₦airaland Forum

gabbasin:
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.

The Yoruba made the right decision in 2003. as it now know how useless Buhari was in as presideny in 2015

OBJ has zero political influence in the SW. The reason he didn't win any SW state is because he's a horrible human being, and that's a Fact. OBJ will do everything in his power to bring you down if he feels you are going to be more successful than him. He was also against Abiola's June 12 Mandate, so the question then was : why should he be the one to reap the fruits of what he was against?

Tflex01:
If they decided to be tribalistic, who would they have voted for?

Check the meaning of boycott in a dictionary. Voting is not mandatory.

Malagans:
I'm surprised to stumble upon this:

1999 Presidential Election results was an Interesting one. OBJ a Yoruba man became the president without winning any YORUBA state. OBJ Results in Blue, Falae in Red. He won in North, South South and South East. It shows Regional party can't win a Presidential Election in Nigeria. You need national appeal.

You didn't know before now? Interesting.

That's why I laugh when people say the south east don't vote for Yoruba man. Yes, they were both Yoruba men. But the entire south eastern states voted for Obasanjo. That should tell you that they were actively involved.

Unlike the false narrative being peddled now. Guess what, in 2003, Ojukwu (the war hero) contested. Yet, the south east voted massively for OBJ and he won.

When next you hear the saying "igbos don't vote for Yorubas", the data is there to show it's a lie.

But most people don't read. That's why people are easily deceived.

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.

lol what about states that were created in 1996 out of other states but the old state kept the same population and the new state magically gained equal population to? We don't know how many people are in NIgeria

Antoeni:
Nigerians Will Vote Tinubu in 2027 if He Can just Attend interview With Hassan Mendhi, That's s Our Condition.

Old boy, you wicked o. Even Jonathan could not withstand Christiane Amanpour, na Tinubu you want match with Hassan Mendhi. You are wicked walahi.

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 did he do to convince them in 2003 that he had changed? Also, the rest of Nigeria (not only the SW) did not trust the military. That was the reason why we were having civilian elections in the first place.
But then, you actually answered the question. All Nigerians felt that Falae would only serve the Yoruba interest.

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

Yeah, he had good intentions when he deprived Awolowo of his mandate and gave power to Shagari simply because he needed to cover his ass and pander to the Northern military and oligarchs. Awolowo made it clear that he was going to audit Obj's administration. So he, OBJ, gave Awolowo's mandate to a Fulani man.

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 ........?

Tinubu can stroll into any place in the SE and your people will be falling over themselves to greet him. They will be struggling and competing with themselves on who would give him the best traditional title.

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

...and we have seen how your economically sound godfather is performing in Nigeria.

That's one fundamental problem with you guys. You guys never support a good course.

Just see what you guys gave to Nigeria. Old cargo with zero economic policies.

It shows you are a gen z, that is why we always amazed when some of you talk about Nigerian politics that you don't know

Malagans:
I'm surprised to stumble upon this:

1999 Presidential Election results was an Interesting one. OBJ a Yoruba man became the president without winning any YORUBA state. OBJ Results in Blue, Falae in Red. He won in North, South South and South East. It shows Regional party can't win a Presidential Election in Nigeria. You need national appeal.

richiemcgold:
I was part of that election back then in Ondo state. I remember we all voted AD/APP alliance of Olu Falae/Umaru Shinkafi. But some other parts of Nigeria, including Britain and USA supported Obasanjo. Obasanjo did not even attend the presidential debate, a bad precedent which 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.

No he wouldn’t.

That’s how you all would have said Buhari would have been a good president had he never gotten elected. Tinubu would have been called a better president of he lost the election.

Obasanjo was better than Olu Falae.

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.

And Nigeria has prospered.

tctrills:
What did he do to convince them in 2003 that he had changed? Also, the rest of Nigeria (not only the SW) did not trust the military. That was the reason why we were having civilian elections in the first place.
But then, you actually answered the question. All Nigerians felt that Falae would only serve the Yoruba interest.

He rig his way

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.

Rigging was easier until the last election in 2023.

Our apathy to democracy, politics and governance is legendary and self defeating.

anonimi:
“The worst illiterate is the political illiterate, he doesn’t hear, doesn’t speak, nor participates in the political events.

He doesn’t know the cost of life, the price of the bean, of the fish, of the flour, of the rent, of the shoes and of the medicine, all depends on political decisions. The political illiterate is so stupid that he is proud and swells his chest saying that he hates politics.

The slowpoke doesn’t know that, from his political ignorance is born the prostitute, the abandoned child, and the worst thieves of all, the bad politician, corrupted and flunky of the national and multinational companies.”

― Bertolt Brecht

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Racoon:
The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria is the second country in the world with the lowest voter turnout, worse than war-ravaged Afghanistan and Libya, a new ranking by Picodi has shown.

The ranking placed Nigeria in 186th position, only after Haiti, among 187 countries of the world. Nigeria also ranked worst in Africa. Nigeria’s low voter turnout

PREMIUM TIMES had reported how Nigeria recorded a new low in voter turnout during the last general elections. With a national turnout of 29 per cent, a Premium Times analysis showed that the last election had the lowest participation rate in the country’s six decades of independence.

It further revealed that of the 93.4 million registered voters this year, 87.2 million people collected their Permanent Voters Card and the total number of actual voters on election day was only 24.9 million..The winner of the election, Bola Tinubu, had less than nine million votes, roughly 10 per cent of the total eligible voters.

Another analysis by this newspaper revealed that all the 18 candidates in Nigeria’s February elections received only 27.55 per cent of the total eligible votes.

https://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/top-news/634921-voter-turnout-nigeria-ranks-worlds-second-worst-nation-report.html?utm_campaign=twitter&utm_medium=twitter&utm_source=twitter

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

At end of his tenure. Tell him one thing e did for south west.

How was Nigeria after his governance??

Electricity ??
Infrastructure ??
Education ??
Agriculture??

It's well...

Amotolongbo:
Moreover, many Yoruba people believed Obasanjo betrayed Yoruba by declaring Sheu Shagari, the northerner the winner of the 1979 election instead of Obafemi Awolowo

God bless ur knowledge more

Moroccoguy:
He rig his way

Did Bola Ige’s murder help Obasanjo capture the south west apart from Lagos state? Obasanjo made the most important suspect Omisore, a senator from Agodi prison, before the redeemed saints of Oshiomhole’s Assembly of Past Criminals, APC made him their National Secretary.


Do you think that the immunity and impunity for the killers of Obasanjo’s AGF, inspire those who killed Engr. Funsho Williams and Dipo Dinah in the run up to the 2007 election in Lagos and the 2011 election in Ogun

Funsho Williams was the hugely popular AD presumptive 1999 candidate before Tinubu begged Yoruba NADECO people for the ticket because he funded them with his Chicago business money.

How many of Tinubu’s 1999 campaign promises do you think he has fulfilled, after 27 years of his lootocracy TAX master plan that has raised IGR and budget 100 times to N4.2 trillion?

swaggerjack:
Reno Omokri: I Challenge Tinubu To Prove If He Was Not A Drug Lord In Chicago


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DLrnL6rQ6M?si=uMMUVFfetODTr4Fw

Amotolongbo:
Moreover, many Yoruba people believed Obasanjo betrayed Yoruba by declaring Sheu Shagari, the northerner the winner of the 1979 election instead of Obafemi Awolowo

How is Obasanjo a worse betrayer of Yorubas than Tinubu is

anonimi:
How we foiled Jonathan’s effort to make Mulika Adeola Speaker, Akande reveals

AS president in 2011, Goodluck Jonathan did all he could to ensure South West grabbed the country’s number four seat, including lobbying then opposition leaders from the zone, to no avail. The North West eventually grabbed the seat, supported by South West leaders in opposition to then ruling party, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP).

Former Governor of Osun State and now statesman, Chief Bisi Akande, made this revelation in his autobiography, “My Participations” which is currently dominating political and national dis- course.

Aminu Tambuwal, now Sokoto State governor, won the seat, against the preferred pick of his party, Mrs Mulikat Adeola Akande, from the South-West. Defunct Action Congress of Nigeria, then a fledging opposition, which had Akande and his soulmate, former Lagos State governor, Senator Bola Tinubu, as front- line leaders, openly asked its elected members of the House of Representatives, mostly from the South-West, to work against their region and back Tambuwal from North-West.

The opposition party’s support carried Tambuwal through the contest against Akande, then ruling party’s favourite for the speakership seat.

In his book, Chief Akande revealed that former president then as incumbent, personally reached out to Tinubu, who is now believed to be nursing presidential aspiration in 2023 and himself, but couldn’t convince them.

He wrote, “President Jonathan, immediately after the meeting (with political parties), called Bola Tinubu aside into a lobby to broach the matter of ACN support for a choice of who would become the Speaker of the House of Representatives.

“That same day, President Jonathan talked to me on phone about the same matter. He disclosed that PDP had zoned the position to the South-West but that only one Muraina and another Mulika won elections on PDP ticket from the zone into the House of Representatives.

https://tribuneonlineng.com/how-we-foiled-jonathans-effort-to-make-mulika-adeola-speaker-akande-reveals/

jamafa:
At end of his tenure. Tell him one thing e did for south west.

How was Nigeria after his governance??

Electricity ??
Infrastructure ??
Education ??
Agriculture??

It's well...

The Nigerian economy grew by leaps and bounds in his eight years as president, driven by deregulation and privatisation policies of his businessman VP.

The telecom sector boom, sale of NNPC refineries and the Virgin Atlantic acquisition of Nigerian Air carrier rights are examples of how PDP grew employment without borrowing excessively as APC is doing since 2015.

anonimi:
How Indorama sustains manufacturers, boosts Nigeria’s FX earnings

Indorama Eleme Petrochemicals Limited (IEPL) has emerged as a major value creator in the Nigerian economy. It is responsible for the survival, growth and sustenance of many manufacturing companies in Nigeria today. A large number of plastic and allied firms depend on the Eleme-based company for petrochemical resins (or polymer resins) which serve as their raw materials.

The petrochemical company is just one of the several subsidiaries of Indorama-Nigeria Group, which also comprises Indorama Eleme Fertilizer & Chemicals Limited (IEFCL), Indorama PET Nigeria Limited, and Indorama Port Operations.

Since Indorama Corporation of Indonesia became core investor in the old Eleme Petrochemicals Company Limited (EPCL) in 2006 through privatisation programme of the Federal Government, the group has become a game changer in the Nigerian economy.

The petrochemical company has solved the major challenge facing a number of manufacturers— poor access to raw materials. Rather than scramble for foreign exchange to import inputs, the company ensures that manufacturers have access to their critical raw materials, enabling them to save costs and improve margins.

The major resins used by plastic and allied companies are polyethylene and polypropylene. Indorama produces about 45 grades of these products for various industries. About 600 of such companies in Nigeria depend on IEPL for their survival. They are estimated to have over 90,000 workers.

https://businessday.ng/real-sector/article/how-indorama-sustains-manufacturers-boosts-nigerias-fx-earnings/

erniok:
Days of thumbprinting results. 4 guys go dey inside 1 room produce 300k result and INEC go accept am.

Is there any difference now? I think the system still continue.

ajailer:
That should let you know that he wasn’t Yorubas choice, he wasn’t hated, he was not just our choice in ‘99

But today, it's not uncommon to hear things like "we supported the yorubas instead of our own son in 1999" coming from the igbos
Little do the kids know that all that is a lie passed down to them by their parents. Though a yoruba man, OBJ was never the yoruba people's candidate and if the igbos had loved the yorubas so much as they often claimed, Olu Falae would have been the person they voted massively.
Now imagine the yorubas massively voting massively for someone like Joe Igbokwe for President under the umbrella of APC while ignoring someone like Alex Otti from LP or APGA and Sowore (Ojukwu) who lacked national spread at the time. Then 21 years later, the yorubas now bragging to the igbos that we voted their son while ignoring ours (Sowore) in 1999🤣🤣
Funnily, they keep repeating this silly and annoying thing over and over and would never listen if you try to correct them. OBJ was technically not a yoruba man in 1999, PA Olu Falae was the Yorubas' project and the igbos could have easily voted him if they truly loved the yorubas and instead of pleasing their masters because OBJ was a northern project.
Funnily and ironically, the particular people are the ones fond of calling others betrayers😂😂

Malagans:
I'm surprised to stumble upon this:

1999 Presidential Election results was an Interesting one. OBJ a Yoruba man became the president without winning any YORUBA state. OBJ Results in Blue, Falae in Red. He won in North, South South and South East. It shows Regional party can't win a Presidential Election in Nigeria. You need national appeal.

So na now you dey know? Show them this the next time they tell you "we aren't tribalistic because we voted a yoruba man instead of our own son in 1999"
No sir, they supported their masters' chosen candidate and not a yoruba man as OBJ didn't represent the yorubas in 1999. They ignored Olu Falae, the man loved and supported by the yorubas and voted the man chosen by the north to serve the northern interests. What's more baffling is the fact that despite always being antagonistic to the yorubas, they are still the ones calling the yorubas betrayer🤣
They are masters in accusing you of what they are. The problem with msny of our youths is that you don't read your history and it's sad fr.

2 Yoruba people at the same time if it's hausa they will shouting or igbo

Yoruba voted AD Olu Falae...it was Igbo and Delta Voted him

You don't know these people and hypocrisy

Majdddd:
2 Yoruba people at the same time if it's hausa they will shouting or igbo

richiemcgold:
I was part of that election back then in Ondo state. I remember we all voted AD/APP alliance of Olu Falae/Umaru Shinkafi. But some other parts of Nigeria, including Britain and USA supported Obasanjo. Obasanjo did not even attend the presidential debate, a bad precedent which 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.

Baba Obasanjo for appear for but he was very haggard looking by then he would be a laughing stock.How person go see person wey look like monkey wey no go pick race, Obasanjo too wowo during that time

Magnetic010:
He was not very popular amongst “his people” back then- don’t think he is still very well liked now. I might be wrong though

A former head of state was not popular? You funny oh!

Yes, he was not your choice because he is not a bigot. yorubas like tribalistic person who will self their tribal interest instead of national interest.

ajailer:
That should let you know that he wasn’t Yorubas choice, he wasn’t hated, he was not just our choice in ‘99

richiemcgold:
I was part of that election back then in Ondo state. I remember we all voted AD/APP alliance of Olu Falae/Umaru Shinkafi. But some other parts of Nigeria, including Britain and USA supported Obasanjo. Obasanjo did not even attend the presidential debate, a bad precedent which 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.

same way Tinubu your preferred candidate against Osinbanjo is doing better Abi?? Zombies