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Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by ijustdey: 4:20pm On Oct 08, 2018
By Dirisu Yakubu



Port Harcourt- Presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, in the 2019 general elections, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar has been advised to pick his running mate from the South West geo-political zone or perish the thought of securing the support of its people at the polls.

This advice is coming 48 hours after the former Vice President beat eleven others at a special national convention in Port Harcourt, to emerge the party’s flag bearer.

A PDP chieftain of South West extraction and member of the convention planning committee told our correspondent in confidence late on Sunday night that the advice became necessary in view of the “ill treatment,” meted out to the zone by the party in recent times.

According to him, the entire PDP family is ready to work tirelessly for the victory of the party, adding however that equity must not again be glossed over in picking the running mate on the party’s Presidential ballot.

Bemoaning what he described as “the denial of the South West the position of the national chairmanship of our party,” in the December 2017 convention; the PDP bigwig said should the zone be looked over again in the choice of a running mate; it would mean that equity and fairness no longer mean anything to the party.

He said: “Now that we have a candidate to challenge President Muhammadu Buhari in 2019, we must be fair to the South West which has been taken for granted in the scheme of things for quite a while now. Anything short of the Vice Presidency slot will not be acceptable to our people.

“Last year, a lot of intrigues played out at our convention and we were denied the opportunity to produce the chairman. A prominent Nigerian and one of our leaders, Bode George backed out of the race and a few others who couldn’t comprehend what was going on left for other parties.

“But we stayed on and were able to prevail on our people to have faith in the party.

Now that the convention has come and gone, I advise our candidate to pick his running mate from the South West to win majority of our people’s votes.”

He advised the ruling party to demonstrate sufficient faith in democracy by conducting a variant of the Port Harcourt convention for a start.

He noted that for not pushing the consensus option, the leadership of Prince Uche Secondus has shown that democracy is “alive and kicking in the party.”

He added: “They shut the doors against others just to affirm President Buhari obviously for fear of the unknown. In our case, we proved to the world that democracy is alive and kicking in the party as we conducted the most credible Presidential primary election in the history of democracy in our country.


https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/10/from-the-day-i-nominated-atiku-to-be-my-vice-he-set-his-mind-not-for-any-good-obj/

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by hucienda: 4:21pm On Oct 08, 2018
Vanguard, the chieftain no get name?

The Yoruba and Igbo are really hustling for this ticket. cheesy

Atiku be like "na dem dey rush me." grin

Realistically speaking, all politicians of note in Yorubaland are all in the APC. The 6 SW states are in firm control of the APC, even the current VP is from the APC, so politically it would be tough for Atiku to pick a SW over a SE that currently has three states in the PDP column. The PDP as a party obviously made a tactical mistake not ceding the PDP Chairmanship to the SW. They should have been strategic and planned to avoid this potential scenario in advance where the big two in the south slug in out.

Politics is not about sentiments but interests and strategy - and it would pay Atiku to pick his vice in a stronghold - else he risks voter apathy and indifference in such places.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by Henrypraise41(m): 4:23pm On Oct 08, 2018
the south easterners are watching.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by Righteousness89(m): 4:24pm On Oct 08, 2018
South east
South west
South south

A good and Brilliant Candidate to Atiku is all that is Needed!!

Let's. rescue Nigeria First!

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by tochukwuifediba: 4:24pm On Oct 08, 2018
grin grin trash He must Pick South East we have the biggest political block in Nigeria

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by Shuku0kukobambi: 4:24pm On Oct 08, 2018
lai lai, it won't happen. You've been told you have no stake in PDP and it won't stop today.

PDP is for SE and they're due the VP ticket.

Any SW PDP chieftain should find something else to campaign for Atiku with

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by Atiku2019: 4:26pm On Oct 08, 2018
Atiku i know Sir

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by Nogodye(m): 4:26pm On Oct 08, 2018
If you're picking VP from S/W, Fayose should be the last person to be consider...

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by RockHard: 4:27pm On Oct 08, 2018
tochukwuifediba:
grin grin trash He must Pick South East we have the biggest political block in Nigeria

Atiku will get SE votes regardless of where his VP comes from so no need wasting the slot on them. SE is PDP, PDP is SE. wink

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by ORIENTATION101: 4:30pm On Oct 08, 2018
open eyes and see pdp has schemed yorubas out of the party.wike told our leaders to go to hell when it was the turn to produce chairman.if south west eventually vote for atiku south south and east will take over his govt and yorubas will be reduced to mere followers of the party.
a vote for buhari is vote for osibanjo and fashola.
pdp did nothing for yorubas from 1999 till date. the infrastructures we enjoy re done by our governors.
apc has embarked on big infrastructural projects that will be delivered by december and first quarter of 2019.
dont allow igbos to blackmail us to vote pdp that did nothing for us

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by IbrahimDamola: 4:33pm On Oct 08, 2018
yorubas should stop being greedy and trying to deceive Atiku into handing his political fortunes to unreliable SW and sideling SE and SS.
You cannot eat your cake and have it. You kicked out PDP from your region and want to benefit from same. It's not done. The SE and SS will not be sidelined in order to pander to undependable SW greed that are still under the hypnotic machinations of tinubu. Ko le shele.

We yoruba should go and pick our towel where we took our bath. We cannot bath in river osun and go to river niger to pick our towel. That's madness.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by tochukwuifediba: 4:33pm On Oct 08, 2018
RockHard:


Atiku will get SE votes regardless of where his VP comes from so no need wasting the slot on them. SE is PDP, PDP is SE. wink grin cheesy

grin grin most lame argument this is politics we are not foolish mind you if we fail to get the VP slot instead of voting APC we shall stay at home and do another thing which will give Buhari a huge boast and victory .

Dont forget Igbo votes all over Nigeria grin .

Either South East VP or Buhari continue

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by tochukwuifediba: 4:35pm On Oct 08, 2018
shocked shocked those pushing Atiku to Pick a South West VP are his worst enemy who want him to fail trust me his south West VP will decamp and congratulate Buhari before INEC finish announcing result

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by gurnam: 4:40pm On Oct 08, 2018
tochukwuifediba:
grin grin trash He must Pick South East we have the biggest political block in Nigeria

INEC thinks otherwise

The SE Bloc voting strength will always be an Achilles of the region.

There is strength numbers.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by ijustdey: 4:42pm On Oct 08, 2018
tochukwuifediba:
shocked shocked [s]those pushing Atiku to Pick a South West VP are his worst enemy who want him to fail trust me his south West VP will decamp and congratulate Buhari before INEC finish announcing result[/s]


your post sounds like an APC apologist


so are you saying only SE can win the presidency for Atiku

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by RockHard: 4:43pm On Oct 08, 2018
tochukwuifediba:


grin grin most lame argument this is politics we are not foolish mind you if we fail to get the VP slot instead of voting APC we shall stay at home and do another thing which will give Buhari a huge boast and victory .

Dont forget Igbo votes all over Nigeria grin .

Either South East VP or Buhari continue

I repeat. PDP is SE , SE is PDP. No point wasting the slot on them because since '99, the zone has been consistently voting for PDP. The hatred of Buhari by Igbos is more than enough to galvanize them to vote against him without a VP slot. Presidency is more sure for SE under PDP than APC. That is the plain and simple truth that everyone knows.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by basilo101: 4:48pm On Oct 08, 2018
RockHard:


Atiku will get SE votes regardless of where his VP comes from so no need wasting the slot on them. SE is PDP, PDP is SE. wink grin cheesy
There will be voter apathy in the east and the West will still not vote for him.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by IbrahimDamola: 4:48pm On Oct 08, 2018
ORIENTATION101:
open eyes and see pdp has schemed yorubas out of the party.wike told our leaders to go to hell when it was the turn to produce chairman.if south west eventually vote for atiku south south and east will take over his govt and yorubas will be reduced to mere followers of the party.
a vote for buhari is vote for osibanjo and fashola.
pdp did nothing for yorubas from 1999 till date. the infrastructures we enjoy re done by our governors.
apc has embarked on big infrastructural projects that will be delivered by december and first quarter of 2019.
dont allow igbos to blackmail us to vote pdp that did nothing for us

Wike told you to go hell, the same way APC yoruba chieftains kept telling SE and SS to go hell because Buhari/APC won presidential election.

SW schemed itself out of PDP politics. The national secretary and treasurer of PDP are yoruba men. What else do you want?

The SE must be compensated for their staunch support. Atiku is political businessman. In business it's better you consolidate your investment in your 2 high yeilding sources than throwing it away to one unreliable source (SW) where you are not wanted.

Forget sentiments, PDP cannot rely on SW from current realities on ground. The SW we know will not vote him. They just want to damage his chances by forcing him to insult the Eastern bloc by choosing a SW VP, while APC enjoys an easy ride to victory. Atiku will not be that stupid.

Go and pick your towel where you took your bath.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by basilo101: 4:49pm On Oct 08, 2018
RockHard:


I repeat. PDP is SE , SE is PDP. No point wasting the slot on them because since '99, the zone has been consistently voting for PDP. The hatred of Buhari by Igbos is more than enough to galvanize them to vote against him without a VP slot. That is the plain and simple truth that everyone knows.
Afonja. How far with oyo 100+ billion IGR projection?

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by IbrahimDamola: 4:51pm On Oct 08, 2018
basilo101:

Afonja. How far with oyo 100+ billion IGR projection?

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by hucienda: 4:51pm On Oct 08, 2018
- double post -
Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by IbrahimDamola: 4:53pm On Oct 08, 2018
Henrypraise41:
the south easterners are watching.

Very keenly too... grin

The whole Eastern bloc( SE+SS )that vote as one are watching.

The Easterners who constitute more than 30% of non-indigenes in other regions are also watching keenly. grin

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by RockHard: 4:54pm On Oct 08, 2018
basilo101:

There will be voter apathy in the east and the West will still not vote for him.

That is a lie. SE will vote en masse for Atiku because he has promised to sign an undertaken to do only one term. That is why most of their delegates voted for him. He knows SE votes na sure banker regardless of any VP position.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by basilo101: 4:56pm On Oct 08, 2018
IbrahimDamola:
yorubas should stop being greedy and trying to deceive Atiku into handing his political fortunes to unreliable SW and sideling SE and SS.
You cannot eat your cake and have it. You kicked out PDP from your region and want to benefit from same. It's not done. The SE and SS will not be sidelined in order to pander to undependable SW greed that are still under the hypnotic machinations of tinubu. Ko le shele.

We yoruba should go and pick our towel where we took our bath. We cannot bath in river osun and go to river niger to pick our towel. That's madness.
Word

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by basilo101: 4:58pm On Oct 08, 2018
RockHard:


That is a lie. SE will vote en masse for Atiku because he has promised to sign an undertaken to do only one term. That is why most of their delegates voted for him. He knows SE votes na sure banker regardless of any VP position.
Afonja. We are not zombies whose votes are controlled by the inordinate ambition of one man

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by buhariguy(m): 5:04pm On Oct 08, 2018
If thief atiku want to win, he should pick thief obj as his vice.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by RockHard: 5:05pm On Oct 08, 2018
basilo101:

Afonja. We are not zombies whose votes are controlled by the ordinate ambition of one man

Lol. E dey really pain you that SW might get the VP slot. Even after GEJ got no less than 40% from SW in 2015, and the recent results from Ekiti and Osun, you still regurgitate that trash about your imaginary one man controlling SW. Igbos are more zombified than SW because you people are the ones that give bloc votes as long as it is for PDP. undecided Igbos give as much as 80% bloc votes to PDP. No single party can ever get that much in SW no matter who is on the ticket.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by IbrahimDamola: 5:07pm On Oct 08, 2018
RockHard:


That is a lie. SE will vote en masse for Atiku because he has promised to sign an undertaken to do only one term. That is why most of their delegates voted for him. He knows SE votes na sure banker regardless of any VP position.

Oga forget this your BMC lamentation, SE wants to see tyrant and terrorist Buhari out, yes. Republican Easterners are not hypnotized to always vote a party like yorubas are hypnotized by the drug baron thiefnuubu. They are too republican for that.
The influence of SE spreads also into the SS which are their cousins according to voting patterns since the first republic. Not picking a SE candidate will reverberate negatively across the Old Eastern bloc SE+SS, damage his chances and yet SW who are the most unreliable voters in the south will still not vote him as they will be directed by jagaban to vote Osibade and his principal.

There are sizeable number of non-indigenes in the SW, that is enough to give Atiku at least 50% accross SW region while he secures 80% of SESS region, then he can concentrate on keeping the battle in the north. This is the best time to bring Igbos and their cousins into mainstream politics and Atiku knows it.

SW go cut Atiku ticket, he also knows it. Sure 11/17 states in the south is better than gambling with a SW VP ticket. Just stating facts.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by PaChukwudi44(m): 5:07pm On Oct 08, 2018
RockHard:


Lol. E dey really pain you that SW might get the VP slot. Even after GEJ got no less than 40% from SW in 2015, and the recent results from Ekiti and Osun, you still regurgitate that trash about your imaginary one man controlling SW. Igbos are more zombified than SW because you people are the ones that give bloc votes as long as it is for PDP. undecided Igbo's give as much as 80% bloc votes to PDP. No party can ever get that much in SW no matter who is on the ticket.

why not wait and get the VP first before gloating

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by RockHard: 5:09pm On Oct 08, 2018
PaChukwudi44:


why not wait and get the VP first before gloating

I am only saying that Atiku has the SE bloc vote on lock down, so why not strategically give the VP slot to a zone where it will have more impact? It is only common sense, no sentiments.

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Re: Atiku Must Pick Vice From South-West Or… – PDP Chieftain by RockHard: 5:09pm On Oct 08, 2018
PaChukwudi44:


no one has the SE votes en bloc.If Atiku picks a SW VP he is almost assured to lose the elction as a majority of the SW people will still not vote for him ad the SE will be angry and lots of them will not vote

No. Atiku already said he is willing to do only one term in office to complete the North's turn so that the presidency can come vack to the South.

https://www.vanguardngr.com/2018/08/2019-ill-sign-undertaking-to-do-one-term-if-elected-president-atiku/

It is based on that premise that the SE delegates voted for him, and not because of any VP slot per se. Anyway, let's wait and see.

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