₦airaland Forum

Did you see Buharis name in any ballot paper on Saturday? Why not wait till next week before jumping up in joy

Jarus:
But the good thing for him is that his party, ACN, is now in control of the state.
If he doesn't get appointive post in the new dispensation(2011-2015), he can easily position himself for 2015 when his party is expected to have gained stronger ground in the state.

ACN is not in control of Oyo state as of yet. Oyo is a 3 horse race at the moment. PDP has more house of rep seats at the moment with 5 seats, ACN 4 and Accord 4. ACN has 2 senate seats and PDP 1 seat.

babasoty:
Thank you my brother--- I hope ACN learns from the mistake of AD and PDP and gets it right this time around--- if not in four years time either APGA, LP or even CPC would be kicking them out in four years time.

This was one of my reasons for this post. Any party can kick them out as well as we can see what ladoja has done with his populairty in Oyo state, Mimiko with LP in ondo state as well.

yd849ja:
What you all fail to understand is that growth and development can only come about when there exist true democracy as provided for by truly and deeply rooted issue based oppositions and its also quite unimaginable that in a free and fair election there should be a landslide dominance by one party except the opposition has no real and popular candidates in their ranks. I can only tell you that what we are seeing in the southwest is a true democracy, where all are choosing according to their conscience. ACN shouldn't be the only one winning because as bad as PDP is there must exist among them some good candidates who are as good as BRF and equally popular in their own constituency or even better. I for one do not want an outright dominance by one party over the rest hence what is being manifested in the southwest. ACN shouldn't win the whole southwest as this can only amount to tyranny as observed in the PDP in this outgoing dispensation. A 58% to 42% divide wouldn't be a bad idea. At this moment we need PDP to mount an ideology based war against ACN in the next 4years providing us with an alternative to ACN giving us more than enough reason why they would do better than them if voted in come next election, by way of this Nigeria starts her march to development and we can all then start looking forward to a brighter future as a nation.

good post! Healthy competetion is one of the requirments for development. People will realise they can be voted in or voted out by the people and will be left with no option than to perform.

@9ijaman

I agree with you maybe donations should no go into main acct of Buhari campaign as have just done that as well. Jingles might not be what is needed right now but logisitics and logo familiarisation, we have to ensure we are not rigged out in the north and SW.

We need votes like anything in the SW, this is because the results of PDP in the SW is particulalry disturbing to me and we have to face the reality and truth. We need 30% of SW votes and right now one on one campaigning and enlightenment is what is required on a massive scale espacially in Lagos.

How about everyone convinivng all residents in his neighbourhood about the BB change , if this is done by 200 people in lagos along we might get ripple effects of thousands of votes. Every number will count in this election. I must confess i am shit worried about PDPs perfomance in the SW.

fuke:
@Lagos Boy

Your analysis is correct but factor in these points.

Many still didn't come out to vote thinking that it would be rigging as usual.

Many didn't come out because they were boasting of unleashing their goons on the people.

Many were disenfranchised. My wife and daughter couldn't get card and they are Ac.

Influence of money. PDP people were carrying money all over the place and this
had some effect even as many collected without voting for them.

No, Akala will not win this election.

By 2015 PDP would have gone for ever in Yoruba land.

They do not belong here.

I hope and pray they will be gone forever.

I dont wwant to believe it is just because of money people voted for them, it seems there is bij chunck of people who like the PDP candidates for whatever reason. The elction in Oyo, Ogun and ondo state were just damn too close to think it was jsut money distribution. Yorubas are wise and will collect your money and not vote for you.

If ACN relaxes thinking they have kicked PDP out it will be the biggest mistake they will make.


However if GEJ wins the presidency it is more dangerous as all this PDP SW guys will all be compensated with ministers and they will continue to loot our dear nation without any development.

What a sad end

The guy is young anyway, still has a lot of time to bounce back.

ayubam:
Guys be wise. Nigerians have really lost the value of self worth. People left their houses early in the morning, stayed on the qeue for hours, got accredited, voted, waited for the vote to be counted and announced, resisted attempt by some elements to manipulate the results, took pure water, foods, paracetamol etc along to polling booth yet you are ascribing the success of that to your president. I CAN SEE THAT MANY NIGERIANS HAVE LIVED UNDER OPPRESSION TO THE EXTENT THAT THEY HAVE LOST THEIR BRAINS AND VALUE OF SELF WORTH.

A vote for GEJ is a vote for Bankole, Iyabo Obasanjo and many more you voted out last Saturday to become your Ministers, Ambassadors, and by extension the member of the presidential economic team and the same looting will continue. We should never make that mistake. When you want to destroy the enemy, destroy him totally to the truth. Can GEJ take decision independently of OBJ, Anenih and co if returned to power.

Be WISE GUYS AND KNOW YOUR SELF WORTH.

THE POWER TRULY BELONG TO PEOPLE AND IF YOU FAIL TO SEE THAT, YOU WILL HANDOVER THAT POWER WILLINGLY TO THE OPPRESSOR AGAIN IN THE NAME OF A GOOD MAN.

I agree with you totally. The praise should actually go to the Nigerian people who were enlightened to protect their votes. GEJ if he had the opportunity would rig this comming election. GEJ know he cannot rig in the SW or NW but face a backlash nexxt week. It is all strategy and i dont think anyone should vote GEJ in this comming election. PDP in power means Iyabo, Dimeji, Oyinlola, Omisore will all be rewarded with ministerial appointments. Imagine Omisore becoming minister of Finance or Dimeji becomming minister of works.

Let us all wise up

I agree with you in ondo state he might even record 95% because PDP and Labour are all for GEJ. CPC has no presence, ACN has no impact as well in the state.

jason123:
Bro, to be honest, they both deserve the credit. Gej deserves it because he did not get involved. I know lots of people now that are going the GEJ way. Even my family that were going to vote for Buhari are now for GEJ. In lagos and the whole of SW, people are going the GEJ way. I see a resounding defeat for Buhari in the SW,SS and SE. Although, I am very happy that their votes is no based on the stupi.d southern or regional sentiment but on a fair assessment of GEJ.

Abeg convince your family to still vote Buhari o, we should not be short sighted because GEJ chose not to intefere. Another 4 years of GEJ will spell diasaster for Nigerias development o. We should not get carried away with these kind of things, PDP still in the center means Nigeria will remain backwards.

jason123:
I am also for Buhari but I know lots of people that will be voting for GEJ especially after knowing how free and fair the election was in the SW.

This is my worry, honestly.

GEJ appointed JEGA and the credit is not for GEJ IMO. It should be for JEGA , if JEGA was not strong he would have danced to the tunes of some PDP guys. Dont tell me guys like Anenih and OBJ would not have looked for ways to rig this election as usual.

sbeezy8:
acn will never support buhari for what?

cpc did such a terrible job they dont deserve anything.

I said assuming.

30 hous of rep members so far , ACN has 32 so far as well.

6 senators so far with 3 states in the north pending, ACN has 13 so far. CPC is 1 year old ACN is close to 6 years old. How can you say CPC has done a terrible job, however it is true we expected a higher number of senators but the reality on ground is not exactly what we thought regarding CPC candidates. Buari is another ball game entirely though and by Sunday we shall see.

We still dey, we dont run away from our ideals.

BB all the way, In Politics there is bound to be a loser and a winner. Let us wait till after next week before we begin to pass judgements.

Another thing is if all these PDP people vote GEJ next week then it seems we are going to have another 4 years of GEJ. This is looking like the bareface truth. If GEJ garners up to 40% of the votes in the SW I dont know i will do except to put our hands up and accept PDP has won this presidential election.

Even if the election goes to a run off and ACN supports Buhari, these 40-45% of SW PDP people are enough to titlt the election in GEJs favour.

I am 100% for Buhari but these are handwritings on the wall which we have to address.

Gbawe:
Man mi, all this your thread aimed at maligning Tinubu ,while disguised as something else, is not fooling anyone. Only a dreamer would think , In Nigeria's politics of money and inducement, that the PDP can be defeated without a fight. Why not start a thread about the other regions where the PDP totally had its way cmpletely when Nairalanders from that region have shouted , non-stop, "time to vote the PDP out" ? That is a more required thread IMO.

Have you not noticed how many , apart from SW folks, have gone silent on Nairaland? It is because it is now sinking in for some folks that their region , barring a miracle, is in for another round of PDP misrule !!!! Most have realised that they miscalculated in their belief that the oppressors of 12 years will be voted out unanimously by those on the ground!!! They are in a pensive mood and I feel for them.

Once , the ACN had only one Governor in the SW region. That has now been totally reversed and gains made in legislative representation. The overwhelming defeat of the PDP is the big picture and not the margin of defeat. Spare a though for those who have to put up with the PDP for anothe 4 years when you, me and all others have stated, non-stop, that "we must vote out the PDP".

Gbawe you seem to be missing the point of my post. We have a common enemy in PDP, I am happy ACN has defeated them and PDP is leaving the SW. However, I dont like to get carried away which is my i am looking at issues from a different angle after the celeberations. These margins of victrory are very tight or maybe i was delusional to think PDP has very little support in the SW in the first place. This results tells me maybe OGD actualy won the 2007 election , maybe Akala actually won the 2007 election as well. We have for 8 years thought PDP only won the SW due to rigging but these results in Ondo Ogun and Osun is proving contrary.

I am worried and want us to face the reality on ground so as to map out a long lasting trouncing of PDP. Some of these victories are within margin of error. Fashola has done wonders in Lagos and for PDP to even have up to 40% of votes in places in Lagos shows the party has some strong grasroot support.

Forget Tinubu now and let us both reason to see the reason behind this so as to move foward. I personally believe PDP won Ekiti in 2003 free and fair due to the woeful perfomance of Niti Adebayo from 1999- 2003. I want us to loot at issues deeper budddie

We should not forget Gombe, Kaduna and some other nothern states that the results are still pending and some where there was no election last staurday.

In Ogun state , assuming there was no crack in PDP , these results indicate that PDP might have won the legislative election. Can anyone please give some hindsight into this please? We can celeberate ACN´s victory but after the celebration , there has to be some real hard reflections which we have to learn from. We should not get carried away with this narrow victories, let us reflect and analyse issues which are deeper and neccessary for our future.

If there was no crack in Oyo PDP as well, PDP would have won the whole election in Oyo state as Accord party has done pretty well due to Ladoja.

blacksta:
The beauty of Democracy - when votes actually counts - Sensible Majorities determine the fate of the rest.

Very true indeed majorites have to be sensible

kodewrita:
Not at all otherwise they wouldnt have lost so much.

The reality and the level of support as evidenced by the majority win from ACN is that they are mostly hated by the people. Thats the result of the numerical analysis. How you drew an opposite conclusion I dont know.

Nobody is saying they dont have any supporters but rest assured that will wither away once the ACN governments start up. Of course ACN can still f[i].uck[/i] themselves up by performing poorly but definitely PDP is in for a Bashing in the southwest.


Akala is definitely on his way out in spite of all the hooligans he has amassed. Time to reclaim the pride of Oyo state (we are not slaves to brigands).

As a lesson: Senator Kamoru Adedibu just recieved a whipping in spite of his dad's machine still being on ground.


Tinubu You overrate Tinubu, we dont give a damn about him.

The people of the southwest may respect Fashola but they dont like Tinubu.

Thats a fact.

Ask anyone outside Lagos and Ogun (where you people are mesmerized by closeness). We dont see anything spectacular about him. Given a straight contest between Fashola and Him for anything in the SW, He will lose by a massive margin.

I did not say PDP was the most popular but i said appear to be popular. I hate PDP and want to see their back in the SW but i was surprised by the level of support they have in the zone which is worrisome to me. If these people vote for Jonathan next week , we might have another 4 years of Jonathan in govt. Another 4 years of Jonathan means more money for the PDP thugs in the SW to rally more support in the even the ACN guys dont perform.

Akanbi_edu:
Sounds like a load excuses, isn't it? So for all your Tinubu-is-bad rant, this is all you can offer

as explanation for CPC's disappointment. The earlier you guys drop your "Holier than thou" attitude,

the better.

I am still voting Buhari even though it's anti-party on my part. We hope many

Nigerians like you will have more sense of pragmatism to help take Nigeria back from the hands

of incompetent gang, not that Nigerians deserve better though.

Buddie , i have a right not to like someone and in this case it is Bola Tinubu. I have given no excuses for CPC but only stated the reality as it is. We are not holier than thou but only have some  principles that we hold on too. Imposition of candidates is not good and will never be good.

My post stated celarly i thought CPC would have done better in some states in the north but i was proven wrong.

I hate to say this but i want to face the reality on ground. This election is the first election in 8 years int he SW that truly reflects the will of the people and enables us to see the level of support PDP has in the zone.

Oyo state: PDP won 1 senate slot and majority of the HOR seats which is 5 , (ACN had 4 and Accord party 4) Dapo Lam Adesina even lost this election.

For example
Ayo Adeseun of ACN 105, 975
Jumoke Akinjide of PDP 78643


Ogun state : PDP lost all the senatorial seats with very tight margins which is worrisome to me.
OGUN EAST

ACN - Sefiu Kaka 76,543
PDP - Mohammed Odunowo - 52,613
PPN - Abiodun Odusanya 46,148


OGUN WEST

ACN - Odunsi Babalola 61,326
PDP - Babatunde Fadun 59,949
PPN - Waliu Taiwo 45,246


Osun state : PDP lost all the senatorial seats but still had about 40% of the votes counted.

Ondo state : ACN had no impact, PDP lost by very tight margins , Segun Agagu and Bode olajumoke were narrowly defeated by the LP.

in Lagos, PDP even pulled some weight and had around 25-30% of the total votes, in some areas it had up to 40% of the votes.

The question we should be asking ourselves is why on earth will PDP still be enjoying the kind of support it does in the SW. Wonderful ACN has won majority but the large proportion of support PDP has in the zone shows greater challenges lie ahead and any lapse on the path of the victors in the next 4 years means the return of PDP to power. I personally think the Tinubu factor is holding a large chunk of people in the SW from voting ACN. 

In Oyo state, the governorship race will be a very tight one between Ladoja, Ajimobi and Akala. It is a 3 horse race and either of these guys has a realistic chance of wining it. Hate or like it the support for PDP in Oyo state is huge and i dont want to think Akala might win this electin . God forbid!

recoome:
@ziccoit: if u studied the results, u'll see that PDP lost the SW with little margin, so your theory is useless, PDP is very much alive in the SW and will win when it comes 2 presidential.

Honestly this is my worry, it seems a large chunk of the yourba society voted for PDP because they dont like Tinubu.

Bankole will soon decamp to ACN together with many of ogun state politicians. He will go prostrate to osoba and Tinubu and the whole story will continue.

The good thing is like it has been noted , once politicians realise rigging is impossible, accountability will start to count. On the depressing side is most of the ACN candidates in the national assembly, particularly house of rep won on the popularity of the party. These guys might become too comfortable and not perform as all they have to do is get the consent of the god father and they are sure of another term.

enyojo:
FRANKLY SPEAKING, JARUS IS ON POINT IN THIS ONE.
THE STRATEGY OF ACN IS THAT THEY ALWAYS SELECT THE BEST CANDIDATES. YOU ARE FREE TO CALL THIS 'IMPOSITION'.
BUT FOR THE CPC, WE ALL KNOW THAT THEIR CANDIDATES ARE EITHER UNKNOWN OR SIMPLY CORRUPT.
WHEN ABACHA WON THE CPC CANDIDATURE FOR KANO, BUHARI PERSONALLY TRIED TO REVERSE IT BUT THE COURTS REFUSED, ALSO WHEN ALIERO A CORRUPT FORMER GOV OF 8 YRS UNDER PDP EMERGED AS CPC SENATORIAL CANDIDATE, EVERYONE KNEW HE WILL FAIL FOR EVEN A GOAT IF ITS ON PDP TICKET.

BUT ON THE NATIONAL LEVEL, THE BUHARI FAME WILL BE DISPLAYED BY THIS WEEKEND

ACN also fields unknown candidates, how many people knew Fashola before 2007? , who knew Fayemi? well Aregbeshola was a comissioner. Is Remi Tinubu the best candidate in the Lagos central? Who knows Tinubus daughter? who knows her husband?

The truth is Tinubu(credit to him) has built the party structure and and people vote for the party, even if it is a monkey on the ticket which is bad.

CPC is a 1 yr old party for goodness sake , there is so much Buhari can do, People should not ocmpare Buhari to Tinubu in terms of ACN´s success. Buhari is a candidtate , Tinubu is not and has all the time to go around doing some ground work. Ribadu ACNc candidate from the north has not won anything for ACN in the north so far which means he is a featherwight in politics.

CPC is constrained by money, Buhari did not accept money from most of those corrupt politicians who joined CPC. Buhari needs the presidency and most of those around him were from the TBO (The Buhari organisation). Although i thought CPC would do better in some states in the north, the popularity of the local candidates have been proven. Some analysis even on NL before this election have already said the legislative election will not be determining factor in the presidential election.

For example i am begining to think PDP might get 30% of SW votes because in all the states of the SW, PDP had at least 35-40% of the votes cast with the exception of Lagos. In fact in ogun state and oyo state PDP´s votes loss was in the region of 10% which shows the popularity of the local candidates. However in the presidential election i dont think this will happen as people will vote for personality as opposed to party.

ACN with all the heavyweights in 2007 could only win one state, 4 senators and few house reps slots albeit the electionw as rigged. Heavyweights like Audu Ogbe, Atiku, Naaba, Rimi, Princewill and a host of others. CPC i believe will be stronger in 4 years time especially if Buhari wins this election. I am not a CPC memebr by the way and I only support the candidacy of Buhari and nothing more.

Jarus:
Call them any name, there is no denying the fact that these are the men that have prevented Nigeria from degenerating into a one-party state. Tinubu could have joined PDP and will still maintain godfather status, even now at national level. If Tinubu defects to PDP, he stands to lose nothing. He will stil be commanding things. He has the money, ruggedity, connection and tricks to be a successful politician by PDP standard.

On the other hand, if not for Buhari, PDP would have overtaken everywhere in the North. ANPP's little grasp of some areas in the North is still due to Buhari's footprints there. Now CPC is making waves due to Buhari factor again. Buhari could, like fellow Generals Obasanjo, IBB, Gusau etc,have also joined PDP and run things the dirty way. He may not be able to clinch PDP presidential ticket due to his natural averseness to the PDP ways, but he would have still been a godfather in PDP, holding the key to locking and unlocking NW. Yet he refused to join PDP.

Give it to this men, they are heroes of democratic Nigeria.

Brother, I beg to disagree. Tinubu will simply never join PDP because being in the opposition is the foundation of his political relevance, Tinubu is not fighting for you and me but his personal political survival. Tinubu is no hero of democracy because democracy reflects the will of the people and in 1999 the will of the people in AD was buried and Tinubu given the ticket ahead of Williams.

There is no difference between Tinubu and the PDP people in terms of ideology and the last time I checked , outside the SW almost all CAN candidates were PDP people. PDP is not bad because PDP is a human being but bad because of the people there. Watch out to see how politicians will start to defect to ACN in the SW in the coming months.
We want to rid our politics from god fatherism, thuggery and crooked ways. CAN without Tinubu will go a long way in being successful. Anyone that imposes 6 members of his immediate family on the party in an election is fighting for himself not for the masses.

Gbawe:
This is the thing. They say he is evil yet the man is always courting 'saints' . Does that make sense to any sane person? I would think it would be more logical for Tinubu to go for outright thugs like Oyinola, Alao-Akala to jusify what his haters say about him. Instead, the reality is that the ACN is a Party of performers and progressives.

There are no saints anywhere , omo buruku lojo tie and people that dont like him e,g myself, dislike him based on principles and nothing more! . ACN were bound to win the SW for sure, anyway join us next week in dealing PDP the final blow b voting for Buhari. Have you seen CPC''s success in the norh as well?

I dont understand how the SE region voted massively for PDP in Abia, Imo and Enugu

@Gbawe
Common you are more than this and stop all these unwarranted praise, despite my dislike for Tinubu i was never under any illusion that ACN will not do well in the SW. Everyone hates PDP and the only alternative is ACN, it is these kind of praises that turn politicians into demi gods. The fact that ACN won still does not make imposition of candidates right buddie, i am never a beleiver in the end justifying the means. Remi Tinubus victory at the expense of Labour party's name and logo missing from the ballot paper   is something that has to be looked into.

Your uncle won and I congratulate you and him , couple of my friends in ACN also won their house of rep seats and they had my support. SW has never voted PDP before and the only difference this time is JEGAs odified option A4 period, there is nothing more. OBJ has always lost his poling booth and there was nothing different in this election except there is not much remote ares in the SW where mass rigging could have been perpetrated. People waited by their votes and thanks to them.

By and large I am happy to see the demise of PDP in the SW and the North.

ayusman16:
CPC is a regional party while ACN is gradually evolving to a national party. For now PDP is only national party>

You seem to be forgeting the ACN is moere than 5 years old while CPS is only 1 year old. In fact in the school of poliics CPC's success will be forever studied, how the brand name of one man Buhari can shake Nigeria to its foundation. CPCs needed to win its base and then expand to the rest of Nigeria hopefully after winning the presidency.

ACN has done remrkably well in other terrotiories but not in the north except one or two where the candidates are popular like Benue and Adamawa

Is Tinubu making some mischief here

Aje ke lano omo ku leni , tani o mo pe aje ano lo pa om eni

Durosinmi Etti has been giving Remi Tinubu the fight of her life and the labour logo was missing from the ballot paper, shior.

The election will be cancelled and in fact LAbour will get more sympathy votes in this election.

nothing is reliable until Inec annonces. I dont know why inec has not announced the result yet sef

ye paripa , mo gbe

PDP lost in Aso villa, kai I hope this PDP guys dont wreck havoc before the presdential election.