₦airaland Forum

jason123:
Who are these fo.ols that called themselves AD
Well, they are irrelevant in the SW anyway  so their endorsement only worth a piece of Akara and 1 ghana must go from GEJ . . . . foo.ls
https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-612341.0.html

jason123:
No, he will still win the SW without ACN because AD is basically = Afenifere. They are more of a socio-political group than a pure political group. Best believe!

^^^Proof that jason just speaks out of his arse.

Also according to jason, Afenifere = fools

Beaf:
ANPP and PDP are different parties, so if IBB leaves, he leaves with his cabal. It would have nothing at all to do with GEJ, in fact they are mortal enemies.

Goodluck For Fresh Air

Beaf:
Then I pray the news is true. IBB's entry (if Shekarau allows it) would make GEJ's landslide victory much bigger.

Are you not worried that GJ could be working with the cabal? This just seems too funny.Where is that change that we want going to come from if he's surrounding himself with all of the crooks of the former FG.

[size=15pt]Presidential race: IBB back with ANPP[/size]
•Camp tips him as North’s ultimate consensus candidate

By VINCENT UKPONG KALU

Saturday, February 26, 2011



There are very strong and reliable indications that the last may not have been heard of the presidential ambition of ex-military President, General Ibrahim Babangida, Saturday Sun can reveal.
The adoption of former Vice President, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, as the consensus candidate of the Northern Political Leaders Forum (NPLF) may after all not have ended the desire of the retired General to run.

Sources have revealed that the retired General will any moment from now announce his defection to the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP) as pressures on him to toe this line have not ceased.
Babangida, from impeccable sources would not likely survive the pressure to decamp to another party to ensure the north actualises its plans to produce the president in May at all costs.

Saturday Sun can authoritatively report that Babangida’s supporters feel betrayed and angry that members of the NPLF committee saddled with the responsibility of picking one person, among the former head of state, Atiku, Kwara State Governor, Dr. Bukola Saraki and former National Security Adviser, General Aliyu Gusau, chose another presidential aspirant when Babangida not only ranked highest in the criteria listed but also has large following across the country.

But beyond that lost battle, the calculation now is that the north feels cheated and has the clear signs that the candidates of the opposition parties from the north vying for the presidency might not make any impact to unseat President Goodluck Jonathan. The way out of the possibility of losing is to beef up the fight in choosing another candidate of a more formidable war chest to slug it out with the PDP and eventually capture power.

Sources close to the Babangida camp said that his supporters have been putting pressure on him to take advantage of the opportunity the amendment of the ANNP constitution presents and defect to the party. “Leaders of the ANPP are disposed to a candidate that could win the presidential election”, the source revealed.
The forces behind this plot argue that since the NPLF was not fair in its choice, Babangida could, as well, renege on his promise to accept its choice of consensus candidate.

The ANPP had amended its constitution and added a provision that any former head of state that wishes to pursue his presidential ambition in the political party was free to do so. The party had delayed its national convention, so that PDP would conclude its own, to make room for aggrieved members of the party to come over the ANPP.

Saturday Sun was reliably told that the Babangida camp believes that since the retired army officer would not press his presidential ambition in the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) he would not have breached any agreement if he defects to the ANPP.
Sources revealed that after the NPLF forum announced Atiku as consensus candidate, some leaders of ANPP started lobbying Babangida’s supporters to prevail on him to come over to the party and pick its presidential ticket. Among ANPP leaders who want Babangida and in the forefront of the lobby is Borno State governor, Alhaji Modu Sheriff and former Kogi State governor, Alhaji Abubakar Audu. These two top shots of the ANPP, sources revealed, were instrumental to the emergence of Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu as the national chairman of the party and wants a formidable presidential candidate in next year’s election.

It was gathered that the ANPP leaders want to reenact what happened in 2003 when former Head of State, General Muhammadu Buhari picked the presidential ticket, despite the fact that he joined the party not long before the primaries.

Babangida camp’s calculation
The Babangida camp is considering the option of joining the ANPP, as he reckons that he may eventually end up as northern preferred/consensus candidate in the 2011 presidential election. The calculation is that since President Goodluck Jonathan defeated Atiku at the primaries of the PDP, to pick the presidential ticket, it rendered the NPLF plot to have a president of northern extraction take over power from May 29 a nullity.
The belief is that in an election where Babangida squares up with Jonathan, northern political leaders would have no choice than to pitch their tent with him. Sources also revealed that such development would also see Atiku, Gusau and Saraki indirectly working with Babangida, believing that he would return to the PDP if he wins the election.

It was gathered that Babangida’s supporters are pressing it on him that if he refuses to join the ANPP and picks its presidential ticket, Buhari may be the beneficiary of the suspected defeat of Atiku at PDP primaries, since the North may switch its support to the Congress for Political Change (CPC), in a presidential election where Jonathan and Buhari are candidates of their political parties.

Anger against Ciroma committee
The Babangida camp revealed that the General’s supporters are insinuating a deliberate shortchange, betrayal and back stabbing by the nine members of the Malam Adamu Ciroma committee. They accused the group of making a decision against the run of play, insisting that the committee didn’t adhere to due process in its choice. These aggrieved Babangida diehards say that media reports on how members of the Ciroma committee voted were true. They contend that members of the committee chose to adopt secret ballot, in order to execute the plot of not picking Babangida.

Babangida started losing out in the consensus arrangement when the Ciroma committee decided to visit the states to get additional information about the preparedness of the aspirants, which was beyond its brief. It was learnt that rather than meet with major stakeholders in the North, especially the Northern Governors Forum, the committee selected a handful of Emirs and some other traditional rulers.

Saturday Sun gathered that the committee, in investigating the structures of the presidential aspirants in the consensus option, observed that Babangida had offices in 29 states, while Atiku had in 18 states. Saraki and Gusau were said to have offices in 12 and 14 states respectively. Also, the committee observed that Babangida had supporters spread across the country, especially those he empowered while in office. Based on these findings, Babangida was the favourite of members of the Ciroma committee before the Eid el Fitri holiday.

It was after the Sallah break, the committee started sounding discordant tunes. First, members of the group, it was gathered, were divided between conducting an open ballot and or secret balloting. Some of them reasoned that on account of their ages, they should not be afraid of conducting an open ballot, but Chief Audu Ogbeh, reportedly argued in favour of secret balloting to allow the members free choice.

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/feb/26/national-26-02-2011-001.htm

Abu-Maryam:
This Jonathan is a complete Olodo

That makes him a degree about a hausa man.

This should be in the Crime section:

https://www.nairaland.com/nigeria/topic-612355.0.html

1025:
@chyz,
i really do not know how census is a problem in nigeria and how fixing it will bring an end to the idea of rotational presidency.
if i must tell u, 95% of jonathan supporters are asking for how long the huasas rule nigeria. if it is a thing of democracy, the huasas has more population to win everyday.
we want a system that will make every tribe in nigeria to taste leadership bcs is for everybody especially now the much trusted groups have failed.
we need change  and that is what everybody is preaching now.
change! change!! change!!!

I give up with you. I seriously do. I can't believe your comments that I've highlighted. I weep for our generation. Please don't vote, just sleep through the elections.

Why is this guy constantly spending our money on his people.Nigeria isnt just about the niger delta.

1025:
@chyz,
so since when has fielding the best candidate become the means of winning election in nigeria? can you point to one president of nigeria that was the best candidate during his election time? how old were u in 1999 when obasanjo and olu falae both yorubas were up for election? if u know what zoning is all about, if only they are serious with themselves, it is only a matter of making it a constitutional thing that every party must field candidate from a particular zone in any given election or will not be taken serious by anyone.
in my village till tomorrow, our councellorship is zoned so every election time, parties need not to be reminded of where they will field their candidates from. i tell u, it has been like that and it saves a lot for my village.

Question: If GEJ happens to fix the census problem, do you think there would be need of such presidential rotation thing?

Question: What is the point of nigeria being together if we have to live by presidential rotation? Also, where does that leave groups such as the Tiv, itsekiri, Isoko, Jukun, etc.?

1025:
@chyz,
who are the igbos? i am from imo state and jonathan will never ever see my vote. he is the storm on the ways of igbo presidency. he is standing between us and our opportunity to rule nigeria.
don't u know that if this desperate jonathan respected the zoning arrangements of pdp, 2015 wld have been for the igbos?
how on earth are u thinking an ijaw man who has added ebele, azikiwe and is even planing to add ojukwu to his name will finish and then another ojukwu or azikiwe will take over?
meanwhile, 12 yrs of pdp leadership has done more harm than good to nigeria and nigerians. who would believe that in 12 yrs, pdp refused to give us steady power supply?
shame.
IN BUHARI/BAKARE, WE HAVE MEN WITH VISSION AND NOT LEAKING MOUTHS OF PDP.

NTOO!!!! Open your eyes. You are 1 out of how many millions.  This nigeria, not the U.S. Political prostitution is the norm. Do you actually think If Atiku or IBB  had taken the spot of 2015 they would have just out right left the position for an Igbo? Do did you even take into consideration that other regional PDP members would have maybe defected to another poltical party and render PDP's powers useless while they've built another political party that would have been more powerful? If you are going to go into politics my brother please think sophisticated.There is nothing basic in politics. Stop worry about his name. Goodlucks name is not the reason for him getting votes in the SE so stop with all this "Ebele, Azikiwe" nonsense. We know he's NOT Igbo. If we Igbos, want presidency, let it not be because "we are Igbo so we should get it in 2015" let it be because we have the best candidate to offer that majority like, admire, and believe in. Please stop selling yourself.

maimalari:
I used to think Jonathan supporters are eligible voters, The reality of things, Jonathan has virtual supporters that are liabilities to his ambition. A rude shock awaits him. While his southern tribal supporters are facebook-praising/nairaland-praising him, we Northerners went to register. INEC list has more northerners than southerners, We know where we will vote.

For 1, prepare for war on the north if GJ loses because of the inflated population in Buhari favor.

2, Igbos in the north are said to have voted en masse, not to talk of other southern groups, and generally speaking, those votes will go to Goodluck Jonathan.

bk.babe97y:
Definitely the handiwork of Ibos. Just like the ones in the link below. . . .

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/delhi/Nigerian-nationals-beaten-up-by-angry-locals-in-Ambedkar-Nagar/articleshow/6242101.cms

Welcome back slut.

alj harem:
you can you just shut your mouth, can you explain to me how i am yoruba because i do not side igbos

Ba wo ni,jare?

alj harem:
see your logic,, ,. nothing

who will put them in chad you or mend

or maybe opc or massob

You are yoruba.stop trying to keep up with this fake northern identity. Alj olu haram, kedu?

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eku_bear:
I wonder what GEJ thinks of his countrymen being slaughtered by mercenaries.

Makes you wonder if he even reads the newspaper.

jason123:


Lately, you have been really paranoid.

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