₦airaland Forum

texaco1: there is no way ngige can or will win the governorship election ,it is either pdp or apga.APC influence will be limited to the south west and mark my words even in the south west it will be battle to finish I am sure one or two states will drop from apc grips.

Uclloyd28: all these people singing Hosana, saying is a bad thing for GEJ crack me up...ask yourself, how many parties were up and running 2011! Ask yourself again, why were PDP haters clamouring for a Two Party Nigeria? Ask yourself yet again, what happens when Northern Votes are spilt between parties....you and I know SS n SE is Completely GEJ's and GEJ will get few Votes from North and SW.....take it or leave it, this numerous parties emerging now, be it a PDP breakaway, will surely favour GEJ...If U really understand Nigerian Politics, u will concur with me on this

Don't get it Twisted, Am Rooting 4 GEJ

olujastro: You made sense to some extent,but am sure common sense would tell u dat PDP/GEJ won't go that far to just allow a whopping 7 Govs in such crucial states to leave their fold all because they intend to frustrate a two-party system(PDP vs APC). If they worked that hard to win those states in 2011,what kind of trick wud PDP wanna play that'll make them give 7 states just lyk dat,simply cos GEJ wants to reton as President in 2015.
For me,it's eida VOP guys are simply tired of the high handedness of the national PDP/GEJ & they believe they can prosecute 2015 on their own(Lamido/Amaechi),or they finally wanna get a bargaining platform wit APC. As for Atiku & his PDM,he's no longa relevant in Nigerian politics that he'll lose his state(Adamawa) if he & Buhari contests same electns in 2015.

McLuhan: "Despite Governor Amaechi's near excellent performance in office..."

What a blatant case of journalistic bias! Is this what you were taught in your journalism class? Who assessed Amaechi's performance and declared it "near-excellent"? You or an independent body? Go and find out the meaning of editorialising in news story writing. Professionally speaking, this is one of the most poorly written news stories I have read in a long while. Thoroughly partisan and almost entirely conjectural!

incrediblestev: It is very obvious that the writer is a lackey of one of the so-called opposition political parties. The article is lazy and too patronizing to be taken seriously by discerning minds.
Now, as for the supporters of the opposition parties, especially the loud mouthed APC die-hard fans, this whole thing can go both ways, it can either spell doom for the PDP in the North or boomerang to make votes from the north inconsequential through divided votes.

PDP is not stupid, they may be in on this, already there are reports that the PDP gave Atiku a huge sum of money to neutralize the influence of APC in the North. With the setting up of more opposition parties heavily rife with desperate northern politicians that want to be president, I see them playing into the hands of the PDP. Let us all not think the PDP is dumb. However, the litmus test for the PDP is Anambra state, it will spell doom for them if Ngige of OPC should win that State, already, Imo state is in the Opposition, Anambra is even more important because the political outcome there will gauge how the igbo votes will go come 2015. There is too much partisan and regional politics going on in virtually every party, lets just sit and watch, I rest my case.