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jerseyboy:
Post on Buhari for change facebook.

Ibrahim Jahun
Any body who has good analytical skills will figure out that Nigeria is at the edge of disintegration. What level of hatred is against the North fron the South. A situation where by the CPC candidate cannot get even 5% of the southern votes while winning about 80% of his nothern ppl is alarming. My advice to the North is to seek autonomy and build our self. Is better we stay for 10 -20yrs with no oil and find a sustainable way for our selves than to be in this type of situation. What have we done to them to deserve this hatred - is it based on religion, ethnicity or what? I am very very discourage with the way they treated us. If GMB was a bad candidate say like Atiku I wont mind. But someone that everybody knows that he can take this nation to the promise land but due to sentiments they turned their back and voted for uncertainty. Sorry friends from the south on this page we love you and he do appreciate your courageous support. My statement doesnt cut accross all but majority fall under this.
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Sweet T:
I mean seriously?? C'mmon! How in the hell did PDP get 1 million votes in Abia and Anambra states? You mean to tell me that an Ibo man will leave his Okrika  clothes and fake goods shop to go line up for hours just to vote? Hard for me to believe that, unless an Ibo man he's being compensated for it i don't believe it. And by the way there are not up to 1 million adult age Ibo guys left in all of East combined, they have all relocated to Lagos to sell Okrika clothes and fake goods. INEC c'mmon, let's be real here.

Sagamite:
@ Princek12


There is really no evidence of his education in alot of his decisions and utterances. E.g. Saying he would build an airport in every state, like if that is the most important thing for most states. Another is refusing to attend a Presidential debate but yet found time to be interviewed by D'Banj. Another was his village man comments to the international press when asked about the crisis in Ivory Coast.

I did not his support his not showing up for the presidential debate. I thought his excuse was frivolous. And he honestly lost points for not showing up. His saying he would build an airport in every state is typical politician rhetoric. Just like Buhari said he would create 5 million jobs without laying any concrete plan to achieve such promise.


I don't think answering or, more accurately, getting assistants to answer selected Facebook questions is strong enough for me. That is just Gimmick. He would have shown his embrace of new ideas by attending the NN24 Presidential debate. Buhari attended and answered more questions, better still, random questions. Reetardeen sat in Aso Rock watching and having Otapiapia.


Attending a NN24 debate is not the same as embracing new technologies, as aspirants have been debating since the beginning of time, although it appears to be fledgling in Nigeria. The world is changing, and the ability for a president to embrace new technologies speaks volume about his character. Even if he got assistants to answer the questions, it shows a good faith effort on his part to communicate and dialogue with Nigerians, both home and abroad. Presumably, his assistants will give him a report or update him on pressing issues discussed in the comment section of his facebook page. While no one is perfect, I like to give credit for someone making at least a good faith effort. Buhari, on the other hand, is the president of old with his authoritarian mentality, as in he is "too big" or unreachable.


3) Most importantly, he supports the deregulation of the power sector and the privatization of PHCN. Buhari, on the other hand, wants reform. How can you reform a PHCN that is fraught with corruption and hemorrhaging money like a woah! Deregulation and privatization presents the best means to provide a sustainable power sector, not subject to the whim of any president.

Strong point!


I would rather have an old face that has shown everything that he has done, soft or hard, was done with the best intentions of the country at heart without a shred of evidence of personal gain, than have a new face that has twatted the progress of the country by acting in his own interest and explicitly or implicitly supporting the criminals that are ruining the country.

Please give me the old face any day!

Electing an ex-military dictator who ruled in the early 80s is inherently inconsistent with the message of change Buhari purports to bring. Ostracizing the youth is all too common in our culture, and electing the same names--Buhari, Atiku, IBJ, IBB--is incompatible with the notions of a civilized and progressive society that we presumably strive to achieve. For example, his mentality of change probably contributed to Goodluck's embracing the idea of privatization of the PHCN; and if solving the power crisis is the only thing he achieves in his four years, then I think Nigerians made the right choice. Inadequate power has restrained--if not crippled--the advancement of our economy.

He campaigned all over the country using public resources without a shred of conscience
That does not count at all or even worse counts against him.

Strong point. But Buhari somehow had all the resources to vigorously campaign in the North. He would have spent those resources making a good faith effort to reach out to the Southerners, as his base in the North was pretty much solidified since day one. Buhari probably forgot that he needed more than the North to win his presidency, and the hefty crowds that appeared at his Northern campaigns probably disillusioned him and gave him an inaccurate picture of his campaign. Either way, Southern voters felt abandoned and ignored.


That is an extremely cheap shot. Buhari has no control over his state. The state is even run by Jonathan's PDP. Lets be objective.

Buhari has no control his State, but Buhari has control over his words and actions. He made no effort to condemn those Northerners for violating the constitutional rights of the Nollywood by preventing them from filming. In addition, Buhari made not efforts at stating how we would promote Nollywood, one of the largest film industries in the world, and Nigeria's entertainment industry, the largest in Africa. That is why Nollywood and entertainers vigorously campaigned for Goodluck. Goodluck even attended Nollywood events and tried to help them by his good faith effort of loaning the industry $200m (even though I disagree with the means as to how he tried to help Nollywood). Either way, it shows Goodluck's good faith efforts at recognizing the importance of Nollywood and our entertainment industry to Nigeria. It is now a source of foreign exchange and has provided numerous jobs to many Nigerians, and is a constant source of pride to Nigeria. Buhari has said nothing about helping Nollywood, probably for fear of enraging his Northern alliance.

passyjango:
I will leave it to posterity to judge who the fools are. After all there was a time when pro-slavery parties were supported by the majority in the west. Today no party will win an election on pro-slavery sentiment. I am not expecting any magic, you do not need magic to provide electricity or build the Benin Ore express road. Or are you asking me to build the road with my money while GEJ and his friends help themselves with our collective wealth. It is probably because of people like you that we have irresponsible leaders.

JaaizTech:
The same is applicable to Pro-GEJ supporters, ask them why they are voting for GEJ, and they suddenly get startled. Really this election was won and lost on sentimental grounds for both sides.

passyjango:
Is that still necessary? Nigerians have decided. Will my answer change the result?

father ab:
I no be Rev Father, I get children and I still support Buhari no matter what the final results say or have said.
God knows that its not that I'm jobless or homeless that I root for an Anti-corruption crusader as President, But for millions of Nigerians who remain jobless and homeless. No thanks to corruption.

JONATHAN AS HE STANDS TODAY IS CORRUPT. SAMBO WAS A CORRUPT CONTRACTOR TO KADUNA STATE.  

passyjango:
It is better to cry for just a day than to cry for 4 years full of regret. At least we are not expecting much from his administration, so our hearts cannot be broken by him when he fails. It is your heart that would be broken when your messiah dashes all your hopes in the next four years with fresh excuses. The only thing GEJ can do now is to surprise me by proving me wrong, but I doubt the coconut can do just that.

muami:
Someone advised that we should be mature in celebrating our victory but how can we when people do not accept defeat?
For your information, democracy is about majority rule. The majority of Nigerians have spoken.
They have said NO to regional and ethnic bigots
They have said NO to a situation where a few persons sit down somewhere and decided who would rule us
They have said No to [b]expired, uneducated [/b]and visionless leaders.
If you still have a problem with that you can go and hang yourself with the rest of the country move on to the promised land.

efisher:
GEJ won by every standard. Look at the areas in Nigeria that represent Nigeria and have close to 90% credibility e.g. Abuja and Lagos. Is it not clear that the totality of NIGERIANS want GEJ? Anybody that cannot win Abuja and Lagos has a question mark. Whatever happened in the NW was cancelled out in SS and SE.

enyojo:
BY DAPO AKINREFON
PRESIDENTIAL candidate of
the National Conscience
Party, NCP, Bashorun Dele
Momodu Saturday lost
elections at his Ward 10 unit
24 at Wasimi Community
High School where he cast
his vote.
The results show that the
PDP polled 177 votes, CPC 65,
ACN 41 and NCP 1 vote.
www.vanguardngr.com/2011/04/dele-momodu-loses-at-polling-unit/

EPOMA:
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how did they know he voted Buhari  when you vote secretly except it was during the vote count and it doesn't surprise me .

fxtopedia:
We had VOTED sir!!!!!!

Sagamite:
No doubt $3bn is not beans.

I don't know why Ribadu did not answer the question. But I don't doubt for a second Ribadu is utterly against corruption.

You make some good points there, but I will caution you should realise that most of these Middle East Countries produce about the same or more oil than us and have only a fraction of our ridiculous population. Hence, part of the reason why we lack the same infrastructure, apart from dumb, heartless leaders and corruption.

Today we are likely to continue the trend. We will vote in another dumb leader called Jonathan that is comfortable with corruption.

Sagamite:
The Buhari days are not that bad and it was with the best intentions. Nigeria is full of mooorons and a heavy hand is normally needed. The main reason you see me on NL bashing people hard, as that is the only approach that can work with Nigerians and produce quick results.

Furthermore, apart from the gentlemanliness and GRACE Buhari has demonstrated in the last 2 elections Poverty Development Party have rigged, you have to realise Buhari will be operating under democratic powers this time.

Ribadu did not perform any selective justice.

And it is really tosh to say OBJ stole $16bn because:

1) I read somewhere that an analysis done revealed $3bn was the amount not accounted for. So the whole $16bn was typicla Nigerian hearsay that turned into "fact".

2) If OBJ stole $16bn, he would not have the same regards he maintains in the West.

3) OBJ, unlike the typical criminals like IBB, has not for a second hid from the media. He has granted interviews several times to defend himself robustly.

In my view, what ever the amount of money looted for the power project was not looted by OBJ. He most likely was incompetent, careless in the management, but I don't believe he looted it. So I don't think there is anything like "OBJ's $16bn".

Ribadu went after CRIMINALS. That is what matters to me, not their moan that they are being prosecuted based on selective justice.

It is like armed robbers saying why is the police only focussing on their patch.

JaaizTech:
Lets face it and stop beating around the bush, the major reason Buhari is unpopular in the south is not because of his qualities or lack of it but because He is a northerner. simply put it majority of southerners don't want a northerner at the moment even if Buhari were to be contesting against Bode George, most southerners would still prefer Bode George especially christian southerners

JaaizTech:
Privatizing PHCN is not the solution, Tinubu gave us the solution 8 years ago but PDP or should I say Obasanjo killed it. The solution is to allow other power companies exist side by side with PHCN, Enron was coming to do that but Obasanjo frustrated it.NITEL existed side by side with MTN, Econet and Glo but couldn't survive the competition. That is the type of competition the power industry needs. There is a lot of money to be made in the power sector of Nigeria, so I believe the private companies will make the investment if the environment is right

Sagamite:
Ribadu is not an old mind and definitely not corrupt. He is the antithesis of corruption and has risked his life to fight it.

Buhari is not corrupt and definitely an up-standing character that has ALWAYS had the interest of Nigeria at heart without putting his interest ahead of it.

GEJ is a mooooron!

Sagamite:
Today is likely to be a sad day.

We are going to have a reetard called Jonathan elected as President for 4 years.

4 more years of destroying our hopes and dreams.

4 more years of waiting for positive change.

4 fcking hard, miserable, corrupt years.

xterra2:
Just voted and I voted for Buhari


I would announce the results here, when they finish voting

Right now, people are still voting so they haven't started counting it yet

BB 2011