Politicians in
Anambra State yesterday discarded their different political differences
to root for the presidential candidate of the People’s Democratic Party
Goodluck Jonathan as he looks set to sweep the stakes in the state.
It would amount to
something of a miracle if the president does not win by a wide margin
in the state as even the All Progressives Grand Alliance-controlled
state government also backed his candidature.
It started on
Thursday when the governor, Peter Obi, accompanied the PDP to a rally
of South East traders where he rallied support for the president. It
was in keeping with his party’s earlier decision not to field any
candidate for the presidential election. Yesterday in Awka, the state
capital, the coordinator of the Goodluck/Sambo Campaign Organisation
and speaker of the state legislature, Anayo Nnebe, expressed happiness
at what he described as the level of preparations and mobilisation by
the electoral body.
“Virtually all the
centres I’ve been to have election materials,” he said. He described Mr
Jonathan as a good product which the entire state had bought 100
percent.
Hopeful of Jonathan’s victory
For the APGA
federal house member representing Njikoka, Anoacha and Dunukofia, Uche
Ekwunife, Mr Jonathan had already won and he was waiting for him to be
proclaimed winner.
“This is the first
time Nigeria will be having a graduate as the president,” she said.
“Besides that he has good programmes, especially for the Igbo. If he
wins, Nigeria will get better,” she said.
Mrs Ekwunife spoke shortly after she got accredited in her ward at Boys’ Secondary School, Nri, in Anaocha Local Government.
At Odida Central
School ward in Nnewi, former deputy governorship candidate of the
Congress for Democratic Change (CDC) said after casting his vote, that
he supported Mr Jonathan because he was interested in the Igbo people.
But for Ben Ndi Obi, the former running mate to Muhammadu Buhari,
what mattered was the issue of governance which he said towered above
the election process even as he commended the peaceful nature of the
election. NEXT gathered however that the turnout of voters was poor
compared to last week’s elections.
