₦airaland Forum

fashoo2010:
How can a president/Governor/chairman sign budget without seeing the full details of the approved budget from the house. Must we turn everything to politics in this country.

This is what the misguided many want PMB to do,little did they know that the cow milk he takes arguments intelligence

Interesting...

Hahahaha!

240naija:
Nigerian writer and pastor, Femi Aribisala has shed more light on the 2015 presidential election which he believes was full of discrepancies.

Femi Aribisala


Read his new article below:

The innovation of the permanent voters cards is designed to permanently disenfranchise the south. If this is not redressed immediately, the north will always determine the winner in Nigerian elections.

If you did not see my column last week, it was because I did not want to rain on anyone’s parade. I wanted the euphoria over the bullet we missed by avoiding the riots that would have ensued had the APC been defeated to subside. But I am now back to tell you that the presidential election was a big INEC rigmarole. Long before Jonathan lost the election to Buhari, he had been defeated by the machinations of Jega and INEC.

As a matter of fact, General Buhari did not win this presidential election: President Jonathan lost it. The president lost because he allowed himself to be defeated. Maybe he did not want to remain in power badly enough. Or maybe there was a side of him that felt there is honour in being the first incumbent president to lose an election in Nigeria. Whatever the case; he failed to heed the warning of many that, like Aminu Tambuwal and Lamido Sanusi, Attahiru Jega was working for the enemy.

Failure of Tinubu

With the coalition of Bola Tinubu’s ACN and Buhari’s CPC, many concluded that the outcome of the 2015 presidential election would be determined in the South-West. The assumption was that Tinubu would provide the killer-punch that had been missing in Buhari’s earlier failed attempts. However, this has proved to be mistaken. Tinubu failed to clean up the South-West with his broom for the APC. Indeed, in order for the APC to prevail in Lagos with only 160,000 votes, INEC had to ensure that many non-indigenes could not get their PVCs.

The truth of the matter is that, quite apart from the shenanigan of having a Redeemed Yoruba pastor as Buhari’s vice-presidential running-mate, the people of the south-west don’t like Buhari. In the 2011 election, they said this emphatically by giving him a paltry 321,000 votes out of the 4.7 million cast in the geopolitical zone. This time, in 2015, Buhari received 2.4 million south-west votes, with a plurality of 600,000 over Jonathan. However, most of those votes were actually not for Buhari: they were against Jonathan.

In the end, the South-West vote was neither pivotal to Buhari’s victory nor central to Jonathan’s defeat. Tinubu’s assistance for Buhari ended at the APC presidential primaries where he got Buhari nominated against the wishes of Northern delegates. All Tinubu did at the level of the presidential election was to give a façade of national spread to Buhari’s essentially Northern victory. This factor will soon come to haunt Tinubu and his South-West cohorts when it is time to share the spoils of victory in the Buhari administration.

Should APC lose the Lagos governorship election, Tinubu would be left in a quandary. All the Northern timber and caliber who were missing in action throughout the campaign when Tinubu, Fashola and other Southern politicians were running helter-skelter with Buhari, will soon come out of the woodwork to claim their Buhari inheritance. Inevitably, they will overshadow the Southern brigade. Vice-President Osinbajo will simply be sent to fetch water when crucial decisions are to be made by Northern “born-to-rule” elements.

Southerners without coattails

In order to defeat the PDP, APC needed to undermine Jonathan in his areas of greatest strengths – the South-South and the South-East. However, APC men like Amaechi, Okorocha and Oshiomhole proved to be paper-tigers in these areas. In Rivers, Amaechi was disgraced. With all his bluster, he could only deliver 69,000 votes to Buhari; while Jonathan made off with a whopping 1.45 million. No wonder, therefore, that the governor tried to save face by saying there was any election in Rivers. He even rented a crowd to go on a perfunctory demonstration.

Chinem Bestman sent me a text message from Port Harcourt with the same complaint that the election was rigged. I answered by asking him if there has ever been a free and fair election in Rivers since 1999. Amaechi knew the ropes, therefore when he came for accreditation, he asked to see the election result sheet. He knew the traditional rigmarole in Rivers was to doctor the report sheet. Now that he has been out-rigged, he is singing a different tune; asking Rivers people to forgive him.

In Imo, Okorocha was humiliated. He could only deliver 19% of the vote to Buhari. It looks like the governor is going to need another job very soon as he is unlikely to be re-elected. In Edo, Oshiomhole did much better. APC lost with 208,000 votes to PDP’s 286,000. Nevertheless, Oshiomhole tried to explain this away by complaining that PDP used the military to manipulate the election. However, when INEC announced the results, APC won the senatorial election in Edo North; one of the places where the governor claimed PDP used the military to rig.

Assault on the South-East

Godsday Orubebe grabbed the microphone during the collation of the election results and alleged to the whole world that INEC chairman Attahiru Jega is partial and tribalistic. His outburst may have been embarrassing, but it is not entirely without justification. The evidence of INEC’s partiality is compelling. Although ex-president Jonathan put a call to Orubebe to stop his protest, and he has decided to accept the verdict of INEC, that does not mean we should sweep INEC’s shenanigans under the carpet.

It is easy to fob off Orubebe by saying he was only being emotional because he is a PDP man from Niger Delta, a kinsman of Mr. President who “lost” the election. That just won’t cut it. I am not a Niger Deltan. I don’t belong in the PDP. I don’t know Goodluck Jonathan and I have never ever met him or spoken to him. Cynical Nigerians believe anyone who supports Jonathan must either be in his pay or be looking for a job. Neither allegation is applicable to me. Jonathan ostensibly received 12.8 million votes; surely all these people were neither in his pay nor Aso Rock job-seekers.

My faith requires me to support the weak. Therefore, I will always support the minority against the tyranny of the majority. We cannot be reliant on South-South oil in Nigeria and then treat one of their sons as if he is an impostor for being president of the country. The fact of the matter is that this presidential election was the result of a vicious and malicious gang-up of the majority ethnic groups against the minorities.

Since the civil war, the Igbos of the South-East have been treated as if they are a minority ethnic group in Nigeria when in fact they are one of the majorities. In order to diminish Jonathan’s votes, a major assault was made against them; recognising that they are some of the staunchest Jonathan supporters. In 2011, the Igbo gave Goodluck Jonathan a decisive 5 million votes. The task of INEC in 2015 was to ensure that did not recur.

INEC rigmarole

Buhari prevailed as a result of a deliberate disenfranchisement of the Igbo by INEC through the manipulation of PVC distribution and the failure of the card reader in the South-East and the South-South. INEC ensured that, far more disproportionately and relative to other geopolitical zones, millions of South-East voters disappeared between 2011 and 2015, in order to provide a smooth passage for a Northern presidential candidate; which turned out to be Buhari.

The first strategy of INEC in this regard was to create 29,000 additional polling units, allocating 21,000 of these to the North and only 8,000 to the South. In this crass manipulation, INEC gave more additional polling units to Abuja than it gave to the entire South-East. However, widespread outcry over this proposal forced INEC to jettison it despite protracted resistance by Jega.

But INEC had a plan B: the registration of voters and the collection of PVCs. This was bogus and lopsided; skewed most especially against the south-east where only 7.6 million were registered and 5.6 million PVCs collected. Compare this with the war-torn north-east: 9.1 million were registered and 7.4 million collected. But the most outrageous were the figures of the north-west. 17.6 million registrations and 15.1 million collections were recorded in the North-West; much more than the figures in the entire South-East and South-South combined.

On election day, news of a bomb blast in Enugu served to discourage people from coming out to vote in the South-East. In addition, there was widespread late voter accreditation and voting in the South-East as well as the South-South. One reason for this was the massive failure of the card-readers in these zones, highly suggestive that they were programmed to fail there.

Quite incredibly, the card-reader failed to recognise even the president. It took President Jonathan 35 minutes to get accredited; but within five hours, we are meant to believe that 2.5 million voters in Kano were duly accredited. In the middle of the election, INEC changed from card-reader to manual accreditation. This suddenly brought into play the huge voter registrations in the North-West. Cell-phone video recordings showed many of the North-West’s bloated PVC holders to be under-aged children.

Abracadabra

The total effect of these machinations is that over 2.4 million South-East voters were successfully disenfranchised. 38 million people nationwide voted for Buhari and Jonathan in 2011. In 2015, this figure shrank to 28 million. The votes of the South-West remained virtually constant. 4.6 million people of the South-West voted in 2011: 4.2 million in 2015. But compare this with what happened in the South-East. 5 million people voted in 2011, only 2.6 million in 2015. That is a drastic drop of 2.4 million.

While Kano, Katsina, Kaduna, Jigawa and Bauchi were posting their traditional humongous figures; Imo, Anambra and Abia were posting relatively disappointing figures. Jigawa used to be a part of Kano, when Kano was said to be bigger than Lagos. In the 2015 election, the votes of Jigawa and Kano combined was double that of Lagos. Lagos had 1.4 million votes. Jigawa and Kano had 3.1 million; virtually all for Buhari.

While the internally displaced Northerners in the North-East could vote, internally displaced Igbos from the North could not. In places like Lagos and Kano, many non-indigenes were not even given their PVCs


http://www.levitoday.com/2016/04/how-jega-defeated-jonathan-for-buhari.html

In summary,

He had been defeated.live with it...

Naijacitizen:
Cc: carinmom, Mutuwa, ItsMeAboki, Fiizznation and Arewafederation.

Patience is indeed a virture and apportioned only to a few as mentioned.Patience allows one to listen,understand,think deep and forgive when properly practicable.At the end,such a patient person yields more joy and happiness.

But pseudo patience saturated with hypocrisy,greed and bigotry will always expose the wisdomless and confused folks.This is the present situation today,under this regime.

In life,every one gains and also loses.No impeccable beings.

Buhari is my choice,no regrets.My vote,my opinion.

Nice one bros...

mavaakiti:
your name means death....who chooses such name?

Me! Me! Me!

walescounis:
We easily forget and we have decided not to think.

true.

no to forget that a copious number of Nigerians', are governed by bigotry and naturally, myopic.

deep thinking is absent,because wisdom is not present.This makes thinking only a moment to moment thing.

ChangeIsCostant:
Good for him ...God don answer him call

yap.

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talk2riel:
Mallam Don pursue all black marketers so na black -Black market dey now

Mhen thats terrible then.No wonder the hike to 400

Virginkpekus:
As a village girl born and brought up in a village near owerri, I Neva go Beach before. Then all of a sudden my cousin based in Lagos invited me over, I was like wow!! Finally leaving this shit hole of a village. These are my pictures taken at oniru private beach!! And yes e dey shark me

village girl with swag.May the Almighty be with you.

onila:
what if you insult the person back

if "insult" had been made an offense, then you are also guilty of such offence.The rule is "injury received does not justify doing an injury"

Lsofdk:
[color=teal]you must be dumber that i thought if you think i will condescend to your level. i won't blame you, social media is the only reason why dimwits would stand up to the wise.
btw keep practicing the new word you've learnt as i can see you can't make a statement without including it.[/color]

Intimidated already..it's hard work love child.
When the Almighty was in your neighborhood dashing sense and wisdom to people,you were denied,simply because the Ediocy in you is enormous.
I really salute you,I had underestimated your mumuism and psychological daft attitude.

Reading can really harm your ignorance.

failure,from a failed erstwhile government.

juicyboobs:
I said it. See them displaying joblessness.

just like I seconded.they are every where..young jobless lads.

Lsofdk:
[color=teal]don't mind that guy, just continue doing your job, you're a professional ass licker. you are trying to defend your subject *a dunce* whose only purpose of waking up to roam about Nl observing and creating dumb threads. now begone from the presence of witty men and go rule your subjects in duncedom[/color]

no no no charlie,you see its called freedom of opinion.am entitled to it,no love child (especially you,your likes and the erstwhile idiot) can do nothing about it. she was right you know.and its folks like you that she meant who cannot see,conceptualize and then reason whether to shut up or not.
continue dumb dog,I have enough stones for you.

Cutehector:
ur opinion reeks of ammonia gas smell...

now you have become more childish.I hope you even passed chemistry class? you must be as dumb as daffy duck with you kind of manners,which I guess are also heredity.For further information charlie,I am entitled to my own opinion anywhere,anytime.Its just that riff raffs like you don't know.
Mumu Love child.

Cutehector:
Cmon will u just shut it... wasted asshole

you are already wasted for being a love child and a product of special birth center.A moronn like you lacks one thing..wisdom and I guess that is also heredity.

I didn't contribute to your status frustrated life,and you insult me for expressing my opinion? young lad,you must be congenitally Stupiddd.

Lsofdk:
[color=teal]leave the mumu to lick ass nah [/color]

she had a point.Jobless folks exists on NL. I see one.

talk2riel:
Bros that's the fullest charge you can get in this town. Litre of fuel is #400

ah haba..even for byepass and Jos road,I was there last week o! bought at N180.

Cutehector:
Mutuwa u must be d most stvpid nairalander i'v ever come across.

Thank you.This is why love children like you never cease to puzzle me.you wake up status frustrated and throw up insulting words without a rationale,and you think you are one hard guy.your iidiocy is not that of today,I hope its not heredity?

juicyboobs:
The truth be told, we have a lot of jobless youths on nairaland that are whirling away their time.

You see them on every thread, especially threads that are on front page making frivolous arguments.

They enjoy discussing celebrities, linda ikeji, wizkid.

Y'all should find something doing and make your life better. Like politicians, all these celebrities don't really care abt you.

seconded...but how you take know?

that is fantastic,if he really is in breach.

talk2riel:
Kaduna

kd folks..charge phone nah

onila:
so u will get charged for reporting, if that person wasnt wrong for insulting you

why and how would you get charged?If "insulting" is captured in the books as an offense,one may be prosecuted if found culpable.you further asked "what if the one you reported had the right to insult you" and I responded by writing that the police discretion will apply.

Police discretion here doesn't in anyway make him (the police) charge you just for mere reporting,after all you are the victim and the person with such right as claimed, is the culprit, up and till he /she proves his rights to so insult you.His rights must be on either moral grounds e.g your parents,elder or any person in authority over you,or any person any written Law had defined as having a right to so insult.

see the stupid choice of words used "May be" not "will be"

Nigeria self.

onila:
what happens if the person that insults you, had the right to correct you

but u saw it as an insult

Police discretion will now apply in resolving the matter.
Besides that person with right has to be defined also in Law.
If he or she doesn't fall under the category of those exempted,then such person(s) is culpable.

onila:

If it is made an offense,why not?

ireneony:

Why always ogun state?

I wonder.anything ritualistic and cannibalism is ogun state.