Presidential Election 2019 – Matters Arising

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Presidential, Senate and House of Representatives election has come and gone. Nigerians indeed have decided. Yes, some decided by not going to vote, the majority who voted decide by voting either PDP or APC while other decided by rigging the election, to make sure they win, because to them, winning is a do or die affair.

In Nigeria, we are good with analyzing the effects of governance, criticizing and complaining about the problem of recycling leaders that do the same old things again and again without any positive impact, but we fail over and over again to stand by the truth whenever it is our opportunity to decide who will govern us. We are so addicted to popularity, strong political structure, reigning parties, etc that we fail to look at things the other way round to see the outcome.

Kingsley Muoghalu was right when during the presidential debate, he said that the two popular parties believe that they already have Nigerians in their cage and there is no escape. Judging by the votes cast by Nigerians, it is obvious that we are so obsessed about recycled leaders and popular parties.

The fact that APC and PDP are the stronger parties doesn’t mean that our votes must go to them; they will not flog or kill us if we try somewhere else because there is freedom of choice. The majority didn’t want to vote for other parties other than APC or PDP simply because the other parties do not have a strong political structure and are not popular; therefore, they should not waste their votes on them. They already believe that those parties will lose with the lesser votes they will get. What we don’t seem to reason out is; if we that are thinking that way decide to think and act positively, we will become the majority that will give other parties a winning vote and make them popular.

We have decided, and our choice parties have rigged the election. Here we are, at the beginning of another four years of managing our long recycled leaders, if there is something I am happy about, it is because I proved that I am not in the cage of either APC or PDP, even though my choice candidate lost, at least I have shown that I can exercise my will freely. APC and PDP do not own me and they do not own Nigeria. A soldier must go and another soldier must come.

Even from the result of our votes as listed below, the final results recognized only APC and PDP. We still have a long way to go. 

Congratulations Nigeria! Long Live Nigeria! God Save Nigeria!

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi

Final Election Result table

STATE                                    APC                        PDP

ABIA                                      85,058                    219,698

ADAMAWA                          378,078                  410,266

AKWA IBOM                       175,429                  395,832

ANAMBRA                          33,298                    524,738

BAUCHI                               798,428                  209,313

BAYELSA                            118,821                  197,933

BENUE                                347,668                  356,817

BORNO                               836,496                  71,788

CROSS RIVER                   117,302                  295,737

DELTA                                221,292                 594,068

EBONYI                             90,726                   258,573

EDO                                   267,842                 275,691

EKITI                                 219,231                154,032

ENUGU                             54,423                  355,553

FCT                                    152,224               259,997

GOMBE                            402,961                138,484

IMO                                  140,463                 334,923

JIGAWA                           794,738                 289,895

KADUNA                        993,445                 649,612

KANO                             1,464,768             391,593

KATSINA                        1,232,133             308,056

KEBBI                             581,552                154,282

KOGI                               285,894               218,207

KWARA                          308,984               138,184

LAGOS                           580,825               448,015

NASARAWA                  289,903              283,847

NIGER                            612,371             218,052

OGUN                             281,762            194,655

ONDO                             241,769            275,901

OSUN                             347,634             337,377

OYO                               365,229             366,690

PLATEAU                      468,555            548,665

RIVERS                         150,710             473971

SOKOTO                       490,333            361,604

TARABA                       324,906            374,743

YOBE                            497,914            50,763

ZAMFARA                    438,682           125,423

TOTAL                          15,191,847      11,262,978

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2019 Presidential Debate

Five Presidential aspirants, President Buhari of the ruling APC, Atiku Abubarkar of PDP, Mrs Oby Ezekwesili of ACPN, Mr Durotoye of ANNP and Mr Kingsley Moghalu of YPP were invited for the presidential debate organized by the Nigerian Election Debate Group (NEDG) and the Broadcasting Organisation of Nigeria (BON) on January 19, 2019 but only the candidates from ACPN, ANNP and YPP honored the invitation and participated to the admiration of Nigerians that watched the debate.

We see no reason why Buhari of the ruling APC did not at least honour Nigerians at a time when Nigerians want to hear his plans and programmes for Nigerians, and to answer most of the puzzling questions troubling Nigerian as a nation that he is ruling, yet, he has time and was fit for his political rallies. On the other hand, we also see no reason why his main opposition of the PDP, Mr Atiku Abubakar honoured the invitation but did not participate, to give Nigerians the honour and opportunity to know him better and his intentions. The absence of President Buhari is not an excuse for him not to participate because it is not about Buhari but about Nigerians.

The three aspirants that participated were right about the absence of the two main aspirants. According to Oby Ezekwesili; “if they cared about Nigeria, they would have come for a contest of ideas related to how Nigeria could be saved”. Durotoye on the other hand said that their absence is as a matter of pride, adding that pride goes before a fall. Kingsley Moghalu’s statement was more impressive. He said that they did not attend because they have no answers to the questions troubling Nigeria, and more importantly, he said that they believe they have caged Nigerians and Nigerians cannot do without them. In other words, whether Nigerians like it or not, they already have our votes.

However, the presidential candidates of the Allied Congress Party of Nigeria (ACPN) Mrs Oby Ezekwesili; The Alliance for New Nigerian Party (ANNP), Mr Durotoye; and the Young Progressives Party (YPP), Mr Kingsley Moghalu have endeared themselves to Nigerians, they have made Nigerians proud by their performance. They passionately dished out their plans for Nigerians on matters regarding education, security, budget and finance, Technology, girl child protection, health, etc, if they emerge President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. People like them should be voted in to lead Nigeria but the question now is: will the negative forces and system in place allow them into such leadership position?

Written by Olive Chinyere Amajuoyi