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7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by BabaAlabi: 11:08am On Sep 01, 2018
Welcome to this thread. You probably opened the thread with convictions in your mind. Either You think Buhari will defeat any candidate hands down or Saraki can never become the pdp presidential nominee. Either way, please do us all a favour, set aside your convictions and political beliefs and let’s discuss for a moment.

The 7 points made below show how Saraki can win Buhari. If you disagree, attack the points one by one. If at the end your points are valid, you would have the honour of effectively ending Saraki’s fledgling campaign. If you stupidly counter with chants of ‘Sai Buhari' or sai atiku. You simply prove that the candidate you support and his followers are unable to critically reason. Are you ready?

1) North Central
When it comes to politics, many non-northern Nigerians are scared of the north. They are afraid of their large populace which will support their candidate even With a knife to their throat. While this mindless followership has been their strength since 1960, it can also be their weakness. The core north is basically the North West and the North East. Take away North Central and their power has been weakened. Right now Buhari is largely unpopular in most states in the north central:
Benue, Jos, Taraba, and Nassarawa due to security reasons.
Kogi due to the ineptitude of the current APC governor
Niger and Kwara due to influence from Babangida and Saraki respectively.
Bukola Saraki is from North Central. If he is made the major opponent of Buhari, the core north will kick against him because he is from north Central. They feel he is not one of them effectively showing North Central indigenes that they can never be president. This will lead to massive support for Saraki from the North Central.

2. Saraki brings more to the table
Atiku, Kwankwaso and other core north candidates will find it hard to even deliver their state in 2019. This is why APC are very confident because Buhari is a legend in the core north. None of the aforementioned can defeat Buhari in the core north whereas Saraki can deliver 6 states in the North Central. Why give the nominee to a candidate who will be flawlessly beaten by Buhari in his own region?

3. Youths
Let’s face it. The youths have a great part to play in this election. The youths make up a large number of the voting population. When it comes to Buhari vs Saraki for the youths, Buhari will definitely pack to Daura. Buhari’s contempt for Nigerian youths cannot be hidden. He has insulted them time and time again on the world stage. He has ensured their continuous oppression with SARS. He has made them unemployed, hungry and frustrated. Saraki is already popular among young Nigerians. Compared to ancient Atiku, Saraki is the clear choice.

4. Public Perception
Currently in Nigeria, the only citizen who has withstood Bihari, Tinubu, IG of Police and the entire APC is Saraki. Nigerians feel Saraki is smart enough to defeat Buhari. He trounced the Code of Conduct Bureau witch hunt. He has humiliated the IG of police. He is perceived as smart and intelligent with the way he became senate president and ruined Tinubu’s planned dictatorship of the senate.

5. South West
Admittedly, Tinubu has most south western states in the palm of his hand. This is fortunately for governorship elections only! When it comes to the presidency, yorubas don’t mindlessly follow like the core north. They will not vote for Buhari just because Tinubu tells them to vote. They will not vote for a candidate that wrecked them economically. Right now, Osun state indigenes are looking for any opportunity to vote out APC. Fayose will never allow APC to embarrass him a second time with rigging so Ekiti state is in the bag. Ajimobi is seen as a power drunk fool with the recent demolition spree so Oyo state is up for grabs.
Bukola Saraki is also Yoruba so they will feel a connection with him. Among other pdp candidates, none will resonate with the south west like Saraki.

6. The power of many
If the present pdp presidential aspirants come together as one, they will collectively weaken Buhari in the north. If they decide to go as lone wolves or bicker about the nomination outcome, they will strengthen Buhari. Kwankwaso can get few votes from Kano instead of APC to be gifted with bloc Kano votes. Tambuwal can help with Sokoto and Atiku can help with Adamawa. Dankwambo can help deliver Gombe. Even if winning is near impossible, a few votes from these areas will go a long way to help Saraki’s pdp to win.

7. The Buhari curse
Generally let us not forget the abysmal performance of Buharis administration. Tribal and religious sentiments aside, Buhari has been the worst Nigerian president. He simply must go back to Daura. 4 out of 6 geopolitical zones know this. 4 out of 6 geopolitical zones will win PDP the election. Finally 4 out of 6 zones can be delivered by Saraki. What do you think?

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Nwaikuku2(m): 11:12am On Sep 01, 2018
SARAKI CAN NEVER BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by BabaAlabi: 11:14am On Sep 01, 2018
Nwaikuku2:
SARAKI CAN NEVER BE OUR NEXT PRESIDENT
I stated 7 reasons why he can. You simply made a statement without points to back it up. Tell me why not?

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by youngsahito(m): 11:18am On Sep 01, 2018
BabaAlabi:

I stated 7 reasons why he can. You simply made a statement without points to back it up. Tell me why not?
because we can't trust him with our resources and money

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Mahsums: 11:21am On Sep 01, 2018
Never

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by BabaAlabi: 11:24am On Sep 01, 2018
youngsahito:
because we can't trust him with our resources and money
This is unproven and baseless. what is proven and factual is that we trusted Buhari in 2015 and he decimated our economy. We cannot and will not make the mistake a second time

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Afamed: 11:28am On Sep 01, 2018
BabaAlabi:

I stated 7 reasons why he can. You simply made a statement without points to back it up. Tell me why not?
It's more than 7 reasons for me. To me it should have been 10 reasons why Saraki will win the Presidential election. So therefore the following should be included

(coolHis ability to manage Societe Generale Bank to one of the leading banks in the world .

(9) Trade Bank as another achievement, where billion of Nigerians were employed.
(10) Empowerment of Offa Armed Robbers with modern and sophisticated weapons
Mesujamba of all politician in Nigeria, enemy of the state.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by youngsahito(m): 11:32am On Sep 01, 2018
BabaAlabi:

This is unproven and baseless. what is proven and factual is that we trusted Buhari in 2015 and he decimated our economy. We cannot and will not make the mistake a second time
I am not supporting buhari but PDP need a strong candidate even though I don't even trust them.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Nwaikuku2(m): 11:32am On Sep 01, 2018
BabaAlabi:

I stated 7 reasons why he can. You simply made a statement without points to back it up. Tell me why not?
Saraki may be smart but he doesn't fit in to be president. Handling house of senate and making laws is where his talent and gift fits in.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Afamed: 11:34am On Sep 01, 2018
BabaAlabi:

This is unproven and baseless. what is proven and factual is that we trusted Buhari in 2015 and he decimated our economy. We cannot and will not make the mistake a second time
Ask JJ Okocha if he can entrust the management of Nigeria economy with Saraki

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by lakeside23: 11:36am On Sep 01, 2018
If you can trust Buhari with your resources why not Mai gida cheesy cheesy cheesy


youngsahito:
because we can't trust him with our resources and money

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by abc115: 11:36am On Sep 01, 2018
[s]author=BabaAlabi post=70803944]Welcome to this thread. You probably opened the thread with convictions in your mind. Either You think Buhari will defeat any candidate hands down or Saraki can never become the pdp presidential nominee. Either way, please do us all a favour, set aside your convictions and political beliefs and let’s discuss for a moment.

The 7 points made below show how Saraki can win Buhari. If you disagree, attack the points one by one. If at the end your points are valid, you would have the honour of effectively ending Saraki’s fledgling campaign. If you stupidly counter with chants of ‘Sai Buhari' or sai atiku. You simply prove that the candidate you support and his followers are unable to critically reason. Are you ready?

1) North Central
When it comes to politics, many non-northern Nigerians are scared of the north. They are afraid of their large populace which will support their candidate even With a knife to their throat. While this mindless followership has been their strength since 1960, it can also be their weakness. The core north is basically the North West and the North East. Take away North Central and their power has been weakened. Right now Buhari is largely unpopular in most states in the north central:
Benue, Jos, Taraba, and Nassarawa due to security reasons.
Kogi due to the ineptitude of the current APC governor
Niger and Kwara due to influence from Babangida and Saraki respectively.
Bukola Saraki is from North Central. If he is made the major opponent of Buhari, the core north will kick against him because he is from north Central. They feel he is not one of them effectively showing North Central indigenes that they can never be president. This will lead to massive support for Saraki from the North Central.

2. Saraki brings more to the table
Atiku, Kwankwaso and other core north candidates will find it hard to even deliver their state in 2019. This is why APC are very confident because Buhari is a legend in the core north. None of the aforementioned can defeat Buhari in the core north whereas Saraki can deliver 6 states in the North Central. Why give the nominee to a candidate who will be flawlessly beaten by Buhari in his own region?

3. Youths
Let’s face it. The youths have a great part to play in this election. The youths make up a large number of the voting population. When it comes to Buhari vs Saraki for the youths, Buhari will definitely pack to Daura. Buhari’s contempt for Nigerian youths cannot be hidden. He has insulted them time and time again on the world stage. He has ensured their continuous oppression with SARS. He has made them unemployed, hungry and frustrated. Saraki is already popular among young Nigerians. Compared to ancient Atiku, Saraki is the clear choice.

4. Public Perception
Currently in Nigeria, the only citizen who has withstood Bihari, Tinubu, IG of Police and the entire APC is Saraki. Nigerians feel Saraki is smart enough to defeat Buhari. He trounced the Code of Conduct Bureau witch hunt. He has humiliated the IG of police. He is perceived as smart and intelligent with the way he became senate president and ruined Tinubu’s planned dictatorship of the senate.

5. South West
Admittedly, Tinubu has most south western states in the palm of his hand. This is fortunately for governorship elections only! When it comes to the presidency, yorubas don’t mindlessly follow like the core north. They will not vote for Buhari just because Tinubu tells them to vote. They will not vote for a candidate that wrecked them economically. Right now, Osun state indigenes are looking for any opportunity to vote out APC. Fayose will never allow APC to embarrass him a second time with rigging so Ekiti state is in the bag. Ajimobi is seen as a power drunk fool with the recent demolition spree so Oyo state is up for grabs.
Bukola Saraki is also Yoruba so they will feel a connection with him. Among other pdp candidates, none will resonate with the south west like Saraki.

6. The power of many
If the present pdp presidential aspirants come together as one, they will collectively weaken Buhari in the north. If they decide to go as lone wolves or bicker about the nomination outcome, they will strengthen Buhari. Kwankwaso can get few votes from Kano instead of APC to be gifted with bloc Kano votes. Tambuwal can help with Sokoto and Atiku can help with Adamawa. Dankwambo can help deliver Gombe. Even if winning is near impossible, a few votes from these areas will go a long way to help Saraki’s pdp to win.

7. The Buhari curse
Generally let us not forget the abysmal performance of Buharis administration. Tribal and religious sentiments aside, Buhari has been the worst Nigerian president. He simply must go back to Daura. 4 out of 6 geopolitical zones know this. 4 out of 6 geopolitical zones will win PDP the election. Finally 4 out of 6 zones can be delivered by Saraki. What do you think?[/quote][/s]

He cannot win PDP primary

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by youngsahito(m): 11:40am On Sep 01, 2018
lakeside23:
If you can trust Buhari with your resources why not Mai gida cheesy cheesy cheesy


I can't trust any1 sef...make they share d resources well

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Auladimeji(m): 11:41am On Sep 01, 2018
Saraki will not be voted for because Yoruba don't know him as his tribal man.
The North can never recognize Saraki as his blood.
So were will he get his vote

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Dannyset(m): 11:43am On Sep 01, 2018
Mtcheww! This OP is just insulting Nigerians

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Afamed: 11:47am On Sep 01, 2018
Dannyset:
Mtcheww! This OP is just insulting Nigerians
OP don run .

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Afamed: 11:50am On Sep 01, 2018
lakeside23:
If you can trust Buhari with your resources why not Mai gida cheesy cheesy cheesy


We once trusted Saraki with our money in Societe Generale Bank. You can conclude the rest of the story or better still meet Okocha for further details.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by bender79: 11:50am On Sep 01, 2018
The reality is that saraki cannot be president at least for now. They reasons are
He does not have enough delegates to deliver at the convention
He is minority north
He does not appeal much to the Yoruba's and core northerners
Pdp financiers will not be comfortable with him because of his betrayal tendencies
Finally, he will renegotiate his senate presidency which I'm not sure will come easy

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by slimfit1(m): 11:56am On Sep 01, 2018
We have useless press in Nigeria Saraki was in London few weeks ago Nigerian press went to his house asking rubbish questions and the man asking the question annoyed me so much because they are not questions a journalist should be asking. The question Saraki was 100 % happy to answer. We have hungry journalists both in Nigeria and abroad.

My question to Saraki.
1 Looking at the state you left Kwara why should any sane human being vote for you as president?
2 Explain the role you played in stopping budget paddling ?
3 Where were you when everyone was fighting for democracy during Abacha's government, we know where Sowore was where were you ?

4 Saraki show us one bill that has changed Nigeria for the past 3 years just one?

5 Saraki show us where you have actually fight for poor people because majority of the people living in Nigeria are poor 1 ?

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by slimfit1(m): 12:01pm On Sep 01, 2018
Nwaikuku2:
Saraki may be smart but he doesn't fit in to be president. Handling house of senate and making laws is where his talent and gift fits in.

Saraki is smart because his people are fools and dumb. Stop glorifying rubbish tell us one law or bill that has changed Nigeria just one non and you are glorifying evil please stop dont do it here. Go and do it in religious section yeah.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by SolutionMee: 12:03pm On Sep 01, 2018
BabaAlabi:
Welcome to this thread. You probably opened the thread with convictions in your mind. Either You think Buhari will defeat any candidate hands down or Saraki can never become the pdp presidential nominee. Either way, please do us all a favour, set aside your convictions and political beliefs and let’s discuss for a moment.

The 7 points made below show how Saraki can win Buhari. If you disagree, attack the points one by one. If at the end your points are valid, you would have the honour of effectively ending Saraki’s fledgling campaign. If you stupidly counter with chants of ‘Sai Buhari' or sai atiku. You simply prove that the candidate you support and his followers are unable to critically reason. Are you ready?

1) North Central
When it comes to politics, many non-northern Nigerians are scared of the north. They are afraid of their large populace which will support their candidate even With a knife to their throat. While this mindless followership has been their strength since 1960, it can also be their weakness. The core north is basically the North West and the North East. Take away North Central and their power has been weakened. Right now Buhari is largely unpopular in most states in the north central:
Benue, Jos, Taraba, and Nassarawa due to security reasons.
Kogi due to the ineptitude of the current APC governor
Niger and Kwara due to influence from Babangida and Saraki respectively.
Bukola Saraki is from North Central. If he is made the major opponent of Buhari, the core north will kick against him because he is from north Central. They feel he is not one of them effectively showing North Central indigenes that they can never be president. This will lead to massive support for Saraki from the North Central.

2. Saraki brings more to the table
Atiku, Kwankwaso and other core north candidates will find it hard to even deliver their state in 2019. This is why APC are very confident because Buhari is a legend in the core north. None of the aforementioned can defeat Buhari in the core north whereas Saraki can deliver 6 states in the North Central. Why give the nominee to a candidate who will be flawlessly beaten by Buhari in his own region?

3. Youths
Let’s face it. The youths have a great part to play in this election. The youths make up a large number of the voting population. When it comes to Buhari vs Saraki for the youths, Buhari will definitely pack to Daura. Buhari’s contempt for Nigerian youths cannot be hidden. He has insulted them time and time again on the world stage. He has ensured their continuous oppression with SARS. He has made them unemployed, hungry and frustrated. Saraki is already popular among young Nigerians. Compared to ancient Atiku, Saraki is the clear choice.

4. Public Perception
Currently in Nigeria, the only citizen who has withstood Bihari, Tinubu, IG of Police and the entire APC is Saraki. Nigerians feel Saraki is smart enough to defeat Buhari. He trounced the Code of Conduct Bureau witch hunt. He has humiliated the IG of police. He is perceived as smart and intelligent with the way he became senate president and ruined Tinubu’s planned dictatorship of the senate.

5. South West
Admittedly, Tinubu has most south western states in the palm of his hand. This is fortunately for governorship elections only! When it comes to the presidency, yorubas don’t mindlessly follow like the core north. They will not vote for Buhari just because Tinubu tells them to vote. They will not vote for a candidate that wrecked them economically. Right now, Osun state indigenes are looking for any opportunity to vote out APC. Fayose will never allow APC to embarrass him a second time with rigging so Ekiti state is in the bag. Ajimobi is seen as a power drunk fool with the recent demolition spree so Oyo state is up for grabs.
Bukola Saraki is also Yoruba so they will feel a connection with him. Among other pdp candidates, none will resonate with the south west like Saraki.

6. The power of many
If the present pdp presidential aspirants come together as one, they will collectively weaken Buhari in the north. If they decide to go as lone wolves or bicker about the nomination outcome, they will strengthen Buhari. Kwankwaso can get few votes from Kano instead of APC to be gifted with bloc Kano votes. Tambuwal can help with Sokoto and Atiku can help with Adamawa. Dankwambo can help deliver Gombe. Even if winning is near impossible, a few votes from these areas will go a long way to help Saraki’s pdp to win.

7. The Buhari curse
Generally let us not forget the abysmal performance of Buharis administration. Tribal and religious sentiments aside, Buhari has been the worst Nigerian president. He simply must go back to Daura. 4 out of 6 geopolitical zones know this. 4 out of 6 geopolitical zones will win PDP the election. Finally 4 out of 6 zones can be delivered by Saraki. What do you think?


Prefect Perfect

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Afamed: 12:06pm On Sep 01, 2018
SolutionMee:


Prefect Perfect
Papa Deceiving Pikin as usual.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by quiverfull(m): 12:07pm On Sep 01, 2018
Nigerian politicians are naturally criminally minded. And it is said that even among thieves, there's honour, but you see this Saraki, he is an epitome of corruption. A man who has no qualms to breach a contract with his own father for selfish reasons cannot be trusted. Four years ago, he betrayed the PDP, and for the past three yeqrs, he has betrayed the APC. Now, he has gone back to the PDP, and you expect me to trust a man without principles with the highest office in the land? No sir!

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by oluwalewis(m): 12:09pm On Sep 01, 2018
youngsahito:
because we can't trust him with our resources and money

The Buhari that you trust with our resources has made us the poorest people on earth.
GEJ was called a buffoon but for Buhari to be called lifeless is really insulting.
May even went to South Africa before coming to Nigeria and had to remind the world that we are the poorest people on earth.
In summary,May came to Nigeria in order to prepare the Britain from the BREXIT breakaway,I am sure Mr President won't make good use of this opportunity to MILK the Britain dry.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by youngsahito(m): 12:25pm On Sep 01, 2018
oluwalewis:


The Buhari that you trust with our resources has made us the poorest people on earth.
GEJ was called a buffoon but for Buhari to be called lifeless is really insulting.
May even went to South Africa before coming to Nigeria and had to remind the world that we are the poorest people on earth.
In summary,May came to Nigeria in order to prepare the Britain from the BREXIT breakaway,I am sure Mr President won't make good use of this opportunity to MILK the Britain dry.
so tell me the polithievian that we can trust with our resources?

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by slimfit1(m): 12:28pm On Sep 01, 2018
oluwalewis:


The Buhari that you trust with our resources has made us the poorest people on earth.
GEJ was called a buffoon but for Buhari to be called lifeless is really insulting.
May even went to South Africa before coming to Nigeria and had to remind the world that we are the poorest people on earth.
In summary,May came to Nigeria in order to prepare the Britain from the BREXIT breakaway,I am sure Mr President won't make good use of this opportunity to MILK the Britain dry.

We are not moving from frying pan to fire simple. I would vote Buhari again not to see Saraki so would most people from South West, South East I don't know but them hate the guy with passion.
If you want to vote for Saraki go to kwara and see the development he left there and judge by your own standard he failed in my own.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by BabaAlabi: 1:02pm On Sep 01, 2018
abc115:
[s]author=BabaAlabi post=70803944]

He cannot win PDP primary
He can and he will. Once pdp members see how valuable he is, it's forward all the way

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by BabaAlabi: 1:04pm On Sep 01, 2018
Auladimeji:
Saraki will not be voted for because Yoruba don't know him as his tribal man.
The North can never recognize Saraki as his blood.
So were will he get his vote
Your comment shows you did not read the stated points. Or you read it and did not understand. North Central, South South, South East, Half of south west and 3 states from the core north will give saraki the presidency.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by BabaAlabi: 1:06pm On Sep 01, 2018
slimfit1:


We are not moving from frying pan to fire simple. I would vote Buhari again not to see Saraki so would most people from South West, South East I don't know but them hate the guy with passion.
If you want to vote for Saraki go to kwara and see the development he left there and judge by your own standard he failed in my own.
You will vote recession and fulani herdsmen just because you hate Saraki? Ladies and gentlemen you can see why Nigeria might never move forward.

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by blazer2018: 1:25pm On Sep 01, 2018
Daydreamers everywhere... grin

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Re: 7 Reasons Why Saraki is The Next President Of Nigeria by Cajal(m): 1:57pm On Sep 01, 2018
BabaAlabi:
Welcome to this thread. You probably opened the thread with convictions in your mind. Either You think Buhari will defeat any candidate hands down or Saraki can never become the pdp presidential nominee. Either way, please do us all a favour, set aside your convictions and political beliefs and let’s discuss for a moment.

The 7 points made below show how Saraki can win Buhari. If you disagree, attack the points one by one. If at the end your points are valid, you would have the honour of effectively ending Saraki’s fledgling campaign. If you stupidly counter with chants of ‘Sai Buhari' or sai atiku. You simply prove that the candidate you support and his followers are unable to critically reason. Are you ready?

1) North Central
When it comes to politics, many non-northern Nigerians are scared of the north. They are afraid of their large populace which will support their candidate even With a knife to their throat. While this mindless followership has been their strength since 1960, it can also be their weakness. The core north is basically the North West and the North East. Take away North Central and their power has been weakened. Right now Buhari is largely unpopular in most states in the north central:
Benue, Jos, Taraba, and Nassarawa due to security reasons.
Kogi due to the ineptitude of the current APC governor
Niger and Kwara due to influence from Babangida and Saraki respectively.
Bukola Saraki is from North Central. If he is made the major opponent of Buhari, the core north will kick against him because he is from north Central. They feel he is not one of them effectively showing North Central indigenes that they can never be president. This will lead to massive support for Saraki from the North Central.

2. Saraki brings more to the table
Atiku, Kwankwaso and other core north candidates will find it hard to even deliver their state in 2019. This is why APC are very confident because Buhari is a legend in the core north. None of the aforementioned can defeat Buhari in the core north whereas Saraki can deliver 6 states in the North Central. Why give the nominee to a candidate who will be flawlessly beaten by Buhari in his own region?

3. Youths
Let’s face it. The youths have a great part to play in this election. The youths make up a large number of the voting population. When it comes to Buhari vs Saraki for the youths, Buhari will definitely pack to Daura. Buhari’s contempt for Nigerian youths cannot be hidden. He has insulted them time and time again on the world stage. He has ensured their continuous oppression with SARS. He has made them unemployed, hungry and frustrated. Saraki is already popular among young Nigerians. Compared to ancient Atiku, Saraki is the clear choice.

4. Public Perception
Currently in Nigeria, the only citizen who has withstood Bihari, Tinubu, IG of Police and the entire APC is Saraki. Nigerians feel Saraki is smart enough to defeat Buhari. He trounced the Code of Conduct Bureau witch hunt. He has humiliated the IG of police. He is perceived as smart and intelligent with the way he became senate president and ruined Tinubu’s planned dictatorship of the senate.

5. South West
Admittedly, Tinubu has most south western states in the palm of his hand. This is fortunately for governorship elections only! When it comes to the presidency, yorubas don’t mindlessly follow like the core north. They will not vote for Buhari just because Tinubu tells them to vote. They will not vote for a candidate that wrecked them economically. Right now, Osun state indigenes are looking for any opportunity to vote out APC. Fayose will never allow APC to embarrass him a second time with rigging so Ekiti state is in the bag. Ajimobi is seen as a power drunk fool with the recent demolition spree so Oyo state is up for grabs.
Bukola Saraki is also Yoruba so they will feel a connection with him. Among other pdp candidates, none will resonate with the south west like Saraki.

6. The power of many
If the present pdp presidential aspirants come together as one, they will collectively weaken Buhari in the north. If they decide to go as lone wolves or bicker about the nomination outcome, they will strengthen Buhari. Kwankwaso can get few votes from Kano instead of APC to be gifted with bloc Kano votes. Tambuwal can help with Sokoto and Atiku can help with Adamawa. Dankwambo can help deliver Gombe. Even if winning is near impossible, a few votes from these areas will go a long way to help Saraki’s pdp to win.

7. The Buhari curse
Generally let us not forget the abysmal performance of Buharis administration. Tribal and religious sentiments aside, Buhari has been the worst Nigerian president. He simply must go back to Daura. 4 out of 6 geopolitical zones know this. 4 out of 6 geopolitical zones will win PDP the election. Finally 4 out of 6 zones can be delivered by Saraki. What do you think?
....UR PRESIDENT
WE SHALL REMIND U IN THE NEXT 7MONTHTA
SARAKI INFLUENCE NOW IN KWARA IS NOT UP TO 3LOCAL government
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