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ivandragon:
Why the north should bring back Jonathan

Why the north should bring back Jonathan
That former President Muhammadu Buhari defeated then President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 was because Buhari was the most popular politician in the country at the time, particularly his huge following in the North. Without Buhari, no politician could have defeated Jonathan for the seat.

Before 2015, Buhari was like a god in the North, especially among the dregs of the society. He doesn’t have that image again because his eight years of presidency have diminished him and exposed his emptiness. In fact, if not for the stupendous wealth he may have acquired, Buhari should have preferred to go to the grave with the image he had prior to 2015.

The North and the Southwest conspired to remove Jonathan as president on the basis of Jonathan’s apparent failure as president. The major question today is: Is the country better now than it was 10 years ago?

Jonathan was harassed and removed primarily because he hails from the minority tribe of the country. Buhari dragged the country several decades backwards. However, Buhari is obviously far better than the current president, Bola Tinubu. I imagined in my life that Buhari could run the country better than anyone, but Tinubu has made Buhari look like a saint.

The North holds the ace in the 2027 presidential election. Tinubu was declared as the winner of the 2023 presidential election because the North supported him. The South West, where he hails from, couldn’t give him the kind of support he got from the North. Don’t forget that he was defeated massively in Lagos and Osun states. If he could lose Lagos and Osun states in 2023 when his competence as a president had not been tested, how much more now that he has failed woefully and abysmally on all fronts and indices?

The All Progressives Congress (APC) will definitely field Tinubu as its presidential candidate. Tinubu and his supporters may be banking on rigging to win the 2027 presidential election. But they can only succeed if the people of Nigeria allow them, particularly Northerners.

By 2027, Tinubu and Jonathan would be the only Southerners eligible for the presidency for just one term of four years before the seat returns to the North in 2031. That’s why the rumour of Atiku Abubarka and Peter Obi’s joint presidential ticket seems unrealistic. The ticket cannot defeat Tinubu because southern Nigeria must complete their turn of eight years just like Buhari did.

Should the North field any presidential candidate, the entire South may vote for Tinubu. With reasonable votes from the North, he will coast home for his second term, but Tinubu doesn’t deserve a second term.

If Buhari couldn’t turn the fortunes of the North after eight whole years as president, Tinubu would be worse. Jonathan, as president, made more concrete efforts to develop all parts of the country, especially the North. However, the issues of religion and ethnicity removed him from office.

All over the world, countries are waking up to correct electoral mistakes. The Americans and the Ghanaians have done it. Nigerians can do it in 2027.

What Jonathan requires is the support of the North. The South South, South East, and a substantial part of the South West will vote massively for him. The North should jettison the issue of religion in 2027. If Tinubu could do this in his first term, only God knows what he will do in his second term when he will not need the votes of Nigerians again.

https://businessday.ng/opinion/article/why-the-north-should-bring-back-jonathan/?amp

Didijiji:
Which south?

We don’t have united south

Tinubu will not win south

He even lost in Lagos

What are you saying?

Sannisege:
So it’s only North that now determines Nigeria’s president? All these Igbo authors sef. Them never learn their lessons.

Sannisege:
So it’s only North that now determines Nigeria’s president? All these Igbo authors sef. Them never learn their lessons.

etrouble:
There will never be a united South because Omoluabis will never be in alliance with drugs pushers.


So you know Tinubu lost Lagos, and it is not rigging, but Tinubu won in general and it is rigging. We will continue to teach you politics

ivandragon:
Why the north should bring back Jonathan

Why the north should bring back Jonathan
That former President Muhammadu Buhari defeated then President Goodluck Jonathan in 2015 was because Buhari was the most popular politician in the country at the time, particularly his huge following in the North. Without Buhari, no politician could have defeated Jonathan for the seat.

Before 2015, Buhari was like a god in the North, especially among the dregs of the society. He doesn’t have that image again because his eight years of presidency have diminished him and exposed his emptiness. In fact, if not for the stupendous wealth he may have acquired, Buhari should have preferred to go to the grave with the image he had prior to 2015.

The North and the Southwest conspired to remove Jonathan as president on the basis of Jonathan’s apparent failure as president. The major question today is: Is the country better now than it was 10 years ago?

Jonathan was harassed and removed primarily because he hails from the minority tribe of the country. Buhari dragged the country several decades backwards. However, Buhari is obviously far better than the current president, Bola Tinubu. I imagined in my life that Buhari could run the country better than anyone, but Tinubu has made Buhari look like a saint.

The North holds the ace in the 2027 presidential election. Tinubu was declared as the winner of the 2023 presidential election because the North supported him. The South West, where he hails from, couldn’t give him the kind of support he got from the North. Don’t forget that he was defeated massively in Lagos and Osun states. If he could lose Lagos and Osun states in 2023 when his competence as a president had not been tested, how much more now that he has failed woefully and abysmally on all fronts and indices?

The All Progressives Congress (APC) will definitely field Tinubu as its presidential candidate. Tinubu and his supporters may be banking on rigging to win the 2027 presidential election. But they can only succeed if the people of Nigeria allow them, particularly Northerners.

By 2027, Tinubu and Jonathan would be the only Southerners eligible for the presidency for just one term of four years before the seat returns to the North in 2031. That’s why the rumour of Atiku Abubarka and Peter Obi’s joint presidential ticket seems unrealistic. The ticket cannot defeat Tinubu because southern Nigeria must complete their turn of eight years just like Buhari did.

Should the North field any presidential candidate, the entire South may vote for Tinubu. With reasonable votes from the North, he will coast home for his second term, but Tinubu doesn’t deserve a second term.

If Buhari couldn’t turn the fortunes of the North after eight whole years as president, Tinubu would be worse. Jonathan, as president, made more concrete efforts to develop all parts of the country, especially the North. However, the issues of religion and ethnicity removed him from office.

All over the world, countries are waking up to correct electoral mistakes. The Americans and the Ghanaians have done it. Nigerians can do it in 2027.

What Jonathan requires is the support of the North. The South South, South East, and a substantial part of the South West will vote massively for him. The North should jettison the issue of religion in 2027. If Tinubu could do this in his first term, only God knows what he will do in his second term when he will not need the votes of Nigerians again.

https://businessday.ng/opinion/article/why-the-north-should-bring-back-jonathan/?amp

Didijiji:
m*m*

He lost when he has not performed...

Now he has performed WOEFULLY, who wan vote am.. Try rigging and meet the masses

lamentor78:
Sense is running faster than your brain, who are the masses, the people in you local govt I guess.You may go to you village graveyard and mobilize you dead ancestors to vote in 2027, Tinubu will still win.

Didijiji:
We dey here na

Tinubu can only win if he performs form now till 2027 and I will applaud him. Nothing concern me with his tribe... Na performance we dey check!!!!

SE Poor votes
SS, Average vote (Wike oti lo)
SW Reasonable votes
Entire North Poor votes

and he wins?

clown

aswani:
Entire North is where you got it wrong, President Tinubu realises that he can split the North and isolate the cabal.

He will be OK in North Central and Middle belt.

Tax Reforms, with an eye on sorting out Revenue sharing, will help him in South South, a lot.

With Obidients playing the tribal card, SIutu West is going to be overwhelming.

With Bianca on board, and an eye on an APGA alliance, South East is back in play.

Before una start, this is my opinion, I am not APC anything, I am just looking at projections like the person I am responding to was.

etrouble:
The first paragraph shows that the writer is on cheap drugs.

Buhari with his imaginary popularity lost on three consecutive times and was crying all over the country like Bush Baby. Emilokan JAGABAN had to come to his aid so that the old man will not cry himself to death. That is why when the useless traitor Buhari together with Judas Yemi Osinbajo, Godwin Emefielelele, Orji Uzor Kalu, the traitor who couldn’t face the JAGABAN in the Primaries, and other kindergarten politicians in Buhari’s kitchen started ganging up against the god of Politics, JAGABAN publicly told Buhari that “Aboki, bia, come here, na me make you President when you dey cry all over the country, and whether you and your other fools like it or not, na me be NEXT PRESIDENT”.

The god of Politics Emilokan JAGABAN humiliated Goatluck Jonathan when Goatluck was the Commander-in-Chief and Tinubu was holding no political office or power, Tinubu was not even a Local Government Chairman, yet he humiliated the sleeping and drunk President, is it now that the god of Politics is also the god of Nigeria that the local drunk have a chance against Emilokan JAGABAN? I think it’s actually Tinubu that is sponsoring some of his hidden boys to go and bring out Goatluck Jonathan in order to make the 2027 a formality and walkover for the god of Politics, Emilokan JAGABAN

buckeyemedia:
You dey mind that clueless Ivandragon that is working for President Tinubu clandestinely?

RandomFellow:
The best thing that will happen to Nigeria is having Tinubu till 2031! I have seen the baby steps, and I can tell you without mincing words that Nigeria will be great (again).

If you see countries with Visionary leaderships like China, Rwanda, etc, they did not even have such a hard job as Tinubu had in Nigeria. He needs to keep going... The tax reforms is the next, after which he should support each state when they want to do something great! Open up all the 36 states and watch Nigerians become rich!

Many young people are leaving the country because of lack of jobs, and no hope of a better life outside of Abuja, Lagos and few other states. Imagine relocating to Taraba to go make it, or going to Ebonyi because that's where your wealth is.

This was how Nigeria was about 30 years ago. My Grandfather made his wealth in Owo in Ondo state, my dad made his own in Plateau state. I'm making mine in Abuja (even though I would prefer to go to Delta state). My son can decide to go to Kebbi. Nigeria should be opened; there's so much wealth to go round... And only BAT can achieve this feat now among all the current crop of politicians we have.

PS: I was one of BAT's critics. No, I did not vote for him in the last election. Yes, I might vote for him in the next

Didijiji:
Noted

IduNaOba:
Bro, tinubu won't win south East.
South South too.
Watch it happen.