₦airaland Forum

MallamJackson:
To ATIKULATE is to REGULATE before it's TOO-LATE!


All we're saying is give us an ATIKULATED NIGERIA.

Atiku2019:
Buhari's Negative economic policies has already given Atiku the Leverage and Platform he needs.


Like For Atiku


Share for Buhari

yarimo:
Kikikiki OP atiku abubakar is wasting his time and resources. GOODLUCK jonathan remains PDP Last president of Nigeria

phnaija:
If the point of this is to convince his supporters that he's crooked, you won't achieve anything. They support him regardless and have all been programmed to believe in the integrity nonsense

Ratello:
It is becoming glaring that two candidates, Muhammadu Buhari and Alhaji Abubakar Atiku are dazzling the cyberspace by coming on and on in the news and it is no brainer that Alhaji Atiku may be the likely candidate of PDP at the 2019 Presidential polls having being in the game for over 24 years and hence he is more like a household name in Nigeria and on the other hand is the incumbent, President Muhammadu Buhari who is still testing the waters but from all feelers, he is definitely going to contest as the ruling party, APC's candidate at the 2019 polls

We all are warming up to vote our consciences and if the time comes and we are left with these two which is likely because head or tail, the two party system has come to stay in Nigeria and they are APC and PDP. So Nairalanders over to you......"Likes for Atiku" and "Share for Buhari"!

Cc: Seun, Lalasticlala please we are in election season kindly push this to the front page

millhouse:
him get heart to delete account .. when him never look all those babes profile pics finish...mtseeew

Esseite:
Atiku/Jimi Agbaje? Not a bad combination.

alen4smith:
if Atiku gets pdp ticket i will delete my account on nairaland.

MrMcJay:
Atiku contest Presidential primaries under SDP in 1992, Abiola defeated him, Kingibe was second.

Atiku contested the Presidential election in 2007, Yar'Adua beat him.

CPC was a regional party like AC, Buhari contested under CPC in 2011 and got 12M votes. Atiku contested Presidential primaries in PDP, GEJ trounced him. Atiku didn't go past primaries.

He further contested under APC in 2015, Buhari destroyed him.

What you should ask yourself is why Buhari under CPC a regional party beat Atiku under another regional party in Atiku's home state. Buhari had 1000% of Atiku's votes.

Now, all Atiku needs is final burial. People like you are political undertakers, your job is to ensure he's politically embalmed and buried. Same thing you did to GEJ.

I want PDP to field Atiku so that he'll get befitting political burial and you'll shut up forever.

MrMcJay:
I'll ignore the insults in your post. It's as a result of your frustration at apparent failure staring at you in the face. Why do you think PDP and GEJ wanted Atiku to contest against GEJ and not Buhari?

Now, let me cure your ignorance.

Atiku contested Presidential primaries under SDP on 92 and stepped down for Mko. He contested in 07, 11 and 15. All those times, he was beaten.

Since Atiku had problems with OBJ, he has never won an election in his home state of Adamawa. In fact, in 2007 Presidential elections, Adamawa gave Yar'Adua more than 500k votes and 300k votes to Buhari, meanwhile Atiku got only 30k votes in his home state. This is despite the fact that he was a sitting Vice President.

Now, someone that got 30k in Adamawa last time is the one you're banking on to deliver Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, Yobe?

Mark my words, if Atiku flies PDP flag in 2019, Buhari would get at least 6M votes higher than Atiku.

ipobarecriminals:
young boy.Yes boy.I believe u are still in ur late 20/a lil 30,u knw nothing. Who's talking about US embassy visit?Tell ur Atikulate to travel to US.Why fear ?Yes! i stand with Baba Daura.if by God the old man decide to quit,we'll vote for Osinbanjo. .Bizman .ur black bum

ipobarecriminals:
yes best for his community president/ ipob president. Tell the thief to visit US first.Nonsense

alen4smith:
if Atiku gets pdp ticket i will delete my account on nairaland.

DaniDani:
Spot on! Very accurate analysis. Ngene'Ukwuenu belongs to the first category. That first category are possessed buharists. It's the highest level of zombiesm. They are irredeemable. Other members of this category are Buhariguy, BBQ......, Corrinthians GraveIslam etc.

The second category are somewhat confused hypocritical buharists. They are Sarrki, Madridguy, etc.

Soccer shocker: Footballer kills mum, sleeps with aunt, sister 

A FRENCH footballer has shocked the world with a series of bizarre claims – saying he had sex with his aunt and sister, and his mum was killed in a “spiritual sacrifice”.

In video footage released online, Shiva N’Zigou, previously of French club Nantes, claimed his mother was killed in a “spiritual sacrifice” to further his footballing career.

He also claimed he was also five years older – aged 39 – than it was thought, claiming his parents changed the D.O.B. on his birth certificate.

Shiva goes on to claim he has had a number of homosexual affairs and incestuous relationships with both his aunt and his sister. He said: “I had [sexual] relations with my aunt.

“These relations happened again with my sister. I slept with my sister.

“I slept with a man. And I had another long-term relationship also with a man.”

Shiva played for multiple football clubs, including French FC Nantes, and rounded off his career in 2016. The player partook in 24 matches as part of the national Gabonese squad from 2000 to 2008, netting five goals.

Shiva is said to be the youngest player in the AFCON, reportedly making his debut at the age of 16.

Ratello:
On Atiku's Corruption Tag

Shortly before 2007 Alhaji Atiku had not been tagged a corrupt man but how did he became corrupt overnight? Olusegun Obasanjo, his boss gave him that tag to mess up his political ambitions which  many unwary Nigerians had fell for. Obasanjo's allegation of "Atiku is corrupt" have not been substantiated since 2007 when they left office to now.  It is instructive to note that, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, has a very big problem of human relationship management. He had issues with the five Senate Presidents, some governors, party leaders, associates that served under him. It must be noted that Obasanjo's overbearing attitude and not yielding to superior advises led him to lose the cordial relationship that once existed between him and his erstwhile VP, Alhaji Atiku, whom Obasanjo vowed to deal with and ruin politically for stopping his "Third Term .Agenda" this bold attempt from Atiku to Obasanjo is unAfrican first and unNigerian, hence, "The Atiku Is Corrupt Tag" was launched to tarnish his image politically. Atiku's constitutional role which is assigned to the office of the Vice President is the Chairman, National Economic Council (NEC). According to his portfolio, he is to preside over a meeting made up of the 36 governors of the Federation, CBN Governor, Minister of Finance etc. The National Economic Council plays an advisory role just like National Council of States forum as its decisions or resolutions are not binding on the President who is the chief executive of the country. As important as his roles are, he (Atiku) is not under any power whatsoever to have the final say on decisions taken but everything still ends up at the President's (Obasanjo) table for final decision.

Lest we forget, Atiku stood against injustice when he confronted his boss, Obasanjo, on the illegal third term ambition of the Egba Chief yet no one is giving him credit for stopping what would have been a rape of the highest legal framework in the land - Our Constitution!  Atiku chaired the Council on Privatization under the acronym, BPE, Bureau of Public Enterprises on the express mandate of President Obasanjo with Nasir el-Rufai, who is the present governor of Kaduna State as Director General based on Alhaji Atiku's recommendation and he was never convicted of any crime in the course of serving. As the Vice President who takes orders from his boss, the President, how could he have outsmarted a bossy and overbearing Obasanjo to become dangerously corrupt as assumed by Obasanjo? Alhaji Atiku has never been named among the ten richest people in Nigeria as far back as i know which is common knowledge. That many former governors and even serving ones are far richer than Atiku is no news, and that many of these governors have been convicted of embezzling and plundering their States into hardship is what we know. Yet since 2007 despite not being convicted if any crimes in any capacity he had served his Fatherland, his former boss, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo had chosen to tag him "corrupt" just to tarnish his political ambitions of governing the Nation as a President in the future. He has been without immunity since 2007 when they left office, why has he not been prosecuted before any competent court of law? I think Nigerians should start asking questions from Atiku's accusers perhaps they know what only angels know about Atiku that we, humans, don't know.

Right from 2007 till now Atiku had taken a shot at the Presidency thrice (2007, 2011 and 2015) and there was never a time during thise occasions that corruption charges were brought against his person. The question now is, why now? Another angle to this debate has to do with the successive governments we have paraded since 2007 till date (Yar'adua, Jonathan and Buhari) and up to now, none has deemed it fit to prosecute "corrupt Atiku", because Atiku was never convicted by any competent court of law to be corrupt. The truth is, Obasanjo did all he could to nail Alhaji Atiku at the courts but he (Atiku) was on those occasions declared clean from those charges. At this juncture, I make bold to say that Alhaji Abubakar Atiku, Waziri Adamawa seems the most qualified to fly the PDP flag in 2019 presidential election going by his political experience and business acumen, which will portray efficiency and making a Nigeria that works economically a reality. 


The Truth Behind Buhari's Cult Following & Atiku's Bright Chance

I have come to realise that the hype behind Buhari's overbearing influence in the North is nothing but a myth that had been busted time and again through the polls until he got sympathy votes in 2015 at the Presidential Polls. Let it be noted that the bulk of votes Buhari had in 2003 (12,710,022) under a known and popular party (ANPP) then against a Southerner, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo (24,456,140) were garnered more from his base in Northwest but when he was contesting against a fellow Northerner, Musa Yar'adua in 2007  still under the national party,  ANPP,  Buhari votes plummeted to a disappointing 6,605,299 compared to Yar'adua's 24,638,063 the question now is, what led to the sharp drop in Buhari's votes? One thing, two Northerners were involved, Yar'adua and third placed Atiku, meaning Northern voters are not blind loyalists as widely assumed. In 2011, Buhari contested against a Southerner, Goodluck Jonathan, for the third time under a regional party called Congress for Progressive Change (CPC),  and he polled 12,214,853 compared to Jonathan's 22,495,187, the surge in Buhari's votes can be attributed to the political tempo in the Country then which favours a Northern candidate over a Southern one (as a result of the sudden death of Yar'adua) but for Jonathan's emergence as the Presidential party of a national and popular party, PDP, he won but the sympathy votes Buhari got from his base in Northwest and partly northeast buoyed by defectors from minor parties swelled his votes. 

In 2015, it was clear that Jonathan was no longer needed for going against his party's unwritten agreement that a Northern candidate should be picked as the Presidential flagbearer which he flouted coupled with the spate of corruption cases his associates were labelled with which he choose not to confront as a leader and not being proactive enough on the issue of insurgency (especially Boko Haram) up North, all these paved way for an influx of biased and emotional propaganda against his persons and government which finally put a nail to his ambition thereby giving Muhammadu Buhari of the APC a chance to emerge as the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria with votes totalling 15,424,921 compared to Jonathan's 12,853,162 leaving between them a margin of 2,571,759 to make it the closest in the history of the nation perhaps because it was the first time an incumbent (Jonathan) under a ruling party lost to an opponent from an opposition party. It is crystal clear here that Buhari's 15 million plus votes (a little over his usual 12 million plus votes) were as a result of bloc votes from few North Central and North Eastern States like Kwara, Niger, Gombe, Bauchi, Borno and Yobe. 

Going by the above calculations, it is instructive that we factor in what lies ahead for a Buhari Presidency versus an Atiku chance at the polls. Buhari's chance seems to be faltering almost on daily basis especially when one consider the likes of prominent Nigerians who once supported him and are instrumental to his victory at the polls in 2015 now giving him disapproval ratings and even advising him to shelf the idea of going for a second term based on his failures in many policies on the economy and brazen attempts at taking Nigeria back to the age of nepotism. The permutation now is if Buhari at his best can manage just 15,424,921 votes what will now be his chance now that his approval ratings keep dropping especially when one consider the fact that 2019 will be a straight battle between two likely Northern candidates which brings to mind a replay of the Yar'adua versus Buhari contest in 2007 where a popular Buhari lost the elections with a little over 6 million votes compared to now that he has been tested and confirmed a failure by many Nigerians especially his contemporaries and former associates like Obasanjo, Junaid Mohammed, Senator Shehu Sannj, Atiku, Dele Momodu, Wole Soyinka, Cardinal 'Bunmi Okogie, Oby Ezekwesili,  Rev. fr. Mbaka and many more. Atiku's chance is very high especially when the Northern factor is considered and going by the tension in the land as 2019 approaches. The search for a northern element that will bridge the widening gap between the North and South is needed urgently, this is why Alhaji Atiku remains the only candidate up North that can confront a recalcitrant Buhari or whoever APC is pushing forward as its Presidential candidate ahead of 2019!  

From The Desk Of @Ratello

Cc: Lalasticlala

RevenGeMission:
Hilltop mansion is common to who ??

OBJ

IBB

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GEJ


Buhari does not own a mansion

DeBrain045:
I think both atiku and buhari are retired and old they should go and rest we need somebody else