₦airaland Forum

ArewaNorth:
In a multiparty democracy there is no reason for insisting on zonal or tribal Presidency.
Now they wake up from barking to action, they should eschew primitiveness by adopting concrete democratic solution.
When North wanted their perceived regional turn to be returned back to them in 2015 they didn't bring themselves so low to begging, intimidations, threats and blackmails but rather destroyed PDP politically and created new party by creating the only alliance that could give them assured victory without insisting on getting their mandate through the ruling party (PDP) and won election within 2yrs of the party creation.
In Nigerian politics, there is no compulsory in zoning, we should all get it through political process!

Anyway, Anyim's effort is better but he isn't sellable at all!

Why is Anyim not sellable sir?

He was once a Senate president and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)?

Nonybb:
This is the most equitable thing to do but the wickedness of the Yoruba tribe always prevail in Asiwaju to scuffle that dream

Asiwaju is in APC while Anyim is in the PDP.


Try to start rallying round Anyim to clinch the ticket of the PDP instead of complaining everyday about Asiwaju.

oyatz:
Why is Anyim not sellable sir?

He was once a Senate president and Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF)?

Does that mean he can even win PDP primary election?
SGF is a mere political appointment while he became SP as a result of party positions permutation!

Advocate500:
i have to disagree with you on this, in as much as i find it difficult to believe that any party will zone their ticket to the east, because every party is in the business to win election not to ensure political imbalances, zoning at this point will be very difficult under two party system, it would have been easier under pdp when their was no APC.

On the event of what happened in two 2015 under the pretence that pdp was not doing well .that was the only reason majority of us from the south supported that arrangement but now we can see clearly, power should returned to the south wether south east or south west the same way we supported power returning to the north.

Average Northerners are advocating for power shift to the south as I'm talking to u now!
Politics is played based on permutation and the permutation done has to be maintained for the sake of democratic coexistence in Nigeria!

ArewaNorth:
Does that mean he can even win PDP primary election?
SGF is a mere political appointment while he became SP as a result of party positions permutation!

The participation in the presidential primaries alone is a plus to his political standing and a plus to the development of democratic culture in Nigeria.

Everybody can not win at a time but let everybody be free to participate.

God bless the ijaws.
Ijaws should be allowed to complete their tenure or Igbo presidency.
If not let the north continue.
No Yoruba Muslim,Yoruba Christian or juju worshippers will ever rule again until these happens.

JaroMan:
Coward. Is it the north or Nigerians? Choose one because chief of the opposition the South East have is South West.
Don't used north to fight your battle. Coward

We know your masters. That's why Igbo leaders are all over the North begging their Northern MASTERS.

FreeStuffsNG:
Says a PDP member
Seems PDP will now do the needful of giving its ticket to SE.
But for APC to give its ticket to SE, it's like handing over power to the PDP because SE is a stronghold of the PDP.

Your argument is flawed, and i’ll tell you why (this is me putting on the Nigerian cap...which i hardly ever wear)!

There’s been this argument by those against Igbo partisan-political interests in Nigeria (mainly from the south-west and muslim core north), that Igbos are ‘irrelevant’ in the scheme of things regarding regional/ethnic voting strength as we ‘don’t have the numbers’. Proponents of this argument say the voting strength lies in the north and south-west, hence giving Igbos the APC presidential ticket would mean sure defeat for the party as the south-east is ‘PDP stronghold’! Being also a proponent of power ‘returning to the south’, you thereby sneakily infer that the Yoruba are best positioned to produce the APC presidential flag-bearer seeing as the south-west ‘is APCs stronghold’ (this is also open to debate), and that the Yoruba joined the north to start APC so should have first right of refusal when the party’s ticket is zoned to the south (this is equally open to debate)!

This argument is flawed in the sense that if both parties zone their presidential tickets to the south-east....or Igbos, as i believe even Rotimi Amaechi has a right to contest as a Igbo candidate (yeah, i know this may rub some of my kinsfolk up the wrong way), then it stands to reason that this ‘mighty voting strength’ of the north and south-west APC supporters would then be deployed to the benefit of the party’s presidential flag-bearer from the south-east/Igbos! Or are you now saying that this ‘mighty voting strength’ the south-west and north can muster for APC can only be used when the flag-bearer is Yoruba or Fulani!? Remember, your argument that the south-east isn’t APCs stronghold, and that they don’t have the numbers anyway to make any meaningful impact in a presidential election! If this is the case, why then are you now scared that the south-east/Igbos would fall behind the PDP candidate when you have the numbers in the north and south-west to counteract this support!?