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The FCT is treated as a state. It makes no sense to make the 25% requirements a MUST for the FCT. Because that'd make the FCT and its people have special status and that's not the case.

DoTheNeedful:
According to what I read on Dailytrust, he doesn't need Abuja. The constitution state 2/3 of 36 states + FCT. The interpretation I read is you need 2/3 in 25 states, and not necessarily 2/3 in 24 states + FCT. In this regard, FCT is considered a state. In any case, he is not doing too poorly based on results obtained so far in FCT.

You're right. FCT is considered a state like any other. But he does not necessarily have to get 25% in FCT to fulfill the criteria.

stillme231:
I can't count, from the pic sent to us in our group, it was more than 40. LP cleared everything except maybe the north where oshiomole won .. just forget this country my brother

If you agree APC won in Edo North, what's now the issue with the results? Obi's vote is twice Tinubu after winning in the other two senatorial zones. Is that not reasonable enough?

If you expect the whole edolite to vote for OBI, you're dreaming. The results reflected the wishes of Edolites as presently constituted.

Pretty rich coming from the Godfather of elections malpractice in Nigeria.

Dialpad:
Obi will not win this election.... it was clear from the onset .... he was just there to entertain his supporters.

He is preparing for 8 years from now .


Politics 101

8 years from now, Obi's youth-centric message won't fly. If Obi realigns in 4 years, and depending on Tinubu's performance, he's still got a good shot to take.

adioolayi:
From Day1

Many analyst here that have been following Nigeria's political history for a long time , all stated that fragmentation of PDP into LP, NNPP, PDP and the G-5 will be the undoing of the oppositions.

It's just pure common sense...PDP, LP and NNPP are busy cancelling eachother out...

It took a giant coalition to defeat incumbent PDP in 2015 by APC, so what is PDP thinking about

With APC's abysmal performance in governance, especially, bad economic policies ...this election would have been a walkover.

PDP and their fragments are the one giving APC another four years...they should all lick their wounds!

Congratulations...Asiwaju Tinubu Jagaban!

It's not a simple mathematic, in my opinion. There are a lot of people who would NOT vote Obi under Atiku ticket. Obi was able to campaign and sell his message to the youths and elite because he was not burden by the baggages of the PDP and Atiku.

A lot of people personally campaigned for OBI this time but didn't think of it in 2019. Obi as vice won't enjoy the same goodwill.

westfield:
I dont understand why the South is divided.....how can SS,SW and SE be fighting each other when the North is there trying to make sure that their people are in power.........we the south have to learn from the North.

No matter how much you destroy an ant's line you always see them joining back

If obi or tinubu wins its a plus for the South

Let's come together and stop fighting each other

How can Tinubu win the election if the North didn't vote for him? If they voted Atiku en masse, the election would have been much closer.

sukar886:
Am disappointed with akwa ibom people , upon say obi, s wife is from there, they couldn't deliver ... God forbid

Is that a good reason to vote for a presidential candidate?

LegendHero:
I don't know why these guys are protesting the result.

Buhari did all he could to give all party level playing field. He changed the currency to stop massive vote buying, deployed the military to some strategic zone, never meddled into the election like previous president, cabal even induce fuel scarcity to kill APC chance, and there is low occurence of violence in the election as a whole.

In the SW, SS, NC, NE, & NW; ALL the candidates shared the votes. The only reason Tinubu won because LP/PDP/NNPP took eachother vote and that is why they couldn't suppress Tinubu across the country.

In Kano that could have given PDP the win, Kwakwanso took it from Atiku with over 700k votes. Atiku won almost in other Northern states so why is Atiku crying? Do Atiku expect to win more states in the SOuth or widen the Northern gap against a strategist like Tinubu?

Obi did well in the SE, SS, even SW, and Christian North as reflected by the polls. Why are Obiidient complaining, do they expect to win the core North or have massive votes there?

What exactly are they protesting for?

As someone without a horse in the race but quite politically aware, you've just laid down the right perspective from which every Nigerian should CONSIDER making sense of the results and overall elections.

Whether the final results favour you or not, the election has been put together in a largely free and fair manner and the results has gone in the way some of us predicted before the election.

Protesting this election will just be nuisances on our streets that's bound to escalate. Let the political parties gather their evidences and challenge the results in courts.

madapcmod:
Maurice Iwu is a saint to where Mahmoud is.

I remembered the times of Maurice Iwu . Proper PDP member. Elections those periods where pure charades.

Real elections started in 2015 in this new democratic dispensation.

I said yesterday that I was surprised Rivers would vote for Tinubu/APC to any substantial level. They never liked APC. One would expect Obi and PDP to take majority of the votes.

It's hard to explain this result from Rivers but there have been lots of strange results this election. With the way the election has been going, APC don't need to rig Rivers to win overall. Why risk soiling a largely free and fair elections with unnecessary rigging?

Zincfingers:
Omo
The North West came through for Tinubu .
The Muslim Muslim ticket is a master stroke.
JAGABAN is the greatest politician in the history of Nigeria.
God bless AREWA

Every single politician of repute in Zamfara state is in APC. The court installed PDP-governor had to decamp to APC because he knew he can't win under PDP, even as sitting governor. No surprise they didn't vote Atiku in the presidential.

Uk2114:
Shaibu will get a better vote than this PDP contestant. That is what I meant.

Not really, this very PDP contestant, Alimikhena is a 3-term APC senator and people actually say he's kind. I'm sure Alimikhena in APC would defeat Philip shaibu in PDP in Edo North, especially if Oshio supports him as same party. Just that oshiomole decided to contest himself.

UnproudLife:
U never learn since after Buhari time? In last 8yrs dem nor see shishi collect for my hand.

Because of politics. . Stories.

JagabanBorgu:
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Rivers? Wike no be baby for politics be that oh. How did he get River's people to vote APC.

Iamgrey5:
I know APC will do well in Edo North

I am waiting for Edo central who traditional PDP stronghold.

I have seen enough of Obaseki Edo South to believe Labour party should win.

That Edo central na normal PDP diehards. I expect LP and PDP to share the votes.

thatigboman:
Where those tinubu thugs? Do anyhow see anyhow

Wait oh? Na RPG be that?

(Nigeria with World war 1 weapons)

chatinent:
Vote wisely.

Report nada, lynch the person immediately.

How many you don Lynch? Barbarian!

Leebeedo:
Did I ask anyone to vote for a specific party? I only ask people to vote.

Fair enough. But voting doesn't equate getting it right. Not like nobody voted in 2019.

As for help rendered, I don't need to divulge any info and it is obvious that you are hungry and that's why you're pissed. Especially you, better go out and vote instead of begging for help on here if not, your children too will beg for bread.

Bar the bolded, the balderdash is in tune with what I quoted earlier.

IfnobeGod20:
Tick the boxes before you make decision of whom to vote for tomorrow. Don't vote for any person to punish anyone or tribe, if you do so, you're only indirectly punishing yourself.

Actually, I'd like to see your score for each candidate under those criteria.

Leebeedo:
Na una sabi. Let me say this here, nobody, I repeat nobody should reach out to me on here begging for help after this election. If y'all can't get it right, then una never suffer reach.

Who you epp?

Even Bill Gates that has done more for Humanity than you ever will, don't ever seek to influence people's politics. Nonsense.

figment232:
I always get new as change urchin!

You dey hibernation since zombie?

The reason why some of these banks are still collecting old notes is because they know CBN and Emefiele are dumb. Commercial banks haven't yet deposited all the old notes collected months ago with CBN, so who's to know where this ones are coming from?

JoshTim:
You get sense so? Let's do this simple math, i have 500k old notes as a business man, i took the old notes to bank. They collected it without giving me the new notes. How do you expect me to pay my suppliers who are unbanked?, How do you expect me to pay for petty transactions? Logistics? Food? Water?...will all transactions be cash based?, You took 3 thrilling out and injected 500billion, check the ratio?....go to the banks, no cash in the vaults and ATMS, for a country of over 200million...i tried using app, it failed.... When all these cash brouhaha started, banks were still dispensing the old notes. Infact, the new notes didn't come out immediately. you must be a fool. And e no go better for you o.

Thank you. Bros, if many people get sense, we for no dey this bad as a nation and people.

The highest amount of the new notes I've owned at once was 2K (what can that buy). Since then, I never take eye see Emefiele and Buhari new money! We've had to put some building projects on hold because no money to pay workmen who claimed they don't use bank accounts.

Petty traders on the streets whose businesses are mostly cash-based and low volume, have few reasons to operate bank accounts unless they don't mind charges eating into their minimal profits.

I can't imagine a country wanting to implement a policy so bad that they are completely unprepared and immatured for like Nigeria has just done. I remembered that low-budget CBN governor, talking one time about how difficult it is to see 50 pounds or 100 dollar bills in the hands of citizen in those country, while Nigerians have no problem carrying 1000 naira denominations. How many people would ordinarily walk around with 70K naira in their pockets? Because that's what's actually 100 dollars in real value. It's foolhardy to think creating scarcity of hard cash would give the same dynamic that exist in the UK and US - different factors are at play here.


According to news I'm hearing around my locality, a 'smart' Nigerian has made himself a fortune by selling new 'money'. Can you imagine that?

figment232:
I don't even have old notes...only new.Is that strange to u

Yes strange but I know it's possible. But who's going to give you new as change?

[quotUe author=EMPEROROFDONBAS post=120948498]
you are more stupid, than Buhari and Emefiele.... APC fighting APC....shame no dey catch una.... useless incompetent party[/quote]Such a dumbo!

EMPEROROFDONBAS:
Na ur papa be stupid idiot. so Obi should tell dem to g to war. useless slowpoke...

How this block-head manage to bring his newfound hero into the conversation, I no get.

I'm specifically hitting on the FG and CBN for insisting on their policy, this dumbass is talking about what Obi said or didn't say to his supporters like it has any influence on the actions of the CBN moving forward.

Crackhead, I don't give a damn about what Obi tells you to do or not to do. The worse type of idiots are those with comprehension problems. If your father is any less stupid, he'd be demanding greater value from your education. Dumbass!

BigYash:
Mumu get off my mention.. Na be me and mumu like you wan dey package matter .. You no reach

If you actually get sense offline, the sense no dey follow you come online? Just hope you don't sit on your head going by your moniker.

... Done calling out stupid people for the day - I'm done with you.

Parachoko:
Wetin dey shock me in all this is how the FG and CBN is still insisting on going ahead with what's not working

Dem no wan dey flexible at all concerning this issue

Even if dem no go release old ₦1000 notes, make dem release ₦500 and ₦200.

The most funny thing about all this is the Edo State Government supporting the CBN and FG on this issue at the Supreme Court, people they protest massively in this same Edo State right now, 3 people have been shot dead because of this policy their Governor is supporting.

Also for me, the main thing I can't wrap my head around. I read the CBN admitting facing unprecedented challenges, including printing paper scarcity, to then see them fighting the supreme court's order is beyond me.

Nobody want to be the prophet of doom but I saw this coming - vandalizing banks and pushback from police. Regrettably lives have already been lost. Those blood is on the hands of Buhari and the CBN's Governor for not having the balls to either suspend the hard deadline or honourably resign from that position.

The only reason things are not worse is because in most places like mine, people are still transacting with old notes with hesitation.

The Edo and Bayelsa State Government joining the suit against the FG should tell all 'wise' Nigerians that politicians are taking the side that is favourable to their ambition. They don't really care about our suffering or opinions. Tinubu, Atiku and Obi have all taken sides, and it's not hard to decipher how their position about the current monetary policy may come to favour them in the election.

If this is the best mechanism folks at CBN and FG can come up with to combat vote buying, I don't know who's more stupid - they or the people supporting them. Come February, all 3-4 major candidates will buy votes and we'll hear those reports on nairaland.

BigYash:
If say you get sense you for understand say monikers on nairaland are just cruise.. I no need send upper boyz msg,before they fight for their rights.. They are not cowards and foolish like you and your father. Mugu!

You no get sense, that's why na shiitbox you choose to identify yourself with.

I only attacked your bad advice thinking you no be hopeless case. No vex, I done realise say your senselessness dey deep-rooted. I for ignore you altogether.

Na pesin way take advice from a man named Big-Yansh go be the ultimate fool.

BigYash:
I call your father name for d issue? Rubbish kill you there.. Those lives lost shay you and your family will cook them and eat?

Big Yansh- them cut your hand? Why you no go visit police yourself? Why you come dey call upper boys? Who be your lackey way you dey send message?

Idiot. Maybe na your father you dey send the message. Pesin wey them name BIG Yansh no go get brain cells for him skull before