Trivial Signs That Showed Buhari Would Win 2015 Presidential Election

During the 2015 electioneering campaign, there were signs that showed that Buhari would win. This signs were less paid attention to but they were a pointer to what was imminent.
Such signs were;

1. COINAGE OF FEBUHARI; This coinage was not paid for by anyone. It was passionate Nigerians who saw the name Buhari in February and decided to make it a name for Buhari. Even Fayose in one of his advert heaved a sigh of relief that FEBUARI was gone.

2. TWITTER TRENDS; out of love and genuine supports, there were different topics trending on twitter about Buhari. The first one to be so popular was the one started when Buhari came back from London. #Babawhileyouweregone# where Nigerians informed him of happenings since he left the country. There were other ones like #Babawhenyougetthere# and the one after the election, #Ivotedbaba# and #Babanowthatyouarethere# the trend was too much and intimidating that the presidency had to pay for one #GEJwins# which still did not trend like the ones above.

3. ONLINE POLLS; Sahara Reporters was the first to carry out a poll on the 2015 presidential elections. The outcome was quashed by the presidency calling Sahara Reporters APC media. Reno Omokri started his own and the president was being beaten black and blue before associates and colleagues were called to come and vote to stop the embarrassment. When the president started leading by a shameful 1% he closed it. AIT after showing a documentary that is geared towards tarnishing the image of the President Elect, decided to test the how deep the believed cut they gave to him was by starting an Online poll but Nigerians Resoundingly voted Buhari. This made AIT to come up with one of the most flimsy excuse ever seen from a media house that there was massive vote from the same IP address over and over. An excuse that was disputed by experts in the field. Nairaland.com decided to conduct theirs few weeks before the election when the outcome came out i knew Baba was home and dry.

4. IRRELEVANT DOCUMENTARIES: In what appears to be the most shameful campaign of hate, calumny, mudslinging and total show of shame by a ruling party, there were documentaries on some principal characters of the Opposition Party. First was the documentary on Buhari then on Tinubu and Amaechi. I could remember my Primary six younger sister asking me why they were showing all these about Amaechi when he was not contesting for anything. A documentary that was aired late at night, in English, and some of its content were false. Buhari was even shown most times in his military Uniform and in an Authoritative manner that some people mistook the documentary as one praising Baba. No wonder after the Tinubu documentary, Nigerians responded by saying. " Even if you show baba and Tinubu stealing all the money in central bank we would still vote for them"

5. FAYOSE & FFK's COMMEDIES: I was one person that wanted Fayose and FFK to continue with their rants and comic campaigns. Imagine FFk saying they would report Buhari to God for not providing his Certificate. Fayose even showed us pictures and name of the hotel where he feels Buhari was. That Buhari Was receiving treatment and never traveled nor billed to speak at Chatham House in London. FFK went ahead to let us know about Tinubu's mouth odour and Lai's pampers. Many Nigerians never took this guys serious.

6. OBAS BLESSINGS AND ALLEGED OYEDEPO'S GATE OF HELL; To me the Obas blessings was just a formality. Because they changed nothing. But Jonathan Needed anything to assure him of victory. Whether Oyedepo said he will open the gate of hell on those against Jonathan or not, i just knew the President was sinking badly. A case that has involved opening hell is beyond repair.

7. PAID CHATTAM HOUSE PROTESTERS; Before Buhari was set to speak at Chatham house in London, there were news that there would be paid protesters who would carry placards and try to disrupt the event. It was so but in a very funny manner. Some of the protesters said they don't even know why they were there while the organizer said it was her job to gather blacks for such assignments. Some of the protesters were from other country and have been paid to just carry meaningless placards. If it has gotten to the point where protesters are bought, then the president re-election was a Herculean task already. I said to myself.

Princewill Chimereze is a;
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