Proudlyngwa:


Tonye, you know you are my good friend and we both believe in a solid political platform for all, so I mean no offence whatsoever.

Who talked about Jonathan, am talking about PDP as a whole.
Since you have decided to bring him in.

Let us use this Analogy, PDP is the bottle, GEJ was the content, the people see the bottle before the content, the content might have changed, but the brain is wired to believe the content in the bottle is the same, how do you solve the problem.
Agresive rereading.
And those doing the rebranding are doing a very bad Job.

In APC's case Buhari is the bottle, APC is the content.

Did anybody use Yaradua performance to campaign for Jonathan or Obasanjo failings to campaign against him?

Administrations not party are scrutinised except when the party is an incumbent

maisauki:
na how much u go give us for ds epistle?

N100 annually

Fineman87:


Why Makarfi, why not You? Aren't you worthy of leadership roles, aren't you educated, don't you have brains to lead?

Its pathetic how some of you behave. Regardless of your right to decide who you want, you must not present yourself as useless and incapable of honours especially on a public forum.

Ever since I have known you on nairaland, you are either an APC apologist, a PDP irredentist, a northern slave or an igbophobic villian. You had no personal principles and I remember I once tackled you seriously on SE/SE relations and igbophobia. Why then do your unprincipled, irrational, tribalistic self think you can suggest who best fits for Leadership. Can you guarantee that Markarfi would not be biased in favour of the north. Do you know him personally and for how long? Can you swear with your life that he would tackle Fulani bandits fairly and be a father to all ethnic groups in Nigeria.

You should be ashamed that you are not ripe for leadership and may never have a shot at it because the cycle of political rogues continues with your support. Continue shaming yourself and your SS region by suggesting useless candidates to gullible nairalanders. Nonsense.

The office of the president is not same as that of course rep or class captain...

TonyeBarcanista:

Did anybody use Yaradua performance to campaign for Jonathan or Obasanjo failings to campaign against him?

Administrations not party are scrutinised except when the party is an incumbent

Jonathan used Yaradua's legacy

Obasanjo's party was in power and Yaradua was popular due to his late brother

rusher14:


Away from here you supporter of iniquity.

The report uses 4 examples of corrupt politically exposed people and how they use various tools of banking to launder stolen funds.

A USA Senate committee report and you are here talking horseshit because the internet allows all manner of imbeciles have a voice.

The Senate report confirmed money paid into her account by Siemens who themselves have acknowledged guilt.

Atiku's wife left the country as soon as she got wind of a Senate investigation and neither she nor her husband have visited the country ever since.


But here you are your beggardly self thinking you must find a way to support such evil because somehow it massages your primordial need to steal.

Hahahahaaah,by resulting to insults just shows the kind of a negative personality you have,but you can never cajole me into swallowing your views without out my independent thought,it is your type that have term the igbos players of bad politics just because they didn't vote for buhari in 2015 n now you people are using buhari to bait them but you would not accept playing bad politics if buhari lost in 2019,you support buhari n don't like other candidates fine but don't go about fooling yourself that you can convince everyone to follow your path with your nonsensical garbage,if the Americans have any issue with Atiku they certainly don't need your assistance in any way to take care of him OK, you can go ahead n insult me the more perhaps you are contract to win more followership for your masters n been paid for it that's why you are worked up cos you have lost here.

I don't see any credible candidate yet, we need someone that can defeat D's Dom president we av.

positivethought:
Hahahahaaah,by resulting to insults just shows the kind of a negative personality you have,but you can never cajole me into swallowing your views without out my independent thought,it is your type that have term the igbos players of bad politics just because they didn't vote for buhari in 2015 n now you people are using buhari to bait them but you would not accept playing bad politics if buhari lost in 2019,you support buhari n don't like other candidates fine but don't go about fooling yourself that you can convince everyone to follow your path with your nonsensical garbage,if the Americans have any issue with Atiku they certainly don't need your assistance in any way to take care of him OK, you can go ahead n insult me the more perhaps you are contract to win more followership for your masters n been paid for it that's why you are worked up cos you have lost here.

No vex but a conscience you are also in need of education.

TonyeBarcanista:

N100 annually

stingy politician, one vote u no go get

Proudlyngwa:

No, but I have a lot of like minded Nigerian friends

does ur like minded friends equal to majority of southern youths?

Proudlyngwa:

Jonathan used Yaradua's legacy

Obasanjo's party was in power and Yaradua was popular due to his late brother

Not true...

GEJ in 2011 campaigned using FRESH AIR and Transformation Agenda in 2015

Yaradua campaigned using continuity thats why he used Obj's who was incumbent and whose legacy he pledged to continue using 7 Point Agenda

SirBunky85:
does ur like minded friends equal to majority of southern youths?

Maybe, you will help conduct the census.
I said me and my like minded friends, don't care where a president comes from, as far as he can deliver the dividend of democracy.
What percentage of people do I interact with that I will know everyone's opinion.
Anybody I ask says what he needs is good governance. They might be pretending, how do I know.

EgunMogaji:


It's something I'm passionate about.

Look at Chinese or Japanese politicians, if they are caught doing corrupt stuff, most just kill themselves than suffer execution or shame.

"China punishes 210,000 officials for corruption
Communist Party's anti-corruption watchdog says it has punished 210,000 officials for corruption in first half of 2017."

https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/07/china-punishes-210000-officials-corruption-170720170506456.html

When I say dictator, most numpties think of Idi Amin. There are other good dictators. Ghadaffi is a dictator, Her Majesty is a dictator.

and lee kuan yew was a major league prick also

TonyeBarcanista:

Not true...

GEJ in 2011 campaigned using FRESH AIR and Transformation Agenda in 2015

Yaradua campaigned using continuity thats why he used Obj's who was incumbent and whose legacy he pledged to continue using 7 Point Agenda

Good luck campaigned with an agenda to continue Yaradua's vision, and do only one term.

We agree that Yaradua rode on Obj and his brothers platform

MrPolitics:
Objectively, I don't think this man can defeat PMB.
First of all, he doesn't have a big following in the north. I doubt he has a big following in his state as well. Let's remember he lost his senate seat in 2015 to the Buhari wave. How then can we be sure that he can effectively divide northern votes with PMB who surprisingly is still popular among the conservative north.
Second, he's not very popular in the south. He was relatively unknown till he became PDP chairman and though that role helped boost his popularity, most southerners are not familiar with him, his work or what he stands for.
Thirdly, he doesn't have the financial might to afford an adequate and effective opposition campaign. The PDP would need a lot of money to campaign if they're going to beat the APC next year and with the PDP being low on cash right now, they need a candidate that either has the tens of billions needed or is able to raise it.

And then such candidate will now hijack the party when they win & execute their personal agenda?

Nigerians....when will many of us learn & come of age? Do you still think money politics can give you the right leaders and dividends of democracy

Please THINK AGAIN!

MrPolitics:
Imo, the PDP's top chances are Atiku and Sule Lamido.
Atiku is a former Vice President that has remained active in Nigeria's politics and so is very well known by Nigerians in the North and South. He's probably the 2nd most popular member of the PDP nationally after GEJ.
He's not so famous among conservative northerners though as he's seen to be liberal but he's also the PDP's most popular candidate in the south as of now
He has the money to effectively run a campaign but his perception of being corrupt alongside the PDP's perception of being corrupt might be a big problem [b]

Of course!! Na now you know
Only a person with a clean corruption record equal to or greater than PMB can beat him in 2019.

That is why I agree with the OP that a less popular but clean candidate should flow well with the educated and enlightened folks, who will also be able to influence the illiterate folks on why they should vote for the clean candidate.

Na

rusher14:

No vex but a conscience you are also in need of education.

Alright go ahead I'm open to learning.

Omololu2121:
I will rather vote for buhari than vote for any PDP candidate.

I understand your anger against the PDP, I campaigned for Buhari against GEJ too, I was angry, but don’t let your anger blind your judgement about what Nigeria needs now, which is to remove Buhari from office. Look at the economic situation of the country... any government that fails should face the music... I assured people that if Buhari failed, I’ll campaign to vote him out like I did against GEJ and I feel that’s the right thing to do, it will keep our leaders in check and motivate more transparent leadership with time. We should not let our anger against PDP be a tool for APC to use and remain in power with even bigger failures

10 reasons why Buhari will lose 2019 elections


I will take time to write brief summaries on these issues which will weigh heavily on the chances of Buhari continuing as Nigeria's President after May 2019. For a variety of Nigerians, the decision to vote for Buhari can be summarized into one of the bullet point below. The question is whether our hopes in Buhari has been met or dashed. Do we feel fulfilled or disappointed with the President's activities and methods?


1. The Jonathan mismanagement that contributed to 2015 victory
Under President Goodluck Jonathan, cabinet Ministers went wild with looting of government resources. The frustration was largely the seeming inability of GEJ to remove or punish the erring Ministers. The Petroleum Minister, Diezani Madueke easily comes to mind. A lot of sordid acts happened in NNPC that the former CBN Governor, HRH Emir of Kano Alhaji Sanusi Lamido Sanusi had publicly announced that about $20 billion dollars were unaccounted for at the NNPC. The regime of Jonathan practically swept the issue under the carpet and inadvertently allowed such percieved corruption to go unpunished. This weighed much in the determination of some Nigerians to show Jonathan the "red card" at the pools

2. The broken promise by Buhari to belong to all
One of the most laudable things President Buhari did during his inauguration was to declare that he belong to all Nigerians. This statement rekindled some hope of national unity after the bitter but peaceful change of power from a Niger Deltan to a far northerner. Buhari's proclamation as many others he did turned out to be mere empty words of propaganda. From his appointment of cabinet Ministers, Service Chief and finally his speech at the United States Institute for Peace in July 2015 where he revealed his deep grudges against Nigerians he described as 5% who did not vote for him. Therefore, should not expect much from his regime. This statement drew a lot of reaction from the regions he made reference to as the 5% (Southeast and Southsouth). The low tempo agitation for independence of Biafra took off and gained mainstream relevance led by charismatic Nnamdi Kanu and the there was an explosion of sabotage activities in the Niger Delta by the Avengers. All of these actions impacted negatively on the economy and helped tilt the balance into an economic recession for the country. Things could have got worse and escalated, but it appeared seasoned former Heads of State had advised Buhari on the futility and risk of all out military action and the need to use the civil society in the regions to douse tensions. This was also tempered by the behind the scenes work of notable Nigerians to reverse the "Quit Notice" on the Igbos and we dodged the bullet as a country. Again, the immaturity of Buhari as a leader had pulled us into a recession and almost into a civil war in a short span of 2 years.

3. The mismanagement of the the anti-corruption crusade
The war on corruption started on a great promise. Buhari had declared that all looters would be made to give up their loot, and the government would transparently publish the recovered loot and the names of the looters. The novel idea of whistle blowing was launched and indeed many people started giving up their loot rather than go to jail.
Then it became clear that those pursued for looting were simply members of the opposition PDP and if a corrupt politician crossed over from PDP to APC, they would be "forgiven" and allowed to keep their loot. Many corrupt politicians immediately left PDP and registered as APC members and so the anti corruption war no longer had anyone to arrest or force their forfeiture of ill gotten wealth. That became the end of the hitherto promising "war on corruption" under Buhari. The worst part was that Buhari's personal friends such as the former Secretary to Government and others were furiously looting the national treasury through ridiculous contracts to import grass etc. The deputy Minister for Petroleum Ibe Kachikwu out of frustration listed that NNPC had not remitted a whopping $25 billion dollars fraud! The NNPC Group Managing Director Maikanti Baru and Kachikwu were invited into the Presidential villa villa and ordered to "hush" the issue. As we saw under Jonathan, the issue was swept under the rug and no respectable independent panel of external auditors were invited to investigate the issue. Till date, nobody has heard anything about the missing $25 billion dollars.

4. The mismanagement of the economy
When President Buhari took over, there was a lot of hope that the economy would soon blossom. Indeed, the price of oil dropped due to circumstances beyond the control of President Buhari. However, we know regimes of President Obasanjo, Babangida and others had seen oil prices less than $40 dollars per barrel. Yet, Obasanjo was able to pay off Nigeria's foreign debt and embarked on a lot of laudable projects to boost the economy including completion of NLNG project amongst many others. President Buhari's immediate reaction to the lower oil price was to artificially restrict the flow of dollars and peg the Naira exchange rate at N200 to $1. This created a worse economic nightmare for CBN that had to sell dollars at below market rate to banks, who in turn gave the dollars to "selected" customers who had clearly bribed the bank managers. These customers went ahead to sell these cheap dollars at the true market rate in the black market and made huge profits while the CBN was depleting our foreign reserve to defend Naira at N200 to $1. When it became obvious that we would soon deplete our foreign reserves and there would be nothing left to defend the artificial exchange rate, Buhari reluctantly agreed to allow the naira depreciate and stop the practice of giving dollars to banks at ridiculously lower exchange rates. Unfortunately at that point, serious damage had already been done to the national economy which is still felt by every Nigerian till date.
Again Buhari borrowed massively during this period which blew up the eternal debt from about $6 billion to more than $15 billion today.


5. The silence on creating jobs for the youths
The youths were exhilarated that Buhari would bring back jobs and therefore voted massively for him in 2015. This was not the case as Buhari soon abandoned his promises to drive industrialization, develop the petro-chemical industries, stabilize power to improve ease of doing business and generally improve national infrastructure. The result of lack of any of Buhari's electoral promises was the rising incidence of armed robbery and banditry in the country. Nigerian youths traveled in droves through the desert in a futile attempt to reach Europe. Many of these youths were sold as slaves and horribly abused in Libya and other places for many years. It took the intervention of CNN to exposing these atrocities and shaming the Nigerian government to send planes to rescue her trapped youths in Libya.
In the face of failure of the promises of new industries, foreign investors and new businesses to employ youths, Nigerian youths are taking to crime, drug abuse and prostitution to simply survive.

6. Impact of Buhari health issues
One of the controversies of Buhari's candidature was his true age and when he actually finished secondary school. Buhari's official age was said to have been much younger than Buhari's younger sibling's age and the age of his peers in the army. This led to speculation that Buhari could have been much older than he told Nigerians. In a few months into his presidency, the effect of old age on governance was obvious. Buhari first complained about partial hearing loss and then he had to embark on two long periods of absence. In his long absence, governance feel apart and he was even rumored to have been in coma or died. Since Buhari hid his medical condition from Nigerians, he didn't want to give proper executive hand over to his Vice President. Therefore people like Maikanti Baru and other corrupt government officials simply flew to London and came back with purported signed contracts from the President from which billions of dollars were stolen from Nigeria. Under these circumstances, it was unclear who ran the country and massive corrupt practices happened in this period. It is noteworthy that nobody has been held to account for anything out of the fear of giving the impression that the president's long absence negatively impacted the country.



7. The failed promise to stop Boko Haram insurgency

In his iaugural speech, Buhari put Boko Haram on warning declaring the defence headquarters would temporarily be deployed to the northeast to neutralize the bombing of Boko HAram. These all happened to be mere words as the invasion of Sambisa forest was postponed again and again to allow Boko haram time to escape. When the invasion finally came and the President declare Boko Haram had been technically defeated, the insurgents replied him two days later with massive bombing on several locations simultaneously in the northeast. Since that day, like everything else, the fight against insurgency has been shrouded in secrecy. Nobody knows for sure what progress if any had been made. But the recent request for about $1 billion dollars and nearly constant bombings by the insurgents clearly tell Nigerians that Boko Haram is till alive and kicking despite the lies that we have been told.

8. Corruption and looting has continued in Nigeria
Sadly, corruption had continued unabated under Buhari. Nigeria had indeed become one of the reference countries for corruption in the world under transparency international. This issue and it's impact on the economy had already been discussed above.


9. Fostering deep national divisions and disunity (The Fulani Herdsmen agenda)
Through his actions and inactions, the avoidable clash between farmers (Mainly southerners and Fulani herdsmen- mainly northern fulanis) had led to several deaths. The seeming inability of Buhari to use the Nigerian armed forces against armed herdsmen who were killing villagers enmass and destroying their farms had led to deep national divisions and again threatening our unity. Highly respected Nigerians including President Olusegun Obasanjo and Gen Theophilus Danjuma has at various times openly urged the President Buhari to protect Nigerians living in their villages from the invading herdsmen. In frustration General Danjuma openly called on the villagers to defend themselves rather than fold their arms and be slaughtered. The fact that the invaders are Fulani who belong to the President Buhari's tribe and the victims are not the President's tribesmen has been used as explanation why the President would not act to punish tha invaders and save the victims. Instead, the President has called on the victims to cede their land as "Grazing zones" for the invaders.

10: Lack of responsibility for anything. (The blame game: Blame Jonathan: Blame PDP: Blame Nigerian youths: Blame Nigerians in diaspora etc)

The most outstanding attribute of President Buhari's regime is "Blaming game" If the blame isn't on Jonathan, it is PDP or oil price. More recently, the blame has shifted to "Nigerian youths" who have been declared as lazy and unable to engage in any economic venture. While some of these can be true, the overwhelming majority of Nigerian youths are extremely hardworking and innovative. In fact, Nigerian youths perform at par or beyond their counterparts when they go abroad. Nigerian youths created a music industry that still dominates Africa, a movie industry that is 3rd largest in the world and have excelled in numerous endeavors too numerous to count here. If the government of Nigeria especially under Buhari can be compared to Ghana or other African countries in terms of innovation and good governance, Nigeria would definitely have taken off as a great nation by now.


Finally, Nigerians must get their personal voters card (PVC) and make sure nothing stops you from participating and voting in the next round of elections. Stay in your polling station until results are announces, then use your phone to take pictures of the pasted result sheet and post here on NL and facebook. This is the only way we can collectively help to make Nigeria a better place and give red card to any bad government that had caused so much pain and suffering to Nigerians and their families.

If you do not vote and defend your vote by posting results, YOU HAVE NO RIGHT TO COMPLAIN LATER.

Omololu2121:
the PDP has failed us,they are just wasting their time.

Yea,I will rather waste my vote on sowore than any PDP candidate.

Vote your sowere make Buhari win.
As for me I will not waste my vote on unpopular candidates that I am sure won't beat our common enemy

Proudlyngwa:

Maybe, you will help conduct the census.
I said me and my like minded friends, don't care where a president comes from, as far as he can deliver the dividend of democracy.
What percentage of people do I interact with that I will know everyone's opinion.
Anybody I ask says what he needs is good governance. They might be pretending, how do I know.

ok

TonyeBarcanista:

First Sowore is a blackmailer...He has no pedigree nor reputable antecedent. He isn't sellable even in his village.

Secondly, Sowore is highly inexperienced for the job. Even companies don't gift a chap the position of CEO without first gaining experience. The Presidency office is not journalism nor activism... It's a different ball game.

Thirdly, Office of the President is not BigBrother9ja and won't be done on Sahara Reporters comment section. It needs a candidate that has grassroots base and partt

Well, Mr Tonye, I will appreciate, if you elaborate these aforementioned points of yours. Who did Sowore blackmail? Sowore has been involved in politics dating back to his days as student union president in UNILAG fighting cultism. Also, he was part of NADECO in the fight against military rule. He has also been involved in the fight against corruption during this democratic period by investigative journalism cases of the likes of James Ibori( on which, he worked with Kayode Ogundamisi), Diezani Allison-Madueke, Musiliu Obanikoro are examples.

IamaNigerianGuy:


Objective about what ? A pdp thief ?
I dont blame you. It is because Nigeria has no legal system that is why jailbait like Markafi can be put forward for president. I however expect you to be less rabidly ideological about pdp and look to the interests of your country instead of mindlessly recycling old cargo. That is a trait of the #lazy youth

Aren't APC made up of so called PDP thieves?

TonyeBarcanista:

Which experience did Buhari have prior to his coming? Is it being a former dictator and lackey of Abacha?

But you were the one who talked about in the first instance. You seem to be contradicting yourself.

Did Duke rush to contest for Presidency? Is Obiano the President?

So a politician should do well and be given accolades only when he is on the presidential seat? I doff my cap for your reasoning.