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I just caught an Atiku's boy boldly stating that Obi won Rivers. Who knows, one day, El Rufai would also tell us who really won the presidential election. Just the way Rivers governor told us who won in Rivers.

No wonder they advised Atiku to lure Obi to ADC.

Obi The Tsunami...

Smh. Is it not obvious to the blind that Obi won Rivers? An entire region playing kindergarten politics. Pyrrhic victories are nothing to celebrate. Obi won the entire Southeast with over 95% of the votes and the rest of the South, including Lagos but he didn't win the general election. The reason was simple. Northerners gave Tinubu 5.6m votes to overturn Obi's advantage. The Northerners did so not because Tinubu had a handsome face. Far from it. They did so to honour an earlier pact and return a favour to Tinubu for having supported Buhari against Jonathan in 2015.

Fastforward to 2027, and Easterners are demanding for Obi to be handed over the ticket of a newly formed coalition. The question Northerners are asking is simple, what's in it for them? Why should they support Obi over Atiku? Or Obi over Tinubu.

No one lured Obi to ADC. He was told from the get-go that zoning was not on the table. If indeed he was lured by Atiku, then it begs the question, does he really have what it takes to govern the country? If I'm an Atiku’s boy, you must be Peter Obi's boy too. Smh.

You people keep saying Obi won without realizing how difficult it is for someone who didn't win the Yoruba or Hausa vote to win a Presidential election. Someone with no agent in tens of thousands of polling units? The number of votes in Hausa land and Yoruba land is over 55 percent of the total and I don't think anyone with poor showings in both constituencies have much hope of winning any Presidential election. Obi did not win. He came third

lawani:
You people keep saying Obi won without realizing how difficult it is for someone who didn't win the Yoruba or Hausa vote to win a Presidential election. Someone with no agent in tens of thousands of polling units? The number of votes in Hausa land and Yoruba land is over 55 percent of the total and I don't think anyone with poor showings in both constituencies have much hope of winning any Presidential election. Obi did not win. He came third

Look at the bolded. We all know that AMINDA people and others like Wike and Oshiomole took advantage of LP's lack of agents to rig for Tinubu. It is obvious that Obi won the election. It's PDPs loss that they couldn't take advantage of his popularity to unsit APC.

Igbophobia:
Look at the bolded. We all know that AMINDA people and others like Wike and Oshiomole took advantage of LP's lack of agents to rig for Tinubu. It is obvious that Obi won the election. It's PDPs loss that they couldn't take advantage of his popularity to unsit APC.

I hope he now has contingency plans in place to have polling agents in all polling units in his new party?

AMINDA:
I hope he now has contingency plans in place to have polling agents in all polling units in his new party?

Well... the guy says he isn't desperate to be president. If he loses, Nigeria loses, not just him. That's obvious to all discerning mind. At least we know that neither Tinubu nor Atiku has what it takes to lift the country out of doldrum.

Nevertheless, I think Obi is rather casual about this presidency thing. I thought he and the Obidient movement would have started working on 1) Electoral reform by exerting the right pressure from 2023.
2) Working on grassroot mobilization to ensure that party agents would be on ground no matter the party he contests on their ticket/

I sincerly hope they somehow have that on ground because many Nigerians wouldn't want to vote him and have their votes swapped for Tinubu or Atiku like they did in 2023.

Igbophobia:
Well... the guy says he isn't desperate to be president. If he loses, Nigeria loses, not just him. That's obvious to all discerning mind. At least we know that neither Tinubu nor Atiku has what it takes to lift the country out of doldrum.

Nevertheless, I think Obi is rather casual about this presidency thing. I thought he and the Obidient movement would have started working on 1) Electoral reform by exerting the right pressure from 2023.
2) Working on grassroot mobilization to ensure that party agents would be on ground no matter the party he contests on their ticket/

I sincerly hope they somehow have that on ground because many Nigerians wouldn't want to vote him and have their votes swapped for Tinubu or Atiku like they did in 2023.

Here we go again with the self-righteous politics. "If he loses, Nigeria loses indeed." He is beginning to earn a reputation as someone who cannot keep his own word. No matter how you try to sell his candidacy as sainthood, he has now left two political parties at the brink after pledging loyalty, all just to run from primaries. That alone shows desperation but go on.

AMINDA:
Here we go again with the self-righteous politics. "If he loses, Nigeria loses indeed." He is beginning to earn a reputation as someone who cannot keep his own word. No matter how you try to sell his candidacy as sainthood, he has now left two political parties at the brink after pledging loyalty, all just to run from primaries. That alone shows desperation but go on.

Shey b I told you

Atiku Abubakar Will Never Become The President Of Nigeria

AMINDA:
Here we go again with the self-righteous politics. "If he loses, Nigeria loses indeed." He is beginning to earn a reputation as someone who cannot keep his own word. No matter how you try to sell his candidacy as sainthood, he has now left two political parties at the brink after pledging loyalty, all just to run from primaries. That alone shows desperation but go on.

That's a misconception. Obi has always stated that his anti-corruption, anti-established-pattern stance, knowing how corrupt Nigeria's electoral system is. The corruption in which folks like Tinubu and Atiku thrive on. So you want him to sit tight in LP while the government engender crisis within or sit tight with ADC which Atiku would likely buy over with dollar? Nah... I rather think Obi is learning the hard way that dismantling the network of corruption that has held the country at stangleholds for decades would take a more daring approach. The question is: would he go all the way knowing that those benefiting from the status quo won't back him? Would the masses go all the way with him? I am sure of the latter but the former? Not sure.

In any case, I think the people would rather go with him than any other politician alive today. Will the establishment stop him the way they stopped Aminu Kano, the only other politician I know that the masses truly rooted for? Perhaps.

Parachoko:
Shey b I told you

Atiku Abubakar Will Never Become The President Of Nigeria

Some of you Tinubu supporters' statements are laughable. Thais is still you people who claimed Obi couldn't score 10,000 votes in 2023. How are you sure Atiku will never be president? Is Tinubu that is president today any better than he? Abi una be God?

Igbophobia:
That's a misconception. Obi has always stated that his anti-corruption, anti-established-pattern stance, knowing how corrupt Nigeria's electoral system is. The corruption in which folks like Tinubu and Atiku thrive on. So you want him to sit tight in LP while the government engender crisis within or sit tight with ADC which Atiku would likely buy over with dollar? Nah... I rather think Obi is learning the hard way that dismantling the network of corruption that has held the country at stangleholds for decades would take a more daring approach. The question is: would he go all the way knowing that those benefiting from the status quo won't back him? Would the masses go all the way with him? I am sure of the latter but the former? Not sure.

In any case, I think the people would rather go with him than any other politician alive today. Will the establishment stop him the way they stopped Aminu Kano, the only other politician I know that the masses truly rooted for? Perhaps.

Outplayed excuses. How would Atiku buy the direct primaries when you can vote for Obi yourself? Will you send your account to him so he can buy your vote with dollars? In any case, what if Kwankwaso insists on primaries in the new party? Obi will port again, not so?

AMINDA:
Outplayed excuses. How would Atiku buy the direct primaries when you can vote for Obi yourself? Will you send your account to him so he can buy your vote with dollars? In any case, what if Kwankwaso insists on primaries in the new party? Obi will port again, not so?

He said it that if there is a non incentivized primary that he would support the winner. Nevertheless, he has maintained that power MUST remain in the south for the next 4 years. Something Atiku isn't willing to adhere with.

Igbophobia:
Look at the bolded. We all know that AMINDA people and others like Wike and Oshiomole took advantage of LP's lack of agents to rig for Tinubu. It is obvious that Obi won the election. It's PDPs loss that they couldn't take advantage of his popularity to unsit APC.

Didn't LP do the same in the South East? If you remove only thirty percent from SE votes, how many will be LP votes temaining? How plausible is it that LP would have won in places in the NW where they had no polling agents and an insignificant number of votes? Those people did not even know Peter Obi talkless of voting for him