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omanzo02:
A female friend of mine who is an EU representative for the election is in Nigeria at the moment, her job is to samples electorate choices ( in rural and urban communities) for statistical comparison when result are eventually released. She called to fluff and tell me how she is enjoying the warm weather, the people and their rich culture, visiting places etc, when  I asked what we should be expecting, she remained professional/ethical, but in her answered she said " Its obvious more people love the sitting president" and u all knows what that means. I think the Buharist need a refined strategy if they want to do well in this election.

most of the foreign diplomats in abuja know the PDP can't win the presidential election in a free and fair contest. FACT.

Signed, Sealed, Delivered; I'm Yours.

Beaf:
Sharap!
Dunce!

Sahara Reporters is a fools paradise, best known for fake news.

says the man who religiously posts articles from the punch, vanguard and the tribune

bro, saharareoprters are the washington post of journalism in comparison to you and your daily rags.

if they didn't take the money then beaf wouldn't have any of his nice articles to post on here; and just think how boring this place would be.

FRESH AIR BABY

he's not a paid agent, he's been around here way before GEJ. he's just a stubborn SOB who's backed himself into a corner and is trying to fight his way out.

[quote author=Dav.e link=topic=640513.msg8068484#msg8068484 date=1302129496]@ Kobojunkie
Madam, Calm down and get yourself together.

I simply made a request for the video to the poster, indicating that I was the 2nd person doing so on this thread.
I then expressed my view on the subject matter in a separate point; thus '2'.

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Obviously, I haven't watched the interview where he reportedly made that statement. But from the quotation above, he could as well be referring to the CPC, because most of the top members of that party are products of the PDP. Also, many of their top figures are made up of old generatioonal politicians and military men who have been in the realm of power since independence, and still intend to cling onto power on different platforms.

I clearly get where Prof. Soyinka is coming from and took an objective approach to express my view in contrast to the prior insinuations that jhe was referring solely to the PDP![/quote]name them

efisher:
Does that include people who have served under the PDP led government like Sanusi, Amaechi, Ribadu, Deziani, El Rufai, and all the other decampees from PDP to CPC?

while we can argue about the individual merits of all the recent "decampees", i think it'll be easier to just say this: a government led by a non-PDP corruption slayer and a few former PDP members is infinitely better than the PDP themselves. has that cleared things up for you?

every right thinking nigerian knows that nothing good can come out of PDP.

recoome:
why didnt he campaign when other were campaigning? Coz he can't compete favourable!

i'm actually embarrassed for. i think it's best you went to bed dear.

danjohn:
I am one of those hoping for a runoff but as the days go by my confidence that a runoff with occur diminishes.

Buhari and Ribadu will not get 25% of the votes in 24 states period.

Jonathan is likely to win 25% in the following states:

Very Likely: 19 (Must get 25% in all 19)
Edo
Delta
Baylesa
Rivers
Cross River
Akwa Ibom
Abia
Enugu
Anambra
Ebonyi
Enugu
Plateau
Taraba
FCT
Kogi
Kwara
Benue
Lagos
Oyo

Likely: 3 (Must get 25% in all 3)
Ogun
Ondo
Osun

Battle Ground: 5 (Must get 25% in 2 out of 5)
Kaduna
Ekiti
Adamawa
Nasarawa
Niger

If Jonathan wins the popular vote and 25% in two of the battle ground states, then he wins on the first ballot.  Right now, I am pretty confident that he can get 25% in Ekiti and probably Kaduna.

My verdict is that for a runoff to happen, Buhari must win the popular vote.  He must spend the next 11 days in the Southwest: morning, noon, and night.  He must go to the markets, barber shops, churches, mosques, universities, restaurants.  Anywhere there is a registered vote in the SW, he must go.  Buhari must win 15% - 20% in the SW in order to make winning the popular vote probable.  I personally think he may need 25% in the SW to cement a popular vote victory.  This is my 2 cents.  I wish I was a Buhari campaign staffer.  Even if it is as an unpaid adviser.  I hope they have staffers reading this.

i think they know what they're doing.

just make sure you vote.

Beaf:
The man didn't see any purpose in holding a rally in Nigeria's biggest city (or the South in general). So whats the so called "train" he's taking to Lagos after campaigns are over?

why are campaigns over?

^^^

he's been chasing shadows for the past few weeks now

VI
BB

Beaf:
Dude, every patriotic Nigerian wants free and fair elections. I find your your defence of rigging quite off putting and disgraceful.

awwwwwwwww, where's the famous beaf sense of humor?? i think i liked the old you better. i'll tell you what: let's pretend that johnny boy is going to win for a few more days and then you can go back to posting you smiling faces again.

but on a serious note these elections were NEVER going to be free and fair after the bastardisation of the Uwais report. I mean dude, can you imagine, the PDP is still responsible for appointing the Resident Electoral Commissioners   And you think GEJ is "game" for Free and Fair. Joker.

seanet02:
Aisa2, Jarus,mukina nd seun i have watched how you have been[b] manipulating this forum to your own advantage.[/b] You are proclaiming Buhari as the New saint and the new Mandela, okay, if Buhari win a single ward in South West you can all place a Permanent Ban on Me. It is a Promise and i seldom fail to fulfill my PROMISES!!!
Watch Out

why do people take this forum so seriously?? it's not as if it will have ANY BEARING WHATSOEVER on the elections. you do realise that, right?

^^

where has you confidence gone? are you scared of losing? i thought only failed parties cry foul over rigging

the end is nigh my good man. YOUR. TIME. IS UP. i hope you'll be brave enough to show your face around here afterwards.

The alarm bells and ominous signs are once again available for the discerning lovers of democracy to see the duress and undue influence that President Goodluck Jonathan and the ruling PDP are exerting on the chairman of Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC), Prof Attahiru Jega.

This is reminiscent of the same shameful approach that the late President Umaru Yar'adua adopted with the then Resident Electoral Commissioner in Ekiti state, Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo, as we can all remember. In any civilized clime, a candidate or party that is participating in an election should naturally distance itself from the Electoral Commission; if only to avoid any appearance of undue influence and/or conflict of interest. This is why most, if not all, Electoral Commissions throughout the world are supposed to be independent of the various arms of government. Regrettably, this is not the case in Nigeria as our so called Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) has a track record of being independent more in the breach than in observance.

That the pattern of abuse by the executive arm and the ruling party on INEC can continue even in the middle of a critical period of general elections is mind boggling and totally unacceptable. In so doing, President Jonathan (like his recent predecessors) is laying the foundation for the forthcoming elections to be anything but free, fair and credible as Nigerians and the world at large would want it to be. We had hitherto believed that the National Assembly elections that had to be aborted and postponed in the middle of voting was because of non availability of critical materials as announced by Prof Jega. However we now have reasons to believe that covert as well as overt pressures are being exerted by President Goodluck Jonathan, the ruling PDP and their agents because of their vested interests in manipulating the outcome of the elections.

[b]If we had doubts about the widely circulated rumour that senior officers in the legal and operations departments of INEC deliberately engineered the delay/non availability of the critical materials as an act of sabotage to discredit Prof Jega, such surreptitious or covert moves now pale into relative insignificance in light of the emergency meeting of the National Security Council chaired by President Jonathan with Prof Jega and other senior officials of INEC after the postponed elections. According to today’s edition - Monday 4th of April of the Daily Trust newspaper, it was reported that the Vice President Namadi Sambo, National Security Adviser to the President, Ministers of Defense and Police Affairs along with other service chiefs were also present at the meeting where accusing fingers were repeatedly pointed at the INEC chairman for the problems that led to the postponement. The INEC chairman was further chastised for turning down the offer for the military to be involved in the election logistics and that: (1) the government should henceforth constitute a taskforce consisting of the military and INEC officials to take over all election logistics, (2) INEC should not combine the postponed National Assembly elections with that of the Presidential elections on the 9th of April as demanded by a majority of the opposition parties, (3) the Modified Open Secret Ballot system that INEC has adopted should be changed such that there should be no accreditation of all eligible voters prior to voting. The pressures were so strong that the INEC chairman succumbed and agreed not to combine the National Assembly elections with that of the Presidential elections as has since been publicly announced by INEC. He however refused to constitute a taskforce and change the accreditation procedure as demanded and offered to resign instead.[/b]

Naturally, we and most other Nigerians are disappointed by the postponement of the elections midstream but we strongly believe that Prof Jega made the right call to postpone the elections rather than continuing with flawed elections. So we see no reason for the President and National Security Council meeting in the first place. [size=15pt]We also understand that there will be more surreptitious moves in the days ahead to embark on a media campaign of calumny to force Professor Jega to resign so that one of the PDP friendly INEC commissioners can be appointed as acting chairman of INEC.
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The alarm bells and ominous signs to be deduced are as follows:

· Why should the National Security Council be meeting with INEC at this stage without other political parties being present?

· Why embark on duress and undue influence for the rules to be changed in the middle of the game?

· Why should the President and PDP’s preference for the National Assembly elections and the Presidential election not to be combined be imposed on all the other major parties?

· Why should the President and the ruling PDP be clamouring for the involvement of the military in the conduct of the elections?

· Will Prof Attahiru Jega eventually succumb just as Mrs. Ayoka Adebayo of Ekiti State, who initially resisted but later bowed to pressure from the ruling PDP?

For these and many more reasons we strongly urge President Jonathan and the ruling PDP to cease and desist from any further covert and overt interference in the way and manner in which the elections are conducted by INEC; not only in the interest of free, fair and credible elections that President Jonathan has promised Nigerians and the world at large but also in the interest of peace and stability of our country.

Lastly we demand a probe of the role of INEC Director of Operations, Mr. Nuru Yakubu in the event that led to the bungling of last Saturday elections just as we call on Prof Jega to clear the air on the rumour making the rounds that 2 set of result sheets with the same serial numbers were allegedly printed by the official printer of INEC.



Yinka Odumakin.
Spokesman for General Buhari.

i love it how PDP are now the ones crying foul after being embarrassed at the polls.

Beaf:
Jega's arse is gonna blow open! How could such a good man go bad?
Even his so called "foreign contracts" were to his kinsmen. These are the new companies the printing contracts were handed to in April (after an earlier failure);

http://www.thisdaylive.com/articles/as-n-assembly-poll-is-rescheduled-for-monday-concern-mounts-over-presidential-election/88950/

bet you have absolutely no idea who the other 9 companies where, do you?

do you even know you are just passing on propaganda? or you just du.mb?

[size=20pt]El-Rufai: Why I’m Standing By Buhari – Bakare [/size]

Tuesday, 15 March 2011

Former Minister of the Federal Capital Territory, Malam Nasir Ahmad El-Rufai has stated why he is supporting the presidential ambition of Congress for Progressive Change (CPC) candidate General Muhammadu Buhari.The former Minister also debunked media reports that there were moves to reconcile him and Malam Nuhu Ribadu, the Action Congress of Nigeria’s (ACN) presidential candidate.

In an exclusive interview he granted LEADERSHIP, El-Rufai, said, “My belief is that the Buhari-Bakare ticket is the strongest because it addresses the concern of Nigerians for an inclusive and balanced ticket of two very strong and competent individuals. It shows greater capacity, track record and evidence of proven ability than the other candidates, to tackle what I consider to be the five most important challenges facing most Nigerians in 2011, which are insecurity and inadequate justice, infrastructure deficits - power, roads, railways, ports, etc.  Unemployment and youth hopelessness, collapse of government institutions and corruption, and collapse of public services, particularly education and healthcare. It is the only ticket that has published a detailed manifesto with clear deliverables, timelines and commitments. The others are either promising nothing in writing (PDP and ANPP) or just unrealistic platitudes (ACN) e.g. 30 million jobs and 5 million homes? -are they kidding?

On his previous stand on Buhari’s presidential ambition, he also argued, “What I had against Buhari (and IBB) running was their relatively advanced age and fact that they were presidents 25 years ago. I felt they should be elder statesmen and leave the stage. My objection had nothing to do with the competence or capacity to be president. With the choice of Bakare and Buhari’s message of inclusion and teamwork, I have dropped my objection. In any case, I think the issue for me is that the B-B ticket is simply the strongest amongst the four we have to choose from. We have all witnessed what Jonathan can do or not do within the last one year. Nuhu is my close friend and I know his strengths as well as his limitations. Shekarau is just running because he can. O nly Buhari has an agenda, clear message and track record of getting real things done in his public life. Bakare’s track record of social and activism, his courage and integrity and community service are well known to me and superior to that of all the other “running mates”.

this list is really too many, but i'll start with grossly incompetent and go from there

this poll is just as reliable as any of the other nonsense polls released over the last few weeks.

^^

LOL!!! you reason like a child.

[quote author=na_so link=topic=636750.msg8033376#msg8033376 date=1301678977]why not talk about his 10 months so far, compared to AYATOLLA'S 20 fruitless months that he foolishly made Lagos incur a $3bln loan without getting the metro line jakande planned.

lets compare GEJ'S time so far with your Buhari's 20 months as head of state.  when you are ready let me know.[/quote]i'm not just talking about his time as Governor. IM TALKING ABOUT HIS TOTAL 12 YEARS IN THE PDP. the man is a failure in every position he has held. period. but if you want to embarrass yourself, go ahead and list his achievements, I wont stop you. in fact, it'll be the first time in the history this forum that someone has actually stepped up the plate.

the floor is yours; the forum waits.

if you really think that there wont be party agents at every single poling station in the country (well at least the ones where a party has a candidate up for election) then you are bonkers.

such poor level of thinking from my fellow nigerians. it just goes to show how little you guys about nigerian politics. i wouldnt want any of you guys anywhere near a campaign.

smile11s:
Gej got plans, lets give him full 4 years to take naija to the promise land

what plans did he have in bayelsa state?

noblezone:
You are so sure that it was Mr. President who planted the bomb right? Well, I thank God that Mr. President has empowered the police to rise up to the ocassion. If the bomb had exploded you will blame Mr. President. Now that the bomb was stopped you also blame him. It is a shame

you actually believe the president has a handle on the situation? this country is fractured and mr pres most certainly is not as omnipotent as you believe he is.

arinzeeze:
@timbuk two,  can you visit ohakim2011.org to see more things for yourself and imomanylies.com

thank you. i will.

i love it. since when are roads major achievements in an administrations portfolio.

how big is the state budget again? surely the man must have done something other than build two roads.

[quote author=head_to_to link=topic=636718.msg8032799#msg8032799 date=1301673689]Is that all you can say? sorry for yourself. What did Buhari do as a millitary head of state? Nothing. That was when the Nigerian project got terribly bad- worse than the people he took over from. Dont you get it or you need your brains opened and we pack it full with cyanide?[/quote]you're a complete retar.d. you open a thread about the achievements of GEJ and then when asked to list his achievements in the past 12 years you suddenly want to discuss buhari. is you mind always this scattered?

go find something else to do bros. politics isn't for simpletons like you.