2019 Elections: Why Buhari won and Atiku lost
But the Peoples Democratic Party presidential candidate is a fighter who knows that this is probably his last shot at the presidency and would use every means possible to actualise his long-cherished dream.
Sure, there were disruptions in a number of locations. But the sinners were on both sides. For every video of malpractice which the opposition has, there are many showing people identified as PDP supporters doing dirty things. What Atiku has to prove, is whether this pattern was so prevalent across the 36 states as to invalidate the official results.
Buhari only edged the former Vice President by about 10,000 votes in Osun. In Lagos, the margin between the parties closely mirrored what happened in 2015. That leaves us with the Northwest and Northeast which, even, the most cynical of the opposition’s supporters would acknowledge as the ruling party’s strongholds – where it doesn’t have to manipulate things to achieve its ends. But the PDP would have us believe that the rigging here had to do with tweaking the margins between the parties!
“That the PDP is in disarray after its calamitous electoral performance is to be expected. The scope of the debacle is such that the party which has been in power for an unbroken 16-year stretch would be would be psychologically damaged for a long time. “Their comments and those of their camp followers on the internet show that their understanding of their new opposition role ends with lobbing criticism and invective at every move of the incoming lot and their leader, Buhari. It was that sort of woolly-headed thinking that inspired the hate campaign strategy that backfired spectacularly of March 28 and April 11.”
That singular focus on the economic struggles of Nigerians is something people from every region could have related to. But rather than make an effective case for changing the APC regime on this ground, the party quickly lapsed into its tried-and-failed abuse strategy.
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