diebuhari1:
Yes, most Igbos will never dream of voting for Buhari even with a gun to their forehead, but there are other parties and also an option of boycotting the elections if PDP betrays us and that would be a disaster for Atiku and PDP.
For 16 years of PDP rule, none of the top 2 positions went to the SE despite the unflinching support from the region, now some people are still suggesting rubbish.
I don't know why Yorubas want to reap where they did not sow

U forgot to put d word *again*

PDP betraying u people no b today despite ur slavery loyalty to them

Smhh

Umueme:
Didnt even bother to read the post,but one thing is certain if SW gets the VP slot then we give Bubu our vote and get 2023 presidency. We aint gonna fall for the gimmicks of the afonjas no more. VP and senate pres. from one region.....

But hey! what do i know....
#MyOpinion

Saraki is Fulani from north central. He only bears a Yoruba first name. Or would you call Rotimi Amaechi a Yoruba man too? Or Ebele Jonathan an Igbo man?

Daewang:
Igbos have been making all the sacrifices for PDP all this while and taking the attacks and insults. The VP position must come to SE or else we destroy everything. I personally would campaign against Atiku let everything burn down. We are not fools.

Speak for yourself.....

Daboomb:


Its NEVER gionna happen, mark my words and bookmark this thread till wednesday.

Eitherway, PDP will still lose the election!

Atiku would not make the mistake of picking his VP from the East. He hopes the Votes of the West will tip him over the bar.
WHY?
- SEast has small voting population compared to the West

- He knows the East does not really like the North that much and wont risk the wrath of the SWest


Even if he picks his VP from the SWest, can that person be more "intelligent" than Osinbajo?
The West will stil not vote for Atiku. he is a wanted criminal and the West dont tolerate such scumbags.

Will that mean they would vote for Buhari?
Thats a 50-50 because he is stuck with osinbajo.
A lot of S/Westerners will not vote for Buhari due to his Nepotism, support for the terrorist herdsmen and his fulanisation Agenda.
Ofcourse, the East too will not vote for him anyway.

You people said this same thing during PDP chairmanship election. Always empty

mynairaland2018:


Lol! This is funny. So NOW u believe dt Saraki is Yoruba. I've been telling u igbos this since, but one was arguing wt me abt his great grandfathers house in futa jalon. You iPob guys are actually not worth arguing with. You change opinion like the wind.

Anyways throughout dt whole senate brouhaha, the only reason tinubu supported Ndume was because he didn't want another yoruba man to be no3, in fairness to the party. But u guys always pick the wrong side of a fight. Doesn't even make sense why igbos would support atiku for another 8yrs, when they could get presidency in 4yrs after Buhari. Boggles the mind really

So let's assume bubu gets 2019, are you saying Igbos could get on the saddle in 2023? As in APC will field an Igbo candidate?

So if you are PDP what will you do? Won't you field a candidate from the North?

Babzrockman:


U forgot to put d word *again*

PDP betraying u people no b today despite ur slavery loyalty to them

Smhh

PDP has not betrayed anyone. It is yet to chose its VP candidate and when it does it will be from the SE

mycar:
Then that negates everything, what is worth doing is worth doing fine, no more no less.

Everybody is tired of Buhari, pick your VP from SE and you have 99% SE & SS and 50% SW with you, get 50% North and you are good to go
SW should go for SP, they can push their agenda from there.

pdp is in tight position

diebuhari1:
Yes, most Igbos will never dream of voting for Buhari even with a gun to their forehead, but there are other parties and also an option of boycotting the elections if PDP betrays us and that would be a disaster for Atiku and PDP.
For 16 years of PDP rule, none of the top 2 positions went to the SE despite the unflinching support from the region, now some people are still suggesting rubbish.
I don't know why Yorubas want to reap where they did not sow

You are very funny.

South west has the second Largest voting population. There’s hardly a thing to be done by that.

You people scream marginalisation yet when you had the opportunity to pick the presidential ticket in PDP, you zoned it to the North.

If you truly wanted to be represented you would have given unstinting support to your indigenous party, APGA, or demanded from the PDP, a flag bearer from your own region. But no! Bitterness drives your choices. You would rather camp with the opponent of your enemy than advance your own cause.

Ngige’s case is a similar example. He had a clear chance of being the Senate President but you didn’t vote for one of your best former governors just because you hate someone in his party.

Your politics of hatred and bitterness is unrivalled. Kudos.

Jokers.

senatordave1:

Dont contradict yourself to sound correct.he won under acn in 2011,apc defeated pdp in last year polls.if ngige is loved,he should be able to organize half of them to vote buhari.nany voters dont vote base on feelings but base on mobilization

ACN was a neutral party, APC with Buhari is anti=Igbo, and will not win any position in the East, as far as Buhari is the President, it may change later, but not with Buhari.

Please remember 2015, how many Easterners voted Buhari? Not even Ojukwu will make us love Buhari.

mycar:
Then that negates everything, what is worth doing is worth doing fine, no more no less.

Everybody is tired of Buhari, pick your VP from SE and you have 99% SE & SS and 50% SW with you, get 50% North and you are good to go
SW should go for SP, they can push their agenda from there.

I don't know how SOUTH west region that has gained the most under PDP's platform would claim they didn't benefit anything from PDP... that is height of greed.

SOUTH west had presidency under PDP more than any region for complete eight years, even when they didn't vote for PDP, instead chosing to vote AD.

If this man picks ngozi, it will really help him

mycar:


Your plan will not work, you can eat your cake and have it.

Actually it is the yorubas who want to eat their cake and have it. They kicked out PDP from their region and are asking for a SW VP slot. It wil never work that way.


If PDP insults the East by picking a vice from the SW, they have already failed before starting. Sowore and his sahara reporters can continue to try to cajole and deceive PDP into sidelining the East so that their APC can have easy ride.
If PDP falls into that trap that yorubas who are largely anti-PDP is setting for them, then it is over.
yorubas will never give pdp block votes even if Jesus christ were from yorubaland and is picked as VP. yoruba muslims who are led by muric will vote their APC party, then yoruba christians will still split votes.

If Atiku picks a SW VP and insults the East, he will be dropped like hot coal by Easterners. The East kept PDP afloat when yorubas were doing everything to kill it. SW cannot reap where they did not sow.

Atiku is picking an Eastern vice. Shikena.

babsdeen:



This one is talking as if their yeye pdp will emerge in 2019... Share your ticket within yourself, Southwest don't dine with losers again... Once you wake from your slumber, come and join the moving train... The more, the merrier!

Baburudeen Adisa my yoruba muslim brother, which moving train are you talking about?
Is it APC retrogressive train that move naira from 160/dollar to 380/dollar, is it the APC train that made nigeria the poverty capital of the world.

I know you live in a muddy brown roof house in oshogbo but Muric the leadership of yoruba muslim have sold your brain for a plate of Iresi Aregbe.

How Old are you then (1983)?

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FarahAideed:


Liar Atiku was already worth Over 50 million dollars by 1983 by mid 90s he was a super financer of the Shehu Yaradua political movt ....By 1999 he was clear worth over 150miliin dollars...Even Tinubu will vote for Atiku because the Tinubu family have been one of the biggest beneficiary ..Till date WaLe Tinubu and co owe Atiku over 200 million dollars he invested in Oando to help stabilize them

Buterflyle0:


And you are spiritualist who somehow knows that it is SE people who divided the votes abi?

Oga muslim BMC, let me teach you one rule about effective propaganda, never make it very obvious that you are trying to propagate propaganda, it will make your propaganda easily acceptable.
Your hustle is making your propaganda very obvious and less effective. It is as if there is pressure from lie mohammed on you to 'deliver' but unfortunately you are still not making any headway.

PM me, make I teach how to hide effective propaganda messages in plain sight without being too pushful and wasting efforts and data before dem go vex sack you from zombie head office.

There will be protest votes from the SW.

Atiku must know what to do, and it appears they are already onto it; high powered politicking.

ijustdey:
“So, what they are looking at are the sentiments that the vice presidential candidate can drive for the joint ticket. To a large extent, they are looking at South-East, of course; and I can confirm to you that the South-East has a strong case.

But the major consideration delaying the announcement is that a lot of stakeholders feel that the position should go to South-West. And they’ve been giving lots of reasons for that," said the source.







http://saharareporters.com/2018/10/09/exclusive-south-east-has-strong-case-atiku%E2%80%99s-running-mate-come-south-west

truthstands01:

The analysis the guy gave is correct. APC got 700,000+ while PDP got 600,000+ in 2015. That shows that there are many people from other zones that live in SW especially Lagos. SE VP will give Atiku bulk votes of SE/SS.

So what was i saying. You people on nairaland are too dence. So it is the other ethnic that are living in the west that pulled out that number of votes, all yorubas voted for APC, it is igbo and other ethnic that will now come n pull out such figure. I guess the people that voted Pdp in ondo, ekiti and osun elections were igbos and other ethnic group too. So many educated illiterate among you.

mycar:
Then that negates everything, what is worth doing is worth doing fine, no more no less.

Everybody is tired of Buhari, pick your VP from SE and you have 99% SE & SS and 50% SW with you, get 50% North and you are good to go
SW should go for SP, they can push their agenda from there.

Whatever the case is SS & SE will always vote PDP SW&NC are swing zones that need landslide victory to win the election. NC candidate would have been the perfect VP candidate but a sole N ticket won't fly the next best thing is to get a SW VP that can swing atleast 60% votes and hope that NC will give similar result.

Your assumption that PDP can get 50% votes from SW might be a little bogus, all SW states are controlled by APC an addition of federal and state might plus lots of cash the chances are slim.

Bolustical:


So, who did the SW vote for in 2003, 2007 and 2011 Presidential elections? APC abi?

You people are just politically senile.

gbam!!!

Please sentiment should be put aside here,yes south East has a case but the VP slot should be given to S/W for the first tenure,then the case can change for second term..You know APC is not a marketable product in S/S and to some extent S/E ,so the vote is somehow secured there..

Mujtahida:

1993? Na wa ooo. More than 20 years later? And you disregard changes in demographics and migration?

Try and compare the two regions to know which is more politically relevant

Most people commenting here are only reaoing based on sentiments. If truly we want to reposition the country for a better tomorrow, where the VP comes should not matter here.. What i can deduce from the south-easterners is that they are more concerned about 2023 presidency and not effort at removing APC from power. Imagine them threatening notto support Atiku if VP is not given to them. I understand their plight but if VP is eventua'ly ceded to south-west, they should still support Atiku for better Nigeria. Note that most people in sojthwest are tired of APC govt and will definitely vote for Atiku presidency.

I feel sad for our politics in the east. We give support without any thing on the table. I don't know what to blame for this.

badoh:
Most people commenting here are only reaoing based on sentiments. If truly we want to reposition the country for a better tomorrow, where the VP comes should not matter here.. What i can deduce from the south-easterners is that they are more concerned about 2023 presidency and not effort at removing APC from power. Imagine them threatening notto support Atiku if VP is not given to them. I understand their plight but if VP is eventua'ly ceded to south-west, they should still support Atiku for better Nigeria. Note that most people in sojthwest are tired of APC govt and will definitely vote for Atiku presidency.

Politics is local.

kingkakaone:

If Atiku is smart he will pick his VP from the East.
The West has always gone against PDP since 1999 except their leaders push them and now all their leaders and governors are APC.

If he doesn't pick fromm the East, there will be massive voters apathy and unwillingness to vote from that zone.

He should just pick his VP from East and campaign more in the North East and North Central with some support from the NW and SW and he's good to go.

You don't get it, do you? The east has pledged allegiance to PDP and that's where it missed it. Parties should fight to have your region, not you fighting to have parties. Now, everyone on God's green planet knows the worst Igbos can do is boycott the election. Politically, the Igbos have it but analytically, it isn't a wise choice. The SS or SW are reasonable to obtain maximum votes. The Igbos talk to much and are very predictable. Surprise these parties once and see how you'd become the centre of attention rather than pledge allegiance and get taken for granted.

Even if SE wins the VP slot, it has much more to lose as PDP would try to buy a liberal SW over as soon as they get to power and eventually neglect SE. Johnathan did that to the North but still lost everything. That's the nature of man and not politics alone.

sogodihno:


And u shud know that, none of those 3 persons is anyway close to Osinbajo, Tinubu, Fashola or even Ambode sef in worth, relevance and electoral value presently in APC.

Doesn't matter, depending on if the North wants the presidency to go round and there is nothing tinubu can do.

Just like there is no pdp Yoruba leader of note and yet some people want to give the sw the VP for their own reasons.

Besides, okorocha, ngige and orji uzor kalu are not small men.
They have a lot of northern friends, they have a lot of money, and the south east is yet to get the presidency.
All those factors could see the apc presidencial candidate coming to the east.

caracas:

Like i Said before u know nada check statistics again
N for ur info igbos were not allowed to vote in the North .
More than 10 million igbos ran away with their pvcs in 2015.
It wud not be the same this time around.

Are you saying by inference that Ibos are cowards??

safarigirl:
South East did not boycott any election in 2015.....if Atiku picks a SW VP, Nigeria will see what a boycott looks like from SE......bear in mind, the more people do not show up to vote, the easier rigging will be.

Everybody I have spoken to is of the opinion that Atiku should get a VP from SE, and everyone I have spoken to is from the SW. The deciding region in this election will be the North Central. South West is APC, they should get Osibanjo, South East is PDP, they should get the VP slot

During the last election, ibos felt reluctant to vote for Jonathan coz they felt he didn't do anything for the eastern region , and also couldn't vote against him in favor of the dullard. So most people didn't turn up for the election. There was high regret from the ibos after Jonathan conceded defeat.
Make enquiries from those who were in the east last election

writerights:


You don't get it, do you? The east has pledged allegiance to PDP and that's where it missed it. Parties should fight to have your region, not you fighting to have parties. Now, everyone on God's green planet knows the worst Igbos can do is boycott the election. Politically, the Igbos have it but analytically, it isn't a wise choice. The SS or W is reasonable to obtain maximum votes. The Igbos talk to much without actions. Surprise these parties once and see how you'd become the centre of attention rather than pledge allegiance and get taken for granted.

Even if SE wins the VP slot, it has much more to lose as PDP would try to buy a liberal SW over as soon as they get to power and eventually neglect SE. Johnathan did that to the North but still lost everything. That's the nature of man and not politics alone.

You need to go and open a political class for Ibos in the SE

The igbos are generally loud and they’ve carried that loud mouth into politics

Daewang:
Igbos have been making all the sacrifices for PDP all this while and taking the attacks and insults. The VP position must come to SE or else we destroy everything. I personally would campaign against Atiku let everything burn down. We are not fools.

You are crying too early, if you continue like this you may not have enough strength to cry till 2019. So, save your strength and wait till INEC announces Buhari as the winner of the 2019 election, then you can cry yourself to death. Remember that NW has 18.9 million registered voters and SW has 14 million registered voters while SE and SS have 7.0 million and 8.9 million registered voters. I hope you still remembers that NE which Buhari saved from Boko Haram has about 10 million registered voters. NC which has Chief Thug Yahaya Bello as Kogi governor and another APC governor in Niger state. Definitely PDP cannot win these two States.

Can you see now that there is no way that many flattinos from the potopoto republic of drugs will not end up inside River Niger when Buhari wins with heart breaking margin?

kaliboi94:


During the last election, ibos felt reluctant to vote for Jonathan coz they felt he didn't do anything for the eastern region , and also couldn't vote against him in favor of the dullard. So most people didn't turn up for the election. There was high regret from the ibos after Jonathan conceded defeat.
Make enquiries from those who were in the east last election

Stop lying biko.
Stop giving the impression that igbos betrayed GEJ after he claimed they were his political backbone.

although there is a “very strong case” for south east ,what are those strong case for south east. Must of us here are as bad as our fathers, when an issue that meant to be of national interest and inclusiveness comes up people start talking trash. And its all these rubbish that is pulling Nigeria backward