₦airaland Forum

Katsumoto:
FG will not relinquich control of those roads.

tarano:
I expected cpc to win, what happened buhari

Dis Guy:
Katsina has been declared for Shema, even though the three senatorial seats went to the opposition and i think pdp just won about 2 reps

Jarus:
CPC has always been about Buhari, and he won his stronghold. I, for one, had never expected CPC to do well in NASS and Guber.

If you guys don't know, a lot of the rioters were PDP members who wanted Buhari ahead of their party's Jonathan, obviously due to zoning and religious sentiments.

Bishopking:
who says obama and sarkozy are slavemasters? Far from it! They are slaves to the international bankers- a handful of dominant men and women who control the affairs of this world.

omo alaro:
Was it not in full force last week?

Thatdave:
no need 4 campain. i'll just buy 100s of sim cards and vote 4 myself. or just change figures at the inec database. since i am jega.

Donlittle:
Governorship and state House of assembly election in Nigeria scheduled for 26th April 2011, the accreditation of voters is expected to take place between 8am and 12 noon. while the voting is expected to start after 12 Noon.
But as at 10;17 am, 50 already thumb-printed ballot papers found on a Youth Corps member serving as Presiding Officer at the Local Authority Grammar School, Ibokun, Obokun Local Government, Osun State. She was arrested and handcuffed by policemen before being taken away for further interrogation.

The suspects named Mrs. Dupe Obembe is one of the corps members participating in the mandatory national service
She told security agents that 20 Presiding Officers were given the ballot papers already thumb-printed for the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP). She claimed further that other presiding officers in the ballot papers racket were located in other parts of Obokun Local Government including Esa-Oke.
She has been whisked to the Divisional Police Command in Ibokun for onward transfer to the State Criminal Investigations Department.


lol se sumthin like this?

alj harem:
you two look

your leaders have been despoiling you all this year in the disguise of PDP and now the people of the north have revolved by saying enough is enough instead of the south to follow suit, you are here shouting split etc

have any of u gone 2 days without food before ? and yet u see someone with a jeep driving past

i guess not

your leaders in the south would not want to split because they know what they are benefitting from this relationship

i tell u, no leader in the south will want to split because they are all PDP theives

Sarahluv:
You don't care if we split up or not, yet u start a thread subtly telling us that the only way Nigeria will divide is with a civil war? You need to get urself right.
The average Northerner does not care about the oil, yet he is ready to pick up his matchet and kill innocent people just because another Northerner lost an election to preside over the oil money? Another contradiction
You also mentioned that it won't happen unless corruption goes, and the government doesn't care about the average citizen so we should stand aloof? Mr., we will not stand aloof. We will make our views known one post at a time. Recent happenings in Nigeria and around the world have shown that people take note of popular positions as expressed on the internet. It might not be immediate, but know that a movement has been started, and we will prevail eventually.

Note that our primary concern has been how to protect innocent people from the wanton continual blood-letting in the North, and nobody just woke up and said "let's divide". You know the problem. Talk about how to stop the blood-thirst, and don't come here to condemn the aspiration of people to enjoy the simple "right to life".

Talking of ethnic assaults, guy be real. Some unscrupulous northerners kill southerners at the drop of a dime year in, year out, and you haven't cared to condemn that as ethnic/religious assault, yet you come here to launch your own regional assault behind your computer screen.

Your post: bollocks!!!

I will be upfront with the ultimate bad news. We have seemingly experienced increased political participation this election year. I say "seemingly" because it is hard to imagine a time when Nigerians were not actively interested in the political process of the country.

But 2011 is not going to bring the sea of change many have been hoping for. For the most part, we are going to have more of the same. Nobody wishes more than I do that I turn out to be wrong on this, but I am very inclined by events since January to believe I will not.

We already know of the show of shame that was the Delta rerun. It was Jega's INEC that conducted that election. Those who followed the National Assembly elections were aware that nationwide the PDP was being trounced except for few places in the South. Then overnight, while men slept and from nowhere, pro-PDP ballot papers emerged to give the PDP a solid majority in both chambers of the National Assembly. It was Jega's INEC that conducted those elections.

As far as the presidential election went, there was a good chance that GEJ could have won even without any rigging (GEJ had a large following especially in the South), but this was not a given. His main challenger, Buhari, was a real challenge and the election could have gone either way or a rerun could have been necessitated. But some magic fingers went to work on GEJ's behalf. In the end, voter turnout for the legislative elections were implausibly tripled across the South-South and South-East, with GEJ securing nearly 100% of the votes across these geopolitical zones. Even in the South-West, where the ACN has a very solid foothold, GEJ swept through with a hard-to-explain majority. Suddenly, the Middle Belt found fresh love for the PDP and made GEJ the conquering lion of Bayelsa. Again, it was Jega's INEC that conducted that election.

Yet many observers, including representatives from the West, hailed these elections as credible - even though all hell would have broken loose if elections in the West are marked by the irregularities that have characterized the 2011 Nigerian elections. It can be safely said, then, that the erstwhile rigging manual used in the 1999, 2003, and 2007 elections have been significantly pruned and replaced with a far more stealthy approach that leaves behind a facade of credibility and transparency while essentially and effectively making the electoral process a sham. But why should we be surprised anyway? We are still doing the same things that we did in 1999, 2003, and 2007. Naturally, the outcome should be the same.

[b]Why should we expect the gubernatorial elections to produce any significant change? Has the electoral process changed? Has it been reformed in any way? [/b]We might be lucky to see more genuineness in the gubernatorial elections, as we were lucky to see in the legislative elections that took place in the South-West, but we cannot hold our breath for such a fluke to happen nationwide. The forces that were let loose on the country during the Delta Rerun, the National Assembly elections, and the Presidential elections will be at work during the gubernatorial elections. Yes, we can be certain that some avoidable, random variables will be injected into the whole process to produce our very familiar government magic.

Sadly, many will be quick to regard a realistic assessment of our political health as pessimism or an attempt to dampen political enthusiasm of voters. Far from it! It is my wish that we remind ourselves of where we are politically and be ever more vigilant for the gubernatorial elections. In fact, we need to quadruple our vigilance because the forces of darkness will go to work tomorrow, especially after the polls have closed, while men sleep.