b4 nko? shey GEJ wan go contest for 2019 again..abi im no dey shame ni??

but i av a feeling they would choose an hausa because of the popularity and numbers they would get while seeking for votes in the north. they've learnt their lesson from buhari's case. lol

MichaelSokoto:
A member, Board of Trustees of the Peoples Democratic Party, Chief Ebenezer Babatope, has said that President Goodluck Jonathan will not run for the presidency in 2019.

He explained that the party would shop for a strong Hausa/Fulani candidate to run against the President-elect, Muhammadu Buhari, in 2019.

Babatope, who is also a member of the party’s elders’ caucus, spoke with our correspondent on Victoria Island, on Wednesday.

He described the outgoing President as a leader, who had done his best in uplifting the nation’s democracy, adding that Nigeria would forever remember Jonathan as a committed leader who kept the nation as one despite several challenges.

He said he was sure that the President would not seek to contest the 2019 presidential election although “the people of the South-South have the right to present a candidate for the election, I’m sure the President will not contest; He will lead us to against the All Progressives Congress.”

He said, “The President has set himself apart as a great Nigerian leader, who is committed to seeing Nigeria blossom into a great democracy. He has laid a solid foundation for the nation’s democracy and he would forever be remembered.”

“The President will not contest the 2019 presidential election. The PDP will look for a strong Hausa/Fulani presidential candidate to contest against Maj. Gen. Muhammadu Buhari (retd.).

“We have a strong presence in the South-South, South-East and we have two governors in the South-West. We are going to slug it out together in the North in 2019. We are going to flush out the APC in 2019 because we are going to correct our mistakes and take back the central government.”

The former Minister of Transport said PDP’s National Executive Council, the BoT and Elders’ Caucus would meet soon in Abuja to assess the outcome of the general elections.

He said, “We are going to restructure our party. The National Chairman of the party, Alhaji Adamu Mu’azu, will convene a meeting in two weeks’ time when we will objectively discuss the last elections.

“Apart from the grand conspiracy against our party by the powers that be in the elections, we are going to tackle the problem of imposition, which was a great area of mistake on our side. Crises were recorded across the states over imposition. We are going to guard against this. The APC will, naturally, make its own mistakes and we will capitalise on these.

“It is given in politics that mistakes would occur among the ruling party. We will all see when this begins to happen. We are watching and waiting.”


www.punchng.com/news/jonathan-wont-contest-in-2019-babatope-2/

Seun, Lalasticlala

NPC is equivalent to APC. If you can not use terrorism you can not beat them. Ask awolowo.

emmasege:
The plan to get a hausa-fulani by PDP to succeed buhari in 2019 is dead on arrival. Babatope, let me lend you my wisdom. Get a northerner of middle-belt (i.e. north central) or north east extraction , preferably from Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba or even Adamawa. That is the best way to split the bloc votes of the north; you can be sure that s/south and s/east will most likely vote for the PDP particularly if the candidate is from Plateau or Benue. And I don't see the Yorubas romancing with Buhari's APC for long, the moment he starts acting Arewa's agenda and takes Tinubu and OBJ's hands off the plate, and renders their errand boy (Osinbajo) jobless in Aso rock.

Have you ever heard Arewa saying power must return to the hausas or fulani? All they want is for power to return to the north. After the 2nd coup they gave power to Gowon a christian from plateau, because he is a northerner and he pursued the northern agenda to the core. Don't forget that tafa balewa isn't an hausa nor fulani. A northerner is a northerner and they know it.

If what Babatope says is really true, then am sorry for PDP. It will only present a chance for the APC to sweep the South East in a landslide. Why? Because i see APC making a promise of the presidency go the SE after Pres. Buhari which devoid of sentiments is the actual thing to be done.

So why wait for 8 yrs(in the eventuality of the Hausa PDP man winning) when you can just wait for 4 years(If Pres Buhari wins).

Common sense will tell, they better stop dreaming of a Solid presence in the South East. Just like the NC dumped them in 2015, the South East can dump them in 2019. You never can tell.

emmasege:
The plan to get a hausa-fulani by PDP to succeed buhari in 2019 is dead on arrival. Babatope, let me lend you my wisdom. Get a northerner of middle-belt (i.e. north central) or north east extraction , preferably from Benue, Plateau, Nasarawa, Taraba or even Adamawa. That is the best way to split the bloc votes of the north; you can be sure that s/south and s/east will most likely vote for the PDP particularly if the candidate is from Plateau or Benue. And I don't see the Yorubas romancing with Buhari's APC for long, the moment he starts acting Arewa's agenda and takes Tinubu and OBJ's hands off the plate, and renders their errand boy (Osinbajo) jobless in Aso rock.

This your wisdom get as e be and also be as e get.

doctokwus:
-First and the bitter truth is this:it would be very,very difficult for a south southerner to rule Nigeria again for a very long time.These are my reasons and they are not at all based on primordial affiliations:
-Jonathan was a very bad product.He was far from the best d ss could have given us but we can only judge from what we see.He was bad not just in steering the ship of d nation but in d kind of ultra sectional politics he played.
-GEJ also ended up almost destroying,if not destroyed a once formidable party.
-In as much as he got substantial support from the se, I doubt greatly if d se would be ready to form any kind of alliance again with a ssoutherner as d arrowhead , having seen how poorly GEJ can perform and his leadership deficit.
-For the ss to ever dare to rule this nation again,it must form an alliance with other regions.We must all admit,as painful as it may sound,that GEJ rise was a product of circumstances,it would be difficult seeing any of the 3 major ethnic groups acceding to a minority tribe ruling again;@least till it has gone round the three again.
-The ss itself is not a contiguous group as many think.There are many ethnic nationalities who congregated on GEJ because he represented an aspiration to which they too might one day fulfil.It would be impossible for these other nationalities to approve of any other person from the same ethnic group as GEJ, talkless of him himself being a President again.
-Lastly GEJ staying power for d yrs he ruled and d support he got from some for his re election was due to the patronage system,the favors and largesse he could dispense as a president.Remove these from him,his almost insignificant political base is laid bare and he would hardly be a torch bearer for his own ethnic nationality,talk less a region,not to mention a conglomeration of bigger ethnic groups that form a nation.
GEJ political career,am sad to state,may end up now being limited to his tag as a "statesman".I don't see him in the national space again.

1000 likes for you.....spot on

This people have started talking anyhow now. Please go and regroup and get your feet standing solid again.

san316:
Let him contest now. Buhari will make a come back making it 2-1.

PDP hasn't changed. The new govt hasn't been sworn in and the issue of 2019 election is already coming up. It is all about power , not what it should be rightly used for.

You just said my mind.

I think say na SE PDP wan give next presidential ticket..yeye dey smell

tucky200:
As long as we see change..we wnt hesitate to vote baba again.....even tho u bring obama or david cameron..we no go vote dem...talkless of that imbeicle

The criteria for running for national office should be to look at what the candidate has done at a local/state level.

There is not one Fulani governor has ever done anything of note within their own constituency. Yar'adua might have been the best - simply because he was said to be honest (like Buhari) but as we found out he was not able to get anything done, nevermind that his wife was a crook.

If we are not going to select credible candidates at a national level (men like Duke, Akpabio and Fashola) then Nigeria needs full federalism - a very weak center, less federal waste and let those states that wish to progress move foward.

MzJackBaueress:
Is there any hausa/fulani politician who is stronger than General Muhammadu Buhari in terms of popularity and intergrity? I don't think so!

PDP will fail in 2019.

I rather prefer APGA to be the major opposition party than PDP

U think buahri will get DAT kind of vote if lamido contest against him
Of cos he will win north but not with DAT bizarre figure

Even Ebenezer Babatope that could not deliver his ward to PDP is already talking about 2019! One of the major problems of PDP is pride nd its already playing out even before they become official opposition party. My advise is to go to drawing board,re strategise,re group and build the party all over again. Though unless a big miracle or if APC fail to deliver in most of their electoral promises,I don't see PDP in national politics for the next 12years @least. As for GEJ,he won't be tempted to make such a gamble not even under PDP.

if they thought we voted buhari because he is hausa fulani then they are on a long thing.if buhari disappoints us come 2019 we will dump him and look for somebody better even if na another ijaw man,tribe or ethnicity will not mather

Emyben:
If what Babatope says is really true, then am sorry for PDP. It will only present a chance for the APC to sweep the South East in a landslide. Why? Because i see APC making a promise of the presidency go the SE after Pres. Buhari which devoid of sentiments is the actual thing to be done.

So why wait for 8 yrs(in the eventuality of the Hausa PDP man winning) when you can just wait for 4 years(If Pres Buhari wins).

Common sense will tell, they better stop dreaming of a Solid presence in the South East. Just like the NC dumped them in 2015, the South East can dump them in 2019. You never can tell.

I don't think APC would zone the presidency to the south east after Buhari, I see the power remainging in the north after him. This would be the argument that the north might bring up: two political zones from the south has produced a president, while only one political zone the north would have done so after Buhari. So northerns from North east and north centre would lay claim to the presidency.

If only pdp did primary election at presidential level. There would have been hope for the forth coming candidate. But No Joe was handpicked.

Sweetguy25:
Buhari's popularity will be terribly battered before 2019 because of his poor performance as president.
The people of north central and south west won't give him that luxury again.

You wish, so you are hoping Nigeria will be worse off.

MichaelSokoto:

I jez hope most of d Ndigbos supportin GEJ all along hopin to take over power can finally see d deceitfulness of d PDP.
PDP iz shoppin 4 hausa-fulani in 2019?
I laff

Rubbish PDP will field Hausa in 2019 weda GEJ win or loose
So stop forming I make sense

Must it be Hausa/Fulani candidate?

Why not from middle belt or northeast?

We the Middle beltans and Northeast will say no to marginalisation comes 2019.

Enough is Enough!

HzRF:

U think buahri will get DAT kind of vote if lamido contest against him
Of cos he will win north but not with DAT bizarre figure

who is lamido?

gwales:
there is no northerner that is influential as buhari. if u doubt me go and ask sule lamido

Lamido will pull vote from buahri even tho buahri will win

efilefun:
He knows he would be so irrelevant by then.... Their next candidate is that Abia governor.... Lmao... Even a toddler knows GEJ don finish he has ran out of luck... Who knows maybe he would still be shuttling between otuoke and high court answering different cases by then

Have you heard Theodore Roosevelt? How about Ehud Barak, Shimon Perez, even Buhari?

Nobody is politically dead unless the person is not popular or the person is retired.

Current French president François Hollande is finding it difficult to fulfill his electoral promises; recently, the party of Nicolas Sarkozy the immediate is gaining grounds and from the look of this François Hollande is going home.

doctokwus:
-First and the bitter truth is this:it would be very,very difficult for a south southerner to rule Nigeria again for a very long time.These are my reasons and they are not at all based on primordial affiliations:
-Jonathan was a very bad product.He was far from the best d ss could have given us but we can only judge from what we see.He was bad not just in steering the ship of d nation but in d kind of ultra sectional politics he played.
-GEJ also ended up almost destroying,if not destroyed a once formidable party.
-In as much as he got substantial support from the se, I doubt greatly if d se would be ready to form any kind of alliance again with a ssoutherner as d arrowhead , having seen how poorly GEJ can perform and his leadership deficit.
-For the ss to ever dare to rule this nation again,it must form an alliance with other regions.We must all admit,as painful as it may sound,that GEJ rise was a product of circumstances,it would be difficult seeing any of the 3 major ethnic groups acceding to a minority tribe ruling again;@least till it has gone round the three again.
-The ss itself is not a contiguous group as many think.There are many ethnic nationalities who congregated on GEJ because he represented an aspiration to which they too might one day fulfil.It would be impossible for these other nationalities to approve of any other person from the same ethnic group as GEJ, talkless of him himself being a President again.
-Lastly GEJ staying power for d yrs he ruled and d support he got from some for his re election was due to the patronage system,the favors and largesse he could dispense as a president.Remove these from him,his almost insignificant political base is laid bare and he would hardly be a torch bearer for his own ethnic nationality,talk less a region,not to mention a conglomeration of bigger ethnic groups that form a nation.
GEJ political career,am sad to state,may end up now being limited to his tag as a "statesman".I don't see him in the national space again.

No southern will ever rule a democratic Nigeria again, but it won't be because of those empty reasons you gave. It will be because of SW behavior in the just concluded elections.

efilefun:
He knows he would be so irrelevant by then.... Their next candidate is that Abia governor.... Lmao... Even a toddler knows GEJ don finish he has ran out of luck... Who knows maybe he would still be shuttling between otuoke and high court answering different cases by then

GEJ may have ran out of luck, pray that you'll have at least 1/10th of his luck, you might end up being a local government councilor. Lol.

efilefun:
He knows he would be so irrelevant by then.... Their next candidate is that Abia governor.... Lmao... Even a toddler knows GEJ don finish he has ran out of luck... Who knows maybe he would still be shuttling between otuoke and high court answering different cases by then

Buahri must have dash u amnesia
Cuz he won't be probing past leaders

APC OP and this puerile-like thread. You did quite well with editing the TEXT. Even after jonathan accepted defeat you are still on this. Shame.

Oklander:
Contest what, shame no day catch am ni?

I tire o !

Pita99:
They know they wont be able to Win the whole North from Buhari the Plan is to divide the Northern Votes from Buhari by bringing a Stronger opposition like Shema (Governor of Katsina) then with help of South South and South East votes and some South west Votes they can actually tussle the Power out of Buhari's hand. It all depends on how Buhari performs in the next 4 years sha, the ball is in APC's court nw

and wat makes u feel d south east,South west n south south wil vote 4 pdp cm 2019

Luvties:
Must it be Hausa/Fulani candidate?

Why not from middle belt or northeast?

We the Middle beltans and Northeast will say no to marginalisation comes 2019.

Enough is Enough!

Don't worry, let North west complete their term after Buhari you people will supported. But despite the number of presidents you have hard, you are still complaining.

san316:
Let him contest now. Buhari will make a come back making it 2-1.

PDP hasn't changed. The new govt hasn't been sworn in and the issue of 2019 election is already coming up. It is all about power , not what it should be rightly used for.

Rubbish
Dey should not plan right

obailala:
Hausa-Fulani candidate... and then northern votes would be divided... ghen ghen ghen!!

Divide north
Divide sw
And get block vote from east
Daz d plan
Things might changed

Emyben:
If what Babatope says is really true, then am sorry for PDP. It will only present a chance for the APC to sweep the South East in a landslide. Why? Because i see APC making a promise of the presidency go the SE after Pres. Buhari which devoid of sentiments is the actual thing to be done.

So why wait for 8 yrs(in the eventuality of the Hausa PDP man winning) when you can just wait for 4 years(If Pres Buhari wins).

Common sense will tell, they better stop dreaming of a Solid presence in the South East. Just like the NC dumped them in 2015, the South East can dump them in 2019. You never can tell.

seconded

Luvties:
Must it be Hausa/Fulani candidate?

Why not from middle belt or northeast?

We the Middle beltans and Northeast will say no to marginalisation comes 2019.

Enough is Enough!

middle belt ? lol . is that some joke

Keep your Dark Mark and co to yourselves