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we dey nairaland nah,not cos of me alone

EXCLUSIVE: Atiku Vs Wike: How state delegates voted at PDP presidential primary
Governor Nyesom Wike, who picked reasonable votes from Lagos, won Oyo and Ekiti, where he got the backing of Governor Seyi Makinde and former Governor Ayodele Fayose respectively. But Atiku won overall.

PREMIUM TIMES has obtained details of how the various state delegates voted at Saturday’s Special National Convention of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) in Abuja.

The primary produced former Vice President Atiku Abubakar as the candidate of the opposition party for the 2023 presidential election.

Atiku polled 371 votes from the 767 accredited candidates to edge his closest opponent, Rivers State Governor Nyesom Wike, who polled 237 votes.

A last-minute withdrawal by Sokoto State Governor, Aminu Tambuwal, swung the contest in favour of Atiku as delegates from Mr Tambuwal’s North-West stronghold and from other states where delegates had pledged their support to him all turned their votes to Atiku.

North-West

The North-West geopolitical zone has seven states comprising Kano, Katsina, Jigawa, Zamfara, Kebbi, Sokoto and Kaduna. Altogether, the states sent 193 delegates to the convention.

Mr Atiku won five of those states, except Kano where the loyalists of a former governor of the state, Rabiu Kwankwaso, gave their 44 votes to Mr Wike; and Katsina where the two frontrunners shared the votes.

Mr Kwankwaso left the PDP earlier this year to run for president under the New Nigerian Peoples Party (NNPP) but his loyalists still constitute the leadership of the recognised faction of the PDP in the state and gave all the votes of the 44 delegates to Mr Wike.

In Katsina, the Rivers State governor got a share of the votes due to the support of Garba Lado, a former senator who was last week nominated the governorship candidate of the party for 2023.

Mr Atiku was supported by a former governor of the state, Ibrahim Shema, and he succeeded in getting a good number of delegates to vote for the former vice president.

Mr Wike also expected a good showing in Kebbi, but Aminu Bande, the retired army general who won the party’s governorship ticket, did not quite deliver for Mr Wike. Delegates from the states gave their votes to Atiku in solidarity with Mr Tambuwal.

North-Central
The six states in this zone – Benue, Kogi, Kwara, Nasarawa, Niger and Plateau – were shared by Atiku, Mr Wike, and former Senate President, Bukola Saraki, who had a clean sweep of the votes of the delegates from Kwara, the state he hails from and governed for eight years.

Atiku and Mr Wike shared the votes from Niger State with former Governor Babangida Aliyu delivering for the former while Zainab, the wife of Mr Aliyu’s predecessor, the late Abdulkadir Kure, worked for the Rivers governor.

Atiku won Plateau and most of the votes from Nasarawa. However, Mr Wike got seven votes in Nasarawa where he supported the man who won the governorship ticket of the party, David Ombugadu, and had expected to get more votes in reciprocity.

Mr Wike won in the Federal Capital Territory through the support of the sole senator representing the capital, Philip Aduda, and shared the votes with Atiku in Benue and Kogi.

Akwa Ibom Governor Udom Emmanuel had some of the Benue votes through his campaign director, former Governor Gabriel Suswan; but Governor Samuel Ortom backed Mr Wike while the party’s national chairman, Iyorchia Ayu; and former Senate President David Mark ensured Atiku got some votes from the state.

North-East

The North-East geopolitical zone has six states, comprising Adamawa, Bauchi, Borno, Gombe, Taraba, and Yobe. Atiku is from Adawama and he won outright in four of the six states in his home zone, except Bauchi which went to homeboy Governor Bala Mohammed and Taraba which he shared with Mr Wike.

The Governor Wike camp got pledges of huge votes from Gombe, Borno and Bauchi but the promises were not fulfilled. The leaders of the party and delegates from the states left the Rivers governor disappointed.

South-West

In this zone, votes in the six states of Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Ondo, Osun and Oyo were shared between Atiku, Mr Wike and Mr Saraki. The former vice president won in Ogun, Ondo and Lagos. Mr Saraki won in Osun. Mr Wike, who also picked substantial votes from Lagos, won Oyo and Ekiti where he got the backing of Governor Seyi Makinde and former Governor Ayodele Fayose respectively.

The Wike camp had banked on Eyitayo Jegede, the PDP candidate in the last governorship election in Ondo State, to deliver the votes of delegates from the state. That did not happen and the Rivers governor’s people remain disappointed in the politician.

South-East

This geopolitical zone has five states – Abia, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu and Imo. Atiku won in Anambra (with the support of Ben Obi, Chris Uba and other leading PDP politicians from the state) and Imo (with the support of Emeka Ihedioha). Mr Wike won in Abia and Enugu through the support of Governors Okezie Ikpeazu and Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi respectively. Former Senate President Pius Anyim won the votes of the delegates from his home Ebonyi State.


South-South

Mr Wike won in three of the six states in his home zone. He won Rivers, Cross River and Edo. Although Mr Wike had a public falling out with Edo Governor, Godwin Obaseki, he won the state because the governor’s adversary in the battle for the control of the PDP in the state, Dan Orbih, took his faction’s delegates to the convention and delivered them to the Rivers governor.

However, the delegates from Delta and Bayelsa ignored the governor of their neighbouring state, Mr Wike; and gave their votes to Atiku.

Governor Udom Emmanuel swept the votes of his delegates from Akwa Ibom to take his overall tally to 38.

JAMO84:
This guy is deranged.


Borders closed June 2019


Igboho arrested July 2021



One and half years before he was arrested for a glaring offence, the borders had been shut. But many gullible PDP Dundees and IPOB terrorists will still believe this rubbish.

AlexBells:

That's what I'm doing did you read the thread, all options should be on ground without Opobo and Bonny, what business do we have with the Ijaws?

AlexBells:

How do they decide for themselves when the two contesting parties had not accepted peace and as such no Refendum and the two interested parties are far bigger and mightier than the two towns in question, if the Ijaws and Igbos fail to reach peace in this situation don't you think that the option for them to decide for themselves may not be available.

AlexBells:

Opobo and Bonny to where?

AlexBells:

What you said didn't you see it in the option that we can all stay in Nigeria cuase if Nigeria eventually divide we would have to sit in a table with them to discussed common interest unless you prefer the war approach and we are not taking about Ants here, it is human we are talking about

seborrhic:

It's just to fulfil all righteousness because for all practical purposes number of people eligible to vote should factually be 'total number of collected PVC's'.

seborrhic:

Rubbish.
Ihiala cannot determine anything.
The election has already been won and lost.
The average turnout in the election was 10%.
So at most 15,000 will turnout,far less than the margin of victory already.
For argument purposes,even if APC wants to bribe people with all the FG reserve and they all vote for APC,40% turnout is d maximum possible with this new BVAS.Still not enough to overturn the margin.
How?Many people in Ibo states went home to register and never intended to return home to vote.Some people have died,some are incapacitated due to illness or just can't make it on election day.Some people are just not interested in voting despite having PVC's.
Take this to the bank:any election in Nigeria using PVC that records 45% voter turnout out,not even d 50%-60%,some states recorded during the last presidential election,even in the North where they want to lay claim to being enthusiastic about voting,is a fraudulent election with manufactured votes.

abobote:
A local government won't make any difference when the margin is already wide. INEC should declare Soludo a winner ASAP

Captain8:
what are you even saying na? cocaine I guess?

Ebi2233:


Ijaw Central dialect is Kolokuma.
But they are presently working on the other one.
Because it's same way different other tribes in the world used in getting Central dialect.

Ebi2233:



Bayelsa state alone is nearly as big as 3 Ibo states put together.
Bayelsa is 673 km² bigger than Imo and Anambra state put together.
Who told u Ijaw don't understand each other?

Kolokuma in Bayelsa can talk with Arogbo in Ondo forever without end and not using English at all.
Same with Okomu in Edo and Gbaramatu in Delta etc.

Nembe in Bayelsa and Kalabari in Rivers speak 96 percent same thing.

Okrika and Kalabari understand each other.

Ibani, Kalabari, and Okrika understand each other.

Ibani and Andoni in Andoni LGA understand each other.

Andoni LGA Rivers understand other Obolo of Eastern Obolo and Ibeno Akwa-Ibom.


Epie and Atissa speak same thing.

Okordia in Bayelsa understand both Kolokuma and Epie etc.

Ogbia understand Abua Odual etc.


Your frustrations end here.

Ebi2233:


We are presently working on a Central dialect that is being worked on by the Lovers of Ijaw Nation Organization in preparation for Ijaw Republic.
We still communicate so well in many places.
But if it's Ibo, they cannot do it without Central dialect like we are doing.


Nsukka don't understand Onitsha

Izzi in Ebonyi don't understand Ngwa etc.
Without Central dialect Ibo can't even communicate even to this level Ijaw is.

Graysons:
Since when did you lost jews that are from israel became Nigerians?I'm curious.
You are talking about land grabbing,you igbos are the ultimate land grabbers, you land grab
Anambra
Abia
Imo
Enugu
Ebonyi
You are trying to land grab Port Harcourt and Oyigbo,so what are you going about for boy?

johnmartus:
I think igbo people said they own lagos and their people own different estates in lagos I'm expecting the owner of this 21 story building to be igbo man. Rest in peace mr femi.

Whiteangel1234:
Feel free to Share your personal Opinion . From close observation and based on historical Facts , I think the people of Akwa Ibom are the closest Ally and friend of the Igbos in the Niger Delta when you are looking at Non- Igboid Ethnic nationality in the South South .

The Ibibio , Anaang , Iron , Eket, Obolo etc
We seems to naturally Ally with Each other , even the Last President of Biafra General Philip Effiong is from Akwa Ibom and Many more .

Even in the Quest for this New Biafra , Unknown Gun men are also rampant in Akwa Ibom just like the South East , in Fact Akwa Ibom is the Only South South States where unknown Gun men also Operate freely

Doradorwa:


Even the popular "Chicago 7" then couldn't win the america government with all the public sympathy they pulled. So why this one go con win Nigeria government...

Maxymilliano:
Good for him, but Nollywood made him who he is today, not Biafrawood