₦airaland Forum

garfield1:
Are you ok! Did you read the post

cktheluckyman:
Lol and think Buhari will still not get his way in this case?

cktheluckyman:
Osino power to summon? Oya tell him to summon him to aguda house let's see

cktheluckyman:
Oga cool down and watch the game.You people said this much during the race for the national chairman

samuelevans:
God no go shame us boss

Donshegxy10:
The summary is that........

Osinbajo and amaechi group are begging and hoping for the president endorsement.

Tinubu has the states with highest number of voters with him.

Las las apart fron God almighty and buhari, tinubu is the only candidate the rest are follow come, with only vibes and inshalah!!

Fiscus105:
If Osinbajo has not gotten full backing of Buhari before throwing hat to the ring, he would have been most foolish being have ever heard/known.

Saintinoo:
That is the bitter truth my brother, since the South can never be united, the North will keep calling the shots.

Presidential aspirants of the All Progressives Congress (APC) among them Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo; the party’s National Leader, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu; Minister of Transportation, Rotimi Amaechi and others are to battle for 7,800 delegates to grab the party’s ticket for the 2023 general elections, Daily Trust reports.

Aside from the trio, five other aspirants; Governor David Umahi of Ebonyi State, Yahaya Bello of Kogi State, business tycoon, Gbenga Olawepo-Hashim, a former Governor of Imo State, Rochas Okorocha and Ihechukwu Dallas Chima (IDC) have indicated interest in the race.

The Ekiti State Governor, Kayode Fayemi is set to declare after the Ramadan fast as he has begun consultation ahead of his declaration. Also, a former Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun, is planning to declare for the race.

The party had reportedly fixed May 30-31 for the conduct of its presidential primary election, where one of the aspirants would be elected to fly its flag for the 2023 presidential election.

Article 20 of the APC Constitution as amended this year, provided for the selection of candidates through consensus, direct or indirect primaries.

In December 2014, President Buhari emerged as the candidate of the party through indirect primaries conducted in Lagos.

He polled 3,430 votes to defeat the then Kano State Governor, Rabiu Kwankwaso (974), former Vice President Atiku Abubakar (954), Rochas Okorocha (624) and the late Sam Nda-Isaiah who got 10 votes.

However, in 2018, while seeking his second term, the president emerged through direct primaries with all the members of the party in 774 LGAs of the country participating in the exercise. In October of the same year, the election was affirmed at the primaries held in Abuja.

Stakeholders rule out consensus option

Credible sources in the presidency said the moves by two of the aspirants and their supporters for the party’s candidate to emerge through consensus have been rejected.

A source around the president said that though nobody could read the president’s body language as to his preferred aspirant, he has told the contenders that they should woo the delegates ahead of the primaries.

“I think the issue of the consensus has been put aside. The aspirants have been advised to woo delegates ahead of the convention. For us to win the general election, we have to carry all members of the party along in the selection of our flag bearer,” he said.

Asked which mode would be adopted, he said, “The preference now is indirect. Recall that the president while rejecting the electoral act raised issues on direct primaries, saying it is cumbersome and expensive. Yes, he used to like it but now his preference is indirect.”

The National Chairman of the party, Senator Abdullahi Adamu, had recently said the party would pick either of the three options; direct, indirect and consensus to conduct its primaries.

Composition of delegates

The composition of the delegates, according to a document seen and analysed by this paper include the national chairman, one member of NEC from each state, serving and past presidents and vice presidents, serving and past governors and deputy, serving and past lawmakers (federal and states), past speakers, deputies, and principal officers of the state houses of assembly and past members of the National Working Committee (NWC).

Others are members of the State Working Committee (SWC); each state has 17; LGA chairmen and secretaries; three national delegates from each of the 774 local government areas and elected chairmen.

New electoral act may alter configuration

The controversy over Section 84 (12) of the newly amended Electoral Act is gathering momentum.

The section states that “No political appointee at any level shall be a voting delegate or be voted for at the convention or congress of any political party for the nomination of candidates for any election.”

While many states have asked their appointees to resign, ministers including Amaechi and others who have indicated interest in contesting elections are yet to leave.

Breakdown of delegates by geopolitical zones

A document obtained from the party leaders showed that a total of 7,800 delegates are going to participate in the selection of the presidential candidate of the ruling APC.

An analysis of the list of the delegates showed that the North West geopolitical zone, regarded as the votes bank of the APC topped the chat with 1, 924. Six out of the seven states in the zone are being governed by the APC. Sokoto is the lone PDP state in the zone.

Coming second is the South West geopolitical zone, where Tinubu, Osinbajo, Fayemi and Amosun hail from. The zone has 1,568 delegates. Oyo is the lone PDP state in the region.

The review of the document revealed that North Central came third with 1,278. The Kogi State Governor, Yahaya Bello hails from the geopolitical zone. Five out of the six states are APC states as only Benue is being governed by the PDP in North Central.

North East came fourth with 1, 212 delegates. Three of the six states of the geopolitical zone, Adamawa, Bauchi and Taraba are of the PDP. With 927 delegates, South South, where Amaechi hails from came fifth. Five of the six states in the oil-rich zone are of the PDP, making it penetrable to all the aspirants.

The geopolitical zone with the least delegates is South East with 838 delegates. Of the five states in the zone, APC and PDP have two states each while All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) has one, Anambra State.

Daily Trust reports that 53 delegates are going to come from the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).

Analysis of delegates based on states

Of the 36 states in the country, the ruling APC controls 22, PDP 13 and APGA one.

Our correspondent reports that aspirants, their foot soldiers and supporters are already lobbying governors and other stakeholders for support.

This is because governors will play a key role in determining the direction in which the delegates of their states will vote. This has been the tradition since the country returned to civilian rule in 1999.

Observers believe that the numerical strength of the regions in respect to delegates as well as the states therein would play a key role in determining who gets what among the various contenders.

While the position of some of the APC governors in respect to the presidential aspirants is clear, findings revealed that most of the contenders are pushing hard through other channels to get the buy-in of the delegates and other stakeholders.

Daily Trust reports that in states where the APC is an opposition like Bauchi, Benue, Sokoto and 11 others, the leaders of the party are being wooed by aspirants to get their votes.

Kano tops the chat with 465 delegates; then Katsina, 384, Borno, 324; Osun, 308; Lagos, 304, Oyo 292; Jigawa, 266; Niger, 251; Ogun, 248 and Nasarawa 245 delegates.

Further breakdown of the delegates showed that Abia has 154, Adamawa 184, Akwa Ibom 165, Anambra 163, Bauchi 202, Bayelsa 79, Benue 180, Cross River 194, Delta 170, Ebonyi 154, Edo 168, Ekiti 216, Enugu 131, Gombe 134, Imo 236, Kaduna 234 and Kebbi 213.

Others are Kogi 222, Kwara 195, Ondo 200, Plateau 185, Rivers 151, Sokoto 193, Taraba 146, Yobe 222, Zamfara 169 and FCT 53.

Odds favour Tinubu

An analysis of the document and sources revealed that odds favour the former Lagos State governor if the indirect primaries mode is adopted.

“We have the full support of the key states where most of the delegates are going to come from including Kano, Katsina, Borno, Lagos, Osun, Niger and Kwara states. We are good to go,” one of the sources said.

It was however gathered that the main challenge that may weigh down Tinubu’s aspiration is the issue of running mate.

“As a Muslim from the South West, it is expected that he would pick his running mate from the Christian community in the North,” another source said.

“But there are calls on him to look for his deputy from the core North and beyond that, he should pick a Muslim. I don’t know if this will work because the advocates of this move are citing the Abiola/Kingibe ticket in the 1990s. However, things have changed now.

“And the implication of the first option is that in the event the PDP picks its flag bearer from the North and the running mate from the South, they would give the APC a run for their money,” he said.

But a leader of the Osinbajo team said they have secured the backing of five state governors and are therefore unperturbed by the confidence in the Asiwaju camp.

“More (governors) would fall in when we get the endorsement of the president,” he said.

For Amaechi, sources said he is hopeful most of the people they defected to APC together from the PDP ahead of the 2015 elections would work for him.

VP, minister bank on Buhari’s ‘expected’ endorsement

Sources around the Osinbajo and Minister Amaechi said besides their personal effort of reaching out to delegates across the regions, they are also banking on the president’s endorsement to actualise their ambition.

Though the duo has commenced campaigns to woo delegates and other stakeholders of the party, one of the leaders in Amaechi’s campaign team told this paper that they are of the belief that the former Rivers State governor is the president’s candidate.

“Like the case of our national chairman, the president will endorse Amaechi before the primaries. Our presidential candidate will emerge through consensus. The president’s endorsement will be ratified during the primaries,” he told our correspondent.

However, when his attention was drawn to the push by the camp of Tinubu, he said, “If the consensus arrangement fails, then we will slug it out at the primaries’ venue.

“The delegates are Nigerians and our selling point is our experience. He is young and healthy and this can be attested to by all. He was a lawmaker, governor and now a minister. This is unlike the aspirant that believes it is his turn to become the president. God is the kingmaker and not him.”

Recalling the president’s statement on how age hinders his performance, the Amaechi’s lead foot soldier said; “Nigerians cannot afford to have an aged person as their leader.”

Similarly, the promoters of Osinbajo’s aspiration are also waiting for the president’s ‘endorsement.’ Villa sources said the delay in the declaration of the vice president until last week was a result of a lack of clarity in Buhari’s body language on the number two citizen’s ambition.

One of them said the president will soon throw his weight behind the aspiration of Osinbajo, saying the president has been very impressed with his conduct and commitment to his administration.

“Forget the glooming picture that mischief-makers are painting, the president is in support of the VP’s ambition. It is just a matter of time, everyone will fall in,” he said.

Party to release timetable Wednesday

Issues involving the party’s primaries will dominate Wednesday’s National Executive Council (NEC) meeting of the party, Daily Trust learnt.

Party sources told Daily Trust that a draft timetable designed by the NWC for the primaries would be debated and approved at the NEC meeting.

It was further gathered that the mode to be adopted for the party’s primaries would also be discussed and adopted.

The National Secretary of the party, Senator Iyiola Omisore, had on Sunday placed an advertorial in newspapers, inviting NEC members to the Wednesday’s meeting.

NwaNimo1:
A Chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC) in Lagos, Hon. Moshood Salvador, on Sunday said the health of the National Leader of the party and Presidential hopeful, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, after Vice-President, Prof. Yemi Osinbajo, declared presidential ambition.

He said Osinbajo contesting against Tinubu is good for the political development of the country.

He spoke with newsmen on the sidelines of his annual Ramadan Lecture/Zakat held at his Salvador towers Surulere Lagos.

According to him, there was nothing like betrayal that Osinbajo is contesting against Tinubu.

He said it would rather deepen the democratic experience of Nigeria and especially Lagos State where there is hardly no democracy.

Daily Trust reports that Salvador who is a leader of the Conscience Movement, a bloc within the APC, had expressed grievances over the outcome of the congresses of the party at the ward, local government and state congresses where members of his group were allegedly sidelined.

Salvador, a one-time Chairman of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in the state before defecting to APC, said, “Vice-President and Asiwaju coming out to contest is a very good political development.

“Hardly do we have real democracy in Lagos State. It is a democratic challenge to all the big wigs that are coming out. It is a fantastic development even for Asiwaju. You can see that his health improved immediately that he now calls himself a youth.

“You could see him at the stadium (yesterday) coming out to say what exactly he wants to do for Nigeria, you can see him talking to the masses. He was all the while talking to the Obas, talking to Mr. President. Mr. President has only one vote. President Muhammadu Buhari’s vote is not bigger than mine, my vote is not bigger than yours. Therefore you can see the mood,” he said.

Salvador also clarified that he chaired the event where Governor Yahaya Bello of Kogi State recently declared his presidential intention because he was invited as a leader of the party, saying it has nothing to do with ethnicity.

He said any aspirant can invite him as a mark of honour and respect.

https://dailytrust.com/salvador-tinubus-health-improved-after-osinbajo-joined-presidential-race

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Saintinoo:
OP I think you are the one who is young to understand Nigeria politics, good that the Yoruba people are selling their candidates in person of Tinubu and Osibanjo but have the king makers and owners of Nigeria settled for these candidates of yours?

The North who own Nigeria might have other options and from their body language and unusual silence you should know that they are cooking up a surprise.

On whether Osibanjo is fit enough to be President or APC presidential flag bearer, I personally don't believe in him. thesame man who handled Nigeria economy for 7 years whose only Economic policy was sharing of 10k to 30k to less than 20 percent of the population.

Nigeria is suffering the worst inflation in its history thanks to Osibanjo office.

If the Yoruba want to the presidency, then they should support a marketable candidate, being a professor and a SAN doesn't mean that one is competent enough.

seunmsg:
All these your grammar doesn’t count with delegates. The will vote for who they know and who they are comfortable with. What folks like you feel doesn’t count at all except you’re a delegate.

And taking about who can win the general, I will urge you to stop gauging the mood of the nation from social media. 90% of social media noisemakers won’t vote on Election Day. The APC south west youth gathering for Tinubu yesterday should tell you something. Osinbajo with his popularity cannot fill half of that stadium.

TheRareGem1:
A chieftain of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Professor Hafiz Abubakar, has urged the party leadership to call to order the supporters of former Governor of Lagos State, Senator Bola Tinubu.

Abubakar, a former Deputy Governor of Kano State, in a statement yesterday, condemned the attacks on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo by Tinubu’s supporters

Asiwaju’s campaigners are playing a risky game that the party and administration should call them to order on,” the APC chieftain said in the statement.

“Attacking the VP’s official capacity and his achievements in the same APC government is tantamount to ‘biting one’s nose to spite one’s face.’

Osinbajo formally declared his intention to run for the Office of the President on April 11. Shortly after his declaration, Tinubu’s supporters flooded social media with claims of how the vice president is a ‘Judas’ and how he ‘betrayed’ his former principal.

The spokesperson of the APC in Lagos State, Seye Oladejo, in a terse statement criticising Osinbajo’s declaration, questioned the vice president’s handling of Nigeria’s economy.

Osinbajo served as the Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Lagos State between 1999 and 2007 while Tinubu was governor.

“Asiwaju’s lieutenants are denigrating their own party and their own government,” Abubakar said.

“The same way Asiwaju has a right to aspire so does anyone else in the country, especially a sitting Vice President with Prof. Yemi Osinbajo’s credentials and record.”

Abubakar said the attacks on the vice president’s character, person, economic responsibility, and religious affiliation are quite deplorable.

“Let us have a contest of ideas for the ticket of the party, not a contest of backbiting, libel, and name-calling,” he said.

“Asiwaju should call his people to order and exercise the leadership he is known for. This approach is a red flag on him and it is a black eye on the party, the president, and administration at large.

“You cannot attack the vice president and not be attacking the president or the administration.

“It is disappointing and party leaders and the new NWC should take charge in the discussions to avoid a dampening of the party’s fortune.”

Abubakar urged Tinubu and his team to work together with everyone to support the party and government to achieve its goals in the time left, and “not throw stones in a house that they helped build.”

https://www.thisdaylive.com/index.php/2022/04/17/626896/

MikoB:
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/04/the-tinubu-osinbajo-amaechi-battle-for-reps/amp/&ved=2ahUKEwiTxKnwv5r3AhWw4IUKHdIUDgUQFnoECA4QAQ&usg=AOvVaw1Xxh4pvKwp4ji4QB9SMAMk

lecowas:
If the VP wins, it will be with a little margin, and I don't think he can win as things stand now, however I expect things to begin to shape out in the next few days, most especially if he is the Buhari's candidate.

One thing is for sure, Buhari doesn't like Jabagan and will do all he can to make sure Jabagan lost the primary.

If Buhari will embark on a medical tour leaving Osi with all the executive power in acting capacity, it will be game over cos even the EFCC might be used to distract Jabagan.

It's a tough challenge ahead of the VP, if he can scale through this, I'm sure he will be able to successfully pilot Nigeria through most of its complicated challenges as well.

dre11:
https://punchng.com/electoral-act-buhari-wont-force-amaechi-ngige-others-to-resign/

Mooh247:
Buhari that only handed over to Osinbajo once in 8 years as acting president would suddenly hand over his Political structure he built over the years.... That's definitely not going to happen

Where are his local grassroot supporters and where will his delegates come from?!

A man lost his residential poling unit in Lekki Lagos, a man that has never

A man who can't even win Asokoro after living at the Villa for 8 years

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Mooh247:




Stupid post

Olusegun Obasanjo a former 2ic to Murtala, Former Head of State, Aspirant to UN doesn't have Political structure?!

Shehu Musa Yar'Adua 2 terms Governor of Katsina, Son Of Musa Yar'Adua Senior, former Lagos State Administrator / Minister of Lagos affiars, of First republic ,Younger Brother of Billionaire General Musa Yar'Adua founder of SDP's people's frontier movement doesn't have a political structure

President Goodluck Jonathan Former Local Government Chairman, State House of Assembly member, House of Assembly Speaker, Deputy Governor, Governor , Vice President who has never lost an election in his life except 2015 doesn't have Political structure??!



This Osinbajo supporters are ridiculous


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Joylove2324:
A group, Progressive Lawyers for Osinbajo has raised an alarm over the recruitment of mercenaries against the vice president sequel to his declaration to run for the office of the president in 2023. The group's convener, Dr. Kayode Ajulo in a statement issued and sent to Legit.ng on Friday, April 15 said that the attack was aimed at de-marketing the vice president.

He said that all efforts were being made to malign Vice President Yemi Osinbajo while alleging that about six different characters were said to have been sent to Ikenne, his hometown in Ogun state for the onslaught.

This he said was to get the requisite information from his kindreds that could allegedly discredit him and also recruit his kinsmen against him in his state all in an effort to malign him.

He said that this attempt had gone across party lines from both the All Progressives Congress (APC) and the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). Ajulo said that the PDP was particularly jittery about his soaring popularity, stressing that his entry into the race had caused panic among them.

He added that the PDP would not stop at anything to de-market and malign the person of Osinbajo. Ajulo fingered an executive of a media house, a cleric, and a serial presidential contestant and sympathizer of a former governor from southwest of being behind the campaign of calumny against Osinbajo.

He added: "We know them, there’s nothing hidden under the sun, but as lawyers, the due process will be followed to ask for redress and ensure the perpetrators are dragged before the court.''

https://www.legit.ng/politics/1466172-group-raises-alarm-over-the-recruitment-of-mercenaries-to-target-osinbajo-for-attack/

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Seun
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Parachoko:
Buhari have no sane reason to work against Tinubu.

The Cabals have no say in who will become APC presidential candidate. They do not control the party structure.

The APC will decide who will get their ticket through a direct or indirect election.

Parachoko:
Keep on giving Osinbanjo force hope.

omowolewa:
Which book

Mooh247:




Professor Osinbajo isn't going anywhere... He. Lacks the political prowess to win a National Presidential primaries

For 8 years Buhari only handed over to him once as an acting President and he was undermined... Is it that same Buhari that would let him succeed him!?!

Yemi Osinbajo has no Political structure or grassroot support in Lekki Lagos where he resides,. Abuja his official residence or Ogun State his State of origin

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Tareq1105:
Tinubu is just being stubborn.

Tinubu cannot be president and he knew this but he's just lobbying to see if he can change anything.

The Northern governors want a Christian president from the south and that's the permutation that made Osinbajo to declare.

They need a Christian president so that one of the Governors would be his Vice.

Alagidi ni Tinubu. He's ignoring it bcoz he has money.

Osinbajo wouldn't spend money and you'll see what will happen.

It's not about the most popular but the most acceptable under the current circumstances.

E so fun ko rora na owo.

Fiscus105:
I'm very pleased for your education, and I think you are correct. Meanwhile, the same way Osinbanjo will win on the structure of Buhari.

1.It's only a blind who dnt know for now that Buhari is surporting osinbajo.

2.the same Reps and Senate that cannot say pim" during recent concluded apc elections


Tinubu camp knows that Osinbanjo is fully backed by Buhari and that's why is camp had been jiltery and more reason they are lunching more than normal rockets to the personality of Osinbanjo.

You may agree or disagree, Nigeria president is powerful to do and undo not even during Buhari reign. As it stands now, it will take devine intervention for tinubu to win.

MANofMEN:
ATTACKING OSINBAJO: THE LIES THAT COME OUT OF THEIR LAZY MOUTHS.

By Mustapha Ogunsakin, award winning journalist

There's this religious victimization card played by some people that I found amusing. Rather than address issues on their merits, people like Kperoogi and the other chap in MURIC tend to play religious card that border on intellectual laziness. The recent attack on Vice President Yemi Osinbajo SAN is one of such. They accused Osinbajo of favoring Christians, particularly members of his church, RCCG. They also accused him (Osinbajo) of betraying their Muslim brother, Asiwaju Tinubu, forgetting conveniently that Senator Remi, Tinubu's wife is a Pastor of the same RCCG.

If both had bothered to do a little research on Osinbajo, if they had done their homework well on him, maybe they would have come out with more reasonable and believable criticisms.

All his life, Osinbajo has served Muslim bosses and he has never had any problem with any of them. Former Attorney General of the Federation, Bola Ajibola SAN, who he served as Special Adviser. Asiwaju Tinubu he served as Attorney General in Lagos, and President Buhari who he is serving presently as Vice President. Of all these three distinguished Statesmen, it is Tinubu they are accusing him of betraying.

They spew lies from the pit of hell! Obviously, both Kperoogi and the MURIC. guy do not know Yemi Osinbajo. Osinbajo's Chief of Staff, Ade Abdulrahman Ipaye is a practising and devout Muslim. Ipaye has been with him since 1999 when he served as Osinbajo's Special Assistant at the Lagos State Ministry of Justice. Ipaye later served as Special Adviser to the Governor under Fashola, and later as Attorney General. When Osinbajo became Vice President, he took Ipaye along as Deputy Chief of Staff to the President, serving in the office of Osinbajo. Ipaye is a student of Osinbajo and they have stayed loyal together for years!

Osinbajo' Private Secretary at the Ministry is one Mr Bakare is also a devout Muslim. He served Osinbajo for eight years. Osinbajo sponsored him to Hajj and also sponsored his University Education. Today, he holds a Bsc in Accounting. How then can he be a Muslim hater?

In 2005, President Olusegun Obasanjo invited Osinbajo to take appointment as the Attorney General of the Federation after Chief Akin Olujimi SAN left office. Obasanjo saw the sterling qualities and performance that Osinbajo had as AG Lagos. The President without informing Tinubu offered the post to Lagos AG. The first thing Osinbajo did was to inform his principal, Tinubu, who gave him a free hand to take his decision.

Osinbajo made a request to Obasanjo: "Release Lagos Council funds." Don't forget that as A.G Lagos, Osinbajo it was who filed cases against the FG for withholding Lagos Local Government funds after Tinubu created LCDAs. Obasanjo replied that Osinbajo should first take the appointment and then advise him as Attorney General of the Federation on the matter. Osinbajo went underground and for weeks, Obasanjo could no longer reach him. It was obvious to the President that Osinbajo deliberately avoided him. He went on to appoint Chief Bayo Ojo SAN as his AGF and Minister of Justice. Osinbajo rejected the position of AGF and Minister of Justice and stayed with Tinubu! Nobody complained then.

Osinbajo not only stood with Tinubu, he stayed loyal to Lagos State. He did not betray Tinubu then but now when it is convenient for them, some political and religious bigots are shouting betrayal!
Everyone knows that if you want to hear the story of how your father met your mother, join politics. But if you must criticize Osinbajo, do so on valid facts! Not lazy, religious and political lies that reveal your foolishness and hatred for a man who is doing his best to make his country and people better.

ArewaNorth:
Surely the game won't even play in the delusional direction u are dreaming talk less of other factors. So let the case rest because it seems u just follow the events not taking part....

farem:
What's baba thinking here?