₦airaland Forum

I thought Ibos make up 90% of Lagos, NO?

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Thats peanuts you are paying that dude!

What kind of job are we talking about here?

^^^ who did you vote for yesterday?

Atiku?

Good pooosie!

Thats all I need!

igbo boy:
me too am happy that a happy yoruba nation is forming too, a united family against bankole, a united family againstg iyabo, cos a united yoruba means less corruption in Nigeria, hip hip hurray

Ko ni da fun iya eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I know you speak yoruba

First of all, the biggest legislooter in Nigerian history is Okadigbo. Fact. Hint: 75 cars in 6 months

The second biggest legislooter in our history is Eva/Evan/Evans (pick your choice ) Enwerem, so we need you guys to be united, because a united Alaigbo can only be good for Nigeria. Let Alaigbo unite against, not FOR, corruption. Ndigbo should unite against, not FOR, 419 and yahoo yahoo

May God bless one Nigeria, united under the economic leadership of the great YORUBA INTELLIGENTSIA

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Can you cook Blazay?

switch47:
What about reports of wide spread under-age voting in the North?

Underage kids have needs too, there is nothing wrong with underage voting!

Becomricho:
Well You ask the Woman to go and meet either pastor adeboye or Jonathan Goodluck  or her pastor  to collect her children inheritance from that pastor. Do you see Pastor Adeboye wife in Bishop Oyedepo church.

You  ask what Olori Buruku is. I dont know the meaning in english.

So why did you use it? next time please communicate with us in a language we understand ok?

Kobojunkie:
I am looking at the numbers from the 1993 result you posted ( thanks for that by the way)

I see there are only 2 candidates on the ballot for the year 1993 and even where you have the highest recorded number of votes for the one party in Ogun State, the other party still recorded a significant number of votes(12.2% of votes) in the same state.

So now, if I want to play the devil's advocate and switch sides with you, do you actually believe that Tofa got 12.2% of the votes in Ogun state? When the C-in-C then was an 'Hausa' man like Tofa and Tofa's deputy was Igbo, not Yoruba. And, thats taking the result on surface value.

The whole result was not released and it was well known that Abiola, if the whole results were released, would end up with nothing less than, conservatively,  92% of the votes. The point here is that, if the election was as  fair as Today's, Abiola would have ended up wit 95% + return, because Ogun state was his home state and he was well loved in the state. Now, looking at their political lives, Abiola had enemies within Ogun State. He , over the years, had stepped on some toes, including OBJ and the HID clans, that werent willing to forgive him and would do anything to sabotage his efforts. As far as we know, GEJ is well loved by his people. His approval rating in Bayelsa was in the 90s when he was governor, he did not have any baggage in Bayelsa, no scandal that we are aware of. And, against Buhari, who, however unfair it may sound to him, is a sharia-man. That may not be big deal to you, but to those who want to keep their freedeom and who cant imagine a world devoid of the 'finer things' of life, it is a biggie

Try to compare that to today's situation where there are 17 candidates on the ballot, and in just one state 99.6% of the votes went to just 1 candidate, while the others were left to share less than 0.4% out of a million votes. Come on now . . . even you know that is just way  . . . . out there.

First of all, the other candiddates you are talking about are inconsequential, very few people know them, their antecedents, or their party. You have to realize that the fundamental considerations of party identification and presidential approval are much stronger determinants of vote choice than anything else. Even when Gani fawehinmi, arguably the most famous Lawyer in Nigeria, ran, he could not win his polling booth. He lost to OBJ in Ondo, his hometown. Heck, he even lost to him at his Alagbado office polling station. Was it because he was rigged out? I doubt it.  And, it was well believed that if Gani had run on the PDP platform, even without rigging, he would have won by a moon-slide.

Again people dont vote for the best candidate, they vote for someone they can easily connect with and who has the best odds of winning. No one wants their vote to go to waste.

The other 17 candidates you are talking about barely campaigned outside of their street. Okotie did not campaign in his hometown, why should they vote for him, I make bold to say that 99% of voters in Delta do not know that Okotie was running. Same goes to the high falutin head of the  Lagos Business School, Utomi. How can the ordinary Deltan connect with such a person who speaks in language me sef barely understand. Again, I dont find the numbers absurd for any reason.

ekt_bear:
It is a basic matter of fairness and justice, I think. There was no reason for GEJ to inflate voting #s so much in the SS and SE. An election he would have likely won anyway. If he wins with 20 million votes, and 8 million of these are fake, don't you think that is unjust? There is a difference between winning an election with 45% of the total vote and one in which you declare you won 60%.

Honestly, TBH, I dont think the election was cooked. Besides being the 'shon of the shoil,' he has the money to but the votes.

In 1992, during the NRC/SDP election, in my local government alone, all that was needed to buy your vote was N1. I was actually expecting 100%.

Becomricho:
if his wife did not vote for him. His wife is what Yoruba  people call an Olori burunko woman. You see it is like Bishop Oyedepo, if his  the wife does not support him. She would end up in Molu buses in lagos. And not a private jet.

Bishop Oyedepo wife is in a private jet because he is supporting the husband.


It is only a silly or Olori buruku woman that does not support her husband. look it is what Your Husband own , that your Children would call thier own, if you go an support another man, your children can not own the properties of that man.

it show that is a foolish and silly woman.

Did she see Patience Jonathan Goodluck support , Dele Momodu. No. Because Patience is a wise woman. While Dele Momodu wife if she did not vote for him. Is a fool woman.


You change the wife, and the new children from the second wife, inhert your will.
An nigeria most of them with respect to some, most of them tend to act like Olori Buruku women.


It is like Bola Amhed Tinubu,  Oduduwa and  Awolowo in thier gravel yard has cause Bola Tinubu for what Bola Tinubu did to the Yorubas by imposing Nuhu Tinuba to ACN.   Adabi ja jun Ogun.

Aare BEcomrichn, what is Olori buronku?

ekt_bear:
*shrug*

Let us not act surprised when aboki goes rampaging, burning down churchs and murdering non-indigenes. At least we cannot pretend as if we don't know what the reason is, or that it is entirely unjustified.

A[b]nd if you try the same game when it is my own boy running, there will be wahala.[/b]

Let him go back to Ekiti and deliver his state first.

Even, Tinubu cannot with in Iragbiji. So what are we saying here?

ekt_bear:
Ya'll are a joke, for real.

@aletheia: My home state did not have 99.5%+ voting for a SINGLE candidate! My home state didn't have 85% voter turnout, for pete's sake. 35% voter turnout is reasonable. 45, 50, maybe even 55% for the hometown hero, I can buy. But 85%? That is a sham wrapped in fraud wrapped in a scandal.

I dont think you understand the mentality of the ordinary Nigerian for real. Ekiti, and by extension the rest of the SW, does not have a stake in all of this.

Kobojunkie:
Are the numbers in this case similar to the numbers recorded in the same areas during the 1993 Election?? Please do you have a link to show this??

http://maxsiollun./2009/06/11/16th-anniversary-of-the-june-12-1993-election/

Again not all the numbers were released. But it was well known then that Abiola was coasting to a 90% + return in OGUN, LAGOS aand OSUN,

Kobojunkie:
NO matter how you try to wrap up the portion in bold, you still cannot get it to explain the part in red. People turned out to vote does not explain 99% voting numbers.

Yes, it does. So does that mean that Abiola's numbers in 1993 were cooked as well? I dont think so.

In every democracy, it is well known that election are won, not necessarily by the best candidate nor by the most accepted candidate. it is the candidate that was better able to mobilize his/her base that wins the election. To the people of Bayelsa, this is personal. And by and large, Nigerians vote along ethnic lines

I really dont think that the numbers were cooked at all.

ekt_bear:
Double and triple the rates   1.2 or 1.3 times more, I can buy. But triple
85.61% of all eligible voters in Bayelsa voted, and 99.63% of them voted for GEJ.
65.81% in Kaduna, 46.31% for GEJ.
52.43% voter turnout in Katsina, 26.13% for GEJ.
34.24% for Ekiti, 51.56% voted for GEJ.
Katsina and Kaduna, in both state presumably there should be very high voter turnout. Yet both were dwarfed by Bayelsa. Why the vast differential in voter apathy?

Well, thats his home state. Why is it inconceivable that people would turn out to vote for him. This is a one time shot for these people. This is a time they never saw coming and you think they would let it slip like that. GEJ was never supposed to be president, he is a minority, most of them probably feel less Nigerian than the rest of the country. But somehow, as fate would have it, they are presented with this opportunity. And, you think they would just sit their arse home and not turn up? I dont think so.

Do you know how having one of theirs in ASOROCK feels? He really doesnt have to do anything for them, the mere fact that he is their son,  in Asorock, is enough for them. He is their pride and the least they could do for their son is to turn up and press on the 'umblerra.' who knows if special accommodation was made for them? what about financial inducements?

Even in the SW, against Falae, people voted for OBJ, but against Buhari, the choice was clear. As a SW'er you were obligated to vote for OBJ, not because he was better than Buhari, but because he was YORUBA. Period.

I really dont think this hullabaloo about the numbers is warranted. Honestly!

Why would a Bayelsan vote for Buhari? What is in it for them with Buhari in Asorock?

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Dem get two heads

Why did Bush beat Kerry?

Well because the Evangelicals turned out en masse to vote Bush in


That people in the SS/SE turned out to vote more than people in the SW is not out of order IMO. Middle-class people in the SW rarely vote anyway  and with no one to connect with on either ticket, I am not surprised that lower-class SW'ers did not turn up as well