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Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by Imeobong(m): 3:44pm On Mar 01, 2023
Why Bola Ahmed Tinubu Former Governor of Lagos State won the 2023 Presidential election!!

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I told people that these three guys were doomed even before the election. I don't know how they wanted to win. It's more of having one's head in the cloud.

One party divided into three shortly before a general election can't win. They simply clear out each other. They don't have technical analysts. They simply share their votes with the minimal incursion into APC strongholds.

Thank God for the currency policy colonization of CBN, and the fuel crisis, if not by now, no one will be talking about the numbers, Asiwaju's declaration speech will be the object of debate. He would have won with a far greater margin.

The man is the cat with nine lives. He plays his game very well and will never let any slob mess them up for him. He knows his weaknesses and compliments this with strong first-class minds and ideologues. He fixes his mind on the trophy and refused to be distracted. He kicks at the right time and speaks when the time is most auspicious.

He hates no one. He believes life is about interest. Today you are not with him, the next he brings you on board. He courts and builds relationships. He develops his vision while others are sleeping. He will allow you to take the crumbs while he waits for the full meal. He surrendered his senate ambition to Ganiyu Solomon, refused to be VP or nominated his wife but picked an apolitical pastor whom he invested so much in trust and otherwise. When he wanted to play cheat on him, he released his boys to go for him. He made them ostracize him and cut him off politically. He simply made an Akintola out of him.

For almost 20 years he decided on his ambition, played his game, and worked for it. Set up a party that pushed out cronies he knew won't win and expanded the platform to negotiate and bargain with the northern new power brokers and traditional rulers. They believe he keeps his word and doesn't stab from behind. The old order however is scared of his independent mind, courage, and boldness. He dealt a big blow on the Afenifere group, made a mess of OBJ, and cut off Bode George but have the likes of General Ipoola Akinrinade, prof Soyinka, and other key strategic guys from his race around him.

The above illustrates how to build ambition. He didn't build his own on quicksands. The outcome is the result of this election and many are yet to accept its reality. They are not realists, he is. He has his feet firmly on the ground.

Rather than take advantage of the poor state of the economy, security, and disenchantment with the APC regime by building strong alliances across the country, they choose to be over-ambitious and refused to accept that three of them can't all be president at the same time. This is one lesson of life. Inordinate ambition. Lack of flexibility. Lack of strategic thinking.

In 2015, Asiwaju led a merger process that defeated the ruling party. The proponent of the merger was not oblivious to the fact of history. They knew none of the small and regional parties can confront a political behemoth like PDP, hence the need for handshakes across. They even went ahead and poach strategic members of the ruling party, used them and later dump them knowing how prostitutes they are.

Rather than build a formidable party to confront the APC, the PDP got fractionalized into PDP-NNP, PDP-Labour, PDP- Dubai, and even the 5 renegade governors. The outcome is the failure they refused to accept today.

Obi led a mob that was built around religious and ethnic sentiments. Telling the church to take over the country. The message sounded sweet to the leaders of many of the pentecostal units, but they ignored the startling consequences of making such a statement in a country with many religions. His native people who some years back hated him in their utterances for his dismal performance as a governor suddenly saw a route to the presidency, bullying and insulting everyone on the way, forgetting that winning the presidential election is beyond the region. They didn't read history very well. Awo tried it, but he failed.

They got support from the youths down south mostly influenced by their huge membership of the pentecostal churches and collective excitement. This group is filled majorly by those into showbiz, comedians, musicians, artists, etc

Atiku built his candidacy and championed it on the basis of the large population of voters from the north. He appealed to his people who naturally feel entitled to the leadership of the country. The same Atiku whose permanent hometown is Dubai wants to be president since 1992, yet has refused to build the needed capacity to win. He lacked conviction, lacked tack, and was unstable.

Kwakwanso on the other hand knew about his limited reach but wanted to prove a point. Yes, he has proved that point. He is truly a spoiler.

The three of them simply canceled each other out. Everywhere they won, Asiwaju came second. In kano Kwakwanso won, but Asiwaju's margin of over 400k against Atiku was more than enough to clear out the loss to him in Osun, Yobe, katsina, and Adamawa. Obi won Lagos but the winning didn't translate to anything. The margin was not up to a 10th of his loss in Ondo, Osun, Ekiti, and Oyo states, talk less of niger and Kwara.

They refused to deal with the ruling party as one unit. They have themselves to blame. Anyone who has been following politics will know that none of them was going to win. In 1983, the failure of Chief Obafemi Awolowo and Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe to step down for one another led to the massive winning of the NPN.

An alliance that was muted by the Turks in the north led by Shehu Musa Yaradua, to confront NPN failed because the two gladiators were not ready to step down. Both wanted to become president but forgot the theory of probability. They were not going to be president at the same time. They failed to accept that. Instead, they went into the election as two weak parties.

As the consequence, UPN failed to win Oyo, and Bendel gained Kwara due to the crisis between Adamu Attah and Olusola Saraki the then governor of Kwara state from the Ebira stock and senate majority leader respectively. The same thing played out in Oyo state when UPN at the last minute had great members like chief SM Afolabi from ire and Osun division alongside the likes of chief Busari Oloyede Adelakun the strong man from Ejioku in the now largely local government and others decanting to NPN. They teamed up with the Oyo, Ogbomosho, and Ibadan axis of the NPN to defeat UPN.

On the part of the Nigeria People's Party (NPP) led by Dr. Nnamdi Azikiwe, they failed to win Anambra his own home state, and Benue under Aper Aku. The party was only able to retain the Imo state because of the strong influence and performance of Sam Mbakwe. Even Jim Nwobodo was defeated by the combined strength of Dr. CC Onnoh and Ikemba Odimegwu Ojukwu.

This election has come and gone. These guys making noises now, didn't plan to win. If at all they did, their plans were on very weak grounds. They also seem to have their heads in the cloud. They forgot the rules. Numbers, unity of the team, capacity, financial muscle, and relationship across the many divides. Etc.

Way forward.

The country needs strong opposition. The country must exist with a strong alternative at all times. The best way to make the ruling party perform is to have a strong shadow ruling party. But not in the mold of PDP. Democracy strives on the basis of the regular election with options to make choices.

Having said that, Kwakwanso and Obi must reach a deal on how to work together, work with Soludo to deepen their hold in the South East, and build relationships beyond. The new party should desist from playing religious and ethnic cards. Forget about building mobs. Forget about being fantasized about by religious leaders with crooked interests. Play genuine opposition and grow numbers by harvesting renegades from the ruling party, identify the strength of the ruling party, and attack them from their weakest point.

To my mind, this is the best election since the days of June 12. Imagine a sitting president losing his state, the projected winner losing his main base, and key strategic governors not able to deliver. The labuor party, NNP, and APGA should merge, leave PDP out and start working for the next election.

Williams Akalumhe.

Financial expert and a political analyst

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Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by hisgrace090: 3:49pm On Mar 01, 2023
Or how Tinubu rigged the election.

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Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by FreeStuffsNG: 3:50pm On Mar 01, 2023
Obi led a mob that was built around religious and ethnic sentiments. Telling the church to take over the country. The message sounded sweet to the leaders of many of the pentecostal units, but they ignored the startling consequences of making such a statement in a country with many religions. His native people who some years back hated him in their utterances for his dismal performance as a governor suddenly saw a route to the presidency, bullying and insulting everyone on the way, forgetting that winning the presidential election is beyond the region.

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Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by Nobody: 3:51pm On Mar 01, 2023
Having said that, Kwakwanso and Obi must reach a deal on how to work together, work with Soludo to deepen their hold in the South East, and build relationships beyond. The new party should desist from playing religious and ethnic cards. Forget about building mobs. Forget about being fantasized about by religious leaders with crooked interests. Play genuine opposition and grow numbers by harvesting renegades from the ruling party, identify the strength of the ruling party, and attack them from their weakest point.

To my mind, this is the best election since the days of June 12. Imagine a sitting president losing his state, the projected winner losing his main base, and key strategic governors not able to deliver. The labuor party, NNP, and APGA should merge, leave PDP out and start working for the next election.
Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by Nobody: 3:57pm On Mar 01, 2023
We don't discuss criminality here. Bye!
Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by ibkayee(f): 4:18pm On Mar 01, 2023
A split opposition and the shoddy electoral counting process that is INEC is the short of it. ‘Tinubu is a strategist Tinubu is a strategist’ I’m sure but the split votes made it easier and gave APC this win on a platter of diamonds, not even gold. That saying, Obi proved to be a more formidable force than expected

‘Free and fair elections’ and ‘Nigeria’ are two parallel lines that will never meet in my opinion, but to what extent and who is totally clean (probably no one) as far as this election is concerned, who knows. I think there’s been proof of fraudulent activities concerning the elections around the entire country.

I initially laughed at Tinubu losing Lagos but I also won’t be surprised if APC intentionally forfeited it as part of whatever ‘strategy’ they have going on.

Anywho March 11th coming up….

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Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by PrinceOfLagos: 4:19pm On Mar 01, 2023
INEC declared Tinubu winner but na Peter Obi Nigerians dey celebrate 🥂🥂 😂😆😂😆😂
Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by Evergreen12345(f): 4:27pm On Mar 01, 2023
he won by rigging that all !
Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by ToyinDipo(m): 4:36pm On Mar 01, 2023
ibkayee:
A split opposition and the shoddy electoral counting process that is INEC is the short of it. ‘Tinubu is a strategist Tinubu is a strategist’ I’m sure but the split votes made it easier and gave APC this win on a platter of diamonds, not even gold. That saying, Obi proved to be a more formidable force than expected

‘Free and fair elections’ and ‘Nigeria’ are two parallel lines that will never meet in my opinion, but to what extent and who is totally clean (probably no one) as far as this election is concerned, who knows. I think there’s been proof of fraudulent activities concerning the elections around the entire country.

I initially laughed at Tinubu losing Lagos but I also won’t be surprised if APC intentionally forfeited it as part of whatever ‘strategy’ they have going on.

Anywho March 11th coming up….
Will you vote cheesy
Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by ibkayee(f): 4:38pm On Mar 01, 2023
ToyinDipo:

Will you vote cheesy
Yes I’ve sent my vote via email already grin

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Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by ToyinDipo(m): 4:40pm On Mar 01, 2023
ibkayee:

Yes I’ve sent my vote via email already grin
cheesy

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Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by OgwuEgo: 3:43pm On Mar 02, 2023
Look for PDP situation room report about Lagos state by Emeka Ihedioha fomer pdp Governor of Imo state, Labour party won with 900k votes. Check twitter you can't find videos of APC winning any polling unit after counting. They already formulated fake results before the sham elections.
ibkayee:
A split opposition and the shoddy electoral counting process that is INEC is the short of it. ‘Tinubu is a strategist Tinubu is a strategist’ I’m sure but the split votes made it easier and gave APC this win on a platter of diamonds, not even gold. That saying, Obi proved to be a more formidable force than expected

‘Free and fair elections’ and ‘Nigeria’ are two parallel lines that will never meet in my opinion, but to what extent and who is totally clean (probably no one) as far as this election is concerned, who knows. I think there’s been proof of fraudulent activities concerning the elections around the entire country.

I initially laughed at Tinubu losing Lagos but I also won’t be surprised if APC intentionally forfeited it as part of whatever ‘strategy’ they have going on.

Anywho March 11th coming up….
Re: Why BAT Won 2023 Presidential Election!! by magoo10(m): 3:51pm On Mar 02, 2023
He won yet he is on the run
Who dey pursue am grin

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