₦airaland Forum

Shuku0kukobambi:
I've cancelled the other things you should keep for encouraging yourselves at your ummuna meetings.

Can you tell.what aggrements you reached with the FG? Was it Jibrin that kanu negotiated with or Buhari's corprse? Whom did kanu sign the agreement with?

Don't mind them; they appear condemned to forever believe in their own concocted lies, chest beating, and morbid hate for anyone who is not pro-biafra - even their own neighbours, best of friends and hosts.

In their wisdom, our elders say: The butterfly gyrates up and down as if it will land, only for it to end up disappearing into the bush without it achieving it's aim!

So shall it be with these destructive "agitators." In any case, the law of natural selection has always proved that the larger society always survives at the expense of this type of disappearing agitators who are simply pests holding the rest of their own clans down.

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Empiree:
Congratulations Mr. President. This man tried Sha. He constantly contested for 16 yrs straight. Why do people accused him of rigging now. He used to lose as well

Thanks for posting this historical record (re-attached here.) Clearly the PDP/OBJ had been inflating and massively rigging voting figures in their favour since 1999; the Card Reader ecosystem, once successfully introduced from 2015, started cutting those rigged and phantom vote figures to size.

And the Almighty willing, such rationalization of figures will be even better perfected in subsequent elections, probably through Electronic Voting methods that should first be tried on a small scale in dry-run situations a few times before being deployed in a general election scenario?

We shall get there.

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skentelelady:
Please just keep quiet. We know your type. Why are you blaming Atiku now? Honestly you sound like an hypocrite and that's what you are.

I couldn't even read all the jargons you wrote up there

Atiku announced before election he would sell NNPC and you still went ahead to vote for him.. Then you came here blabbing nonsense about selling it to himself and friends

Atiku has several corruption and fraud cases around his neck before election, yet you went ahead to vote for him

Atiku didn't win his polling unit because you didn't know he was not popular in his hometown. What nonsense talk is that?

In all you knew Atiku was was a no no but because of your hatred for buhari, you we the ahead to vote for Atiku. You people who voted For Him and still come back to cry had I know are all hypocrites and f00ls

If Atiku had won, would you come here to write these rubbish about being corrupt, NNPC etc

Like Atiku like his voters and supports. Thieves and corrupt bigots

Brilliant! And I approve this message.

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LesbianBoy:
Amarabae forget long story...

Atiku lost because he had an igbo deputy simple! This people hates the igbos so much and I just don't know why. I mean see saraki. When he was in APC and supporting buhari how many times did he go to kwara and have people screaming "ole" at him? He wasn't this hated then, but immediately he used "mago-mago" and become senate president and made an igbo man his deputy then switched to PDP, they turned their backs on him. Also, look at dogara his partner in crime, people keep saying saraki is a thief bla bla bla....dogara is also a thief but he didn't have an igbo deputy and boom he was re-elected!

Brilliant thinking all through; however, the reasons "this people hates the igbos so much," and the Igbos equally hate this people so much, are as clear as day to one who isn't partisan. I won't pretend to be sleeping and refuse to wake up when the town crier comes around with that message to wake up!

Anyways, to each his/her own.

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Mizwisdom:
I like this Atiku. I don't think there can ever be free & fair election in this country. PDP should start rigging too

Hahaha... Pray, what would you think PDP had been doing all those 16 years? You think that party was winning fair and square? Even Yar'Adua said clearly Obasanjo rigged the election that brought him (Yar'Adua) to power, as an example. Or you think PDP did not rig at all this time around as well? Especially in its strongholds?

Thing is, only a party that's strong in an area can afford to rig in that area. If a party is weak in an area and attempts to rig in that area, its members trying to do the rigging will most likely get lynched. That, truly, is the conventional wisdom practiced by the "party structure" in almost all areas. Simple.

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zlantanfan:
For those shouting rig hope you know dino and dogara won their seats and survived same tsunami that swept atiku and saraki.

Akpabio couldn't survive to go to Senate yet omo agege and orji Kalu won in hostile region against their party.


My opinion is if you are genuinely with your people no excuse or event would displace you

Good thinking.

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madridguy:
If anyone try to corner the senate this time around na sorry be him case.

Amen.

But seriously, the APC people have to better manage their success this time around o. And methinks that includes the President-elect once inaugurated should make sure the APC house is in order before he inaugurates the 9th Parliament/NASS.

The current 8th Parliament has been a disaster, TBH, especially in terms of cornering for its members without exception a large chunk of our meagre patrimony, distorting National budgets thus thwarting infrastructural development strides, going AWOL while important Bills are neglected, and rushing through to pass largely frivolous Bills.

The President better be a more firm politician this time around in the overall interest of society.

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midolian:

ssons Learnt In Nigeria’s Presidential Election by midolian(m): 9:47am On Feb 26
It is now crystal clear that Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress is heading for a crushing defeat of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

There had been surprises and upsets in many states as the results were announced, but not predicted was that the APC candidate, vilified on social media by PDP warriors, on the pulpits by bigoted hate preachers, would return a resounding victory against PDP.

Here are some of the lessons learnt in the February 23 election:

1. Social media power overrated: If elections are won on Twitter and Facebook, President Buhari would by now be writing his handover notes and be preparing to tend his cows on his farm in Daura. But the limitations of the social media platforms especially Twitter have just been exposed by the results of the election. The candidate of the PDP got more retweets, more likes for tweets by supporters on Twitter, but such preferences count for nothing in the real voting. For information, although there are over 92 million Nigerians using the internet, not all of them are connected to the social media platforms.

According to some verified statistics, about 25 million Nigerians use Facebook, with 16 million being active users.

Twitter users are in several millions, representing just 8.83% of social media users. At 8.29 %, users of Pinterest are surprisingly close to users of Twitter. Instagram commands just 2.0 per cent and Facebook 78.47 per cent as at 2018.

This may explain why the orchestrated campaigns of falsehood and calumny against the APC candidate did not get much traction going into the election. As past elections had shown in Nigeria, the people who vote are the ordinary people, the peasants, petty traders, artisans who are not wired to the social media platforms. And they have spoken in favour of the candidate they believe is the greatest friend of the ‘Talakawa’.

2. Elite power, pulpit power has been smashed by the results of the election. Those hate preachers who abused the pulpit to command their congregation to vote for the PDP have been put to shame. Elite in the north and south who believe Buhari has been ‘bad business’ and worked vigorously to dethrone him, now also know their powers are limited. The ordinary masses hold the master key to ‘people power’. Buhari, like in 2015, has overcome elite gang up and conspiracy of the churches. In Abuja, the votes recorded in Kubwa, Garki, Mbappe and some other places with a wide Christian population and civil servants against Buhari were to some extent offset by farmers living in the villages around the capital.

3. Politicians who put a lot of score on endorsement now should know better. The Afenifere in Yorubaland and the various political groups largely failed to mobilise the votes for Buhari in the region, despite their endorsement. The results in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo were too close to show that the people did not heed the instructions of the groups. Ohanaeze was also rebuffed to some extent in the south east states. The Northern Elders Forum of Ango Abdullahi, the Middle Belt Forum, the Arewa Consultative Forum need some reality checks about their power as opinion moulders.

4. The fourth lesson is that Igbo appeared to have learnt some lessons from their one-basket political disposition in 2015. In 2019, they did not put all their eggs in one basket, as they gave Buhari more than 25 per cent in Ebonyi, Abia, Anambra and Imo. Only Enugu gave Buhari the snub as the opposition recorded a thumping victory here, 355,553 votes to Buhari’s 54,423. In Lagos, however, Igbo voting pattern like suspected in 2015, unsettled their Yoruba hosts, leading to threatening inter-ethnic hostility. Yoruba believe that Igbo should always support their interests, afterall ‘When in Rome, one is expected to behave like the Romans’.

5.All politics is truly local. Kwarans demonstrated this in the way they humiliated the PDP and its chief strategist, Bukola Saraki, rejecting the campaign of ‘better Nigeria’, ‘making Nigeria work again’, for home grown wild fire campaign of ‘O To ge’, which translates to “Enough is Enough’. The campaign dethroned Saraki from Kwara central senate seat and smashed the PDP into political irrelevance, with the APC recording 308,984 votes, two and a half times more than the 138,184 votes recorded by the PDP. In Daura, Katsina, voters showed the APC senatorial candidate that he needed to settle with them as they clobbered him, by voting for the Accord Party candidate, in the same polling unit, where Buhari recorded over 700 votes to three for Atiku. In Kogi state, Dino Melaye won a return ticket to the Senate despite all the controversies he generated. He will need to thank fumbling ex-police chief, Ibrahim Idris for making him popular with his people. And in Bauchi, speaker Yakubu Dogara survived his expected political demise and won fourth term ticket in his Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal constituency.

6. Buhari is the only politician in Nigeria today with a solid home base. President Buhari has proven once again that he is the Awolowo, Aminu Kano of our time, posting overwhelming victory in his home state of Katsina and other states, such asd Kano, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kaduna, Jigawa in the North West that he had consistently won since 2003, when he made the first bid for Nigeria’s presidency. Buhari also showed commanding presence in the North east. Atiku failed to show such political force in his state of Adamawa that he won with a few thousand votes. Then to show how Buhari has gathered much political traction since elected in 2015, he had a strong showing in states, such as Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa, with high Christian population, that Atiku thought he would have won convincingly, based on the propaganda that Buhari is anti-Christian. Buhari similarly cut inroads into South South and South East states, denying Atiku any Tsunami effect from the zones.

7. Finally, lies, falsehood do get their comeuppances in the fullness of time. This election has proven this. Buhari in the run-up to the poll was the target of so many vicious lies and propaganda. The most reprehensible lie was that he was a clone from Sudan planted in Aso Rock. He was also painted as a hater of Christians, who allowed Boko Haram to seize a Christian girl Leah Sharibu. They accused him of promoting an Islamisation agenda and of being an ethnic bigot who favoured his region in appointments. Some even said he had finished Nigeria with foreign debts, a claim that was not supported by available facts. The opposition will need to invent new lies now as the President has posted a most crushing defeat of their candidate.

http://www.nta.ng/news/politics/20190226-some-great-lessons-learnt-in-nigerias-presidential-election/

lalasticlala

This is a well written piece for posterity, IMHO.

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axponline:
I love the election results (if what has been reported is fairly accurate). I am an Atiku supporter but I accept he did not have the political support all over the country to overcome PMB.
However, I am still happy with the results.

WHY

1. It reflects the peoples will in the various localities. People voted for the candidate mostly and not the party as was the practice in the past.
2. It got rid of those greedy ex governors who are or who were aspiring to be senators e. Saraki, Akpabi, Ajimobi, Uduaghan etc
3. All the traitors that joined APC in 2015 to get elected and then decamped to PDP have mostly been shown the way out. e. Saraki

I don't think it is premature to congratulate PMB and pray that God would give him the wisdom to lead the country better than he did previously.

Amen.

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Amarabae:
FACT! South East/South South Votes will decide the upcoming election!
Enough of this blackmailing tactics by South west APC, a look at the 2015 election results will tell you a lot about the Geo political zones that will be the decider.
In 2015 it was between a Northerner and a Southerner and the north wanted power back by all means, so Buhari enjoyed a sympathy vote from the north with the backing of influential politicians like Kwankwaso, Saraki
But 2019, it is a northerner vs a northerner and looking at the cartel behind Atiku(kwankwaso, tambuwal, obj, saraki, IBB etc) , you don't need to be told that Northern votes will be divided.
Likely in a 60:40 scale.
Then the two northerners will look towards south for votes to emerge the winner but which geo political zone will determine that in the south?
For me, It is the South South.
How?
Listen up.
In 2015, South East gave GEJ 2,464,906 votes
While the south west gave Buhari 2,433,193 votes
While the south south gave GEJ 4,714,723 votes
That means that what South West gave Buhari in 2015 was totally cancelled by what South east gave Jonathan! FACT!!
SO come Saturday.
Whatsoever South west APC will give Buhari will be totally Swallowed by what South east /South south will give Atiku!
Atiku is certain of at least 6million in SE/SS but Buhari can't get more than 3million in South west.
Atiku will get up to 30% in South west but Buhari can never get more than 15% in SE and in SS.
South South/South East block vote will determine the election.
Congratulations to our incoming President.
Alhaji Atiku Oluwatosin Ekpeyong Timi Onohe Chibuzor Abubakar.
Waziri Adamawa.
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Spread it.

As always, chest beating is an ass.

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drshrewd:
abeg projector we need some update

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ojeysky:
Cool am sticking with getting the GK series then, please I will be interested in how you finally did your setup:
The wire size and distance to CC, DC breaker specs, other accessories used and how they are connected

I currently have double pairs of 10mm(?) wire over 25m, one of which I use for my existing 24V system. So I'll simply use the other pair for the PIP5048. In the near future, I'll install several additional panels on a flat roof that is about 50m away (in route length) and then can run, say, 6mm/4mm wire (I believe) from them to the PIP. You can check out wire size/voltage drop calculators on line for your specific needs, as indeed I will again do soon.

My PV-Inverter DC Breaker will be 9a x 1.5, rounded to 20a, but must be @ about 500v. The PIP must be properly earthed and surge protected, so I'll be putting in place a MNSPD 600 with or without a formal Combiner Box/Bus bar. Expert details of how to do that have been kindly advised by NiyiOmoIyunade a few pages back, so please consult those.

I look forward to putting up the system when all these accessories are at hand.

[BTW, one major selling point for me I forgot to mention earlier, is In-built Programmable Timers for the power supply and some other modes one may wish for the PIP to be in.]

Good luck with your purchase I've noticed already.

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Saipro:
For the first few months, I ran a PV array of about 70V which had much higher current in the line but closer to CC optimization curves. The next two years, I optimised my system by having a PV string of 100V for a charge voltage of 57.2V. While having higher VoC, this system harvested better (despite less promising optimization curve yields).
The current arrangement has 4 panels in a row for a VoC of about 140V. Wakes up earlier and sleeps later (harvest not significant). What is significant however are the harvests during overcast weather and days when panels are dust coated. I get up to 15% increment in harvest. While it might not seem like much, it makes all the difference between waking up to 88% rather than 82%. Or on deep discharge days (82% for me), ending the day on float or absorb at 99%. Over the months and years, that's a lot.

This is quite something. Thanks.

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PaChukwudi44:
Kano will not be up to 1m.Seen 10 local governments already

It was 1.46x million already the last time I checked. I really fear for your kind of a mindset and flippancy.

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januzaj:
Even his people wanted Buhari.
He should go back to Cameroon,he might win there.
Awon iyalaya re lo stupid. Eleribu omo
PaChukwudi,Inec officer on Nairaland is on his way to collation centre to submit Nairaland likes and shares, with these likes,Kano,Katsina and Kaduna votes will be neutralized.

Oh Lawd!

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MistaCode:
Not that, Because I know my Eastern folks very well....

Apparently you don't.

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PaChukwudi44:
how many votes did Buhari get from your zone.Is by doing BMC job on nairaland?

Like it or not, those votes must have contributed to and enhanced APC's and Buhari's victory if the final results so turn out.

Every vote, they say, counts.

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RTSC:
Look at this one.

Upon all your bigotry on nairaland, half your region voted for atiiku.

If I were you, I would go and sleep. Shior.

I'm sorry, but now you sound bigoted to me.

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RTSC:
2023 is another time.
Accept the verdict and forge ahead. Four years will be over in no time.

We need to get the pdp presidency nomination as soon as possible.

I don't know your post history, but if by "We" you mean the people of the Southeast, then it's yet to be seen that the core north with the voting numbers will likely align in your direction. So much bad blood was whipped up in recent years - may be inadvertently or deliberately by those who don't necessarily command the real voters of the Southeast?

Anyways, time will tell.

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helinues:
Bro is everywhere.

Upon all the projects Buhari gave SW, he narrowly wins.

How about southern Kaduna and Benue people?

I predicted 1 million margin though

This reinforces the message that all politics are local, and that the more things appear to change, the more they remain the same.

There's so much bad blood within the people of the Southwest at present (mainly political gladiators - take strong APC vs PDP sentiments and the relatively poor performance of incumbent governments in Oyo, Ondo, and Osun for instance) such that the geopolitical zone cannot afford to keep playing this politics of "winner-take-all" for much longer.

If such acrimonious attributes and sub-par performances are not arrested on time, then chances are the geo zone will not have an effective "from-a-position-of-strength" collaboration with other preferred zones to retain power going forward.

But hey, what do I know?

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mycar:
This is definitely not the wish of the people but game on

So those who voted for the party you wished would not win are not the people and have not delivered any message to you?

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Pierced:
I pray it comes true.

I am already loosing hope.

That poster is just raising your hope for nothing, seeing that you appear vunerable.

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Gandollaar:
Have you taken your medication today?

And have your taken your own medication that you've missed for several days in a row up until today?

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Nickijoy:
So bitter...

If you can't stand heat, stay away from a hot kitchen.

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NgeneUkwenu:
So which place come be Atiku's stronghold?

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Igbobyblood:
It's over people

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KubwaBoy:
Time to start looking for Visa. Even Kenya, I no mind.

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TAxposer:
Card reader really exposed PDP

Of course. I've been shouting it: The improved potency of the Card Reader ecosysten this time around would ruthlessly limit those phantom vote figures that would traditionally be declared from especially the creeks - and to a lesser extent this time around, the Southeast.

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BafanaBafana:
Calm down bros. There's nothing pdp can do. Their days of writing results are gone.

Na so o. Well said.

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Racoon:
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Wake up to reality man.Atiku is winning this except Buhari rig which is not even possible. Not everyone is a sai baba zombie.

Based on your own claim that rigging is not possible, I take it you'll be a gentleman and accept the outcomes of the elections if INEC declares Buhari of the APC Winner of the presidential ballot, for example?

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2metrelaurie:
APC isn't leading in the benue I live

You can only live in/on one street at a time; stop claiming to be certain of even the next street.

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xtremeTall:
Buhari victory gonna give me a lot of joy...may God help me

Amen.

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