We all know the result of the recent election, but what did GEJ team do wrong vs what GMB team do right.

I will dwell on GEJ, because my post 2-3 months ago pointed to a 1920 engineer with ruler, slide rules, and compass competing 2015 MIT graduate engineer with access to a super computer. Apart from out modeled form of running a campaign, GEJ for some reason always failed to read the situation right, he has difficulty expressing himself in English. I wondered why he couldn't use the language he is most fluent in to express his most intricate thought. Here are other reasons GEJ lost:

1. Failure to understand the whole Nigerian political scenario better. His good luck worked to bring him into office after Yar'dua died, but after that he steadily failed to be his own man, despite nursing the ambition for a second term. He should have started moves to consolidate his second term quest the first day he was sworn in on his first term. Instead, he appeared undecided, a technique that had worked for him in the past, not this time.

2. Failure to chose the right people for the right goals. He didn't have to have lived in Chicago like Tinubu did, but he ought to have people who would have matched Tinubu's million miles an hour thinking process.

3. He surrounded himself with the wrong people. Many of these people are either untrustworthy, not educated enough for the position, or outrightly wrong for the position they occupied. Comrade Ado Moro is a very good example of someone who should have never been closer to 100 miles from his cabinet, yet he -GEJ sat there as innocent Nigerians were charged 1000 naira for an emplyment form and then many of then got killed in a stadium. Yet Moro remained in office!

To be continued

You can't speak of Ado Moro without mentioning the many PDP governors living ostentatiously without paying basic salaries to their civil servants, sometimes up to 6 months as in Benue. Nobody around GEJ, PDP or these governors thought about these things, even if for a minute.

4. Just as GEJ surrounded himself with the worst kind of people, he agreed sometimes under pressure from the wrong set of people to get rid his most capable, trusted, and productive people. Incidentally, most of these dismissed folks are Igbos, and it's easy now to look back and see why opposing forces would advocate for removal of Igbo officers for just about any reason. Everybody knows that Nigeria's electricity situation would have been significantly better today if Bart Nnaji wasn't pushed out by GEJ enemies masquerading as his friends. Then came the case of Ihejirika.
Gen Ihejirika was not perfect, but he was more than determined to wipe out Boko Haram than any other COAS ever. Ironically, when Ihejirika was accused of being Boko Haram sponsor by very smart public relations operatives, GEJ kept silent, until he too became accused of sponsoring Boko Haram himself!
Let's not forget Eze Festus Odumegwu of the Census office. Election results from Kano and the arid Katsina proved Odumegwu right in every aspect. GEJ should reflect on the people who pressured him to get rid of Odumegwu as another disposable Igbo officer, and thank them for Buhari's 3 million votes.

5. GEJ failed to understand that OBJ crowned him president, because he(OBJ) saw him as a weak, inept, and controllable puppet in Aso Rock, that was the reason he stepped in to stop Gov Odili of Rivers on his tract, because of Chief Clark's allegation that Odili would always be an Igbo candidate.
Speaking of Chief Clarke reminds one of a myopic politician incapable of looking into the future, for his children's sake. This is a man who has led the Ijaw people astray since after the civil war with all sorts of vituperation against the Igbos, yet two weeks to the election, he suddenly saw a need to reconcile with Igbos. The big question for GEJ is this, why did you listen to only Clarke
A small time listening to other ethnic leaders, especially from the so-called SS would have help him a great deal. He should have made time to listen to leaders from Itsekiri, Urhobo, Efik, Ogoni, even if he was fed up with have Igbos all over the place!

6. GEJ failed to realize that you can't beg for power. Like Aguiyi Ironsi, GEJ felt that surrounding himself with northerners was the best security anyone could have, and he failed, for some reason to understand how Gowon, acting as Ironsi's principal secretary used his itinerary to sabotage and deliverIronsi to Danjuma and others that murdered their boss in cold blood, and for very stupid reason and allegations too. Happily GEJ has not suffered same bodily harm as Ironsi, but oh boy, how history repeats itself. With NSA and defense minister as core Hausa/Fulanis, GEJ was easily made available for blame for any security issues in the country! GEJ was advised to get rid of not only Ihejirika, but Gen Adrew Aziza too. He lost the election once he forced Aziza to go.

7. Corruption? What corruption? From Oduah to Sanusi L Sanusi, GEJ failed to see the bigger picture.
Coming up: Buhari vs Corruption.