oyin44:
Some non Yoruba in south west voted for PDP not majority of the Yorubas..

bishopkay:


Keep deceiving yourself with what you think! So non yorubas dominate the south west including ondo and oyo states is that what you're saying?

One would look at you yoruba bigots here on NL and think all yorubas share the same thoughts Lol. The yorubas are an independently minded people and your tifnubu god is just an over rated entity whose time would soon come

oyin44:
Are from southwest.majority of Yorubas didn't come out to vote you know why because they believed that Atiku would not win..the ibos in south west came out massively to vote for atiku..not majority of the yorubas...atiku isn't a threat compare to Johnathan

oyin44:
Are from southwest.majority of Yorubas didn't come out to vote you know why because they believed that Atiku would not win..the ibos in south west came out massively to vote for atiku..not majority of the yorubas...atiku isn't a threat compare to Johnathan

bishopkay:


Bro what ever makes you sleep at night is welcome! Take Lagos for example... You claim yorubas didn't come out enmasse to vote yet tifnubu organized thugs to go destroy and disrupt voting at PDP traditional strong holds? Who is fooling whom? Sanwo olu's polling unit was also dominated by igbos and non yorubas abi?

Bros simple truth... Yorubas voted enmass for Atiku. Yorubas are smart people and they know a bad choice when they see one

oyin44:
my Question is:are you from southwest..Lagos politics is simple family affair..is different from other south west politics..ibos supported atiku.No doubt about that..most of the yorubas are salary's earners and pensioners so they supported buhari ..

bishopkay:


Bro what ever makes you sleep at night is welcome! Take Lagos for example... You claim yorubas didn't come out enmasse to vote yet tifnubu organized thugs to go destroy and disrupt voting at PDP traditional strong holds? Who is fooling whom? Sanwo olu's polling unit was also dominated by igbos and non yorubas abi?

Bros simple truth... Yorubas voted enmass for Atiku. Yorubas are smart people and they know a bad choice when they see one

Igbos strong hold? There's nothing like that you igbos are just deceiving yourselves

oyin44:
Are from southwest.majority of Yorubas didn't come out to vote you know why because they believed that Atiku would not win..the ibos in south west came out massively to vote for atiku..not majority of the yorubas...atiku isn't a threat compare to Johnathan

Auladimeji2:
Igbos strong hold? There's nothing like that you igbos are just deceiving yourselves

bishopkay:


I am not igbo you this clown! But why igbo dey pepper una for body like dis? Lol

Auladimeji2:

it doesn't pain me,last week the OPC stated that there's nothing like Igbos strong hold in Yoruba land the same way there's no Yoruba strong hold in Igbo land too.Now run along boy

Auladimeji2:

it doesn't pain me,last week the OPC stated that there's nothing like Igbos strong hold in Yoruba land the same way there's no Yoruba strong hold in Igbo land too.Now run along boy

I know u are always scared of igbo., u can't make comment without including igbo
No wonder a Yoruba pastor said he saw igbob giant chasing him his dream typical Yoruba man fear fear

Michael004:
Dundee,

oyin44:
my Question is:are you from southwest..Lagos politics is simple family affair..is different from other south west politics..ibos supported atiku.No doubt about that..most of the yorubas are salary's earners and pensioners so they supported buhari ..

Iamgrey5:
In

Osun

Ondo

Oyo

Ekiti

Ogun


PDP got more than 40℅ and edge some states


Take your meds bruv

Base1line:
In which election since 1999 as PDP not won 40% in the state you listed or are you just being foolish like is common with you bigoted tribesmen ?

WORDSENSEI:
By Festus Adedayo

As it became clear that former Vice President of Nigeria and Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) presidential candidate in the just-concluded election, Atiku Abubakar, was kissing the electoral canvass, Reno Omokri, the combative spokesman to ex-President Goodluck Jonathan, made a submission on the voting trend of the election, his thumbs gleefully held high for the South West of Nigeria. As I will submit presently, Omokri’s commendatory dissection of voters’ performance in the election was premature and a very peremptory reading of the calamitous political footpath the South West region trod in the said election.

Omokri had said: “Yorubas proved again that they are the most sophisticated voters in Nigeria. … Notice how Yoruba voters gave their votes to PDP even though APC has a Yoruba VP. I doff my hat to the Yoruba nation…The voting pattern of the Yoruba in this election shows that merit is more important to them than ethnicity. Other regions have to learn from them. In terms of political maturity and tolerance, they are light years ahead of other regions,” he had said.

As usual, Omokri had unflattering strictures for the All Progressives Party, (APC) Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu and ultimately, President Muhammadu Buhari. The election results showed that the PDP won in Oyo, erstwhile capital of the Western region, in Ondo, home of Awolowo’s successor to Yoruba leadership, Adekunle Ajasin, with APC managing a win by the whiskers in Lagos, Osun and winning only convincingly in Ekiti and Ogun State, the latter where Asiwaju Bola Tinubu and the APC establishment had been up in arms against the man who swung the votes for the party, Ibikunle Amosun. In fact, the total number of winning votes that the region gave the APC was scarcely higher than the votes Ebonyi State gave the party.

Before venturing into the voting trend and its calamitous implications, it is very apposite here to begin with the attitude of voters in the said election. Of course, the people have not woken from their bewilderment at the huge number of electors credited to the northern part of Nigeria. It began right from the first national election in Nigeria, down to the 1959 elections. In the latter election, immortal Obafemi Awolowo, had introduced some glitz into campaign through penetrating the nooks and crannies of the North with an helicopter. By doing that, he literally forced Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, to wake up from his political lethargy and campaign round the whole of the region. He arrived one day with the whole of his face covered in soot and spitting out dust-sauced phlegm, vowing he would never forgive Awo for subjecting him to such stress. Right from then, the northern voting trend had always been in issue. This particular election was no exception. Kano and Katsina, for instance, had electors totaling about 3.5 million, while in the whole of Lagos, about a million turned out to vote. It was the same sorry tale in virtually all the South West states.

If you went round many of the South West states during the election, the apathy, the I-don’t-care attitude that permeated the region was legendary. Apart from a benumbing, far between statistics of those who exercised their franchise, many of the youth, women and particularly the elite in the region, saw the day as a day of rest from the hustle and bustle of their various engagements. They sat back at home, watching the latest movies. On many streets, youth of voting age converted the tarred roads into football pitches and struggled to clone Ronaldo with the whole of their grits. Those who confronted them on why they declined to exercise their franchise were shell-shocked. What is our business with the election? Most of them thundered off-handedly. Conversely however, reports said that most of the electors in the north trooped out to vote as early as 6am.

This is why the so-called South West elders and political parties in the region deserve huge sjambok on their buttocks. Apparently convinced that they would rig the elections, the leaders spent less time to educate the huge population in the region on the crucifix which abstaining from the polling booths symptomized. And they are at home with the vain braggadocio and self-adulation of being “the most sophisticated electors” in Nigeria. Absolute nonsense. The north is the sophisticated elector. Watch your neighbourhood; the malamselling petty groceries, your shoe shiner and the ones selling cucumber and water melon disappeared from view a few days before the election. They all travelled home to exercise their franchise. South West’s own voting majority sat at home, watching the latest African Magic offering on television. Yet they expected magic at the polls. And they cry blue murder that the North posted an unbelievably huge population of voters.

The maisuya by the roadside has a transistor radio by his side, listening to VOA Hausa, Radio France and the BBC. He is well informed about what is happening, not only in Nigeria but all over the world – delivered in his native Hausa. His sophistication is strengthened by a thirst to participate in the electoral exercise. And yet the West as a zone revels itself in the vacuous inanity of sophistication. Yoruba’s pseudo leaders were at peace with themselves, gallivanting in an old glory which the Awolowos bequeathed to the race. Their own bequeathals are the legacy of bullion vans parked by the frontage of their home and the self-peacocking boast that a state doesn’t have their kind of personal ill-gotten wealth. Yet, parodying Americans, we see the bucks but we can’t see the shop.

I may be wrong but whoever has closeness with those parading themselves as South West leaders should warn them that there is, as the Yoruba say, danger in Longe’s farmland. Not only is the danger present in the dwindling epitome of their political relevance, it is also present in the withering place of the Yoruba people in the general construct. If there is anything that was glaring in that election, it is that the highly shouted relevance of Asiwaju and his alleged invincible electoral machine were totally absent from it like Baal, the god of the Siddonians. A new set of Turks seems to be commanding the heights of their people’s destiny. Kayode Fayemi shellacked PDP renegades in Ekiti without Tinubu’s interference. Perhaps the most outstanding was Ogun’s Amosun. Harangued on all fronts by the Acheullian impudence and arrogance of Adams Oshiomhole and Tinubu’s underground destructive machinery, Amosun not only posted an impressive win for himself, he single-handedly got Buhari victory in his state. Tinubu’s crew in Ogun – Vice President Yemi Osinbajo (who lost in his Lagos polling booth), Segun Osoba and even Dapo Abiodun who till now hasn’t told the world where his degree certificate is marooned, all couldn’t withstand Ibikunle’s apparent massive electoral machinery and sagacity. He talks less but wangles his political machine past his traducers with a comprehensive finish.

What the presidential election result means for the West is that it cannot claim acquaintance with, nor wholeheartedly dance to the victory song of the presidential election. Perhaps the words attributed to Buhari on Friday where he was said to have asked his ministers where they would have been if he had lost the election, should have been directed at Tinubu and his band of impostors in the West. The so-called West’s son, Osinbajo, it is apparent, would be enjoying a presidency which his people contributed little or nothing to. Asiwaju’s usual gallivant to the Villa would be decidedly curtailed by this apparent lackluster performance. Any arrant northerner can easily tell him to shut his traps if he waves an entitlement. If the region is given Minister of Toilet Matters, it has passable locus to complain and Buhari has the latitude to pick virtually all his team from Daura, Kano or even succumb to the temptation of going overboard to appoint as his minister one of those governors from Niger Republic present at his campaign.

Asiwaju is the architect of this destructive political dissonance in the West today and should be held culpable for its dwindling lot. He sowed the seed of this discord right there in Ondo State in the 2016 gubernatorial election. Glaringly, he subverted all known norms of party politics by financing Olusola Oke under the banner of the Alliance for Democracy to vie for the election, basing this political faux pas on his tiff with Rotimi Akeredolu. He was abetted by thealagabagebe (hypocrisy) exponent, Rauf Aregbesola, who himself is the greatestalagabagebe today in Yoruba politics. The Osunalagabagebe donated one of his aides as Oke’s deputy. Asiwaju tried same in Ekiti and failed.

https://www.makeitglobal.biz/opinion/south-wests-fatal-leap/

CC MYND44 LALASTICLALA

oyin44:
Some non Yoruba in south west voted for PDP not majority of the Yorubas..