Greystone:
The truth of the matter is that, despite my support for APC, the election result shows that sectarian politics is evident and
a lot needs to be done to gain the confidence and trust of all Nigerians.
I do believe in my heart that all well-meaning Nigerians only desire good governance.
The APC should now show that contrary to some belief, they truly have the interests of all Nigerians.
Development should be done in all geopolitical zones, not just the ones that voted APC.
We want a Nigeria we can be proud of.
A Nigeria in which there is respect for law and order.
A Nigeria where there are job opportunities for the masses.
A Nigeria that treats its citizens fairly.
A corruption free Nigeria.

These things u have outlined as what we wish 4 Nigeria, cannot b guaranteed in d next four years

KingWarri:


eleyigidigon

Abi

I love the election results (if what has been reported is fairly accurate). I am an Atiku supporter but I accept he did not have the political support all over the country to overcome PMB.
However, I am still happy with the results.

WHY

1. It reflects the peoples will in the various localities. People voted for the candidate mostly and not the party as was the practice in the past.
2. It got rid of those greedy ex governors who are or who were aspiring to be senators e. Saraki, Akpabi, Ajimobi, Uduaghan etc
3. All the traitors that joined APC in 2015 to get elected and then decamped to PDP have mostly been shown the way out. e. Saraki

I don't think it is premature to congratulate PMB and pray that God would give him the wisdom to lead the country better than he did previously.

Shit analysis,an election filled with irregularities and violence,my friend go back to abeg,you are a zombie.

OP, this thread would have been accepted if this were a free and fair election. So you want to pretend that you don't know that this is the worst and most rigged election in the history of Nigeria?
I have said it before, Buhari knows that he cannot win a free and fair election because Nigerians are tired of him, so he decided to force himself on us again.
God will punish him!!

You sha like to dey make some people cry

midolian:
Writer forgot to mention that Red caps don't bring votes

KingWarri:


this one na worst pass.....

I mean she’s trying to teach us lessons learnt in 2019 election so let’s be real. 1st time I’ve ever seen ballot boxes been burnt live.

The north can put all their eggs in one basket bt the east can’t? Every region has a right to choose as they feel.

op u are a good political analyst. good point very good. thumbs up Mann..

am flummoxed with people's comment about the election been rigged , when the alimajiris and northern are preparing for this electionlike thier life depends on it to favou their likes (BUARI). The people here started like and share on Nairaland , twitter and facebook.
the yought here started argument on social media some of them don't even have have their PVC we saw some of them busy playing football on election day and you are coming back here to castigate the fact that buari won through rigging.




Congratulation in advance buari till 2023.

midolian:


http://www.nta.ng/news/politics/20190226-some-great-lessons-learnt-in-nigerias-presidential-election/

lalasticlala

Even a new born baby knows what really happened

midolian:


15 months?

Which kain crime you commit like that?

Maybe he attempted to bomb nairaland

Kenzykingson:




This your group name is scary (MAGA-ZONE)

Hope say is not what I'm thinking oooh

Lol

Trashes..........., shiiiiiiits.....

Social media indicators certainly were accurate when viewed through the proper perspective. APC's support base in the southwest has clearly been significantly eroded which was unexpected.

As the majority of Nigeria's social media users are located in the south in general, clearly social media accurately indicated that Buhari would not have an easy ride anywhere in the south.

Now the mistake would have been assuming that the social media sample was representative of the entire Nigeria.

All these things would be true, if the results are not being MANIPULATED. Bottom line, the people voted but the voted have not been counted. What we have today is a systematic award of votes. Nothing more nothing less.

midolian:


http://www.nta.ng/news/politics/20190226-some-great-lessons-learnt-in-nigerias-presidential-election/

lalasticlala

Miscellaneous:
No matter the outcome of this election.....
I will no longer condemn Middle Belt killings by Fulani terrorists

North East killings by Boko Haram terrorists

and North West killings by armed bandits.

I can't be crying more than the bereaved.

Each time it happens, I will follow you laugh and congratulate the perpetrators since we all love the way things are going. Afterall, here is me in Enugu, the most peaceful state in Nigeria.

princegeo:
Na when hunger go start by March or April we go know who be who...

Wetin concern me everybody Dn dy use android dy talk rubbish

Exactly my thought. My problem is the Fulani Headmen and the encouragement they are getting from Pre. Buhari. Any way Nigerians have made thier choice so did the MB/NC. The way they have decided lay their bed so they will lie on it in the next for years .I fear for this country any way under Buhari's administration

You forgot to mention that elites voted for Atiku especially in the South.

Great one indeed. The Igbos will not learn anything, bitterness is in them.

olaolaking:
Maybe he attempted to bomb nairaland

Loooolz is like you guys don't know that someone can intentionally jail his self for some months




That's what most Nigerian guys like doing now, for me i have jailed myself for almost 3years making my cool forex trade money till Nigeria starts working then we can unjail our self's



#ndimmaduself

Naughtytboy:
Look at this fool, Buhari will not be declared as the winner

You must be related in one way or the other to Obasanjo...please, where can I find him?

Show me the forex way na. Me I'm doing binary options.

Kenzykingson:




Loooolz is like you guys don't know that someone can intentionally jail his self for some months




That's what most Nigerian guys like doing now, for me i have jailed myself for almost 3years making my cool forex trade money till Nigeria starts working then we can unjail our self's



#ndimmaduself

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Great post! Great analyses!

I salute those Nigerians on all sides for voting
their minds because this election mostly reflected
the actual voting pattern... and I congratulate
PMB/PYO again in advance of their impending
victory at the 2019 polls.

I salute the NW/NE especially for
delivering the very clear lead for PMB.

In the SW I salute Ekiti State for giving
PMB victory in all the local governments
and winning the 3 Senatorial Districts.


#4+4 Mafia!



PS: With Dangote Petrochemical Refinery, Lekki,
Lagos coming on stream by end of 2019/2020 which will
drop the pump price of petrol to about N50 per litre and
the new standard guage railway lines that are being
finished - such as the Lagos-Abeokuta-Ibadan-Kano
and the Lagos-Calabar line that will start in the next
government... the cost of living WILL drop for all
Nigerians, and they will be happier in their daily lives
and not be hostile again!

All the best!

midolian:


http://www.nta.ng/news/politics/20190226-some-great-lessons-learnt-in-nigerias-presidential-election/

lalasticlala

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It is now crystal clear that Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress is heading for a crushing defeat of Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, candidate of the opposition Peoples Democratic Party.

There had been surprises and upsets in many states as the results were announced, but not predicted was that the APC candidate, vilified on social media by PDP warriors, on the pulpits by bigoted hate preachers, would return a resounding victory against PDP.

Here are some of the lessons learnt in the February 23 election:

1. Social media power overrated: If elections are won on Twitter and Facebook, President Buhari would by now be writing his handover notes and be preparing to tend his cows on his farm in Daura. But the limitations of the social media platforms especially Twitter have just been exposed by the results of the election. The candidate of the PDP got more retweets, more likes for tweets by supporters on Twitter, but such preferences count for nothing in the real voting. For information, although there are over 92 million Nigerians using the internet, not all of them are connected to the social media platforms.



According to some verified statistics, about 25 million Nigerians use Facebook, with 16 million being active users.

Twitter users are in several millions, representing just 8.83% of social media users. At 8.29 %, users of Pinterest are surprisingly close to users of Twitter. Instagram commands just 2.0 per cent and Facebook 78.47 per cent as at 2018.

This may explain why the orchestrated campaigns of falsehood and calumny against the APC candidate did not get much traction going into the election. As past elections had shown in Nigeria, the people who vote are the ordinary people, the peasants, petty traders, artisans who are not wired to the social media platforms. And they have spoken in favour of the candidate they believe is the greatest friend of the ‘Talakawa’.

2. Elite power, pulpit power has been smashed by the results of the election. [/b]Those hate preachers who abused the pulpit to command their congregation to vote for the PDP have been put to shame. Elite in the north and south who believe Buhari has been ‘bad business’ and worked vigorously to dethrone him, now also know their powers are limited. The ordinary masses hold the master key to ‘people power’. Buhari, like in 2015, has overcome elite gang up and conspiracy of the churches. In Abuja, the votes recorded in Kubwa, Garki, Mbappe and some other places with a wide Christian population and civil servants against Buhari were to some extent offset by farmers living in the villages around the capital.

3. [b]Politicians who put a lot of score on endorsement now should know better. The Afenifere in Yorubaland and the various political groups largely failed to mobilise the votes for Buhari in the region, despite their endorsement. The results in Lagos, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Ekiti, Oyo were too close to show that the people did not heed the instructions of the groups. Ohanaeze was also rebuffed to some extent in the south east states. The Northern Elders Forum of Ango Abdullahi, the Middle Belt Forum, the Arewa Consultative Forum need some reality checks about their power as opinion moulders.

4. The fourth lesson is that Igbo appeared to have learnt some lessons from their one-basket political disposition in 2015. In 2019, they did not put all their eggs in one basket, as they gave Buhari more than 25 per cent in Ebonyi, Abia, Anambra and Imo. Only Enugu gave Buhari the snub as the opposition recorded a thumping victory here, 355,553 votes to Buhari’s 54,423. In Lagos, however, Igbo voting pattern like suspected in 2015, unsettled their Yoruba hosts, leading to threatening inter-ethnic hostility. Yoruba believe that Igbo should always support their interests, afterall ‘When in Rome, one is expected to behave like the Romans’.

5.All politics is truly local. Kwarans demonstrated this in the way they humiliated the PDP and its chief strategist, Bukola Saraki, rejecting the campaign of ‘better Nigeria’, ‘making Nigeria work again’, for home grown wild fire campaign of ‘O To ge’, which translates to “Enough is Enough’. The campaign dethroned Saraki from Kwara central senate seat and smashed the PDP into political irrelevance, with the APC recording 308,984 votes, two and a half times more than the 138,184 votes recorded by the PDP. In Daura, Katsina, voters showed the APC senatorial candidate that he needed to settle with them as they clobbered him, by voting for the Accord Party candidate, in the same polling unit, where Buhari recorded over 700 votes to three for Atiku. In Kogi state, Dino Melaye won a return ticket to the Senate despite all the controversies he generated. He will need to thank fumbling ex-police chief, Ibrahim Idris for making him popular with his people. And in Bauchi, speaker Yakubu Dogara survived his expected political demise and won fourth term ticket in his Bogoro/Dass/Tafawa Balewa Federal constituency.

6. Buhari is the only politician in Nigeria today with a solid home base. President Buhari has proven once again that he is the Awolowo, Aminu Kano of our time, posting overwhelming victory in his home state of Katsina and other states, such asd Kano, Zamfara, Kebbi, Kaduna, Jigawa in the North West that he had consistently won since 2003, when he made the first bid for Nigeria’s presidency. Buhari also showed commanding presence in the North east. Atiku failed to show such political force in his state of Adamawa that he won with a few thousand votes. Then to show how Buhari has gathered much political traction since elected in 2015, he had a strong showing in states, such as Benue, Plateau, Taraba, Nasarawa, with high Christian population, that Atiku thought he would have won convincingly, based on the propaganda that Buhari is anti-Christian. Buhari similarly cut inroads into South South and South East states, denying Atiku any Tsunami effect from the zones.

7. Finally, lies, falsehood do get their comeuppances in the fullness of time. This election has proven this. Buhari in the run-up to the poll was the target of so many vicious lies and propaganda. The most reprehensible lie was that he was a clone from Sudan planted in Aso Rock. He was also painted as a hater of Christians, who allowed Boko Haram to seize a Christian girl Leah Sharibu. They accused him of promoting an Islamisation agenda and of being an ethnic bigot who favoured his region in appointments. Some even said he had finished Nigeria with foreign debts, a claim that was not supported by available facts. The opposition will need to invent new lies now as the President has posted a most crushing defeat of their candidate.

http://www.nta.ng/news/politics/20190226-some-great-lessons-learnt-in-nigerias-presidential-election/

gidgiddy:


What is this supposed to mean? In what way does giving APC 25% benefit Igbos in anyway? Is it so that APC and Buhari will remember Igbos? So the percentage of votes you give the winning party is a reflection of how you will be treated? If So, what is the point of "one Nigeria"?


When in Rome, you do like the Romans? And when you are in Nigeria, you do like who? What is the point of "one Nigeria" if an Igbo man has to live by the dictates of Yorubas while in Lagos, or the dictates of Hausa when in Kano?


Where is the Nigeria we are talking about?

This one nor fit get sense...make una leave am abeg.

his northern supporters didnt sake their life to defense their vote unfortunate southern supporters sake their life to defense their votes

ruby360:
The Redeemed Christian Church of God should come out now and denounce Prof. Osibanjo for being part of the virus trying to destroy our democracy. Osibanjo is a pastor, lawyer and a professor who has thrown away integrity just to satisfy Buhari's selfish ambition to retain power.

Incases Like this in developed countries the Church will take a stand to send a strong warning to a stubborn tyrant and give hope to its faithful especially those who took time to come out and vote.

The Church is the voice of the people. RCCG must not look the other way round while their pastor is No.2 man in the country and very much in the loop of all nefarious plans being carried out against the will of the masses.

You should produce some facts on what he has done wrong. Facts, not assumptions.

OBJ said that the tradermoni was idiotic and some people bought that. For long, finance organisations have been talking about building the economy from the base. What is the wrong in lending to people that will never be accepted by the commercial banks? All the funds loaned out to those traders is not up to one-tenth of what some civil servants pocket for themselves and their girlfriends.

Anyway, I hold briefs for no one. But why bring a church into this argument? A church will not and should not act on what is written in social media. They need facts. Whoever has the facts should write to them.

Correct

Helgreenluv:
Hahahaha where is Bishop Oyedepo, Apostle Suleiman and others? Prophets of Baal. If God truly revealed to them that Atiku was going to be the winner like they claimed, there's nothing that could have changed the will of the Almighty God. I hope their gullible followers will open their blind eyes to see that these so called prophets are liars are deceivers. May God help us all.

they are balaam prophets of our time

midolian:


http://www.nta.ng/news/politics/20190226-some-great-lessons-learnt-in-nigerias-presidential-election/

lalasticlala

What a myopic write up. Even devils know this election was massively rigged. Broad day robbery.

Dee60:
Lesson 13

Some people kept complaining that the economy has never been so bad. They do not read. Fitch rated Nigeria's economy as the best performing economy in Africa in 2018. The speculation economy is dying while the real economy is growing from the base. We forget that Nigeria is now producing what we hitherto imported in large quantities. Tiles, Rice, even cars by Innoson and patronized by the Military! The urban boys dont like that. They prefer carrying briefcases around looking for oil contracts to inflate and re-sell!

Lesson 14

Election in many places is not always about who you vote for but who you vote against! That is how come Trump will be president again if they vote in America today. Atiku could not win the northern vote even if he contests against an acceptable southerner. People have cultures and values, whether you accept it or not. Northerners will accept someone they perceive as honest but slow long before they consider someone they consider not to be trust-worthy. That perception about Atiku may be wrong, but the problem is that it is still a perception. This is why they voted against PDP massively. PDP lost the day they concluded their primaries! Period. Sadly, many people in the South still think that northerners are a bunch of uneducated people. Live among them and learn. Some of the most honest people in Nigeria live in that region. Give them 5000 naira to keep and come back in 5 years, and find that you still have exactly the same notes you left. Well, this is not to generalise, but it largely applies.

Lesson 15

People you consider as assets may end up being your liabilities. The media men of Jonathan (dont let me mention names again) did him damage by always barking at people, and by shutting down the other opinion. They thought that if you barked the most for your boss you will end with better mileage. Wrong. Who were the chief spokesmen for Atiku? They were the same people who spewed out abuses, lies and falsehood. They were most uncouth in their tweets. They doctored videos, manufactured false prophecies, barked the loudest, and showed little respect for decorum. Their bosses thought they were assets but they would have learnt now that the people they counted as friends were enemies when it comes to elections!

Lesson 16

In winning the battle, dont lose the war! The Kwara chief won many battles, but may not have realized that he was warring against the people. I wonder why he never apologized for calling his senior a 'mere commissioner'. In Yoruba culture, they still cherish the 'omoluabi'. At least he should have shown loudly that he did not say so. Perhaps the problem started from there.


Lesson 17

Dont loose your breath over elections or over politicians. PDP candidate has been in ACN, AD, APC and PDP. Who knows what he will do as he re-strategizes? Especially now that he knows PMB cannot contest again! OBJ's son is chanting hurray now while his father is licking wounds! Expect the unexpected, as they start to move around again in preparation for the next election.

By and large, Nigerians need to learn to practice politics without bitterness.

Wow bravo bro, your piece is quite insightful! Lesson 15 is so so true! You see this whole nonsense started in 2015 and I thought they will learn from that misadventure but nope, they never learn! On nairaland and on social media, all one saw was unprintable slurs at the same people you want votes from!

The northerners might not make noise on social media but they sure know how to get back at u with their votes!!