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Rather than take their expected defeat in good fate, CPC and their supporters have been alleging that they were rigged out in the South South and South East because of the high score obtained by PDP there. However, I think the emphasis on the SS and the SE is misplaced. Buhari lost not because of the SS and SE but because he has virtually no support in the entire Sourthern part of Nigeria. The evidence: Compare GEJ votes in the SW with those of the SE and SS and factor in the fact that SW is under ACN and they had a presidential candidate, then you would understand what I mean.For ease of reference, I have reproduced the relevant data here and I urge BB fans to compare.        

Cross River
PDP 709,382 97.67%
ACN 5,889 0.81%
CPC 4,002 0.55%

Rivers
PDP 1,817,762 98.04%
ACN 16,382 0.88%
CPC 13,182 0.71%

Delta
PDP 1,378,851 98.59%
CPC 8,960 0.64%
ANPP 2,746 0.20%

Abia
PDP 1,175,984 98.96%
ACN 4,392 0.37%
CPC 3,743 0.31%

Bayelsa
PDP 504,811 99.63%
CPC 691 0.14%
ACN 370 0.07%

Ebonyi
PDP 480,592 95.57%
ANPP 14,296 2.84%
PDC 1,794 0.36%
PMP 1,289 0.26%
ACN 1,112 0.22%
CPC 1,025 0.20%

Edo ACN State
PDP 542,173 87.28%
ACN 54,242 8.73%
CPC 17,795 2.86%

Oyo
PDP 484,758 56.14%
ACN 252,240 29.21%
CPC 92,396 10.70%

Ekiti (ACN)
PDP 135,009 51.56%
ACN 116,981 44.67%
CPC 2,689 1.03%

Imo
PDP 1,381,357 97.98%
ACN 14,821 1.05%
CPC 7,591 0.54%


Akwa Ibom
PDP 1,165,629 94.58%
ACN 54,148 4.39%
CPC 5,348 0.43%

Lagos(ACN)
PDP 1,281,688 65.90%
ACN 427,203 21.96%
CPC 189,983 9.77%

Anambra
PDP 1,145,169 98.96%
CPC 4,223 0.36%
ACN 3,437 0.30%

Osun(ACN)
ACN 299,711 58.46%
PDP 188,409 36.75%
CPC 6,997 1.36%

Ondo(Labour)
PDP 387,376 79.57%
ACN 74,253 15.25%
CPC 11,890 2.44%

Enugu
PDP 802,144 98.54%
CPC 3,753 0.46%
PDC 2,642 0.32%

Ogun
PDP 309,177 56.86%
ACN 199,555 36.70%
CPC 17,654 3.25%


If Buhari is struggling to get 2% of votes cast in some states in the SW governed by ACN , how come his fans expect him to perform better in the SS and SE which are mainly PDP states and who see GEJ as one of thier own, especially as he did not campaign there?

VERDICT: THE MARGINS IN THE SOUTH SOUTH & SOUTH EAST VOTES REFLECT THE REALITY ON GROUND.

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b]Jonathan clears polls in Anambra[/b]
As expected, President Goodluck Jonathan swept more than 98 per cent of the total valid votes cast in Anambra State.
According to the result of the election announced in the early hours of yesterday by the State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Prof. Chukwuemeka Onukaogu, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) polled 1, 145, 169 votes out of the 1, 157, 339 valid votes, leaving the other parties with 12, 170 votes. General Muhammadu Buhari’s Congress for Progressive Change (CPC)
(SUN NEWSPAPERS)

http://www.sunnewsonline.com/webpages/news/national/2011/apr/18/national-18-04-2011-003.htm

Anybody who says the margin GEJ gave his opponents in the SE and SS is high was living in a dreamland in the build up to the election. CPC does not have even one councillor in the SE+SS,most of the states there are governed by PDP and yet Buhari did not do any significant campaign there. Even Buhari knew there was no way he was going to get anything reasonable from these place which was why he was looking ahead for a runoff with the hope that he would win majority votes through Northern votes. Truth is: Buhari lost not because the results from SE and SS were different from what he expected but because he did not win the Northern votes as he expected.

I dont know why people are saying that Buhari should call his people to order. I think they should be allowed to burn down the entire North so that the rest of us in the country can live in peace. Afterall, when militants were operating in the Niger Delta, a Northern legislator said it was better for the Niger Deltas to be annihilated so that they can live in peace.So the same should apply now.

Crude Oil:
Shooting in port-harcourt and owerri? When, where, how?

Nothing is happening in Port Harcourt or Owerri. He just added those places to divert attention.

goodluck nigeria!!!

ziccoit:
Watch NTA now and see how SS+SE are being trashed for being sectional, religious bigot, suspicious of electoral frauds, less politically matured compared to North and SW. Imaging SS+SE turning out 95-98% number of registered voters while other region are doing between 40 and 65%.

 We all now know the master of rigging.

I guess you are just angry that SS and SE votes overwhelmed the Northern votes inspite of the massive registration of underaged voters or that this time around our fishes were more than your cows.

ahidjo:
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Nigerians just love Fraud[/size]

There is nothing fraudulent about the elections and the results. If in doubt, take a look at the Result of Lagos State. Lagos State represents Nigeria because you have all tribes well represented there. Despite being a very strong ACN states, they voted for GEJ. That tells you that NIGERIANS want GEJ and the results reflects that desire.

passyjango:
I will leave it to posterity to judge who the fools are. After all there was a time when pro-slavery parties were supported by the majority in the west. Today no party will win an election on pro-slavery sentiment. I am not expecting any magic, you do not need magic to provide electricity or build the Benin Ore express road. Or are you asking me to build the road with my money while GEJ and his friends help themselves with our collective wealth. It is probably because of people like you that we have irresponsible leaders.

If you are not expecting magic then how come you expected Buhari to win? It would have taken magic for him to get 25% vote in a single state in the south.

passyjango:
It is better to cry for just a day than to cry for 4 years full of regret. [b]At least we are not expecting much from his administration, so our hearts cannot be broken by him when he fails. It is your heart that would be broken when your messiah dashes all your hopes in the next four years with fresh excuses. [/b]The only thing GEJ can do now is to surprise me by proving me wrong, but I doubt the coconut can do just that.

Unfortunately, I am not an 'expecter'. I am not like you who sit down and expects the government to perform magic. Rather, I would join hands with the government to move Nigeria forward.
BTW, one of the reasons Buhari lost was because he believes he knows it all and the rest of Nigerians are fools.Unfortunately for him we are not fools and it showed in our votes.

enyojo:

[b]My consolation is that all those shameless Nigerians who voted for Umbulerra or aided riggings will regret it for several years to come[/b]

Someone advised that we should be mature in celebrating our victory but how can we when people do not accept defeat?
For your information, democracy is about majority rule. The majority of Nigerians have spoken.
They have said NO to regional and ethnic bigots
They have said NO to a situation where a few persons sit down somewhere and decided who would rule us
They have said No to expired, uneducated and visionless leaders.
If you still have a problem with that you can go and hang yourself with the rest of the country move on to the promised land.

yomifoster:
Supporters of the weeping General should tune to NTA, Channels and other stations to listen to the results of the presidential eletion. May I please invite them to join the general in crying while Nigeria moves forward with the rest of us.

They are already crying.Just go to Buhari4change facebook page and you would hear multi-dimensional crying.

I am glad I stood at the right side of the history being made today.Nigeria would definitely be great again

Just came back from church. Hope it is still SAI GEJ?

Gombe State final result
CPC 459,898
PDP 290,376

@efisher.
I get the results from people on the ground and verify it with other sources including the tally with known Buhari supporters

Oyo state
PDP:484,758,
ACN:252,240,
CPC: 92,386,
ANPP :7,258.

Enugu State
PDP - 802,144
CPC 3,753.
ACN - 1755
(Source:Returning officer is Prof. Bartholomew Okolo, VC of UNN.)


Final Results for Kano State
ACN:42353,
ANPP:526310,
CPC:1624543,
PDP:440656

Ebonyi State
PDP - 480,000
ANPP 14296
(Eboyi state registered just over 1 million voters so turn out is around 50%)

Jigawa State
CPC 663,063

PDP 414,000

ziccoit:
Continuing dreaming, [b]you forgot the law of relativit[/b]y. PDP's votes in OYO+OSUN+ONDO+EKITI+OGUN would fall around 1.5million. If he gets 2million from LAGOS that means GEJ/PDP will have to manage 3.5-5million votes from SW. Add this to 10-12million from SE+SS courtesy of heavy electoral frauds. This gives GEJ/PDP 13.5-17millon from the whole SOUTH.

 OYO state with 2.5million registered voters was only able to deliver 580 thousand or thereabout for PDP. Here in SW there was general apathy towards the presidential election yesterday. People didn't come out compare to SS,SE and North.

 In summary I see a runoff coming.

Contrary to what you think, I am also looking at the law of relativity.Yes, the turn out in the core North is slightly higher that the SW BUT so is the votes GEJ is scoring there compared to what Buhari is doing in the South. You could take the vote of Kano and Lagos  and do a comparison. Both has around 6 million voters but look ate GEJ's performance in Kano compared to Buhari in Lagos. If you do that and add the votes GEJ is scoring in most parts of the North to the votes in the SW, it automatically translates to high turnout in the SW.

@ enyojo.
You dont need to resort to insults if you disagree with my posts. My comments are based on results announced by INEC and confirmed from party sources including the CPC( see eg. Buhari4change page on facebook).
If you have a contrary result announced by INEC, I would be glad to have them.

Lagos State

ACN 427,203,

CPC 189,983,

PDP 1,281,688.

Hmm. This would seem to nullify Buhari's gain in Kano.

Sokoto State Result
ACN 20,144
CPC 540,769
PDP 309,057

finestars:
Kano Update
ACN 33,101; ANPP 413,692;CPC 1,213,232; PDP 348,130; 33/44 LGA
ACN 1.65%; ANPP 20.60%; CPC 60.42%; PDP 17.34%; 33/44 LGA

I like the role Shekarau is playing for PDP in Kano. Kano has 6 million out of the 18 million votes in the NW and is the highest voting population in the North. So if Shekarau takes 20% and GEJ takes something close, It would be a big dent to Buhari hopes of having majority votes especially with the SW going GEJ's way and CPC doing so poorly there.

ziccoit:
Does anyone thinks of GEJ having 25% spread and Buhari having simple majority so leading both to a runoff? Unconfirmed report says 18states in the North are now under BB with a huge success to show for it.

Such a result would permanently remain unconfirmed. Is it possible for Buhari to have 18 out of 19 states in the North including the North Central states of Benue, Adamawa, Kogi, Plateau etc?

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ABIA: The state is a stronghold of Jonathan. He can go to sleep because no other candidate is competing with him in the state. Jonathan was in Abia to campaign. His wife also did. The fact that his wife has an affinity with Umuahia, in Abia State, makes Jonathan the favourite in the state. Again, the Progressive Peoples Alliance (PPA), which is major contender in the state, also adopted Jonathan. At the end of the day, Jonathan will carry the day, perhaps, with 90 percent while ACN would come a distant second.

ADAMAWA: The out come of the election will be very interesting in this state, which is the home of former Vice President Atiku Abubakar, who lost the PDP presidential ticket to Jonathan. Instances have shown that Atiku’s influence is waning in the state. First, Adamawa delegates to the PDP national convention rejected Atiku and voted for Jonathan. Also, in the last National Assembly elections PDP grabbed all the seats in Adamawa.

In the presidential election, it is no more intra-party contest. It is between PDP and others. The crisis in the party that led to the decampment of some PDP bigwigs to ACN and CPC will definitely work against the ruling party in the state. Buhari’s CPC, which is spreading like hurricane fire in the North, will cut a chunk of the votes. This is also the home state of ACN candidate, Ribadu, who may not be disgraced by his people. This sentiment of the North producing the president is still an in issue. This state will be too close to call. Jonathan may have about 60 percent, while Buhari, Ribadu and Shekarau would share the remaining votes.

AKWA IBOM: This is one of the two states that gave Jonathan 100 percent of the votes during the PDP convention that threw Jonathan up as the presidential bearer. South South is the only zone that has traditionally been with PDP, except two years ago when the court voided its victory at Edo State and gave it to ACN. This loyalty the zone has for PDP has not shifted and the sentiment of the zone producing the president, for the first time since independence, is great fillip for Jonathan. At the end, he is going to get about 90 percent of votes, while Ribadu and Buhari would share the rest.

ANAMBRA: This state, ruled by the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), is behind Jonathan. APGA, which is more or less an adopted son of PDP, has already adopted Jonathan as its presidential candidate. Apart from APGA, the Accord Party in the state is also routing for Jonathan. Jonathan will carry the day by at least 85 percent of the votes, while Ribadu, with such politician as former governor of the state, Dr. Chris Ngige, may get 10 percent, leaving the rest for Buhari and others.

BAUCHI: The governor, Isa Yuguda, is fighting a battle of his life to get re-elected. The governor is the campaign director of Jonathan/ Sambo presidential campaign, in the North East. Jonathan defeated Atiku by three votes in sate, at the PDP convention. Against the contentious issue of northern presidency, which is alive in the state, Buhari could score up to 40 percent. Jonathan looks good to get about 50 percent in the state, while Shekarau and Ribadu will make do with gets the remaining votes.

BAYELSA: This is the president’s home state. The Labour Party, which is the alternative party in the state, has directed its supporters to vote for Jonathan. As Chief Tony Anenih threatened, before the PDP convention, that a South southerner that cast a vote for any other aspirant other than Jonathan would be fished out and dealt with, it is like a law in the state that the president is the man. Jonathan will score 97 percent, leaving the remaining for the other candidates.

BENUE: The intra-party squabble in PDP in this state will affect the performance of Jonathan. Some of the chieftains of PDP deserted the party for other parties, which has made the state one of the volatile states. By and large, Jonathan will win with about 65 percent while Ribadu will score about 25 percent, leaving Shekarau and Buhari to share the remaining votes.

CROSS RIVER: The issue of the South South producing the president is still in the front burner. This will sway votes for Jonathan. Some other presidential candidates did not campaign in the state. This leaves the entire state for Jonathan to carry about 95 percent of the total votes, leaving the rest for the other candidates. Even though the UNPD candidate, Ebiti Onoyom Ndok, is said to come from this zone, nobody knows about her and her ambition.

DELTA: This is a core PDP state, despite the fact that the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) is showing some strength. The politics of president from Niger politics is very strong here. DPP has also adopted Jonathan. In the state, Jonathan can as well go to sleep, as he will have at least 94 percent of the votes, leaving Buhari, Ribadu, Shekarau and others to scramble for the remaining.

EBONYI: Even though the National chairman of ANPP, Dr. Ogbonna Onu, is from this state, some political pundits would want to stake their necks that he would not make the difference against the president. Onu has been in political oblivion for some time and the governor, Chief Martin Elechi, who is the campaign director of the president in South East, will not fail to deliver. APGA, which also visible in the state, is supporting Jonathan.  Jonathan will win by as much as 77 percent, while ANPP will win about 20 percent and the remaining for the other candidates.

EDO: The former governor of the state, John Odigie-Oyegun, is the vice presidential candidate of ANPP. This state will be a political theatre to behold. It is going to be a test of might between the “mighty” Tony Anenih and the “little” Adams Oshiomhole. Oshiomhole of ACN snatched his victory from the jaws of lion at the election tribunal. This is another contest to test, between Anenih and Oshiomhole, who is the stronger in Edo politics. At the end, Jonathan will score over 65 percent because of South South and Niger Delta emotion. Ribadu will score about 20 percent, while Shekarau gets 10 percent and Buhari goes with the remaining votes.

EKITI: This is an enclave that PDP lost to ACN at the Appeal Court last year and since then, the ruling ACN is doing everything to uproot totally PDP from that state. At the end of today’s exercise, Jonathan will still get about 35 percent of the votes, while Ribadu gets 40 percent, leaving the rest for Buhari and others.

ENUGU: Like in other South East states, Enugu is just for Jonathan. The other parties that are fighting to unseat the ruling party in the state are equally routing for Jonathan and to the president’s advantage, the other presidential candidates did not do extensive campaigns that could sway votes to them. Jonathan will not get less then 94 percent of votes cast, while the others will fight for the remaining.

FCT: Here is the seat of power, where it is expected that Jonathan will carry the day. But it may not be so, as Buhari will cut a chunk of the votes. The battle is between Jonathan and Buhari, with the president getting about 52 percent, while Buhari gets about 47 percent, leaving the rest for the other candidates.

GOMBE:In this North East state, the governor has done well, which endears PDP to the people. However, the northern presidency sentiment is high here. At the end, Buhari will get about 40 percent votes, while Jonathan will get 45 percent, Shekarau and Ribadu will share the rest.

IMO:Jonathan will not sweat to win this state. The battle is for the governorship election. Jonathan will carry the day with as much as 85 percent votes, while Ribadu will be closest rival, perhaps, with 12 percent. The rest will go to the other candidates.

JIGAWA:Here, the northern presidency quest is high. But not minding the outcome of National Assembly election, Buhari will get 35 percent; Jonathan, 20 percent, Shekarau, 40 and Ribadu takes the rest.

KADUNA: This is the hot bed of northern politics and also the home state of the Vice President, Namadi Sambo. Voters here are in support of northern president. Buhari will carry the day, with not less than 50 percent of the votes, while Jonathan gets about 37 percent. The remaining will be shared between Ribadu and Shekarau.

KANO::  Before last Saturday’s election, no political pundit gave PDP a chance in the state. The issue was Buhari, but that was proved to be false, as PDP seems to get back the state it controlled in 1999, by winning two of the three senatorial seats, leaving one to ANPP.  The pattern may change in the presidential election, but as it stands, Jonathan can get above the constitutional requirement of 25 percent votes, while Buhari gets 30 percent. Shekarau would gets 40 and the remaining for Ribadu.  The Intra-party crisis in CPC in the state has affected the fortune of the party.

KATSINA: This is the home of the late President Umar Yar’Adua, who was succeeded by Jonathan. One would expect that Jonathan would have his way here, as it is said that he is still running on the Yar’Adua/Jonathan ticket. That may not be the case, as the Yar’Adua family doesn’t seem to have strong stake in the Jonathan presidency and has not come out openly to campaign for Jonathan. This is also the home of Buhari. Judging by the outcome of last Saturday’s election, where CPC won all the senatorial seats, it will be hard for Jonathan to score up to 25 percent votes in the state. At the end, Buhari will get about 70 percent, while Shekaru and Ribadu go home with the remaining.

KEBB[/b]I: If Jonathan’s performance at the PDP convention is an index to the outcome of the presidential election, then he should forget Kebbi State. But a lot of water has passed under the bridge and things have changed since then and the outcome of last Saturday’s election points to the fact that Jonathan has taken the state. He will get over 55 percent of the votes, leaving the rest for Buhari, Shekarau and Ribadu to scramble for.

[b]KOGI: This is one of the North Central states that are not so deep in the northern presidency. As it stands, it is Jonathan’s fortress, as he will score over 65 percent, while Buhari gets 20 percent. Shekarau and Ribadu grab the remaining votes.

KWARA:The presidency is not in contention here. What is the issue is the governorship, as Saraki junior and Saraki senior are squaring it up. The governor, Bukola Saraki and also Chairman of Governors Forum is Jonathan’s man and so will carry sway voters to line behind Jonathan. Jonathan will score about 60 percent, while CAN, which is also strong, will get 25 percent, leaving Buhari and Shekarau with the remaining votes.

LAGOS:This is a battle ground in the South West. The intra-party squabbles in PDP will be a draw back for Jonathan. This is the den of ACN and will be difficult for other parties, especially PDP, to have a foothold. Jonathan may not have got up to 25 percent but for the votes of non-indigenes, especially the Igbo, who are deeply committed to the Jonathan presidency. Therefore, he may get up to 38 percent votes, while Ribadu gets 52 percent. Buhari would make do with 10 percent.

NASARAWA: Here, the battle is between Buhari and Jonathan. CPC won one senatorial seat, with a very high margin, while PDP won two seats with narrow margins. Both Jonathan and Buhari will not score less then 40 percent votes each. The other candidates will share the remaining votes.

NIGER: The contest here is between Buhari and Jonathan. At the PDP convention, Jonathan performed very poorly in this state because of the issue of northern presidency. The influence of the governor, Babangida Aliyu, who has delivered good governance to his people and a close associate of the president, will attract votes to Jonathan. It will not be surprise if Jonathan doesn’t get up to 25 percent votes. Buhari may likely get up to 65 percent, leaving the remaining for the other candidates.

OGUN: This is the home state of firebrand cleric and Buhari’s running mate. PDP will pay heavily over the fight between former President Olusegun Obasanjo and Governor Gbenga Daniel, with the latter moving with the soul of PDP to People Party of Nigeria (PPN), leaving the shell to Obasanjo. ACN has latched on this division and therefore, swept the entire senatorial seat last Saturday. If the fence mending being brokered by the leadership of PDP works out, Jonathan will still score about 40 percent, Ribadu, 50 percent; Buhari, 10 percent.

ONDO: This state was controlled by PDP until the court decided otherwise and gave it to Labour Party. Apart from any other thing, the Ijaw presence in the state will count for Jonathan. Jonathan will not get less than 39 percent, while Ribadu will score about 52 percent, leaving the rest for Buhari and Shekarau.

OSUN: A few months ago, the state was ruled by PDP, but the judiciary turned the tide, in favour of ACN. In the last couple of months, ACN has taken over and is running PDP out of the state, as shown in the NASS election. However, Jonathan will still run away with 30 percent of the votes, while Ribadu takes about 55 percent, leaving the rest for the other candidates.

OYO:  A man can never win a war with itself. PDP in Oyo has inflicted itself severe injury, with its intra-party squabble. However, that the state is producing, perhaps, the only South West PDP senator in the emerging National Assembly, shows that the party is not finished in the state. Be it as it may, Jonathan will still score about 35 percent, leaving ACN with 60 percent vote and the rest for Buhari.

PLATEAU: The issue of northern president is not strong in the state.  The Labour Party, which is on the neck of the PDP in the state, doesn’t have presidential candidate. Jonathan is at home in this state and will win with about 60 percent votes, leaving other candidates to share 40 percent votes.

RIVERS: This is the heart of South South. The president’s wife is from this state. It will be surprising if Jonathan gets less than 93 percent votes in this state. Everything works for him here. There isn’t any serious opposition for the governor in the state. The remaining seven percent votes will be there for the other candidates.

SOKOTO: As a conservative state, Sokoto is supposed to be very emotional about the northern presidency, but that will not stop Jonathan from making his marks, by scoring about 50 percent votes. Buhari, Shekarau and Ribadu would share the rest votes.

TARABA: Here, voting maybe on religious and ethnic line. The high number of Christians in this state will queue behind Jonathan. Again the state, being ruled by PDP, will also be great fillip for the president. Jonathan may score about 65 percent, while Buhari scores about 23 percent, leaving Shekarau and Ribadu to divide the rest.

YOBE: This is the home state of the apostle of rotation and northern presidency, Alhaji Adamu Ciroma. At the PDP convention, bookmakers had anticipated that Jonathan would face his worst defeat in the state, but it turned out that he defeated his opponents, Atiku Abubakar, the product of the northern consensus arrangement, with a wide margin. Today, there will be a great difference, but not to the point of Jonathan scoring below 30 percent. Buhari will go home with 25 percent and Shekarau, 43 percent.

ZAMFARA: Before last Saturday’s National Assembly election, everybody had given Buhari’s CPC this state. But the out come of last Saturday elections upset many, as the battle was between ANPP and PDP. ANPP swept the three senatorial seats. Jonathan will get 30 percent, while Buhari may made do with 28 percent, leaving Shekarau with 40. Ribadu will take the rest.

From THE SUN

seal777:
@feelamong,

Thanks bro, i felt the air of BB when i was around Bakery b/stop,seeing the BB posters everywhere around.

I went 4d lagos state CPC election montoring committe meeting @ shitta

Got a call 4rm feelamong and went to drop more posters and starch for easy pasting,

U need to see how those hausas pounced on me requesting for posters and starch for unward pasting.

We dont need to see cos we already know that CPC is 'hausas' party and Buhari is only supported by 'hausas'. Thank God most Nigerians know this. thats why Buhari would lose.

ayinba1:
He will win, he has support in the SW too, Hausa, ibo, Yoruba and a host of other tribes.
Cast your vote wisely, BB all the way!

Support in SW and CPC didnt even score up to 10% in the NASS elections in the SW
Support in SW and he was crying that ACN refused to enter the allaince with him to enable him get some votes in the SW
BTW, thank you for your advice on casting my vote wisely. I would be doing exactly that which is why I would be voting GEJ. Any wise person can easily select between a 69 year old illiterate who was also a former military junta and a young, well educated man full of ideas and vision.

Nicklee:
He is going in as an underdog. A decent man, yet vilified by lovers and supporters of the status quo. However, the buzz generated by the rigged NASS elections is assuming that northerners will vote for Jonathan, while tribalistic easterners (I'm from SE) and S. southerners ride on the north's ignorance to celebrate. Buhari is the underdog and I haven't seen any reasons yet to underestimate the ability of people that love Buhari, especially in the north, to rise up, vote massively for him and defend the integrity of the process.

So I am predicting that Buhari will win on Saturday.

FACT: Buhari lost in 2003 because he only has support in the North. He ost in 2007 because he only has support in the North. He would lose in 2015 because he only has support in the North.

proudly9ja:
Kudos to the poster.

There is no need to prove to JEGA that it was PDP or not. The fact is there were underaged voters and so the election in that ward should be cancelled. Its simple.

Underaged voting has always ben a problem in the core north and all the parties are culprits. Its sheer lack of objectivity to put it on PDP. As a matter of fact, all observers to Katsina (buhari home town) confirmed underaged voting there as well. If we are objective, all we should do is to advise INEC to take steps to eliminate or at least reduce underaged voting anywhere it has been detected instead of looking for all manner of excuses to justify the woeful performance of CPC.

There is no restriction on the geographical location or currency denomination of the account you can use to apply for visa. What is important is that you have access to the account and it is verifiable. I know people who applied for visas in UK with Nigerian bank account, and my spouse and kids have also applied and granted dependant visas in Nigeria with my UK bank account. I am also surprised about the story that the VFS rejected a UK bank account. As far as I know they play no role in the determination of the documents you are to summit and in the determination of your application.

seal777:
I[b]snt this funny dat Bb team had done al the talking to sel our candidate yle GEj supporters have always bn on defensive. [/b]

I am in contact wit guys in abuja, kano, zamfara, delta, rivers and anambra,i begin to wonder y they re here shouting yl we re on the field.

WHY RE THEY AFRAID, WHY RE THEY TEARING OUR POSTERS?
Its getting clearer by day that they have lost dis election.

Gej is jittery yl his nairaland boys re ignorant of wats happening on the field.

I am of to aguda to deliver posters to a nairalander who called me dis morning and to BB election monitoring meeting at Shitta for 12.30pm.
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Mimiko, Alaibe laud president

Sokoto CPC, ACN, DPP leaders join PDP

LEADERS of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and their counterparts in some opposition political parties have begun what could be described as last minute mobilisation for President Goodluck Jonathan’s victory in the Saturday’s election.

It was a harvest of endorsement of Jonathan and defection of members of the opposition to PDP in a move to ensure victory for the president at the polls. At different parts of the country, supporters of Jonathan who is the PDP presidential candidate, urged Nigerians to vote massively for him.

In Abuja yesterday, leaders of the Labour Party (LP) directed all their members nationwide to vote en masse for President Jonathan on Saturday. And already, some opposition politicians and their supporters in Sokoto State have renounced their membership of the Congress for Progressive Change (CPC), ACN and the Democratic Peoples Party (DPP) and defected to the PDP.

In a statement signed by the chairman of LP, Dan Nwanyanwu and National Secretary, Alhaji Abdulsalami Salam and issued at the end of the party’s National Executive Committee meeting in Abuja yesterday, the party cited national unity, democratic profile, the rule of law, capacity to perform and the delivery of democratic dividends as factors that influenced its decision to back Jonathan for the president.

Speaking on why the LP endorsed Jonathan, governor of Ondo State, Olusegun Mimiko, lauded President Jonathan for empowering the Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) to conduct credible election.

He hinted that recent experiences have indeed shown that the will of the sitting president helps shape the character of election, adding that the body language and utterances of Jonathan portray him as a president that is not desperate for power.

He declared that going by the quality of PDP bigwigs that lost elections into the Senate and House of Representatives last Saturday, there are indications that the President can be trusted to midwife an electoral process that will guarantee the emergence of credible politicians.

The Sokoto politicians led by the former Publicity Secretary of the ACN, Alhaji Dahiru Umar Aliyu, at a press conference held under the aegis of Amalgamated Forum of Former CPC, ACN, and DPP Candidates, said the group with about 5,000 supporters were present at the event.

According to him, their main objective was to inform the Sokoto voters of the need to avoid religious sentiment in choosing a president for Nigeria come Saturday.

He said that as concerned patriots championing the cause of a better Nigeria, they were astonished by the way and manner some leaders of their former parties “without any iota of patriotism, engage the services of Islamic clerics to go to rural areas to cajole voters not to vote for a particular candidate because of his religious background. This is sad as it portends danger to our nascent democracy.”

He pointed out that being a secular state, Nigeria gives the opportunity to citizens of different faith to lead the country at different times.

He noted that there were no resentment to the ambition of the Second Republic President, Alhaji Shehu Shagari who is an indigene of the state; the late Prime Minister, Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa and the late President Umaru Musa Yar’Adua on the basis of religion, wondering “why at this advanced stage of our national integration as a nation some people still use religious parameters as basis for electing a leader?”

Aliyu reminded the people that there was no time the present administration prevented any Moslem from practicing his faith, adding that for the first time in the history of the country, the leader of Moslem faithful, Sultan Mohammad Sa’ad Abubakar, has been appointed the Permanent Amirul Hajj.

He called on the people of the state to reject any alliance based on ethno-religious grounds.

In a bid to clinch Benue State in the Saturday’s polls, President Jonathan has reached out to former Benue State Governor, Senator George Akume of the ACN.

Akume was said to have led other leaders of the ACN to meet with representatives of President Jonathan in Abuja on Tuesday night at an undisclosed location after they had lodged formal complaint against Benue State Resident Electoral Commissioner, Nasir Ayilara in the National Assembly elections.

President Jonathan was said to have met with Akume before the PDP primaries. The Akume-led team at the meeting, The Guardian learnt, held negotiations on the areas of possible collaboration during the Saturday’s presidential election.

The meeting with Akume’s group was held as the Freedom Party of Nigeria (FPN) threw its weight behind President Jonathan, giving five reasons for adopting him as their choice candidate.

Speaking to journalists yesterday in Abuja, the National Chairman of the party, Mr. Frank Hwofa, said the decision to adopt Jonathan was reached at the stakeholders’ forum, which was convened last week. The meeting, he said, was aimed at assessing various candidates for the presidential race.

According to him, some of the reasons for considering Jonathan as the best candidate include integrity, people-oriented policies as well as his humble disposition.

“It is important that the President to be elected should be a man of integrity, a man who has listening ears and one who is people-oriented. We have searched North, East, South and West of this country and as a party driven by ideas, we have decided to adopt Jonathan, having met these criteria.”

“We want a leader who can promote unity, who can better handle the issue of security, guarantee education for the youths, ensure food security, manage the nation’s resources and can be accepted internationally.”

While charging party stakeholders to mobilise grassroots support for Jonathan, Hwofa promised that come Saturday, the party would be able to generate 10 million voters for the president.

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