Kobojunkie:


I was not patronizing you. The fact that you questioned the statement I made on Zoning, made it all but too clear that you have not done your research since this was a hot issue for almost a year running on to the election.

Attacking my person ain't gonna remove from the fact that many of the claims you make have not been established in any of the reports we have on these issues to date. I don't need to think myself smart  . . . . I simply responded to your questions/claims and if you think you need to attack me in order to make your point, then I suggest you understand that I am not your problem.

publisher:

You know,if Buhari was a member of the PDP,then this US group's analysis would have made more sense. They can then argue that the zoning isssue affected Buhari directly,thus his supporters (Boko haram) went haywire making Nigeria ungovernable.

PDP initiated the zoning formular,same PDP jettisoned the zoning formular and opted for GEJ. GEJ won in south-south,south East,south west and the bulk of the middle belt. That's already 70% of Nigeria. If the remaining aggrieved 30% have opted for Boko haram solution,lets see how they'll smell the presidency in 2015. The old hausa ruling cabal just need to come to terms with the fact that Nigeria's power structure has been diluted amongst all its ethnic groups,no ethnic group has monopoly over power or violence(thanks to Obj). And the sad fact is that 70% of BH's victims till date have been muslim northerners.

The middle belt has totally divorced itself from the Hausa/Fulani cabal and Jos is paying the price for it. However,if they've not conquered Plateau state by now,certainly they can never conquer the rest of Nigeria.
As it were,i doubt if any Hausa man will ever win any free and fair election in Nigeria,without some major compromises.

For someone as favoured as GEJ ,dont be surprised if all this Boko Haram crisis ends up favouring GEJ on the long run. Dont ask me how [/size]

alj_harem:

abeg comot for here

if the same is done the other way around, u would start screaming like a puppy

PointB:

Aboki, it looks like I am your worst nightmare; your nemesis!

But please face the topic, not me! I am just a poster, olodo!

OmoLisabi:

Stop using a Yoruba word without my permission

OmoLisabi:

Jonathan the Ediot

jmaine:

Hypocrites abound on this thread . . . .The zoning proponents on this thread would sing a new song if the reverse was the case against them . . . . All i see are people having the opportunity to mourn their preferred presidential candidate merited  loss at the poll . . . . GEJ mandate proves one thing . . . .The false Northern cabal believe of being the power broking authority in Nigeria has been smashed with every region having an equal say in the political direction of the country . . . .

GEJ would be there for the next four years and your wasteful songs of hate and gnashing of teeth over your candidates loss, especially that crying general wont remove him from power . . . . You can all have a heart attack on nairaland . . .but GEJ would still remain your president  . . and that is a fact . .so live with it . . . .

stiyke:

Why did it take this US organisation so long to say this. And why did Obama congratulate GEJ on winning the election??

The TRUTH is that like you and I, GEJ has every right to be the president of this nation. Comming to think of it, aside Boko Haram, i dont think GEJ is doing bad, especially compared to the past ones, i think he is doing very OK.
The problem is that GEJ is trying to transform Nigerian Gov. to have a human face and deal humanely with issues, while detractors are trying to do the most inhumane act to delegit his government.

At least i for once am seeing a FG that shows more care for its citizens, with out much discrimination.
GEJ will succeed! The sooner you get it into your head the better.

BetaThings:

So zoning is dead?
We don't have to make somebody from SE president in 2015?
Good, noted!

@steveregs:

I really don't think he's worth the trouble, Boko Haram. He's not even doing anything aside sleeping and waking up, and trying to inflict extreme pain on the common nigerian by removing fuel subsidy and introducing toll gates, and six-year tenure. See mediocrity in high places.

Gbawe:

One of the best posts here. If zoning , in the nest of killers PDP ,was going to be truncated for a true lionheart, warrior and supreme leader of men , ala Winston Churchill et al, or genuinely transformational President , like Lula of Brazil, then it may have made sense for Nigerians to take a leap of faith knowing that GEJ would be with them in the trenches and fight for them.

What happened was that Nigerians just voted out of ethnic and religious sentiments without at all inspecting the record and CV of GEJ that would have shown them that history bears out the fact that the man is not a particularly good leader , individual of conviction, or different in ideology to those who have ruined Nigeria. I keep repeating it that we are a nation of wierd thinkers. GEJ is a piss-poor administrator with a mediocre history while many others he contested against, love or hate them, stood out for being above average leaders with conviction.

Whether folks will admit it or not, this zoning thing may not be such a headache now if GEJ was a decent politicians who knows how to plan/strategise for the future and make allowance for plan B. Instead we gained a President who was only interested in getting to Aso Rock. When the problems many of us predicted would show up arrived, Mr. President simply appears lost and out of his league. He is indeed not "worth the trouble"