You are still politically naive politics is about struggle to control the center regardless the consequences that will bring.

TonyeBarcanista:
By Tonye Barcanista

It is my firm position that in the interest of justice, the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, should make way for a Southerner to emerge as next presidential candidate.

Notwithstanding the aforementioned, in the event that the reports across various media that the Zoning Committee of the party is tilting towards retention of the 2019 zoning arrangement where the North and South produced the party's Presidential candidate and party chairman respectively, is confirmed, I shall abide by the decision of the party irrespective of the zoning arrangement of the All Progressive Congress because the ruling party is not an option. Moreover, chieftains of APC from the south and their sympathizers, especially those of southwest axis, have never hidden their disloyalty to southern interest since 2010. The record is there for all to see;

2011: Southern APC (ACN) Sabotaged Southern Interest
In the buildup to the 2011 general election, the leaders of the now defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, which is a principal partner in the All Progressive Congress merger, fielded a northern candidate, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu, and also sought to enter deal with General Muhammadu Buhari of Congress for Progressive Change, CPC, in their bid to capture power at the centre. ACN leaders led by Asiwaju Bola Tinubu, Bisi Akande, Adams Oshiomole, Rauf Aregbesola, Raji Fashola, Kayode Fayemi, and a host of others, ignored the fact that the candidate of Peoples Democratic Party and incumbent President, Goodluck Jonathan, was a fellow southerner from the southsouth geopolitical; a zone that had never produced Nigeria's president prior to then.

It was after their proposed ACN/CPC alliance failed due to alleged power greed of Asiwaju Bola Tinubu that some southern elites of the party literally backtracked. Even at that, some of them worked for Mallam Nuhu Ribadu in that election, giving him sizable number of votes in Lagos, Ogun, Ekiti and even Oyo states. Ribadu also won popular vote in Osun state.

After the 2011, Asiwaju Tinubu and other southern ACN elites, in their quest for political power, sabotaged the plans of the southern PDP by sabotaging their own kinswoman, Hon Mulikat Akande Adeola, from emerging as Speaker of Federal House of Representatives. Instead, they mobilised for the emergence of a NORTHERNER from Sokoto state, Rt Hon Aminu Tambuwal. After sabotaging Honorable Adeola, they went behind to sponsor media propaganda that the then PDP government of Jonathan "shortchanged the Yoruba nation".

2015: They Worked Against South To Shift Power To North
Penultimate to 2015 election, these Southern elites reactivated their 2011 failed merger with Buhari, and they succeeded to form APC. At the APC primary in December 2014, they did not work for the emergence of the only southern Presidential aspirant, Rochas Okorocha, to emerge as candidate. Instead they worked for General Muhammadu Buhari from Katsina state of northwest.

Furthermore, it didn't occur to them that the man they sought to dethrone, Dr Goodluck Jonathan, a fellow southerner from Bayelsa state, is a Southerner like them. Instead, they were determined to install a northern Buhari in their quest to be at the centre. Some of them accused their kinsmen from Yorubaland that were working for Jonathan as "bast*rds". Fellow southerners from the southeast and southsouth became their target of propaganda and abuse. Even their chieftains in the southsouth and southeast, like Rotimi Amaechi, Rochas Okorocha, Timpre Sylva, Adams Oshiomole, Ogbonaya Onu and their likes, ensured that they sabotaged the popular sentiment of their respective zones to actualise Buhari's presidency.

2023: Who Do These APC Elites Want To Fool?
Ahead of the 2023 election, these same APC southern elites are shouting "turn of the south" because they want to be the beneficiary. They and their agents are hypocritically chanting united south irrespective of party lines simply because they know that should APC go south, they are the people to benefit from it. Just because they need the collective votes of entire southerners, including their fellows from southwest that were maligned for standing with Dr Jonathan and Hon Mulikat in 2011 and 2015, as well as those of the southeast and southsouth that were targets of their propaganda in their quest to actualise Muhammadu Buhari presidency.

Indeed, it is only someone with short memory that will fall for their tricky game.

Therefore, southern APC chieftains and their agents like Chief Dele Momodu should stop being clever by half.

Written by Tonye Barcanista Inioribo

You are delusional to say the least. I can recall vividly that you supported the emergence of Buhari in 2015. I am crystal clear about this, during APC presidential primary that held in Lagos, you were against Atiku who did everything to buy all candidates the PDP style. You can vote who you want in 2023, some of us will do what is right for the nation. You can blame the Hausa-Fulani for their retrogressive policies but when it comes to being nationalistic, you can fault them. You will be amazed to see that a southern candidate from APC will trounce whoever PDP power hungry folks come up with. Truth be told SE-terners suck at politics. Nigeria is like a poligamous families where there are machinations and counter machinations. You have to be street wise to see where things are going. I am not Nosatrdamus but if recent events are anything to go by, PDP VP will go to SS and not SE. If Hausa- Fulani wants to play the whole South, they will impose another Northerner on APC with a Southern VP. Then, we all have no choice but to pick between 2 Northern candidates. That in my opinion will be a short term win for North which may be counter productive in the medium to long term.

SW has not been giving APC blocks of vote yet Buhari contested and won (with mergers of two major parties from North and SW) after losing 3 times consecutively. That's a joke.


Igbos so called APC founding fathers that couldn't win their polling unit? What a founder father.

NakwansaPolice:
since the formation of apc
has yoruba ever given apc bloc votes like the north
even during change tsunami in 2015
forget that propaganda of Yoruba and apc
just like Yoruba
Igbos have founding fathers in Apc too
the propaganda is already stale.

kayuseful:
Good to hear you tonyeBarcanista

I believe it's your opinion, and not necessarily the majority's

I believe whether APC or pdp, the candidate that emerges will sway votes of the people.
For example,
If APC choose GEJ and pdp choose Atiku, you can't tell me APC will not win SS and SE
Also if APC chooses PYO, He's surely gonna make SS/SE at least a battleground for PDP.
Overall I feel 2023 is APC's to lose and pdp can only wait for decision mistakes from them to capitalize on

SE/SS will rather vote Atiku than Osibanjo. If APC goes for GEJ then SE/SS will indeed be a battle ground. As for Osibanjo we don't reinforce failure.

chiiraq802:


Lolss....even with PMB's endorsement. Northerners no go vote Christian over Muslim oooo....

Are you evening observing the body language of Boo.hari, he doesn't give a fxxk.

Malami and them gangs are misbehaving in APC cuz Boo.hari is with them.

Northern Elders Forum and notable northerners are advocating for North to continue ruling and you think they will tell there people over there to Vote for a southerner over Atiku, Tambuwal or Kwankwaso....after how Boo.hari fxxked up with his one sided ruling.

Atiku vs Buhari...na just small margin ooooo, Boo.hari use win.
Then think of;
Atiku vs PYO(any Southerner).... with the body language of PDP SS and SE.....
Make dem kukuma divide this country now ooo.... Southerners fit no rule dis country again oooo... Lols.

So tell me how have we been producing southern presidents in this country, if by your logic, northerners can never vote a southern candidate above their own

kayuseful:

So tell me how have we been producing southern presidents in this country, if by your logic, northerners can never vote a southern candidate above their own

Bullshit!!!. Northerner voted Abiola over Tofa. Maybe you were too young then.

kayuseful:

So tell me how have we been producing southern presidents in this country, if by your logic, northerners can never vote a southern candidate above their own

Then there was no strong opposition like APC... PDP was just the Big player and they agreed on when the Presidency should go to North or South.

Currently Nigeria is divided among Religious and Ethnic lines. personally i don't believe in Nigeria or sham elections ... but i seriously want a Southern President in the mould of Akeredolu or Ameachi but the Northerners and Fulanis will not think twice if given chance to vote for there brother ooo.

Some Hausa/guys that stays at my area recently went to there states ...Staunch Sai baba supporters ooo, but as they came back...

When dem dey discuss for there language about politics...dem go dey chant Sai Atiku....
These guys knows what they are doing but God no go shame us.

LegendHero:


Why is PDP not showing up in your statement?

Why do you think PDP do not want to give it to the SE? Can you answer the question?

I'm not interested in your tears

My headache is not the zone the next president is coming from. My major concern is that the president should please have conscience and consider the future of this country. Let the children have future. We are no longer living life in this country again, we are barely existing.

NakwansaPolice:


lol my own is that SE presidency or the north continues
you can't try to conner what belongs to the entire South under stupid southern unity.
SE/SS will never vote for a Yoruba candidate
that's the pure fact.
it's either igbo presidency or the north continues.
there are many notable igbos in APC
Let them get the ticket since you guys have had presidency and vice.

we shall see where greed will take everybody in 2023.

Oga speak for urself. Anybody from South in Apc, i will vote for him. Never will a northern rule me in 2023, even if na saint.. am igbo from imo.

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InHeaven:
SW has not been giving APC blocks of vote yet Buhari contested and won (with mergers of two major parties from North and SW) after losing 3 times consecutively. That's a joke.


Igbos so called APC founding fathers that couldn't win their polling unit? What a founder father.

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trash trash trash
Apc was formed with merger of anpp of ogbonnaya onu
acn of Tinubu
APGA faction of Rochas (Rochas was the person that gave it name apc)
nPDP of Saraki
and CPC of Buhari

so get your facts right before spewing your stale propaganda.
in 2015 APGA and anpp faction made sure buhari got the required 30% in SE which is very vital.
SW never gave apc bloc votes just like the north it was shared between pdp and apc.
CPC made sure buhari rigged magnificently in his stronghold and npdp destroyed pdp structure in 3Ks (kaduna, kastina, kano used to be pdp states)

so tell me again how did yoruba helped buhari and apc to power again?
even in 2019 Tinubu struggled to win Lagos for apc and nearly lost
should I remind you that Osibanjo lost his PU
should I also remind you of how apc nearly lost Osun state if not for daylight robbery?

like I told you before. the propaganda of apc being Yoruba party is stale and DOA
Infact SE is even more important to apc than SW because if they stop getting the required % from SE na wahala.

kiss the truth

There was unity among the southerners back in 2011,Jonathan won all the regions but decided to sideline sw and went on a jamboree in North East/west where buhari have never lost an election, so what do you want sw to do?
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice the fuckin shame is on me, Jonathan ignored sw and they ignored him too.
Jonathan had 4 region back in 2011(Nc,sw, se and ss) and he lost 2 out of those region in 2015,instead of him to solidify the unity that existed among those regions, he was busy sucking north east /n.west ball and they still voted against him, so Mr barca... Whatever is ur name, enough of ur shenanigans

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pinkgoodies:


Oga speak for urself. Anybody from South in Apc, i will vote for him. Never will a northern rule me in 2023, even if na saint.. am igbo from imo.

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trash
Igbos ain't voting Yoruba candidate

if southern unity is that important to them let them back an igbo man.

we no go fall for nonsense blackmail

AutoBodyParts:



SE/SS will rather vote Atiku than Osibanjo. If APC goes for GEJ then SE/SS will indeed be a battle ground. As for Osibanjo we don't reinforce failure.

Big lie, u don't speak for the SE/SS, the hate against any northern candidate now is much. Once PYO is on the apc ticket. We go vote am.

chiiraq802:


Then there was no strong opposition like APC... PDP was just the Big player and they agreed on when the Presidency should go to North or South.

Currently Nigeria is divided among Religious and Ethnic lines. personally i don't believe in Nigeria or sham elections ... but i seriously want a Southern President in the mould of Akeredolu or Ameachi but the Northerners and Fulanis will not think twice if given chance to vote for there brother ooo.

Some Hausa/guys that stays at my area recently went to there states ...Staunch Sai baba supporters ooo, but as they came back...

When dem dey discuss for there language about politics...dem go dey chant Sai Atiku....
These guys knows what they are doing but God no go shame us.

Opposition party grows when the incumbent is weak. That was the case of Gej.

Northerners listen to their leaders, not necessarily their tribe. These same northerners voted Gej in his first term.
Once the incumbent is ready to back you as a southerner, your religion or tribe will no longer matter. They simply instruct their religious leaders to preach that southerner as will of God. Those leaders will follow the highest bidder. Incumbency power will finish the rest.
Have the backing of Tinubu and SW is sealed, plus the powerful media houses

Never underestimate what's called incumbency power. GEJ didn't do his homework well so he lost

NakwansaPolice:
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trash
Igbos ain't voting Yoruba candidate

if southern unity is that important to them let them back an igbo man.

we no go fall for nonsense blackmail

How many igbos have u seen dat even cares if he is yoruba or not. All these hatreds u pple have. Na here e end. With some fulani attacks dat happened in my community recently, come out come talk vote atiku a Fulaniman. Make we see if u go carry ur legs go home.

ORIENTATION101:


just to justify your headline you decide be clever by half and cook up too many lies with half truth.I know your game plan from your last thread, you tried to lie you way into people's head by saying pdp micro-zoned presidential ticket to south west. after you were caught pants down you apologize and modify the story.

Now you re back with another half truth, but we will keep debunking your lies.
Asiwaju was airlifted from lagos to aso rock on the instruction of Gej. They struck a deal Weeks to the election. And Acn delivered all south west states except osun

You can't call Gej tenure a southern presidency because it was not ripe for presidency to return to south, infact Gej was an accidental president.

Northern pdp caucus had an agreement with Gej to support a single term and power return back to north in 2015. gej reneged on the agreement and northern pdp caucus move thier political structure to opposition to fulfill thier ambition.

Gej destroyed pdp, if he had step down for a Northern candidate in 2015, the likes of Atiku,tambuwal,kwankaso,dogara e.t.c would have stayed back in pdp and Apc formation would have failed.

And probably a nothern pdp candidate would have defeated buhari again in 2015 and complete 8yrs by 2023.by then Gej will complete his 2nd term 2023 to 2027 and power go back to south east to complete the remaining south 4 years.

PDP soul has been taken by Apc. Not even nothern Pdp candidate can restore it in 2023.

PDP will likely swim against the tide in 2023 with a northern candidate.the country is tensed and polarized, a nothern president after buhari can only happen in the dreamworld

The guy is a clown

helinues:


How is the op really different from FFK?

No honour nor dignity..

Anywhere belle face

Give him food and he'll sing

Tell us

We're more interested in your answer. Why??

NakwansaPolice:
I'm not interested in your tears

NakwansaPolice:


lol my own is that SE presidency or the north continues
you can't try to conner what belongs to the entire South under stupid southern unity.
SE/SS will never vote for a Yoruba candidate
that's the pure fact.
it's either igbo presidency or the north continues.
there are many notable igbos in APC
Let them get the ticket since you guys have had presidency and vice.

we shall see where greed will take everybody in 2023.

So their are no notable igbo in PDP? Make una dey fool unasef

mp3ree:


So their are no notable igbo in PDP? Make una dey fool unasef

lol
when the time reach una go understand politics

Umaru Musa yaradua death in 2010 killed and GEJ and his wife now buried the party.

If yaradua didn't die. Pdp will still be in power by now. Yaradua death scatter their arrangements.

Pdp want power back but how will there convince Nigerians to vote for another Northerner after buhari is done in 2023 ?

My own is that My SE has been backlisted. Igbo politicians in Pdp don't even care!! They still want to be acting like boy boy to the pdp instead of telling the pdp chairman that is the turn of South East to get the party 2023 tickets despite their votes and loyalty. They are still acting like chicken.

RobbStark:


Well said.
Tho, I am from the South South Rivers in particular, I believe the SE shud produce the next president of this country.
We have tried almost all region yet we are still the way we are.
We shud try something else and see.
APC fielding Osinbajo will automatically give the presidency to PDP which I will be very happy for.

With a Southern candidate or northern candidate? You did not specify

NakwansaPolice:
lol
when the time reach una go understand politics

no

Na easterners no understand politics,

ConqueredWest:


Some of you Yorubas are really shortsighted.

You expect SS and SE to vote Osibanjo who connived against Jonathan.?

You will die soon because Jonathan.

tamdun:
There was unity among the southerners back in 2011,Jonathan won all the regions but decided to sideline sw and went on a jamboree in North East/west where buhari have never lost an election, so what do you want sw to do?
Fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice the fuckin shame is on me, Jonathan ignored sw and they ignored him too.
Jonathan had 4 region back in 2011(Nc,sw, se and ss) and he lost 2 out of those region in 2015,instead of him to solidify the unity that existed among those regions, he was busy sucking north east /n.west ball and they still voted against him, so Mr barca... Whatever is ur name, enough of ur shenanigans

The truth most of the people commenting don't want to hear, Jonathan sidelined the southwest so they paid him back, to me that's not betrayal, it's survival
2023 is another year for the rest of the oppressed South to team with the southwest to regain the power back from the sahel monsters

LegendHero:
@Tonyebarcanista, I think everybody except you know that Tinubu eventually worked for Jonathan in 2011 because Jonathan won all the states in the SW except Osun. The reason for Osun was that Aregbesola was so loved then such that people won’t even hear go or come.

Do you see Lagos number? Jonathan can never get that without the support of Tinubu.

Abi how would you explain the fact that ACN won all the elections (except Ondo which Mimiko won in 2012) in those states at the governorship level and lost at the presidential level. Even if you ask Jonathan personally he will tell you.

State. Jonathan. Ribadu
—Oyo. 56.14%. 29.21%
—Ekiti. 51.56%. 44.67%
—Ogun. 56.86%. 36.70%
—Ondo. 79.57% 15.25%
—Osun. 36.75% 58.46%
—Lagos 65.90% 21.96%

However, PDP can always zone their ticket to the North because they own their party and they can do what they like with it.

Is it a new thing,is it strange,that tinubu and you yorubas supported Jonathan 2011? Are we not all southerners?!
If Jonathan were from the north, won't it be strange and a taboo if the northerners didn't support him?
You people have no excuse whatsoever for your 2014 abomination and taboo,heaven sef knows that.
It would've been better if you yorubas had contested against Jonathan and won and the presidency would still have been in the the south but you people didn't contest but instead worked against the south and for a core northerner of all people popular for his "blood and baboons soaked in blood" once upon a time slogan! Now everything is almost ruined and if care ain't taken,the north will still retain power and would still be cos your confusion and selfishness.

mp3ree:



The truth most of the people commenting don't want to hear, Jonathan sidelined the southwest so they paid him back, to me that's not betrayal, it's survival
2023 is another year for the rest of the oppressed South to team with the southwest to regain the power back from the sahel monsters

Ok then you ain't ready yet.... because of your wickedness,the sahel monsters will continue to rule

pinkgoodies:


Big lie, u don't speak for the SE/SS, the hate against any northern candidate now is much. Once PYO is on the apc ticket. We go vote am.

Do you have PVC. How many people in the SE votes in election normally much more now the IPOB is violent and people are scared. "Remember No Referendum, No Election" abi you don forget

I love you, no homo. Thanks for bringing this up.

There was a game played there but not everyone realized.

LegendHero:
@Tonyebarcanista, I think everybody except you know that Tinubu eventually worked for Jonathan in 2011 because Jonathan won all the states in the SW except Osun. The reason for Osun was that Aregbesola was so loved then such that people won’t even hear go or come.

Do you see Lagos number? Jonathan can never get that without the support of Tinubu.

Abi how would you explain the fact that ACN won all the elections (except Ondo which Mimiko won in 2012) in those states at the governorship level and lost at the presidential level. Even if you ask Jonathan personally he will tell you.

State. Jonathan. Ribadu
—Oyo. 56.14%. 29.21%
—Ekiti. 51.56%. 44.67%
—Ogun. 56.86%. 36.70%
—Ondo. 79.57% 15.25%
—Osun. 36.75% 58.46%
—Lagos 65.90% 21.96%

However, PDP can always zone their ticket to the North because they own their party and they can do what they like with it.

RobbStark:


Well said.
Tho, I am from the South South Rivers in particular, I believe the SE shud produce the next president of this country.
We have tried almost all region yet we are still the way we are.
We shud try something else and see.
APC fielding Osinbajo will automatically give the presidency to PDP which I will be very happy for.

Well, you don't have more than one vote. I will be voting any of the party that present a Southerner.

Nigeria does not belong to Northerners.