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soe:
I feel your pain @ OP

TANoids doing everything possible to console themselves.

The reality is now staring you hard in the face.

Wasn't it you guys that started the 2 million signatories sh*t.

You must swallow this pill now and stop trying to tell us crowd doesn't matter...hahahah...

Now who is laughing? Shior!!!

my guy, the matter of using crowd to rate popularity didn't start today so it has notin to do with TAN or self consolation

I see a man that has realised that there is no retreat, no surrender, no going back. The war against terror and corruption must be fought with doggedness and won. He won't give up, he'll fight even if it will cost him his life; and to be frank, anything is possible if you are determined to achieve it.....ask kanu nwankwo

Even if wishes were horses, some people still won't be able to ride.

Sorry sir, your kids didn't come from one moma because you didn't play with one woman! Your blood was too hot to be contained by one.

Okorocha, the president that never will be if PDP failed man and God, then there's no hope for APC.

I have seen how supporters of certain candidates in elections over the years, have bragged about the crowd at their rallies as compared to those of the others. Some have also assumed possible votes by permutations drawn from such estimated values.

Here are 4 things you should know about crowds at political rallies:

(1) A lot of them are either paid or enticed: whether you are GMB or GEJ, majority of the crowd at rallies are either hired or enticed to attend. They(the candidate) may not be directly involved in the hiring, but the organisers of the rallies are responsible for that. Most times, the candidate only knows about the venue of the event, security arrangement and one or two other things. The rest are strictly under the control of the organising committee.

(2) The crowd that attend your rally, are the same that attend mine: more often than not, majority of crowd at a rally, are the same set that are available for the next rally. The major differences between the size of my rally and yours, are the stake holders(party members), how much you have to splash on renting, personal preference(this one doesn't even bring much people) and the persuasive ability of your staunch supporters to convince their people to attend.
or where else do you want to get available hands from? Timbuktu or java island?

(3) You don't rate your popularity/acceptability by the crowd at your rally: given reason one and two, and coupled with the fact that people that attend such rallies do that for certain reasons which may also include: to past time, to see the candidate, to pick pocket, to cause confusion, some don't even have any reason sef. You can't conclusively say that because you had say 100,000 people in attendance at your rally, then you are more popular than MJ and hence should win.

(4) Crowd at rallies don't translate to votes on election day: you might be making a mistake, to think that because you had x number of people at your rallies/campaigns, then on election day, your votes shouldn't be less than the estimated value of x. People have gone to court to challenge election results on this ground.
We are Nigerians, and we know that not all registered voters turn out for elections. Not all those that even scream your name and campaign for you will end up voting for you.
Infact, I know of a candidate that scored 'one vote' in an election and I wondered if his family members didn't vote for him.

So for those of you banking on the crowd at the rallies of your preferred candidate, its time to rethink.

Crowds at rallies don't translate to votes on election day.

Btw, every political rally is filled with hired crowd. The politician might not be the one that did the hiring directly, but ask the organisers in secret and they'll tell you as e dey go

Gbaramatu! Ah! That familiar feeling

Goodluck Ebele Jonathan for President come 2015!

If Buhari is still the way he was in the 1980s, then things will be bad for Nigeria; if he has changed, things will be worse.

When APC does it, it is normal; but when it is PDP, they begin to rant that it is insensitivity and carelessness!

Wish the scale will fall off the eyes of more Nigerians to see tha APC won't do a thing better than PDP except if it is a thing done in retrogression

SDP another extension of PDP, APC losing on all sides since 1999AD

The way some folks reason and speak on NL....

indeed Some mothers really do have them.

If I had seen a thread: APC hails Jonathan's declaration speech, then I would have sworn it was one of those FNN stories but for this, I'm not surprised.

Well, It is not different from that of Kowa party, citizens popular party of Nigeria or even Masses movement of Nigeria



#same Old tori, nothing original

Using young girls and boys to perpetrate this dastardly act eh; Amnesty international over to una, prosecute bh pls

I have been following Nigerian politics and there's something I have noticed from politicians and political parties across all borders. It is this; hardly you hear a politician come up and speak plainly without taking swipes at the other party or candidate.

Is it not possible to make your speech or deliver your scorecard without making reference to the other party or talking down on them?
Is there any advantage in this type of campaign strategy?
Whose party is more guilty of this act in Nigeria?

Governors, senators, reps,commissioners, ministers, local govt chairmen, counsellors, and every other appointed/elected govt officials, kidnappers, robbers, defaulter, terrorist, miscreants etc are having themselves a field day because WHATEVER HAPPENS IN THE COUNTRY, THE PRESIDENT GETs THE BLAME. Smh

Na by credentials

I tink the get pregnant before I marry you syndrome iss old school practice. What's in vogue these days is baby mama(where there's no initial intention of marriage) the baby mama would be lucky to tie the man down like annie did to 2baba

But that's like 1 in every 7

Toh they have failed!

GEJ till 2019

Speech for the kings

South Africa hosted the last edition so their facilities, are still in good shape. They should be handed the hosting rights to make room for "yours truly" to slug it out with congo for the top spot in the group

To control traffic. How will you make for easy entry and exit from eagles square on a day the people's president is responding to the longing of his people without employing traffic control measures?

Besides, commuters had been notified ahead of time to take alternative routes. Maybe your radio's battery was dead so you didn't hear the announcement

So wat happens to the iphones now

Talk reserved for the bosses that's how to describe president Jonathan's speech.

This dark tunnel is certainly about to end indeed.


#seeingLight

Nigeria stand still! His Excellency is speaking. God bless the president and grant him the strength and wisdom to lead us to greater heights.

Long live the fed rep of Nigeria

Jonathannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn

Some people eyes go pop out today looking for failure in eagle square, while others go exhaust their insult bank until they become debtors

GEJ all the way

Our President! 100 and 1 percent support for you from this end...

Abeg make una go collect una permanent voters card so that we can vote him again


#singing...
Goodluck to u
Goodluck to me
Goodluck to everybody
Goodluck Nigeria!

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