biggtonny:
I'm from the south south. The very truth of the matter is that if PDP wants to win the next presidential election, it is logical it picks a very strong candidate from the north. That is the bitter truth.

Those people saying pdp should field a southerner are mostly yorubas. They want pdp to field a southerner so that tinubu and co can easily win.

athaboi:
This is just simple!
For now, the PDP just need to win the election then go back to look at justice. Even if the parties decide to zone their tickets to south east let's say PDP gives peter obi and APC gives orji kalu, Orji will still win bcoz they are in power and North will definitely vote their party! But a situation where APC gives a southerner their ticket let's say tinubu and PDP gives Atiku then forget it...Atiku will win. So it's either PDP stakeholders in the south have patience or they try and see how it ends

the same atiku that ll lose u think atiku can beat tinubu right e go shock una and na wail Ina go still wail

Kingozymandias:
It's not the turn of the Southsouth, it's the turn of the southeast.
The silence of the Southeast should worry everyone .. rightfully it's our turn to elad this great nation.. we are not more bedeviled with problems than any other tribe yet we are being denied our rightful shot at the fixing this nation .
Some people have asked me have we fixed the southeast ? I laugh because other regions have ruled yet they are still battling myriad problems so why are my people being denied our turn?

Salty suddenly zoning that has been used by every region to secure the slot has been jettisoned now it's the turn of my people and it Futher makes us feel disenfranchised and and marginalized.

Then tomorrow you turn around and wonder why sesssionists had such a willing ear in the people to listen?

You can't deny a people their rights and make them feel less and expect them to willingly want to stay in Nigeria .. that is wrong and tantamount to bullying.

Who in his or her right conscience can say it's not the turn of the Igbos ? Please who can in good honest faith say this ?

Why push a people so hard to the point just telling yourself they can do nothing ? Really ? A nation can never be built by brute force but by inter Corporations and unity. Let me tell you my fellow NIGERIANS , IPOB didn't have up to 10% of the Igbo people support forget those iliterate touts and their social media propaganda. But to deny my people our right this time around for whatever reason is telling the remaining 90% of us who rejected ipob that maybe just maybe those touts have a point.

Yes power isn't given ,yes I agree but as ever other region had it zoned to them and a consensus picked so should it be done for the Southeast. To deny us our right is to do what Chinese is doing to Taiwan, to do what Israel doing to Palestine, to do what ImUAE is doing to shites..

Forget whatever we tell ourselves, each and every one of you my fellow country men and women know it's the turn of my people. I would have taught the great Asiwaju a defender of justice would have picked an Igbo man as his chosen candidate, that would have sent the message that he recodnizes that's it's rightfully our turn and that he stands for justice.

Anyways it's his right to run for office but like I said, to deny us is going to send a very strong message to every single Igbo man, woman ,boy and girl child that we are not recodnized and wanted in this country and I am afraid that would have a very dire repercussions in inter ethnic relations . I don't think buhari is in support of it not being an Igbo person infact I am shocked to admit from his a tions one can deduce he feels rightly it should be an Igbo person..

Alas time will tell

I read every bit of this Nice one �

Kingozymandias:
It's not the turn of the Southsouth, it's the turn of the southeast.
The silence of the Southeast should worry everyone .. rightfully it's our turn to elad this great nation.. we are not more bedeviled with problems than any other tribe yet we are being denied our rightful shot at the fixing this nation .
Some people have asked me have we fixed the southeast ? I laugh because other regions have ruled yet they are still battling myriad problems so why are my people being denied our turn?

Salty suddenly zoning that has been used by every region to secure the slot has been jettisoned now it's the turn of my people and it Futher makes us feel disenfranchised and and marginalized.

Then tomorrow you turn around and wonder why sesssionists had such a willing ear in the people to listen?

You can't deny a people their rights and make them feel less and expect them to willingly want to stay in Nigeria .. that is wrong and tantamount to bullying.

Who in his or her right conscience can say it's not the turn of the Igbos ? Please who can in good honest faith say this ?

Why push a people so hard to the point just telling yourself they can do nothing ? Really ? A nation can never be built by brute force but by inter Corporations and unity. Let me tell you my fellow NIGERIANS , IPOB didn't have up to 10% of the Igbo people support forget those iliterate touts and their social media propaganda. But to deny my people our right this time around for whatever reason is telling the remaining 90% of us who rejected ipob that maybe just maybe those touts have a point.

Yes power isn't given ,yes I agree but as ever other region had it zoned to them and a consensus picked so should it be done for the Southeast. To deny us our right is to do what Chinese is doing to Taiwan, to do what Israel doing to Palestine, to do what ImUAE is doing to shites..

Forget whatever we tell ourselves, each and every one of you my fellow country men and women know it's the turn of my people. I would have taught the great Asiwaju a defender of justice would have picked an Igbo man as his chosen candidate, that would have sent the message that he recodnizes that's it's rightfully our turn and that he stands for justice.

Anyways it's his right to run for office but like I said, to deny us is going to send a very strong message to every single Igbo man, woman ,boy and girl child that we are not recodnized and wanted in this country and I am afraid that would have a very dire repercussions in inter ethnic relations . I don't think buhari is in support of it not being an Igbo person infact I am shocked to admit from his a tions one can deduce he feels rightly it should be an Igbo person..

Alas time will tell

Who told you it's your turn?
Who and who agreed on the zoning and what date was the meeting hold?

I am aware of Tinubu and Buhari accord in 2015 but never heard of any other one till date.

Please help me understand more without insult. Thanks

ityP:



The northerners in PDP, who ganged up against GEJ made Buhari to win, not Tinubu. Go back to the election results

What about the other times Buhari Contested ?

Sure because even the southern man will vote for a northern candidate

anytexy:
Not only that, northern governors supposed him. When they left him in 2015 he failed to win.

how many states in North did GEJ won 2011 just 7 out of 19 GEJ Lost in 2015 cos he lost ground in South West And North Central... Those of you who thinks PDP picking a North candidate is Uhuru are very naive and don't understand politics... Ina go learn Sha...

Why don't we unbundle the contraption. Tambuwal will then contest for Arewa presidency. Tinubu will contest Oduduwa while Wike will contest for Niger Delta Republic or whatever they choose to call themselves.

Meanwhile, Biafra will have Peter Obi as President.

Wike, it is time to show them the power. Tell them you need them now to become president and not them to need you to become president, Enough is enough, but remember it's south east turn to become the president, the game start.

ityP:



Even though it comes down to just the SW and the north, you should know how the results will swing . Also, forget ss/se, they'll rather not vote than vote APC. PDP go still win for there. If PDP wants to have a chance, they must present a northerner. If they present someone from SE, that's automatic loss. Even someone from SS will only get votes from SS and SE. The north and SW will vote for APC. PDP should be wise. The south is divided already. The north is united. Take advantage of that and present a northerner. The North's vote will be enough

see how funny u sound so south is divided into three while North is one... Kai how do u guys reason self... We have north east, west and central APC ll win North East and West hands down they ll battle PDP in North Central ok so stop thinking PDP with an Atiku ll stroll... Try read small ok

Abaman001:
Mr. Tambuwa, but south south can revive back almost dead PDP back to a winning party abi? Anyways, time shall tell.....

All the above participants on Nairaland are looking one-way!
Mr Wike,how now?
Sebi,we were saying it long time ago, that a United South( SW,SE,S/S) will always be a force to recon with in Nigeria polity but when you are divided because of greed,tribe, sharing of Office and egocentric forces,the North is always waiting!
Tambuwa has just told you the PDP-northern agenda,even though he too has nothing to offer Nigerians,afterall,he was the Speaker of House of Reps and now a governor!
How has he performed?

Olatunji1929:
south south/south east can not win presidency for pdp unless apc also pick their presidential candidate from South thats the fact

If PDP is in power I will say yes.

Nemere2020:

https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-southsouth-cannot-win-pdp-presidency-says-tambuwal/

Says who ,This man Tambuwal nor well ,these comments will make the north lose any hope of 2023

Bluntemperor:


All the above participants on Nairaland are looking one-way!
Mr Wike,how now?
Sebi,we were saying it long time ago, that a United South( SW,SE,S/S) will always be a force to recon with in Nigeria polity but when you are divided because of greed,tribe, sharing of Office and egocentric forces,the North is always waiting!
Tambuwa has just told you the PDP-northern agenda,even though he too has nothing to offer Nigerians,afterall,he was the Speaker of House of Reps and now a governor!
How has he performed?

That unity is an illusion if it is not based on genuine ability to win.

This is something that no single Eboe politician has that is the reality Wike has a better chance though his recent behaviour in public does not help.
In the end PDP will field a northerner and still lose

The winning formula for PDP is to pick an igbo man for the presidency.. if the APC picks a south Westerner or south Central.. Den PDP will win overwhemingly.. picking a northern candidate is no option at all

athaboi:
This is just simple!
For now, the PDP just need to win the election then go back to look at justice. Even if the parties decide to zone their tickets to south east let's say PDP gives peter obi and APC gives orji kalu, Orji will still win bcoz they are in power and North will definitely vote their party! But a situation where APC gives a southerner their ticket let's say tinubu and PDP gives Atiku then forget it...Atiku will win. So it's either PDP stakeholders in the south have patience or they try and see how it ends

Is it only north that wins election? North alone can not win election. Hope u know that.

maestroferddi:
The north will hold power since greedy and unreasonable Yorubas like Tinubu have refused to allow the Igbos have their turn by respecting the principle of equity and fairness.

Thankfully, APC convention is just few days away...

Una go learn by force.

don't worry u ll still be following nnamdi Kanu after PDP lose 2023 u assume PDP with a Northerner ll defeat a strong APC Ina node tire APC ll even get good votes In South South self na u Igbos with ur Ipob mentality ll follow PDP to the grave

Osilama1:
see how funny u sound so south is divided into three while North is one... Kai how do u guys reason self... We have north east, west and central APC ll win North East and West hands down they ll battle PDP in North Central ok so stop thinking PDP with an Atiku ll stroll... Try read small ok

Who come dey North Central? Oga, Atiku will shake things in both North East and North West. He'd do far better than any Southerner in those regions. This is simple calculation.

biggtonny:
I'm from the south south. The very truth of the matter is that if PDP wants to win the next presidential election, it is logical it picks a very strong candidate from the north. That is the bitter truth.

And you expect the northerner to beat who? Tinubu,amaechi or osinbajo? It's miscalculations like these that have reduced pdp to a shell .

Franking:
Why don't we unbundle the contraption. Tambuwal will then contest for Arewa presidency. Tinubu will contest Oduduwa while Wike will contest for Niger Delta Republic or whatever they choose to call themselves.

Meanwhile, Biafra will have Peter Obi as President.

Lol.. you want Arewa people to kill you, they kill to sustain their grip on the contraption.

Christistruth00:




What about the other times Buhari Contested ?

Northerners were strong PDP members those years. That's why he lost. When the northern big fish turned against GEJ, it was game over for him.

ityP:



The northerners in PDP, who ganged up against GEJ made Buhari to win, not Tinubu. Go back to the election results

u don't know anything... In 2011 GEJ won in South East, south South South West and North Central...lost in North East and West 2015 GEJ Lost al states in South West... Lost North Central... Who told u Northern gang up made him lose... U guys think tinubu is paper weight... U forget APC is very strong in North East and West... Continue following cherry were analysts

aribisala0:

There is an element of contradiction and illogic in your submission
Buhari contested against Yaradua and Atiku among others so we cannot attribute his large following just to being a Northerner but rather to a Buhari factor that does not apply to EVERY Northerner

My point is there are 19 states in the North

In 2011 Jonathan defeated Buhari in
Adamawa
Benue
Kogi
Kwara
Nasarawa
Plateau
Taraba

Buhari has been the most popular politician at the polls in Northern history and yet Jonathan defeated him in 7 out of 19 states in 2011 so what is your point?

Those northern states are inconsequential, same way SE is inconsequential in the south . Kano alone fit cover like 4 of those northern states you mentioned. Oga, a southerner can not ho against someone like Tinubu in APC or even Osinbajo. Only a northerner can

TheAviator:


I commend you so much for the way you tried to make your point that Igbo people deserve the Presidency this time. The way you submitted your points without insulting and cursing other tribes is very mature and could pass as superior arguments.

But we need to understand that zoning or not, Igbos need to come out, contest, and lobby other parts of the nation to support them. For example, why didn't Governor Peter Obi join the race? The guy is very well qualified to be President. Even in previous elections which were zoned, people from other regions still contested against the candidates from the region to which the election was zoned.

No region has been faithful to the PDP as the South East has been, so I can't understand why folks like Peter Obi are leaving PDP's ticket to guys like Atiku and Tambuwal. Igbos shouldn't wait for the ticket to be dropped on their laps. They should slug it out with people from other regions and give it what it takes. Who says an Igbo aspirant can't defeat an aspirant from the North.

As for the APC, the bitter truth is that the political dynamics that formed the party don't favor Igbos. I am not saying this because I am from the South West, I am saying this because that's the fact, just as I would not hesitate to say that the political reality in PDP doesn't favor a Yoruba aspirant because I don't need anybody to tell me that my people haven't been loyal to the PDP.

Right from when APC was being formed circa 2013, 2014, and 2015, I knew it that those working hard to form the party such as Tinubu, had their own ambitions and were working to build a strong platform to stand on and to run on. If anybody thinks that people like Tinubu who worked hard to form APC would one day discard their ambitions for people who didn't work as hard as they did to form the party, that is acute political naivety.

The bitter truth is that the aloofness of the Igbos toward the APC will not favor them in that party. The earlier we face this fact, the better. But there is a strong party to which the Igbos have been faithful and loyal. The Igbos are entitled, yes, entitled to that party's Presidential ticket, and that's the PDP. But I am bemused that the Igbos seem to have surrendered that party's ticket to Atiku.

Thank you for your sound counter points.. it is not aloofness of my people rather it is political nativity. To be frank we are not politicians by virtue of our cultural and tribal beliefs. We are more commerce.minded folks hence we came to the game of politics late and it shows in the blunders we sometimes make.
Having said that , yes the PDP has enjoyed strict partisan follwership by my people and the AOC has never been accepted by my people as it is viewers as a party that is Anti Igbo.

But the reality is, that Nigeria is currently in a fragile state , ther have been several calls for sesssion by several groups each pushing forward their ideologies..We all agree from history and data no group has suffered more marginalization than my ethnic group in Nigeria ? Hence why even recently an elder states man I can't recall his name postulated that it would be smart for buhari to finally put an end to this anti Igbo or rather igbophobia which groups like the ipob have been preaching .

And one doesn't have to have a bachelor's degree in political science to know that zoning the slot to the southeast would have been the best way to bury this sesssion insurgency. A nation can never been held together by the gun or fear because the human freewill is insurmountable.
Now like you rightly said it is expected PDP would zone it to the southeast so would the AoC have done to help solidify this one.Niheria narrative to counter the igbophobia being pandered by rebel groups like ipob..
But that was the faux Parse.. they decided that it doesn't concern the APC after all PDP has enjoyed Igbo loyalty just as you said ,now notice the money APC came.out to boldly say that they weren't zoning to the southeast that they didn't owe the southeast anything that's when splinter groups on the PDP dtarte dkicking against zoning too, they all suddenly found their voice ..

Formerly there was this unsaid expectation that now na the turn of Igbo make we see who APC go zone am to then boom immediately APC rejected this PDP followed suite...

Now we are at the cross roads... My worry is cricoes people like I roll in have never had any sympathy for Nnamdi Kanu or the murderous ipob... And I can boldly tell you that majority of my people do not like ipob and their methods .
But when you hear something even a lie repeated to you long enough one actually starts to believe it... Now this igbophobia and Igbo hate has been orwched by massob ohaneze and recently the violent agitation of ipob...
Meanwhile we all sat back and said boldy when it's our turn and one of us gets there I wonder what ipob will preach bubt alas today it seems like truly there is a silent agreement not to allow my people rule this nation.. it seems there is truth in their igbophobia message after all other wise tell me why are we even arguing over this?

It's a no brainer that by now we should be looking at Igbo candidates in various parties and comparing and contrasting but it's as if my tribe don't exist!

This is unfair and wring on every level..

This is not how a nation is built but this is definitely how a nation is scattered ..

Allow dem make dem experiment first nah

Kingozymandias:
It's not the turn of the Southsouth, it's the turn of the southeast.
The silence of the Southeast should worry everyone .. rightfully it's our turn to elad this great nation.. we are not more bedeviled with problems than any other tribe yet we are being denied our rightful shot at the fixing this nation .
Some people have asked me have we fixed the southeast ? I laugh because other regions have ruled yet they are still battling myriad problems so why are my people being denied our turn?

Salty suddenly zoning that has been used by every region to secure the slot has been jettisoned now it's the turn of my people and it Futher makes us feel disenfranchised and and marginalized.

Then tomorrow you turn around and wonder why sesssionists had such a willing ear in the people to listen?

You can't deny a people their rights and make them feel less and expect them to willingly want to stay in Nigeria .. that is wrong and tantamount to bullying.

Who in his or her right conscience can say it's not the turn of the Igbos ? Please who can in good honest faith say this ?

Why push a people so hard to the point just telling yourself they can do nothing ? Really ? A nation can never be built by brute force but by inter Corporations and unity. Let me tell you my fellow NIGERIANS , IPOB didn't have up to 10% of the Igbo people support forget those iliterate touts and their social media propaganda. But to deny my people our right this time around for whatever reason is telling the remaining 90% of us who rejected ipob that maybe just maybe those touts have a point.

Yes power isn't given ,yes I agree but as ever other region had it zoned to them and a consensus picked so should it be done for the Southeast. To deny us our right is to do what Chinese is doing to Taiwan, to do what Israel doing to Palestine, to do what ImUAE is doing to shites..

Forget whatever we tell ourselves, each and every one of you my fellow country men and women know it's the turn of my people. I would have taught the great Asiwaju a defender of justice would have picked an Igbo man as his chosen candidate, that would have sent the message that he recodnizes that's it's rightfully our turn and that he stands for justice.

Anyways it's his right to run for office but like I said, to deny us is going to send a very strong message to every single Igbo man, woman ,boy and girl child that we are not recodnized and wanted in this country and I am afraid that would have a very dire repercussions in inter ethnic relations . I don't think buhari is in support of it not being an Igbo person infact I am shocked to admit from his a tions one can deduce he feels rightly it should be an Igbo person..

Alas time will tell

Why can't south-east pick a candidate and queue behind him? A sole candidate of either Obi or Mogahlu is the best market for Igbos in particular and Nigeria at last. I use to feel sad anytime Ohanaze is blackmailing and threatening instead of contesting and campaigning. Common sense should be common sir. I desire igbo polithiefcian to become a president of nigeria.

aribisala0:
Please breakdown this "political might" what does it mean.

The constitution is clear to win Presidency you need 25% of the votes from 24 states so even if a Northern candidate gets all 19 states in the North they would still need 5 from the south

Historically no candidate has got all 19 states so they would still need southern votes
So your permutation is not based on reality

The North has never voted as a block

In 1979 there were 10 states in the North and 9 in the south .To win one needed 25% in 13 states .Shagari only managed to get 7 in the North and 5 in the South he did not win Kano (Kano + Jigawa today ) or Kaduna( Kaduna +Katsina today) Zik actually won Plateau
In 1999 Bashir Tofa lost his home state Kano to Abiola

So this idea of Northern votes is funny The North have never voted as one.
I do not see Benue voting for a Fulani man in 2023
Benue ,Kogi, Taraba, Plateau, Kwara and Nasarawa do not vote the same way as Sokoto and Zamfara

they always assume the North is one while dividing the south into three... It's selfishness on d part of some Southerners who doesn't realize we have More languages in the North than in the south... They even assume atiku ll beat APC candidate in her strong hold of north east and west... I just de laugh... If really tinubu ll be defeated why do pple hate him so much that they don't want him to contest??... Like u said a candidate need at least four regions plus 25 percent in two third of 36 to win... The idea it ll be easier for PDP to win with a Northerner is purely funny

Pdp stake holders should never listen to these greedy selfish northern politicians any young,responsible candidate from the SS or SE without much baggage can definitely win the 2023 presidential election. The old believe that only a northern muslim hausa/fulani candidate can convincingly win a presidential election is nothing but a myth and tagiyya to deceive the south to concede the presidential ticket to the north.

Newton2024:
Why can't south-east pick a candidate and queue behind him? A sole candidate of either Obi or Mogahlu is the best market for Igbos in particular and Nigeria at last. I use to feel sad anytime Ohanaze is blackmailing and threatening instead of contesting and campaigning. Common sense should be common sir. I desire igbo polithiefcian to become a president of nigeria.

Forget all those groups of traders. For long you all have picked the iliterate minority and ascribed them the thought centers or mouthpiece of my People that is wrong..

But we are on the precipice and are staring down the abyss hence we the eduxtae dines are speaking up now.

And what we are staying is zone the presidency to the southeast and rightly supposed to be. as has been done for the north the southwest and southsouth...

Do not let us see the truth in the igbophobia message being preached by such groups as the ohaneze

aribisala0:

There is an element of contradiction and illogic in your submission
Buhari contested against Yaradua and Atiku among others so we cannot attribute his large following just to being a Northerner but rather to a Buhari factor that does not apply to EVERY Northerner

My point is there are 19 states in the North

In 2011 Jonathan defeated Buhari in
Adamawa
Benue
Kogi
Kwara
Nasarawa
Plateau
Taraba

Buhari has been the most popular politician at the polls in Northern history and yet Jonathan defeated him in 7 out of 19 states in 2011 so what is your point?

same buhari Lost to yaradua in 2007 self... They seem to forget...

Nemere2020:

https://thenationonlineng.net/just-in-southsouth-cannot-win-pdp-presidency-says-tambuwal/

He's indirectly saying wike cannot win Presidency. Just imagine the selfishness! Is it the North that will win the whole of the South? If the PDP gives the ticket to Saraki or Atiku then the whole of South will abandon the PDP and you know that will be fatal to them. Let them try it.