Politics is all about the choice we make individually and collectively. The Igbos are seen as astute businessmen and women and really need a lot of tutoring in political sophistry and education.

For Anambra Central people to choose a neophyte going to the senate for the first time to rep them in the Senate over a Two-term senator shows how naïve and politically unaware they are, even if Ngige's APC lose the General Election as thought by the Igbos, they would have benefitted with him being a Principal officer of the Senate even under a PDP government and probably be in contention for Senate Presidency if APC wins. The Senate Presidency by right should be zoned to the South since the Presidency is zoned to the North. Amaechi is fighting tooth and nail to get Magnus Abe into the Senate to fulfil that. It would have been between Ngige and Abe because the South west is holding the Vice presidential ticket. But the Igbos in Anambra central voted against their own best choice because he belonged to an Amala and a Boko Haram party. Whose lost now?

APGA as a Party have outrightly and foolishly rendered itself impotent by the foolishness of campaigning for GEJ at every political rallies and all their candidates carrying the picture of GEJ in all their posters and singing his praise in every rally. You're inadventently telling your supporters especially unelightened ones both parties are the same which will cause electoral loss to one of the two parties but with the one holding the bigger ticket as the most likely to benefit. A lesson in history with the Alliance for Democracy adopting Obasanjo's PDP as their candidate led to the defeat of their 5 governors who were unfortunate to have the Presidential and Gubernatorial Elections holding same day, they all lost except Tinubu then who was tactical by not openly campaigning for Obasanjo in Lagos. Lagos had most void votes then for the presidential election because many still picked AD for president with Tinubu as Governor. That episode led to the end of AD in the South West and Tinubu became the colossus he became today.

APGA shot itself in the foot because they were favoured to win all National Assembly Tickets in both Anambra and Abia States but their unwholesome alliance killed the dream and hurt the aspiration and expenses of their candidates. When Alex Otti openly hobnob with GEJ in Aba during groundbreaking event at Alaoji a week to to the general election, he send an endorsement announcement to his supporters that " the PDP and APGA are same" confusing his party's would be voters to vote the Umbrella in the Next election but reserve my own vote till April 11th. The open endorsememt of the PDP will make most APGA agents to close their eyes to all shenanigans of PDP thugs and fraudsters who will foolishly think they will only rig for Jonathan now but the big reward will be the gubernatorial when the PDP will support them too to perfect their own rigging.

How gullible they were, the PDP just rode on APGA's back to make itself more relevant and on lifesupport till 2019.

I listened to Dr. Ikudife during GMB's last visit to the South East where he read a great speech and reel out loads of Demands of Ndigbos. Audu Ogbeh who represented GMB promised to ensure the delivery of those mandates if the Igbos join up with the CHANGE APC was bringing. But what did the Igbos do? They gave 98% massively rigged votes to their COUSIN across Delta who they saw was not enjoying the support and endorsement of the two biggest voting blocs in the country the NW and the SW in their characteristics boastful and chestbeating belief they have the number to return GEJ all alone even without the south south vote self. With less than 3% vote for the APC in the South East, how do the Igbos want to push their own Agenda in the next Government headed by the Party they openly despised. No Zone is exclusive and strong enough to deliver the Presidency by itself, the Yorubas learnt that in 1999.

I'm hurt that the likes of Ngige, Izunazo and others who were treated like outcast by their own would have been part of the National Assembly but then they will be well compensated but it is the lost of the Igbo nation and they just shut the door on their 2019 or 2023 Presidential dream because the APC will remain the dominant party in Nigeria for a very very long time because they are now condemned to deliver more now than ever.


...... pendy79.

APGA is going to end up like AD when they supported OBJ PDP in 2003 against Tinubu advice. If Rochas can win Imo he might be the only hope for the East in the new national party
Nobody takes a political party serious if they cant produce a presidential candidate. If the current Anambra governor decide to decamp to pdp just like Peter Obi did last year then APGA will be finish.

I wont be surprise if Rochas become the first Igbo president after Buhari step down because he is very popular in the North and is also love across the south.

I am happy that Nigeria democracy is growing to a level that a sitting president can be defeated in an election.

Igbo's do need need Ngige to be a senate President. Anambra people would rather have Ekwunife in the senate minority than a senate President Ngige. Ekwunife is the future of anambra politics, a woman of real substance, a future first female elected governor and a future first female President of the senate. Mark my words, that woman will surprise you.

.

Raiders:
APGA is going to end up like AD when they supported OBJ PDP in 2003 against Tinubu advice. If Rochas can win Imo he might be the only hope for the East in the new national party
Nobody takes a political party serious if they cant produce a presidential candidate. If the current Anambra governor decide to decamp to pdp just like Peter Obi did last year then APGA will be finish.

I wont be surprise if Rochas become the first Igbo president after Buhari step down because he is very popular in the North and is also love across the south.

I am happy that Nigeria democracy is growing to a level that a sitting president can be defeated in an election.

You're quite right and really I can't but marvel at the way we have evolved. This election will go down in history as the turning point in Nigeria's reawakening and leap into being a real GIANT in Africa.

The end to impunity and rot is here and I'm so glad we chose this path.

Hey bro, Somehow I do agree that we Igbos have played a bad politics once more.

Yes, its obvious.

We really need to start learning group political strategy and lessen our interest in business focus only.

I do agree

ugojamali:
Igbo's do need need Ngige to be a senate President. Anambra people would rather have Ekwunife in the senate minority than a senate President Ngige. Ekwunife is the future of anambra politics, a woman of real substance, a future first female elected governor and a future first female President of the senate. Mark my words, that woman will surprise you.

Pray and fast she remain in the PDP when she get to the Senate. Many like her will defect once they are inaugurated. The core North and the SW will always remain APC for as long as Buhari, Tinubu, Fashola, Atiku, Kwankwaso and others remain within the Party.

Nigeria just got itself a south african type ANC in APC. It will remain in power for a long time. The PDP will never remain same again. The campaign of calumny and mama piss insults will make it dead to an average northerner and Fayose's reign of terror in Ekiti will make the PDP less appealing to any Swesterner.

The best the PDP can be is to remain a regional party in the South South and South East and continue deluding itself as a christian party since that is what matter most to them.

The implosion it predicted for the APC just got blown in their faces. I'm sure Okuigbe doyin dint hear his marabou well when he announced the APC will die within a year, I guess the marabou said PDP because not even 1 Rep for the PDP in the core north means total annihilation.

After April 11, APGA will be leading 4 states.
Imo, Anambra, Abia and Nasarawa.
Their will be no confusion this time around.

With Buhari elected as our new president under APC,I see Igbos voting massively for APC in the southeast in the governorship elections.
That is the last opportunity they have to make up for their votes against APC in the presidential elections.

Rochas must not be voted out! Imo people must be wise.

Meanwhile this is how Yorubas voted, after all the noise from people like the OP.
State APC PDP
Ekiti 120 331 176 466
Lagos 792 460 633 327
Ogun 308 290 207 950
Ondo 299 899 251 368
Osun 383 603 249 929
Oyo 528 620 303 376
Total 2 433 193 1 822 416
Buhari 57% GEJ 43%

Difference = 610 777
Anambra votes for GEJ alone exceeded cancelled this and added some more.

MzJackBaueress:
With Buhari elected as our new president under APC,I see Igbos voting massively for APC in the southeast in the governorship elections.
That is the last opportunity they have to make up for their votes against APC in the presidential elections.

Rochas must not be voted out! Imo people must be wise.

This is a huge dream.
No one even knows the names of the APC candidates except Rochas who will still lose.
Rochas has a higher chance of winning in Imo state if PDP wins the Presidential.

Nigerian politics matured
Its more than just a rigging any more
You have to make more friends
you need a genuine connection with people not just loudmouth few
Never play a bigotry

that what some certain people failed to get yet.

pendicle:


Pray and fast she remain in the PDP when she get to the Senate. Many like her will defect once they are inaugurated. The core North and the SW will always remain APC for as long as Buhari, Tinubu, Fashola, Atiku, Kwankwaso and others remain within the Party.

Nigeria just got itself a south african type ANC in APC. It will remain in power for a long time. The PDP will never remain same again. The campaign of calumny and mama piss insults will make it dead

Knowing Ekwunife, she may not remain in PDP. She's a user of parties to further her ambitions. Remember she ditched PDP to win House of Reps and then ditched APGA to win the senate.

She may even join APC and become the senate President.

eCollynzo:
This is a huge dream.
No one even knows the names of the APC candidates except Rochas who will still lose.
Rochas has a higher chance of winning in Imo state if PDP wins the Presidential.

So you are still thinking PDP will win the Presidential election? Collins,please go back to sleep and wake up by 10am when Jega concludes the presidential result. No time for blind argument with a TANoid.

Hahahahaha!

#Change at last!

Rochas may just take over from Buhari when his tenure(s) ends. I hope he wins on the 11th of April.

#LookingForward

ugojamali:


Knowing Ekwunife, she may not remain in PDP. She's a user of parties to further her ambitions. Remember she ditched PDP to win House of Reps and then ditched APGA to win the senate.

She may even join APC and become the senate President.

You're hallucinating if you think a first termer will be made Senate President. No body can benefit where they didn't sow. She can decamp all she want but she can't even be a principal officer in the senate not even a committee chair.

eCollynzo:
Meanwhile this is how Yorubas voted, after all the noise from people like the OP.
State APC PDP
Ekiti 120 331 176 466
Lagos 792 460 633 327
Ogun 308 290 207 950
Ondo 299 899 251 368
Osun 383 603 249 929
Oyo 528 620 303 376
Total 2 433 193 1 822 416
Buhari 57% GEJ 43%

Difference = 610 777
Anambra votes for GEJ alone exceeded cancelled this and added some more.

Hallucination is when you feel the massive rigging did for GEJ in the South South and South East matter to anyone.
Despite the huge population of Hausas in Enugu PDP is telling us APC could not muster 10000 despite fielding candidates for every elective post in the state.

You guys just taught the Northerners to always use up their number of registered voters during an election instead of accredited voters in 2019. Watch Kano pull 5million votes in 2019 with APC controlling the police and the military like the PDP used them this year .

Its a vicious cycle and the pendulum have swing to the other side watch it remain there for a very long time.

Ghost01:
#Change at last!

Rochas may just take over from Buhari when his tenure(s) ends. I hope he wins on the 11th of April.

#LookingForward

Rochas plan has always be to become President of Nigeria. He contested the pdp presidential primary before and also contested the APC primary election this yr. I think Rochas is just contesting for Imo state governorship election so as to be politically relevant in 2019. I believe APC Will likely zone the presidency or vice to the east when Buhari steps down and Rochas will be the likely Easterner to get their ticket.
I just hope Imo state vote for him next month. He hasn't done really bad as a governor.

pendicle:


Hallucination is when you feel the massive rigging did for GEJ in the South South and South East matter to anyone.

What massive rigging? People voted resolutely for GEJ in those regions just as Buhari was voted for in the north west. But the Yorubas Prefer to make noise online without putting their votes where their mouths are, even in 2011 it was the same, low turn out and split votes, no real effect on the final result..
If you guys had voted Buhari the way you claimed you would do, he would have had an unassailable lead by now.

Igbos just lost the chance to have one of them become the number 3 citizen (Senate president), Ngige would have easily won the seat as APC will be the majority party in the house.
Igbos are still naive in Nigeria politics.

pendicle:


You're hallucinating if you think a first termer will be made Senate President. No body can benefit where they didn't sow. She can decamp all she want but she can't even be a principal officer in the senate not even a committee chair.

Bukola Saraki is probably going to be the next senate president. It will be zone to north-central

In 2015, other regions kept their words and voted massively for who they believed in except Yorubas who can never be resolute in anything.
Who is going to trust them next time?
At least we now know those who keep to their words and will never disappoint you in an agreement and Yorubas aren't one.

An Igbo will be the speaker of the house of rep not senate president.

David mark couldn't stop Fulani herdsmen fron killing his people neither could he make the Governor pay the state's civil servants.
Not that he is bad, but his position wouldn't help him do that, he had to appear neutral.
Ngige would have been worse, his antecdents as a senate member firmly suggests that.

I can't wait for April 11. Abia, Imo and Nasarawa will join APGA., there will be no PDP or JOnathan confusion then, all the state assembly seats will follow. Did anyone notice APGA's senatorial results in Nasarawa even without the popular Maku?
That shows the party has already gained serious ground since his defection.
Just check this out.
APGA lost a seat in Nasarawa by less than 500 votes.

The northern senatorial district was however won by Philip Gyunka of the PDP after scoring 32,761 to defeat Sam Allu of APGA who polled 32,310

www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/north-central/180221-apc-wins-2-senate-seats-in-nasarawa.html

Texcoco:
Laughable attempts at "divide and rule" tactics on the igbo even now that they are ever more united with the SS as ever in the history of this country....Now political pundits and politicians especially northerners won't take us for granted, go figure Federal reps for Lagos.Whoever wins this would owe it a thing of expiediency to court the igbos/ss because we don dey pull weight.

You are right. SS and SE are now ever more united in rigging.

The foundation of that unity (GEJ's return to the Presidency) is being pulled apart already.

Now watch how credible leaders from your zones will be elevated into the limelight, not those illiterate criminal politicians you guys just love to support.

Raiders:
Bukola Saraki is probably going to be the next senate president. It will be zone to north-central

Or George Akume. APC winning Benue is such a huge surprise to everyone within the party hierarchy. Thanks to Gemade and Akume.

Watch the Police IG and the military behave properly on the 11th of April. They no born them well to do as they did last Saturday knowing the next commander in chief already have enough grudges against them.

Watch AIT and NTA start withdrawing their praiseworshipping of the PDP and GEJ from today.

eCollynzo:
I can't wait for April 11. Abia, Imo and Nasarawa will join APGA., there will be no PDP or JOnathan confusion then, all the state assembly seats will follow. Did anyone notice APGA's senatorial results in Nasarawa even without the popular Maku?
That shows the party has already gained serious ground since his defection.
Just check this out.
APGA lost a seat in Nasarawa by less than 500 votes.

www.premiumtimesng.com/regional/north-central/180221-apc-wins-2-senate-seats-in-nasarawa.html

You're right. APGA is already showing signs of being more than just a regional party.

That unholy alliance with PDP robbed it of being sucessful that they should have been during this election.

They should learn to be independent now and not suck @ss like they did with PDP.

You can see how PDP backstabed them to rob them of various elected seats. They don't give a sh1t bout u guys.

pendicle:


You're hallucinating if you think a first termer will be made Senate President. No body can benefit where they didn't sow. She can decamp all she want but she can't even be a principal officer in the senate not even a committee chair.

Lol it may not be in this first term. But believe me, if she were to decamp she would definitely be made a committee chair. That woman is something, believe me.

Texcoco:
Laughable attempts at "divide and rule" tactics on the igbo even now that they are ever more united with the SS as ever in the history of this country....Now political pundits and politicians especially northerners won't take us for granted, go figure Federal reps for Lagos.Whoever wins this would owe it a thing of expiediency to court the igbos/ss because we don dey pull weight.

Yeah, you pulled so much weight the presidency was decided by your coalition of weight pullers.

You won a REP seat in Lagos in an area populated by Igbos and dominated by OPC /aggrived/anti tinubu yorubas. With the persistent and permanent movement of the Presidency to Lagos and the huge dollarization of Lagos by jonaTAN I think he deserved a Senate seat for all his sleeplessness and wastefulness. Lagos is still and will always remain APC

Nothing worth celebrating for the PDP in the SW aside Ekiti so what is the issue here. For APC to sweep ondo clean hmmm. Watch as Fayose is impeached and made accountable soon

ba7man:
You are right. SS and SE are now ever more united in rigging.

The foundation of that unity (GEJ's return to the Presidency) is being pulled apart already.

Now watch how credible leaders from your zones will be elevated into the limelight, not those illiterate criminal politicians you guys just love to support.

[color=#1980BC] [b] Please spare us your holier than thou craprigging allegations, noting fully well your bitter disappointment at having your southwest APC states advantage wiped off by that the single odd state in the much maligned SE/SS.That shows we are not to be taken for granted by any politician in the centre