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The last two days, I have noticed that the majority of posters on threads that have to do with the Buhari presidential campaign who have identified themselves as coming from the eastern part of Nigeria are against his emergence because of his religion. However, most posters from the west are not against his candidature for the reason of his religion, if they are against it at all.
This brings the saying that "people fear what they don't understand" to my mind. In western Nigeria people are used to having siblings, parents, and friends who are members of the opposite faith and they mostly all get along. People marry members of another faith, sometimes they convert their spouse other times each spouse remain in their faith. Fashola's wife is a christian and he is a Muslim; they get along, if there was trouble in the family, how did he manage to perform and be respected as a governor? His able christian wife was behind him. General buhari himself gave out his first daughter to an Igbo christian man. If he had brought her up to hate other tribes and religions how could that have happened? Why did he overlook his prospective in-law's religion? This could have been because even if he had had a notion that Muslims are more upright than Christians, life's experiences could have changed it.
In the west, when a person who is a Muslim displays religious bigotry it is seen as ignorance while in the east most people go 'these Muslims again'; and it is understandable because they don't have a brother father or inlaw who is one.You are more likely to make excuses for someone who you know. As bad as the experiences of southerners who grew up in the north might have been in recent times, they are more likely to make excuses for northerners than those who did not grow up there.
My summation, let's try to be more understanding so that we can have an issue based election rather than one decided by tribe or religion. Let he who deserve to win emerge as the winner.

closearms:
the wirter of this post has no knowledge . of who buhari .... is ... if you were chanced to meet him in person ...you would have known who the true man is ..... just unfortunate. that most people only view him from what they are made to believed . God Our Nation . God Help Our General BM

How many days have you spent with him and Jonathan in person?

ak47mann:
ACN will dump buhari other parties that merge together and formed APC will start killing christian minorities now they have bombed jos the middlebelt people will never vote for APC, so basically core north and SW will be the losers again, at the last minute they will cast their votes to jonathan we can predict them before the sun rises

You express your wish as fact.

Whalewale:
I think everyone should read this write-up by Max Siollun

http://www.dawodu.com/siollun3.htm


Buhari and Idiagbon:
A Missed Opportunity for Nigeria

Mods please can we move this to front page so people are informed. Thanks

Thanks for the link. It was an interesting read.

Mogidi:
You should read my posts I was replying what was said. Religion can't be a factor in the US since Christianity is 83% and they're not suffering muslim insurgency.

In Nigeria Christians are being targeted and we have muslim insurgents decimating whole towns and villages, to affirm religion plays no part in politics is to live in denial.

Remind me of religion not having anything to do with politics when we have a Christian governor of Sokoto state.

You will have a Christian Governor of sokoto state when you have an Igbo governor of sokoto state.

Mogidi:
What other religion is there in America apart from Christianity? Try studying the demography of the US, the moslem population is a measly 2% compared to Nigeria where Christians enjoy a handsome 40% or 49.3%.

Only an extremist would ignore 50% of the electorates.

You have concluded that in America and the world as a whole Christianity and Islam are the only religions.

gists:
The last time I checked, Fashola was a MUSTIAN
Buhari/Fashola is my preferred option, though for safety Buhari/Oshiomole is equally good and may calm some bigoted nerves.

Oshiomole is also a Muslim

Mogidi:
Totally unrelated, governing a nation is not as easy as ABC like you want us to believe. Even in advanced democracies you don't see parties fielding candidates and ignoring the diversity in those countries.
Stop with that childish rhetoric already.

I think it is very related because in both cases you are putting your life and wellbeing in their care. And by the way, America is lead by two professed Christians and there are different religions there.

simdam500:
the woman is a photographer who takes various pictures

Nice one!
I promise I will get the next one you ask.

simdam500:
because he's BALD

Nice one!

why did you put Atiku ahead of kwankwaso? Your result shows Kwankwaso got more votes.

simdam500:
There was a family who lived in a circle house. One day they went out to visit a friend but the boss lady forgot her diamond earring on her bed. when they came back she couldn't find it. There's three suspects..

The Maid
The Butler
The Chef.

The maid claims she was cleaning the corners.. The butler claims he was organizing the closet.. and The chef claims he was cooking.

Who stole the earring?

The maid because there are no corners to clean in a circle house.

simdam500:
everyone knows this.

One night, a man receives a call from the police. The police tell the man that his wife was murdered, and that he should reach the crime scene as soon as possible.

The man immediately drops the phone and drives 20 minutes to the crime scene.

As soon as he reaches the crime scene.. the police arrest him, and he is convicted of murder.

How did the Police know he committed the crime?

He was not told the location of the crime scene but he knew it.

simdam500:
Three fat ladies stood under an umbrella but none of them got wet.

Why didn't any of them get wet?

It wasn't raining.

simdam500:
Mr. Obi works at a butcher shop.

he said,


He's 6'2" Tall, and wears size 14 shoes

What Does He Weigh?

He weighs meat.

simdam500:
easy as it may...... some will miss it



Johnny's Mother had three children, The first child was named April, The 2nd Child Was Named May.. What was was the third child's name?

Johnny

simdam500:
Read the below picture.

What was the OLD and NEW password?

Old password = out of date
New password = different

simdam500:
A Rich and Handsome man was killed on Sunday 3:14pm. At the time of the murder there are 5 suspects. the maid, the cook, the driver, the gardener & the wife.

Maid: I was fixing the dining table at that time
Cook: I was cooking breakfast
Driver: I was outside washing the cars. haven't entered the house since 1:00pm
Gardener: I was watering the flowers
Wife: I was reading a book.

Who Killed him?

The Cook. Her alibi is wrong. They already had breakfast or missed it at 3:14pm

simdam500:
oh, since he can talk right

Yeah

simdam500:
I've posted this before when i had just 200 subs.. But, For the new subs =-)

If you were running a race and you passed the person in 2nd place.. what place would you be in now?

You'd be in second place.

simdam500:
What five letter words become SHORTER when you add two letters to it?

HINT: Take some seconds to study the question well.

Short.
Short + er= Shorter.

simdam500:
Sam who is mute (Can't talk) walks into a shop and wants to buy a toothbrush. By imitating the action of brushing his teeth, he successfully expresses himself to the shopkeeper and the purchase is completed.

Next, John who is blind walks into the same shop and wants to buy a pair of sunglasses; how does he indicate what he wants?

He can talk, he'll just say so.

Trut:
Northerners should not vote for PDP because a southerner is the flag bearer? One Nigeria indeed

Did he say anything about southerners? Kill your prejudice and reread.

emeka44:
.You see don't just say anything u feel like cos of ur allegiance to the north or whatsoever.<b>APC would have done better with another candidate.Tell me why must it be Buhari every time?</b>Abeg let them try another person joor!As it stands now GEJ till 2019

Has APC ever fielded Buhari as their candidate before?

desdichando:
What kind of convoluted stupid dull myopic reasoning or theory are u propounding here

In the most advanced democracies, Business men bankroll election campaigns because aspirants usually do not have the money to singlehandedly fund their own campaigns . These business men do it to push their own agenda. Either they hope to get contracts or they hope to influence policies that will promote their businesses. When a person gives you a gift ,you owe him a favour and when the time comes, he will come asking for it. It is not ideal ,but such is life. People don't go donating millions of dollars to a cause without the guaranty that their interest would be met. And the interest of a big business man is more big business.
All of these negotiations happen behind the scenes. Here, our politicians do these things in the open and it is not an indictment on them but on us the electorate. Politicians are only sensitive to what the people are sensitive to. Election bank rollers will only put money on candidates that will fly with the people. Your part is to express your pleasure or displeasure. That's all the power you have, and it is no small power.

Ewizard:
Who's spraying?? Atiku?? Kikikiki!
APC aint "CHANGE".. Its change of garment,same old pdp criminals who changed garment. same people wit different garment. D blood is still running in dier veins, dier foundation is still pdp. Dats y dey neva cease to run bak to baba..he's a demi-god,politically.

No change without ¢hang€. Democracy cannot happen without money being spent. Some countries have only evolved a way of hiding the dirty part of it.
One step at a time, we will get there. But the idealists should not run away from it because if they do, no one will represent their interest.

He should give it up already. He is making a nuisance of himself. They both don't want the same thing.

ShortPistolZA:
Yeah I saw it but I forgot the password to that email address.

Is there another one?

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ShortPistolZA:
Here's more.

You got PMed.