if cpc have enough agents its easy to make claims @ the tribunals, note that pple didn't mind them riggin here but I assur u that @ worst over 80-85 % of pple voted and they all wud ve voted gej and it happened up north too, He wud ve won fair and square not needin a runoff

@ akin , Why are some bb supporters so pathethic, u can't be more yoruba than those that voted.they ve a right to, if u can't respect their decision then u are no different than a tyrant.I ve no regret, a lot of pple aren't comfortable with him simple.a 70 year old man like buhari wud have vascular dementia, if gej doesn't perform this wud be the end of pdp. Buhari is not change he is part of the past that is still haunting us, personally I don't believe in his economic policies. U make it look as if he is the only one that can fight corruption.

No justification gen buhari this is total madness. Even if gej rigged to win which wasn't the case, is the tribunal not there.no wonder he said he wouldn't go to the tribunal. Its this the kind of leader that some were clamouring for. He is the only one that can calm the almajris down

‎​Dele Momodu of the NCP went to the Polling station with his wife and 3 other members of his family.:s

The result for Ward 10 unit 24 at Wasimi Community High School where he cast his vote is PDP polled 177 votes,/ CPC 65,:p ACN 418-| and NCP 1 vote. X_X=D

Should he file for divorce,:/ chase out his family members ; OR move to Ghana?(y) L̃̾Õ☺Õ̾Ô=D=))ÕÔ☺ÔÕ̾L̃̾‎​.

In a relativel fair contest, u may ask urself why. Well it had to do withe the person gej,tribal(down south) and (religious(up north-central) for me and so many from swest ssouth seast buhari was no change and not acceptable.apart. From some fishy result in the east.it was a good contest.

Congrats gej.ur very first election was @ the highest level, beyound luck nigerians trust you.I hope you perform well, beyound the rhethorical flourishes like building 36 airports.I have a feeling that u realise that pple actually voted this time and that no godfather not even ur party was responsible for this outright win.

A steady & even hand to guide a nation in transition

Yeh desola u baffle me. Cheers team gej

I just don't like buhari, , I can't trust him with my country. I wanted change but not buhari he is part of our past. Imagine a 78yr old president cos he wud be so powerful that he wud win a 2nd term.I wud ve voted ribadu, but we don't need crooks like tinubu for the right alliance to work. He is part of our past, whilst they was little riggin here and there, but this is the voice of the people @ least lagos results speaks volume.

I hope pple don't relax, I feel our legislators ve our mandate, they shud know that the wud hear from us soon

I hope politicians analyst ve learnt a bit.

Buhari my ass in shame if he wins,

The real work starts after the results
Am happy, with jega and inec am happy with the nigerian.I ve a feeling that gvt wudnt be business as usual now that votes count for most. It wud only get better

What a stupid thread

Zoning must be hurtin u erico,

As pres buhari wud be unyielding, he wuldnt listen.am very sure he wasn't trained a democrat, I hope he loses, First round ko, If he enters he wud def get a 2nd term .na wa o a 77 year old pres.naija I hail thee.these are signs that he woud be grossly intolerable to the various grps that make nigeria.

Kai buhari

In de bag ke. Dis election is too close o, buhari for 8 yrs, I hope not his presidency wud be too powerful.I hope gej win @ 1st try.gej wud get plateau benue the rest na gej.bb shudnt get 25% in ss except lag and oyo.crossin ma fingers.

Underage voting is also a form of riggin

Total votes bb wud win o.pple de vex for north o, but bb can't det 25% in 2/3rd states

Yep just as I predicted, they wud vote enmass up north but bb can't get 25% in ss and se(10 states) and like 3-4 states in swest. Bb wud might make 25 in lag so that's 14, Whilst gej wud win and make 25 perc in 16 south states and 3 states up north, he shud make 25 perc in kd.

How are we sure. And we ve a thread for complaints, I ve a small pen camera and I just ate onward to the battlefield, no matter who wins.we ve to support, speak out,and demand from good goverment. Jega did a great job the sytem makes it such that if rig u wud be exposed.party agents ve the resuls as announced @ each unit,

And I can tell u, it went on ondo, osun,borno,kaduna,and so many.jega has made the tribunals to make it work

Sore losers most of them,process is such that if u ve pollin agents all over u cud easily challenge d result. Me m votin gej not cos he is the messiah, buhari is part of the past that has made us where we are. I employ nigerians to be stedfast and protect ur vote

Sore losers

Just tought he might ve some fans.equity @ least

These underage voters may ve voted for wamako but I know they wud be voting for buhari tomorrow, Si its more fundamental, the process was creditable

Am sure even iwu wud be dissapointed, but its all parties that indulge in these act and that's why we ve the leaders we deserve.cos our leaders are from 9ja.underage votin is also shameful, there is no reason for her to rig for gej if she actuallly did and if she is from ss.but we ve hope and sooner than later all these things wud be of the past. Its also important to note tha some pple also snatched ballot boxes, but generally it was good.generally free and fair and a departure from 07

I m predictin rain would fall on saturday

Tks aisha for the topic.
Politics;
He wudnt be able to amend the constitution by fiat,he needs the nass.and state assemblies(cpc ranks 3rd). Inec has already been strengthend by gej.get the best and brightest into govt-i dey laugh(his candidates were not the best and brightest in the concluded polls) am sure BB wud abuse his office\power (a former coup plotter) restructure gvt reform judicial system (HOW) talk is cheap. I can believe he wud try to remove immunity but its not an exec order,

Security and conflict resolution;
State and local gvt police: abeg we are not ripe for that yet.our politicians wud use it to their advantage.imagine boko haram and local police together

Conflict resolution
N-delta solution is political,economical and with gej, u can't tell me they wud ve a worse deal. We are alrdy producin more.militants are engaged actively.this is crucial and one major reason why I wud vote gej, With bb he wud probe the amnesty prog. There wud be more agitation, earnings wud drop, no gas to power turbines. Loss of jobs, loss of foreign invst. Removal of state of origin.I dey laf(it wudnt change tribalism) how wud it be done.

Economy:
We ve a good cbn guvnor though I had a few issues but he is doin well. All the funds they propose like smes mortgage bla bla , -ts alrdy in place.even more go to cbn website.

Power:
Power gen is currently on a high, when yaradua cam in he setup several probes, we ended up probin the probe comitee(that's wat wud happen if bb is in charge) we lost time and money via penalties. The policy is right we ve broken nepa into generation distribution and transmission. With a peaceful n-delta we cud power gas turbines, use earnings from oil to build new stations and guess wat loads of oil majors are coming on stream, all they need is a peaceful n-delta

Healthcare-am a young physician in one of the teaching hospitals and things are gettin better.gej has increased our entitelments, b4 I was sure I was leavin but 780k per mnth minimum as a cosultant aint bad for now.the health sector needs money, and they are other demanding sectors.NB he has just implemented a new minimum wage for civil servants who employ a lot of nigerians it takes courage- with respect to health the manifesto is wack.how do u want to increase no of physicians from 19 to 50 per thousand.How na
If I shud talk on indices, like mm and infant mort, that wud be for another day

Foi has alrdy been passed though abridged along with efcc and icpc strenghtenin I know we cud make progress

But I must note that I hope the new pres wud keep in mind that we are watchin and now that our votes count, they wud work hard.I wish I had a better candidate.Goodluck 9ja

Good stuff efisher.u took words from ma mouth

Though m votin gej, truth must be told he had been a bit reckless, but maybe it was for a political point, that's normal even obama had to negotiate witgh several unions to pass his health bill he has improved wqges of civil servants health workers and all that, its our hope that with an assembly as it is now, things would be different they wud check excesses. I believe gej is the right way to go,

They have damaged my candidacy, says Ribadu

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By Olu Jacob

April 14, 2011 06:07AM

A dramatic 24 hours in the presidential race reached a climax yesterday after Nuhu Ribadu, the Action Congress of Nigeria (ACN) flag bearer, expressed regret for agreeing to step down for his Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) counterpart, Muhammadu Buhari.

On a frenetic day of alliance talks, there were several twists and turns before the deal eventually collapsed. Mr. Ribadu had, during an intense moment in the discussions, agreed to dump his presidential ambition in order for the long mooted coalition to work.

The collapse of the alliance means that Mr. Ribadu is going into Saturday’s presidential election with what will seem like little conviction amongst his supporters. In a message sent to NEXT, Mr. Ribadu conceded that the reversal would have a lasting impact on his future prospects.

“This is the way this thing has been going all through,” he said. “I know the damage they have done to me personally, but I leave that to God.”

Sources at the three day meeting between the ACN and the CPC caucus said that on Tuesday, a decision had been made by Mr. Ribadu in which he accepted to step down for Mr. Buhari for the April 16 election.

“He was surprisingly cool about it all,” said an ACN delegate at the meeting.

“He said it has never been a do or die affair with him and he was willing to leave the race so that the alliance will work.”

Mr. Buhari and a former Lagos State governor, Bola Tinubu, led the discussions for their respective sides. Mr. Buhari had reportedly been eager for the meeting to succeed but was unwilling to back down on certain points, including the idea that Mr. Tinubu becomes his vice president.

Mr. Ribadu said he was willing to sacrifice his ambition but others at the meeting were not so selfless.

“We have done our part. I have agreed to step down. We have sacrificed for the country. And they won’t even sign a simple letter?” he lamented.

The letter that ended a hope

After three days of intense deliberations, the parties finally reached a consensus on all the outstanding points. They agreed to field a single candidate, CPC’s Muhammadu Buhari, in the election; that ACN’s Nuhu Ribadu will immediately announce he was no longer running; that the ACN will campaign vigorously for Mr. Buhari’s candidacy, especially in the south west where it has such a great influence; that although it is too late to field another running mate for Mr. Buhari, Tunde Bakare, the CPC vice presidential candidate, will step down immediately after the election; that Mr Tinubu will not be allowed to replace him but may nominate those who would; that Mr Buhari reserved the final right to choose from among the list of three candidates that Mr. Tinubu submits.

Mr Tinubu, whose vice presidential ambition had also been blamed for the collapse of previous talks, immediately named three people for the job. They are Yemi Osinbajo a former Attorney General and Commissioner for Justice in Mr Tinubu’s administration, Yemi Cardoso, who was Mr Tinubu’s budget commissioner and a former Lagos State finance commissioner, Wale Edun.

Although Mr. Bakare had agreed to these terms, he balked when the ACN delegates insisted he signed a post dated resignation letter to seal the deal. He vehemently refused to append his signature to such a document. According to a source, it was at this point that the overnight meeting, which went on till 2am, reached an impasse.

The ACN refused to take Mr Bakare’s word that he will abide by the meeting’s decision. “How else could they make sure that he would not back out later?” said a former governor who was also a facilitator at the meeting.

No alliance anymore

The ACN delegates, who at this point were visibly aggrieved by the CPC, quickly started some damage control. The party’s national chairman, Bisi Akande issued a statement assuring its supporters that the party has not entered into any alliance with the CPC.

“We as party that believes in democratic values have therefore decided that in the overall interest of the parties involved, our democracy as well as our country, it is better for each of the parties to go into the presidential election on its own platform,” he said.

Also smarting from the breakdown in discussions, Bunmi Aborishade, the coordinator, Team Ribadu USA Convener, Ribadu for Nigeria Coalition said, “Please note that the alliance talk between the ACN and the CPC to field a single candidate finally broke down yesterday because Buhari/CPC reneged on the earlier agreement that the party with the highest number of seats in the National Assembly elections would produce the presidential candidate for the two parties.”

A small window

However, Rotimi Fashakin, the CPC spokesman, said talks were ongoing. “I really don’t know when you get that information. Talks are ongoing and 10 minutes in politics can make a lot of difference so, don’t rely on the information you got 45 minutes ago. I believe that all the impediments have been removed.”

When asked if the two parties have finally agreed to go into the election together and settled all differences, he said: “I believe so.”

Mr. Akande similarly left open a small window of opportunity.

“If at the end of the election on Saturday there is no clear winner we will make a decision on which way to go, in the overriding interest of all Nigerians,” he said.

Additional reporting by Festus Owete

http://234next.com/csp/cms/sites/Next/News/Metro/Politics/5689855-146/story.csp

He was referrin to tinubu and bakare

Inflation crap, I believe the cbn governor and finance minister ve the competence to advice mr pres, don't want a shamshudden like kina f-minister o. Its not as if gej is d messiah he is far from it, but we don't want directionless rule, we r moving, albeit slowly in the right direction. Its better than goin back to 99 then we ask ourselves, apart from anti corruption we don't know bb selling point.

Policy stabilisation, continuity, aids prosress

With foi passed by assembly we. Ve to form pressure grps to get d law enacted and hence corrupt deatils wud be known, its not for one man alone.its not easy.

Don't cry buhar, u are a good man. Next

Nigerian can lie, they were grinding onions nearby that wat caused the tears.how can a man who truncated a democracy cry, Haba

Let's face facts these might be a game changer if its true.' Might' forget gej wud win over 80% in ss and se buhari 80 in nw and ne. Nc is goin to be shared equally. Plateau,kogi ,benue are pro gej. Bb wud do well in abj, niger
Others wud be too close kwara,nassarawa, slightly in bb.

Now to swest.
Gej wud gross over 70-80 % of lag votes m sure.lag had the highest registered voters and I tell u that a good nos are se ss other minorities make up the voters.not forgettin that pdp has a wide base.even amongst yorubas 33% wud vote gej.

Ondo is lp,lp has endorsed gej

Ogun ekiti and osun are ac strongholds but I assure u gej wud pick @ least 40 -50 % even with a ribadu.noting they aren't too populated, oyo too gej wud do well, if akala cud do well.common

Last wk was diff.record crowds wud come out, forget last wk northerners wud vote buhari enmass, they feel cheated esp post yaradua and zoning.

It wud be interesting. Even if it were a two horse race lag wud neutralize kano and gej has more states in the kitty, Sample the opinion of those esp in the lowest class south of abuja na gej.its goin to be close but a two horse race free and fair gej wud win.there wud be loads of voided votes cos most pple ve made up their minds abt who they are voting for.