₦airaland Forum

naijatoday:
if that is the case forget development in Lagos. they will frustrate fashola to help their own course in 2015

What do you have against the Lagos house of assembly. They have performed well, do you think it is Governor that is taking all the decisions and doing everything all alone They are definitely contributing their own quota too.

lionness:
In the South West, PDP hasnt won a single seat

Yeah, in the south-west, we are the most educated, most enlightened and progressives.It is showing.

Ike Ekweremadu and Ayogu Eze won their seats back. Shame on Bankole, He let the house leaders down.

PDP having very strong showing in ABia, practically winning everything

Bukola Saraki seriously flogging his father's party ACPN. PDP won all the 3 seats, with ACN having a very strong showing. ACPN was just kissing the canvass. EDO central, EDO South PDP won,  Etsako-ACN, Owan federa[/b]l constituency-ACN, [b]OREDO Fed. Constituenc[/b]y-ACN, [b]Oha-ACN, Edo North-ACN

EDO North senatorial ACN flogged PDP by about 50,000 votes. (AIT SOURCE)

aletheia:
It would appear that rumors of PDP's demise have been greatly exaggerated: PDP wins all 3 senate seats in Kwara:

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/Home/5688444-146/election_results_live_updates__.csp

Wow, I am surprised, I thought ACN was very strong in Kwara. This saraki man na voltron o. But I think Bukola Saraki performed fairly well as Governor, perhaps He is reaping the benefit. Good for him as long that is the people's wish

muami:
I thought it was only me that saw that. Just to add that CPC only had significant votes in the areas that they won and came last in every other area.   Go GEJ

yeah, GEJ has more support than PDP itself. I have repeatedly told my friends in the north that GEJ is PDP's saving grace otherwise in a free and fair poll they would have gone down totally. However, the pro-Yar'adua and Pro-Zoning PDP members did GEJ a great favour had they been more discrete and tactful in the approach of the issue, GEJ would have been less popular and not gained as much sympathy. This is God for you He works in his own ways. But it will still be very close, CPC and Buhari are not push-overs, moreover they are stronger in a larger territory. The same way GEJ will enjoy more support in the south than PDP, Buhari will also enjoy more support than CPC in the north. For me the South-west will be the deciding factor, should ACN pull a great feet in the south-west or find themselves at par with PDP, then CPC will have an edge.

It seems GEJ supporters are very jittery; no one has been talking about the Presidential candidates but GEJ supporters keep dropping snippets about how peoples mind would change on sunday or how GEJ should be commended for these outcomes, on how election winners would return to the PDP. My advice to them is to keep calm, it is just 6 days away, and since free and fair is nearly guaranteed, no one needs to worry the most popular man will win.

muami:
No need to celebrate cos we have been here before. 90% of the ACN and APGA candidates in the South East are PDP members and affiliates of GEJ who went there to get the tickets. When GEJ wins, they would all decamp back to PDP as usual.Even in Bayelsa where Labour Party is projected to win the Governorship, Alaibe is an associate of GEJ who would again definately go back to PDP if he wins. The point is, people are voting for individuals more than party, thats why PDP could win in Gombe.

Don't be too sure about that, once Alaibe realises that He doesn't need GEJ to remain relevant to his people, He would prefer to remain in a party that He can easily have a strangle hold of. a party with lesser competitors. And the fear of the next election (4 yrs time) will make politicians think twice before making any decisions.

Results of Maiduguri's NASS elections coming up shortly, , awaiting the results to be announced on NTA

9ja4eva:
Halleluyahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

No one should take this serious, nothing has been declared anywhere. If you have the per polling unit results post them and stop speculating.

Results from Namadi Sambo's ward(where He voted)
SENATE CPC:265, PDP:115, AC:12
REPS CPC:277, PDP:103,

ajiifixing:
"I do not intend to derail the thread but you presented what was untrue mainly because you stay outside the country and work from here say.  In SS  Buhari VP visited port harocurt with about 80 people in attendance in Hotel presidential. There is no other state he really campaigned. GEJ campaigned all 36 states.
If you do not need reply stop posting what you are not sure"

You need to take it slow on that thing you are high on .Where were you when Buhari was in Lagos,Ogun,Oyo etc , I guess you were dead then and you just resurrected. Okuguro.

No need to debate on this issue, whether GEJ toured one million states or not; the results are coming out. From the outcomes it is clear PDP is chopping grass.

It is really disappointing that despite the huge turn out during registration, we are having such low turn out of voters; all I have been seeing since is 179 votes to 300 votes maximum pulled by any party in south west. Down here in the north the turn out is massive. In many places more than a 1000 voters, taking Kaduna for example. And before some of you start saying "Cows" and the likes also voted. This one is real and open for everyone to see. Live witness. In the polling station close to my house CPC pulled 770+ votes compared to PDP's 75 or thereabout. It'll amaze you that some polling stations are just concluding counting.

There is no doubt that JEGA has organised an election 100% better than Iwu's election. Everyone seems satisfied and PDP from all news is losing massively in both south-west and the North. I just heard on saharareporters livestream that PDP lost in Obasanjo's ward

This note, written by A. T. Abdulrahman (Mrs.) was sent to my yahoo inbox I think it makes sense.



"THE VALUE OF MY VOTE



As the general elections draw closer, politicians are getting desperate to get more people to cast their votes in their favour.



Last week, I witnessed an amazing drama unfold as a politician tried frantically to convince my neighbour to cast his vote for a party. When the politician realized that his effort was getting him nowhere, he decided to use the power in his pocket. He brought out a bundle of N200 notes and dangled it in my neighbour’s face, basically the way you would dangle some bait to an animal you are trying to catch.



"How much is your vote?" he asked, with a deceptive smile on his face.



My neighbour hesitated for a moment, and then he grabbed a piece of paper and began to scribble down something. When he finished writing, he handed the piece of paper to the politician saying, "This is the value of my vote."



The politician went through the paper briefly and then squeezed and threw it away, in my direction. He hurried away, saying that my neighbour wasn’t being rational.



My neighbour, realizing I was watching, picked up the paper and said, waving the paper at me, "Am I being irrational?"



I collected the paper and took a quickly look at it. He had written on the paper the breakdown of his family’s expenses, which the government (according to him) had so far failed to provide or make available for its citizens. He then multiplied everything by four (4) years. Something like this:



Security - N20,000 per month x 12 months x 4 years = N960,000



Generator - N40,000 per 2 years x 2 = N80,000



Fuel for generator - N1,000 per day x 365 days x 4 years = N1,460,000



Potable water - N500 per day x 365 days x 4 years = N730,000



Healthcare Insurance - N10,000 per month x 12 months x 4 years = N480,000



Education - N5,000 per month x 12 months x 4 years = N240,000



Housing - N500,000 per year x 4 years = N2,000,000



Total - N5,950,000 (five million nine hundred and fifty thousand naira)



"Well," he explained as I continued to stare at his breakdown, "if asking for the basic necessities of life is not being rational, I wonder what is rational?"



"I wasn’t trying to be difficult," he continued. "I believe this is a modest breakdown of expenses considering I have a wife and a kid. If you have a larger family, the value of your vote may be much higher than this," he concluded.



So, my dear friend, if you want to sell your vote, I won’t say "don’t." But, be like my neighbour. Make sure it is "worth its weight in gold."



(Inspired by a true story)







Wish Nigeria the Best of Leaders Through a Free and Fair Election.



Have a Peaceful Election!"

Beaf:
[size=21pt]Amen!!![/size]

How can you live like this!!!. You know you have no point, you know you are wrong; yet you stick with it. What a live Thank God for JEGA. you can never discredit him. Perhaps the next thing you would come up with is how GEJ appointed JEGA at gun-point.

Wadeoye:
Hi All,

When you see people putting "Sai PDP" as their signature despite the failure of the party in all aspects of our life including education where over 80% of candidates now fail SSCE, then you know there is something wrong somewhere - it is either critical thinking is lacking or those guys are afraid of a system where 419 is impossible; where drug trafficking will be delt a crushing blow; where official stealing will be impossible; etc.


Whoever is voting for PDP/GEJ for any reason is either insane, ignorant or hopelessly corrupt - you can't hide under religion or tribe to entrench corruption in our country.

I need to make no further comment. For someone to think of voting PDP, is rather pathetic enough. For what Exactly for what For the past 12 years or is it for the past 1 year plus the years GEJ used as Bayelsa's Governor For what ?

It is excusable not to find Buhari acceptable or not to be a fan of Buhari. But it is inexcusable to support PDP, absolutely inexcusable except you yourself is as corrupt.

Head to Head, Buhari and Ribadu has got a far better reputation than Jonathan, Jonathan in his short stint as Bayelsa Governor already had allegations of corruption hanging over his head and was able to declare a 300 million naira net worth (shocking!, which company bros. own).
Secondly, I can remember the time Buhari ruled, yes He led Nigeria with a strong fist, He did what today we will call against human right. But to what end did He do all He did, in order to achieve a disciplined nation, a disciplined people, an incorruptible leadership. He sat on a big chunk of Nigeria's wealth while in PTF, but today no one would dare rank him along side IBB, OBJ, GEJ, SAMBO or any of the governors in terms of wealth. He doesn't have any oil wells to his name; I can guarantee the forementioned ex-leaders all have.

Even putting all that aside, who are the men around Jonathan criminal PDP sycophants. What has the party achieved in the last 12 years, very little or nothing, so why would someone think of bringing them back On what basis would PDP be allowed to rule for another 4 years I strongly believe that either an ACN government or CPC government will do twice better.

This only proves one thing to me; JEGA is on a battle ground, as He is planning a free and fair election so are other people planning to make him unsuccessful; it is a very simple matter for JEGA to contract out the printing of the paper (which was chosen not to be printed in Nigeria for obvious reasons), and expect the international vendor to deliver. But for whatever reason, the vendor chose to disappoint (Only God knows whether some people are behind this). JEGA left with no choice, postponed the election instead of going the Maurice Iwu style (where elections didn't take place in DELTA but Uduaghan was produced as winner)

JEGA needs to be stubborn to achieve what He needs to achieve; succumbing to allow the military such high level control could be dangerous; once the high level hierarchy of the military is compromised the rest is easy (And believe me that is easy for PDP to do).JEGA for me you have done well, do whatever it takes for you to get it right. No compromises it must just be done right.

Much ado about nothing; Let them to go court rather than result to cheap publicity stunts. Their intentions to tarnish Buhari's image is so evident. Instead of tagging it "CPCSTOLEOURIDEA" (assuming their claims are right); they chose to use Buhari's name because of their secret motives.Afterall it is obvious from their statements that their previous contacts were all made to CPC and not Buhari, so why quickly tag Buhari along now.

bfire:
Na waa ooo>

The president is making this huge policy statement without any consideration about time frame. Then it's a political gimmick.

I want yam?

How do i get it? Where i get it? Who provide it? How do i continue to have it?

Those are simple questions that affect the basic choice of people.

You just just give order to get a thing that's not available for various reasons, is to me, a mere foolish statement.

What he mentioned will take like 10 yrs to implement considering the way we do things. There's nothing bad about that, though other than he want it to be done now!

Yea, he has to start somewhere; i know. The problem is this immediate action will lead to another SUBSIDY. Don't ask me how because it's already implied if you really know what is subsidy and how it works.

I know i want to start doing something in Nigeria but, where is the power and other infrastructures. Let him do these things one after the other and stop making big POLICY statement like is talking to some BOLI sellers all the time.

This is nothing other than a political statement; and it is a stupid one at that. Firstly, I do not know of any other plant that assembles car in Nigeria except PAN (Peugeot) and Innoson(Which I am not sure is fully functional yet). So if the Presidency wants all federal government cars to be peugeot He should have just said so, but as far as I know that was the case decades ago, and it was after democracy came that PDP decided to move away from peugeot and House of assembly members started purchasing Benz.

If I am not mistaken, even the official car of the President isn't peugeot. PAN which is wholly controlled by Government and her partners in France is gradually going down the drain, and instead of Mr. President to address the challenges and make PAN viable again, He is making promises that He will build a new car Asssembly plant over the next 4 years. Shocking how Presidents makes promises that don't even reflect in the nation's budget!!!.

A thinking Government, would pay attention to core areas like the Iron and steel industry, which will propel investors to make Nigeria the hub of their factories; but a daft Government will forget about the Ajaokuta steel company, and come out ranting about building Car manufacturing plants for which He has no blue-prints for.

I have watched one of Siasia's training sessions, He addressed the players with litle respect and I guess that is what He is doing with the senior team too, and perhaps the players don't like it. But that is no excuse for Osaze to do this in public. Lastly, you know what from my experience Nigerians usually need a no nonsense manager that flogs people into line, rather than one that listens and is all welcoming.

I hope Siasia's methods work sha.

Put yourself in the position of Nigeria and imagine you have a conglomerate of companies and assets like that of Adenuga and Dangote. Whom of these men would you rather have as top managers of your conglomerate: Jonathan + Sambo ; Ribadu + Fola Adeola [/b]or [b]Buhari + Pastor Bakare

I am Yoruba and Muslim; I support Gen. Muhammadu Buhari because of his proven integrity

emeka_gh:
Kudos to the GEJ team. Revitalising the rail transport is one of the biggest achievement of his just over one year administration as substantial president of Nigeria. Along with his power sector reform,  gas master plan, and perhaps on-coming signing of FOI and PIB bills as laws. Nigeria under President GEJ is destined for greater height. Pride is finally coming back to the battered Nigerians.

With all his imperfections GEJ is a good administrator, he has done well. He deserve our support!

Definitely, this has nothing to do with GEJ's last one year of Governance. If He deserves any praise, it should be for not stopping the project or for not using the whole money for the Project for campaign. Anyways I heard Yar'adua had already released the major sum of money for the Project before his demise, perhaps that is why GEJ couldn't divert the money for campaign (@ about 400,000 naira per jingle; it would take Jonathan a very little time to exhaust the money).

Ozin:
Yeah I totally agree with you,we should do away with all expired and outdated stuff like even the dictator BUHARI!!!

Even though this little achievement is worthy of commendation; but we must also come to terms with current trends; building a modern train system isn't an illusion or an impossible task . Lagos is already on the track. And see what they are planning,
www.nairaland.com/attachments/411219_2_jpg156005c5baf40ff51a327f1c34f2975b
www.nairaland.com/attachments/411220_3_jpg799bad5a3b514f096e69bbc4a7896cd9
www.nairaland.com/attachments/411218_1_jpgf3ccdd27d2000e3f9255a7e3e2c48800

and work has already started:
https://img15.imageshack.us/img15/9595/foundationwork.jpg

A vote for Jonathan only means one thing a vote for the past 12years; nothing will change it will just be business as usual. People should 'think' and ask themselves if they want another 4 years to go the same way the last 12 years did, It doesn't have to be Buhari but it definitely isn't GEJ; a vote for GEJ will be a vote for corruption, ineptitude and poverty. I bet Ribadu or Buhari will bring something better; just the change away from the old is almost good enough.

Region or Religion shouldn't be of great importance, it is sad that the South-South have never had the Presidency but we can say because we want to appease the South-South then we should sell the future of this country; had it been an Oshiomole then I am sure the support for south-south will be very tangible; but another PDP government for another 4 years is just a NO NO NO!

The question we should be asking ourselves is what exactly is America's interest If there is anything WIKILEAKS has revealed it is that the American Government is a Hypocrite, a Chameleon and can never be trusted.

Justcash:

Does Buhari have a Christian Wife or not?

Thank God people like you still exist in this country; unbiased and Rationale. Buhari isn't an angel of course, He might have made his mistakes in the past but his intentions and strong resolve to make Nigeria a better country can not be denied by anyone. The man was Head of state and had all the opportunity to do whatever He likes, but I don't think Islamising Nigeria was part of that agenda. The major aims of his Government was to instill discipline (and Idi-Agbon played a great role in that) and kick out corruption and that is why the political elites are dead scared of him; even here in the north the prominent elite don't want buhari

It is preposterous that a President will run away from a debate; how does He intend to sell his programs, how does he intend to prove He is the man for the job. This is sad; A president with low self esteem and low Confidence!!!