Efewestern:
Change in governments is the beauty of democracy. Experiencing leadership from different parties brings out the true essence of democracy. This year marked the closest the opposition has ever come to winning one of Nigeria's most influential states.

Can they be this close in the coming elections? Considering how Obi won the state despite the challenges, the Guber candidate could have easily rode the wave but he lost woefully. The margin was too wide to even consider him a threat.

I must say that APC's capitalization of GRV's slurs against his own ethnic group was what change the tide. But even during the campaign, the guy kept making blunders. A 40yrs man should know Nigerians are ethnically wired. You won't win election anywhere in this country when the people gets a false idea of you not being one of them.


Cc:

Tutudesz Fergie001 Aiel123 garfield1

Aiel123:
It will be very hard.
This Lagos was one of Atiku's mistake he regrets greatly till today.
Agbaje came really close but fell short even when backed by a sitting president.
The factors that helped Obi win Lagos won't work for guber elections.

Efewestern:
Change in governments is the beauty of democracy. Experiencing leadership from different parties brings out the true essence of democracy. This year marked the closest the opposition has ever come to winning one of Nigeria's most influential states.

Can they be this close in the coming elections? Considering how Obi won the state despite the challenges, the Guber candidate could have easily rode the wave but he lost woefully. The margin was too wide to even consider him a threat.

I must say that APC's capitalization of GRV's slurs against his own ethnic group was what change the tide. But even during the campaign, the guy kept making blunders. A 40yrs man should know Nigerians are ethnically wired. You won't win election anywhere in this country when the people gets a false idea of you not being one of them.


Cc:

Tutudesz Fergie001 Aiel123 garfield1

Penguin2:


Threads like this are threads I’ve learnt to ignore and let you feed yourselves whatever you believe. But because threads like this are what Nairaland Moderators like moving to front page, that’s why I’m just going to correct some of your false claims before the world believes your lies.

You claimed GRV couldn’t win because some of his past utterances were unearthed and they seemed demeaning of the Yoruba race, right? That that is the reason for all the tribalistic overdrive by APC forces which went as far as denying GRV’s Yoruba identity, right?

Now, what was Jimmy Agbaje’s crime? Is he married to an Igbo woman? Did you people also unearth his old tweets where he supported Igbos over Yorubas? Is his mother Igbo? No. Yet you people called him “Jimichukwu” and labeled him an Igbo candidate twice. Why?

The answer is simple…. Tribalism is your only stock in trade. It started from the days of Awolowo. Now Tinubu has elevated it to even a more dangerous pedestal, and is unfortunately passing it to some gullible Yoruba youths.

But guess what, in this year’s general elections, all those tribalistic slurs and agenda didn’t work as majority of Yorubas have seen that Tinubu and majority of politicians in his political school exploit tribalism only for their selfish gains.

That’s why despite all the names and tribal slurs against Obi, he still won Lagos. Not just winning Lagos, but he even won Yoruba populated LGAs like Alimosho.

You people saw the danger, you saw that Tinubu has been rejected by Lagosians.

That’s why during the gubernatorial elections, your leaders rented an army of touts from Ekiti, Osun and Ondo into Lagos. These touts killed people, they injured many and prevented thousands of others from accessing polling units at all because they “looked like Igbos”.

However, despite these intimidations, those who voted still voted GRV, including the Yorubas you allowed to vote. So you had to resort to writing results to favour Sanwolu and declare him winner.

But guess what you have the effrontery to do - to come here and start feigning ignorance of all these things already, in less than 6 months. You are already attempting to rewrite history while the witnesses are still alive.

I just want to remind you that in a free and fair election without the butchers you rented from outside Lagos to join the butchers you already have in Lagos, Sanwolu wouldn’t have come second.

I don’t expect you to agree with reason; I know you have been programmed and dispatched to come here and rewrite history and reinforce falsehood but let’s see how long that lasts.

garfield1:


The closest was in 2007 between fashola and obanikoro and 2015 between ambode and jk

Efewestern:


With Obi winning the state, don't you think Gbadebo would have won if not for his unreasonable tweets ?

APC had always banked on some magic votes to deliver Lagos, but with the new electoral laws, some of those advantages were lost. The atmosphere was ripe for a change in government, Sanwolu almost pee on his pants but luckily for him, GVB continued to make statements that rallied even the pro-obi voters to vote for him.

Penguin2:


Threads like this are threads I’ve learnt to ignore and let you feed yourselves whatever you believe. But because threads like this are what Nairaland Moderators like moving to front page, that’s why I’m just going to correct some of your false claims before the world believes your lies.

You claimed GRV couldn’t win because some of his past utterances were unearthed and they seemed demeaning of the Yoruba race, right? That that is the reason for all the tribalistic overdrive by APC forces which went as far as denying GRV’s Yoruba identity, right?

Now, what was Jimmy Agbaje’s crime? Is he married to an Igbo woman? Did you people also unearth his old tweets where he supported Igbos over Yorubas? Is his mother Igbo? No. Yet you people called him “Jimichukwu” and labeled him an Igbo candidate twice. Why?

The answer is simple…. Tribalism is your only stock in trade. It started from the days of Awolowo. Now Tinubu has elevated it to even a more dangerous pedestal, and is unfortunately passing it to some gullible Yoruba youths.

But guess what, in this year’s general elections, all those tribalistic slurs and agenda didn’t work as majority of Yorubas have seen that Tinubu and majority of politicians in his political school exploit tribalism only for their selfish gains.

That’s why despite all the names and tribal slurs against Obi, he still won Lagos. Not just winning Lagos, but he even won Yoruba populated LGAs like Alimosho.

You people saw the danger, you saw that Tinubu has been rejected by Lagosians.

That’s why during the gubernatorial elections, your leaders rented an army of touts from Ekiti, Osun and Ondo into Lagos. These touts killed people, they injured many and prevented thousands of others from accessing polling units at all because they “looked like Igbos”.

However, despite these intimidations, those who voted still voted GRV, including the Yorubas you allowed to vote. So you had to resort to writing results to favour Sanwolu and declare him winner.

But guess what you have the effrontery to do - to come here and start feigning ignorance of all these things already, in less than 6 months. You are already attempting to rewrite history while the witnesses are still alive.

I just want to remind you that in a free and fair election without the butchers you rented from outside Lagos to join the butchers you already have in Lagos, Sanwolu wouldn’t have come second.

I don’t expect you to agree with reason; I know you have been programmed and dispatched to come here and rewrite history and reinforce falsehood but let’s see how long that lasts.

Penguin2:


Threads like this are threads I’ve learnt to ignore and let you feed yourselves whatever you believe. But because threads like this are what Nairaland Moderators like moving to front page, that’s why I’m just going to correct some of your false claims before the world believes your lies.

You claimed GRV couldn’t win because some of his past utterances were unearthed and they seemed demeaning of the Yoruba race, right? That that is the reason for all the tribalistic overdrive by APC forces which went as far as denying GRV’s Yoruba identity, right?

Now, what was Jimmy Agbaje’s crime? Is he married to an Igbo woman? Did you people also unearth his old tweets where he supported Igbos over Yorubas? Is his mother Igbo? No. Yet you people called him “Jimichukwu” and labeled him an Igbo candidate twice. Why?

The answer is simple…. Tribalism is your only stock in trade. It started from the days of Awolowo. Now Tinubu has elevated it to even a more dangerous pedestal, and is unfortunately passing it to some gullible Yoruba youths.

But guess what, in this year’s general elections, all those tribalistic slurs and agenda didn’t work as majority of Yorubas have seen that Tinubu and majority of politicians in his political school exploit tribalism only for their selfish gains.

That’s why despite all the names and tribal slurs against Obi, he still won Lagos. Not just winning Lagos, but he even won Yoruba populated LGAs like Alimosho.

You people saw the danger, you saw that Tinubu has been rejected by Lagosians.

That’s why during the gubernatorial elections, your leaders rented an army of touts from Ekiti, Osun and Ondo into Lagos. These touts killed people, they injured many and prevented thousands of others from accessing polling units at all because they “looked like Igbos”.

However, despite these intimidations, those who voted still voted GRV, including the Yorubas you allowed to vote. So you had to resort to writing results to favour Sanwolu and declare him winner.

But guess what you have the effrontery to do - to come here and start feigning ignorance of all these things already, in less than 6 months. You are already attempting to rewrite history while the witnesses are still alive.

I just want to remind you that in a free and fair election without the butchers you rented from outside Lagos to join the butchers you already have in Lagos, Sanwolu wouldn’t have come second.

I don’t expect you to agree with reason; I know you have been programmed and dispatched to come here and rewrite history and reinforce falsehood but let’s see how long that lasts.

garfield1:


You are funny.why didn't lp win Enugu,delta,cross river? Sanwoolu was just scared for nothing.obi won with just 10k votes.most of those voting obi actually liked sanwoolu

Efewestern:


Obi won despite the suppression. GVB could have won if he had the goodwill of his people. garfield1 you just have to agree with me that your party almost lost that state.

His old tweets and constant mess up gave APC the victory. The new electoral law was a game changer.

ImperialYoruba:
PDP recorded best results as opposition and never displaced APC. LP performance was not anywhere close to PDP achievement over the years. So how did you arrive at a proposition of LP toppling APC in future when the data clearly does not justify it?

Abi dis na anoda social media noise just to arouse emotions?

garfield1:


There was no suppression in lagos.sanwoolu was always going to win.people voted against tinubu not apc

Efewestern:


A packet of violence were recorded bro. People voted against APC. It was hard for APC candidates nationwide.

Sanwoolu almost lost the seat. Imagined what would have happened if those who voted Obi voted GVB?

Again, if opposition had presented a more formidable force, Sanwoolu would have lost.

garfield1:


Almost lost the seat when he won by 500k margin? What about sheriff that won by 100k

Aiel123:
It will be very hard.
This Lagos was one of Atiku's mistake he regrets greatly till today.
Agbaje came really close but fell short even when backed by a sitting president.
The factors that helped Obi win Lagos won't work for guber elections.

Efewestern:


Do you want to pretend like you don't know why the margin was high? Would there have been any margin if GVB hadn't given the content needed to fuel his failure?

helinues:
The obsession with Lagos no be here oo

Una no get lineage?

Penguin2:


Threads like this are threads I’ve learnt to ignore and let you feed yourselves whatever you believe. But because threads like this are what Nairaland Moderators like moving to front page, that’s why I’m just going to correct some of your false claims before the world believes your lies.

You claimed GRV couldn’t win because some of his past utterances were unearthed and they seemed demeaning of the Yoruba race, right? That that is the reason for all the tribalistic overdrive by APC forces which went as far as denying GRV’s Yoruba identity, right?

Now, what was Jimmy Agbaje’s crime? Is he married to an Igbo woman? Did you people also unearth his old tweets where he supported Igbos over Yorubas? Is his mother Igbo? No. Yet you people called him “Jimichukwu” and labeled him an Igbo candidate twice. Why?

The answer is simple…. Tribalism is your only stock in trade. It started from the days of Awolowo. Now Tinubu has elevated it to even a more dangerous pedestal, and is unfortunately passing it to some gullible Yoruba youths.

But guess what, in this year’s general elections, all those tribalistic slurs and agenda didn’t work as majority of Yorubas have seen that Tinubu and majority of politicians in his political school exploit tribalism only for their selfish gains.

That’s why despite all the names and tribal slurs against Obi, he still won Lagos. Not just winning Lagos, but he even won Yoruba populated LGAs like Alimosho.

You people saw the danger, you saw that Tinubu has been rejected by Lagosians.

That’s why during the gubernatorial elections, your leaders rented an army of touts from Ekiti, Osun and Ondo into Lagos. These touts killed people, they injured many and prevented thousands of others from accessing polling units at all because they “looked like Igbos”.

However, despite these intimidations, those who voted still voted GRV, including the Yorubas you allowed to vote. So you had to resort to writing results to favour Sanwolu and declare him winner.

But guess what you have the effrontery to do - to come here and start feigning ignorance of all these things already, in less than 6 months. You are already attempting to rewrite history while the witnesses are still alive.

I just want to remind you that in a free and fair election without the butchers you rented from outside Lagos to join the butchers you already have in Lagos, Sanwolu wouldn’t have come second.

I don’t expect you to agree with reason; I know you have been programmed and dispatched to come here and rewrite history and reinforce falsehood but let’s see how long that lasts.

LifeofDream:

You always write like someone high on some piece of shit..
I voted Obi, does that make him better than Tinubu? No.

I voted him because I want another party given a chance to oversee this country, maybe it'll steer it to glory... I just don't want anything APC and PDP, not that Obi is better.. In governance and everything, Tinubu is miles ahead.. I just want a different set.

Majority of us that voted Obi in Lagos voted sanwo to continue governing the state...
Stop saying things you don't know..