₦airaland Forum

It’s official: Favour Ofili is Nigeria’s new queen of the tracks

Tuchel needs to cook Pulisic sha

User09:
Pulisic with his usual ball hugging rubbish

Yeah, he should have passed a second earlier

Peter Obi has emerged as the favorite candidate in a poll conducted between from May 4-7.

Per the poll, 33% of Nigerians say they would vote for Peter Obi if the elections were held last week, while 15% and 13% say they would vote for Atiku Abubakar and Yemi Osinbajo, respectively.

Participants were asked whether they had ever voted in previous Nigerian presidential elections.

Among participants who have never voted in previous elections, 51% say that they will vote for Peter Obi compared to 27% among those who have voted in the past.

The survey recorded the geopolitical zones where the participants resided.

Peter Obi commands 62% in the South East. Peter Obi is also favorite in the South South, South West, and North Central zones.

Obi trails Atiku Abubakar in the North East and North West zones.

Needing just 1 point out of 6 to secure UCL qualification ain’t a bad spot to be in.

Ppogbae:
How does suspending Nigeria from international competition help the country to focus on grassroots basketball development? What is the meaning of this?

Sunday Dare is the worst Minister of Sport in Nigerian history!!

Absolutely brainless decision

As said by naptu

“I think they want to use the Yar'Adua and Goodluck Jonathan strategy.

In 2008 Nigerian football authorities presented an inflated budget to the government for the hosting of the 2009 FIFA Under 17 World Cup in Nigeria. President Yar'Adua then suddenly decided that Nigeria would no longer host the tournament. This shocking decision forced the sports authorities to drastically reduce the budget. (Nigeria hosted a very good tournament)

In 2010, after a disastrous World Cup both on and off the field, President Goodluck Jonathan decided that Nigeria would not get involved in international football for two years. FIFA gave us a deadline to reverse that decision and the football authorities promised to shape up. President Jonathan changed his mind after receiving promises from the football authorities. (Nigeria went on to win the 2013 African Nations Cup).

The Basketball Federation has been embroiled in a crisis for almost 4 years. There are 2 presidents and 2 boards. All efforts by the Sports Ministry to resolve the crisis has failed. In fact, some people now accuse the Sports Ministry of being a party to the crisis. Well, the Federal Government has now announced that Nigeria will not take part in international basketball matches for the next two years and that an interim committee will be set up to manage the Nigerian Basketball Federation (NBBF).

My main concern is that our girls are scheduled to take part in the World Cup in Australia in a few months and nothing should jeopardise their chances of competing in the tournament. I am convinced that they will have a good outing and I don't want another Rashidi Yekini - South Africa '96 situation.”

BlueRayDick:
lol.

Wike kor, woke ni .

That man just does not want Atiku to have the ticket; that’s his end game. He detests Atiku that much but he knows in his hearts of hearts he won’t smell any ticket himself.

Wike has said a whole lot of things that would make northerners not even care to give him votes. Wike is a sectarian leader and does not possess any quality that portrays him as a man with national outlook.

I mean Wike has taken some bold steps in speaking truth to power in the recent past, but mehn he’s stamped on a lot of toes in the north while doing so.

Haha
Wike may even be secretly funding Peter Obi’s campaign; because $ for $ Obi is no match to Atiku in wooing the delegates. A man who has been controlling TRILLIONS of Naira of Rivers state money surely has an advantage over Atiku

I wonder why AIT deleted their poll which had Peter Obi at 82%?

Havertz10:



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smFPuc2JO6A

Mogbe

Peter Obi is on a roll to the extent that AIT had to delete their own poll

Odunayaw:
The GK, Adéwálé Adeyinka holds the record for most consecutive clean sheets in the NPFL. 16 matches without conceding a goal

Amazing! He’s more than justified his call-up to the SE

TNORWAY:
Somebody should please break it down for a science student.

The Federal High Court’s judgment basically says Ebonyi state does not have the power to make laws about cyber crimes

andrewbaba44:
I am happy for dessers alhassan yusuf and some home based players invited

The earlier we realize we will see more of musa and shehu the better for us

What’s azubuike okechukwu doing there

Lool
My biggest surprise was still seeing Ahmed Musa’s name. Our Oga no wan retire

Samueltemi337:
No osimhen?

I tire oh..
Besides, we never get coach

Meanwhile

Sultty:
I guess Lagos really showed the fulani's "pepper" after all the bad image and bashing the fulani's have received from national violence/criminality of this tribe and videos showing supposed ritual where u see fulani having sex with their cows. u people do well by consuming about 320 billion freaking naira worth of beef my question is who is beefing who

.

I know online polls are not the gold standard, but I see Raymond Dokpesi closing this poll.

fabyom:
Oshimen is United top priority! 94 million Euros!

I think the game against Leicester City where he scored those 2 fantastic goals is making United consider him a better option than Nunez!

I prefer he goes to Arsenal because he will work better with their upcoming talents, rather than the largely spent forces at Utd.
However, Man Utd are the only English team willing to splash £80 million + on him

cococandy:
Lmao

This topic gave me some much needed comic relief

https://www.nairaland.com/7118570/amid-fuel-scarcity-group-picks

Ibime:
E be like na Jonathan wey Buhari dey back

Buhari is not interested in Tinubu and Osinbajo but has been romancing Jonathan for over a year

Don't be surprised to find Jonathan picked APC membership card a year ago

The presidency has already denied backing Jonathan, as if they would admit it in the first place

However, I’m beginning to the think the presidency may be secretly backing Emefiele, because it takes a lot of guts for a CBN Governor with ZERO experience in politics to enter fray, competing against established political heavyweights

Timipre Sylva has picked up his APC presidential form

Erling Haaland has agreed personal terms with Man City

BlueRayDick:
Omo! Even Tunde Bakare used church money collect 100m form

You haven’t seen anything yet. Many of these “pastors” are no more than charlatans in sheeps’ clothing.

DissTroy:
Wike doesn't want to be President. Gov. Udom doesn't want to be too. It's all a ploy to pressure the PDP to zone it to the South. And Wike pressured Udom to contest - they have been allies since 2016.

Obi's only 'flaw' in the North is where he hails from. If he were Igbo from the South South, he'd garner enough support in the North.

But Peter Obi is still the best candidate the PDP has contesting.
Of all the others, he's still the only technocrat who excelled tremendously in a previous elected position given the available finances, and he's the only one who has it on his record to have reversed the economic woes of his domain or at least bettered it.

Building bridges, stadia, and other infrastructure would not improve the economy, and that's what Nigeria needs - an economic turn around. That's where Peter Obi comes in.

if he (Peter Obi) gets the ticket, the only reason he wouldn't win is the voter apathy, in the South East especially.

In 2015, Akwa Ibom gave Goodluck Jonathan 953,000 votes and Anambra gave Goodluck a paltry 650,000 votes (I took time to paste the 2015 election results here https://www.reuters.com/article/nigeria-election-results-idINL6N0WW4UM20150331 ), yet Anambra is slightly more populated than Akwa Ibom ( here I am adding the population of Nigeria by states https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Nigerian_states_by_population ).

The voter apathy is even worse in Ebonyi and Abia States. Throughout the South, actually.

Buhari won Goodluck by only 3 million votes. Compare the casted votes in the South East to the number of registered voters, and you'd realize how paltry it is.

Instead of listening to the intimidation by the North, if you properly analyse election results, you'd know the South's main problem is voter apathy. The Middle Belt vote our way, and they have the population too.


If it's not Peter Obi, Osinbajo or Fayemi, we are just voting for the lesser evil.
But for economic transformation (which is really Nigerian's main concern) if it's not Peter Obi, we are just shortchanging ourselves.

The voter apathy in the SE (and other parts of the south) was largely the result of the deliberate disenfranchisement of voters in those zones.

I recall that a good number of voters in the south had issues receiving their PVCs from their local INEC HQs, while voters in the north were allowed to collect theirs from their local mosques and traditional rulers’ palaces. Moreover, on Election Day, 95% of incidences of faulty cars-readers occurred in the south, which angered a good chunk of voters and caused them to abruptly leave the polling units.

Yes, in general, the political participation among regular citizens in the SE and SS is lagging behind their compatriots in the north. But we can’t jettison the effect of INEC’s (deliberate?) disenfranchisement of voters in the south on especially the 2015 presidential election.

Ibime:
My brother delegate na round tripping. By the time you collect like $3k on average from each candidate, you should walk away with $30k from a convention. Not to mention monies candidate may have given to the Governor to settle his delegates in advance.

Chai! Being an active, prominent member of PDP and APC is the best lucrative side hustle.

Ibime:
For where, when Ganduje done block am right left and centre. Kwankwaso wey Atiku use him face rub ground for last PDP primary. Kwankwaso money no reach pass $5k per delegate while Atiku went up to $9k

So, Tinubu needs to pay each delegate at least N3million

If Arsenal finish above Chelsea, Arteta should be awarded Manager of the season. It’s almost improbable how they’ve moved from 15th, in early September, to top 4 at this stage of the season