Anambra 2013/2014 Election

Introduction

My personal research, personal travel and the delivery of my wife of a new child seriously affected my concentration to analyse this work. Also my affiliations with several politicians from All Progressive Grand Alliance (APGA) seriously delayed this work. The gubernatorial elections and the local government elections in Anambra state will be discussed herein.

 

Methodology

This review followed both a primary and secondary research method. The study particularly is qualitative in structure. 145 online news reports were studied. 150 people were encountered during the course of this study. Exclusively, 5 INEC officials were met making the number of people interviewed to be 155.  Some of the venues for the study were universities, Newsstands, Barbing Salons, and on social media. The findings are summarised for the social media reading community.

 

Findings

The gubernatorial election was won by APGA. The Local government elections were won by APGA as well. From the study, it was popularly indicated that the candidates for the election were never people’s choice. 80% of the group studied say they wanted Chukwuma Soludo for governor. The study actually shows that 73% of those studied never are satisfied with the result. There are two principal problems with the election: APGA and INEC.

The secondary study found that APGA through the power of incumbency manipulated the election. All other political parties were dissatisfied and are currently in court. The outcome of the election actually seem good for APGA supporters. 43% of the people studied believe that APGA deserves a win. They state emphatically that Peter Obi the incumbent governor has been very productive. However, the greatest blame goes to INEC.

INEC was accused of conniving with the federal government and the state government to rig the election in favour of APGA.  The study found that the gubernatorial elections were marred with irregularities. INEC was not up to speed with its functions. Late delivery of equipments, lack of security of life and property, lack of transparency and accountability. The participants mainly believe that if INEC wanted to conduct a free and fair election, they would have involved the Police, the National Intelligence Agency, the State Security Service, the Military in securing the election centres. They would have campaigned and invited people to register on time and also make sure all registered voters are fully informed about time of election. INEC failed in every way.

 

Conclusion

The Anambra election went badly. The election would have been won by APGA even if INEC had conducted an efficiently organised election. However, the majority of people studied expressed dissatisfaction over INEC’s conduct of the election.