₦airaland Forum

Obasanjo the biggest rigger in Nigeria history

No wonder e no send him people

richiemcgold:
I was part of that election back then in Ondo state. I remember we all voted AD/APP alliance of Olu Falae/Adamu Ciroma. But other parts of Nigeria, including Britain and USA supported Obasanjo. Obasanjo did not even attend the presidential debate, a precedent that has now become a norm with all presidents of Nigeria. I still hold that belief till today that Olu Falae would have performed better if he was the president.

You no be small pikiin again o

NewHe:
Ignorance! He doesn't have to win any state, he needed just 2/3 of votes in 2/3 of the federation.
Tinubu won above 2/3 in 30 states!

You got it wrong too. In addition to the popular majority votes, he needed minimum of 25% of the votes in atleast 2/3rd of the states of the federation and the FCT.

The and has been interpreted by the Supreme Court to mean conjunctively

huptin:
One surprising fact is that since 1999 Nigeria's population has been said to have increased by over 30% but the number of voters remain.

They need to keep the fraud going.

Nice one from Yobe , Zamfara and Imo one chilled Trophy beer for the first indigene of each of those three state that I'll come a cross within the next three days , that's if it is not haram for the two northern states indigenes - kunu perhaps . I never knew The AD candidate won any state outside the southwest kudos also to Delta state for showing up massively for their In-law .

Look at how the easterners voted massively for obj yet people accuse them of being tribalistic.

killsmith:
No wonder e no send him people

He no send us wey be Yoruba people , you mean . E get why and we Yoruba people and him know why .

Endinjustice:
They will tell you he lost because he was a military head of state bla bla bla. But deep down, they know they never supported any good cause that could prosper Nigeria.

They never supported any good cause yet they supported the man who introduced the first free education in Nigeria. A man who built the first university, skyscraper and Estate in Nigeria. The man who built the first TV station in the whole of Africa before Spain had a TV station. The man who built an industrial powerhouse Oodua Group. The yorubas knew that obj will end up being a failure because they knew where his papi truly came from. They were right after all.

May be that was a blessing. That is probably why he remains the best president in Nigerias history.

Klington:
His people don't support people with good intentions.

God bless you mightily

See Buhari, see Tinubu

Advocates of hard living

amaridigital:
They never supported any good cause yet they supported the man who introduced the first free education in Nigeria. A man who built the first university, skyscraper and Estate in Nigeria. The man who built the first TV station in the whole of Africa before Spain had a TV station. The man who built an industrial powerhouse Oodua Group. The yorubas knew that obj will end up being a failure because they knew where his papi truly came from. They were right after all.

Obasanjo and Tinubu who is an absolute leadership failure?

43Ronin:
Olu Falaye was a failure who crafted SAP- structural Adjustment program that IBB implemented which threw the nation into hyperinflation & massive poverty(like whats happening now). Thank god he did not win, he would have been the tinubu of that era. Very few SW politicians are economically sound, Obj is one of them

There is no single politician in the SE that is economically sound.

Tochitee:
I will never forget 1999, when my landlords room was used as collation centers then ! Omo we make money die, every occupant rigged for my landlords party. PDP!

They don't even bother to hide the hypocrisy and double standards anymore

themanderon:
Look at how the easterners voted massively for obj yet people accuse them of being tribalistic.

If they decided to be tribalistic, who would they have voted for?

🤣🤣🤣

to win precidential election for nigeria ones you get the whole of north thats all

Chai...!!!

So Peter Obi is a BIGOT for clearing the SE, but FALAE is pan-Yoruba for clearing the SW even when contesting against his own brother?

I always say it...

What they accuse you of is what they do constantly. They project their failings on others to mask their deficiencies.

Very weak and shallow people.

Na wa for them..real wa!!

esnbrutality:
Olu Falae is pan yoruba to the core and obasanjo is 1 NIGERIA. That is why you supported Falae and open your mouths to call Peter OBI IGBO. Candidate?

Una no get am for sense.

Na rigging 😅😅

themanderon:
Look at how the easterners voted massively for obj yet people accuse them of being tribalistic.

Yes and that's why gullible minds should stop being tribalistic. I used to be one of the tribalists but I quickly realised it would only make Nigeria's situation get worse. Ibos saved this man twice but they say they're the most-tribalistic tribe in Nigeria when every sane being knows the truth.

After voting falae in 1999, I told myself I'd not be lured into tribalism again and my voting pattern had changed ever since. Since the return of democracy in 1999, no leader, dead or alive had done half of what obj had done as president. Records are there. He built power plants which the apc cant even sustain today. There's blackout nationwide as we speak. Tinubu has returned Nigeria to 1918 when there was no electricity in Nigeria. All they're after is 2027 so they can keep looking.

Hj

Falae was a failure and is still a failure
Soyinka is a failure
Remi Tinubu is a bigoted failure
All Yoir Governors and senators are certified JOKERs and failures
All your Ministers are failures.
All your OBAs are failures that is why Fulani kids are killing them anyhow. They just killed no. 5.

The worst performing Governor in the SE is better than the propaganda Best Governor in the SW.

Tflex01:
There is no single politician in the SE that is economically sound.

huptin:
One surprising fact is that since 1999 Nigeria's population has been said to have increased by over 30% but the number of voters remain.

Yes, cos of rigging

Moroccoguy:
Falae is a politician and pan Yoruba to the core, Obj is a military man and no Yoruba politician at that time trust military because of MKO. They believed that obasanjo will serve the interest of the military and the north.

What of 2nd term? Our so-called leaders still wanted to use our heads again but we gave our votes to obasanjo. After they realised we weren't going to be cajoled again, they now went with the masses

donleo92:
Obj has always been a nationalist

E sure for me say Obj fit visit abia state, kaduna and them go welcome am well with open arms compared to ........?

Very true

Two Yorubas were on the ballot, one was overwhelmingly voted by the Yorubas, the other wasn't hated, he's just not the Yoruba choice. Flip to 2003 when Obasanjo contested against a non Yoruba candidate (Buhari), he got the majority vote of the Yorubas.

Moroccoguy:
Falae is a politician and pan Yoruba to the core, Obj is a military man and no Yoruba politician at that time trust military because of MKO. They believed that obasanjo will serve the interest of the military and the north.

Which he did.

Core south western politicians were all in AD and that's how they voted.

Both Falae and OBJ are Yorubas and one ought to win. It turned out that the AD, a regional party, lost to the PDP which had a more national outlook.

drips8:
Obasanjo lost due to the Shagari election victory against Awo in '79 as many Yorubas felt he sold them out.

Obasanjo also considered himself a pan Nigerian rather than identifying solely as Yoruba.

His candidacy was also controversial as he was with the PDP, a party filled with Nigerians from other parts of the country with different agendas unlike Falae.

Not true. AD was a pan yoruba party which many believed was a party riddled with tribalism. I fell for the tricks of our leaders and voted falae in obj's 1st term. Are you saying people like oyinlola, fayose,olusegun agagu, mimiko, ladoja among others were fulani or ibo? There were yorubas who were founding fathers of the pdp so, it was never seen as a party from other parts of the country at all. Rather, the leaders we had preached that to us but we were wiser 4 years later by voting obj

I've learned a lot about the Nigeria's political terrain especially as touching pa awo and Jonathan. About Awo's mistakes because he was pan yoruba/west in nature. Had he gone to the north and picked his running mate, his victory would have been certain. Nobody cheated awo, he caused himself the defeat. The political arithmetic after the votes were cast didn't favour him. I voted in that election as an under-aged. They just came to our house and packed all of us to a polling station built with iron sheets then, to vote. Many of us voted twice sef and still, he lost by way of what I'd call the political arithmetic as enshrined in the electoral law. They were just castigating pa Richard akinjide for nothing. Till tomorrow, I respect the northern style of politics. They understand the game far better than we do. The earlier we admit it, the better

On Jonathan, he permitted a lot of impermissible in his government. Those he ought to have jailed for disrupting his government through protests, he ignored and they kept distracting him. Nobody dared do such to obj, not even terrorists and their sponsors. Had he jailed them back then, he'd have done 2nd term and Nigeria wouldn't have been in a mess today cos he really worked and his economic team was solid.

huptin:
One surprising fact is that since 1999 Nigeria's population has been said to have increased by over 30% but the number of voters remain.

Since 1999, Nigeria's population has doubled, even as the country struggles to survive. The reason why insecurity is overwhelming the countries is that children born in the Aljamiri schooling system are now the foot soldiers of the Jihadists today.