OldNairalander:
When Joe Biden won his first election as an American Senator, Obama was still a young naive college student.
But in 2008, he saw the potential in Obama and accepted to step down his Presidential ambition to become a running mate to the first black Presidential hopeful.
That singular act paved way for his Presidency today.
He may not say it publicly but I know he(Kwankwaso) is regretting the blunder.
As for his party, being PO's running mate will not affect his candidates cos political parties can adopt another party's candidate as their candidate for a particular position.

This Obidense no go kill person

after4:
I know, what am saying is that when it comes, Ahmed Datti will be a bigger force to contend with especially if Ahmed have the endorsement of obi

That is if Obi wins and we all know he wouldn't. Kwakawso would fold his movement within the coming weeks before election, where he pitches his tent is what is yet unknown.
Datti couldn't win a senatorial contest and you think he's an individual to be reckoned with in the North politically

He may not be a liability but he's not exactly an asset

famouscargo4u:


The truth is that Abba gida would surely win the governorship som no need to gamble. More so, Rabiu Kwankwaso is more experienced and better than Obi in all ramifications. Three, Obi is not sellable in the north and it will affect the newly formed party NNPP. IT is Obi that ought to accept VP position which would have guaranteed his winning because his people will vote him regardless.

Better than obi with what indices?

Why should the northerner be accepted by the South with no questions and the southerner not accepted by the North?

A northerner has just finished their tenure and equity suggests that a southerner should be on the front burner of the ticket.

The pulse of the moment was showing that the youth and a lot of the South was rallying around Obi. Politically, NNPP had a chance to become the third force even if they did not win, the political gains would have set them up for the future with many offices and a pan Nigerian party.

The miscalculation of one person has limited the party to a regional heavyweight like the likes of APGA. I don't see any political sense in not agreeing to the merger even though at that time getting the numbers didn't look feasible.

You can only imagine what could have been. We would have been building a new party nationwide and controlling the structures.

HeroicMeastro:

Some people here on NL think through the anus.
Does OP or most commenters here have more political experience than Kwankwaso? Or do you think Obi will really win the election?
Okay, let's wait in a few weeks to come

February is around the corner

SmartyPants:


Bigotry bigotry bigotry. Someome cannot habe his personal ambition or reasons without it being bigotry??

Why are you people like this?

His ambition is not the problem. His statements are.

Chrismania100:

The problem with some of selfish Muslim yoruba people is their wickedness and selfishness over turn of southern and turn of igbos to rule.The reason you people keep taking us as a fool.
Even a blind could see this turn is for igbos,but
the selfishness and foolishness of your yoruba thinking that made me to hate yoruba as a tribe.

So after Obasanjo spent 8 years presidency Osibanjo 8 years VP, you still want a yoruba person to continue again? Can a yoruba as a tribe permits an igbo man to rule again, after an igbo man had ruled for 8 years with igbo man being Vice president?
Why can you have a Christian good heart and support an igbo man knowing full well that it is really their turn to rule? But your envy wickedness and jealous you had for igbos that made you to vow that you will never be alive and see an igbo man rule in Nigeria. The reason you prefer to front a sick notorious drug criminal over numerous good yoruba leaders,cos of your selfishness and hatred over igbos.What a heartless wicked tribe is this? Tomorrow, you will pretend to act on equity fairness and justice,whereas you people are full of evil.That is why I am supporting all this Biafra agitations because I can see that yoruba and igbos don't have a single thing in common cos you people are full of evill,not to allow equity fairness to prevail,cos we igbos supported Obasanjo and MKO abiola when contested,why hating igbos for no reason.


and

Blame PDP, your kingsman and politicians for their kind of politics not Yoruba, you all put all your eggs in a basket.


I hope you understand, no time for long typing,thank you

Naajjii:

Who is Obi that Kwankwanso will be his running mate? Why are you still on this issue,I thought you obi people have moved on ? Kwankwanso regret what?
You keep insulting Fulani yet you want to use fulani to win election. Kwankwanso turned Obi down , Obi went ahead and begged another Fulani Datti to be his running mate ,why is that? Are there no other people from the north ,why didn't Obi pick a northerner Christian as his running mate? You think you can decieve us.

When you kids want to be stupid. Is Kwankwanso Fulani?

Who insults Fulani? I will call out members of any tribe that kills and murders people at will even if they are from the SS where I come from. You tribalism fools will just be making foolish posts thinking you are making sense.

SugarGirl44:


‘If I was in his position’
Thank god you’re not.

This new word wey una just discover sha.
Everybody who doesn’t support your lame idea and mumu candidate is now a bigot.
Something is wrong with all of you.

Before you yab me, I’m a bigot already.
So check your dictionary for another word.

If you are a bigot already, then you are a foolish bigot.

I called out his bigotry solely because of the statement he made which is on live TV.

Who is your own candidate?

Definitely a thief.

You dey dey call another mumu'

Yamiriflathead:


You're the STUPID one hear if u didn't get the message. Stop trying to emotionally blackmail the yorubas and tinubu to step down for obi, let's meet at the pool and test the popularity of both tribes in a general election.
Nzobu zobu Ipob cry baby

I am from the SS and Peter Obi has my support. Which tribe or zone that is not Yoruba does Tinubu have their support? You think Tinubu will come 2nd in a free fair popularity test?

tempest01:


Better than obi with what indices?

Why should the northerner be accepted by the South with no questions and the southerner not accepted by the North?

A northerner has just finished their tenure and equity suggests that a southerner should be on the front burner of the ticket.

The pulse of the moment was showing that the youth and a lot of the South was rallying around Obi. Politically, NNPP had a chance to become the third force even if they did not win, the political gains would have set them up for the future with many offices and a pan Nigerian party.

The miscalculation of one person has limited the party to a regional heavyweight like the likes of APGA. I don't see any political sense in not agreeing to the merger even though at that time getting the numbers didn't look feasible.

You can only imagine what could have been. We would have been building a new party nationwide and controlling the structures.

Let me break it down for you, he has been a senator, a minister of defense, governor. Ambassador etc. Be has a PhD in Engineering. He is more educated, more experienced in governance especially in executive and legislator. He was governor over a more cosmopolitan state like Lagos. In terms of infrastructure, he did far better than Obi as a governor. Now. He is very popular across the north and a few southern state. This is my reason.

Workch:
while I agree with almost everything that you said but I disagree with the part that this is kwankwaso last chance.
Kwankwaso is not in this election to win, he's in to make a mark and let every Northerner know that when it's time to zone tickets to North, he can be a formidable candidate.

Kwankwaso is building a structure for himself that Northerners can reckon with when it's their time.

Is this a joke? The PDP and the APC will continue to be relevant in the North.
Kwakwanso is building a structure just like Sowore!
If Tinubu win, Shettima automatically becomes the next president after BAT's tenure!
If Atiku wind Okowa might becomes the next president as the presidency will likely goes to the South!
If Obi wins, Datti will take over after Obi's tenure!
So, where Will Kwakwanso's structures end up?

tempest01:


When you kids want to be stupid. Is Kwankwanso Fulani?

Who insults Fulani? I will call out members of any tribe that kills and murders people at will even if they are from the SS where I come from. You tribalism fools will just be making foolish posts thinking you are making sense.

Mr man if Kwankwaso is not Fulani then he is what?
So you people don't insult Fulani? You don't call Nigeria soldiers and policemen , fulani soldiers and police? Any appointment made by Buhari if the name is a Muslim name you tagged such person fulani. Its a fact, It's all over so don't try to divert that fact. And I ask why didn't Obi pick a northerner Christian as his vice ? Why is he looking for Fulani to win election ?
Beside the Ops that created this post why is he still on this topic of Kwankwaso ,I thought we have moved on. You give your opinion and Kwankwaso followers also have opinion .

famouscargo4u:


Let me break it down for you, he has been a senator, a minister of defense, governor. Ambassador etc. Be has a PhD in Engineering. He is more educated, more experienced in governance especially in executive and legislator. He was governor over a more cosmopolitan state like Lagos. In terms of infrastructure, he did far better than Obi as a governor. Now. He is very popular across the north and a few southern state. This is my reason.

Holding positions is not the same has being able to govern effectively. The easiest thing to do as a government is to build flyover and send people on scholarships. I am wary of politicians that build cult like followership. Most times it is through using the resources of state to patronize same people.

We are talking about deliberate effort in both words and actions to better the people, to improve their welfare and increase the human capacity index. To manage and utilize resources effectively to achieve collective good.

Any body with political capital can be all you listed. But not anybody can make same strides in the private sector.

tempest01:


When you kids want to be stupid. Is Kwankwanso Fulani?

Who insults Fulani? I will call out members of any tribe that kills and murders people at will even if they are from the SS where I come from. You tribalism fools will just be making foolish posts thinking you are making sense.

Mr man If Kwankwaso is not Fulani then he is what?
So you people don't insult Fulani? You don't call Nigeria soldiers and policemen , fulani soldiers and police? Any appointment made by Buhari if the name is a Muslim name you tagged such person fulani. Its a fact, It's all over so don't try to divert that fact. And I ask why didn't Obi pick a northerner Christian as his vice ? Why is he looking for Fulani to win election ?
Beside the Ops that created this post why is he still on this topic of Kwankwaso ,I thought we have moved on. You give your opinion and Kwankwaso followers also have opinion.

Naajjii:

Mr man if Kwankwaso is not Fulani then he is what?
So you people don't insult Fulani? You don't call Nigeria soldiers and policemen , fulani soldiers and police? Any appointment made by Buhari if the name is a Muslim name you tagged such person fulani. Its a fact, It's all over so don't try to divert that fact. And I ask why didn't Obi pick a northerner Christian as his vice ? Why is he looking for Fulani to win election ?
Beside the Ops that created this post why is he still on this topic of Kwankwaso ,I thought we have moved on. You give your opinion and Kwankwaso followers also have opinion .

You don't even know your onions ... but you just come online to be posting. Travel or read to know the several tribes that make up Nigeria.

If Jonathan was appointing only ijaw people, will you keep quiet or you will mention it? So why won't people call out Buhari's nepotism?

People are sharing ideas and discussing what could have been and you typical BASTARDS will just jump in with your usual tribalism. No sauce, no substance. Just Emilokan, IPOB and vibes.

Workch:
while I agree with almost everything that you said but I disagree with the part that this is kwankwaso last chance.
Kwankwaso is not in this election to win, he's in to make a mark and let every Northerner know that when it's time to zone tickets to North, he can be a formidable candidate.

Kwankwaso is building a structure for himself that Northerners can reckon with when it's their time.

Same thing Obi is doing...he is trying to prove that he can pull weight too

Obi knows he can't win

Kilometres:



Same thing Obi is doing...he is trying to prove that he can pull weight too

Obi knows he can't win

Obi can win

tempest01:


His ambition is not the problem. His statements are.

When he said northerners will not vote for Obi? Is that bigotry? That's him saying what you and i both know to be true.

Workch:
Obi can win

Win for Onitsha Market Traders Association election?

tempest01:


You don't even know your onions ... but you just come online to be posting. Travel or read to know the several tribes that make up Nigeria.

If Jonathan was appointing only ijaw people, will you keep quiet or you will mention it? So why won't people call out Niger is nepotism?

People are sharing ideas and discussing what could have been and you typical BASTARDS will just jump in with your usual tribalism.

I don't need to travel, am from the north and I know the number of tribes here therefore I know the several tribes that make up the north. So all the appointments Buhari made are Fulanis? Besides what is your problem. Why are you people still pained that Kwankwanso said no to Obi ? I asked you question but you calling me bastard that is what you Obi people are known for ,quick to insult.

Gagare1:
My only comment is this: the South needs to unite under one banner. The North (Fulanis) is using Tinubu to divide your votes against Obi. Their main candidate is Atiku. We the sensible ones up North are going with Obi, there is no need to know how many we are, the election results will show that.
Please Yorubas, do the right thing. End this Fulani supremacy. You owe them NOTHING. Don't follow Tinubu into slavery.

What is Fulani supremacy Shettima na Fulani? Tinubu too na Fulani omo nna and sense Sha far from each other like kilode

OldNairalander:
When Joe Biden won his first election as an American Senator, Obama was still a young naive college student.
But in 2008, he saw the potential in Obama and accepted to step down his Presidential ambition to become a running mate to the first black Presidential hopeful.
That singular act paved way for his Presidency today.
He may not say it publicly but I know he(Kwankwaso) is regretting the blunder.
As for his party, being PO's running mate will not affect his candidates cos political parties can adopt another party's candidate as their candidate for a particular position.

He didn’t make any blunder. Kwakwanso wants to be president not Vice President. You could also argue Obi made a blunder by not staying in PDP or not agreeing to be VP to Kwakwanso. At the end of the day both wanted presidency not vice presidency, at the end of the day neither of them will become President.

Everything works for good to them that are Obidient, kwankwaso declined to vice Obi is a plus to Obi becos he will not win, he will only divide northern block vote going to Tinubu and Atiku.

Some people actually believe kwankwaso is going to get votes in the north. He won't even win his Kano state

So how is obi in any way better than Kwankwaso? Don't you think the only challenge Kwankwaso has is because Hausa is presently holding the office of the president, and it won't be fair to hand over to another northerner. By the next election when it will be the turn of the north, Kwankwaso is the best man. His work and experience speak, he is better than late Yaradua in terms of infrastructure and development. Go and see the longest flyover in west Africa is in Kano, built under 8 years. Then such a brain should become vice to a university 3rd class graduate? Wake up and understand Nigeria.

quote author=tempest01 post=119787054]Kwankwanso just let bigotry get better of him.
If I was in his position, I would have given Obi the ticket and made someone like Abba Gida the vice.

The problem is that they were still calculating that the South was still collectively gullible and will join them in bigotry and also continue playing second fiddle.

They forget that they just completed an abysmal tenure and people have been forced to wake up. [/quote]

And how did you come to this conclusion that "obi won't win"


And you are trying to tell me that a former senator can't win a senate contest?

Please don't quote me again. I don't want to argue with you

sweetgala:


That is if Obi wins and we all know he wouldn't. Kwakawso would fold his movement within the coming weeks before election, where he pitches his tent is what is yet unknown.
Datti couldn't win a senatorial contest and you think he's an individual to be reckoned with in the North politically

He may not be a liability but he's not exactly an asset

A reason why the north remains the poorest region in nigeria. Imagine 87.7% of the whole of zamfara state living below poverty line and it's not a problem to them

sulaak:


Kwankwaso , Atiku and Buhari are all born to rule bigots

For now he is not, but after being the vice resident, he will

babyfaceafrica:


Datti cannot be bigger than kwankwaso in the North, know this and know peace

How did he become a senator.

When he becomes the vice president, he will be fun the opportunity to prove himself in one or two projects which the mass will observe him. If the whole nigerian youth gets satisfied with his input, Kd will fall in line.

Gandrova:
Pls which Datti are you talking about? Ahmed Datti that I know in Kaduna can't win his polling unit not talk about influence. Who knows in Kaduna. Am a pure bred of Kd.

after4:
How did he become a senator.

When he becomes the vice president, he will be fun the opportunity to prove himself in one or two projects which the mass will observe him. If the whole nigerian youth gets satisfied with his input, Kd will fall in line.

Am not against his dreams and aspirations, it will be difficult to see the light of the day.

We are in 21st century and you're talking of building a bridge.
So if I give you 10 to 15 billion naira to build a bridge you can't be able to mobilize contractors and supervise them?

mosaicafrique:
So how is obi in any way better than Kwankwaso? Don't you think the only challenge Kwankwaso has is because Hausa is presently holding the office of the president, and it won't be fair to hand over to another northerner. By the next election when it will be the turn of the north, Kwankwaso is the best man. His work and experience speak, he is better than late Yaradua in terms of infrastructure and development. Go and see the longest flyover in west Africa is in Kano, built under 8 years. Then such a brain should become vice to a university 3rd class graduate? Wake up and understand Nigeria.

quote author=tempest01 post=119787054]Kwankwanso just let bigotry get better of him.
If I was in his position, I would have given Obi the ticket and made someone like Abba Gida the vice.

The problem is that they were still calculating that the South was still collectively gullible and will join them in bigotry and also continue playing second fiddle.

They forget that they just completed an abysmal tenure and people have been forced to wake up.

Dreams come true my man.

See life has a funny way of giving you what you dream about if you believe.
Who could ever think someone like obi will be a contender for presidency not to talk of a major contender.

Dare to dream and see life happen to you

Gandrova:
Am not against his dreams and aspirations, it will be difficult to see the light of the day.