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Results being counted! Lawan on home run!

jamesope04:
32 votes for lawan so far

hahahaha
..some people bp go rise o

Abegi jorr! Ahmed Lawan is the next level Senate President jare.

The counting is so so obvious.

Omotaday:
No hope for Ndume. This margin will be ridiculous.

How many

kerzhim:
Abegi jorr! Ahmed Lawan is the next level Senate President jare.

The counting is so so obvious.

How many now

This people are bad oo
No one is even counting Ndume's votes
PDP are cowards...

Megir:
This people are bad oo
No one is even counting Ndume's votes
PDP are cowards...

Dem bad ooo

Members were counting for hamed but silence all over when dey call ndume

Megir:
This people are bad oo
No one is even counting Ndume's votes
PDP are cowards...

How many oh.updates please

Lawan won

Ahmed Lawan is elected the Senate President

Shame to haters

Lawan is the 9th assembly senate president.

77up:
Members were counting for hamed but silence all over when dey call ndume

How many

Its all over. behold your senate president Lawan.

LAWAN IS WINNING

Next is Gbajabiamila...

igwesylv:
LAWAN IS WINNING

How many

Congratulations to our democracy , congratulations Nigeria , congratulations lawan



But dis go pain some ppl o

Burdillion is the after party.

senatordave1:
How many

71 for now

77up:
Members were counting for hamed but silence all over when dey call ndume

Even the people holding Ndume's votes are also celebrating Lawan's victory.

kerzhim:
Even the people holding Ndume's votes are also celebrating Lawan's victory.

Failure is an Orphan.

jamesope04:
71 for now

I said 80 earlier.tuniski how far

Ndume sef no get choice than to clap.

Megir:
Failure is an Orphan.

Chubhie:
Burdillion is the after party.

Guy,what do i do to you now? Better leave this thread

Pdp members must have voted for Ahmed lawan

Megir:
Ndume sef no get choice than to clap.

How many

kerzhim:
Even the people holding Ndume's votes are also celebrating Lawan's victory.

see life there my brother

Tomide007:
Pdp members must have voted for Ahmed lawan

Did i not tell you pdp guys that pdp will vote lawan? Who likes ndume

Lawan don win

@TonyeBarcanista
I will advise you to retire from politics. I told you, that since you move to PDP in the pre 2015 general election, changed moniker, deleted and modified your old moniker posts and comments, you have lost your political analytics skills because of "pot of porridge".

Good luck to you.

TonyeBarcanista:
By TonyeBarcanista

I have observed the lobbying and politics surrounding the race for National Assembly presiding officers and I think it is incumbent on me to air my opinion on why NASS members-elect, Peoples Democratic Party and Nigerians should resist Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon Femi Gbajabiamila for the positions of Senate President and Speaker of House of Representative respectively.

1. Gbajabiamila Candidacy Is Against Equitable Distribution of Offices:
Having produced the Vice President of Nigeria, it becomes natural that another geopolitical zone in the country produce the number 4 citizen as it has been the tradition since 1999.

It may be recalled that at the return of the fourth republic, the Southwest produced the President, the Northeast had the Vice President, the Southeast had the Senate President and the Northwest produced Speaker of House of Representative and this arrangement lasted until 2007. Same tradition of equitable distribution was upheld in 2007-2011 when the Northwest produced the President, the Southsouth had the Vice President, the North central had Senate President while the Southwest had the Speaker through Patricia Etteh and Dimeji Bankole respectively. The arrangement was bound to be maintained until Aminu Tambuwal with support from the opposition as at then disrupted the arrangement, gifted the northwest 2 out of the 4 top offices and denied the Southwest and the entire south the position of Speaker. It however was restored in 2015 with NW (President), SW (VP), NC (Senate President) and NE (Speaker)

If those people in Bourdillon road that are fronting Femi Gbajabiamila candidacy were fair to the South and the nation, they would have presented someone from the Southeast or Southsouth for the position instead of another person from Southwest. The excuse that both zones didn't give APC ranking members or House members aren't tenable this time around.

Gbaja's candidacy is simply anti-south agenda by some sectional elements in Lagos. It is also anti-Nigeria agenda as it seeks to reward a particular zone with 2 out of the top for offices in the country leaving other 5 zones to scramble for 2 offices.

2. Gbajabiamila Candidacy Is Anti-Southwest:

The Vice President Yemi Osinbajo has Lagos has his political base and he's more loyal to Lagos than his native Ogun state. Femi Gbajabiamila is also of Lagos state and his puppeteers want to make him speaker, meanwhile, there are other APC Rep members in Ogun, Osun, Oyo, Ekiti and Ondo states but they ignored them and narrowed it to Femi so as to serve their own selfish interest. These same people refused to support Hon Lasun the outgoing Deputy Speaker even though he's Yoruba all through his four years tenure simply because he wasn't their anointed. It clearly shows that contrary to what Femi sponsors would want the people of southwest to believe, they are pushing Femi to represent them not the zone.

3. Northcentral Or Dogara Should Get Speakership:
Personally, I believe equity demands that the position of Senate President or Speaker should go to a Rep member from either the Southeast or Southsouth zone, but since this may not be feasible due to political realities, I think the PDP, NASS members-elect and Nigerians should support a credible and independent person from the North central for the position, or if by slim chance Yakubu Dogara stand a chance, he should be supported. As stated above, it will be unpatriotic and evil to reward Southwest the position of Speaker when they have the office of Vice President while zones like Northcentral, Southeast and southsouth are left with nothing.

4. PDP Can Stop Ahmad Lawan SP Bid:

With forty three Senators-elect already, PDP need at least thirteen aggrieved APC Senators-elect to defeat Ahmad Lawan, the unpopular anointed of the APC for the Senate President seat. Already aggrieved APC Senators-elect like Uzor Kalu of Abia, Ali Ndume of Borno and Danjuma Goje of Gombe and their supporters have vowed to challenge for the seat in June and with the traditional secret ballot system of voting. I have no doubt that PDP would either produce someone among them as Senate President or endorse one of the aggrieved as PDP adopted candidate. I will see how Lawan will emerge Senate President or whether Adams Oshiomole will be able to rig him in.

5. We Did It In 2015, We Can Do It Again

About four years ago, specifically, June 7, 2015, I, alongside loyalists of PDP, openly called on PDP leaders and NASS members-elect to counter the anointing of Senator Ahmed Lawan and Hon Femi Gbajabiamila by voting for Senator Bukola Saraki and Hon Yakubu Dogara for the positions of Senate President and Speaker of House of Representative respectively! We triumphed against all odd. (Ref: https://www.nairaland.com/2362944/open-campaign-adoption-sen-saraki).


May God Bless Us and Bless Nigeria

TonyeBarcanista writes from Abuja and can be reached at TonyeBarcanista@gmail.com

TGM2015:
I remember your epistle on Makarfi and I told you that PDP will not give him the ticket but you are over confidence that Makarfi will win, only to be left with a choice that you have in your past year wrote against just like Obasanjo.

In your political wisdom, you should know that the political environment of APC in 2015 is different from 2019. In 2015, APC won with over 3 blocks of political powers who are struggling to hold substantial power/influence in the party, most especially the PDP/Atiku block. But in 2019 they won as a single block APC (Buhari/Oshiomole/Tinubu) block. Also, time was not on their side to solve their differences in 2015 as they were still battling with post elections crisis before the resumption of the NASS... Seems your political analysing skills is fast declining in this recent time.

But until after the NASS presiding officers are elected, I have no more comments.