₦airaland Forum

all4naija:
That is nonsensical and blatant lie. Buhari is not a good candidate but a bad one who is among those who ruined this country. I don't know why Nigerians cannot fight for their rights at home but claims rights in other countries. Jeez!

naijababe:
The bolded I agree with completely, the rest are very debatable and you know it

naijababe:
And Buhari has tested the waters how many times now? Yes El-Rufai is a loose canon but he is a credible loose canon, r'ber his stint as FCT minister? And I never said Kwankwaso is more credible, I'd much rather have him than Buhari. You asked for alternatives and I gave them.

naijababe:
Ribadu, El-Rufai, Rabiu Kwakwanso and Ibrahim Shekarau! Buhari can marshal his popularity and support behind any of these men since a Northern candidate has to be nominated.

debosky:
There are numerous other candidates in the APC - the key is for the party (including Buhari) to rally round and raise votes for whoever the party selects as its flag bearer. This thread isn't about floating other potential candidates.

That's the main problem many of you fail to grasp - you think an individual's vote pulling ability is the key to winning. Despite Buhari's personal popularity he has lost each and every election he has contested. That should give you food for thought.

The PDP doesn't win elections because of it's candidates' overwhelming popularity, they win because they can mobilise the electorate across the country not just in certain corners of the North. That is what any serious APC candidate will need to do.

debosky:
Buhari is too old to be realistically considering the presidency. We've been there and done that with the 'he was a good military president' experiment - see Obasanjo.

I am not impressed one bit by the messianic qualities some of you attribute to him - he will be able to 'face' the cabals eh? You think this is the 1980s under a military government where you can summarily lock up anyone you don't like? If Buhari is so great why has he - 30 years after leaving office - been unable to raise up a protege? Why is it all about his individual qualities?

I repeat - we can do much, much better. The fact that Buhari got 12m votes in 2011 is not even close to sufficient reason to choose him if your aim is to defeat Goodluck. Those votes were largely religious/tribal based - what is appealing about that to the rest of the country?

GEJ - warts and all, was a change from what we had previously in ex-military presidents/their family members. He has failed in my view, but that is no reason to resort to an 80 year old man who has woefully lost each and every election he has contested in, his integrity credentials not withstanding.

I don't want to live like it's 1985 in 2015 - do you?

luvmijeje:
Since Buhari declaration, I've been waiting for PDP to bring out corruption case against him, I've been been holding my breathe for someone else to tell us how compromise he was, I've waiting patiently for anyone to tell us how incompetent he was when entrusted with power.

The consensus so far is that he's is a man of integrity.He's competent. He's been tested and trusted. He knows what it takes to preside over a country. That's enough for me.

APC should do their part, we'll do the rest.

Skimpledawg:
After yhu Empty keg!

femmy2010:

I pity you.
Your brain in not in your head but in the head of a goat(Anofia).
I rest my case,having a healthy conversation with you is not worth it.

I smiled when I saw ur clean response to the fool however was not disappointed with his response. There is a reason demdem comes in full force on these fools. Trying to be reasonable and civil doesn't worth it.
Jonaadaft end at aso rock is surely coming to an abrupt end. Kirikiri awaits the fool.

Obiagelli:
This is how the states will vote come 2015
1. Abia - Goodluck
2. Adamawa - Buhari
3. Akwa Ibom - Goodluck
4. Anambra - Goodluck
5. Bauchi - Buhari
6. Bayelsa - Goodluck
7. Benue - Goodluck
8. C/River - Goodluck
9. Delta - Goodluck
10. Enugu - Goodluck
11. Ebonyi - Goodluck
12. Gombe - Buhari
13. Imo - Goodluck
14. Jigawa - Buhari
15. Kano - Buhari
16. Kaduna - Buhari.
17. Edo - Goodluck (small margin)
18. Kebbi - Buhari
19. Borno - Buhari
20. Lagos - Buhari
21. Niger - Buhari
22. Ondo - Goodluck
23. Oyo - Buhari
24. Ogun - Buhari
25. Osun - Buhari
26. Ekiti - Goodluck
27. Plateau - Goodluck
28. Kogi -Goodluck (small margin)
29. Kwara - Buhari
30. Rivers - Goodluck (small margin)
31. Sokoto state - Buhari
32. Nassarawa - Buhari(small margin)
33 Taraba - Buhari (small margin).
34 Yobe - Buhari
35. Zamfara - Buhari
36. Katsina - Buhari
37. FCT - DICEY....
As we can see Buhari has 20 states as against
Goodluck's 16 states and if considering that the larger
population of the electorates reside in the North and
Southwest it stands to reason that Buhari will be our
next president, but that is if the contest is going to be
free and fair.

PhockPhockMan:
Mtcheeeeewww.

Jonaadaft till ur early grave.

Skimpledawg:
Empty barrels makin noise since 1914...shift

wisdom77:
GMB SPEECH...

First I would like, Mr Chairman, if I may, pay tribute to Nigerians as a whole who are enduring all sorts of hardships and deprivations on a daily basis. Many millions are grappling with extreme poverty and barely eking out a living. Nearly all are in fear of their lives or safety for themselves and their families due to Insurgency by the godless movement called Boko Haram;

By marauding murderers in towns and villages;
By armed robbers on the highways;
By kidnappers who have put whole communities to fright and sometimes to flight.

Ladies and gentlemen, it is everyone’s duty to resolve and help the national effort to overcome these immense challenges. I would like us to place on record our appreciation for the efforts of our Armed Forces under new leadership and police in confronting these challenges.

I would like, secondly, to thank our supporters up and down the country for their perseverance and resolve in face of an oppressive PDP government.

Mr Chairman, this is an occasion to celebrate our efforts and to resolve to continue until victory is won. I humbly wish to present myself before you, before all of Nigeria and before God seeking to be elected as APC’s Presidential candidate. Having appreciated that the only way to relieve Nigerians of the PDP, the main opposition parties decided to pool their strengths into one party. We have worked very hard in the last 18 months to put up structures from the polling units to wards, local governments, states and the centre.

We have tried to ensure all processes in our party formation to be transparent and credible. These structures will lead to free and fair polls. There is no point in holding elections if they are not free and fair.

Interference in the form of rigging which PDP Government has practised since 2003 is the worst form of injustice – denying people their right to express their opinions. Whether they like it or not, injustice cannot endure.

Since 1999 PDP has presided over our country’s decline. Nigeria in my experience has never been so divided, so polarized by an unthinking government hell bent on ruling and stealing forever whatever befalls the country. Mr Chairman, we in APC are resolved to stop them in their tracks and rescue Nigeria from the stranglehold of PDP.

The last 16 years of PDP Government has witnessed decline in all critical sectors of life in Nigeria

There is now general insecurity in the land

Quite apart from Boko Haram, there is prevalence of Armed Robbery, kidnappings and killings, cattle rustling, market and farmland arson.

These outrages have taken a new and a frightening dimension, disrupting economic and social life across whole communities.

The economy continues to deteriorate while the Government continues to announce fantastic growth figures but manufacturing is down, agriculture is down, commerce is down

Simply because you sell oil and steal part of the money does not entitle you to cook figures and announce phantom economic growth when all the major indices namely,

Employment
Manufacturing
Farming
Trading

are demonstrably on the decline.

When PDP came to power in 1999 Nigeria was generating about 4,000 M/W of electricity. After 15 years and $20 billion spent we are generating between 3,000 – 4,000 M/W. No failure is more glaring than this.

We in APC are resolved to bring change to Nigeria. We plan to do things differently.

We plan to put priority on

Protection of lives and property.
Pursuing economic policies for shared prosperity and immediate attention on youth employment.
Quality education for development, modernity and social mobility.
Agricultural productivity for taking millions out of poverty and ensuring food security.
Reviving Industry to generate employment and “make things” not just to remain hawkers of other peoples’ goods.
Developing solid minerals exploitation which will substantially attract employment and revenue for government.
Restoring honour and integrity to public service by keeping the best and attracting the best.
Tackling corruption which has become blatant and widespread. The rest of the world looks at Nigeria as the home of corruption. Nigeria is a country where stealing is not corruption.
Last, (but not the least or final) respecting the constitutional separation of powers between the executive, legislatures and judiciary and respecting the rights of citizens.

Mr Chairman, there, in outline are some policy proposals about the direction APC should take when, by the grace of God, we are given the responsibility of serving Nigeria in Government.

General Muhammadu Buhari, GCFR

Obiagelli:
Lol, my people come and hear explanation. Oga seun,its better to even close this thread as this is duplication.

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descartes, egift, arewafederation, Egbagirl, donroxy,
Sweetlemon , donphilopus, BEREM, desola ,
demdem , lakpalakpa , whitecat007 , ,
lakpalakpa, omenka, ShehuAba , omenka , Rawani,
tribaleast kolaaderin soroptimist MizMyColi, Ngwakwe
and all Omexonomy, jmaine, mikeansy, Firefire,
Mynd44, , nduchucks, lacasa, baccaspace, Omerta
sincere9gerian, firefire, Phockphockman, ilugunboy.

I showed my dog and he was like WTF

Seun:
You people really need to stop this shit. We had two threads on the same topic and so we removed the one that was outdated. That's all.

Rexxie:
ABC..Z of how to be da super grumpus and slowpoke rodriguez..

Demdem:

Rexfool, talking senselessly since the beginning of time. Jonaadaft till ur early grave.

himkers:
Gerrout from here kiddo..

engineerd:
In a sane country, this mallam should not even have the guts to talk in public, talkless of trying to run for presidency! Any Nigerian that votes for Buhari is a traitor!!!! phuck that.....there is always a third option, which is not to vote at all.......Mtcheww......spits!!

himkers:
You know it all.

hoyinkansola:
i'm kinda scared of this man oh... i pray for unlimited peace in nigeria

doctokwus:
Buhari must acknowledge he made a fundamental mistake not campaigning in d East and SS last time around;

himkers:
Keep displaying ur stupidity everywhere.... I blame ur parents though for not teaching you manners.

Rexxie:
giant cow..as dull as those stupiid dogs,as grumpus as solomon grundy..as 'fast' as slowpoke rodriguez. Nothingssstoping....
#gej till '19

Rexfool, talking senselessly since the beginning of time. Jonaadaft till ur early grave.

Skimpledawg:
Ai just dey look yhu...*av yu led 3 pipo b4 in a group? Wah do yu knw bout leadership? Callin pesin Papa 'Jonaadaft'

meforyou1:
the federal govt shall refund the rivers state govt in due time

luchy34:
you are the foolish one