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SuperStriker:
I don't understand you. Yourubas are struggling for VP position which abinitio was zoned to the SE.

You guys should think. You did presidency for 8 yrs. You are almost doing 4 yrs on VP yet you are dragging this one with Igbos. Nawa oooo.

An average Yoruba man is the most selfish and self centred Nigerian

My joy is that Atiku came prepared for the trash and lies that buhari and his apc usually lash out at opposition and perceived enemies. But one would think that since buhari is bereft of any tangible success in anything both in private and public sector, that his crew would be careful in throwing stones in that direction, but because they are as dumb and bereft as their boss, they will always be the first to go offensive in areas they clearly know they are deficient in.

Atiku Issues The #BuhariChallenge

Abuja, Nigeria, 10 October, 2018:

It has come to our attention that the Buhari government and the All Progressives Congress have been very idle of late, which explains their abandonment of the vital duties of running the government in order to focus on hurling insults and false accusations on the Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, His Excellency, Atiku Abubakar.

In order to give Nigerians the answers they want, we urge the Buhari Campaign Organisation to take the #BuhariChallenge and answer the following questions.

· Name one project initiated, started and completed in the last three years by the Buhari administration.
· Name one youth in President Buhari’s cabinet.
· Name one campaign promise President Buhari has kept.
· Name one Southerner heading a National Intelligence Agency under Buhari.
· Name one terrorist arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Buhari administration.
· Name one Buhari government official arrested, tried, convicted and imprisoned by the Buhari administration over their many budget padding scandals.
· Name one member of the Buhari administration fingered in corruption that was fired, arrested and currently facing trial.
· Name one former President or Head of State that has not been blamed by President Buhari for the precarious state of the economy he led us into.
· Name one year that Nigeria’s GDP grew faster than her population under Buhari (for 16 years of PDP administrations, Nigeria’s GDP always grew faster than population growth).
· Name the initiatives the Buhari government has put in place to address Nigeria being named the world headquarters for extreme poverty under Buhari.
· Name one initiative the Buhari government has put in place to address Nigeria having the world’s highest number of out of school children (13.2 million according to the United Nations Children Fund).
· Name the date the Ogoni cleanup will begin.
· Name what President Buhari has done with the ₦13 trillion loans he has taken in 3 years (compared to the ₦6 trillion borrowed by the PDP in 16 years).
· Name the real owners of the Ikoyi Apartment billions.

These are the issues the Nigerian people want to hear about, not insults from a Presidency and a party that have spent three years in office only to preside over Nigeria’s first ever recession in 25 years.

We urge the Buhari administration to remember that it is this disinterest in real governance and focus on trivia that caused Bill Gates to look President Buhari in the eye and tell him that ‘your economic blueprint does not address Nigerians’ needs’.

The Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation runs an issue based campaign where refined language and cerebral arguments founded on facts are used to disseminate the vision of our candidate which is why we call on the Buhari Campaign Organisation to waste no time in taking the #BuhariChallenge in clearing the air on these knotty issues bothering the minds of Nigerians.

Atiku Presidential Campaign Organisation
120, Adetokunbo Ademola Crescent
Wuse II
Abuja
Nigeria.

He has an MBA in surveying?

None of the above. A VP at this point should be a man who currently controls at least two states structures. With the loss of ekiti by fayose to the apc,there is no south west politician in PDP that has one state's structure.
Look at Ike and Enyinnaya. Each of them can boast of two states without even campaign, theirs and their neighboring states

He thought by insulting GEJ, he would be accepted by APC

This post is not meant to generate any tribal war nor fan an amber of tribalism but borne out of a thorough and objective calculation.

1. Why it can't be south west
Any vice presidential candidate at this time should be one who has a minimum of two states in his kitty. In other words, the day he is announced as vice, the PDP will be sure of a minimum of two states even before he starts campaigning for more. Sadly, there is no such person in the south west of PDP presently that currently controls the structure of one state, talkless of two.

With the loss of ekiti state to the APC, Gov Fayose who would have at least brought one state to the table would have finished his tenure and handed over the state to an APC led govt before the presidential election.

With the growing influence of Chief Bola Tinubu in the south west, there is presently nobody from the south west in PDP that can hijack the zone 100% from him now, at best the vice presidential candidate will get a 35% which is not enough for a VP ticket.


2. Why it should go to south east

Most people errononously believe that the south east don't possess much electoral value. They probably base their myopic assertion on the number of PVC holders as published by inec per geo political zones or maybe its based on the bigotic comment of president Buhari when in defence of his tribal bigotic lopsided appointments. But what they fail to realize that it is indeed myopic to calculate the voting strength of the south east based on those voting there. One can dare say that the voting population in the south east is 99% igbos while in the south west region, the voting population has about 30% igbos within it and north central, north west and north east having about 15%, 9% and 5% respectively. So underestimating the igbos voting strength based on those in the south east alone will be a miscalculation with huge consequences.

Moving the slot to the south east will guarantee an almost 100% vote for the PDP, a feat which can't be achieved in the south west.

Also, I have it on good authority that the presidency intends to deploy resources on the south east with the message of 'support Buhari and get Igbo presidency in 2023'.

If the ticket is given to the south west, half of the igbos may opt to vote Buhari in exchange for Igbo presidency in the next four years and it will be dangerous to split the one place they would have been sure of bulk vote since a VP slot to south west can't get beyond 40%.

I personally will propose either Ike Ekweradu or Enyinnaya Abaribe. These are men who presently are part of the structure controlling their various PDP states and even their neighbouring states. They also enjoy massive support from the members of the national assembly who are also political heavyweights in their various states, this is where Ex Gov Peter Obi lost out in the trio.

It's Satiku Sabubakar

modath:
If Atiku is wise, a non politician is his best bet...

On the contrary, he needs a vp whose clout can get at least two states without even campaigning

The next few days will have such fake news till the PDP picks an official running mate

kinkymax:
I can't laff o,,with all d gragra wey saraki de do de visit everybody na only 317 votes e fit amass wen tambuwal de double him votes wt 693,,,lol anybody ipob support na big failure awaits such person,,example ambode,,jimi agbaje,,adeleke,,lollll

Igbos no know who be ambode. Is he not the same bigot u people insulted other tribes for.
Am happy saraki lost because Yorubas have a way of denying someone but once he is enthroned by others, they use eyeservice to find their way in and even make the winner his. In 1999, they denied obj and chose Falae whom they say was more Yoruba than obj. Immediately, South east, South South and north central voted him in, they turned around and remembered he was their son to the extent that in 2003, they refused to field any candidate to run against him.
If saraki had become president, this same Yorubas will yab igbos to make saraki their son.
Very hypocritical bunch

yazach:
Reason for saraki's failure

Once IPOB(social media branch) support you, you are a loser. Fact

Yes, like they did with the Markafi faction of PDP while zombies who were supposed to mind their party were rooting for Sheriff

That particular federal constituency is the hottest and will be the most keenly contested federal constituency in the South East as the APC aspirants are the strongest politicians in the South East while the PDP and Apga has thru a keenly contested primaries of strong men announced their candidates. That's the place Emeka wants to try his luck with YPP.
Good luck to him

deomelo:
After yelling for days that he won't lose in the primaries..



You ipobs are hard learners.

You people are the biggest hypocrites in Nigeria.
The same ambode you people were insulting igbos for. Oba of Lagos said anyone who won't vote ambode will drown in lagoon. I hope he will vote ambode or risk drowning

omoiyalayi:
They were nt even lookin in d direction of atiku or saraki

I can't wait for this showdown to begin

Saturday shld come quick abeg

Atiku is north east.
Saraki is north central.
They are speaking for their zone; north west.
Think deeper next time son

Rochas is the owner of AA (Action Alliance). He can revive it and get his son in law to run in it

If half of the police and soldiers that are mounted at every half a kilometre on south east roads are transferred to abuja-kaduna roads and all highways leading into Kaduna, these daily kidnaps will end.

SarakiBukola:
Igbo kwenu...

We would make Onitsha capital of Biafra.

Abakaliki is where we would dump the wawas and osus

You are not Igbo, yet you are so filled with hatred and envy that you always seem to make posts instigating non existent division in igboland.
May God reward you accordingly

Rochas should be the worst in this area. He even seeks to defraud the world bank partners on counterpart projects that would be beneficial to his state

The news across town today has been nothing but serious fights and blodsheds and even deaths in the various APC guber congresses. I believe APC is a setback to our Democratic growth as a nation.
Look at full grown appointees of Buhari biting themselves like kids

He confused her phoney accent for articulation.
Granted, she is one of the best in buhari's bereft cabinet but as for the history of Nigeria, she is about one of the worst, better only than the ones in this present cabinet

GoTV:
We must learn to separate religion from politics. This is a vey bad example we Christians are setting. You will never find a Muslim politician campaigning in a mosque. We Christians are just making Islam appear better than Christianity

My brother, its a lie oooo. Imams and Alfas have a great role in our elections. Till now, many clerics still tell their congregants that Buhari was sent by Allah to save the nation and that anyone fighting him is fighting Allah. I was shocked. Just that its not shown on social media like Christians do

I said it a long time ago and some people reacted. But now they are seeing it. Democracy and rule of law can only return to Nigeria if Buhari dies. As long as he's alive, forget it. Even in a bedridden coma won't do cos his cabal will still use it to commit atrocities.
When he is sick and at the point of death, he will remember adeboye and archbishop of Canterbury to pray for him, when hr recovers, he starts sacking Christians to replace them with Fulani Muslims

charliboy654:
Worst has happened b4, nor be today Yanch dey back, the earlier Nigerians realized this, the better for them. Pdp has no moral right to cry foul, they started all this rubbish in the first place.

If they did this, Buhari and APC won't be in power today. Think about that

Its a dark day in our nation's Democratic history

That is UBA okota

Channels has been gagged a long time ago.
It was even AIT that gave a live on the scene report. The AIT reporter stated that a police officer told him that it will be in his best interest to leave that polling unit. He had to quietly leave.
A very senior correspondent called in and reported that the police chased them away and told them to go wait at the collation centre as they (the press) has no business there.

Episteme2:
It's very unfortunate, utterly shameful and extremely demoralizing that the media did not think it a priority to follow this rerun to the last even when it's just 7 PU involved. Shockprisingly, all Channels TV could not even follow the election with clear updates. A controversial rerun that was supposed to attract the attention of all and sundry turned out to be a trivial issue and the ruling party easily had their way.

OyinO:
Where are the southern military commanders when this is happening? Meaning there is a serious internal conspiracy or your news is fake.

I was told that most of them who were vocal have been compulsarily retired. You remember the retirement of over 50 senior officers of south origin last year?

A lot of things about this election were shrouded in secrecy. Pix are even taken from hiding. Journalists couldn't even use their cameras.
PDP agents were beaten.
Villagers in pdp strongholds were barred from coming near the polling units.
God save this nation from the evil they have invited into our society

Fellow Nigerians.
It has become obvious that its only God that can deliver this nation from the evil hold of apc.

As for those who in 2015 voted APC and said, "we will vote out Jonathan and PDP and vote in Buhari, if he doesn't perform, we will vote him out", I hope you now see the stupidity and where your foolishness has landed us all. Come and vote them out.

As for me and my household, we have agreed that if Buhari and apc win in 2019, we will leave Nigeria for you all to enjoy the fruits of your stupidity