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The thread was not meant for GEJ supporters. Except you want to decamp. The power of incubency is formidable and anyone going against it will need all the arsenal they can forment.
@efisher, there having a consensus candidate will give GEJ heart ache and not a smooth ride.

Reports in the news this morning had it that there are talks between the ACN and the CPC for a possible merger towards the presidential elections. With the ACN having won a greater majority of the south-west and the CPC's advantage in the north, the opposition feel they may be able to give the PDP a run for its money with a merger.

What do you think of this possible merger? Will it truly give them the advantage?

Here is how CPC victories in the north an ACN victories in the North - Central was upturned-
Each polling unit with more than 500 registered voters have sub polling units. These sub units exist only on papers and not physicaly
because INEC claimed they cant afford to pay extra staff for the sub
units. Therefore, the ballot papers for the sub units were then thumb printed in favour of the ruling party in connivance with the Residence Electoral Officers. So, even if an opposition party led in the major polling units, like was indeed the case, the sum total of rigged votes from sub polling units was what reversed CPC gains.
My sources were the many corps members who witnessed, first hand, these manipulations.
Friends, now we see that the battle does not end after the counting at polling booths, we must follow them to the collation centre and any E38-Form without the full signature and physical attestation of our agent must be rejected


Their new strategy is now @ the collation center & villages.How? COLLATION CENTER- After voting has ended, result counted, what they do is @ d point of entering the result in the result sheet, which is in multiples of triplecates where carbon paper is used.The actual polling unit result will b clearly written on the copies to b given to the SSS,POLICE, D 1 to b pasted at the polling unit & AGENTS.But it will not appear on d copy to b submitted to the collation officer@ d collation center. Now you'll have a different result from d one announced at the polling units ! VILLAGE-people cast their votes and go back to their farms or petty businesses. The culprits will now come back, meet with the PO, police & party agents and agree on amount N5K & above for all ad hoc staff. The remaining ballot papers will now b given to them to thumb print and the remaining is history. We hav to b extra vigilant and agents that BB will send to the villages must b credible &100% loyal party members.' Somebody wrote this, pls how can they see this and do something about this up there in CPC ?

PDP's Rigging machinery is at work again. Don't forget GEJoke allegedly spent $700 million bribing delegates to emerge as the winning Candidate in the PDP Primary Elections where he defeated Atiku ! So be sure he is ready to spend ten-fold; $7 billion to rig his way through in the presidential election proper. Currently, with Oil going for $113 a barrel, Nigeria earns close to $400 million per day, even though the current budget is based on $40 a barrel (pls don't ask me what PDP & GEJoke's govt. are doing with the difference) ! There is also the news last week that Nigeria shall earn $30 billion from Oil in the next 6 months .So just assume you are Pres.GEJoke, what stops you from spending at least $3 billion or even $10 billion to rig the elections, when you know what is coming daily & the next months ? I mean any amount just to get him & PDP a fresh 4 years to consolidate their corruption, after the elections , they can go to bed again, doing nothing, since they know they are not accountable to nobody. Why should they be, when they bought their votes from many hungry Nigerians in the first place ? Also let's ask ourselves, the real reason the elections were first postponed twice after voting already started in some places !!! It's like postponing an examination after some candidates already got the questions & even ran away with it, only for the exams to be continued without changing the question papers !!! Perhaps i am wrong, but to me, there are many unanswered questions, & it's all PDP magic at work. PDP appointed the Umpire, gave him their contractors for printing the ballots , !
However, i like most of us here never believed it's ever going to be easy to dislodge PDP & Crooks Consolidated from power. First they are afraid of prison & voluntary exile, remember also that in history not all enslaved people jump at the chance to be freed. In fact, i believe so many Nigerians especially the PDP Sheeps are already suffering from the so-called Stockholm syndrome. For us it is all about supporting a worthy cause & two worthy candidates in Buhari - Bakare. Whatever happens in the end, at least we can be very proud we fought selflessly for a worthy cause. Then it's left for Nigerians to rise and demand their country back like the Tunisians, Egyptians & currently Libya, or continue their servitude under PDP like the North-Koreans. I mean Buhari & Bakare and most of us here shall never go hungry in our lives, if we can be doing what we are doing here up till this second, without expecting any filthy lucre. In a free & fair election, you just can't beat them, and all hopes are not yet lost. So let's continue working, watching, monitoring this goal, let's not despair or lose focus. Remember, Quitters never win, while winners never quit.



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When Buhari wins:
1. Nigeria will heave a sign of relief, as she wriggles out of the grip of the evil called PDP
2. The nation's finances would be discovered to be in shambles and urgent measures will be put in place to save the Naira.
3. There would be religious harmony.
4. There would be mass exodus of PDP looters abroad.
5. The EFCC and the ICPC would be strenghtened and given liberty to work; curbing corruption.
6. The Civil service would be reformed.
7. Immunity clause would be removed from the Presidency, his vice, govs and their deputy.
8. It would be the end of the office of the First Lady.
9. Nigeria will regain its pride in the comity of nations.
10. Speedy national development and transformation; with an unprecedented influx of foreign investment and aids.
11. Nigerians in the diaspora will return to their homes.
12. It would be the beginning of a New Nigeria Nation,

When Buhari wins, Nigeria would win its war against neo colonialist that have arrested its development over the years.

VOTE BUHARI/BAKARE THIS SATURDAY, 16TH APRIL 2011, and you will not regret it.

1. Beaf should tell us the date on the said quotation. As far as I know that was sometimes in 2007. Bakare himself has come out to retract his denoucement of Buhari (NN24 for an example). It is cheap blackmail to continue to use such a qoatation, like your other blackmailers, Gbagi Foundation and co, are doing on the pages of Newspapers.
2. When you label Bakare a false prophet you join the bandwagon of cheap critics who would always qoute a man out of context to give credence to their malicious intentions.
3. Beaf, like his employer, GEJ, would avoid debating political issues but would open up threads here to denounce what they know little about.
4. No one should use last weekend's result to prove Buhari's unpopularity in the north. Even I, a die hard BB fan, voted the ACN here in Ibadan. The BB following is a following of  personalities and not party. God forbid the likes of Mohammed Abacha use the Buhari name to ride to power. That is why we see what we are seeing in the North.
5. The best of prophets are men at their best. What Bakare said was inaccurate and even he would be the first to denounce it now, there is no point using it against him.
6. Same Bakare statted categorically that God didnt give him an express word to contest these elections but he also said he has God's peace and the support of heaven. What else does a man need.
7. I predict a close elections on saturday, but with Buhari winning at the end of the day. If he looses (and that had better be fair) I would congratulate GEJ and his followers. My only prayer is that GEJ followers would be man to do the same if the tide is against them this weekend.

fxtopedia:
Iyabo is gone, Dimeji is gone, The next person is , GEJ

VOTE: BUHARI-BAKARE FOR PRESIDENT JARE

I wish to second it too (or 'third' it).

Reps: Accord-147; ACN-93;PDP-24;CPC-3
Senate: Accord-153; ACN-97;PDP-25; CPC-3.
At My ward, Ward 8, Akinyele LGA, Oyo State.

Former governor Ladoja's acceptance witht the ordinary people is unbelivable. The PDP is out for sure. CPC outcome is expected considering that CPC party men did little to sell themselves here at Ibadan.

2011 ELECTIONS: A FINAL THOUGHT
As most campaigns by leading presidential candidates round up around Nigeria, here is a final thought on situation on ground. The crowds that welcomed the individual candidates in some regions of the country gave us a feel of their popularity in those places. President Jonathan received crowds in some region of the nation, mostly the south-south and south east, though his critics say many of them were rented. We saw, however, people in the north openly rejecting his candidature on account of his sacrificing the zoning arrangement for personal ambition. With this region commanding 40.2 million of the 70 million voters in Jega’s register, the PDP has a lot to worry about.
Hurricane Buhari is the term used to describe the retired General’s acceptance among the poor majority in the north. The crowd that have welcomed the Buhari team on his campaign trip have never been recorded in Nigeria’s history and may never be. His choice of running mate, Tunde Bakare, which his opponent at first termed political suicide, has actually given him acceptability in the south of Nigeria, particularly the south west. Not a few people have observed Bakare over the years on his widely broadcasted TV messages and have come to know him as a no nonsense, focused and visionary preacher, and thus see his running with Buhari as a good omen for the country. These people have for this reason thrown their weight behind the BB team.
Then we have Mallam Nuhu Ribadu whose anti-corruption antecedents at the EFCC and his party’s hold of 4 south-west states (including Edo), gives him some popularity in that region. And there is Mallam Ibrahim Shekarau, who many agreed was the winner of the NN24 presidential debate, has warmed himself into the heart of the electorate in the south by his stellar performance that day, in addition to the following he has already in Kano State.
If the ideal situation is allowed to hold, General Buhari has a greater possibility of pulling president Jonathan into a run-off, and when he stands one on one with him he has a good chance of trouncing him at the polls. But that is the ideal. The reality on ground is that the PDP has perfected plans of rigging the elections again. If the rumours making the rounds are true, last Saturday elections were aborted because the PDP were largely being beaten at the polls in every region of the country. Certainly the logistics challenge were there; but the greater challenge was that the PDP was being disgraced out of the National Assembly. So the possibility of the PDP deploying their most lethal rigging machinery is so high and the nation is again in danger of conducting elections that everyone would see as not being free and fair. Nigeria has a history of not having an incumbent who has conducted free and fair elections before, and Goodluck Jonathan is not likely to be an exception. These were the fears in some people’s minds when they advised him not to run for office, but he refused.
If 2011 elections are rigged, Nigeria will be in danger of becoming a failed state. While our nation does not share a similar political situation with North African countries, a rigged poll is likely to spur protest of similar magnitude in those countries (especially in the north), and if not well managed can lead to civil war. General Buhari has said he would not contest the result of the polls at the courts. Which means he is leaving it to the court of public opinion and the people are most likely to take the law into their hands. That will result to anarchy. The PDP government has told us that we cannot witness a ‘Libyan’ situation here because we have a ‘working’ democracy. The people’s reaction to a rigged poll will tell everyone whether our democracy is working or not.
In times like these one is forced to turn to faith and hope in God through prayer that Nigeria would not cease to exist in 2015 as the Americans had predicted. But then we are reminded that God is most likely a Nigerian, because which other nation has witnessed just half of what we have known and is not a failed state today? it is this element of hope that tells us that the divine hand will yet work in our favor. Nigeria will have free and fair elections beginning from this weekend. The opposition will take the day; General Buhari would be installed President of this nation on the 29th May 2011. The legislative house will be taken over by the opposition and only 3 or 4 states will be left for PDP governors. It will be the dawn of a new day… the beginning of a new beginning… and everybody say, AMEN!

Noble Zone. There is nothing noble about your post. It is said when a person is blinded with prejudice, he cannot see; and when he sees he sees what he is already thinking.

I stumbled on that interview, btw 7.30 and 8pm(By the way if it was GEJ it would have been trumpeted all over). I listened to the last 20 minutes. That was the first time I would hear Buhari speak and he came to me as an articulate, clear minded and intelligent speaker. On the issue of the choice of his running mate, he went straight to the  point that he had been attracted to Bakare after the SNG rally at Abuja, whose position(on acting presidency) himself and his group had made known also in writting to the National Assembly. He explained that later that year Bakare visited him in his house in KD on electoral reform issues. He said he saw Bakare as a likeminded person, who was passionate about his country and he invited him to be his running mate. He also quipped at some point that he doesn't know why he gets to meet and work with Tundes' always.

What caught my attention about that interview was his explaining that Abeokuta was his first posting after retuning ffrom the UK in the 60's and that the military is foremost of all proffesion that makes you truly federal and Nigerian in your thinking because you get to work everywhere in this country.

How this looks like someone who does not know what he is saying to My Noble Zone, me I don't know O!

And to compound GEJ problems, he may add this:

http://thenationonlineng.net/web3/editorial/opinion/32671.html

Unfortunately, Beaf has shot himself in the leg again. The thread was to be anti-CPC, but again turning to Pro CPC. If you read the post written by Yinka Odumakin you would get the answers to all your allegations.

What I cannot reconcile is how GEJ proffesses to want to organize free and fair elections but thinks it best to reprimand the chairman of an 'independent' body, INEC. Does he think he is talking to the PDP chairman.

Despite PDP's best rigging machinery, their end has come May 16th 2011.

12 Years for the theives, one day for the Owner(s)

God bless the Federal Republic of Nigeria.

I would not vote GEJ for all the aformentioned reasons,

But to add my own unique reason, em,

BUHARI IS JUST BETTER THAN GEJ IN ALL RESPECT!!!

When I opened the thread I was unprepared for the response I would receive from people's support for Buhari. It took two full pages of discourse before GEJ supporter woke from their slumber to challenge the discourse. However it was too late.

Other things I have discovered about Buhari:
1. His silence and penchant to allow his integrity speak for him
2. A true democrat: He would not join forces with the pro zoning people. Saying GEJ is free to contest (I am sure that is news to GEJ followers).
3. His respect for religion: And the fact that his coming together with Bakare would lead to religious harmony in Nigeria.
4. His love for peace. With the respect and following he attracts in the north, he would pursue his case in court for 50 months and not incite his followers to voilence.
5. He is not playing politics of money. It is apparent that every kobo given to his campaign by his poor followers are being used judiciously.
6. His love for ordinary Nigerians. Identifying with the Super Eagles in the match against Kenya.

Sai Buhari. Sai mai gaskiya!

aisha2:
Mine was PTF , the PTF projects were the only sign of governance I have seen in Nigeria in my life. I had always voted for buhari in previous elections but this year I almost changed. At first I thought Goodluck/ Ribadu, then my friend who I was hanging out with on the 1st of october at eagle square went to his car to pick something only for me to hear that he had died in the blast, this was someone who marched with me side by side during the Save Nigeria Group Rally, He was a northerner and moslem but believed strongly that Nigerians should not be held by any cabal, that the constitution was supreme, together we used our money photocopying fliers and distributing during the YarAdua saga even when many pple had not tyaken a stand. When the blast happened I expected decisive action instead I was sick and sad to see the cheap political point our president turned the blast to. That really hurt me, what was worse was when I got insider information that they were aware of the threat but saw it as an opportunity to hang IBB. Anyway, I thought Ribadu was a younger version of buhari but I realised that if e no be panadol e no fit be like panadol, so I went back to my first love. BB for me please

Do accept my deepest symphaties for your loss. BB victory will be pay back. Keep up the support.

As BB coast to victory in 2 weeks time, one of the things that will help historical documentation is to know what attracted people to support an almost uknown party, the CPC, and led to its victories in the presidential, gubernitorial and legislative poles.

For me it was Tunde Bakare. I had followed his life and ministry since 1998 and had continually been captivated by his teachings. When the report in the media had it that he was supporting Buhari for presidency. I was not sure. But it led me to analyse the Buhari brand without prejudice (something many of the GEJ supporters who will vilify this post are still suffering from) and what I saw what simply sinscillating.

What about you?

VOTE GOODLUCK EBELE AZIKWE JONATHAN

Vote PHCN and its continual power outage.
Vote excecutive wastage and excecutive recklessness.
Vote the most cluessness leadership in Nigeria, EVER!
Vote PDP and their a continual vionless leadership.
Vote Dame Patience Jonathan, and a new curriculum in Dame's English (Umblerra).
Vote more debts for the nation. $30 billion in 9 months; from simple proportion how much debt would we have in 4 years.
Vote more celebrated thieves in the clan of Bode George.
Vote the very occultic Obasanjo.
Vote more kidnapping.
Vote greater crisis in Jos.
Vote Boko Haram.
Vote the resurgence of Niger Delta millitancy.
Vote for the continual drainage of Nigeria's crude reserve.
Vote for a sleeping, backward and non progressing nation.

VOTE GEJ, PDP AND GREATER INEPTITUDE.

PDP, OLE!
PDP, OLE!!
PDP, OLE!!!

OLE, PDP!!!!

VOTE GOODLUCK EBELE AZIKWE JONATHAN

Vote PHCN and its continual power outage.
Vote excecutive wastage and excecutive recklessness.
Vote the most cluessness leadership in Nigeria, EVER!
Vote PDP and their a continual vionless leadership.
Vote Dame Patience Jonathan, and a new curriculum in Dame's English (Umblerra).
Vote more debts for the nation. $30 billion in 9 months; from simple proportion how much debt would we have in 4 years.
Vote more celebrated thieves in the clan of Bode George.
Vote the very occultic Obasanjo.
Vote more kidnapping.
Vote greater crisis in Jos.
Vote Boko Haram.
Vote the resurgence of Niger Delta millitancy.
Vote for the continual drainage of Nigeria's crude reserve.
Vote for a sleeping, backward and non progressing nation.

VOTE GEJ, PDP AND GREATER INEPTITUDE.

PDP, OLE!
PDP, OLE!!
PDP, OLE!!!

OLE, PDP!!!!

ALL OF THESE ANTI-BUHARI THREADS ARE ONLY IMPROVING THE MAN'S POPULARITY. KEEP IT UP.

When did Nigerian Tribune become a source of credible information. Well, for those of us in Ibadan, Tribune is Akala's paper and Awo spirit is soon to rise up in judgement against them.

Gen. Muhammadu Buhari is the most credible, upright, experienced, focused, and visionary of all the presidential candidates and I again call for all to massively VOTE for him.

The last I heard of Babatope was that he was running errands for Abacha; now he has the self righteousness to analyse Buhari. Politician sha!

Another thing, he keeps a coloumn with Nigerian Tribune. A proffessing Awoist; who has lost the spirit and life of everything that Awo stood for. He and his paper, that he writes for, The Tribune, are anti-ACN and are fighting to pull down the legacy and pupils that Awo left behind. Pity!!

Now Babatope analyses Buhari. He should thank his stars he is alive to tell these stories. Becuase if Buhari had used the Rawlings Solution, he would be dead and not speaking.

Lets set the record straight: If History were to repeat itself and Nigeria of 1983 was to come up again, I would still pray that a Buhari/Idiagbon regime takes over and sanitize the rot, like we experienced then. The only difference being that IBB coup would not succeed, while Buhari is allowed to run his govt. to a logical conclusion that will pave way for the installing of a democratic enviroment.

And by the way, many years after this enviroment is in the offing: IT IS CALLED BB2011.

Babatope only helped advertise our man: Vote Buhari, Vote Bakare!!!

Jimmy Boy:
I have read several negative posts about buhari, but I am yet a single person accussing him of corruption. All I hear is that his regim was high-handed, he is an islamic radical and he said abacha did not steal. We should not forget that the PTF was probed by OBJ, we all know that the vindictive OBJ would have thrown him to the lions by now assuming he was indicted in any form. On the high-handedness, this was an innocent mistake that any true leader because as he never enriched himself with it. He has since atoned for this, as this has affected his political fortunes since 1999. However, Nigerians have tested those that claim to observe the rule of law, and have realized that integrity is the missing link in the leadership of this country.You can advise these thieves to also atone for their evil by returning every kobo stolen back to the Nigerian people. Until this is done, buhari is our only hope. I learnt they have released ibori today on health ground,I laugh, we are no naïve enough to buy the health story, they copied that story line from the lockerbie bomber saga between UK and libya. Shame on them.

The above is the finest response to all anti-BB. I am just full of hope at the prospects of anything but PDP from these elections.

Nothing!
He has done not a thing!!

Are you satisfied?!!!

To begin with the person who put this on the front page with that misleading topic is apparently a paid GEJ supporter.

Also it is not news that M. Abacha is running for Gov in Kano and it not news that Buhari doesn't support him, so why is this making front page.

The Mohhammed Abacha story only help seperate the CPC from the PDP as the former is democratic and the latter, dictorial. Upon what basis do you expel someone; becuase he is the son of a former dictactor? What Nigerians needs is to expunge themselves from the dictorial mentality of the PDP by voting credible and democratic men Like Buhari/Bakare. And stop all this cheap blackmail.

He would go down in history as the only incumbent who was disgraced from office. Consider also

DAME PATIENCE: BADLUCK FOR GOODLUCK JONATHAN
When Mr. President finally exit Aso-Rock May 29th 2011 he would not realize that one other reason for his waterloo was the excesses of his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan. Madam First Lady came to limelight with the inauguration of her husband as president but she introduced herself to Nigerians through all the wrong reasons. And as Mr. President tries to justify her gaffes in the public, she is never in short supply of them. “Some Husbands Do Have Them” would be an appropriate name for the drama Dame Patience stars in before Nigerians’ viewing to the shame of Mr. President.
President Jonathan should be wholly blamed for his wife’s faults because Nigerians would have been spared all this if he had not legalized an illegal office – the office of the First Lady. While this office is unconstitutional, it is ceremonial and is honored in most democratic nations around the world. However the military government of Ibrahim Babangida gave prominence to it and this military practice was not discontinued during the Obasanjo administration, as he exalted one of his wives, Stella, as First Lady – the end of which was her unfortunate death while undergoing aesthetic (stomach) surgery. This unconstitutional office enjoys a handsome supply of monies from the national treasury, with staffs paid by the federal government, not minding the fact that Mr. President has never pointed to the provision made for it in our yearly national budget. This office would always have a pet project designed to benefit women and children, at least to justify the huge sums given to it. The office of the First Lady is illegal and is one of the greatest source of waste to tax-payers money.
Yinka Odumakin, spokes-person for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, recently reminded Nigerians of some alleged corrupt practices traced to Patience Jonathan at the inception of her husband tenure. Mr. Presidents aides were quick to discredit these allegation, claiming the EFCC had given her a clean bill of health. Despite this, it is not difficult to believe these allegations as corruption charges against any Nigerian incumbent has never been proven. Also the President’s aides and the EFCC are simply doing the job they are paid for when they paint their principals as saints. It is only after Jonathan have left office would we discover the depth of the corrupt practices this nation has put up with for the past 12 years PDP has been in government. The more reason their exit is so urgent.
Dame Patience brought a new dimension to “First Ladyism” in Nigeria when, rather than accompany her husband on his campaign trip, she ran a parallel campaign with her husband’s. In the disguise of running a PDP women’s rally nationwide, Dame campaigned “eloquently” for her husband’s re-election – in the process introducing new words to the English dictionary like umblelah (Umbrella) and also identifying with a group of widows as “we widows”. All of these, without regard to how much these rallies would cost the nation. Dame Jonathan is forever in the public view, always shown giving speeches on NTA. Despite her poor command of English, she forever saying something on TV. Patience Jonathan is bad luck for Goodluck Jonathan.

BB will win; GEJ will loose. Whatever you will do to yourself is your business. One of his waterloo is his wife. Consider

DAME PATIENCE: BADLUCK FOR GOODLUCK JONATHAN
When Mr. President finally exit Aso-Rock May 29th 2011 he would not realize that one other reason for his waterloo was the excesses of his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan. Madam First Lady came to limelight with the inauguration of her husband as president but she introduced herself to Nigerians through all the wrong reasons. And as Mr. President tries to justify her gaffes in the public, she is never in short supply of them. “Some Husbands Do Have Them” would be an appropriate name for the drama Dame Patience stars in before Nigerians’ viewing to the shame of Mr. President.
President Jonathan should be wholly blamed for his wife’s faults because Nigerians would have been spared all this if he had not legalized an illegal office – the office of the First Lady. While this office is unconstitutional, it is ceremonial and is honored in most democratic nations around the world. However the military government of Ibrahim Babangida gave prominence to it and this military practice was not discontinued during the Obasanjo administration, as he exalted one of his wives, Stella, as First Lady – the end of which was her unfortunate death while undergoing aesthetic (stomach) surgery. This unconstitutional office enjoys a handsome supply of monies from the national treasury, with staffs paid by the federal government, not minding the fact that Mr. President has never pointed to the provision made for it in our yearly national budget. This office would always have a pet project designed to benefit women and children, at least to justify the huge sums given to it. The office of the First Lady is illegal and is one of the greatest source of waste to tax-payers money.
Yinka Odumakin, spokes-person for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, recently reminded Nigerians of some alleged corrupt practices traced to Patience Jonathan at the inception of her husband tenure. Mr. Presidents aides were quick to discredit these allegation, claiming the EFCC had given her a clean bill of health. Despite this, it is not difficult to believe these allegations as corruption charges against any Nigerian incumbent has never been proven. Also the President’s aides and the EFCC are simply doing the job they are paid for when they paint their principals as saints. It is only after Jonathan have left office would we discover the depth of the corrupt practices this nation has put up with for the past 12 years PDP has been in government. The more reason their exit is so urgent.
Dame Patience brought a new dimension to “First Ladyism” in Nigeria when, rather than accompany her husband on his campaign trip, she ran a parallel campaign with her husband’s. In the disguise of running a PDP women’s rally nationwide, Dame campaigned “eloquently” for her husband’s re-election – in the process introducing new words to the English dictionary like umblelah (Umbrella) and also identifying with a group of widows as “we widows”. All of these, without regard to how much these rallies would cost the nation. Dame Jonathan is forever in the public view, always shown giving speeches on NTA. Despite her poor command of English, she forever saying something on TV. Patience Jonathan is bad luck for Goodluck Jonathan.

80% of what number of people did you interview.
And even if they don't know the logo, cant they read CPC?
My guy there is the element of miracle here that will shift the whole thing the BB way. With free and fair elections, forget it; Jonathan can do nothing. Except they go the usual style: The Owu style; the Do or Die politics.

Olorun O de ni fun won se.

BB for 2011!!!

My guy dis is on the wrong section. Moderator remove and put in the Jokes corner.
Nice one.

When Mr. President finally exit Aso-Rock May 29th 2011 he would not realize that one other reason for his waterloo was the excesses of his wife, Dame Patience Jonathan. Madam First Lady came to limelight with the inauguration of her husband as president but she introduced herself to Nigerians through all the wrong reasons. And as Mr. President tries to justify her gaffes in the public, she is never in short supply of them. “Some Husbands Do Have Them” would be an appropriate name for the drama Dame Patience stars in before Nigerians’ viewing to the shame of Mr. President.
President Jonathan should be wholly blamed for his wife’s faults because Nigerians would have been spared all this if he had not legalized an illegal office – the office of the First Lady. While this office is unconstitutional, it is ceremonial and is honored in most democratic nations around the world. However the military government of Ibrahim Babangida gave prominence to it and this military practice was not discontinued during the Obasanjo administration, as he exalted one of his wives, Stella, as First Lady – the end of which was her unfortunate death while undergoing aesthetic (stomach) surgery. This unconstitutional office enjoys a handsome supply of monies from the national treasury, with staffs paid by the federal government, not minding the fact that Mr. President has never pointed to the provision made for it in our yearly national budget. This office would always have a pet project designed to benefit women and children, at least to justify the huge sums given to it. The office of the First Lady is illegal and is one of the greatest source of waste to tax-payers money.
Yinka Odumakin, spokes-person for Gen. Muhammadu Buhari, recently reminded Nigerians of some alleged corrupt practices traced to Patience Jonathan at the inception of her husband tenure. Mr. Presidents aides were quick to discredit these allegation, claiming the EFCC had given her a clean bill of health. Despite this, it is not difficult to believe these allegations as corruption charges against any Nigerian incumbent has never been proven. Also the President’s aides and the EFCC are simply doing the job they are paid for when they paint their principals as saints. It is only after Jonathan have left office would we discover the depth of the corrupt practices this nation has put up with for the past 12 years PDP has been in government. The more reason their exit is so urgent.
Dame Patience brought a new dimension to “First Ladyism” in Nigeria when, rather than accompany her husband on his campaign trip, she ran a parallel campaign with her husband’s. In the disguise of running a PDP women’s rally nationwide, Dame campaigned “eloquently” for her husband’s re-election – in the process introducing new words to the English dictionary like umblerrah (Umbrella) and also identifying with a group of widows as “we widows”. All of these, without regard to how much these rallies would cost the nation. Dame Jonathan is forever in the public view, always shown giving speeches on NTA. Despite her poor command of English, she forever saying something on TV. Patience Jonathan is bad luck for Goodluck Jonathan.

I reside in Ibadan.
1. I had thought I was alone until I met a group of gentlemen in church. One of them handed me CPC hand fliers and I began campaigning around church and work.
2. I work in a Federal hospital and I became the leading figure in campaigning for Buhari. The exciting thing is that every one in my office now proffess Buharism and most people in the dept. are gunning for the CPC. Unfortunately their are these church people who insist on voting for GEJ.
3. My enthusiasm won over Ribadu chap in my office also.
4. As a volunteer Physics A level teacher, I concluded my class last saturday with a resounding campaign for Buhari/Bakare. Trust the effect of a teacher I got all my students behind me. In fact a south-south girl confessed it is Buhari all the way.

Nevertheless, I am convinced there are these 70% of the electorate that are still undecided. Let us keeep up the campaign. It is BB all the
way.

Let me apologize, Beaf, for bringing parents into this issue.
Also I am not 9jaman or any of those other guys supporting BB.

I just felt your arguments were sound in other threads and I really thought we could discourse the political situation. I also notice that you don't write with those annoying abrevations and so I am certain you are not one of those below 25yrs chaps who had poor English teachers in school.

But I am still convinced that GEJ boyz have no reason supporting him. Well, he from the south-south is one reason (but it also betrays tribalism); we have petrol (you begin to wonder what else should we have with all the crude we produce); and what again, nothing!
You do not support Buhari becuases you feel that he is a religious bigot but he has explained that story was made up by the FG sponsored ThisDay Newspaper.

It is unlike you to throw in the towel or not to proffer sound argument. But then if you choose to go, fine. I hereby proclaim BB winner of yet another debate.

I hope the thread would not fill the page before Beaf shows up. That way he would be proving to us that he is not only supporting Jonathan but has also learnt his penchance for avoiding debate on nuetral grounds. Common Beaf,

1. BB are men of integrity.
2. It would take only such men to eradicate corruption from this land.
3. Public officers are entrusted with public money; I can only entrust this nation's money in the hands of BB.
4. Buhari proved his administrative skills with the PTF. He was given about N200 billion and he produced results. Anenih was given N300 billion and roads in his states were not fixed talkless of those in other part of the nation.
5. The BB ticket would produce religious harmony. For the first time in this country, despite religious affiliation people are coming together under the BB umbrella to vote for change.
6. Buhari's antecedants in his short lived administration in 1984 showed him off as a reformer.
7. Buhari's govt. of 1984 showed sound economic understanding that led to inflation being reduced from 25% to 5%. Sanusi Lamido Sanusi called it Buharism. It was this same economic understanding that IBB betrayed that plunged Nigeria into the abyss we are yet to recover out of.
8. Buhari is passionate and resolute. He has his agenda for this nation and unfortunately, until the CPC, he has not found the platform to realise it.
9. He is not an apostle of Do or Die Politics; he has promised not to contest the results of the election in Nigerian courts (that cannnot be trusted in the first place).
10.I am sick and tired of these theiving PDP cohorts and it is time for them to go.
11. His running mate Tunde Bakare is a man of grace and excellence. A visit to his church at Ogba and you would realise that whatever wisdom runs that place, if translated to the national front will leave this nation to better for it.
11. Tunde Bakare may be the only surviving Awowist among the political class today. A vote for BB is restoring us to the wisdom of the great sage Awolowo.
12. Bakare is a man of God. Psalm 1:1-3, he is blessed and whatever is committed to his hands (including rullling this nation) would prosper.
13. The BB team is a formidable team. A glimpse into their finances would reveal a team using the least to bring out the most. That is productivity - a much needed virtue in Nigeria today.
14. An end to waste.
15. An end to the influence of OBJ and the rest.
16. An end to the wasteful office of the first lady; sparing our senses with the barage of crucified English(es).
17. An end to political voilence, thuggery, kidnapping, religious voilence,etc.
18. New wisdom to tackle Nigeria's perrenial problem of Power Supply, Bad Roads, Graduate Joblessness, Poor Educational System, Dwindling national currency, insecurity, and the likes.
19. Having a leader we can be proud of; not one that is bereft of ideas. Not a leader whose PHD is much in doubt.
20. Opening up the Nigerian situation to what where we really are; what is the state of our finances; what is our oil output situation; How much is really stolen in the nation and how much can we recover back; etc.

My brother I just need a CHANGE and continuing with GEJ is continuing the old order. How do we expect to see something different in the country if we continue with the old way of doing things?