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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