Ziggylady:





You are right,but i dont agree that Igbo will vote for Atiku if he had picked a SW...I can assure you that a number of those ready to vote Atiku would stay at home on election day and that includes me....That will surely see buhari easily coasting to victory
It is dangerous to take people for granted like that..least of all Igbos

masinga07:
Am from the west but honestly i would have been surprised if Atiku had pick his VP candidate from SW. He has done what is right and i can assure the Easterners that in this battle, You will never walk alone. Atiku/Obi ticket is not to redeem the east alone but Nigeria. East deserves this more than the West because if not for the SE/SS there wont be any PDP again in the first place.

ladman:


Adeshina would have been another good choice but Peter Obi is the best choice. He is a politician from the south east, technocrat and has a wonderful track record as a Governor. South West will vote for who the electorate feel will do well. The region is quite cosmopolitan with Presidential elections.

Just one problem though, I hope the Igbo leaders manage their ego. History has proven that to be the hubris of the region despite her people being quite Pan Nigerian. Now is the time to bring people from all over Nigeria rather than gloat.

franchasng:
Yes, knowing Yorubas as the most tribalistic tribe in Nigeria after Fulani, they won't vote Atiku again.

Yorubas vote tribe first before competence.

Atiku ought to have given Adesina the VP slot just to get tribalistic Yoruba people's vote. And Adesina would have made a wonderful VP.

Maybe he could have picked Peter Obi for another appointment when he wins.

Seriously, Atiku has lost Southwest.

His advisers didn't advice him well.

They ought to have informed him that whether he picked an Igbo person as VP or not, Igbos will massively vote for him against Buhari that is well disliked amongst majority of Igbos.

Atiku u fall my hand walayi

Bizibi:
vote tribe first and you think all yoruba people think like this.

igbobuigbo:
South West should go for Senate President, which in many ways is as powerful if not more powerful than a VP. I don't know of Obi's personality, but a VP can be powerful or not dependent on their personality.

This is how Nigerians will vote

NW - Buhari
NE - Atiku
NC - Atiku (too many Fulani killings that NC can never vote Buhari)
SE - Atiku (if Obi is indeed VP)
SS - Atiku (time to take vengeance on the loss by GEJ)
SW - 50% Buhari and 50% Atiku (especially if SW get the Senate presidency)

All Igbos in NW, NE, NC, SW, and SS - Atiku

Come 2019, Atiku is the next president

ashacot:
Thank you JesusANALYSIS OF THE MASSIVE FINANCIAL CORRUPTION AT THE PDP PRIMARY/NATIONAL CONVENTION - A MUST READ!

Written by Sirajo Sabo Gassol.

There are at least 4,000 delegates participating in PDP's presidential primary election. Saraki is paying each delegate $1,000 (N350,000), that is potentially $4Million (N1.4 Billion) for delegates alone, his opening bid as at yesterday. Atiku opened his own bid at $5,000 (N1,750,000) per delegate, or $20,000,000 (N7 Billion) for all the delegates. Nyesom Wike was paying $10,000 per delegate, or $40,000,000 (N14,000,000,000) for delegates alone. These figures were part of the early bids as at yesterday. Nobody knows how much they finally paid, but some inside sources said it's been up to $15,000 (N5,250,000) per delegate.

There are at least 12 aspirants contesting in this election, and by the time they're done hundreds of billions of naira must have changed hands. Only that they're not spending it in naira, they're spending it in dollars. When we told you that the recession that happened due to the hoarding of dollars and depletion of our foreign reserves and excess crude account was caused by the PDP you denied...

So where did they get the dollars they're spending now from? How many of them have any private business that generates so much wealth? Or are they simply spending money belonging to poor people? What exactly are they buying that they have to spend so much? Is it only vote they're buying or our future with it? Are these the same bunch of hypocrites who like to release press statements condemning vote buying when election does not go their way but who are shamelessly buying votes right under our noses? Can we honestly expect anything good from this same characters who said they have repented and that we should forgive them their sins but who have not shown any sign of repentance at all? How exactly will they "change the change" if they have not even changed their own corrupt ways?

The signs are always there, right before our very own eyes. Everything to show that the one who promises El Dorado is nothing but a fraud, but we almost always chose to ignore them because of our own prejudice and personal interests. How exactly is a Saraki, a Tambuwal, a Kwankwoso, an Atiku who is being sponsored by money stolen from poor people better than a Buhari who was voted in by the ordinary masses of Nigeria without a single dime changing hands? I trust some of you would like to remind me that when Buhari first came into power that he was sponsored by stolen money too, but you're saying that that Buhari should give way for someone better... So how exactly is the one you're supporting today better? Would you not rather stick with the "devil" you know than the wolves in sheep clothing that we all know are even far worse?

If you think Buhari is bad then wait for Kwankwoso, wait for Atiku, wait for Saraki and wait for Tambuwal. These are people who have no pity for the poor. At least Buhari pities the poor, which is why he pays them NPOWER, gives their children free feeding in school, gives them conditional cash transfers, invests heavily in food production through his agric revolution, gives bailouts to state governments to pay salaries, and refused to devalue the naira...

So, if you see all that and say Buhari is bad then wait for a people who have no respect for poor people. Saraki is today the Senate President, what has he done to restructure the country which is a constitutional matter? What has he done to improve the welfare of poor people? Tambuwal is today the governor of Sokoto State, should he not first transform Sokoto State before coming to ask for a bigger responsibility? When he was speaker of the House of Reps, what did he do about the restructuring he's deceiving us with today? That one called Atiku was the most powerful Vice President in Nigerian history, yet only used his powers to enrich himself and his cronies at the expense of the poor masses.

Listen to them talk today, none of them says anything about corruption... Is that because corruption is dead in Nigeria or because they simply do not have the moral ground to speak against it? None of them tells us what they're going to do to strengthen institutions like the police, judiciary, INEC etc... None of them has any clearcut plan on the economy, security, restructuring, power supply, job creation, education, healthcare, restructuring. The only thing they say is "Buhari has failed, we're going to do better because he who failed woefully before have repented", even though there is no evidence to that.

I just pity the gullible wailers who don't know their left from their right, this is why these people are playing them like football.

Sirajo Sabo Gassol.
7th October 2018. Congratulations to Buhari.

Unik3030:
how many Igbos have PVC n even in the north do u think the northerners want to have something doing with anything Igbo?n d SW will prefer to have a VP other than obi an Igbo man

izzou:


I had wanted that Adeshina guy, but I think Atiku calculated well

To those thinking the South west won't vote him, go back to 2015 elections and see for yourself whether APC got 80% in the west

thunderfirebuha:


Speak for yourself.

Adeshina betrayed PDP and secretly leaked all PDP info to APC in 2015.

Where has he been?

gazilion:
Peter Obi for VP?
Peter Obi though, he is thrift and smacks of a corrupt free politician (as far as I know),
lacks the political sagacity to galvanize the votes of the southerners in a national election.
He is better with a given parastatal appointment than a national elective position.
I'll prefer prof Soludo (for his economic insights) or go to the south west.

Unik3030:
u make sense,operation Python dance have already spoil buhari chances of getting their votes n it's assured ss n se will vote atiku,y not make a Yoruba man as running mate to split SW vote.cos even an average notherner will not want to have anything doing with an Igbo man either directly or indirectly

masinga07:
Am from the west but honestly i would have been surprised if Atiku had pick his VP candidate from SW. He has done what is right and i can assure the Easterners that in this battle, You will never walk alone. Atiku/Obi ticket is not to redeem the east alone but Nigeria. East deserves this more than the West because if not for the SE/SS there wont be any PDP again in the first place.

Rilwayne001:


Simple: APC wasn't incumbent then, they're now.

tambiri77:
A TI KU and OBI ,remember with obi or no obi SE is for A TI KU. Now what happen to the SW that have 16 million register voters to SE that have 8m register voters. Let wait and see 2019 is around the corner.

franchasng:
if Atiku had picked Adesina, or even Fayose, Igbos will massively support him.

Igbos vote mostly based on personality perception more than tribe or party.

Atiku should go back and correct his VP pick.

I will message him, he should not listen to some greedy Igbo elites who Igbo people don't follow.

Igbos don't vote based on who some political elites endorse just as Hausa-Fulani and Yorubas do.

Atiku must change this choice to stand a greater chance of defeating Buhari because he can't afford to lose this vital election o, I feel like crying already

izzou:


I had wanted that Adeshina guy, but I think Atiku calculated well

To those thinking the South west won't vote him, go back to 2015 elections and see for yourself whether APC got 80% in the west

tayebest:
Now that the igbos have something to hold on to rather than the dead on arrival Biafra.

Dem no con get PVC

tayebest:



That's the only people supporting him na! After all, they've never support success!

masinga07:
Am from the west but honestly i would have been surprised if Atiku had pick his VP candidate from SW. He has done what is right and i can assure the Easterners that in this battle, You will never walk alone. Atiku/Obi ticket is not to redeem the east alone but Nigeria. East deserves this more than the West because if not for the SE/SS there wont be any PDP again in thefirst place.

masinga07:
Am from the west but honestly i would have been surprised if Atiku had pick his VP candidate from SW. He has done what is right and i can assure the Easterners that in this battle, You will never walk alone. Atiku/Obi ticket is not to redeem the east alone but Nigeria. East deserves this more than the West because if not for the SE/SS there wont be any PDP again in the first place.

Gabriel004:
I am yoruba, if you take people on nairaland serious, you are on your own. Here in southwest, more than half of us will massively for atiku. Go to facebook and see how they yorubas have been supporting atiku. I am not fans of any but for him to pick obi is a great news.