PassingShot:

Did Buhari tell you his preference at any time?

Gbajabiamila is the preferred candidate of the establishment, its therefore safe to assume Buhari being the head of that organ won't be happy with the result.

ramdris:
Yet ur region is poverty stricken. Nama!

go hug transformer

fulanimafia:


This is what I was trying to make Barcanista understand. APC strong gidi-gba. Tinubu is not APC, his powers had to be whittled down.

https://www.nairaland.com/2367745/hausa-fulani-political-machinery-strikes

the next battle now is the ministerial list and from the look of this legislative results ,it will be a miracle if the south west or tinubu is given any tangible position. Something tells me ,there is the hand of obj in all these , what many don't realize is the cutting down of tinubu power and influence is like project across party lines . Interest groups from the south south,south east,south west and the north have collectively decided to kill tinubu growing influence and limit his powers to his south west region.

The All Progressives Congress (APC) has described as totally unacceptable and the highest level of indiscipline and treachery the conduct of Tuesday’s inauguration of the National Assembly that led to the emergence of Bukola Saraki and Yakubu Dogara as Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, respectively.

”Senator Bukola and Hon. Dogara are not the candidates of the APC and a majority of its National Assembly members-elect for the positions of Senate President and House Speaker. The party duly met and conducted a straw poll and clear candidates emerged for the posts of Senate President, Deputy Senate President and Speaker of the House of Representatives, supported by a majority of all Senators-elect and members-elect of the House of Representatives. All National Assembly members-elect who emerged on the platform of the party are bound by that decision.

”The party is supreme and its interest is superior to that of its individual members,” the party said in a statement issued in Abuja Tuesday by its National Publicity Secretary, Lai Mohammed.
http://www.premiumtimesng.com/news/headlines/184725-breaking-apc-rejects-election-of-saraki-dogara-as-senate-president-house-speaker.html

Obiagelli:

New member of wetin?

PDP, news filtering in from the grapevine says that you ve been engaging in anti party activites by supporting saraki and dogara.

Your 40k is hereby suspended till further notiice

zik4ever:
Next questions from me -when will Dogara's deputy be elected? Who is he or she? Is it a PDP or APC member? Is he or she from South West, East or South South? Ha ha. Welcome to change jor!

pdp,apc,southwest,east,south south....u didn't even bother to ask if he will be capable?or progressive?or....ah! I feel like crying

saaedlee:
APC!!!

A win for him is still a win for our dear Party;APC and it is an indication that this country is moving forward unlike previous assemblies when we have "selection" instead of "elections" for NASS Speakers!

. Keep consolng urself. 'Minority' party beat APC? Shame shame shame..shame!

Realconfo:
You guys need to learn about reverse psychology, PDP played directly the way APC wanted them to play, they knew PDP will support whoever they opposed. Lawan and Gbaja were just props. Now VP/SP(Yoruba) while Presido/Speaker (Hausa/Fulani). For you to understand politics, you need to look beyond regions. The way i see it, PDP just buried themselves more, why did APC announce their supposed candidates after the mock election. Normally parties do not have chosen candidates, you just put your name, campaign and the whole house votes. So they created the illusion of a broken party because they knew PDP will always vote against them.51 APC members did not vote at all today, why is that? PDP keeps burying themselves politically, David Mark and Bukola have totally different ideas (the Open NASS situation),Lawan would have worked better with David Mark. PDP need to start using their head cause we still need them. To all those who thinks Tinubu lost, i am laughing cause Tinubu's main purpose is to control government without being directly involved with it, So if Tinubu and Bukola are in cohorts, you can't blame Tinubu for Bukola's actions cause he did not publicly endorse him, Do you know what goes on behind close doors? All these will not affect them, it will affect us, the citizens.

Keep on deceiving yourself.Story for the gods.

Mogidi:


Gbajabiamila is the preferred candidate of the establishment, its therefore safe to assume Buhari being the head of that organ won't be happy with the result.

Safe to say? Despite his consistent pronouncement that he doesn't have a preferred candidate? Despite his advising the party to let the NASS choose their leadership?

How can you guys be satisfied really?

babs01:
President...North
Senate president...North
Speaker .... North

we are born to rule.......
how market southerners?

Chief Justice of Nigeria=North. The north are now in full control of the whole three arms of government. PMB knows what he is doing. They are even clamouring for the position of SGF, NSA & Chief of staff.
In fact make they take everything. Osibanjo can relinquish his V.P. 4 them too.

Keneking:
Yes

PRESS RELEASE FROM MY OFFICE.

With these victories today, Tinubu will know that Nigeria is bigger than him and that Nigeria is different from Lagos state where he dictates to them what to do or what not to do. How market Tinubu?

Eastlink:

Now this is how it should be.

Lol. For your mind.

SP --- Yoruba.

Cry me holy water.

Northerners. I laff dem don field the maiduguri guy monguno for deputy speaker. My. Problem with northerners they don't give a Bleep about any section of the country. PDP was corrupt but a nationalist party

obodundo:
pdp,apc,southwest,east,south south....u didn't even bother to ask if he will be capable?or progressive?or....ah! I feel like crying

We should have at least one competent person from each zone so its appropriate to ask where. There is zoning and we cant deny it else Buhari should have run with a Hausa man or a fellow Muslim. Sorry, thats the hard fact in Nigeria's political culture. Maybe with time it wont matter.

chronique:
Checkmate!

Question: what do you call a party that has the position of the president and the vice president,but finds it difficult to produce a consensus candidate for the position of the senate president and speaker of house of reps,and allows the opposition to determine who gets both posts?

Answer: APC

It is people like you that has pushed PDP into committing various kinds on impunity causing stunted growth of our democracy for 16yrs. That Buhari and APC allowed democracy win, does not mean they are weak or have no interest in their party.

Let Nigerians be proud that our stunteddemocracy has suddenly grown wings. Thanks to APC.

With cane or what?

Sunshinelady:
. Keep consolng urself. 'Minority' party beat APC? Shame shame shame..shame!

Minority Party Beat APC to Produce Speaker, is that what you mean?

kennygee:
This Assembly is up for war, Maze go soon miss.

My pretty lady no mace go miss. Even if it misses, there is an 'aka odu' aka pistle as substitute.

obodundo:
All of you guys are the problem with Nigeria. On this thread, words like fulani,yoruba,hausa,northerners have appeared a million times more than words like capable,visionary,articulate....I for one will disown the guy dat represents my constituency if he spends the next four years in hibernation like most of our legislators do!
Think of it, dat guy that represents you, how many times have u seen him speak on the floor. That woman who represents your village, what has she done for ur people? I feel like lashing all of u. I swear! *very angry*

The only Sensible comment on this thread so far, how on earth would any sensible man be rejoicing over this recent political happenings? smh!

CSTR2:
The SW is undergoing marginalization even under the APC.
A party they claim to control.
na only una waka come.?
Marginalization under PDP and APC.
That is what happens when you don't stand for anything.

SW goes wherever the wind blows one of its leaders - SW masses never have any political conviction..

Despise for Ijoid and Igboid people in Aso Rock made SW leaders commit political somersault last election - a Buhari thrice rejected by Nigeria with strong reasons was suddenly dusted up by SW-controlled media which crafted all sorts of negative media propaganda, including theft and hyper corruption against Ijoid and Igboid people near Aso Rock.

Does it matter who and who emerge as NASS leaders? The entire south of Nigeria still remains an appendage to the north to be controlled by northern politicians through the undue advantage of myriad number of states and local govt councils scattered by northern soldiers in the north.

SpencerLewis:

Chief Justice of Nigeria=North. The north are now in full control of the whole three arms of government. PMB knows what he is doing. They are even clamouring for the position of SGF, NSA & Chief of staff.
In fact make they take everything. Osibanjo can relinquish his V.P. 4 them too.

My brother, change is here jor!

onatisi:
the next battle now is the ministerial list and from the look of this legislative results ,it will be a miracle if the south west or tinubu is given any tangible position. Something tells me ,there is the hand of obj in all these , what many don't realize is the cutting down of tinubu power and influence is like project across party lines . Interest groups from the south south,south east,south west and the north have collectively decided to kill tinubu growing influence and limit his powers to his south west region.

Very true. Tinubu is quite ambitious, and definitely is connected to the delay in releasing the ministerial list. However I think the ministerial list will mostly be based on competence and integrity, another possible reason for the current impasse, so the SW will definitely feature prominently.

whao:


And this Tinubu is the man I dreamed of two days ago that God use him to elevate me. Anyway I am not into politics but a liberal human.

What ever one saw! That shall he reap. Let your good deed yield fruit.

One love

Plenty love dude...one love is not enough to go round.

That Mock-Election by APC just made people more Angry....there was no need for it. I really feel for Gbajabiamila... I'm a bit indifferent about Lawan.

brownlord:


Your head is there.

Like I told my sister this morning, while people be shouting PDP/APC here, the north only have one agenda, return power to the north at all cost, they used tinubu and their slave in the west to achieve this.

Tinubu has got to learn something different from his amala politics

you are very very correct. The same thing I have always been telling ppl too that buhari will disappoint the south west and tinubu. The allowed tinubu and amaechi to waste their billions . Even before buhari swearing in many power brokers have been telling to realize that it is the northern votes that won him the election and not the south west votes. With the way things are now ,tinubu is virtually back to being in the opposition. The next game plan of atiku and the northern causus will be finding ways to remove key party executives loyal to tinubu. in fact ,the north will take over apc and there is nothing tinubu will be able to do about it .

PassingShot:

Safe to say? Despite his consistent pronouncement that he doesn't have a preferred candidate? [size=15pt]Despite his advising the party to let the NASS choose their leadership?[/size]

How can you guys be satisfied really?

Choose their leadership by intervening? I saw your earlier analysis regarding "interference and intervention"

He intervened but failed.

Realconfo:
You guys need to learn about reverse psychology, PDP played directly the way APC wanted them to play, they knew PDP will support whoever they opposed. Lawan and Gbaja were just props. Now VP/SP(Yoruba) while Presido/Speaker (Hausa/Fulani). For you to understand politics, you need to look beyond regions. The way i see it, PDP just buried themselves more, why did APC announce their supposed candidates after the mock election. Normally parties do not have chosen candidates, you just put your name, campaign and the whole house votes. So they created the illusion of a broken party because they knew PDP will always vote against them.51 APC members did not vote at all today, why is that? PDP keeps burying themselves politically, David Mark and Bukola have totally different ideas (the Open NASS situation),Lawan would have worked better with David Mark. PDP need to start using their head cause we still need them. To all those who thinks Tinubu lost, i am laughing cause Tinubu's main purpose is to control government without being directly involved with it, So if Tinubu and Bukola are in cohorts, you can't blame Tinubu for Bukola's actions cause he did not publicly endorse him, Do you know what goes on behind close doors? All these will not affect them, it will affect us, the citizens.

Nigga what How did PDP play itself by electing a Deputy President who is going to be around in all executive/inner caucus meetings APC has no room for secret meeting in the NASS

What is it about Tinubu sef? what exactly has he done wrongly that most people here who can not even play their immediate family politics well let alone politics of a big nation like Nigeria, some people even thought Politics is played with mouth.

Nigerians why do we like the "pull him down syndrome" everything about politics in Nigeria now is about Tinubu ah ha make una leave dis man alone na, let him be please.

Femi Gbajabiamila's chosen deputy was someone from the North East like Dogara. As it is, whoever he or she is wont fly. I see members quickly consulting to come up with a nominee from another zone. I wish they would chose a good hand from the South South so that all the zones are represented.

PassingShot:

Some of you guys are really funny and behaving as though Dogara and Saraki are of PDP.

Childish if you ask me!

That is one thing I still find very hard to understand... What exactly are they jubilant about The party I support controls both chambers, so what's with the taunting??

Perhaps there is something they are privy to which we aren't.

babs01:
President...North
Senate president...North
Speaker .... North

we are born to rule.......
how market southerners?

My guy is not a matter holding all the position, what is the living condition of the average northerner ?

The called ndi igbo fools for aligning with PDP, the said that we should stick to trade and stay away from politics. Now who has the last laugh, as usual the North would use them like tissue paper and flush them in the toilet... I guess ibos are wiser after all. Watch this deputy speaker would BE FROM SOUTH SOUTH or SOUTHEAST

Please who are the nominees for deputy Speaker. Dogara's own is done so lets move on. There was a Tambuwal so lets live with it.