Hundreds of Arewa leaders who received Kano State Governor, Dr. Rabiu Kwankwaso, in Lagos on Sunday, said they rejected hundreds of thousands of dollars which was offered to them by President Goodluck Jonathan when the President visited the state two weeks ago.

The leaders, who were drawn from the 20 Local Government Areas and 37 Local Council Development Areas of the state, distanced themselves from the endorsement given to Jonathan by a group.

Speaking during a meeting at the Ikoyi home of a former Governor of Lagos State, Asiwaju Tinubu, the Chairman, Arewa Community in Lagos, Alhaji Sani Kabiru, said those that endorsed Jonathan were impostors.

He said on the day of the endorsement, some people bought turbans at Agege and went to visit Jonathan at the State House, Marina, posing as emirs only to deceive the President.

He said, “When President Jonathan came to Lagos with dollars, some of us here quickly went back and gathered ourselves and started calling our own not to go to visit Jonathan. I also commend some leaders here for leading an offensive and convinced people not to go there.

“Most of the Arewa leaders and ‘serikis’ did not even go there to collect the dollars. At that event, card-carrying members of the Peoples Democratic Party bought turbans at the Central Market around Moshalashi Bus Stop, Agege. The person that sold the turbans told me that they dressed up as emirs and they were on their way to Jonathan’s place.

“So, most of them were fake. They went to collect dollars but cannot tell anyone because they are in hiding. But we did not stop at that; those that we knew that went, we called them to order and asked them why they went but they said they only collected dollars but they would not vote Jonathan.”

Kabiru said virtually all Arewa members had collected their Permanent Voter Cards. He promised to ensure one million votes for the All Progressives Congress presidential candidate, Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.); and the state’s governorship candidate, Mr. Akinwunmi Ambode.

Source: http://www.punchng.com/politics/we-rejected-jonathans-dollars-says-arewa-community/

The only thing that can save GEJ from being disgraced out of office this year is for the election not to hold at all which in itself an impossibility. Election will hold and GEJ is going to loss to GMB. He should go and ask OMISORE the effectiveness of bribe in swaying the people votes to ones side. Omisore spent a lot in an organized manner in Osun state last year, not in a wasteful way GEJ has been doing, the people collected his money and went forward to vote Aregbesola.

There is God.

Nothing can stop him from going back to otuoke in May

12days to go #Change is coming

Gej ur dollars wouldn't stop the inevitable
U failed n
U have 2 Go

A man that believes in money and kneeling around before mere men, this is the fate that befalls him. This man will loose. It is obvious, the discussion on the street alone says it all, nothing can save him from the imminent loss before him. He was ordained by God, bt has derailed, he has failed Nigerians. How come people who come from humble beginning often find it hard to make change in the lives of people he was once in their level. It is an irony. This man must go, he is another SAUL, who has failed in the scope given to him by God.

Only God knows how much BILLIONS GEJ and his govt have distributed to various religious, traditional bodies and civil societies and individuals in his desperate and FUTILE attempt to avoid the imminent electoral defeat that stares them in the face.

It is unbelievably ridiculous the way GEJ seems to think that by dishing out massive cash bribes to handful 'leaders' of each community, religion, age group and professional bodies, he would simply get the votes from members of such group, region or profession.

I honestly pity GEJ atimes; a couple of months ago, while he entrusted his campaigns in the hands of his aids, they fed him with so many conflicting pieces of advice (by his own admission) that he got confused, and his campaign faltered.

Now that he has decided to take charge of his campaign and do the show all by himself, he is also getting everything wrong again, as he erroneously thinks that money is all you need to win an election.

Even if this was the case before, it is certainly NOT the case in this election; the vast majority of the ordinary Nigerians who are yearning for change across the regions are educated youths who voted for him in 2011, but who are so disappointed and disillusioned that they simply want to try someone else.

You can bribe their obas, obis, emirs, pastors, imams all you want but the youths of today will surely not troop out en mass and vote for a candidate simply because their community or religious 'leaders' support that candidate!

I knew the purported endorsement was fake because I have been seeing vehicles donated to APC by the Arewa communities in Lagos as early as December and they have been at the forefront of this Buhari campaign programs in Lagos so its difficult for the same people to be endorsing GEJ again.

Dasini:
A man that believes in money and kneeling around before mere men, this is the fate that befalls him. This man will loose. It is obvious, the discussion on the street alone says it all, nothing can save him from the imminent loss before him. He was ordained by God, bt has derailed, he has failed Nigerians. How come people who come from humble beginning often find it hard to make change in the lives of people he was once in their level. It is an irony. This man must go, he is another SAUL, who has failed in the scope given to him by God.

That is one of his greatest miscalculations, ignoring the interests of the ordinary people for all those years, and thinking that by dishing out millions of govt dollars at his disposal to some traditional, religious and other community 'leaders' few weeks to the election, he could get such 'leaders' to make 'their people' vote for him.

As you rightly stated, his electoral fate has already been sealed! No traditional rulers, pastors, et al can save him from the imminent defeat.