RABUKA'S CAMPAIGN MANAGER: As for NFP leader BIMAN PRASAD, he had basically become Rabuka's campaign manager at the expense of his own i-Taukei candidates
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FACIAL RECOGNITION FAILURE IN THE POLLING BOOTH:
NFP's most high-profile campaigner in the Fiji Times OPINION Column is cutting no ice with the VOTERS. SENI NABOU is one of many i-Taukei NFP candidates who are paying the PRICE for NFP leader BIMAN PRASAD'S political marriage with PAP leader Sitiveni Rabuka.
*When PRASAD signed the girmit with Rabuka and hit the campaign trail to beg VOTERS to vote for NFP-PAP so that PAAPI could be the next PRIME MINISTER of Fiji, our Founding Editor-in-Chief had privately warned LENORA QEREQERETABUA and PIO TIKODUADUA that their leader, dubbed 'Rabuka's Hindu Jinnah', was putting the winning chances of his i-Taukei candidates at great peril - for many i-Taukei voters will blindly drift to Sitiveni Rabuka's PAP.
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"DUMP BIMAN" we pleaded with the i-Taukei candidates, citing the findings of a private poll survey conducted by a USP academic (leaked to us but never published by us). It was conducted on behalf of the former NFP stalwart CHARAN JEATH SINGH.
*Based on the private survey, Singh resigned from the NFP and joined PAP, and is now in pole position to enter PARLIAMENT
*We will reveal our e-mails to the i-Taukei candidates one of these days but the election results so far are proving that our Founding Editor-in-Chief was SPOT ON when he called on them to
"Dump Biman or Jump Ship"
*Once PRASAD began fighting the election on behalf of Rabuka, the NFP president PIO TIKODUDUA merely became a 'ghost candidate' to VOTERS. Prasad will be laughing all the way into PARLIAMENT.
Now, many i-Taukei NFP candidates are struggling to stay afloat
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BITING THE HAND THAT FED THE VOTERS ON FREE FOREIGN AID:
We were told SASHI KIRAN will bring THOUSANDS of votes to NFP, so far only over a thousand seem to have cared for the foreign 'FREE CHOW'
INDO-FIJIANS OPT FOR 'SUBHAS CHANDRA BOSE' (Bose, the Indian nationalist freedom fighter) over 'RABUKA'S JINNAH', so far...
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POLITICALLY SONG DEAF: Even Prasad's world-famous HINDU BHAJANIYA SHIUDAYAL SHARMA has only been able to 'sell 278 tickets' so far, and mostly to Northern listeners
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