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In less than 24hrs Nigeria will be going to the polls to begin a two series election that will be a determinant factor in where and what happen to the country Nigeria. It must be acknowledged that INEC, which is the organ that is charge with responsibility of conducting this election has done their best, but to many enlightened minds, their best has been sub par.
However, the election taking place is just one part of this hurdle, the thereafter is always the crossroad that has to conquered. We have almost thirty so called political parties taking part in this election in one way or the other, and that alone is historic because such large conglomeration of registered political parties have never been part of our failed efforts in the past. I would love to see how the ballot papers are designed for it to contain the names of all the parties.
As someone who has religiously followed party politicking in Nigeria, I have come to reckon like the rest of the positive political analysts, that there are only two parties that matter in the contention for the ultimate prize, which is the presidency. The two parties are PDP & ANPP; all other contending parties are jokers and spoilers, and also bargaining chips for future political patronages. The same cannot be said in the lesser offices starting from the gubernatorial to the lowest, which is the state assembly. Most of the regional parties like AD and APGA will do well within their localities. AD will lose one or two of their current state governorship, most vulnerable is Governor Adefarati of Ondo State, but what they lose in the southwest might be recouped in the southeast through Mbadiniju. APGA will do well winning one or two governorship seats, the rest of the southeast will remain PDP dominated. Meanwhile, the Eze Gburugburu will finally be handed his rejection certificate if Jim Nwobodo garnered more votes than him in the southeast, and I foresee that happening.
The election of the president remain dicey, although many has predicted the insurmountability of the incumbent in this race, but a Buhari surprise should not be entirely ruled out. Like I said earlier, all other candidates including Gani that I supported are in no way in any contention for the PRESIDENCY.
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babyboyze, the above analysis is not your own thinking faculty but a copy cat of a national Newspaper. Or a duplication of Prof.Omo Omoriya.Frankly,in my considered opinion your not intellectually suited to make such analysis based on your skeletal postings in BNW. Stop the plagiarism and do the thinking yourself.
HERE IS THE ELECTION RESULT SO FAR
NORTHERN NIGERIA ANPP candidate over Ghali Na,abba ADAMAWA STATE SENATE: PDP:1 ANPP:1
WESTERN NIGERIA EKITI STATE SENATE: PDP 1 AD 1 OGUN STATE SENATE PDP: 3 AD: 0 ONDO STATE SENATE PDP: 3 AD:0 LAGOS STATE SENATE AD:3 PDP:0 OSUN STATE SENATE PDP:2 AD :1 OSUN STATE REP PDP:5 AD: 1
In the Big East APGA is expected to Punch holes in all parties that is not of Igbo national interest.And same is likely duplicated in the north for ANPP. Stay tuned for more result.
Hail Biafra
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My one liner most of the times convene much better than your long psycho harangue. I do not need to copy the eminent and erudite Professor, but if that is what was deduced through your psychoanalysis, it is just too bad.
Meanwhile, the result you have posted is yet to be ascertained, and is it not suspicious that you are able to get “results” so quick from all the states from the southwest and not a single one from the southeast.
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It must be that PDP controlled national media is reporting the results of areas that PDP is doing well. It must also be that the PDP is planning on a way to manipulate the result from the southeast, hence no reports avialable from the southeast for Waypoint1biafra to report.
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It is indeed a day of reckoning for the AD!
PDP is on course to replace AD as the Southwest party. The AD wanted to eat their cake and still have it intact in the fridge! It is not working out that way. It seems yorubas have voted for Obasanjo sooner than Afenifere ordered. Except in Lagos State, AD has either lost heavily or barely scraped a slim majority over PDP. Worse still for Obasanjo, AD and their son-of-the-soil pact, ANPP has won the North even in Atiku's own ward. I don't know if Professor Omoruyi had AD in mind when he coined ethnic suicide!
The morning papers Vanguard reports that Jubril Aminu lost Adamawa senatorial zone. But Guardian contradicts that in its headline.
Guardian is often not reliable and full of errors. For example, Guardian ran the headline: PDP wins big in Benue, Omisore gets Osun Senatorial seat, but then goes on to explain:
quote:In Benue, the United Nigeria Peoples Party (UNPP) won two Senate seats, while the ruling People Democratic Party (PDP) clinched the remaining one.
Daily Independent leads with efforts by APGA and UNPP to stop the PDP fiddling with elections in Enugu.
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Igboland Results Delayed; Mostly PDP "Victories" Announced - As posted in the front page of BNW.
The question now is who is delaying the results, is it Arewa, Odua or Ohaneze?
Until when you stop blaming all your woes on others, and do a self soul searching, the solution will remain elusive.
With the results released so far, it seems the presidential election is very unpredictable, and it would be a sad day for Nigeria if Aladin Okadigbo should ride the back of Buhari to Aso Rock.
quote: An eminent and erudite--------- babyboyz referring to the infamous Professor Omo-Omoriya
I don't particularly think those terms is consistent with his intellectual know how. After all, he attended a second class university...Awolowo and teaches at harvard by virture of Affirmative Action not by merit but quotas actually. Meaning, we have to have a number of token dark skinned teachers to appease the court.I will not be suprised if his specialty is mostly confined to Third world Politics, that explains why his article in the internet is not a measurement of political science. Try comparing Omo-Omoriya to Nigerian's former Head, Abdusallami Abubakar as profressor teaching at Harvard. In this case he has the edge with a university degree but quite similar in IQ. Intellectually, he is significant not a factor. Hail Biafra
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Don't let Bababoyz drive you crazy and I wish I had Bababoyz kind of energy to smash your groin. After all, you are a psychoanalyst. No be so?
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quote: Until when you stop blaming all your woes on others, and do a self soul searching, the solution will remain elusive.
Maan Babz,
You're quite right on that, however whenever we start to do that soul searching to point out the Igbo 419ers in order to reject and humiliate them publicly, you take it as a personal assault against OBJ who seems to have found particular pleasure in scouting out, recruiting, and incubating them with Federal protection. A solution remaining elusive for us represents a standstill from progress for you, and so it is to your interest to fight our efulefus and yours just as hard as we do.
quote:With the results released so far, it seems the presidential election is very unpredictable, and it would be a sad day for Nigeria if Aladin Okadigbo should ride the back of Buhari to Aso Rock.
Aladin Okadigbo? that was funny.
Sad day for Biafra and Biafranigeria both, but no sadder than what we have now with the warlord OBJ and Aladin Atiku. The situation is truly in flux, but whichever way the wind blows can only continue to work to the favor of Biafra, O'odua, or Arewa in the end, provided you all are prepared to do what it takes sooner than later, instead of leaving all the mental effort to us alone.
Usman Kadiri,
Whats with the violent threat against waypoint? (what with smashing groins and all) Abeg Chiiiill, caaaalm down O. Dont let your emotions run you mental on this board O, haba.
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No election took place in most of southeast Nigeria: monitors Thu Apr 17,12:07 PM ET Add World - AFP to My Yahoo!
LAGOS (AFP) - Nigerian poll monitors claimed that parliamentary elections did not take place across much of southeast Nigeria, despite the release of official results.
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The Independent National Electoral Commission (INEC) denies fraud was widespread and has rejected demands for the results of last weekend's poll to be cancelled across much of the country.
But Father Iheanyi Enwerem, head of the Catholic Church's 30,000-strong poll monitoring team, told AFP: "We found out that in many places, there there were no elections at all."
"If there were no elections, where did they get results from?" he demanded. "In three local governments ... in Anambra State, there were no elections, yet results were announced. Same thing for Delta, Warri in particular," he said, referring to the strife-torn oil-rich region.
"It's very clear to us that there are very big problems in the southeast," said Festus Okoye, head of the respected Transition Monitoring Group, which deployed more than 1,000 poll watchers.
"What we want is a situation where INEC is honest enough to accept that elections did not take place in parts of the southeast," he told AFP.
Controversy over the poll, which was won by President Olusegun Obasanjo's People's Democratic Party (PDP), has heightened tensions in the run-up to Saturday's presidential and state governorship vote.
Opposition leader Muhammadu Buhari has called for his supporters to take "mass action' to prevent a repeat of alleged the irregularities he says marred last week's legislative vote.
With Buhari's All Nigeria People's Party (ANPP) making headway in northern Nigeria and a new cross-party anti-PDP front in the southwest, Obasanjo will be relying on southeasten votes to secure re-election.
An AFP reporter who was in the southern oil city of Warri on polling day found that no voting took place until very late in the day, and then only began in a handful of stations. INEC held second day of voting Sunday.
On Sunday, however, the AFP reporter and several independent monitors found that no voting took place in the Warri South West district, and only very sparsely in some but not all of the stations elsewhere.
A local government official from Ogbe-Ijoh, the headquarters village of Warri South West local government, told AFP: "There was no voting in Warri South West or Warri North, that is the true position."
Nevertheless, on Thursday INEC's website was carrying news of an impressive turnout for Warri, and a cheering result for Obasanjo's PDP.
Not only did 133,529 voters reportedly turn out in the three wards -- 98 percent of the area's 135,739 registered electors -- but not a single one of them spoiled their paper. Nationwide turnout was around 50 percent.
The results also show them voting for the PDP, giving the ruling party a 70 percent margin.
In Abuja, INEC chairman Abel Guobadia refused to answer an AFP question on Warri South West directly, angrily retorting: "Who told you there was no voting there? Who reported that?"
"Elections were postponed in certain areas," he told reporters. "Though we are happy to report that we have successfully organised fresh elections where they were postponed last Saturday."
But across the south and east of the country, observers and opposition figures complained either of ballot boxes not appearing or being stolen, votes not being counted and counts being fixed.
In Rivers State INEC's official results recorded a healthy turnout and 92 percent support for the ruling PDP. Nigerian observers in the city on polling day complained that many polling centres weren't open.
And in Enugu State, where, according to diplomatic sources, EU observers had to return to their hotel because of gunfire, local opposition leaders complained that ballot boxes had been stolen by armed gangs.
"It's so blatant. It's like we can all go to hell," said Loretta Aniagolu, who was the leftist National Conscience Party's candidate for the Enugu state governorship in Saturday's vote, but who is now threatening to boycott the poll.
Thanks for that report with real people and real names. Yet bababoyz Al Sahif will have us believe it went well. "There is a dagger pointing at the heart of Obasanjo's corrupt regime and it will remain until he is flushed out of office"
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Well, it appears that bribery and party loyalty not issues or personality speaks in Nigerian politics. However, which ever way you take it, Nigerians may have chosen Obasanjo over a religious fanatic but fall short on issues affecting an average person. It is appauling to know that since Obasanjo came to power more than 10,000 people have been killed and unemployment is all time high. We watched him speak to an average citizen ineffectually, no compassion or regret, just in your face stupid.
Nigerians would just have to live another 4 years of Obasanjo with no vision, possibly re-elected not on issues but by entrappment[money].Some may rejoice that democracy has come to stay in Nigeria but it is still a regime, dictectorial and the field marshal Obasanjo. On the brighter side, this is an exclusive first since independence with no barrel of the gun.
GOVERNORS:
ANPP
YOBE: JIGAWA
PDP
KOGI: KADUNA: ABIA IMO: ANAMBRA: NEW GOVERNOR RIVERS: ENUGU: EBONYI: NEW GOVERNOR BAYELSA: OSUN: ONDO: OYO: EKITI: NASARAWA KWARA: KATSINA:
AD LAGOS:
There is more to come, currently Obasanjo is leading by a wide margin over Buhari.
Hail Biafra
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RIVERS STATE: Peter Odili PDP 2,098,692 Sergeant Awuse ANPP 44,746 AD 7,990 APGA 2,431
ENUGU STATE: Chimaroke Nnamani PDP 1,131,292 Ugochukwu Agballah APGA 19,938 Fidel Ayogu ANPP 18,344 Alex Obiechina UNPP 14,340 Emeka Eze AD 13,650 Anayo Onwuegbu NDP 3,965 Loretta Aniagolu NCP 3,408 Afam Akputa PRP 990 Mike Ejinima CPN 981 Kim Uke JP 94 Richard Ozobu PMP 71 Ali Chinedu PAC 56 Onu Solomon NRP 49
OYO STATE: Lamidi Adesina AD 395,668 Charles Obisesan ANPP 968 Samson Olalere APGA 2,979 Micael Akintola MDJ 208 Rasidi Ladoja PDP 635,530 Sikiru Adeyemi NDP 1,647 Peter S. Adeyemo NRP 19,956 G. A. Amore PAC 8,542 Lamidi Basiru PSD 682 Ademola Ayoade UNPP 2,383 No candidate APLP 800 No candidate ARP 788 No candidate DNPP 220 No candidate CPM 320 No candidate DA 463 No candidate GPAL 192 No candidate JP 272 No candidate NMM 137 No candidate NP 270 No candidate NNPP 363 No candidate NPL 868 No candidate PMP 4,247 No candidate PRP 758 No candidate UPD 802
EKITI STATE: Adeniyi Adebayo AD 169,191 Ayo Fayose PDP 220,902 Rueben Famuyibo ANPP 5,175 Reami Okebunmi APGA 714 Ayodele John NDP 109 Mr. Femi Falama NCP 13,587 Olusegun Owoseni UNPP 432 Babatunde Alonge NNPP 42 Kwara State Bukola Saraki PDP 322,242 Muhammad Lawal ANPP 199,855 Lai Mohammed AD 64,464
Bababoyz & co: What does those figures (assuming they are the real and final results) above tell you guys? You may not grasp why I ask you this question, but the reason for putting this question to those of you self-appointed "nationalists" who have been going about lieing that APGA is an "Igbo party" is to tell the world how dishonest and disingenious some of you are. If not for your primodial ethnic considerations, how on earth can you guys descend so low to describe a party that was able to shop and field candidates from Ward to presidential level across the wide and breadth of Nigeria as "ethnic party" while the AD which has been in existence since 1998 but cannot match same feat escape your judgment?
From the results above and those I was mailed privately, it is clear that the APGA is the only new party among all the other recently registered parties that fielded candidates in ALL the elective positions THROUGH OUT the Nigerian federation. And from reports on the ground, if the party continues in that positive trend, it might in no distant future become the only TRULY opposition party with ISSUE-ORIENTED programms to finally challenge the status-quo of rub-my-back-I-rub-yours politics which the existing political partyies has foisted on the hapless Nigerian masses.
What a SILENT WAY by the "people from east" to start a revolution! Something the bookory "intelligentsia" from the west thought they can only achieve through their "wild, wild west" philosophy of empty arrogance, bigotory, coersion and intimidation.
Once again, the Igbos have shown that they have more than buy and sell (apologies Dupe Adelaja) to offer the vissionless Nigerians.
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quote:Their declaration are legal and official, Guobadia added. Guobadia was specifically reacting to criticisms that in some states, elections were allegedly not held but results were declared. Citing Rivers State, he said: "I was not in Rivers, but my representatives there said elections took place and votes counted. Rivers is widely scattered and diverse. I rely on the judgment of the commissioner, that he is satisfied with was given to him." The commission chief stressed that once the commissioners have announced results, "they are legally covered."
I understand Guobodia is a professor of physics. I don’t know if that qualifies him to oversee an election. But surely that should have him given him the wisdom to challenge the strange goings on in Rivers State. The leading political opponent of Obasanjo’s party was killed just before the elections. Both locals and international observers described the election process as a sham. Results were declared even where no elections took place on April 12, 2003. Again after April 19, 2003 voting or non voting, reports are coming in of widespread rigging and intimidation. But no one takes notice. This Day reports that over 96% of Rivers’ registered voters took part. Far from investigating the rigging in River State, INEC is publishing the results – some of which will make the civilised world cringe. What is the use being a physics professor if Guobodia does not spot the paranormal arithmetic in places like ABUA-ODUAL local government of Rivers State?
The choice is between the maximum leader and spoilt ballots!
Total Valid Votes 79,880 Rejected Ballots 37 Valid Votes + Rejected Ballots 79,917 Number of Voters on Register Not Available Pres: Chief Olusegun Obasanjo 79,880 ALL OTHER CANDIDATES 0.00000
Most importantly, the number of registered voters is Not available according to INEC. It seems to me most improbable that INEC does not know the number of registered voters in ABUA-ODUAL local government of Rivers State. Was there an electoral register at all? Did any voting take place?
Opposition parties should mobilise for a test case based on this incredible figures provided by INEC itself. It is a simple case to argue. It will also show the world the kind of imbeciles that run the failed state of Nigeria. How can a country survive with professors of Guobodia and Omoruiyi calibre?
Once 100% electoral victory is attained, the leader becomes a maximum one -who can only self destruct. Obasanjo has crossed that line.
I agreed with you that APGA has done well in their spread, but if there is any person or group of persons who have consistently and vocally shout on the rooftop about APGA being an Igbo party, it is the diehards on this forum.
I was never a supporter of AD because of the ethnocentric influence of Afenifere on the party, and am on record to have hailed the astounding defeat they have suffered in this election.
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As the rest of the world wonder how Nigeria's thick dictator achieved 100% electoral victory, Peter Odili and his Rivers State must surely get a good mention when the history of this monumental fraud is written.
PORT HARCOURT, Nigeria, April 20 — Nigeria's weekend elections produced some startling results, but none raised eyebrows among foreign poll monitors as much as a governorship poll in the southern oil-producing state of Rivers.
quote:"The figures so far suggest victory and we are winning," Tony Anenih, Obasanjo's deputy campaign director, said in Abuja,
Another successful Abacha rerun accomplished. Unity for the people!!! A toast to Anenih.
quote:“For many people this is more humiliating than a military regime because it pretends to be a democracy,” said Isaac Osuoka, an official with the local rights group Oil Watch, who witnessed the theft of several ballot boxes and hundreds of vote cards by political party “thugs” in Port Harcourt.
Victory for OBJ/Atiku let us toast Unity yet again!
quote:The murky intrigues surrounding the extant, apparently successful Yoruba penetration project by the president, many observers feel, cost Ige his life.
For the Yoruba; Unity!!! Democraycy!!! Difidends!!! Hooray!!!
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bababoy, you mean that you're that stupid without remorse and conscience? why do you consider yourself qualified to comment on public affiars with this cruelity running in your veins. give me a break fool!
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