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My oga's ward at omole phase one: ACN- 242, ANPP- 1, ADC - 4, CPC- 27, PDP - 30. My ward Acn 86, CPC 18, PDP 19 for my polling unit. Cpc no get candidate and it got 18.Who says CPC will not do well in lagos at the presidential election? My friend's ward My polling booth result: ACN - 92, CPC- 5, PDP-4, ANPP- 1

Acn 86, CPC 18, PDP 19 for my polling unit. Cpc no get candidate and it got 18. Sign of what to happen next week in presidential. Vote CPC Buhari Bakare. I voted acn today and extracted commitment from acn agents to vote for cpc next week. Guys I was amazed to see secret acn admirers and prospective votes of cpc next week.

Acn 86, CPC 18, PDP 19 for my polling unit. Cpc no get candidate and it got 18. Sign of what to happen next week in presidential. Vote CPC Buhari Bakare

Can this thread be deleted? There is a poll running already for close to 3 months. Why the need for this

Le molar, u be correct mumu! Buhari scored average of 40percent in the middle belt in previous elections. I can't wait for next week to come. Jonathan, ribadu go shock. I have acn agents telling me at the polling booth that it is cpc next week ooo, but they can't say it publicly. South west go shock acn and pdp next week. Watch this space

Now I know why ribadu will never rule this country. What arrogance! You come to the pages of the newspaper and tell the same man that you claimed inspired you to step down? The same buhari he said is a great Nigerian? Buhari with 29million votes to step down for a man who is not even sure of winning adamawa? This man is a joke

Nigeria Overall Presidential Election Last Update: 22-Apr-2003 19:25
Quota Requirement: The winner of the election shall have the highest number of votes cast at the election and not less than one quarter of all the votes cast in each of at least two thirds of the States in the Federation and the Federal Capital Territory (FCT)
Party
Candidates
Total Votes Scored
% of Valid Votes
Quotas
ANPP
Pres: Buhari Muhammadu Vice: Okadigbo Chuba
12,710,022
32.19%
19 of 25 states.

this is what buhari had in 2003 when he was wrongly villified as an islamist! With Tunde Bakare doing a great job in the south west, this time we will get the required 25% in 24 states (19 Northern states, 5 SOUTH WESTERN STATES and FCT) I am very sure Buhari will have the highest number of votes (north west, north east, and niger and nasarawa in north central)

we can win this election, by God's grace of course.

The revelation from the International Republican Institute's report on 2003 elections in PH is shocking! Buhari is indeed popular and has been a victim of cheating.

[b]Closing
Team 12 decided to close all 4 polling stations, ward 12 unit 23, and ward 10 units 34-36. Unit 23, having effectively opened at 3:00 remained open until 5:50 PM. Closing also grossly varied from the process stipulated in electoral code. The unused and tendered ballots were not counted, PDP agents assisted the poll orderly in counting the total number of Gubernatorial ballots cast, 43 with 1 invalid. The following results were recorded for the Gubernatorial election:
NAC
PDP
ANPP
NCP
1
21
17
1
and for the Presidential election, no total count was taken, no tendered or unused ballots counted, 3 ballots deemed invalid and the final results were:
ABGA
NAC
PDP
ANPP
JP
1
1
20
15
1
After tabulating the results, the ballot boxes were transported, allegedly to the ward collation center in a car driven and secured by only PDP agents.
Team 12 observed the same irregularities in ward 10, unit 36 where tendered and unused ballots were not accounted for, PDP agents assisted in the count and the following results were recorded on the loose leaf results sheets for the Presidential elections:
PDP
ANPP
ABGA
JP
14
18
5
4
And for the gubernatorial elections the following results:
ANPP
PDP
NCP
ABGA
APLP
19
15
1
2
1
Finally, Team 12 observed closing for ward 10 unit 34 where the same tabulating irregularities existed and the final count for Presidential elections was:
PDP
ANPP
JP
10
9
1
Gubernatorial:
PDP
ANPP
JP
16
8
1
85
No transportation of ballot boxes was present before Team 12 left the polling station for the ward collation center. INEC officials present were attempting to hitchhike or raise the money for a taxi to take the ballot boxes to the ward collation center when Team 12 left.
Ward Collation
Team 12 arrived at the ward 10 collation center at approximately 7:30 and observed an atmosphere of complete chaos. A large crowd of angry people, ballot boxes deposited in no particular order, no electricity and a very tense atmosphere. For security reasons, Team 12 left immediately after arrival.
At 11:30, Team 12 went to the INEC headquarters for a second time (the first time at 7:50 was inconclusive) and observed the following recorded numbers for the Ikweri LGA recorded in the INEC official log for the Presidential elections, no numbers were available for the Gubernatorial elections:
AD: 346 NCP: 35
ANPP: 1876 NDP: 157
APGA: 195 PDP: 91566
JP: 331 PSP: 10
LDPN: 83 UDP: 6
MDJ: 30 UNPP: 665
A total of 98,116 votes counted. [/b]

BB was in Owerri, Onitsha.

The campaign team is maximising their little resources by going to key states & zones. Why hold a massive rally and waste resources in the zones where they have already decided to go for Azikiwe Ebele? South East, including APGA face said it must be Ebele! This is the mistake GEJ made by holding massive rallies in the north with huge Nigerian resources only to meet empty arenas, stadia. Now the man is holding consultations in that zone (North)! Cluelessness

So more of CPC BB consultations happened in those zones rather than rallies.

even with the exeption of lagos and ibadan, the campaign in the south west has been based on consulations. foot soldiers and mouths will spread the words of freedom as we are doing in lagos.

I think this is the most well-managed campaign in terms of resource utilisation. and this is what to expect in a BB government.

ok. really looking forward to the mother of all rallies!

PDP go fear!

amen, aisha2. our efforts shall not been in vain. May 29 will be the most memorable day with the emergence of BB ticket.

Is the Abuja rally not happening today again, Aisha2?

megastu, where is your office?

i need to know where the train is

Jarus,

na wao! thanks to them oooooooo!!!!! God is definitely working towards His objective. the kind of goodwill, support and donations of the BB ticket has neva been witnessed in this country. I have never even voted talk less of funding and campaigning for a candidate. but this time, something in me just tells me it is time!

I heard lagos island is standing still for BB as we speak with ice prince singing Oleku

JARUS,

Is there no way for us or you to hear the final output? hope they got it right and it is catchy! just concerned.
confirm receipt of my little donation.

jarus,

i just deposited 15k into your account. Na the best wey I fit do oooo. God will reward all of us for this noble move. By His grace, the rest is victory.

CPC! BB2011!

I want to go for the best shot, which is a runoff because ACN have been too stubborn with southwest to give to Buhari.if Acn had supported Buhari, PDP wouldn't have had a chance! But I pray bb will be able to pull 25percent in the southwest to compliment 25percent buhari will get in 19 northern states to make the required 24 states. I am sure even if the election goes to a run off, Buhari will get the highest number of votes(with the huge numbers in north west and north east), to get the 25percent in southwest is why tunde bakare is working so hard!on the bulk sms, let's talk then, my email is o_kayus@yahoo.com

9ijaman, fine with me. BB supporters in naija, pls grap a copy of the latest release of the news margazine. Inasmuch as I don't agree with jonathan winning adamawa and taraba, I agree with their conclusion that a run-off btw GEJ and Buhari is the lieklihood. And I have told my colleagues in the office that I will buy everybody lunch in the office if a runoff happens. With a runoff, undecided,pessimists voters will then know PDP is beatable!

Welldone guys, my money still dey come oooo. Anyways, why do more jingles, can we do bulk sms with the next batch of money? Same message titled message from bakare, but the message I'd will be this group. We can then put in the message 'pls forwards to at least 5 people as your contribution to this course'. This can go round d country in minutes. The challenge, how can we get enough fone numbers to send it to? Just an idea though

TINUBU4LIFE, i hope you will have time to read the article below. why worry over Buhari Bakare if they dont have electoral value. Article was in the nations newspapers today.

[b]Why do they fret over Buhari, Bakare?
Font size: Femi Akintunde-Johnson 04/04/2011 00:00:00

It is confounding that the presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) barely two weeks ago marked the first anniversary of his entry into CPC. How did he do it? A party without a single elected office holder – no governor, senator, no member of house of representatives or state assembly…not even one miserable counsellor – can provoke so much unsettling presence that it has practically become a formidable leading opposition to the ruling party in Nigeria!

Recollect that on February 1, 2010, Buhari publicly announced his tactical withdrawal from All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, as a solution to what he diagnosed as "the debilitating, ethical and ideological conflicts" inherent within.

Keen observers of Nigerian politics cannot stop grimacing at the strange spectacle of Buhari’s erstwhile vice presidential candidate, Chief Ume Ume-Ezeoke in cuddly embrace with the newly elected administration of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, even as Buhari was still at the election tribunal contesting the authenticity of Yar’Adua’s 2007 victory.

Only few people were surprised when Buhari shrugged off ANPP and embraced CPC on March 17, 2010. The notoriously uncompromising new democrat could no longer, in good conscience, sit on the same table with most of the leadership of his old party.

Many however pitied Buhari as they viewed the trajectory of his political maneuvering as the beginning of his electoral sunset. It is not unkind to say that perhaps only his close circle of friends gave him a chance to do any better than he did in 2007. In fact, by the time the ruckus caused by Yar’Adua’s death was settling down last May-June, only hardened Buhari apologists had any slice of hope that the demystification of Buhari which began in 2003 would not be finally completed rather ignominiously in the 2011 polls.

No one fully understands what developed six months after CPC birthed in our political lexicon. The tsunami became visible only in the last quarter of last year. As the ruling party wobbled and fumbled towards its fractious presidential primaries, with upheavals erupting in the concaves of its demi-gods and godfathers, the sun of Buhari and his fledging party began to gather heat - such that by the time Buhari began to ruminate on who would be his running mate in December of 2010, the tall man of Daura (Katsina State) had "miraculously" over-run the entire northern political hemisphere.

It just so happened that the disastrous northern consensus candidacy peddled by Malam Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF had stoked up so much animus and hubris against the zoning skirmishes within PDP, that the scales simply got smashed off the faces of the generality of the northern people.

By some divine stroke of class-implosion, all the northern heavy weights in PDP were comprehensively whacked in the power play, and the lucky man of Otuoke (Bayelsa State), the humble and pacifist Goodluck Ebele Jonathan stepped onto the limelight in all his amphibious glory. Since then, PDP has never been the same again.

And gbiam! It happened. The man whom power brokers disdain fully dismissed as a perennial contestant with an "it-must-be-me" complex, became the darling of the masses of his people. And so the rebellion against the sprawling glory of PDP took a dramatic wild swing. It soon became clear that the nation is witnessing a political sandstorm with potential devastating potency capable of shattering kingdoms, and uprooting acclaimed political structures. Yet, the king-makers were blinded by their own invincibility, uncertain of the genuine arrival of Buhari as alternate power source.

By the time Buhari convinced vocal Lagos cleric and convener of the strategic Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Babatunde Bakare to be his running mate, the phenomenon called Hurricane Buhari was unfurled.

To underscore the panic created by the coming together of the twosome within the establishment is to collate the avalanche of articulated and disparate criticisms, editorial and electronic disaster-warning signals and sundry propaganda gimmicks.

Great energy and huge resources were expended in the first two months of this year to pillory and to rubbish the choice of Bakare.

Suddenly, it sank in… the shadowy Buhari has now become a real and present danger to those who are "destined" to keep the keys to the cockpit of the country in their safe custody.

From January 30, when Bakare eventually accepted to run with Buhari, the theatre of war expanded dramatically; it was no longer enough to charge that Buhari has a sense of entitlement, that his brand of draconian and unbending concept of leadership and governance is a recipe for monstrous class warfare… and that irrespective of his vision for rescuing Nigeria and combating corruption, misgovernance, social iniquities and free-for-all stampede for the oil wealth of this nation, Buhari had to be stopped.

So, the air is filled with the dust of angry and subtle propaganda; deliberate distortions of recent history; deadly attacks and mindless incarceration of opposing views; character and physical assassinations of troublesome opposition; systemic blacklisting of opposition campaigns from accessing choice venues in several states…ad nauseam.

Is it any wonder that more than any candidate in this election, the most special attention is allocated to the likely and dreaded emergence of Bakare as Vice President. Countless pages of advert space (my modest estimation is that each page ranges between N350,000 and N500,000) are launched every day in as many as eight national dailies with vicious unprincipled attacks directed at Bakare and token jabs at his frontrunner.

Interestingly, the most viral weapon some of the faceless NGOs ("Coalition for Transparency and Integrity", "Gbagi Foundation" and "Gaskiya Tafi Kwabo" can come up with to "deal" with CPC’s Bakare are extracts of his messages in the past six years. For a man who has not benefited from any government in power, as he often declares… who has railed against all sorts of social ills, and consistently challenged his listeners to hold him by his unusually high ground of public morality, Bakare is not an easy customer to tar with empirical evidence of corrupt practices. So they settle for "… he said Buhari would fail in 2007 election" (as if he didn’t fail); ", he said IBB should explain mysterious deaths of Dele Giwa, MKO Abiola, Mamman Vatsa…"! Is there any serious public commentator in Nigeria who did not call IBB to come clean on those issues….?

To add a veneer of credibility to their propaganda, bromides of the CD and receipt obtained from the bookshop inside Bakare’s church were attached to those intellectually empty full page colour adverts, as if some investigative panache was exerted to obtain those materials.

What a waste of cash! But Nigerians can see through this expensive but ineffective campaign of attrition. The series of mischievous adverts follows usual pattern (Words on Marble) but with a new level of asinine desperation as the elections draw near. They extract "useful" quotes out of their context and "skillfully" delete words and phrases that would have situated the quotes in the realm of reasonableness.

So, why the sudden fret over a Buhari they claimed could not win election even in his Daura village, and a Bakare who supposedly has no "electoral value"? Why are they splashing hundreds of millions of naira to fuel massive media campaigns basically devoted to pulling down these two men from the hearts of their teeming admirers? That answer will only be fully resolved on April 16.



•Akintunde-Johnson, is a journalist and writer[/b]

Even on nairaland, this anti-buhari bakare will not rest! Please enjoy the article below.




[b]Why do they fret over Buhari, Bakare?
Font size: Femi Akintunde-Johnson 04/04/2011 00:00:00

It is confounding that the presidential candidate of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, General Muhammadu Buhari (rtd) barely two weeks ago marked the first anniversary of his entry into CPC. How did he do it? A party without a single elected office holder – no governor, senator, no member of house of representatives or state assembly…not even one miserable counsellor – can provoke so much unsettling presence that it has practically become a formidable leading opposition to the ruling party in Nigeria!

Recollect that on February 1, 2010, Buhari publicly announced his tactical withdrawal from All Nigerian People’s Party, ANPP, as a solution to what he diagnosed as "the debilitating, ethical and ideological conflicts" inherent within.

Keen observers of Nigerian politics cannot stop grimacing at the strange spectacle of Buhari’s erstwhile vice presidential candidate, Chief Ume Ume-Ezeoke in cuddly embrace with the newly elected administration of late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua, even as Buhari was still at the election tribunal contesting the authenticity of Yar’Adua’s 2007 victory.

Only few people were surprised when Buhari shrugged off ANPP and embraced CPC on March 17, 2010. The notoriously uncompromising new democrat could no longer, in good conscience, sit on the same table with most of the leadership of his old party.

Many however pitied Buhari as they viewed the trajectory of his political maneuvering as the beginning of his electoral sunset. It is not unkind to say that perhaps only his close circle of friends gave him a chance to do any better than he did in 2007. In fact, by the time the ruckus caused by Yar’Adua’s death was settling down last May-June, only hardened Buhari apologists had any slice of hope that the demystification of Buhari which began in 2003 would not be finally completed rather ignominiously in the 2011 polls.

No one fully understands what developed six months after CPC birthed in our political lexicon. The tsunami became visible only in the last quarter of last year. As the ruling party wobbled and fumbled towards its fractious presidential primaries, with upheavals erupting in the concaves of its demi-gods and godfathers, the sun of Buhari and his fledging party began to gather heat - such that by the time Buhari began to ruminate on who would be his running mate in December of 2010, the tall man of Daura (Katsina State) had "miraculously" over-run the entire northern political hemisphere.

It just so happened that the disastrous northern consensus candidacy peddled by Malam Adamu Ciroma-led Northern Political Leaders Forum, NPLF had stoked up so much animus and hubris against the zoning skirmishes within PDP, that the scales simply got smashed off the faces of the generality of the northern people.

By some divine stroke of class-implosion, all the northern heavy weights in PDP were comprehensively whacked in the power play, and the lucky man of Otuoke (Bayelsa State), the humble and pacifist Goodluck Ebele Jonathan stepped onto the limelight in all his amphibious glory. Since then, PDP has never been the same again.

And gbiam! It happened. The man whom power brokers disdain fully dismissed as a perennial contestant with an "it-must-be-me" complex, became the darling of the masses of his people. And so the rebellion against the sprawling glory of PDP took a dramatic wild swing. It soon became clear that the nation is witnessing a political sandstorm with potential devastating potency capable of shattering kingdoms, and uprooting acclaimed political structures. Yet, the king-makers were blinded by their own invincibility, uncertain of the genuine arrival of Buhari as alternate power source.

By the time Buhari convinced vocal Lagos cleric and convener of the strategic Save Nigeria Group, SNG, Babatunde Bakare to be his running mate, the phenomenon called Hurricane Buhari was unfurled.

To underscore the panic created by the coming together of the twosome within the establishment is to collate the avalanche of articulated and disparate criticisms, editorial and electronic disaster-warning signals and sundry propaganda gimmicks.

Great energy and huge resources were expended in the first two months of this year to pillory and to rubbish the choice of Bakare.

Suddenly, it sank in… the shadowy Buhari has now become a real and present danger to those who are "destined" to keep the keys to the cockpit of the country in their safe custody.

From January 30, when Bakare eventually accepted to run with Buhari, the theatre of war expanded dramatically; it was no longer enough to charge that Buhari has a sense of entitlement, that his brand of draconian and unbending concept of leadership and governance is a recipe for monstrous class warfare… and that irrespective of his vision for rescuing Nigeria and combating corruption, misgovernance, social iniquities and free-for-all stampede for the oil wealth of this nation, Buhari had to be stopped.

So, the air is filled with the dust of angry and subtle propaganda; deliberate distortions of recent history; deadly attacks and mindless incarceration of opposing views; character and physical assassinations of troublesome opposition; systemic blacklisting of opposition campaigns from accessing choice venues in several states…ad nauseam.

Is it any wonder that more than any candidate in this election, the most special attention is allocated to the likely and dreaded emergence of Bakare as Vice President. Countless pages of advert space (my modest estimation is that each page ranges between N350,000 and N500,000) are launched every day in as many as eight national dailies with vicious unprincipled attacks directed at Bakare and token jabs at his frontrunner.

Interestingly, the most viral weapon some of the faceless NGOs ("Coalition for Transparency and Integrity", "Gbagi Foundation" and "Gaskiya Tafi Kwabo" can come up with to "deal" with CPC’s Bakare are extracts of his messages in the past six years. For a man who has not benefited from any government in power, as he often declares… who has railed against all sorts of social ills, and consistently challenged his listeners to hold him by his unusually high ground of public morality, Bakare is not an easy customer to tar with empirical evidence of corrupt practices. So they settle for "… he said Buhari would fail in 2007 election" (as if he didn’t fail); ", he said IBB should explain mysterious deaths of Dele Giwa, MKO Abiola, Mamman Vatsa…"! Is there any serious public commentator in Nigeria who did not call IBB to come clean on those issues….?

To add a veneer of credibility to their propaganda, bromides of the CD and receipt obtained from the bookshop inside Bakare’s church were attached to those intellectually empty full page colour adverts, as if some investigative panache was exerted to obtain those materials.

What a waste of cash! But Nigerians can see through this expensive but ineffective campaign of attrition. The series of mischievous adverts follows usual pattern (Words on Marble) but with a new level of asinine desperation as the elections draw near. They extract "useful" quotes out of their context and "skillfully" delete words and phrases that would have situated the quotes in the realm of reasonableness.

So, why the sudden fret over a Buhari they claimed could not win election even in his Daura village, and a Bakare who supposedly has no "electoral value"? Why are they splashing hundreds of millions of naira to fuel massive media campaigns basically devoted to pulling down these two men from the hearts of their teeming admirers? That answer will only be fully resolved on April 16.



•Akintunde-Johnson, is a journalist and writer[/b]

This Tnubu4life just reminds me of Ribadu, lousy men screaming all over the place! No need typing an epistle to dispute your rantings

Tinubu4life, u are as lousy as Ribadu himself. I am a BB supporter and I am voting ACN in lagos but CPC for president. You think the voters are not enlightened? 90percent of registered votes are not party members including me. Well april 9 is some days away and we will see your Ribadu's performance. Stop screaming and wait!

@jarus, will make mine on monday. I don't have Gtb account. Wanted my wife to transfer from her GTB account online but she is jealous of my passion for BB in the last few weeks and wondering why if I was going insane. Lol! I have her committed vote anyway. Monday, mos def, will make mine. Do we have a sound engineer to work on the message now?

Pharoh,leave GEJ out of this. Free and fair election will be his legacy, that is God's intention for him, not to get a second term. PDP will lose in a free and fair election. It is that simple! And that is why GEJ will lose!

I have accredited, right in front my house. It's pretty smooth. And the pictures on the voters's register is very clear

This is really a long read but worth it. It is deep, very deep. Thanks. BB2011

And let us not waste time on anti buhari thread again. We can focus on this thread and make things happen. We have done enuf work on nairaland

Jarus, is your account GTB? So I can send 15k this weekend. If not na monday be dat ooo. Let me know. Thanks all for the wonderful work. But we need to remove that song while ensuring bakare's voice is loud and clear

Leave that one to Buhari! He will be the most powerful president in the world!

I have left the office, can someone send the message to proud9ja? I can't send from bb

Seal777, I will remember to wish u a very lovely birthday, a historic one. See you there!