2023 Presidency: Rising Voter Apathy May Affect Igbo Chances
Go and get your PVC now please. It's a civic duty & it's Godly, & a sin not to......Romans13:1-7, 2Tim 2:1-3, Tit 3:1, 1Pt 2:13-14, Mk 12:17, Heb 13:17
As it is, top politicians from the region have indicated interest in succeeding President Buhari on the platform of the leading political parties in the country.
The growing voter apathy in the region that is highly populated by Christians has become a source of concern for stakeholders. For instance, the last major election that was conducted in the region was in Anambra State.
With only 10 percent of the registered voters, Prof. Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA) won the Anambra governorship election with 112,229 votes, twice more than his closest rival – Valentine Ozigbo of the Peoples Democratic Party.
The total registered voters in the state were 2,466,638 but only 253,388 voters were accredited for the governorship election. This shows that only 10% of registered voters determined the fate of the state for the next four years.
The figures returned for the election wouldn’t be able to elect a ward councillor in most states in the northern parts of the country. Why are South Easterners reluctant to vote?
Residents of commercial cities in the South East such as Aba, Onitsha, Owerri, Abakaliki, are known to flout the restriction on movement order by the government during elections. Commercial buses and tricycle operators were always on the streets doing their normal business which explained in the picture below:
You can see a lot of young people playing football on Election Day ... continue Reading.
True talk
ReplyDeleteNa so
ReplyDeleteVery pathetic. We need to wake up from that political slumber if we must survive as a race. At least we have now seen that the calibre of leadership we have can even cripple those our well cherished businesses and render us poor and homeless
ReplyDeleteThat was then not now
ReplyDeleteThis is not a true representation of what happens during elections.
ReplyDeleteIn Katsina where I once worked as an ad-hoc electoral staff during elections, not more than 7 persons came out to vote at the polling unit we covered during the elections. At the end, we were forced to allow them manipulate figures. Security personnel working with us were already compromised.
It's manipulations and falsifications that they do in the North.
Let's get more actively involved and march them fire for fire. Simple!
It won't happen again this time
ReplyDeleteWe are wiser now