EloquentMedia:
Firstly, I don't believe that Atiku lost. But even if he did, here are possible explanations
1. Atiku de-marketed himself by careless statements like I will sale NNPC and I will make my friends rich
2. Atiku has a corruption tag to his name, though theyre all allegations--not proven
3. The North fears restructuring because they will be further impoverished as many of them survive by oil money
4. Their preachers were scaring people by the Igbo VP
5. Kwankwaso has a 2023 agenda which may not be possible by an Atiku presidency and a possible second term bid

Any or all of these may have contributed to his defeat

pfadom:
You are yet to recover from the amnesia! Buhari's popularity in the north dwarfs Atiku.

deji17:
Waoh. Even Ijaw does not seems to like the Igbos as such. They consider them good enough to be used and dump. Are you aware that Ojukwu only scored 3 votes in Bayelsa state in the 2007 Presidential election. What is so repulsive about Igbos that others hate them and they still tell it to their face and yet cannot do anything about it? They are handicapped already. See how woeful Moghalu performed in the last Presidential election? Even Sowore scored more votes and won his polling unit. Why is an Igbo man so unelectable all over Nigeria?

3 votes

WOW. I am speechless.

Their youth just have to wake up. Judging by the current crop on Nairaland..... i don't see any dream of leadership in the next 50 years.

Mark my words, the 1st Igbo President will have Yoruba blood and be brought up in Yorubaland.

Bigii:



Who told you Atiku lost his polling unit?

Mr fake news, Atiku won his polling unit with good margin.

CapoDTuttiCapi:


3 votes

WOW. I am speechless.

Their youth just have to wake up. Judging by the current crop on Nairaland..... i don't see any dream of leadership in the next 50 years.

Mark my words, the 1st Igbo President will have Yoruba blood and be brought up in Yorubaland.

hammerFC:


hammerFC to his father :

ACTUALLY, ANY YORUBA PRESIDENT WILL HAVE IGBO BLOOD.


I.E. OBJ.


U ALREADY HAVE IGBO FIRST LADY IN YOUR STATES.


IDIOT!

My condolences. You sounded pained. Lol.

Maybe you have Yoruba blood in you. Because your women.... Nnamdi Kanu said 99% of them, na like Wifi, open hotspot.

Alias free browsing

Your mama don meet one Kamorudeen Olokonla Agbabiaka

InyinyaAgbaOku:


Ganduje has a corruption tag too. Proven one

Bigii:


Both presidential and gubernatorial polls

CapoDTuttiCapi:


3 votes

WOW. I am speechless.

Their youth just have to wake up. Judging by the current crop on Nairaland..... i don't see any dream of leadership in the next 50 years.

Mark my words, the 1st Igbo President will have Yoruba blood and be brought up in Yorubaland.

hammerFC:



WATCH 2023, APC WILL BE FORCED TO FIELD EL-RUFAI AND Tinubu.


YET ANOTHER MUDERER OF CHRISTIANS AND DOUBLE MUSLIM TICKET, TO CONVENIENCE THE NORTH TO VOTE APC



LOL!

fairfora:
Gooood! You deserve an accolade. However, I don't see the corruption charge or case as one of the reasons he lost because it's not confirmed. The USA even said and as published by punch newspaper that they don't have any consumption case against Atiku. Any body in doubt should Google the news in punch archive.

The main reasons Atiku lost have been clearly enumerated in your post which were , unguarded statements and the idea of restructuring. If you want to lose an election in the north who has almost nothing as a source of revenue that could sustain the region, he should just clamour for restructuring and they'd leave the candidate en mass overnight. . His case would he concluded in the mosque on a jumaat

Again, in Nigeria my dear country, if you want to catch a monkey, you behave as one. Had Obasanjo told Nigerians he would privatise nitel which was seen by the federal govt as the major source of revenue at that time after oil, Obasanjo would have lost 1999 election. Our politicians would never learn from the mistakes of the past leaders who were so much honest in their manifestos but ended up shooting themselves in the leg.

There are so many people in the elite group in Nigeria who would never have allowed nnpc to he sold because that's where they hide to milk our economic and natural resources. What of the petrol marketers who bring fuel into Nigeria and encourage subsidy payments? What of some of them who own refineries abroad where we go to refine and import under the same nnpc? Etc. These were those who killed Atiku's dreams because they were ready to do anything. They contributed hugely towards his defeat in the north because most of these marketers are concentrated in the north. Elrufai even mocked Atiku on the nnpc privatisation after presidential election. Hope other politicians would learn from him.

Last but not the least, his unguarded statements affected him. Buhari too has this problems. His antecedents have shown. I wouldn't know of this problem is peculiar to the northern leaders but thanks to his media aides. I can see they've done a great job in fine-tuning this.

matex97:
No they didn't . I became skeptical of Atiku's victory when I saw that he lost his polling unit

SmartMen:


They voted integrity? really? Integrity must have another meaning in Nigeria. My joy is things will get worse from here and nobody is gonna escape it... I am thinking how you guys are gonna cope with the vote apathy in 2023 after so many bloodshed in 2019. I am thinking how you guys are gonna cope when every leaders start militarizing all election until your love ones are killed in the process while Nigeria move on.

I am thinking how helplessly you would look when you are accused wrongly by the police for a crime you have not committed and no one can save you..., I am thinking how you are gonna cope when no hospital in Nigeria can treat your disease because of lack of facilities that can accommodate you. I am thinking how you are gonna cope should you be in the hospital needing urgent surgery and the doctors decide to go on strike.

I am thinking how you are gonna cope when there are no doctors left in the Nigerian hospitals because all have taken the next flight to UK, US and Canada. I am thinking how you are gonna cope should your wive need to deliver you child and there is power cut with no fuel for the generator because of fuel scarcity.

I am thinking how you are gonna cope should the fulani herdsmen head to your community and start killing everyone in sight.

You think nothing will happen to you, right? Is that not why you fools open your mouth and talk anyhow, is that not why you feel it is none of your business? Is that not why you keep supporting the evil going on in the country? wait... it will go round. You think current victims are too far away, right? wait, it is a gradual process, it will go round, nobody, absolutely nobody will escape it!

Atiku, Saraki and co never imagined they will be affected when they kicked against GEJ, did they?

when you lack wisdom and ability to see the future, you spew rubbish from the comfort of your home.... because you are not currently affected.

olujastro:
It should be easy to understand voting patterns across the country but it seems intelligence is a rare commodity, especially on Nairaland.

Firstly, no northerner alive can defeat Buhari in the north. That has always been a known fact (one not obvious to PDP because it's full of dumb people).

Secondly, majority of Nigerians are politically informed so they vote for the candidates, and not the party (except the politically blind people who prefer to reelect a failed PDP governor because APC is a "satanic" party to them).

In summary, the people of Sokoto, Kano, Bauchi, etc. chose Integrity over Kleptocracy in the presidential election; and voted differently according to the credibility and performance of their various state governors.
Shikena

Modified: Let me take the chance to tell you what the very predictably dumb PDP will do in 2023.
They will pick another northern presidential candidate thinking northerners vote for fellow northerners, while APC will likely pick the most credible candidate it has from the South (West). Again Nigerians will vote for credibility and performance and APC will win.

helinues:
So analysis have changed on how Atiku lost the presidential elections. Pdp supporters are now questioning why the low votes in presidential elections for Pdp compared to high votes for governorship elections in Sokoto and Kano.

Me wondering if they are the same Kwankwanso and Tambuwal they are tipping for presidency in 2023 against Southern candidates .

Ayam not understanding

LincolnLynn:
He thought he was making sense,little did he know that he was treating himself to sheer display of dimwitted rant,He needs to get his brains connected to his hands when else he posts..

zicoraads:

Which is why he could have lost Kano, were it not for the sham that characterised yesterday's rerun. Northerners generally don't like anyone who is seen to be corrupt.

Babzrockman:
People vote candidates not party in most areas

Olalan:
I guess Atiku isn't really loved in the north.........

Jarus:


I reduced commenting on politics on NL when I saw the ignorance of many folks on the voting behaviour of Nigerians.

Anyone that has the slightest understanding of politics in Nigeria knows that there is a difference between Buhari and party in the minds of northern voters. When they were flaunting the Atiku crowd in Kano, some of us told them those people were not there for Atiku but for local PDP politicians (Kwankwaso etc). 1000 Kwankwaso cannot make Buhari lose Kano. But they refused to understand. The most illiterate northerners know the difference between Buhari and parties. They will vote for him even if he contests under AAC. The voters in Kano and some other northern states are so sophisticated that in two elections that hold same day, you can see result like Presidential (Buhari, APC/ANPP/CPC 2000, PDP 35) and in the HOR election holding same day in same PU (APC/CPC/ANPP 40, PDP 1950). This has always been the case. It happened in 2003, 2007 and 2011 when Buhari (ANPP/CPC) won in Kano and PDP won in guber. It is not something that started today.

It is not a matter of sabotage. 1000 Tambuwal or Atiku could not have made Buhari lose those states.

We told them, but these NL know-al folks that started following politics 3 years ago refused to listen to be eudcated.

SmartMen:
And is their reason based on good of Buhari or on religious ground, sharia and all other rubbish that does not to the development of this country. My wish is that the Herdsmen menace should spread everywhere, I wish for all killings currently going on in remote areas to spread across the country cos you all who take sides with Buhari are doing so because you are not yet affected... I wish for the country to get worse from here onward.

bigerboy200:
Politics of the north is not 2+2 = 4. They are the most sophisticated when it comes to politics.

albaniy1:


thou im A DIOE HARD FAN OF D LIFELESS 1 BUT IM WIT U HERE