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eodavids:
Slandering an innocent man makes you feel good, isn't it?

It is an offence to do what you are doing. Be enlightened.

What is there in calling a thief his name. Thief is thief.

Just the way you people call Buhari brain dead. Brain dead is brain dead.

You need more enlightenment, for the mere fact that you are supporting a thief.

Raylight2:
endorsement is nothing o. how many votes can he cast for him? just one I am sure of

You are not right. Finidi George is based in the Diaspora like many Nigerians abroad. He can convince all of his family to vote for Sowore.
That is exactly what many Nigerian abroad are doing, convincing there people back home. There over 6 million Nigerian abroad like him who are still in touch with home.

tiani23:
No doubt you are correct, but as it stands now it's either PDP or APC. It's too late for Sowore and Moghalu for this election.

I don't care about the lateness, I care about doing the right thing and voting my conscience.
You vote the right person and do the right thing, leave the rest to God as we Nigerians say. But it is impunity to vote to a thief and brain dead President.

Isoduwa:
Who be this APC supporter again? Abeg enter house election nor be wR

I am not an APC supporter. I will never support impunity.
I am a Take it Backer and I am supporting the future through Omoyele Sowore.
Election is not war and we don't want war, our language is revolution and id you are not speaking the same language, that is when it becomes war.
Our nation is at war. Our kids are dying and compatriots are running away. We have to take it back.

CioAngels:
How is wish there are many of us that will queue behind him, who knows, miracle could happen and turn things around for Sowore.

Don't lose hope yet dear, it is not over until it is over. You watch, the two giant parties will shoot themselves in the foot.

Isoduwa:
Na Iraq he dey base now

You guys will never stop abusing people up and down.... that is how Finidi George wants to look like.
How do you look like? Show us your picture, let's see if you look better

Chipink:
At all

Sowore is a gentle man, he shouts when it's time to...
And we need shouting at this point of our politics, so that we don't entrust our country to a thief and a brain dead president.

jaxxy:
How? Arrogance is not leadership.

But ass stealing and incompetence is not leadership too..
You people say that someone is arrogant when the are sick and tired.
Sowore is confident and is sick and tired of the old system that Atiku and Buhari have put us in for the last 20 years, he is not arrogant.

But it's your choice. Choose the thief or brain dead president if you like..

femi4:
Finidi that lives in spain

Does that not make him more aware and enlightened than you who have not left your village?
He knows what sane society should be like, and who told you he is not coming to vote?


Shior

Effiongdbest:
Nigerians have looked back these 4 years and what we have seen is only total darkness and misery. Life has been so miserable within just 4 years of only one man Buhari, is it the herdsmen killings, bokoharam killings, disunity, nepotism, python dance on armless protesters, Shitte Muslims killings, Poverty capital of the world, what have we not seen withing just 4 years of this man Buhari, what??.

Anyone thinking of voting Buhari again may all these calamity listed above follow your immediate family from generation to generation, non shall escape it till eternity. Amen

Atiku Abubakar and Peter Obi all the way..

20 years of misery including Atiku and OBJ's 16 years, shall never be our portion again.

Woe to all the people who want to impose failure on Nigeria again through Atiku and Buhari, they all need their brains examined.

puresaint:
Brother... This is not football or Barcelona match. This is politics not just politics but Nigeria politics. So keep claim. Okay!!!

He should leave politics to hopeless people like you who do not know the difference between a thief and an incompetent president.

We know people with conscience and Finidi George is one of them.
It is not about whether he will win or lose, it is whether, it is the right decision to make.
And I can say that, yes, Sowore is the right person to vote.

vertueptime:
If i agree sowore is the answer now, he cant win a local govmnt so waste my vote?

No one is forcing you. Go and vote for your Atiku and Buhari, but I pray that your life after four years of their government will be in the shape they have left Nigeria.

Jman06:
My fellow countrymen! Let us avoid parochial sentiments and give Atiku a chance to better this country for us all.

Just reason and ask yourself whether it is proper to vote Buhari who has clearly failed this country! Borrow yourselves brain and think!

A booming economy will rub off on everybody and we'll all be happy. Your region
having the VP position will not improve your lives in anyway! Osibanjo does not even know you!
You spent many years in the higher institution and graduated and all you could get is 30k Npower! In a country where prizes of essential commodities have tripled from what it used to be, what can 30k Npower do for you?? Is that what will establish you and enable you get married and fend for your family
A thriving economy will create jobs that can pay you better and also create a more conducive environment to do business. Reason properly brothers and sisters!

Why would anybody vote for Buhari because of Osibanjo??
Osibanjo failed to condemn the wanton killing of innocent Nigerians in the middle belt and some parts of Northeast, yet he's a pastor!
Herdsmen have taken over people's farmlands in my village and other villages in Nigeria without Osibanjo advising his boss to stop them, yet you want to vote for them??!

If it is about VP position, Atiku has promised to zone sgf to your region. That position is a very strategic one!

Please vote for Atiku Abubakar to get Nigeria working!

Don't listen to the accusations that Atiku looted, even in the court of law, a suspect remains innocent until proven guilty by the court! Until those accusing Atiku provide an indicting evidence against him, please don't listen to them! It is all politics they are playing! Remember that Atiku was their darling in 2015 when he was in APC.

You have already lost the bet OP.
Atiku was there for 8 years, where is the outcome now, just go and jump into the nearest lagoon..

Where are the TAKE IT BACKERS outside Lagos, we still have some work to do in Osun and Kwara state.

tiani23:
So what's the solution?

I want Sowore to be President, but if Moghalu is your choice, that i equally fine.
As long as it is not PDP and APC, it would be fine.

I am not for Moghalu, but I am not for PDP or APC... they have bankrupted this country.
We need change, change, change. But we don't want Bureau de change... that is Atiku's change..

Heffalump:
One thing at stake for Atiku is that if he fails to perform in the 1st 4 years, then by 2023 we boot him out. This is for sure the only way Nigeria will get better, not by supporting mediocrity

He will not be President, don't worry yourself.

eodavids:
All these allegations you're making against Atiku; were you an eye witness to them all or you pick those words from hearsay/falsehoods??

Gerout jor, Atiku is a thief.

Bosekunle:
Everyday I engage with our generation and the one coming after it, I see that we are quite politically ill informed. The average young person has bought an ideology that makes them uninterested in politics. We somehow hibernate for 45 months in 4 year cycles. We become active for 3 months before the elections, and go back into our political commas once the elections are over. Somehow the political class has successfully sold us a lie - “Politics is not meant for people like you”. People like us are good in corporate careers, some of us are good in business, a few of us are better off relocating, and the rest of us can if things do not add up quickly enough, settle for civil service. After all, political power, which is what administers and manages all the resources, is better suited to thugs, area boys and miscreants. They sold us that we should not be caught dead hanging out with, or batting with these ones, it’s better we face our careers to global standards or build our businesses to enviable heights. What a sickening paradox.

We live in a country, where our career priorities are turned upside down. We don’t understand that we should all be involved in Politics, even those among us who studied political science, don’t see how it connects with our national realities. The key question is, what is politics, and why should good people be interested?

Politics are the actions or activities concerned with achieving and using power in a country or society. In the words of one of my Mentors - Politics as a contest for power to control resources and influence the people. It is the acquisition of power for governance. The ideal purpose of power it to allocate the Nations resources fairly. Taking into cognizance the weak, the vulnerable and defenseless. Poverty is the result of inequalities in the distribution of wealth. So in an easy formula, politics is securing power for governance, and governance requires creating an enabling environment for the pursuit of prosperity and happiness.

Our challenge in Nigeria is that our young people do not understand how to run this contest in other to win this contest. This is what we need to begin to change. It doesn’t start in November 2022, it starts NOW!

Here are a few RESET buttons you need to press, and PARADIGMS you need to SHIFT.

1. If you LIKE, let FIRE be dripping from your FOREHEAD, and smoke coming out of your eyes, you will not win Presidency by votes by trying it out in 4 year cycles even if you try 5 times. Presidents are popularity contests among the majority grassroots, not among elites. It requires political structure - which in English means at least 119,973 polling agents in 774 local governments. To build this political structure, you don’t only need grassroots people, you need alignment with stakeholders and wholesalers in the power Game - Sitting Governors, Traditional Rulers, Past Presidents, Religious leaders with cult followership, Military Generals - Past and Present, Labour Union leaders and Money Bags to mention a few. House of Reps and Senate require much much less, and are good starting points, but not if you still strike out on your own without a solid platform. Trust me when I tell you that all the 70+ other political parties are to merely create some distraction, when you add all their votes together, they will not clock 1m as usual.
2. The DOOR of service open to good people who don’t have political structure is on the back of loyalty and direct service to their candidates of choice. The sure bet for competent people is riding on the backs of structure owners or holders. Their ticket is service, lack of personal agenda and loyalty. I have seen few men in office as intelligent as Babatunde Raji Fashola, yet if not for service to Tinubu, a Gubernatorial ticket could not have been won by him. People like Prof Osinbajo, Ambode and even Obasanjo rode into office on the back of someone else’s political machinery. Good Bible guys like Joseph, Daniel, Nehemiah, Esther e.t.c have their roads to power marked clearly - Service to the Power holders. Good men and women will influence the deployment of power.
3. Campaigning for an officer without their buy-in and awareness doesn’t bestow any special value on you. Also the power of your votes is overrated. In a country where over 80% are poor and listen mostly to radio, you can’t expect the elite 20% who will be most absent at the polling units to decide the direction of the nation. Last election had 29.4 million out of 65m voters (43.6% turnout). If we repeat the same feat this year, we will have 40 million voters, 35 million of which are likely to be poor people. So, as an elite you don’t really control much. Also, if you really want to be a stakeholder or let’s say a retailer in the power game, then when you are supporting a candidate, the candidate needs to know you. Of course if you are not interested in political power, you can simply be a good citizen and vote, but if power for resource control is a dream, repackage your swag.
4. The easiest route to owning a political structure is to become Governor, install the next Governor and continue building the base and structure. This is not the only way, another way is ensuring you are on top of people welfare and humanitarian activities in your community or state of interest - cater for the basic needs of the ordinary people. Make them know that they are important and you care. You can also do this by being a party faithful, being a money bag that can bankroll the parties activities or handling a national project that gives you access to doing things for the “ordinary people”. For case studies on these, analyze Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Dr. Saraki (senior and Junior), Chief Lamidi Adedibu, Atiku Abubakar and Muhammadu Buhari. You can figure out which one each one did. This is the strategy currently being denied Amosun and Rochas.
5. Learnt the weights of actions in your local political economy. Sometimes, walking Tinubu’s Dog on Saturday’s and helping to run his errands will give you more political capital than running for Presidency. Who is Sanwo-Olu that we should vote for him? Yet today, there is almost nobody more popular in Lagos. While Prof Yemi Osinbajo was serving as Attorney General in Lagos, Pastor Chris Okotie, Prof Pat Utomi and Gani Fawehimi of blessed memory, were running for President. Guess wisdom is justified by her children. The way to the kings palace is through the servants quarters. If you want to be relevant in 2023, find someone to serve today! Running for Senate and House Of Reps are usually rewards for faithfulness to the political structure holders

There are more points, but I think I need to stop quickly before this becomes a book on politics in Nigeria today. Let’s give it to the two strongest contenders today. Forget all the rubbish people are saying about either of them. Atiku Abubakar is a great political strategist and President Muhammadu Buhari has built a massive political base on the merit of his perception as a man of integrity and truth. Yes, they are both cut from the old, and both have some baggage (Choose your Baggage), but none of them is as evil or wicked as they are painted. Yes they have ambition, but in their own little ways want to contribute to a Nigeria that works. To my generation, we do not yet have what it takes to wrestle power from this generation, if it’s by ballot, it will need careful and strategic planning - Rome was not built in a day.

After this elections, there will be an anticlimax, and people will return to their hustles and leave politicians to their resource control for another 3.5yrs. After then, we’ll come back again to use our wishful thinking and quick fix methods to recommend another way forward. Ko le werk! It’s time to Ji-Masun. - Come online. Let everybody carry their body - Gbe Body Eh By Adeolu Akinyemi

If you have time, please respond.
I have more lessons to teach you about politics.

Xander85:
You forget that even if Atiku and Obi have the capacity and zeal to perform well, that there are other extraneous variables beyond their control that could go a long way in determining how well or how badly their term in office becomes!

You considered the part embittered saboteurs could play in sabotaging their efforts? If they win, there would be many in the north (and parts of the south) that would go all out to sabotage their efforts and mount a campaign of calumny against them. GEJ and OBJ know what i’m talking about!

You are very right.

And one of the things that puts me off Atiku is that from the get-go, he has already started surrounding himself with failed political actors, who will eventually become Cabals that will sabotage his government. No matter how well intended. Atiku is, he will end up failing because of numerous extraneous circumstances such as this, that will militate against him.

Ghostmode2two:
I don't trust and believe any of these politicians and their poo political parties

Honestly, you got it right.

" Poo political parties".

Only people whose destiny have been mortgaged will be talking about APC and PDP honestly.

Jman06:
My fellow countrymen! Let us avoid parochial sentiments and give Atiku a chance to better this country for us all.

Just reason and ask yourself whether it is proper to vote Buhari who has clearly failed this country! Borrow yourselves brain and think!

A booming economy will rub off on everybody and we'll all be happy. Your region
having the VP position will not improve your lives in anyway! Osibanjo does not even know you!
You spent many years in the higher institution and graduated and all you could get is 30k Npower! In a country where prizes of essential commodities have tripled from what it used to be, what can 30k Npower do for you?? Is that what will establish you and enable you get married and fend for your family
A thriving economy will create jobs that can pay you better and also create a more conducive environment to do business. Reason properly brothers and sisters!

Why would anybody vote for Buhari because of Osibanjo??
Osibanjo failed to condemn the wanton killing of innocent Nigerians in the middle belt and some parts of Northeast, yet he's a pastor!
Herdsmen have taken over people's farmlands in my village and other villages in Nigeria without Osibanjo advising his boss to stop them, yet you want to vote for them??!

If it is about VP position, Atiku has promised to zone sgf to your region. That position is a very strategic one!

Please vote for Atiku Abubakar to get Nigeria working!

Don't listen to the accusations that Atiku looted, even in the court of law, a suspect remains innocent until proven guilty by the court! Until those accusing Atiku provide an indicting evidence against him, please don't listen to them! It is all politics they are playing! Remember that Atiku was their darling in 2015 when he was in APC.

He will!

We've been hearing that since God knows...

I remember: " We will provide electricity to Nigerians". This was the statement of Atiku under Obasanjo's regime. Where is the electricity now.
Please park well with your looting Atiku and incompetent Buhari. Enough is enough!

Nonsense from the pit of hell.

This is wannabe intellectualism with no substance at all.

OP has no idea about politics and how politics evolve, with new ideas, innovation and new thinking.

First, it is not about winning elections. It is about shifting politics. No one has business in winning elections, if they can not shift politics.

You shift politics by challenging the status quo and by disrupting the idea that without structures it cannot be done. It is called Disruptive politics. In disruptive politics, you do not build old stupid structures or follow that archaic techniques of our great grand fathers that costs time, money and energy. We live in the 21st century. You instead use alternative structures and resources to not only create value but to shift the narrative and push the boundaries of politics.


Pushing politics is exactly why it is possible to win an election in Nigeria as a youth, new political party or fresh entrant.

While they spent billions, you can spent thousands and achieve an equally good result that will even be more sustainable.

Disruptive politics is not business as usual. You don't need to be corrupt and require the support of sitting corrupt governors or administrators whose will is to have the status quo remain the same. You shift politics because you have passion to change the situation not because you want to win election for election sake. This is what the OP is saying.

Taking the case of Nigeria, here is how you can win the Presidency without necessarily building any useless structure.

1. There are over 84 million registered voters of which there are 51% youth voters less who are than 35 years of age. 18% are between 36 and 50. There are 22 million registered youth voters.

The statistics show that by appealing to the youth population alone, you can win an election overwhelmingly, since you may need around 15-17 million to win based on historical elections.

To win an election, you can appeal to this population by reaching out to them at their schools and packaging specific programs for them, not just talking to them trying to convince. This would work to a certain extent though. Building a program can be, for example, providing free GCE/JAMB classes for students from SS2 to those who are already out of secondary schools.

If well thought out, the program must be different quality and can be packaged at cheap prices to the political party or new president. Program can include free computers and coding classes including arts and technical lessons for students who are out of secondary school. In order words, making them employable and giving them tools and training to move on the next level of the lives.

Any political party that can arrange such can appeal to about 5 million youths whose schools, states and local governments have failed them. A political party can even arrange employability/ employment structures that links graduates with real employments. All of this can be done through IT without spending too much. Nothing stops a political party from setting up job centers for potential job hunters, who can be linked to real employers who can provide real jobs. There are jobs in Nigeria, it's all just messed up. An aspiring President or party can take the challenge and build his popularity on that.

You can champion entrepreneurship opportunities, by for example, preparing people locally and convincing banks to give them small loans. If achieved, youths will come in millions because they are looking for opportunities. Imagine if party XYZ is doing the Tradermoni in a more organised and sensible fashion. This does not mean that an individual or party have to spend their own money. They can organise it.

2. Reach out to all Universities in the country and start practicing what is your manifesto before it is the turn of elections. For example, one of the new generation contestants, Kinsley Moghalu says he would raise N1trillion venture fund, which he would spend towards housing and education. Moghalu can for instance, use his private sector connection and influence to raise half of this finance, not as a sitting government to touch the lives of Universities by establishing scholarship funds. Imagine, if you are a University student and get 1 million naira towards your study from Moghalu's party. Why would you not vote him? Yes, not every benefactor will. 60 percent will do.

3. Experiential Marketing: I have not seen enough innovation among the new political parties and this can be done without any God father or stupid past governor. With experiential marketing, you go out and appeal to people's conscience on the streets, unit by unit, street by street. It is affordable because I have seen new political parties do something similar but not in the best way they should be done. For example, a political party can hire community halls around town, turn them into temporary cinema's at night, where they preview latest movies. The opportunity can be used to capture, educate and register local electorates. Millions of potential voters can be easily convinced in this way.

4. Get contentious: In contentious politics, as a political party, you do everything possible to sponsor campaigns, movements, people and youths to see the failure of the status quo and speak against it. Donald Trump is a perfect example. It can be done in Nigeria too by not only speaking against the status quo and the need for change but by actually sponsoring campaigns, maybe bill boards, that shows that the government of the day is foolish and needs changing.

5. The quickest and easiest way is not to become a governor or chairman, or senator. By doing so, you will eventually become part of them and they will soil your good name. You can start from the top and nothing is wrong. You just need to get your strategy right. In the recent African elections, new presidents have not necessarily started from below. They start where they like but the build the necessary structure and strategy.

6. God fatherism is foolish. The OP suggested walking Tinubu's dog or something like that. This is at best idiotic. No serious minded young politician should do that or kiss the ass of any old, unrepentant politician. Tinubu's and other God fathers have nothing to boast about. It is all about their stolen money and corrupt influence. Their influence can be broken they are studied properly. God fathers get broken in Italian mafia politics, they were broken in old France, in American politics and upcoming Nigerian politicians can do it too.

Too much ideas, but I will stop here for now.

Effiongdbest:
Well I will not reply you again, you have show the true intent of your heart, you want us to split Atiku's vote so that The lifeless Buhari can emerge as winner but it wont work for you.

So since you are not God I will go ahead and Vote Atiku and he will emerge victorious with majority of Nigerian's votes. Amen

Bye bye Tribalist!

Go away with your corrupt and dirty Atiku loot and enjoy the 10 thousand naira they will give you.
Sowore has principles and is not morally corrupt and bankrupt like your Atiku.
We are talking about a New Nigeria, not Atiku's kind of Nigeria.
People with no conscience.

Effiongdbest:
Who the fvck told you that Sowore is my conscience, you don't know me bro, I am the last person anyone can deceive. I trust Moghalu 100% more than Sowore, has Sowore handled power before? How do we know How is going to use the power of presidency? Moghalu is a genius with a step by step plan of how to boost our economy and has also served as deputy Governor of CBN, where money flows, yet no sign of embezzlement with him. I can never vote Sowore cos he is empty intellectually to be honest.

On the other hand i am going to vote Atiku now because he is the only one capable of unseating Buhari, I am not here to do trial and error voting, I want to hit the right spot so that lifelessness can vanish from Nigeria , also his Vice Peter Obi is one prudent spender who wouldn't allow corruption and lavishness thrive in his administration. This is the reason I Stick to Atiku Obi.

You trust Moghalu but will vote for Atiku. Shows you have no principle, no morality, no sense and thinking faculty.
Okay, vote Moghalu if your brain is still working. You are busy shouting Yoruba up and down. How can you think better when you have no functioning thinking faculty. Who knows whether you have been bribed too.

If it is sure for your so called Atiku, you people should not loot ballots up and down. You should stop bribing electorates and officials too.
By the way! Go and write today's date down and come back to this thread after June 12, Atiku will never be the president of Nigeria.

It is not written.

Effiongdbest:
Yoruba are the real problem here to be frank. Not Igbo not Hausa not Efik not ibibo nor Edo. just Yoruba alone

Okay, but that kind of mentality that some religion or tribe is the problem will keep us where we are. This is time to go forward!
Yes, the Yoruba's have not be perfect and have a big part of the blame. But it doesn't mean that you can give other tribes a clean slate too.
After all, how many of the historical coups have the yoruba led. We know who have led each and every since 1966.
We know who have led PDP for 16 years, who know who is leading APC for four years.
If you want to go into history, Hausa's and Ibo's have not been perfect too. But for how long can we continue this blame game.
Let's move on brother and create a better future for ourselves...

Ghostmode2two:
GSM!!! Show me any past Nigerian government that we have gained from since the military era

None! Absolutely none!
I think we are making the same point, APC, PDP, Military are same, no matter how you look at it.

Effiongdbest:
I like that but come to think of it which other candidate is big enough to unseat the Lucifer currently in Asorock now, it's on Atiku tat has the all it takes to do that. Let's vote Atiku first then if he messes up we can now look at other options but for now any vote that is not for Atiku is for Buhari directly or indirectly. Think about it.

And please don't give in to all the tribal sentiments here.
At the end of the day, whether you are Ibo or Yoruba, or Ibibio, or whatever, hunger knows no bound.
And when it is time to share money in Aso rock, they don't care about your tribe, they just share, we should we then be divided.

Yoruba, Ibo, Efik, Hausa, Edo, whatever, United We Stand!

Effiongdbest:
I like that but come to think of it which other candidate is big enough to unseat the Lucifer currently in Asorock now, it's on Atiku tat has the all it takes to do that. Let's vote Atiku first then if he messes up we can now look at other options but for now any vote that is not for Atiku is for Buhari directly or indirectly. Think about it.

I like that we are making it intellectual now, this is how it should be.
See my brother, I have no hatred for Atiku but look at his track records.. look at the stories behind him, look at his history... look at the kind of people surrounding him now. Otunba Gbenga Daniel who was once Ogun state governor, do you know what Ogun state looks like right now? Saraki, who was Kwara state governor, Kwara is an eye sore. Peter Obi, Anambra is still a terribly insecure place.

There is too much impunity surrounding Atiku and I am afraid it will be same same. You are right that he can unseat the monster that is currently there, but that is not the point. The point is that, we need to change the course of our future to the right direction. If we put Atiku there, he will not be different from Buhari, just look at his 8 years as VP. Where is Nigeria today.

When people shout Sowore, it is not because they are stupid, or because we believe he would necessarily unseat the status quo just like that. We do so, in the hope that the right decision is being made in the right direction, in the hope that we can shift politics, in the hope that we must choose someone not on the basis of how much money he has, or his religion, or tribe, but on the their track record and that they have no tainted past.

Based on their integrity, purpose, passion, vision, drive, energy, altruism, forthrightness and youth.

If you vote for Sowore and he doesn't win, at least we know that you have voted your conscience. That alone can restore hope that we too, the youths of today can do it and can be there someday.

Think about it, I am not forcing you away from Atiku, but I am bringing this to you and I want you to know that if we want to secure our future, we mus start now.

Atiku is also distributing Garri, they are all the same.
Same same incompetent thieves