₦airaland Forum

Penguin2:
They are, no doubt about it, but the question is, can they get it?

The answer is no.

The calculation doesn’t favor them.

If APC gives it’s ticket to a Yoruba man, then PDP will give there’s to a northerner and with northern votes and the votes of Southsouth and Southeast, PDP will have a landslide victory.

The only way to break this is for APC to give it’s ticket to somebody from Southeast or Southsouth and try to get the buy in of Tinubu.

If Tinubu supports somebody like OUK or Umahi, then APC can be assured Southeast, Southsouth( to an extent) and Southwest votes. Add that to the positive sentiment that APC has in the north and they will be closer to victory.

Anything aside this is suicide for APC. The numbers are not there.

This is your PhD in politics that you claimed to have acquired from the ivy league colleges.
How many votes South East wan bring to the centre during presidential election?
Maximum 3Million in total for all the parties involved.
Egbonmi, go relax, na oversabi syndrome dey do you so. Too much political righteousness without Voters card, Party membership, party funding and delegates(where applicable)rights is tantamount to spewing gibberish and media gloating.

Penguin2:
So with Tinubu’s reputation, you really think of him as the right person for Nigeria in 2023?

Despite the fact that the Man TINUBU has not said anything, your HBP won't allow you to market your own product for 2023. Are you not man enough to become Nigeria president by 2023? It is either you present yourself or choose whoever the political system give you.

duro4chang:
Every adult in the country will vote to choose the next president. It is not only Buhari that will vote. Even if his party chooses him you have the right to vote for your own candidate. Don't tell me votes do not count. Get your pvc and vote your candidate.

God bless you. When I see youths with their pious articles on the smallest political debate they lack jurisdiction on, it baffles me.
Voters card many of them don't have.
Polling station they don't know.
Political Party membership, they are not there.

But to downgrade, Dem get A1.

Penguin2:
One of the most reoccurring bargaining chip for Tinubu proponents is the fact that he was instrumental to Buhari’s victory in 2015. Rarely do they talk about his capacity and integrity. I guess because they know he is bereft of those.

Now, as the 2023 elections hits top gear with pressure on president Buhari to repay Tinubu’s goodwill, it behoves on Buhari to choose between loyalty to Tinubu and loyalty to Nigeria.

Should Buhari hand over Nigeria to a criminal because the criminal helped him win elections?

Or would Buhari go for a person with proven integrity and capacity to deliver Nigeria out of the dungeon it finds itself.

So which loyalty do you think is more compelling on Buhari?

Unfortunately, your likes don't vote because you don't have voters card let alone able to locate your polling station on election day.
Las las, Nigeria go get president either elected or selected, but it is inevitable.
Instead of you to use your perfectionist skill to canvass for your candidates, you are expecting likes and comments for your presumptuous criminalized candidate.
Continue, 2023 is by the corner and another book is about to opened for you to continue your freelancing.

JohnFGbegile:
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he's a cocaine smuggling criminal

Wetin be your work, make humanity celebrate you too.

JohnFGbegile:
why are you mining pi on my thread?

I think you deserve it honestly. Some of you will just wake up some migraine, the next thing na to donate for nairaland like free mess.
Las las, na you go still carry TINUBU campaign message before the end of next year.

Penguin2:
After the general public pressured the NASS to allow Electronic Transmission of Election Results without INEC having to recourse to any other agency, they seemed to try to get back at us by inserting a controversial provision in the proposed New Electoral Act.

The new provision is that every political party in Nigeria must produce its candidates for elections through Direct Primaries without provision for alternative.

The most vocal opponents of this provision seem to be elected governors across party lines, though they are not alone as there are other political stakeholders that are also not in support of Direct Primaries.

Again political parties are also fiercely against the new provision; arguing that political parties do not have good party register that adequately captured members of their parties and as such, they cannot determine when a number from a certain ward exceeds what it should be since there is no record in the first place.

On the other hand, the provision seems to have its major proponents in National Assembly members in both chambers.

Opponents of the provision argue that it is cumbersome, bulky, expensive, etc.

While the proponents are arguing that it is good for the masses as the provision will return power to the people unlike Indirect Primaries where money bags buy up the delegates which they influenced their election in the first place anyway.

Between these two is INEC, which the makers of the law have vested with the responsibility to supervise these primaries in all polling units. Even though INEC seems to be maintaining a calculated neutrality so it won’t paint a picture of aligning with a certain political interest, it is obvious that INEC has some reservations for the provision too. Since the argument began, INEC has stated in many fora that Direct Primaries would increase the cost of our elections if it must monitor it. Most recently, INEC chairman was quoted to have said that the commission would be needing 17,000 staff to be able to monitor the direct primary one political party alone.

Then lastly there is us. The people whom the provision is supposedly meant to favour. What do we want?

To me, as much as Direct Primaries seems like the best way to go on paper, I think it is fraught with a lot of its own shortcomings that make me not think it would be a better alternative to Indirect Primaries.

Let’s consider some instances of direct primaries in the past to get a better picture of what we are talking about.

In 2019, the NWC of APC approved Direct Primaries for Lagos State with the major candidates being Babajide Sanwolu and the then incumbent governor Akinwunmi Ambode. In the end of the primary elections, Sanwolu reportedly garnered 970,850 votes to defeat Ambode who was said to have garnered 72,901 votes. However, in the main election, same Sanwolu merely garnered 739,445 votes. One is now forced to ask if there was larger voter turnout during APC primaries than the general elections.

Another instance we will consider is Anambra where the candidate of the APC in the past election is said to have won the primaries with over 200,000 votes but struggled with a little above 46,000 votes in the main election. And you ask yourself where are the remaining people who voted for him at the primary elections?

Worthy of note however, is that in these two primaries, the officials meant to supervise the congress tend have reservations with the result of the primaries. In October 2018, Vanguard Newspaper reported how the electoral officials sent from APC national headquarters to monitor the APC primaries disagreed with the result of the primaries but we all know who was APC chairman then and how he can’t go against a certain interest.

Again in Anambra, both the other contestants in primary election, party stakeholders and even party members are still contending that election did not take place with some contending that as late as 6pm, electoral officials were nowhere to be seen in their ward only for Governor Dapo Abiodun led party primary panel to endorse the numbers that were manufactured as result.

So these instances can adequately lay bare my view that Direct Primaries seems to have even more tendency of irregularities than what we have with Indirect Primaries.

As such, I conclude with saying that I am against Direct Primaries as political parties in Nigeria are not yet ready for such exercise and because it will be more chaotic and might not deliver the result it is intended to.

Well, that’s my opinion, what’s yours?

Lalasticlala
Mynd44

If we must grow, DIRECT PRIMARIES should be supported across board

Realtalk20:
Criminals

Tinubu doesn't want direct primaries

Arsehole knows most people would prefer Osibanjo to be president than him the geriatric cocaine lover

Wishing you quick recovery sir.

Lastmankc:
Do you guys think that East is like South West?Where one man will determine the future of other people.

That is why people are telling them not to border the children of lesser gods for not attaining presidency.
2023 Presidency:
PDP: South East.
APC: South West

kingsways:
Rubbish

Anambra are too enlightened to have that kind of God father

Dem don scam you, and you are happy.

helinues:
You should be more concerned about dead party PDP.

If not that Pdp is a party with evil mindset, why did they deny Maduka the ticket in their party?

So APC could get such votes from Anambra SE. Thats just a microphone testing towards 2023

Pdp is dead in Nigeria

Don't mind those political smallies that find hates in political parties forgetting that parties are inanimate object that don't care about your feelings

NakwansaPolice:
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Stop concealing your pains
we rejected your Apc
cry your cry in peace

APC in Anambra state?
holy ghost fire.

keep consoling yourself

By God's Grace, Igbo presidency is guaranteed in APGA. We have to teach APC lesson that without them, Igboman can become the president. God bless Ala Igbo

#Women_In_Politics_2021

Thanks experts for this. I appreciate your submission as I look forward to the future where I will start building mine too.

donbachi:
If dis guy carry wetin him carry for mouth for him waist...na ejima ejima him wife go dey born...congrats.

Multiple gestations plus plus
Congratulations Odogwu Eribaba

I only pity Ologbondiya, Obaseki will soon mobilise for your suspension. The only Good thing that M.E.G.A Governor can do is to facilitate suspension upon suspension effortlessly. If not that the King is bigger than him, the spirit in him is telling to do something before.
Congratulations to all Edolites, indeed #EdoNobiLagos2020

[quote author=Ekpeitit post=106390449][/quote]BUHARI should just continue till 2030 to complete their time with extra jara?

jchioma:
What can Buhari do that he's not done? The choice will be Nigerians to make.

One thing is for sure; going forward, things will not continue like this: something must give.

The possible expectation will be either a Nigerian president of southern extraction or a referendum.

As for Wiked and tifnubu, I think we deserve better.

The same rhetorics. Will you be the "better" if the current players are not?

Ibkhaleel:
When you see the Southern governors, politicians, elders, elites, traditional rulers, cashivists, freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets & their hate doped retards on social media especially those from the Niger Delta talk about restructuring & resource control, you will think they genuinely love Nigeria & their region.
Sure No!
What they want is more money, more power & more control over the money without no one querying them.
Those governors, politicians, elders, elites, traditional rulers, cashivists & freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets that swallowed the 6 trillion naira in NDDC over the past 18 years meant to develop the Niger Delta in addition to squandering trillions of naira & billions of dollars that accrued to Niger Delta from federal statutory allocations, 13% derivation funds, ecological funds, Ministry of Niger Delta funds, taxes, royalties rents etc with only poverty, deprivation & backwardness to show for it every 4 years are the same governors, politicians, elders, elites, cashivists & freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets that will manage a restructured Niger Delta controlling all the resources there.
If they truly want restructuring, they would have welcomed & implemented by now Buhari's executive orders granting financial autonomy to local governments, state houses of assembly & state judiciaries instead of rejecting it & going to court to challenge the orders.
Those that are fighting for restructuring don't want independent local governments, state houses of assemby & state judiciaries because these are arms & organs of government, that if truly independent, will effectively check the excesses of the state governors & those embezzling the resources of the states in the region.
Those governors, politicians, elders, elites, traditional rulers, cashivists & freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets that want resource control are not ready to invest the billions of naira & dollars they stole from Nigeria & Niger Delta in prospecting for oil & building the massive oil infrastructures required to explore, manage, store & transport crude oil & gas.
That's why at the expiration of the oil leases held by some Nigerians & foreign companies, Buhari refused to renew them but rather passed the opportunity to own them to states so that they can control the resources & use the huge profits to better the lot of citizens of their states.
Many states in the Niger Delta & their governors, politicians, elites, elders, cashivists, freedom fighters fighting for their private pockets rejected the opportunity because it involves huge investments & rather opted to sell this opportunity of thier states owning these oil blocks to private individuals & firms for immediate cash from 10% commisions, kickbacks & convenient taxes.
They don't want the restructuring & resources control that will give the states more responsibilities, that will benefit their people or promote transparency, growth & development in their region. What they want is the restructuring that will give them more powers, more control & more money to squander.
That's why they talk about devolution of powers to states that will allow the governors absolute powers to make decisions on a lot more wide range of portfolios presently under the purview of the federal government.
That's why they are appropriating to themselves through their zombified state assemblies the powers to collect all taxes in their states including VAT.
That's why they are rejecting financial autonomy to local governments, state assemblies & state judiciary so that they can have the additional local government billions of naira to squander, pass any selfish law they want & obtain any court order they want against their opponents while eliminating scrutiny from the same institutions constitutionally empowered to query & sanction them.
That's why they are bent on having state police to intimidate, brutalize & put away any opponent or dissenting voice.
Sadly, the citizens of these states have their brains & minds so wickedly twisted by the ethno-religious hate opium they are doped daily & can no more comprehend who their enemies are.
A pathetic shame indeed!!

Story story, story. "Uncle you can lie oooooooo"

Penguin2:
This people have no shame!

Somebody representing Obigbo where Buhari sent soldiers to go and massacre people, had the effrontery to call APC ‘home’?

Make 2023 reach first if him go win re-election.

Ndi ala!

Unfortunately, your likes lack basic politics 101 education. Until then, continue in your conjure

Kestolove:
Abia state governor will join apc next month, anambra will follow suit when he handover to soludo. ..gej will soon join apc, pdp should just merge with accord, ppa, hope nd Labour party....

The best political suggestions for PDP

amc:
Total number of votes is what matters. The 3 Ks (Katsina, Kano and Kaduna - all controlled by APC governors) have more votes that the whole of the SE.

The Kardashian's of the Northern Nigeria. Only K's will supercede Eastern vote.
The election is predictable.
Anybody that Buhari supports and present before the Northern brethren will unavoidably win.

Responsible parenting.

Stop endless religious indoctrination like Arabic classes instead of Modern ones.

Maximum of three children per couples.

Regulate religion.

Politicians on Civil Servants Salary Scale.

We hope that a day will come where Local Government Chairman will suspend the President of the country. Or Governors Sacking the President of the federation.
They did it to Oshiomole thinking it is great, but they forgot that when political parties are maraudering the general public suffers significantly.

North will vote for Tinubu, SW will vote Tinubu, SS will be divided even though PDP will win, SE is 80% for PDP.
Needless for long story.

festacman:
An Igbo proverb says that he who is surrounded by enemies employs eternal vigilance. Mazi Nnamdi Kanu broke the code of eternal vigilance. The deed has been done. He has fallen into the hands of his foes. IRONICALLY, he is securely kept in an underground cell like an animal in the ZOO.

International law is blurred by international trade and interests of developed economies. Kanu offers LITTLE compared to FG. Kanu can only rue now and take what follows with equanimity.

Be blowing grammar as if Nnamdi nobi your agemate before. Continue, king of the rumbles

AREWA Youths that supposed to be mourning the calamities on their land, is here talking about MNK that have little or nothing to do with them. No wonder terrorism flourish in that zone effortlessly.

The one when Naija dey na wetin?

prinzedy:
Lols this nitweet doesn't know that not everyone typing on nairaland leaves in Lagos.
For the record pls note that my state(enviable one in south-south) is not backward and refuse dump like your state.

You are even ashamed of mentioning your enviable state. Pathetic, but face your state and let the lagosians remain in their slavery. Abi na you dem enslaved?

KingOKON:
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Appointments like making his wife senator, daughter Iyaloja, his nephew governor of Osun, his asslicker governor of Lagos state
Why are u people so dumb

Oversabi master, go and work on yourself. You will never be great in life with this your mentality. You that is not dumb, go back to your state and bring it to the limelight.

RuudVanNisteroy:
No one is disputing that. But generous with whose money?

You should be asking your state Governor that. Us Tinubu the only man in the country that you won't allow him rest. Mention your state (sure you are not proud of it either), and let the comparative analysis start.