₦airaland Forum

ElDeeVee:
This isn't about being selfish. Saraki betrayed PDP in the past, as one of the main mover of the Baraje led PDP which ultimately led to their loss of federal power. I don't think PDP should embrace d guy as they had d greatest chance to finish him today.

Btw where is Baraje?

kastonkastrol:
hmmm is buhari already grooming fashola to take over from him ? Well only time can say but am instinctively sure that fashola will be our next president after buhari...

Watch this space!

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Which victory?

The presidential one or the legislative one?

EkoIle1:
That was their party's internal wahala and I care less. The opposition remains the opposition and will always do what's best for their party and people back home.

Obviously, there was no incentive for the ACN to back the SW PDP candidates.

You are not a true opposition and you have no business as the opposition if all you do is create opportunities and advantages for your opponents. You checkmate your opposition to gain advantage, create leverage and bargaining power to effectively deliver for your people back home.

This is politics and the way it's supposed to be played.

What goes around comes around!

EkoIle1:
It's very obvious what they are doing. There was zero self interest because no personal gains was involved. The idea was to strengthen their position within the chambers in Abuja and gain advantage politically back home in the SW.

1. Depriving the SW candidates the leadership positions in Abuja discounts and negate their influence back home

2. The sent a message through the hall of power in Abuja that they are a force to be reckoned with back home and in Abuja

3. Strengthening their positions and amazing political leverage, IOUs and favors enables them to bargain for federal attention back home in terms of infrastructures and other dividends.

4. There was nothing to gain for the ACN as a political party and on behalf of the people back home by going along with the PDP establishment, their job is to deny them political advantages, not help and give it to them.

5 A divided PDP makes their their job easier, not harder.

The elected PDP House leadership are now indebted to the ACN some some favors so I see smooth sailing for some ACN sponsored bills in the house.


All in all, it was a good move on their part.

Eko, do you still hold these views?

EzeUche1:
I pity those who believe in Tinubu. He only cares about his own interest and not the interest of his own people. ACN controls the South-West and everyone has to pay homage to Emperor Tinubu. Welcome to the new South-West.

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JackBaueress1:
well what a TVC correspondent said was the N-PDP think they deserve a share in the APC government.
CAN has the Vice-President
ANPP has the party chairman
N-PDP deserve the Senate Presidency.


What will CPC and a faction of APGA have then?

CPC has president

APGA will likely get SGF

Well, you can't blame the man (Tinubu) for trying his luck!

Obiagelli:
Today na real drama Tuesday, i see Fashola and Fayemi's handwritings on this one, don't ask me why

Seems we are thinking alike.

Watch out for these two!

JackBaueress1:
Some powers are clearly bigger than him.

*sighs*

So you know?

I thought you were one of his ARDENT supporters?

Ezenwammadu:
Suspended from the party not the senate.They can always decamp to PDP

They will cite crisis in APC as reason for them to decamp from APC to their new party and still retain their seats.

Interesting!

Reference:
Yeah. I can imagine Fashola raising a glass of Dom Perignon 53 with a wry smile. Politics 007.

Those who joked about Fashola not being able to make even a councillor in Lagos had better watch out!

Indifferent:
As it is now, the only thing Tinubu has is the Vice president

And I pity Osinbajo.

I hope what happens to uncooperative deputy governors in Nigeria does not befall him.

He might have to choose between Tinubu and Buhari.

Choose ye this day who you would serve - Tinubu or Buhari?

Check what happened to Amosun's and Mimiko's former deputies.

Will what Tinubu did to Bucknor happen to PYO?

Tinubu was drafted by Afenifere to contest for governor and "given" Bucknor for deputy.

Bucknor pledged allegiance to the Afenifere godfathers while Tinubu decided to be his own man.

Eventually Tinubu showed Bucknor the way out.

Tinubu and co drafted Buhari and dashed him PYO.

If PYO continues to be loyal to Mr. Everybody, he might get the Bucknor treatment.

Already, his major assignment so far has been visiting on behalf of the president.

BTW

Saraki will be cut to size before 2019!

Emmayur:
He is simply following in the foot steps of his father who was the senate president during the Shehu Shagari's regime.

His father was majority leader not president.

Joseph Wayas was president.

zubby29:
d fact dat kwankwaso was in attendanc spells danger for apc.dey better accept d election or pdp will regain kwara,zamfara and kano and i am apc dont want

Very correct!

The man who came second to Buhari at the APC primaries!

The three strands of APC (CPC-Buhari, ACN-Tinubu, nPDP-Saraki) do dey show face!


Kwankwaso went with Saraki- Governor's Forum/New PDP Ties.

Will Amaechi go with Saraki? I think he will!

If GEJ remains powerful in PDP, Saraki and his new PDP people will form a new party. Mark my words!

The days of an overbearing Obasanjo are over!

Tinubu is being checked!

Buhari will have to confront both the Tinubu and Saraki groups if he does not politic (which is the CHANGE some voted for).

Buhari will have to confront the same people who drafted him into the race to get rid of GEJ. He would not find it easy. I hope he has learnt from GEJ's errors of trusting and trying to pacify these people.

Now, people will see what GEJ suffered in the hands of these people.

As long as they all are not able to gang up against the masses, I am happy.

I'm so loving this!

PS

I suspect a major fall out between Tinubu and Fashola.

I will explain when the time comes.

Change!

teebaxy:
what will happen to alafin of oyo that went with his yellow wives?

They will remain in Abuja until further notice.


Jona, why?

If this is true, let's hope they would not scale the fence again.

orimahspence:
Apc should not forget how it all started. In fairness to Saraki. The senate presidency belong to new pdp/apc. The cpc got president. ACN got the VP. Anpp got the party chairman. Now that it was the new pdp to get theirs, apc now becomes jittery of the PDP. .

You are quite right.

If APC is to be fair, new PDP ought to produce the speaker.

If Saraki loses, it will be interesting to see what Amaechi will do. If Saraki leaves APC, will Amaechi and other New PDP members leave APC?

Amaechi has become invisible...

A new political party is loading...

If Saraki wins, he would stand against Buhari like he did against Jonathan. Of course, he would try to check Tinubu probably by leaving APC.

If Saraki loses, he would definitely leave APC.

I am not sure he woulkd go back to PDP especially if Jonathan becomes the navigator of PDP.

The prospect of a Saraki senate presidency is somehow intruiging to me.

With Saraki as an opposition force to Tinubu and/or Buhari, we would be saved the agony of a one party state (APC).

Interesting!

The new opposition Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, has thrown a last minute stunt to the 8th National Assembly leadership tussle at the early hour of Tuesday by endorsing Senator Bukola Saraki for Senate President and Hon Yakub Dogara as preferred candidate for the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Meanwhile, feelers have it that Senators loyal to Senator Lawan on their part after a meeting at about 8.30 p.m. Monday night, were said to have resolved to personally approach Saraki to keep the unity of the party and bury his ambition.

The peace mission to Saraki was, however, yet to see Saraki as it was learnt that the Kwara political colossus had become incommunicado.

However, Hon. Dogara’s camp was also banking on the House rules which provides for secret voting, a situation they claimed, yesterday, would allow their closest supporters to vote for him since the votes cannot be traced.

Dogara’s momentum was, however, tempered by the decision of a Federal High Court in Abuja to remove Gbajabiamila’s name from the contest upon alleged infractions committed in the United States. The court rather asked that Gbajabiamila be put on notice for the case coming up on June 18.

That decision nonetheless, the Dogara camp spread out word that they cannot afford to have a presiding officer who would be parading the court.

With this new twist PDP has positioned itself as a formidable threat capable causing devastating damage for the new ruling party (APC), just as PDP availed it’s senators-elect and members-elect, to enter today’s contest as a united body, putting the minority body which commands 49 of the 108 senators-elect in a decisive position to determine the outcome.

PDP governors and immediate former governors including some who have now entered the Senate were also rallying to present a united front in today’s historic National Assembly election.

http://pearl.com.ng/2015/06/breaking-anxiety-as-pdp-endorses-saraki-as-preferred-senate-president-and-dogara-as-house-speaker/

I thought you guys were compalining about GEJ wearing dark colours?

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seunmsg:
Dogara and his group should please shut the fvck and respect the decision of majority of the APC representative elect. he should quietly respect the party decision and withdraw from the race. The overall interest of the party should supersede all personal ambitions.

Since when did APC start respecting the decision of the majority?

How many election results lost by APC were not contested?

So the overall interest should supersede all personal ambitions now?

Words on marble: "My personal ambition is not worth the blood of any Nigerian"

agabusta:
Back to the story, this is not nice at all. it seems Ambode has not come to the full realization of the enormous powers that has been handed over to him. One cannot blame him totally though, he is kind of new, with time, he'll be more confident and understands protocol better.
I think this is a big goof sha and his protocol officer and Chief of Staff needs to be fired for this nonsense.

I thought APC said Jimi Agbaje would be a learner and we should not vote someone who would learn on the job?

bastien:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=K9G0Qa-tBLo

Thanks!

bastien:
u see the one torino v Parma?

No. Do you have a link?

bastien:
Pure match fixing

Gbam!

Is it legal to patronise prostitutes?

Why was the man not arrested for patronising a prostitute when he went to report at the police station?

Wonderment!

Does this put to rest the Ekiti-gate debacle?

You know, the Obanikoro-Fayose election fiasco.

I thought peeps were complaining about the dark colour of GEJ's attires?