₦airaland Forum

Subsidywise20:
No problem. If you did read my post, you would see that even I think I am a bad predictor. (That's a big part of why I don't do betting...)



That is true.



Again true...Borno in particular may go for APC...Zulum is doing a good job. But Atiku is in play now, and that could be dicey.



And those Northern governors won because Buhari was on the ballot. Buhari is responsible for their winning. Buhari not being on the ballot? Well, like I said, the Buhari bloc could still listen to their master and vote for BAT on his instructions....but at the same time, Buhari not being on the ballot could lead to many looking for a new person..and Atiku is closest to what they want.



It would...which is part of why the BAT choose him.


Five years ago, I would have agreed with you, but now, I'm not so sure. Chrsitians are very angry with APC right now, and that may affect APC votes all over the South. Plus PDP's performance last election...55 to 45%...that's not too good for APC (If I was an APC man in the SW, I would be worried, even though we won!)....plus they did better than expected in Lagos.

this is no longer political party affairs but personality and tribalistic differences,...u can take that to the bank

Hello ooo, the contest is bwt Tinubu Atiku and Obi and not there vice, the more u get that into ur head the better.

Is this trend abt guy?....use una head na

Fourth class citizen wan become president ....make una( IPOB) hlp this guy before him die for him dream

This guy just like to dea imagin things,...may be na president of IPOB him think sey him dea contest for...I like ur courage, dream on Nigga

Who dash mumu president

ArewaNorth:
Poor journalism. El Rufai has never been in CPC. El Rufai was PDP member before joining APC.

use ur smart phone and google search his former party.... u must be confused

TrackerXL:
I am a Christian n will be voting for Tinubu whether he chose Elrufia or Shettima. Let God come n ask me personally for the blood of any christians killed during their time as he ask for the blood of Muslims killed under a Christian Christian Governor in Igboland oloriburuku bigoted wretched motherfurker

Guy calm down laslas there brain go reset back to ipod/lefelendum

TakeBackNaija:
Blind Bartimius, so Northern Muslims won't Atiku because a fake Muslim from South is contesting?

In your ignorance, Tinubu will get all muslim votes in an election Atiku is contesting too?

Nigeria has equal number of Christians and Muslims, so when all Christians vote for Obi and Muslims divide their own for Atiku and Tinubu, who then wins?

Even educated Muslims who are liberals will definitely prefer two clean men like Obi and Datti that has contributed a lot to education and health than corrupt old criminals that ruined Nigeria in the first place.

The thread below explains it all

https://www.nairaland.com/7212164/christian-nigeria-accepts-muslim-muslim-ticket

guy ur surname must be joseph the dreamer

You guys should suspend ur stress cus u need more strength to carry placards after the election for "#we need IPOB/ lefelendum#"

saucygal193:
If it takes months to pick one Vice Presidential candidate, will it not take several months to pick Ministers and settle down to governance? Just asking.

you should ask peter obi the same question

Let me you guys this simple question:for over the yrs that christians has been vice president of this country, of what effect does it have in our religion unity?

Seems u people dnt understand what the power of incumbency and the power of ex governors can do....watch as things plays out

saintopus:
Wike defection to APC will not likely happen with the following reasons

1. The APC Structure in Rivers State is highly unstable

2. They may not allow him to be control of both factions

3. What Will happen to Amaechi faction

4. Abbey faction nko?

5. What will happen to the judicial panel that indict Amaechi?

6. What will happen to his PDP gubernatorial candidate.

less u forget all of the work together wen they where all in dpd

TakeBackNaija:
That bastard called reno or whatever is a disgusting fool.

This same fool will be complaining that Nigerian youths who are supporting Obi are cyber bullies yet all he does online everyday is trying to pitch ethnic groups in Nigeria against each other. However, he is hiding in America while trying to set Nigeria on fire with his stupid tribal utterances.

His day of reckoning is coming and he will be surely disgraced.

. Oga can u deny what reno said?

its time to declare igbos as terrorist

VladimirPutiin:
Why should I search for something that the masses are not feeling. Nigeria is now the world poverty capital. Many have slipped into extreme poverty under Buhari. Infact it’s difficult for the masses to eat 3 times a day. I’m on the streets and I know how It feels like. The northern region is even the most badly hit. If you are benefiting or you got someone in government then that’s your luck. But stop making it look like this disastrous administration has achieved anything.

...now I get ur point, you are only full of bitterness, calm down with Tinubu ur bitterness will turn to Joy

Golan007:
Do you still use Kerosene to cook?

na village person so na firewood them still dea use.

RandyOku:
Lmao

I am NOT the Cause of your FRUSTRATIONS

But you see ALL these you mentioned and which you are currently experiencing,,,You will GET MORE if you EVER VOTE Tinubu

. This must be one of those mad man from igboland

VladimirPutiin:
This is the reason why this country is in a bad shape in all ramifications.

baboo , I have just gave u the sure and reliable means u can search for there achievement..so honorably search for it without constituting rancors of bitterness..

Pio44:
mumu na tinbu party, as Igbo man I be hunger no fit kill me, that our pride

. Another idiot is typing

naija4life247:
I need to see your medical certificate of mental fitness because you don't sound mentally stable

I swear that guy na cow

VladimirPutiin:
Tell me the achievement of APC in these past few years to warrant us voting them again. Mind you I’m not Igbo before you tag me as Ipob

use the stress u use in typing that rubbish and ask Google, u will get in detail what u'r searching for....babooo

Dregovich:
I just hope these people supporting Tinubu/Atiku are joking about it. Except Northern muslims of course, those one's are just brainwashed. But not you, who still have the capacity to think for yourself

Mr Thinker, you be goat

olas24u:
An igbo man can never become president under a unitary federal system.you are playing to the gallery.There will be nothing for you after the elections.

for there wonder world them won become president of the country the called zoo, funny miscreants.

Pio44:
Kerosene is now 900 naria nobody is saying anything
I weep for Nigerians, APC is wicked, vote LP vote peter obi

didirin, so na Tinubu turn kerosene to #900, weep for ur family

Them think sey everybody supporting tinubu are Muslims, av aways tell u guys u reason under ur legs, flat brains full of resentment.

Dksmile:
Elderf*ck. Agba is elder and do is f*ck . add them together and what is your answer ?

Profile of 2023 Nigeria Presidential
Aspirant



Atiku Abubakar

Former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar was born on November 25 , 1946 to Garba Abubakar and Aisha Kande in Jada village of Adamawa.

His only sister died at a young age and that made him the only child of his parents.

At a young age, Abubakar lost his father to an accident in a neighbouring village in 1957.

At the time, Abubakar’s father did not believe in modern education, so he stopped his son from attending a compulsory traditional school.

However, when the government discovered Garba Abubakar’s action, he was jailed for a few days before his mother-in-law was able to pay for his bail. Afterwards, Abubakar started his primary education at Jada Primary School, Adamawa at the age of eight.

Thereafter, in 1960, he proceeded to Adamawa provincial secondary school for his secondary education.

He graduated in 1965 and enrolled in Nigerian Police College, Kaduna. Shortly after, he left the college to take on the position of tax official at the Regional Ministry of Finance.

Also, in 1966, he gained admission into the school of Hygiene, Kano and graduated with a diploma in 1967.

In the same year, Abubakar proceeded to Ahmadu Bello University on scholarship. There, he graduated with a diploma in law in 1969 and immediately got employed with Nigeria Customs Service.

In 1989, Abubakar was selected to represent his constituency at the constituent assembly, set up to form a new constitution for Nigeria.

In September 1990, Abubakar joined the governorship race for the former Gongola state.

However, in 1991 before the election could hold, the Federal Government divided Gongola into two – Adamawa and Taraba. Abubakar fell into Adamawa. Although, he won the Social Democratic Party (SDP) primaries in November 1991 but was disqualified from contesting in the election.

In 1998, he contested as the governor of Adamawa on Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) platform and won. However, before his swearing-in, he accepted to be the running mate of former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

Abubakar was thereafter sworn in as the Vice-President of Nigeria on May 29, 1999.

Since his joining politics, Abubakar has unsuccessfully contested five times for the office of President of Nigeria. He did that in 1993, 2007, 2011, 2015 and 2019.

In 1993, he contested the (SDP) presidential primaries losing to late Moshood Abiola and Baba Gana Kingibe.

He was a presidential candidate of the Action Congress (AC) in the 2007 presidential election coming in third to late Umaru Yar’Adua of the PDP and Muhammadu Buhari of the ANPP. He contested the presidential primaries of the PDP during the 2011 presidential election losing out to former President Goodluck Jonathan.

In 2014, he joined the All Progressives Congress (APC) ahead of the 2015 presidential election and contested the presidential primaries losing to Muhammadu Buhari. In 2017, he returned to the PDP and was the presidential candidate for the 2019 election, which he lost to Buhari.

On May 27, Abubakar won the PDP presidential ticket for 2023 general elections, after polling 371 out of the 767 accredited votes to defeat his closest rival, Gov. Nyesom Wike of Rivers who polled 237 votes.

Former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, came a distant third with 70 votes. While former Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Anyim Pius Anyim, scored 14 votes, Gov. Bala Mohammed of Bauchi got 20 votes, while Gov. Udom Emmanuel of Akwa Ibom scored 38 votes.

Dele Momodu and Ayo Fayose, Charles Ugwu, and Chikwendu Kalu scored zero votes each, while Tarella Diana and Sam Ohuabunwa each received one vote.

Abubakar is married to four wives and is blessed with 28 children.


Asiwaju Bola Tinubu (APC)


Asiwaju Bola Tinubu was born on March 29, 1952 in Lagos state. His mother Abibatu Mogaji, was a trader that later became the Iyaloja of Lagos State.

She died on June 15, 2013, at the age of 96.

He attended St. John’s Primary School, Aroloya, Lagos and Children’s Home School, Ibadan.

Tinubu travel to the U.S in 1975, where he studied first at Richard J. Daley College in Chicago, Illinois and then at Chicago State University. He graduated in 1979 with a Bachelor of Science (BSC ) degree in Accounting.

Tinubu worked with some U.S companies- Arthur Andersen, Deloitte, Haskins, & Sells, and GTE Services Corporation before returning to Nigeria.

After returning to Nigeria in 1983, he joined Mobil Oil Nigeria and later became an executive of the company. He joined politics in 1992 and was elected as Senator representing Lagos West at the National Assembly on the banner of the Social Democratic Party (SDP).

After the late military head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha dissolved the Senate in 1993, Tinubu become an activist, campaigning for the return of democracy as a part of the National Democratic Coalition movement. Although he was forced into exile in 1994, Tinubu returned after Abacha’s death in 1998.

Tinubu was elected as the governor of Lagos State in 1999 on the platform of Alliance for Democracy (AD).

During his eight-year in office, he made large investments in education in the state and also initiated new road construction, required to meet the needs of the fast-growing population of the state.

After leaving office in 2007, Tinubu retained his status as one of Nigeria’s most influential politicians and he played a key role in the formation of the All Progressives Congress in 2013.

Tinubu was among the politicians who created the APC as a “mega opposition” party with the merger of Nigeria’s three biggest opposition parties – the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN), the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), the All Nigeria Peoples Party (ANPP), a faction of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) and the new PDP (nPDP), a faction of the then ruling Peoples Democratic Party.

This key role in the formation of the party gave him the title of APC National Leader.

On June 8, Tinubu won the APC presidential ticket for the 2023 general elections, after scoring 1,271 votes to defeat 13 other aspirants at the Special National Convention of the party in Abuja.
The aspirants included Mr Chukwuemeka Nwajuba, Pastor Tunde Bakare, Chief Ikeobasi Mokelu, Sen. Rochas Okorocha, Mr Tein Jack-Rich and Gov. Ben Ayade.

Others were Governor David Umuahi, Sen. Ahmad Yarima, Dr Ahmed Lawal, Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Mr Rotimi Amaechi, Gov. Yahaya Bello and Mr Ogbonnaya Onu.
The race began with 23 aspirants, but nine withdrew shortly before the commencement of voting at the convention.

They included Mrs Uju Kennedy-Ohnenye, Dr Felix Nicholas, former Gov. Godswill Akpabio of Akwa Ibom, former Gov. Ibikunle Amosun of Ogun, former Speaker Dimeji Bankole, Sen. Ajayi Boroffice, Governor Muhammad Badaru of Jigawa, Sen. Ken Nnamani and Gov. Kayode Fayemi of Ekiti State.


Peter Obi (LP)


Peter Gregory Obi was born on July 19, 1961 in Onitsha. He attended Christ the King College, Onitsha, where he completed his secondary school education.

He was admitted to the University of Nigeria, in 1980, graduated with a B.A. (Hons) in philosophy in 1984.

Obi attended Lagos Business School, where he completed the Chief Executive Programme, Harvard Business School, where he completed two major programs, the London School of Economics, Columbia Business School, and the International Institute for Management Development where he received certificates in the Senior Executive Program and the Chief Executive Officer Programme.

He also attended the Kellogg School of Management of Northwestern University, Saïd Business School of Oxford University and the Judge Business School of Cambridge University.

Obi was a businessman before he ventured into politics. He contested in the Anambra State Governorship Election as a candidate of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) in 2003, but his opponent, Chris Ngige of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP), was declared winner by the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC).

After nearly three years of litigation, Ngige’s victory was overturned by the Court of Appeal on March 15, 2006. Obi assumed office on March 17, 2006, but was impeached On Nov. 2, 2006, by the State House of Assembly after seven months in office and was replaced by his deputy Virginia Etiaba.

He was re-instated on February 9, 2007, by the Court of Appeal sitting in Enugu. In April 2007, Obi was removed from office after a new governorship election was held by INEC, but the judiciary intervened again and ruled that he should be allowed to complete a full four-year term. In 2010, he won re-election for a second term in office.

Obi assumed a new status as an advocate for good governance after leaving office in 2014, leading to his defection to the PDP from APGA.

In 2019, Obi was picked as the Atiku Abubakar running mate on the platform of the PDP, but lost to President Muhammadu Buhari of the ruling APC.

Obi was among the top presidential aspirants of the PDP for the 2023 poll, before defecting to the Labour Party (LP) in May.

On May 30, Obi was declared the presidential candidate of the LP after three other aspirants – Prof. Pat Utomi, Mr Joseph Faduri and Mrs Olubusola Tella stepped down for him.

Obi is married to Margaret Brownson and they have two children – a boy and a girl.

Rabiu Musa Kwankwaso (NNPP)

Musa Kwankwaso was on born Oct. 21, 1956 in Kwankwaso, a village located in Madobi LGA of Kano State. His father was the village head of Kwankwaso with the title of Sarkin Fulani, Dagacin Kwankwaso; he was promoted to the District Head of Madobi with the title of Majidadin Kano, Hakimin Madobi by the Kano Emirate Council of Emir Ado Bayero.

He attended Kwankwaso Primary School, Gwarzo Boarding Senior Primary School, Wudil Craft School and Kano Technical College before proceeding to Kaduna Polytechnic where he did both his National Diploma and Higher National Diploma.

Kwankwaso was an active student leader during his school days and was an elected official of the Kano State Students Association.

He also attended postgraduate studies in the United Kingdom from 1982 to 1983 at the Middlesex Polytechnic; and Loughborough University of Technology where he received a master’s degree in water engineering in 1985.

He also got his Ph D in water engineering at Sharda University India in 2022.

Kwankwaso joined the Kano State Water Resources and Engineering Construction Agency of the Government of Kano State in 1975. He served there for seventeen years in various capacities and rose through the ranks to become the principal water engineer.

Kwankwaso made his entry into politics in 1992 on the platform of the Social Democratic Party (SDP). He was a member of the People’s Front faction of the SDP led by Gen. Shehu Yar’adua.

He was elected as a member of the House of Representatives representing Madobi Federal Constituency.

His subsequent election as deputy speaker in the House brought him to the limelight of national politics.

During the 1995 Constitutional Conference, Kwankwaso was elected as a delegate from Kano, as a member of the People’s Democratic Movement led by Yar’adua.

He later joined the Democratic Party of Nigeria (DPN) in the transition programme of late head of state, Gen. Sani Abacha.

Kwankwaso joined the PDP in 1998 and was elected as the governor of Kano State in 1999, but he lost his re-election bid in 2003. After he lost his re-election in 2003, he was appointed the Minister of Defence by former President Olusegun Obasanjo.

He was re-elected as the governor in 2011 and in 2015 he was elected as Senator representing Kano Central on the platform of APC.

In 2015, Kwankwaso unsuccessfully contested the presidential primaries nomination on the platform of APC, but lost to Buhari. In 2018, he returned to PDP and contested the presidential primaries losing out to Atiku Abubakar.

He remained in the PDP until May 30, when he defected to the New Nigeria Peoples Party (NNPP).

On June 8, Kwankwaso emerged as the presidential candidate of the NNPP for the 2023 general elections.

Kwankwaso, who was the sole presidential aspirant, emerged at the party’s special convention in Abuja.

Retired Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha (AA)

Retired Maj. Hamza Al-Mustapha was born on July 27, 1960, and was educated in Nguru, Yobe.

He enrolled at the Nigerian Defence Academy in Kaduna and was commissioned into the Nigerian Army in 1983.

Al-Mustapha was trained as a military intelligence operative. He held various command posts in the Security Group of the Directorate of Military Intelligence (SG-DMI), 82 Division and Army Headquarters and Ministry of Defence among others.

From August 1985 to August 1990, Al-Mustapha was Aide-de-camp (ADC) to Chief of Army Staff, late Gen. Sani Abacha, who eventually became the military head of state in 1993.

He served as Abacha’s Chief Security Officer from 1993 until his sudden death on June 8, 1998.

Following his death, Al-Mustapha assembled the military hierarchy in order to avoid a succession crisis.

General Abdulsalam Abubakar emerged as head of state on June 9, 1998, and Al-Mustapha was removed from office and subsequently arrested.

After his arrest, Al-Mustapha was first held and questioned during the Oputa panel, then accused of plotting at least four coups from prison, before being moved to the Kirikiri Maximum Security Prison, where he was detained for over some years.


Al-Mustapha relocated to Kano after his release before joining politics in 2017 when he founded the Green Party of Nigeria (GPN).

In 2019, he emerged as the presidential candidate of the Peoples Party of Nigeria (PPN) but couldn’t make much impact in the election.

On June 8 Al-Mustapha clinched the Action Alliance (AA) presidential ticket for the 2023 general elections.

He scored 506 votes to beat his only opponent, Chief Samson Odupitan, who polled 216 votes at the party’s primaries in Abuja.

Four aspirants began the contest, but two of them, Mr Tunde Kelani and Chief Osakwe Johnson, stepped down for Al-Mustapha shortly before the election, which was conducted using the option A4 formula.

All this rabbit called pandora abi na IPOB we no wey dea they pain then won become president...

Bomboiy:
Otedola should not be taken seriously,he is part of the people benefiting from corruption in Nigeria. He would always support corrupt leaders because that is his only gateway to wealth.

It is funny how his children are living large in abroad but he wants us to vote for someone whose only aim is to feed us cassava and Agbado.

2023 is not about corrupt personnels like Otedola and Tinubu,2023 is all about the poor masses,the students on strike,the poor women buying kerosene for 800/litre. 2023 is the year the above people will stand behind a candidate we believe in and not a drug dealer that pays people for political support

2023 is for Peter Obi,1million endorsement from corrupt billionaires and Politicians won't change that.

More Secrets of Mr Peter Obi Unveiled

This post is a mere opinion by "Igbo Kwenu" and does not represent that of the Reliant News.

APGA cannot mourn the exit of Mr Peter Obi with all these secret findings surrounding him.

1. Those who knew Peter Obi will attest to the fact that he has been a drug dealer beginning from his days as an undergraduate at UNN. He was hardly attending lectures and only managed to graduate with a third class in Philosophy after spending 12 years in the University.

2. His brother in-law who incidentally is one of the hirelings used by him for his nefarious drug trafficking business is currently languishing in jail in far away London . This is the major cause of strain between Obi and his in-laws. It is on record that his closeness to Dubem Obazie was the because he Dubem served jail term for drug trafficking because of Peter.

3. Obi should explain his relationship with former Military Administrator, Governor Ibim Princewill and Col Earnest Kizito Attah of Cross River State whom he helped as a conduit to fleece Cross River State government thus contributing to the under development of the state.

4. Obi should explain to Ndi Anambra the circumstances surrounding his father's death which remains his best kept secret. Before then we can reveal that Obi's father was drowned to death by Obi's associates in the drug trade whom he short-changed in a business deal prompting the mafias to kill the old man whom they drowned bounded hands and feet with bricks round his neck.

5. Given the level of insecurity in Anambra state , ''Saint'' Peter Obi should explain how he expends his security vote since it is on record that he collects over 470 million naira per month as security vote (220 million naira from Local Government and 250 million Naira from the state FAC accounts)

6. Just as Peter Obi professes his Catholicism for political expediency, we ask him to summon the moral courage and explain to Catholic faithful his relationship with the Olumba Olumba Obu (OOO) Cult sect where his wife is a known member. It is also on record that Peter Obi met the wife at a night club in Auchi . The lady had two children from two different men -an Albino and a Ghanaian. The affirmed Catholic is yet to wed his wife in the church.

7. Obi is yet to explain the mystery behind the 250 million naira that was found in the possession of his aides. He is yet to produce the contractor and publish the contractual agreement that stipulates that this very contractor will be paid in cash and also a reference to any other known precedents. Not even the famous late Barkin Zuwo of Kano State paid contractors in cash.

8. Obi should explain why he has continued to loot the resources of the state using his brother, Ndibe Obi, Ejike Onwusogbulu and a certain Chidi Agbapu -a Lagos based stock broker as a conduit for money laundering while the youths in Anambra remain unemployed;

9. Obi was elected governor on the platform of APGA and it is on record that he never convened an APGA meeting thereby destroying the entire party structure. Obi should explain to party faithfuls and loyalists why he destroyed the party;

10. Obi should explain to Ndi Anambra what happened to the state local government allocations and why Anambra under Obi is the only state in Nigeria without elected local government officers in place?

In view of the foregoing, we demand his immediate resignation or face further disclosure of his criminal past and present.

Edwin Chukwujekwu
Chairman

Nonyelum Nwokoye
Secretary

Odiegwu !!!