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newsbook:
Former United States (U.S.) Ambassador to Nigeria, John Campbell, has described Nigeria’s 2019 presidential election as bad news for democracy, adding that former Vice President Atiku Abubakar is unlikely to win his suit in court.

This is contrary to reports by some international bodies that the election was free and fair. Campbell, in his election post-mortem for the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington DC obtained yesterday, said the election was marred by historically low turnout and credible allegations of rigging.

He noted that the election was a step-back from that of 2015, adding that actions should be taken to identify what had gone wrong and what could be corrected.

Read More at: https://www.thenewsbook.net/john-campbell-nigerias-presidential-election-bad-news-for-democracy

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Our president deserves the rest.

It's not easy to defeat Desperado Atiku, OBJ, Saraki and a host of other "owners of Nigeria".

If pigs don't like, they can port to Congo.

orion7:
buhari lost aso rock pooling unit.

his cooks, guards, laundry staff and relatives voted against him. If not for the north were he hails from the defeat would have been too bad.

he lost the South woefully even with the heavy rigging and burning of inec materials and ballot papers . now he knows the South doesn't love him at all

PMB won one of the two polling units in Aso Rock. Get your facts before spewing lies.

And he actually performed far better in SS and SE this time than his previous showings there. Check Cross River, Rivers, Delta and even Bayelsa and look at yourself in the mirror.

PMB scored 25% or more in 9 states of the 11 states in SE/SS. Only in Anambra, Enugh and Abia he didn't achieve that threshold. In the past, he couldn't even get 10% in the two regions.

2018 posts!

MrLankeeee:
Ask you dumb self.

Eeyah! Your wailing subscription has just been renewed for another four years.

APCsupporter:
Shatap there afonja op.


Atiku Aguero Abubakar won on facebook, nairaland, twitter, I.G and most especially, the south east which has more PVC than all the other regions combined

MrLankeeee:
If you ask us na who we go ask?

You a Buhari loyalist enjoy your next level.

So, Atikuloot didn't win the election again?

I have listened and read arguments supporting both sides of the divide in the last general election.

I have taken my time to examine the available facts of the matter to arrive at a conclusion and here are my findings to support the argument that Atiku indeed "won" the last general election.

First, let's look at those top politicians whom Atiku relied upon to win the elections:

Saraki,Gbenga Daniel, Olusegun Obasanjo (OBJ), Kwankwaso, Buba Galadima, Dino Melaye, Jinmi Agbaje, Secondus, FFK and a few others.

Now let's see how each of these big guns (including Atiku himself) "delivered" their polling unit, ward, local government or even state for Atiku.

1. Atiku - himself as the presidential candidate could only deliver 167 votes against PMB's 187 votes in his own polling unit. Though he won Adamawa scoring "massive" 52% of the votes to PMB's 48% (412,266 votes to 377,488 votes) - just about 35k votes difference.

2. Saraki - The DG of Atiku presidential bid won his polling unit for Atiku but lost his local government and state to Buhari.

3. Gbenga Daniel - wins polling unit, lost local govt and state

4. OBJ - Lost polling unit, ward, local government and state to Buhari

5. Kwakwanso - Won polling unit but lost local government and state

6. Buba Galadima - Lost polling unit, ward and local govt plus state to Buhari

7. Jinmi Agbaje - Lost polling unit, local govt and state to Buhari


With all the above facts, how can anyone still be in doubt that Atiku "won the last election"?

Abeg, make una leave frustrated children of hate and anger alone in their foolishness ooo.

Otuegbe:
I don't care! Your Dad is incompetent

About 11 million others like you think so too.

But to your frustration, over 15 million sane Nigerians think otherwise.

donstan18:
People of Kano are getting wiser.

But people of Rivers and indeed the entire SE and SS are getting dumber!

If not, how do you explain reelecting Ikpeazu, Okowa, Wike and those failures?

Awol1:
Truth be told, I think Atiku won this election.

Keep thinking that a man who lost his polling unit won the General election. Common sense is rare indeed.

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id911:
Sharap!

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id911:
You're here applauding a renowned thug who stole the symbol of authority of the National Assembly and they refused to arrest and send him to jail because he's close to the President. What type of society are you guys trying to build?

Hypocrite, if that act was committed by Sarathief or Dino, you'd praise him and call him smart and skillful.

May PDP never find its way into our national governance. Amen.

Sai Buhari.

Atikulooted brains, how una body temperature?

Esseite:
Oh my Nigeria...

its a pity we are in the times the Judiciary, the supposed third arm of Govt of the Nation now deems it fit to take authority from the Executive before discharging it's duties...

How low can we go?... where is the pride in training our babies to become lawyers..

Another institution bites the dust.

Educated illiterate. Olodo!

beautyoftheLord:
Saddened indeed! More like elated since they are southerners.

I'm sure something is genetically wrong with you. Seek medical advice.

PhenomenalMorgan:
Buhari's integrity is as useless as P in Psychology!!

It's the same integrity that won him reelection even in KAno.

The syfia pains you guys are passing through will never end. Amen.

amaniro:
Oshiomole calm down and ask Akpabio, Saraki, Okorocha how they ended up.

Reasoning like this is why there is no hope in Nigerian youths.

Esseite:
He would do exceptionally well, imagine such a renowned technocrat and to imagine they may be in their millions from the SW, but because they are not affiliated to Tinubu the alleged kingmaker, they are over shadowed and can't make an impact while thugs hold sway.

Seyi, you are the beacon of hope that anyone can be king, your performance would enable other indigenes in the region believe there are better alternatives.

Do you know anything about Ajimobi's qualifications and achievements before he became a politician?

And Rashidi Ladoja?

rangerover:
PROF MAMOOD THE WORST EVER INEC CHAIRMAN THIS COUNTRY HAS PRODUCED. HISTORY WILL JUDGE YOU

If he's as half bad as you sore losers say, PDP wouldn't even be in the contest in most states in the north.

tsinzu:
What's the need of coming out to vote when your vote will not count at the end of the day? These elections were some of the worst ever. We haven't seen anything like this since the Maurice Iwu era. Very terrible!!
By some kind of miraculous coincidence, every state where the PDP is doing well in the north has either been declared inconclusive or collation suspended but every state where the APC is doing well, no problem. This is elections has taken us more than ten years back when we are supposed to be moving forward

Bitter soul, you're in syfia pain.

2019 elections have been the best in our history so far. If not, PDP would not have won in Oyo, Kano and other APC strongholds. Syfia pains kill you.

Avedonn:
They should declare Kano

By the way, why are we having so much inconclusive results this election?

We never had such in 2015.

Educate yourself and you'll realize that the proper thing is being done now. The process has improved with declaring some of the elections inconclusive where the win margin is less than canceled votes.

Reader530:
Terrorist spotted..... Name any one Christian Organization for hate speech

Most of the modern day Chritian preachers are hate preachers.

Oyedepo, Suleman and Iginla just to mention a few. They are the worst terrorists in the true context of the definition of terrorism.

BotherMleeper:
No where in any part of the Quran or Hadith does it say Adhan must be proclaimed loudly over loudspeakers. But there are verses where the rights of others are extolled as fundamental parts of Taqwa.

In a monocultural society sure, you can blare away. But in a multicultural environment where you can impede the rights of others, you can perform your rites in ways that are acceptable to Islam without infringement.

This is similar to how muslims block public roads during friday and Eid prayers as some sort of divine or cosmic rights.

No.

You cannot block public passageways and deny others their rights. All prayers must be conducted in properly designated mosques.

We are not human if we do not accept our mistakes when practicing our religion.

And Kaduna, with more population of Muslims than that of Christians, should not be able to call to prayer over the loudspeaker because it is multicultural environment in your own estimation? And it is ok for Christians to blare away in places they're only about 20% of the population?

You try!

Omololu2121:
the population of Muslims in ekiti and ondo state is not up to 30%. In fact it's so hard to find a Muslim family in ekiti state, Muslim population in ekiti can't be up to 5% sef if you disagree tell me the names of the villages in ekiti were we have a large Muslim population.

Ikare Akoko has a large population of Muslims

BotherMleeper:
El rufai likes to believe he's some enfant terrible in Nigeria. His choosing a muslim as his deputy was just grandstanding and a hollow statement.

With or without a muslim deputy he's bound to win, so what was the point of inflaming passions for a mere political rhetoric that has no intrinsic value?

kaduna needs tact and wisdom, not a circus clown who feels he's duty-bound to make political statements to appease one side and deflate another.

One upon a time Kaduna was the political center of Nigeria, rich in political capital. Then the game of sentiments came on and reduced us to a Plateau or Taraba. That sheen and aura is long gone....and the atmosphere is one heavily pregnant with uncertainty and tension.



We'll all breathe a sigh of relief when he finally leaves.

I can't blame El Rufai for choosing a muslim deputy for the fact that it was undiluted hatred he was repaid with even with a Christian deputy.

I mean, there is a limit to what anyone can stomach in any given circumstance. He has dared the consequences of choosing a Muslim mate and he has triumphed.

The high time the CAN in Kaduna, and indeed in Nigeria, retrace their divisive steps.

Only a biased commentator will argue against the fact that the Christian leaders in Nigeria fan the embers of divisiveness through their numerous hate preachings.

BotherMleeper:
To be honest with you, I dont like government dabbling in religion...

.....but....


...I'd wish we can tone it down a bit. We're the loudest people when it comes to religion. I dont like us blaring everything on loudspeakers, other people deserve their peace.

If you want to be preached at, meet with the preacher in your temple and do it within the ambiance. Every muslim should know when it's time for prayers if you do it 5 times a day, why do I need some loudspeaker blaring at 5am when I can set my own personal alarm?

Why must we shout our beliefs all over rooftops and take over the airwaves?

You are completely wrong about this your position on Call to Prayer by Muslims.

Calling to prayer (Adhan) loud over the loudspeakers has become almost mandatory in Islam where there is no imminent threat in doing so. A call to prayer doesn't last for more than 3 minutes at most. This is 15 minutes a day and why this should be a source of worry to anyone is beyond common sense. Can call to prayer by muslims be likened to the endless preaching over the loudspeaker, day and night, by Christians?

diablos:
Kaduna pple should arrange themselves for El-rufai next level. The midget has promised to terrorize the people of KD and has sworn nobody can do nothing about it.

Senseless post.

Counter what the woman said and let's see how far you can go.

Even in the SW, Ekiti and Ondo for example where the Muslim population in each of the two states can't be less than 30%, we still have Christian/Christian ticket. Hypocrisy kill una!

Gandollar:
But you guys boasted that Ganduje will surely retire kwankwaso after 2019

Who are the "you guys" ?

BoboKush:
Stil wondering why kano didn't deliver for Atiku

Same reason they are rejecting Ganduje - they loathe fraudulent people. They deserve praises.

What we witnessed in Oyo state is political sophistication that deserves special attention.

The outcome is not necessarily because people want Seyi Makinde but because they wanted to punish Ajimobi for his lousy and disrespectful utterances. In many other climes, they would still have voted Bayo Adelabu to separate Ajimobi's sins from him.

NaijaRoyalty:
Any northern states PDP is leading , INEC will declare inconclusive.

Wailer, APC is leading in Sokoto by about 44k votes but there were 49k canceled votes and the election was declared inconclusive.

PDP and their supporters are naturally hypocrites and daft.