*I was assistant polling officer at that election. It was a big lie that the North didn't vote for Awolowo. Obasanjo blocked it. He single handedly changed the constitution of the country. He removed the clause that says, in case of a tie, they should go to electoral college. It was not the work of the Supreme Military Council at the time. Obasanjo had done worse things in the past during his tenure.*

Ismail ashipa writes

Truly baba obj is partisan he has no moral rights to call for any cancellation

Obasanjo wanted so badly to be the Asiwaju of Yoruba race but he just wasn't destined for that... I pray he doesn't soil his little prestige


.

Toh

Thank God Buhari no be OBJ

Proverb 26 v 27 ..He that digs a pit (especially an "elder" ) shall be buried in it....sarki,mend your ways now.

Where was the tie?

Shagari won by popular votes and by number of States.

sarrki sef.... 11 States released, we had 17 @ the time.

Awolowo didnt contest elections with bullion van, neither did he have any states resources in his pocket, wasnt a druggie but won on popular votes. Urchins take note

Moh247:
Obasanjo wanted so badly to be the Asiwaju of Yoruba race but he just wasn't destined for that... I pray he doesn't soil his little prestige

Don't worry. He'll soon show you why he has lasted so long. By the time he does his abracadabra, APC's heads will spin 360 to 180.
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Phoen1X:
Proverb 26 v 27 ..He that digs a pit (especially an "elder" ) shall be buried in it....sarki,mend your ways now.

He's teaching us his brand of history. That's not a bad thing. At the end of the day, na history we dey still learn.

sarrki:
Truly baba obj is partisan he has no moral rights to call for any cancellation

Obasanjo is never the type of person to be used as a reference point. He is too shady you will doubt is if his real name is Obasanjo.

sarrki:


*I was assistant polling officer at that election. It was a big lie that the North didn't vote for Awolowo. Obasanjo blocked it. He single handedly changed the constitution of the country. He removed the clause that says, in case of a tie, they should go to electoral college. It was not the work of the Supreme Military Council at the time. Obasanjo had done worse things in the past during his tenure.*


Ismail ashipa writes

I dont like that man. He is too proud. He really have a deep hatred for any yoruba man that tries to be above him.. That man is stinkingly corrupt. If everybody is even talking about electoral malpractice, obasanjo should be the last person to utter any word

And what happend thereafter? The vestigial remains of the post 1975 Gowon northern military who used Obafemi Awolowo to execute mass genocide against the Eastern region threw him under the bus for Shagari despite the servitude. My dad was among rhe military convoy that facilitate his burial rites in Ibadan then in 1986 or so.

It htas been the usual practice to release the results from the North last
Awolowo went to court ,lost and accepted his fate
Zik teamed up with Shagari
Ekwueme. VP
Joe Wayas Senate President
Edwin Ume Ezeoke Speaker House of representatives

Yoruba quietly went into opposition
There was no sit at Home or violence

ganisucks:

Don't worry. He'll soon show you why he has lasted so long. By the time he does his abracadabra, APC's heads will spin 360 to 180.
⌚😀😅

There is always an end to a great era... Obasanjo's Political retirement is long overdue.. it's Tinubu's turn

fergie001:
Where was the tie?

Shagari won by popular votes and by number of States.

sarrki sef.... 11 States released, we had 17 @ the time.

The rule was that he should get 25% in 2/3 of 19 and the constitution explicitly said 13 states
There was no tie
He got 25% in 12 states and 19% in Kano the 13th state
Richard Akinjide SAN said the constitution was wrong that 2/3 of 13 was. 12 2/3 not 13 and therefore in the 13 th state what we needed was 25%/ of 2/3=16%
That argument went to the Supreme Court which agreed and said in future it must be 13
Justice Kayode Eso .dissented
In those circumstances there should have been a run off or Electoral College but the Military government cooked up judicial magic and Shagari was sworn In
Akinjide was made Attorney General

0monnak0da:

The rule was that he should get 25% in 2/3 of 19 and the constitution explicitly said 13 states
There was no tie
He got 25% in 12 states and 19% in Kano the 13th state
Richard Akinjide SAN said the constitution was wrong that 2/3 of 13 was. 12 2/3 not 13 and therefore in the 13 th state what we needed was 25%/ of 2/3=16%
That argument went to the Supreme Court which agreed and said in future it must be 13
Justice Kayode Eso .dissented
In those circumstances there should have been a run off or Electoral College but the Military government cooked up judicial mature and Shagari was sworn In
Akinjide was made Attorney General

The Supreme Military Council was not the Supreme Court.

When you said the Constitution said explicitly 13 States, that's not true. Our Constitution will only say two-thirds and stop there. The 1979 Constitution like the 1999, simply said two-thirds and stopped there.

Statutes in our Constitution must be given their literal and ordinary meaning.

Section 34A(1)(c)(ii) of the 1977 Decree (1978 Amendment) was promulgated a year before the election was at play here. OBJ signed them I think in July, a month before the election. The election held in August 1979, how will Obasanjo have had someone in mind (if any), maybe Baba did we are not certain.

THIS IS THAT SECTION. IT NEVER SPECIFIED 13.
'A candidate for an election to the Office of President shall be deemed to have been duly elected to such office where - he has not less than one-quarter of the votes cast at the election in each of at least two-thirds of all the States in the Federation'

Akinjide SAN is like Malami SAN like Aondoakaa SAN like Adoke SAN and all others before them.

It's just like the FCT issue we have now. That case simply went to the SC and they decided how they deemed fit. Even till now, what we had then is what we have now. Electoral Spread, then when it gets to the SC they decide.

I have a full-text of that judgement, can't see where OBJ did what was claimed here. Presidential Elections are tedious and our Courts refrain from taking a step of cancellation or even a run-off.

0monnak0da:

The rule was that he should get 25% in 2/3 of 19 and the constitution explicitly said 13 states
There was no tie
He got 25% in 12 states and 19% in Kano the 13th state
Richard Akinjide SAN said the constitution was wrong that 2/3 of 13 was. 12 2/3 not 13 and therefore in the 13 th state what we needed was 25%/ of 2/3=16%
That argument went to the Supreme Court which agreed and said in future it must be 13
Justice Kayode Eso .dissented
In those circumstances there should have been a run off or Electoral College but the Military government cooked up judicial magic and Shagari was sworn In
Akinjide was made Attorney General

That’s not tru

We had 12

sarrki:


That’s not tru

We had 12

What is not true and who is we?

0monnak0da:

What is not true and who is we?

states Nigeria had then

sarrki:
states Nigeria had then

How old are you?
We had 12 states in 1979?
Just keep quiet and go to bed

Awolowo was leading, when Shagari overtook him with his northern votes , riot started

sarrki:
states Nigeria had then

Just noticed you said you were a polling officer
You are obviously a big liar
If you were that would mean you were at least 18
You would know the story of 12 2/3
Stop telling stupid lies.

Anyone who was politically conscious in 1979 cannot say we had 12 states

0monnak0da:

Just noticed you said you were a polling officer
You are obviously a big liar
If you were that would mean you were at least 18
You would know the story of 12 2/3
Stop telling stupid lies.

Anyone who was politically conscious in 1979 cannot say we had 12 states

You are dummmmmmmb

Didn’t you see ashipa oyo down there ?

Ipobians are follllish in nature

sarrki:


You are dummmmmmmb

Didn’t you see ashipa oyo down there ?

Ipobians are follllish in nature

What has ashipa Oyo got to do with12 states?

0monnak0da:

What has ashipa Oyo got to do with12 states?

Am done with dummmmb head

Obasanjo as no prestige in Yorubaland.
Reason why he will lose his polling unit m state till his death. Reason why all the governor he helped are the biggest Yoruba insulting him now.

Moh247:




Obasanjo wanted so badly to be the Asiwaju of Yoruba race but he just wasn't destined for that... I pray he doesn't soil his little prestige


.

sarrki:


Am done with dummmmb head

Your mother is dumb and she will die of snake bite
Stop telling stupid lies
You claim you were electoral officer in 1979 and don't know there were 19 states
Bloody fool

E don tey igbos have been calling Lagos no man’s land to ridicule the then western regions power.

If only Azikiwes NCNC had listened to Awolowos AG about not making Lagos the capital of Nigeria and about secession, we would have avoided the bloody tribalist past of this country. This same professional manipulative land grabbers and chestbeaters pushed for secession removal so they can enter northern civil service.
They moved to Kano and Jos in large numbers and collected wotowoto. Troublemakers.

Tinubu must obliterate that useless Obasanjo's legacy in Yorubaland. Not that he even has any .
We must send the cadaver of the bastard to his father's people in Osu land