm Nigeria’s various security challenges, including the war against Islamist militants in the northeast, the violence continues. The president’s popularity has waned in the central region he won in 2015 over widespread perception he’s not done enough to end the grazing conflict that has devastated the area. Investors also blame Buhari for worsening a recession that resulted from an oil-price drop two years before he took office and deterring investment by imposing capital controls.

Anti-Corruption War
Buhari is still touting his anti-corruption war that critics say is mainly targeting his opponents. He signed an executive order on Oct. 13 that bars about 50 people, said to be facing graft investigations, from leaving the country.

He’s also expected to continue to question whether Abubakar, considered one of the richest people on Nigeria’s political scene, acquired his wealth legitimately. A former top customs official, he later became a major shareholder in Intels Nigeria Ltd., an oil-service company.

While the momentum may now appear to be in favor of the opposition, victory is far from certain, according to analysts including Liewerscheidt and Rewane.

Abubakar’s choice of running mate, Peter Obi, a former state governor with a good track record, may help lock down votes in the southeast, where the majority Igbo people have complained about a lack of national representation since their leaders tried to secede from Nigeria in the Biafra civil war in the 1960s.

But the choice of Obi also carries the risk of tilting votes in the ethnically Yoruba-dominated southwest, a key swing region where Vice President Yemi Osinbajo comes from, firmly in favor of the Buhari.

“This election is going to boil down to who wins the southwest,” Rewane said. “It’s true that Atiku’s campaign experience gives the PDP a chance. But then the APC is not going to fold its hands and lie down.”

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-17/opposition-candidate-gains-momentum-in-nigeria-presidential-race

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