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Sonoyom:
If by chance PYO gets the presidential ticket of the APC, a lot of Tinubu ers might take the suicide route.

How will he get it? You think it is football ticket I guess Ewu

mighty2:
God bless Tinubu
On his mandate i stand, i'm unshakeable

Well, congrats for your choice. We also stand with Osinbajo.

ledaman:
How will he get it? You think it is football ticket I guess Ewu

Your generation is the ewu Gambia.

mighty2:
you and your c*sed family go per*sh

I serve the living God

Ok

aviara:
Tinubu downfall has already started because some of his trusted allies are already developing guts to dare him as was seen in Aregbesola and now Osibanjo. This is the pattern every strong empire that collapsed followed. Its called implosion. It won't be too long Tinubu will be demystified

UncommonLogic:
This should be a conclusion on who should bear the Presidential ticket of APC or PDP; No sentiments:

THE POLITICAL REALITY OF 2023 PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION: THE LIMITS OF SENTIMENTS, THE PETER PRINCIPLE, AND A SAINTLY CROOK.

By: Dr Yemi Adewoyin

Politics is a business, and in business, you don't dwell (too much) on emotions and sentiments to succeed. If political parties make their decisions based entirely on how loud some arguments (emotional, sentimental and sometimes illogical) on the social media are, then we may as well go sit down and wait for Prof. Yemi Osinbajo or Mr. Peter Obi to be sworn-in as the next President of Nigeria in 2023. Not that Nigeria doesn't deserve a younger, virile and intelligent President, but the candidates for that office must justify that they are heavyweights and the strongest their parties can present. Meanwhile, a 65 year old Prof. is not a young man! You don't aim to win the world cup with a junior team when your opponents are bringing their best and most experienced 11. The 2023 context is a straight fight between SENATOR BOLA TINUBU AND ALHAJI ATIKU ABUBAKAR. Any party that presents anyone else as its flag bearer would have lost before the election day.

The PDP wants to return to power while the APC aims to retain its position, both, by any means possible. A Peter Obi candidature cannot sell beyond Anambra and among migrant Igbo in other parts of Nigeria. He may be lucky to have some pockets of from other Southeast States. He is largely unknown by the grassroot voters in the North and Southwest. Senator Pius Anyim, the other confirmed candidate from the Southeast on the PDP ticket is from Ebonyi State. As trending on the social media, if you don't gerrit, forget it! Alhaji Atiku Abubakar is larger than life. He is loved by the Igbo voters, perhaps more than their own politicians. He knows this. His party knows as well. To underscore the love, the most vociferous er of the call for a Biafra country among the Igbo political class, Senator Enyinnaya Abaribe, was the first to endorse Atiku for the PDP ticket. PDP would be shooting itself in the leg by going for a less popular candidate.

Can the Starboy and the highly efficient incumbent Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, match Atiku in the presidential context? Except in the realm of sentiments and emotions, the answer is no. Is he competent? That, to me, is relative. Contextualizing that would take us to a theory in human resources management; the Peter Principle (Peter and Hull, 1969). The theory is about promoting an excellent staff beyond their level of competence simply because they are next in line for a promotion and have done well in their current office. To illustrate, a bank has an Executive Director (Operations) as the most senior behind the MD. If you have had a dealing with a bank operations staff concerning policies, procedures and following orders (instructions) at a branch level, then imagine what an ED Operations embodies. This hypothetical bank is interested in growing its balance sheet with fresh business deals that would entail some compromise here and there without deviating too much from policies. Promoting the ED to becoming the MD will not achieve that goal because of his lack of people skill and rigidity with rules and regulations. Banks would rather go for an excellent marketer with top-notch social skills, ability to think outside the box and clout for independent decision-making. Ever wondered why many excellent technical people never made CEO? They function very well when told what to do. Their ingenuity is in how to do it, not in the conception. We have only seen Osinbajo follow a blueprint, he may also be eminently competent to conceive ideas and lead the implementation but it would be a gamble and I don't see the APC taking him, no matter the emotions on the social media.

Senator Bola Tinubu, on the other hand, has shown competence in leadership. He draws plans and identifies talents, without ethnic, religious or academic sentiments, to implement the plans. It's only if one wants to belittle an elephant that one says an object ed-by swiftly and briefly, Tinubu is in a class of his own. Among the current political class, Tinubu is unrivalled in his political achievements, development legacies, capacity building, and commitment to helping others and lifting people out of poverty. Aside Atiku, Tinubu is the only other name that's known in the grassroots. While others are busy making TV appearances and theorizing on what they know little about, he was on the road across the length and breath of Nigeria checking the bridges he had built in the past and building new ones. He is intentional and not accidental in wanting to be the President. That means someone who has researched the issues and identified practical options, not textbook answers, for solving them. We are daily inundated with claims that he has pocketed Lagos and is milking the State dry. None of that has been substantiated. The "public court" finds him guilty of massive embezzlement and yet, 15 years after leaving office and without immunity from any form of prosecution, no state institution has found him culpable of anything, whether in office or post-office. That suggests he is clean or a crook who knows how to cover his tracks? So laughable.

Choosing between Atiku and Tinubu is not a difficult choice for me. We saw what both of them did in office. In the context of the foregoing, the choice is between history (past) and the future. The dream is big, the expectations are enormous and the hopes for a new Nigeria, re-engineered from within the political class by a different kind of politician, are sky high. The last time we felt anything close to getting it right was with MKO Abiola. Hope 93 was dashed. Before then, Chief Obafemi Awolowo was defeated on legal technicalities of what constituted 12 and two-thirds of 19 states. I am proudly Nigerian, I believe in Nigeria and I know we shall be great again!

Dr. Yemi Adewoyin
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aviara:
You wrote all this long epistle to market a very corrupt Tinubu. What a pity. Tinubu has not done anything phenomenal in govt. The IGR Lagos is making are made through wicked means which impoverish the citizens of Lagos. Tinubu careless about the burden of how the monies are generated. All governors can equally begin such wicked system to rake in high IGR. But leadership is suppose to make life easy for the people and not the other way round. Take for instance levies and taxies transporters pay to agberos in Lagos. Sometimes, the transporters end going home with nothing.

aviara:
Which other big politician can the southwest boast of aside Tinubu. This monopoly will cost the southwest in the years ahead. Tinubu has been busy building his selfish political empire to achieve his personal selfish ambition. What transformation has his influence brought to southwest region apart from just taking over power. Poverty still ravages most of the south west states. Most of the wealth on the state are controlled by non indigene. Is this the type of political style that should be celebrated?

Very excellent submission! I’m a typical Yoruba man and I will say your epistle is good pointer to the sad reality in Yorubaland.

tollyboy5:
In 2011 election PDP won Lagos and Southwest despite ACN (tinubu) party dominating the governorship polls.

Goodluck won in Lagos and ACN ribadu got an extreme defeat from top contestant.

Are you saying those that voted PDP in Lagos are the Igbos that dominate Lagos?

Lagos election always shows that Lagosians have an independent mindset. Only foolish people thinks APC decision is Yoruba decision.

Once the electoral laws are effective we'll start seeing the unbiased way lagosians do cast their vote.

Ndigbo has really suffered
Any failure must attach his failings to Ndigbo.

Naija news don tire me..

mighty2:
God bless Tinubu
On his mandate i stand, i'm unshakeable

Shame on you tueh

VictorUSA:
Nigerian politics is as useless as women.

I dey notice you watin women or should I say nigerian women do you that u vocally abis dem like this ..

tollyboy5:
Wow!

Why is this ondo man saying nonsense about Lagos.

Most of these people talking trash are senseless people from other State.

Yorubas in Lagos not voting APC as turned to IGBO dominating Lagos.

You didn't read it right. He didn't say dominate Lagos. He was referring to the area that had PYO's polling unit

Siwel25:


It's the truth. I knew he moved his base over a year ago. Didn't U see the result from his polling unit?

In that result people were voting for Buhari, but now people will be voting for Osibanjo.

He tried for geting the 297, bc many people hate Buhari in 2019

Nvestor02:


See a simple sentence that you can't understand, I will advice you to re read the statements so that you can understand what the man is saying.

He said Igbo dominates Victoria Island which is the poling unit of Osinbajo not the whole Lagos.

Who is Igbo to determine who win the whole Lagos

In 2019, no igbo was willing to vote Buhari, so Osibanjo tried in his pooling unit

mighty2:
see this usel*ss ap* looking f**l from c*rsed yeebow tribe talking where men are talking about politics, abi you don forget say your godfors*ken tribe is incons*qu*ntial ni
On Tinubu mandate i stand

You're an irredeemable f**lish bast**d still!!
On your knees you'll be...sucking on Tinubu's dick!!
gay-bitchass bast**d!

A politician without bias mind.
Who say things as they are

OrdinaryNigeria:


In that result people were voting for Buhari, but now people will be voting for Osibanjo.

He tried for geting the 297, bc many people hate Buhari in 2019

How come people like Tinubu delivered victory for APC in their wards around the same Eti Osa? Truth is that Osinbajo isn't on ground politically. There's a joke amongst party that he doesn't even know his ward chairman or agents.

Tinubu has always done the dirty job for him and it's criminally unfair for Osinbajo's ers to use those 'dirts' against Jagaban. Posterity will judge..

Minime10:
From this result coming from an APC chieftain in Lagos, it is very clear that, the 2019 general elections was actually won by the PDP

Choi..... So, Because Osinbajo lost in his polling unit, then PDP won Lagos State in 2019. Critical reasoning needs to be thought in Schools. Lagos has close to 2000 polling units.

The same way at the national level, a presidential candidate wins a state with a landslide does not mean (s)he won the general election. I hope you realise your fallacy or you are just trolling.