BLAISECAMPAORE:
Ordinary visa ban is too trivial to stop a desperate Nigerian politician from grabbing power & getting his hands in the public treasury.
Is the US the only country on earth?

God bless President Buhari for giving us the freest, fairest, most peaceful & transparent election since return to democracy.

Congratulations to Obaseki & the PDP.

Truly Edo is not Lagos.

yes, the US may not be the only country on earth, but to them it is heaven on earth, the United States of America still remains the most powerful country in the world, to them, instead of them to risk a US visa ban, they rather conduct a free and fair polls.

Finally after all the fake prophecies showing how bloody the election would be the people of Edo state has shamed the soothsayers.
I commend the good people of Edo state and hope your sacrifices in the polling unit will be reflected in Obasakeki's governance!

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One4me:


Your guesses are correct and l commend you for being this observant of events.

But you missed the BIGGEST CLUE.

The BIGGEST REASON, the reason why "Federal Might" was completely absent (even Obaseki was using "State Might" and Wike was flexing muscle!) is because BUHARI HAS GIVEN UP ON APC.

Let me elaborate without getting into a detailed, long story:
- Buhari knows he does not have any other "Third Term" to contests for.
- Buhari is interested more in Fulani hegemony, elongation of Northern Presidency, come 2023 and he is working for it.

- By agrreements and arraignments within the APC, the North/Buhari has had its 8yrs and the Presidency must move to the South come 2023.
- Looking at his Policies since the beginning of his second term (Herdsmen, Waterways Bill, RUGA, over 200% Increase in Electricity Tarrif, increase in Fuel Price, Stamp Duty, etc, it is obvious Buhari does not give a hoot about how Nigerians percieve him and APC anymore.
He is not concerned if APC looses next election.
Or why would a Buhari who wants the APC to win an election in two weeks time, chose that period to increase the price of Fuel and Electricity?

- Dismantling the APC NEC and imposing Northerners in the Acting NEC (thereby siezing the party he came to, as a distant minority!). How do you expect those Northeners to go to Edo and convince them to vote for APC?
- Siezing APC for improving it or for destroying it? The Result of this election is one of the ways to look at the answer.

- Buhari is predicting that PDP will present a Northerner in 2023 (Atiku, most likely) and he does not want a viable APC (as a Party) that can be pose a challenge to the Northern candidate of PDP (Atiku0, in 2023 such that the North retains Power in 2023.
- Using "Federal Might" in Edo will make APC stronger and that is against Buhari's vision of Northern domination of Nigeria and his Northern agenda in 2023.
- In Kogi, where his "annointed boy" was seeking re-election, did you not see what happened, the brazen use of Security agencies (not in support of election rigging though) and Federal Might? So, it is not that he has suddenly become a Democrat or is afraid of US ban or any external stimuli like that, it has to do with BUHARI VISION FOR NIGERIA COME 2023.

So, who are the winner and loosers here?
Loosers are Southerners in general and the APC members who invested in the party, in particular. Other loosers are the likes of Oshiomole, Tinubu, Ize-Iyamu (though he was more of a PDP person than APC.), etc.

Winners: Northerners in general, Atiku and PDP as a party. Other winners are Obaseki, Wike, Secondus and other fringe party members across the country.

But the major looser is Nigeria as a country because Buhari is all about Mediocrity and Ethnic Nepotism.

I wholly agree with you. I had the urge to inject your submission (which I had in mind and very much aware of) but I wanted to appear neutral so as the get more comments without looking bias.

Even here on nairaland, I had told S.W that the move by Tinubu in 2015 will come back to haunt us as Southerners but they called many of us of same views IPOB, wailers, sour losers and all...

But I have a feeling that PDP era will be better because PDP as a party is hardly anti-people in their policies.

See the attached as mentioned by a known Northerner as soon as Buhari won in 2019. He dropped another one today and when you compare both, it is obvious they have plan.

That move by Tinubu in 2015 weakened the Southern position.

If the election was marred with irregularities, we will shout. Now that it went peaceful we still attributed it to one yeye visa ban. Is US visa ban the end of the world? We are just being clueless with our myopic view. What did US did when Trump rigged the election, and fact was stirring them in the face? So na USA come be saint for una eyes abi? Be spilling garbbish there.

BLAISECAMPAORE:
Ordinary visa ban is too trivial to stop a desperate Nigerian politician from grabbing power & getting his hands in the public treasury.
Is the US the only country on earth?

God bless President Buhari for giving us the freest, fairest, most peaceful & transparent election since return to democracy.

Congratulations to Obaseki & the PDP.

Truly Edo is not Lagos.

Lol!
It makes me laugh when people make this kind of ignorant statement. Please I didn’t say you are ignorant, the key word is ‘ignorant statement’.
That being said, the US is not just another “ordinary country” like some of you would want to present it. Those guys wields too much power and have so much influence to other countries that matter. Mind you, once US sanctions you, automatically EU and the UK follows suit. Who do you want to turn to? China?
Even UAE would not want to be on the bad books of the US.

Covid19

One4me:





Your guesses are correct and l commend you for being this observant of events.

But you missed the BIGGEST CLUE.

The BIGGEST REASON, the reason why "Federal Might" was completely absent (even Obaseki was using "State Might" and Wike was flexing muscle!) is because BUHARI HAS GIVEN UP ON APC.

Let me elaborate without getting into a detailed, long story:
- Buhari knows he does not have any other "Third Term" to contests for.
- Buhari is interested more in Fulani hegemony, elongation of Northern Presidency, come 2023 and he is working for it.

- By agrreements and arraignments within the APC, the North/Buhari has had its 8yrs and the Presidency must move to the South come 2023.
- Looking at his Policies since the beginning of his second term (Herdsmen, Waterways Bill, RUGA, over 200% Increase in Electricity Tarrif, increase in Fuel Price, Stamp Duty, etc, it is obvious Buhari does not give a hoot about how Nigerians percieve him and APC anymore.
He is not concerned if APC looses next election.
Or why would a Buhari who wants the APC to win an election in two weeks time, chose that period to increase the price of Fuel and Electricity?

- Dismantling the APC NEC and imposing Northerners in the Acting NEC (thereby siezing the party he came to, as a distant minority!). How do you expect those Northeners to go to Edo and convince them to vote for APC?
- Siezing APC for improving it or for destroying it? The Result of this election is one of the ways to look at the answer.

- Buhari is predicting that PDP will present a Northerner in 2023 (Atiku, most likely) and he does not want a viable APC (as a Party) that can be pose a challenge to the Northern candidate of PDP (Atiku0, in 2023 such that the North retains Power in 2023.
- Using "Federal Might" in Edo will make APC stronger and that is against Buhari's vision of Northern domination of Nigeria and his Northern agenda in 2023.
- In Kogi, where his "annointed boy" was seeking re-election, did you not see what happened, the brazen use of Security agencies (not in support of election rigging though) and Federal Might? So, it is not that he has suddenly become a Democrat or is afraid of US ban or any external stimuli like that, it has to do with BUHARI VISION FOR NIGERIA COME 2023.

So, who are the winner and loosers here?
Loosers are Southerners in general and the APC members who invested in the party, in particular. Other loosers are the likes of Oshiomole, Tinubu, Ize-Iyamu (though he was more of a PDP person than APC.), etc.

Winners: Northerners in general, Atiku and PDP as a party. Other winners are Obaseki, Wike, Secondus and other fringe party members across the country.

But the major looser is Nigeria as a country because Buhari is all about Mediocrity and Ethnic Nepotism.

You're right. PMB has just one agenda in mind, viz: the Northern Agenda, and it cuts across party lines. He is willing to trade anything to see it materialize. I really pity southern APC loyalists.

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Mikelarteta:
I am a yoruba, but I sincerely respect the people of Edo state cos they don’t play with their traditional rulers unlike the way our politicians have turned yoruba Oba’s to yahoo yahoo Oba’s,imagine Tinubu the other day greeting Oni of Ife while sitting down.spits.

How do you know the oba of benin is not a yahoo? do you know what side he chose before today. Do you know why he visited Rivers State some months ago? despite that he wasnt meant to leave his throne? Do you know why Wike was chosen to be Oba-seki's campaign manager? ask these pertinent questions and the word yahoo will pop up in your mind

Sleevia:


I wholly agree with you. I had the urge to inject your submission (which I had in mind and very much aware of) but I wanted to appear neutral so as the get more comments without looking bias.

Even here on nairaland, I had told S.W that the move by Tinubu in 2015 will come back to haunt us as Southerners but they called many of us of same views IPOB, wailers, sour losers and all...

But I have a feeling that PDP era will be better because PDP as a party is hardly anti-people in their policies.

See the attached as mentioned by a known Northerner as soon as Buhari won in 2019. He dropped another one today and when you compare both, it is obvious they have plan.

That move by Tinubu in 2015 weakened the Southern position.

PDP had their era and it was mediocre and not better, but worse than the previous administration which was still PDP. A failure capitalising on a mistake by an ongoing administration is not called a success. It is clear

WandaNara:
It's because Edo no be Lagos.


Happy retirement oshobaba

Baba what? He has a new name.Call him Oshopikin.

BLAISECAMPAORE:
Ordinary visa ban is too trivial to stop a desperate Nigerian politician from grabbing power & getting his hands in the public treasury.
Is the US the only country on earth?

God bless President Buhari for giving us the freest, fairest, most peaceful & transparent election since return to democracy.

Congratulations to Obaseki & the PDP.

Truly Edo is not Lagos.

A guilty conscience fears, runs and hide with the slight appearance of exposure!

Nigerian politicians are dirty, criminal and are all carrying with them guilty consciences and they are fully aware that the US have the intel on all of them.

If they fall out of line and the US want to hurt them down, they wouldn’t even be able to visit U.K. or anywhere in the Europe....so, it not just a U.S.

Aside from that, if the U.S. revokes your visa or ban you from entry their country and that intel is known to the U.K. embassy, they will flag your profile and on your next visits to their embassy or when you cross their POE they will bring up the issue before you and want to die deeper, unless your visa ban from the U.S. is out of malice, the other country will more than likely also refuse you entry and these politicians know that too well.

Basically, I think if this is as a result of the visa ban, then
they'll want to play cool for the moment...

...Because, I see a wonderful happening in court.

BLAISECAMPAORE:
Ordinary visa ban is too trivial to stop a desperate Nigerian politician from grabbing power & getting his hands in the public treasury.
Is the US the only country on earth?

God bless President Buhari for giving us the freest, fairest, most peaceful & transparent election since return to democracy.

Congratulations to Obaseki & the PDP.

Truly Edo is not Lagos.

Did you witness the keenly contested governorship election between comrade Adams Oshiomhole and general Airhiavbere of the PDP in 2012?

No single gunshot, no ballot snatching, no single incident whatsoever.
Incidences were recorded in this one nau.

If you witnessed that election under President Jonathan, then you would have thought twice b4 making your unsubstantiated comment.

gideonvalor98:
If the election was marred with irregularities, we will shout. Now that it went peaceful we still attributed it to one yeye visa ban. Is US visa ban the end of the world? We are just being clueless with our myopic view. What did US did when Trump rigged the election, and fact was stirring them in the face? So na USA come be saint for una eyes abi? Be spilling garbbish there.

Did you say Trump rigged election?

Chai some people sha.

For your information, Hillary Clinton won popular votes while Trump won the electoral college which is where the elites vote.

Guy go do more research.
You hear.

One4me:


Its a Civil Discussion, no need to use foul language on someone whose opinion is different from yours, be CIVIL for once, please.

I am sorry if you find my comment offensive,but I hate it when people try to hide the truth.The truth is that GMB played a fatherly role here.

Sleevia:
From all indications, Obaseki has won this election but two things stood out unexpectedly

1. It was generally peaceful

2. There was zero federal might influence.

What do you think is the reason behind this?

I would hazard a guess and I am open to correction.

A: The U.S visa ban restricted federal influence, which Oshiomole, Ganduje and Tinubu were banking on. I was on twitter when I read that order has been given that there should be no interference in the election. This was why, after votes at the PU were done, all security agents, from Army to Police and others LEFT.

B. The Oba of Benin meeting. Before the election, Oba invited both contestants for a meeting where he specifically warned against violence in whatever form. I often read from outsiders that Oba of Benin is just like any oba out there but what majority do not know is the weight the Oba of Benin carries among his people and this election further proved that.

Since the APC took power, this is the most peaceful election we have had...

The question is WHY?

Please join the discussion and I would like to learn from other persons and correct me where you feel I am wrong.

You will be surprised that even buhari wants obaseki .
He knew it wasn't the wish of the people to oust obaseki but the wish of two greedy mofos.

Point of correction, Oba supported APC from the beginning

EDO PEOPLE VOTED OBASEKI ANY AWAY AS THEY DONT CARE WHETHER HE'S IN PARTY A OR B ,BC0S THEY DONT WANT THEIR GOVR'S FREEDOM SUPPRESSED BY DOMINEERING FORCES LIK CAPITALIST-POLITICAL POWER BROKERS.

LET'S ALSO REMEMBER, MOST RE-ELECTED PPL IN POWER CAN BECOME OBSESSED AND VERY UNSTABLE AFTER RE-ELECTION WHEN HE HAS NO HIGHER AUTHORITY TO MODERATE HIS EXCESSIVE ACTIONS,AS IS HAPPENIN IN IMO'S RECENT REGIMENARY LAW BY D GOVR.

WE HOPE GOVR OBASEKI DOES NOT SEE THIS AS ABSOLUTE FREEDOM TO GO OUT OF CONTROL INSTEAD OF CONTINUING TO SERVE EDO PPL WITH RAISING QUALITY OF LIFE GOVERNANCE MANTRA.

jesmond3945:
lol did you read the article at all? Anyway I believe you support the President which I have no problem with but I want to ask you, do you believe we are all equal in the country and every citizen deserves the best. If some people are doing well in Nigeria what of those who are not? Do you even care about them? What is the President doing to help those people? However I wonder what you mean doing well, even with all the resources we have we still buy fuel at 161 per liter and no electricity. Back to the topic, Buhari fears trump greatly and knows that if edo was rigged, he was ready to impose sanction on buhari. Why do you think buhari was trying to defend himself when trump asked him why Christians were being killed in the North?

No worries bro, let's not keep going back and forth. Time will tell whether U.S ban has any thing to do with conducting proper elections in Nigeria or Edo was just a unique case

garfield1:


Who told you buhari rigged atiku

ask Atiku why he took the election result to court

zachur:
ask Atiku why he took the election result to court

You can ask him yourself