IPOB THREAT DID NOT AFFECT ANAMBRA ELECTION

It most unfortunate that Saharareporters could easily jump into conclusion that the Anambra State gubernatorial election was not a success, because the people harkened to call by IPOB for a boycott of the election. What kind of IPOB scholarship is this? Is this the sort of thing we should look forward to in IPOB’s Biafra?

While attempting to show that IPOB’s call that the Anambra election should be boycotted was obeyed and a low turn-out was recorded, this and nothing beyond this was posted, even though the figures were wrong.

APGA === total votes 191,159

APC ==== total votes 77,744

PDP ==== total votes. 52,406

PPA ==== total votes. 1,289

IPOB ===total votes 896,3

But a cursory overview of the last gubernatorial election, which held in 2013, also indicate a low voter turnout, though there was no IPOB call for boycott at that time. Now, may we please look back to the 2013 Anambra election:

APGA polled 180,178 votes

PDP polled 97,700 votes

APC got 95,963 votes.

Conclusion: There is no real difference between the turn out in 2013 and the turn out in 2017. Or is there? And there was no IPOB threat then.

Please, let no one just drop meaningless numbers on us. Make it comparative and it will begin to have a meaning. This is the way I practice my journalism. As usual, I challenge any one to use the numbers in this and the 2013 elections to debunk my stand and stance.

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