Effects of Buhari loss
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Posted by Felix Okoli on April 22, 2011 at 02:18:37:
This is actually the third time Muhammadu Buhari, now of the CPC has contested and only was able to become a second runner up in the presidential elections. The first and second time he contested on the platform of the APP and ANPP and lately due to his influence in Nigerian politics as a former military head of state turned politician, he was able to make a strong showing with a relatively new party called the CPC.
Now the results are out and the incumbent and relatively new face, President Goodluck Jonathan has won in a landslide victory with the ruling PDP leaving Buhari in second place wit about 30% of votes mostly from some northern states. The effects of the Buhari campaign showed great strength in Pro-sharia and core northern muslim states but still not as pronounced as Jonathan got from mostly southern and middle belt states.
It is true that most northerners had Buhari in mind but it seems that there was also some love for Jonathan in the north.
Anyway to cut the long story short, what are the effects of Buhari's loss at the presidential polls?- Killing in the name of politics
- Violence by armed and mostly unemployed youths
- Growth in ethnic cleansing
- Increasing unrest in the volatile north
- Unstable economic climate
- Imposition of curfews
- Projection of bad international image for Nigeria
- Southern driftMy question now is, why are most election years in Nigeria mostly violent. Why do people have to die every time there is election or before and election in Nigeria? I know that it is not the educated northerners that are committing this acts of violence but it is the jobless and uncivilized ones. How can you kill your own brothers, sisters or even an innocent person just because you feel aggrieved?
I guess Nigeria will always have to pay the price for the social backwardness of some northerners.If people have to resort to violence anytime we feel threatened in the north and Nigerians keep moving south, I'm guessing a time will come when the north will be deserted because of violence and again desertificated because of global warming. You can take a cue from Lake chad about desertification and look at places like Palestine concerning violence. Probably in the end, nobody may want to live in the north while the south gets richer. What then will happen to all those lands in the north? Maybe the Chinese will come and buy it up in what seems to be a campaign on land grab in Africa as developed countries seek to widen their resource base globally in a growing world. Maybe it is because of the intense heat from the sun that makes some people's brain so fried up that they now burn houses and kill people with the slightest provocation. A time has come for change because if we are unable to control this increasing violence in Nigeria, our country will eventually break up.
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This is actually the third time Muhammadu Buhari, now of the CPC has contested and only was able to become a second runner up in the presidential elections. The first and second time he contested on the platform of the APP and ANPP and lately due to his influence in Nigerian politics as a former military head of state turned politician, he was able to make a strong showing with a relatively new party called the CPC.
Now the results are out and the incumbent and relatively new face, President Goodluck Jonathan has won in a landslide victory with the ruling PDP leaving Buhari in second place wit about 30% of votes mostly from some northern states. The effects of the Buhari campaign showed great strength in Pro-sharia and core northern muslim states but still not as pronounced as Jonathan got from mostly southern and middle belt states.
It is true that most northerners had Buhari in mind but it seems that there was also some love for Jonathan in the north.
Anyway to cut the long story short, what are the effects of Buhari's loss at the presidential polls?- Killing in the name of politics
- Violence by armed and mostly unemployed youths
- Growth in ethnic cleansing
- Increasing unrest in the volatile north
- Unstable economic climate
- Imposition of curfews
- Projection of bad international image for Nigeria
- Southern driftMy question now is, why are most election years in Nigeria mostly violent. Why do people have to die every time there is election or before and election in Nigeria? I know that it is not the educated northerners that are committing this acts of violence but it is the jobless and uncivilized ones. How can you kill your own brothers, sisters or even an innocent person just because you feel aggrieved?
I guess Nigeria will always have to pay the price for the social backwardness of some northerners.If people have to resort to violence anytime we feel threatened in the north and Nigerians keep moving south, I'm guessing a time will come when the north will be deserted because of violence and again desertificated because of global warming. You can take a cue from Lake chad about desertification and look at places like Palestine concerning violence. Probably in the end, nobody may want to live in the north while the south gets richer. What then will happen to all those lands in the north? Maybe the Chinese will come and buy it up in what seems to be a campaign on land grab in Africa as developed countries seek to widen their resource base globally in a growing world. Maybe it is because of the intense heat from the sun that makes some people's brain so fried up that they now burn houses and kill people with the slightest provocation. A time has come for change because if we are unable to control this increasing violence in Nigeria, our country will eventually break up.
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Re: Effects of Buhari loss
Posted by niga man
on April 25, 2011 at 06:53:28:
Any body who want to win Nigerian election should forget about sharia,because Nigeria is not an Islamic state like Saudi Arabia
Re: Effects of Buhari loss Posted by ethelbert on April 25, 2011 at 19:13:45: Buhari is neither a statesman nor a politician. Hoping to be the president by campaigning only in northwest zone was naive. Refusing to merge with ACN and alienating the elites were his further undoing
Re: Effects of Buhari loss Posted by nike on April 26, 2011 at 08:16:04: it shows that there is no one nigeria. It is time we split. The leaders or should i say those in government do not know what it means to looose children. These are joy of homes killed. The christians are peaceful people . These norherners are not different from Ghaddafi