₦airaland Forum

Those who are aspiring to lead the country should learn strategic communication and campaign initiatives from Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the candidate of the All Progressives' Congress-APC. His campaigns have been most strategic, issue-based, sector-specific, and all-encompassing in both content and delivery.
He takes his campaigns to his target audience, delivers his message in very lucid prose, sets agenda for a robust engagement and anchors his initiatives on the needs of the people. In my many years of being actively involved in politics and political campaigns, this is the most strategic I have seen.
He spoke to crop growers and farmers in a Town Hall meeting in Minna. He proceeded to Lafia to address the miners. He engaged the hub of the Organised Private Sector in Lagos. He visited Warri in Delta, some kind of home-coming for his wife and also took part in the oil find in Bauchi.
He made a very strategic statement in Bauchi about recharging the huge economy of the Lake Chad which even Atiku Abubakar from North-East is not aware of, and has never spoken of. The declining fortunes of the Lake Chad economy needs to be arrested and recharged for its strategic importance to the economy of the nation and the people of the North-East geopolitical zone.
He also visited Imo to speak to the leaders and business owners, while assuring them of transforming the South-East zone to another Taiwan in Nigeria. It was not a surprise that the sum of One Billion naira was reportedly donated to his campaign.
Other presidential aspirants should learn from this strategic thinker and political campaigner in Asiwaju Tinubu. In contending with the issues in Nigeria, a candidate must show a clear understanding of the variables, speak to them, come up with ActionPlan to interrogate the issues and set agenda for realising the objectives.
I am so elated that we have a presidential candidate that understands the dynamics and rubrics of what the expectations are, and how to confront them in measured dialogue and robust engagement. When they expected him to carry out roadshows, he opted for Town Hall meetings which afforded him the unique opportunity to rub minds with critical stakeholders and opinion leaders at closer range.
In Kano, he spent two days listening to the people on what their collective aspirations were, offered suggestions on how to recapture the textile and garment factories to rejig the North-West economy. Ditto for Kaduna when he spoke to the nucleus of Arewa Consultative Forum leaders.
While his major opponent Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is busy settling his party's internal squabbles, Asiwaju Tinubu is taking the shine.
This is the first time in contemporary Nigeria political campaigns that the effective use of Town Hall meetings has become so manifest. His combination of rallies and Town Hall meetings has been a clincher of some sort and other presidential candidates should take a cue from him.
I was amused seeing the PDP candidate Atiku Abubakar copying APC's strategic women engagement by setting up Women Campaign Council months after APC set up its own.
This APC's campaign has been most segmented; the youths, the women, the party and the people. Give it to Asiwaju Tinubu when it comes to strategic engagement, you can't beat him to it.
Prince Kassim Afegbua is a former a former Commissioner for Information, Edo State and a huge supporter of Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s presidential ambition.

Workch:
Is Tinubu from Lagos?

He is not, it is Obi that is from Lagos

NwaMamaIwota:
mynd44 Seun Nlfpmod dominique
Rule 2

Cry cry baby
Seun please.., a baby is murmuring here

Workch:
In 2015, Buhari then polled 792,460 votes, while Jonathan got 632,327.

Buhari polled 580,814 votes to beat Atiku, who got 448,016 votes.

To be fair, one can argue that this election was mostly rigged, especially in Alimosho local government.

Today, With BVAS, rigging is traceable and harder, we will have clearer picture of voting patterns. ATiku is dead in Lagos, we have to agree.
Lagos is between Peter Obi and Tinubu. Tinubu maybe popular with the areas boys and some native Yorubas however not every Yoruba are his fan. There are right thinking Yorubas that won’t vote for him, a lot of them are my friends. Lagos is too cosmopolitan for Tinubu to clear, we have to agree.
The endsars saga will also work against him. He will not get votes from many Christian communities even within the Yoruba circle.

I expect Tinubu to win Lagos anyways, but the margin will not be huge if all things are equal.
I expect to see this figures

Tinubu: 50%
Obi: 40%
Others: 10%

Although, we Cannot totally overrule Peter obi winning Lagos If APC sleeps on it.
What’s your thought?

Ode... Is Buhari from Lagos? A Lagosian is contesting this time around. It would be different from all other elections

Until they realize they're only competing with their inner selves, they won't grow

lhordspy:
Video here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr67hvukRuI

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQw5XgyNUC4

#Renewed Hope
#Women4BatShet
Mynd44 seun nlfpmod

Can Obi even defeat Tinubu's wife in a political contest?

Felabrity:
When you open nairaland, the first thing you see is the campaign poster of Tinubu and his VP, glaring at you, every damm day.

I am not really against it but we don't need to be seeing it every time

Seun

You will continue to see it everyday until the day of election. The alternative is to stop coming to nairaland

Why the noisy obidients can't raise money to do same for their mini god is what I don't understand. You want Obi but can't put your resources on his ambition - what do you call these empty barrels?

PlayerMeji:
Just wait till some jobless urchins will come and begin to spot one fly or ant on the ground...

Awon losers...

It was double-double today for the APC. The APC men were in Lagos with supporters at Teslim Balogun. It was a campaign like no other. At the same time, same day, Tinubu's wife was leading another campaign rally for women in Calabar, also at a stadium. I have never seen this before.

HIGHESTPOPORI:
Poor man like you that can't boast of 10k

Mr rich man... how much did you donate to the DOA obi project?

Hoelujohn:
Rubbish. They brought all members from South West states. I saw four mass transit buses that just dropped some people in my my local government in Ogun state.

If it is that easy, why not ask Obi to do the same and let's see how many millions he can transport to his campaign venues.
Losers

Today's rally in Lagos by the APC was a neck presser for the opposition parties. It was a show of force that will give other contestants sleepless nights for the next couple of days.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43TRgWkSq44

degali:
Becoming very clear Obi is a Christian project. Forget all the rumour

And the dumbo doesn't still know that can't get him anywhere. Obi is a baby politician - he wants to use religion to get votes.

ECASH120:
https://youtube.com/shorts/pv0RCLnS1wc?feature=share

A disturbing video has emerged online of Agberos forcing and intimidating people to campaign for Tinubu.

It can be seen in the video of them telling people not to come out for their businesses and they also destroyed some goods of sellers.

God save Nigeria from forceful power grabbers

The losers have started their campaign of calumny

Africum:
The Presidential Campaign Rally of the All Progressives Congress APC continues today in Lagos. Everywhere is locked down for the campaign as the 'city boy's is back home for the campaign. Here are some early Pictures from the events.

The next president loading...

PrinceOfLagos:
Sorry I had to conceal my identity for security reasons ...

I've always prayed for a better Nigeria for all and I strongly believe that the Peter Obi Presidency will lead Nigeria to the path of prosperity.

God bless the federal republic of Nigeria

You should have emptied your bank account for Obi.

Eniitankorede:
This is the question on the minds of many people and myself. Even in southeast we never hear of any notable politicians defecting to or supporting Labour Party and Obi. They are treating Obi like a leper. Why is that so? Are they afraid or what? Can anyone explain why Labour Party is being treated like a leper.

What kain kweshion be this?
Who will join a party that obviously will fail?

Corrinthians:
https://thenationonlineng.net/tribunal-compels-inec-to-produce-adelekes-certificates/

Wahala for Ademola... The man doesnt have any certificate

Aremwayne:
PDP is really divided.

Divided into the corePDP (Ayu, Atiku, etc), newPDP (5-G govs), PDPlite (LP - Obi, etc), and PDPAPC(Chimaroke Nnamani, Bala Mohammed, etc)
The party is gone... they can't make any impact in the coming election.

The jungle is gradually maturing on the side of Tinubu as PDP chieftains now attend Tinubu's campaign rallies. It was Chimaroke's name that initially caused a stir when it appeared in the list of Tinubu's campaign council. Now the speaker of the same state (Enugu - a PDP state), today attended Tinubu's campaign rally in Abakaliki, Ebonyi state, technically endorsing Tinubu.

The event, had in attendance, the APC National Chairman, Sen. Abdullahi Adamu, represented by the Deputy National Chairman, South, Chief Emma Eneukwu, APC vice Presidential candidate, Sen. Kashim Shettima, former APC Governorship candidate, Anambra State, Sen. Andy Uba, the Speaker of Enugu State House of Assembly, Edward Ubosi,, Chairman, Nigerians in Diaspora Commission, Abike Dabiri, Demeji Bankole, former Speaker House of Representatives, Hon. Chinedu Ogah, member representing Ikwo/Ezza South Federal Constituency, among others.

Another interesting pic

Hoelujohn:
Bros are you ok like this? People that were forced to come. Heard there is attendance register for all civil servants. I don't know how true that is though. But take a look at the picture attached, are those guys happy being there?

You're probably the one not thinking straight man. Can you share with us a video where people were forced? or video where the attendees said they were forced to attend? The people dancing and singing here were forced? Stop smoking cheap weeds.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x55JIIN854U

[quote author= post=118657292]My friend you posted fake pictures of Buhari rally[/quote]Anyway, the same stadium was used... It might be a mix-up but I watched the rally and I have shared even a video of his arrival. U want to make it look like the campaign wasn't well attended. You failed. Watch again his arrival at the stadium and driving round. It was a massive crowd. Obi can't get this crowd anywhere... the reason for using canopy in a small place for campaign.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x55JIIN854U

Tinubu arriving at the venue


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x55JIIN854U

ElSudani:
He will defeat Obi in the south-east. Forget the zombidients and their senseless noise. It is their trademark, they did the same thing to Buhari.

[quote author= post=118656209]Tinubu rally today[/quote]Stop lying this man. See pictures cut from the clip of the campaign

Peter Obi of the LP held his campaign in Ibadan yesterday while Tinubu was in Ebonyi today for the presidential campaign of the APC. It looked more like a case of a popularity test by each candidate. With the looks of things, however, Tinubu seems more popular than Obi in his home region. The same can't be said of Obi in SW. Obi had to change his campaign venue from a stadium to another location, small enough to accommodate the expected handful of followers to avoid the embarrassment that might come from not getting enough people to fill Adamasigbo stadium.

It will be a shame if Obi is defeated in his home region. All signals so far point in this direction and I don't see what Obi can do to turn the table.

First Picture: Tinubu in Ebonyi
Second Picture: Obi in Ibadan

blamingthedevil:
"I cannot condemn ESN because I do not know who is doing what"

~ Peter Obi leader of IPOB

But can condemn boko haram... see this ode

domDva:
Tinubu’s TVC is conducting a poll in Hausa and decided to tag Obi as a pastor.
If I were from the North, I will really be offended that this politicians really feel that Northerners have no brains , that all you need to do is touch their religious sensibility and they will loose their humanity .

This attempt by TVC is an insult to the North and all enlightened citizens, so these people really take us for fools without brains to think and analyze issues.
Damn, the desperation in Tinubu’s camp is terrible .

I thought they said that internet doesn’t matter so why play all known and unknown gimmicks just to place your unstable candidate at an advantage.

The poll has even crashed because Obidients have all gone there …they even dressed Atiku in Igbo attire .

I thought you guys said there are 40% Christians in the north. Why the cry about TVC's labeling Obi a pastor? After all he started his campaign from the church asking the christians to take back their country

ibrahimabba7:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV4EecHMp38

The presidential candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi says he will consult with the Governor of Anambra State, Chukwuma Soludo on solutions to tackle Nigeria’s challenges.

Obi made this known on Monday at Protea Hotel in Ikeja, the Lagos State capital, during a meeting with the Nigerian Guild of Editors.

“He (Soludo) knows and he has the solution so I need to consult him to help me,” Obi said of the Anambra governor whom he fondly referred to as his brother.

The LP candidate also promised to adopt the Bangladesh model of 35% Affirmative Action, noting that he would create an atmosphere where 50 percent of Nigerian women would be included in its National Productivity Programme.

Of late, Soludo, a former governor of the Central Bank of Nigeria; and Obi, who was Anambra governor between 2006 and 2014; have been engaged in altercations on the state of Anambra economy.

Soludo had said the investments Obi left in government are worth close to nothing.

The All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) chieftain also said Obi can’t win the 2023 presidential election as there are “two persons/parties seriously contesting for president”.

https://www.channelstv.com/2022/11/21/i-will-consult-with-soludo-to-tackle-nigerias-challenges-peter-obi/

Obi is begging indirectly

It was a Sunday like no other for Bola Ahmed Tinubu. We woke up to hear the news of the endorsement of his candidacy by Jonathan's men. As if that wasn't enough and in a cross-regional endorsement, everybody in Kano trooped out to walk for the same man. The long column of men and women dancing happily on the streets of Kano in support of Tinubu is something that will give the other contestants, especially Atiku and kwakwanso, a serious headache.

I don't think Atiku or Kwakwanso can get 1/10th the people I saw today in Kano on the street of Lagos or any city in the south west.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DHzLvGVHvHc

Superwave16320:
Ahead of next year’s Presidential Election, key supporters and kinsmen of former President Goodluck Jonathan have endorsed the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress APC, Asiwaju Bola Tinubu as part of their commitment to having a Nigerian president of Southern extraction.

Operating under the aegis of Citizens Network For Peace and Development in Nigeria CNPDN, the supporters and kinsmen who earlier rooted to have Jonathan on the ballot, said since he declined to join the race, the right thing to do is to support Tinubu, who they said, has the structures and capacity to win the elections.

Earlier in the year, CNPDN, was among the first Southern Coalition to openly urge former President Jonathan to run for office on the platform of the APC.

The Coalition had also engaged prominent Southern leaders to prevail on the former president to join the race.

Although, Jonathan had promised to consult widely, he later declined to join the APC and enter the race, thus paving the way for Tinubu to emerge as the APC standard bearer.

At a media parley at the weekend in Abuja, National Secretary of the Coalition, Chief Francis Okereke Wainwei, who, like Jonathan, hails from Bayelsa State, said as patriotic citizens, they could not sit back and not participate in the electoral process of the country.

Wainwei noted that, “as patriotic citizens under the auspices of the Citizens Network For Peace and Development in Nigeria, we took it up as a burning need for us to be actively involved in the process leading to the election of Nigeria’s next president,who shall be taking over from President Muhammadu Buhari next year.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2022/11/ex-president-jonathans-men-endorse-tinubu-insist-on-southern-presidency/

Tinubu is the next president of Nigeria. If you're happy about it, hug the nearest transformer to where you are