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| Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by Nobody: 6:44am On Mar 28, 2015 |
http://mobile.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSKBN0MO00720150328?irpc=932 Nigerians vote on Saturday in what looks set to be the first genuine electoral contest since the end of military rule in 1999, one in which an opposition aspirant has a fighting chance of unseating the incumbent President Goodluck Jonathan. Jonathan, seeking a second elected term, faces former military ruler and main opposition candidate Muhammadu Buhari in a tense race with an electorate divided along ethnic, regional and in some cases sectarian lines. A fair, credible and peaceful poll would be a new chapter in the often troubled history of Africa's most populous nation, biggest economy and top oil producer, a past blighted by graft, secessionist movements, military coups and in the last six years an Islamist Boko Haram insurgency that has killed thousands. Buhari's top selling point is a belief that he didn't steal during his 1983-85 presidency. Jonathan's administration has been beset by multibillion dollar oil corruption scandals. Buhari's reputation as an army strongman plays well with voters critical of the government's failure to protect civilians from Boko Haram, highlighted when they kidnapped over 200 school girls in April last year. The sect has been routed in the past six weeks, though it isn't clear if that will help Jonathan win. But as always in this nation of 170 million people, ethnic and regional sentiments remain paramount. Buhari is hugely popular in the north, Jonathan, in the south and east. That could leave the mostly ethnic Yoruba but religiously mixed southwest, centered around the commercial capital Lagos, the kingmakers. They voted for Jonathan last time but since then Yoruba elites have rallied decisively around Buhari. |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by TI1919(m): 6:50am On Mar 28, 2015 |
This will be a credible election just like 2011 election ![]() |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by Nobody: 6:50am On Mar 28, 2015*. Modified: 7:08am On Mar 28, 2015 |
Power left in the trust of compassionate, merciful and legendarily reserved men is an ageless caution adhered to only by brave conscientious men...... I choose he who has reined his aggressive instincts in the most. Let us all go out to exercise our franchise, come back home, and pray. God Bless The King... God Bless Nigeria... God Bless You, You, You & I. |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by DesChyko: 6:53am On Mar 28, 2015 |
2011 episode was the first contested presidential election. The issue this time is that there is a greater tendency for violent outbursts than the previous (unexpected) one, as an aftermath of the bloody incidents and immoral campaign strategies employed by the contestants. |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by doctokwus: 7:09am On Mar 28, 2015 |
What made 2011 credible?When Amaechi ,Akpabio,Uduaghan ,Theodore orji,peter obi,their cohorts and south south militants were busy allocating votes to GEJ! Why do u pple even feel Amaechi despite all travails with GEJ always sounds very confident about an APC triumph, curiously in rivers too where people think it wud a walkover for GEJ? Its simply because he knows how d almost 2m votes were procured for GEJ in 2011 and can circumvent same this time around. DesChyko:What made 2011 credible?When Amaechi ,Akpabio,Uduaghan ,Theodore orji,peter obi,their cohorts and south south militants were busy allocating votes to GEJ! Why do u pple even feel Amaechi despite all travails with GEJ always sounds very confident about an APC triumph, curiously in rivers too where people think it wud a walkover for GEJ? Its simply because he knows how d almost 2m votes were procured for GEJ in 2011 and can circumvent same this time around. |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by Nobody: 7:12am On Mar 28, 2015 |
DesChyko:There will be PEACE... Speak PEACE, and there we'll have it ... PEACE |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by DesChyko: 7:50am On Mar 28, 2015 |
doctokwus:I don't know what you're talking about. I need credible evidence: recordings, pictures, videos, anything at all to suggest that your claim is true. If none exists however, I don't do hearsays, sorry. |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by DesChyko: 7:51am On Mar 28, 2015 |
emperormero:Amen.. I'm ensuring that.. By keeping myself in one place ![]() |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by Nobody: 8:05am On Mar 28, 2015 |
DesChyko:bros na wa o!!! Go out, vote & commot from there. The baton will soon be passed to you o. Even if you no be politician. |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by Nobody: 8:37am On Mar 28, 2015 |
emperormero:hmmmmmmmmmmmmM,,,,,,, cAn u replace d Baton with AK 99 ![]() ![]() |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by Nobody: 9:17am On Mar 28, 2015 |
ajibolabd:I don't understand your drift. . . All I do know that power will soon get to our turn. |
| Re: Nigerians Vote In First Genuine Contest Since End Of Dictatorship. by appini: 9:21am On Mar 28, 2015 |
TI1919:One of GEJ greatest transformational change. Whoever thinks otherwise is an enemy of Nigeria. |
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