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Wining the Presidency: The Path to Victory!
By Temitope Ajayi
They took a flight of fancy hoping to win the presidency of Nigeria with Igbo votes in Lagos. Such grand delusion. You can't win a presidential election in Nigeria just because you think
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harvesting the anger of few hate-propelled young people, including sexual deviants and luminaries of the cybercrime community, who congregated at Lekki Toll gate, in a choreographed exhibition of derangement is all it takes.
You're well advised to perish the thought of
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anyone being rigged out. This is the most peaceful, transparent, credible, free and fair election in Nigeria, all thanks to BVAS and Buhari's demonetisation policy. You can't allege vote buying because you all said Buhari was dealing with Tinubu and wanted his party candidate
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to lose. Your candidates, Atiku and Obi, praised Buhari and CBN lavishly over a poorly implemented policy that has traumatised Nigerians. It will be foolhardy of you now to come around to allege rigging and manipulation.
So, Nigerians voted their conscience without
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monetary inducement in this election and did so overwhelmingly for Tinubu in the regions that matter most.
Your candidate can't be getting zero in all polling units in North West and North East and expect him to win a presidential election in Nigeria just because he had some
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good showing at polling units in Amuwo Odofin, Festac, Statelite Town, parts of Oshodi and few places along Lekki-Ajah
axis of Lagos. That performance is too spotty to win a national election. Your candidate is polling poorly in the Bible belt part of the North Central
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where the slanted and skewed opinion polls projected him to win. Tinubu is posting good numbers in Benue and Plateau far more than pollsters had projected.
They told you Obi will win Rivers and entire South South, right? On the basis of that you started jumping around like
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chimpanzees on LSD. That set you up for failure & disappointment. Winning South East & entire South South 100% will still not make Obi President. Remember APC didn't poll 200,000 votes in the whole of South East in 2015 election. APC posted less than 15% of the total votes
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cast from the South South in 2015 & Buhari still won the presidential election with over 3million votes. In 2019,the electoral fortune of APC only improved marginally in South East & South South. Even at that,PDP won the two regions handsomely. At the end Buhari still won
10) Now, take note that APC is primed to win Rivers State in this election. It is posting good result from Delta, Edo, Cross Rivers, Ebonyi, Imo, Bayelsa, Akwa Ibom, Abia, Edo far far better than it did in 2015 and 2019. With the electoral map largely redrawn, where will
11) Peter Obi’s winning votes come from? OK, the only seismic shift or electoral upset to crown Obi as Number 16 is winning in parts of Surulere, Ladipo, Alaba market & Trade Fair in Lagos.
I think there should be limit to wishful thinking and getting high on the fumes of
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our own self-importance.
You can now begin to get accustomed to a Bola Ahmed Tinubu presidency. It's the way to go. Otherwise, you will live a grief-laden life for the next four years, if not eight. #End #NigeriaDecides2023 #KemTwits
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#Thread 1) Text of a Press Conference by former Minister of Works & Elder statesman, Chief Barnabbas Gemade, on former President Olusegun Obasanjo’s call for cancellation of presidential election results
Gentlemen of the press, I warmly welcome you to this important press
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conference. This is a sad moment in the annals of our country’s democracy.
The people who moved against the wish of our people and annulled a free and fair election in the past are at work again.
Gentlemen of the press, I invited you here because of an assault on our
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After 24 years of unbroken democracy, this is not the kind of thing we want to encounter.
Except democracy is no longer about the majority, the tiny minority alleging rigging of this election will be able to impose their will on the rest of us. But if democracy is about the will of the
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majority as expressed by the ballot, then Asiwaju Bola Tinubu has won the presidential election in a free and fair process with the national spread as required by law.
Make no mistake, we will not be apologetic about this win. It is emphatic. It is clear. And we will
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celebrate it to the fullest.
And for those accusing other people of ethnic bigotry because Peter Obi will not win, i hope you will be honest to yourselves when the dust is settled and you can think more clearly.
Peter Obi won in Lagos, Plateau, Delta, Edo and other
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TEXT OF A PRESS CONFERENCE BY MR. DELE ALAKE SPECIAL ADVISER, MEDIA AND COMMUNICATION, ALL PROGRESSIVES CONGRESS PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN COUNCIL ON FEBRUARY 27TH, 2023 IN ABUJA
Gentlemen of the press
The APC Presidential Campaign Council and our Presidential Candidate
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, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, are thankful to Nigerians for coming out in large numbers to exercise their civic duty on Saturday, February 25, 2023. It was, yet again, a momentous day in our democratic journey as Nigerians lined up to choose the next set of leaders, especially
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the President and National Assembly members that will direct the affairs of our country for the next four years.
We are glad to note the very convivial atmosphere under which the election was conducted. Domestic and international observers have adjudged the election and the
All Progressives Congress Presidential Candidate, Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has appealed to the people of Lagos State to be calm and eschew any act that can lead to breakdown of law and order.
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Tinubu said the outcome of the election in Lagos where Labour Party won the presidential election should not be a source of provocation saying that the beauty of democracy is that people have a right to vote for the candidate of their choice.
The APC candidate further
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said that as a democrat he is bound to accept the outcome of any election whether favourable or not.
In a statement released Monday by the Presidential Campaign Council signed by Director of Media and Publicity, Mr. Bayo Onanuga, Tinubu expressed serious concern over
ALLOW INEC PERFORM ITS DUTIES: OPPOSITION PARTIES' ATTEMPT TO DISCREDIT ELECTION WILL FAIL
We have noticed the disingenuous attempts by the opposition parties, spokesmen of their campaign councils and their hired talking heads on Television and
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Radio Stations to discredit the presidential and National Assembly elections conducted nationwide yesterday.
Noteworthy are spokespersons of Labour Party Presidential Campaign Council and that of the Peoples Democratic Party/Atiku Presidential Campaign Council.
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Two persons we consider as respectable citizens, Professor Pat Utomi and Director-General of Peter Obi Campaign Council, Mr. Akin Osuntokun threw caution to the wind by their inciting and incendiary comments on social media and TV stations where they have been making
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Election Results: APC -PCC calls for calm
Since the voting process rounded off in most of the 176,606 polling units across the 774 councils of the federation and Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, yesterday, we have continued to monitor developments.
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Reports from our agents on ground across the country point to incidents of technical challenges and man-made issues. At some centres, there was late arrival of voting materials and glitch of BVAS. We note that in locations where these were severe, the INEC National
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Chairman, Professor Yakubu, authorised either the extension of voting time or outright postponement of the exercise to another day.
Also, we received reports of attacks and intimidation of our supporters in some areas by agents of opposition parties. In many areas,