ONWA ...............I see him winning

You guys are just here deceiving yourselves. How many Anambra villagers do have access to Nairaland with all these news about APGA,APC and PDP? The percentage of those viewing all these comments are not much and you guys are arguing for nothing. Whoever God decides will govern Anambra state will sure win tomorrow's election because it's not by the exchange of comments,advertorials,painting one party black and the other as the best but rather it's the grace of God that will sure work wonders as we are not in the minds of the people to know which candidate they are going to vote for tomorrow.

Lilimax:
omg, Engreesh Teacher

It shall never be well with ASUU!

All you needed to do was to say 'thanks', and then learn from it.

By James Eze

Writing about victory and human blindness to reality, Tsun Zu, the famous Chinese military strategist and philosopher once observed that “all men can see these tactics whereby I conquer, but what none can see is the strategy out of which victory is evolved.”

The battle for the soul of Anambra State has held the world spellbound in the past two months. Strategies have countered strategies, plots have answered plots but what most of the world will see after polling on Saturday will naturally be the victory. Only few people will recall the strategies that led to it. We shall presently examine the various strategies of war mounted by the various gubernatorial candidates and why others will lose to APGA’s Chief Willie Obiano

Since he joined the race for the Amawbia governors lodge, Chief Willie Obiano has been deftly positioned as the best man in the race. With a squeaky clean background, a high profile career and a sound education, Obiano is an easy sell in a race cluttered by candidates with a shady past and a history of broken promises and dalliances with anathema. The opening salvo of the Obiano team was to establish him as a thoroughgoing technocrat and competent manager of men and matter. Pitched against Senator Chris Ngige who is heavily laden with the yoke of being the only governor of Anambra State who was literally and metaphorically flushed out of the state house and Mr. Ifeanyi Ubah who has integrity alarms ringing all over him, Obiano shone like a silver coin in the midday sun.

Interestingly the most potent sales pitch for Obiano was made by Anambra’s Governor Peter Obi himself. Addressing journalists at the inception of the campaign in Protea Hotel Lagos, Obi wondered how Anambrarians could vote for Ngige in whose time as governor, the state witnessed the first case of kidnapping with its first citizen as the victim or for Tony Nwoye who was seen in a video footage clutching a gallon of petrol and leading the arsonist squad that burnt down the government house in Awka and turned Anambra into the world’s laughing stock under Ngige’s regime. On Ifeanyi Ubah, he wondered how Anambra, Chinua Achebe’s home state could vote for a holder of NECO, the most basic school certificate which he allegedly obtained in 2006 and for someone who could neither write his own name with comfort nor read anything that was written for him with ease. Placed alongside Obiano’s MBA in marketing and his deputy, Nkem Okeke’s PhD in monetary economics, in a state that produced Chike Obi, Kenneth Dike, Chuba Okadigbo, the great Zik of Africa and Chimamanda Adichie, it becomes clear that unless Ndi Anambra have lost their sense of what is right, Ifeanyi Ubah would emerge the unlike candidate for their affection. So, the Obiano Team did a great job of positioning him as the most outstanding candidate in all ramifications; clean background with no scent of scandals, astute administrator and passionate philanthropist with a great sense of community. In the coming days, this profile would stampede the opposition into looking for a smell-bomb to detonate on him, leading to many regrettable miscalculations that turned the knife inwards on them.

Unlike Obiano, the opposition was hard-pressed to make any straight sales pitch to the people. Ngige’s mantra of Tested & Trusted flew in the face of the fact that the electorate knew that he rode on a stolen mandate to the state house and was subsequently shoved aside by a competent court. His unenviable records as the first governor to be humiliated in office by cheap mobsters and the first Igbo senator to justify an injustice against his own people all pulled the rug from under his feet and left his camp groping for slurs to cast on Obiano to create a balance of errors. Ngige’s alleged fracas with a Catholic priest and brazen violation of the Ofala Festival in Onitsha also denied him a shelter with neither the church nor tradition. His membership of a predominantly Muslim party with an overawing South Western influence also knocked the wind out of his sail because of a seemingly impossible handshake across the Niger. What finally emerged, against all attempts by heavily funded media machinery is the picture of a good man in a wrong party at best and the image of a political loose cannon, drifting from the grip of a fiendish godfather into the embrace of a power baron whose choking hold on South West politics has left the region gasping for breath, at worse. In all, we are left with the forlorn figure of a desperate politician who has finally out-maneuverered himself.

Unlike Ngige, Ubah cuts a more pitiable figure. His handlers could not quite tell if it made more sense to cast him in the mould of the Traders’Choice which heightens his obvious educational inadequacy and utter disregard for learning or to project him as a high achieving businessman against the backdrop of his notoriety as a debtor and his infamous integrity deficiency syndrome. As it were, not even his heavy advertising spend in the Lagos media has quite addressed Ifeanyi Ubah’s personal conundrum. And the reason is simple; in a state that has produced some of black Africa’s leading thinkers, writers, scientists, computer wizards and scholars, a vote for Ifeanyi Ubah is a vote cast in error. What would a parent who casts his vote for Ubah be telling his children? That they do not need a good education to become role models in the society or that it is acceptable to attain success through shady business dealings? So, it is easy to see the dilemma that Ubah’s campaign team has contended with all through his race for the Anambra Statehouse.

Similarly, Tony Nwoye’s camp has been hobbled with a sundry issues ranging from the endless litigations that clogged his emergence as the PDP candidate to his own well-known story as man who wants to occupy the house he once burnt to ashes. Nwoye is also known to have been thrown out of school for juvenile offences that put paid to his academic pursuit in midstream. Sadly, his late entry into the race has robbed his team a clear shot at any known strategy, making it difficult to identify him with any brand promise. But Nwoye’s governorship dream seems to have been stymied on the runway, preventing any form of take-off whatsoever. For instance, six day to polling, the members of Anambra North Traditional Rulers Council wash their hands off his gubernatorial aspirations in a widely circulated media report. Hiwever, Nwoye’s crisis of confidence came to an inevitable head when President Jonathan refused to raise his hand at the PDP campaign rally in Onitsha or expressly ask Ndi Anambra to vote for him. The meaning was not lost on the people. Instead, President Jonathan advised Anambrarians to vote for a man with integrity, a known track record of excellence and someone who had the capacity to provide purposeful leadership to them; which many people interpreted as a subtle endorsement of Chief Willie Obiano. Wittingly or unwittingly, Jonathan’s action and comments were seen as the final nail in the coffin of Nwoye’s gubernatorial dreams.

Now, anyone who has followed the Anambra poll from Lagos, Abuja or outside the country may be tempted to conclude that Senator Ngige and Ubah are more serious contenders than Obiano. The reason is simple; the campaign strategies of both Ngige and Ubah are heavy on advertising on TV, Radio, online and print media. Now, that is good. However, what many people outside Anambra do not know is that while APC and Labour Party were busy making conventional political noises in the Lagos media and forging documents to incriminate Obiano, the APGA campaign team was busy where it mattered most, building critical alliances with the various communities and mending broken fences with opinion leaders and influencers in Anambra State. The APGA machinery knew that loud claims in the media may be good but what matters is the physical contact with the individual electorate. So, while they burrowed through the nooks and crannies of the state, APC and Labour Party focused on dominating the airwaves with their campaign messages in a country where power cuts have taken access to the electronic media and the internet out of the reach of the average voter.

Perhaps, there is no greater proof of the efficacy of APGA’s strategy than the overwhelming endorsements that Chief Obiano has received in the build up to November 16. The most profound so far have been the endorsements by the State Council of Traditional Rulers, the state Chapter of Ohaneze, the Nnewi Traders Association (Ubah’s supposed stronghold), the Anambra Women Organization with membership strength of 200,000, the Youth Council of Nigeria, the traditional rulers in Idemili and Dunukofia (Ngige’s stronghold), Omambala Youths Association and the Knights of the Catholic Church among others. In contrast, Ngige has not received any endorsements beyond the one from his coterie of friends like Prof. Pat Utomi who is an APC member and his hired praise singers who follow him with chants wherever he goes. Ubah’s own endorsement came from Jay Jay Okocha and other former Nigerian internationals who collected princely appearance fees to play in a novelty match hosted at the Nanka Stadium to sell Ubah’s candidacy to the youths. What we see in the endorsements of Ngige and Ubah is that they came from people who have no real electoral value in Anambra State. A final proof of Ubah’s political misadventure emerged when APGA chose to close its campaign in Ubah’s home town of Nnewi on Thursday. As usual, the mammoth crowd that turned up to cheer the APGA train sent a cold shiver down Ubah’s spine forcing him to make a face-saving gambit that blew up on his face. Ubah had hurriedly mounted a campaign right across the venue of APGA rally and began to hand out campaign items to the people. But no sooner had the people collected his hand-outs than they had moved over to the APGA rally, leaving Ubah’s venue empty. Ubah’s situation became more miserable when Ajofia, the mythical masked spirit made popular by the fiction of Chinua Achebe appeared all of a sudden and drew whatever was left of Ubah’s wretched crowd away to the APGA rally and forcing the Ubah team to close its campaign with a colossal rejection by his own people. If in choosing to round off its campaign in Nnewi, APGA had aimed to humiliate Ubah, the objective thoroughly achieved.

In all, what is in evidence is that APGA began to outfox other parties in the Anambra poll from the get go. In its choice of candidate, campaign positioning strategy, reading of the political temperature, campaign rhetoric and focus of its campaign activities, APGA proved the better strategist. And that is why Willie Obiano will become the next governor of Anambra State.

Source:- http://www.spyghana.com/willie-obiano-will-win-anambra-poll

chris Ngige will win despite any political platform. Ngige will still win even as an independent candidate. i spent the whole of last week in Anambra, visited all the senatorial zones, sampled opinion undercover. am not a politicians but my independent assessment never fail me.

nep2ra:

acute case of bad bellerism. Go and take your medication.

[size=20pt]LOL IN LATIN......

you are ABOUT TO BE BANNED

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kenonze: chris Ngige will win despite any political platform. Ngige will still win even as an independent candidate. i spent the whole of last week in Anambra, visited all the senatorial zones, sampled opinion undercover. am not a politicians but my independent assessment never fail me.

what are the bases of your assessment? how many of those noise makers have voters card? Mind you Adaobi is ready to fight with the last drop of his blood to make sure Obiano is installed in that seat.

APGA USA Endorses Willie Obiano For Governor, Anambra State

Press Release - We the Chairman and Executives of the ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA) USA, arising from the last quarterly executive meeting 11/5/13, do resolve as follows: - That, after an exhaustive analysis of the Anambra Gubernatorial Campaigns and the candidates therein, And, after a review of the

backgrounds of the individuals who have expressed interest in guiding Anambra State, Nigeria AS the GOVERNOR for the next four (4) years,

We, the Chairman and Executives of the ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA) USA CHAPTER, on behalf of our teeming members in the Diaspora, will like to firmly support
⦁ The man who has made a commitment to himself and to GOD, that he is coming to SERVE the good people of ANAMBRA STATE
⦁ The man who has called on all within the ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA) NIGERIA, to join him to form a formidable bond of unity within the party, which together will forge, strengthen and contribute to the development of the APGA party, for the good people of Anambra state, AND Nigeria in general.
⦁ The man who looks to strengthen the ethos of the ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA), and carry its message all across the South-East and the corners of Nigeria, winning electoral prizes in the process.
⦁ The deeply reflective man who has vowed that our people’s great entrepreneurial spirit must find expression in the market place and in policy making circles within Nigeria.
⦁ The man who has vowed continuity using the Anambra Development Strategy, which involves uniform development across all sectors of the Anambra economy,
⦁ The man who would make Agriculture, Trade, Commerce and Industrialization the cornerstone of Anambra State development
⦁ The man who has vowed to work simultaneously on issues of Education, Health, Security, Infrastructure and Tourism towards the betterment of Anambra State.
⦁ The man who understands the revenue base of Anambra state, its potential, applications, derivations and its future possibilities


From the foregoing, The ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA) USA hereby endorse Chief William Maduabuchi Obiano - Akpokuedike Aguleri, and his running mate Dr. Nkem Okeke, for the position of Governor/Deputy Governor of Anambra State.
They represent the best hope for Continuity and consolidation of the immense development going on in infrastructure in Anambra state.
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We urge our members everywhere and the good people of Anambra State to Vote for Chief Willie Obiano/Dr. Nkem Okeke on November 17, 2013, for the progress of Anambra State, Nigeria.

FORWARD EVER.
VOTE APGA. Vote FOR THE ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA)
VOTE FOR CHIEF WILLIE MADUABUCHI OBIANO/DR. NKEM OKEKE
Long LIVE ALL PROGRESSIVES GRAND ALLIANCE (APGA)
Long LIVE CHIEF WILLIE MADUABUCHI OBIANO/ DR. NKEM OKEKE
Long Live ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA.
VOTE APGA. ALL THE WAY. ALL THE TIME


Sgd:

Kpajie Nnamdi Onochie Okwukwe Okoudu Ibiam
National Chairman General Secretary
APGA USA APGA USA


http://www.elombah.com/index.php/reports/18855-apga-usa-endorses-willie-obiano-for-governor-anambra-state

LONGFELLOW02: [size=50pt]ALL POLITICIAN ARE ARMY ROBBER[/size]

Guy wise up. If you think the present ones are thieves, edge them out so that naija will develop cos politicians hold the key to the development of naija.

Amandla Ewetu

put it by christian and muslim

cKaiser:

Anambrans dont mind any mind to these liars

1. Otunba Niyi Adebayo, ACN, Ekiti State,
APC National Vice Chairman (South-West).
2. Chief (Knight) Tom Ikimi, ACN, Edo
State,APC National Vice Chairman,South/South
3. Mr. Uzo Igbonwa, ACN, Anambra
State , APC Deputy National Youth Leader
4. Chief Kenneth Kobani, ACN, Rivers State,
APC National Ex-Officio (South/South)
5. Mr. Antibass El-Nathan, ACN, Taraba State, APC National Ex-Officio (North- East)
6. Emma Eneuku , ANPP, Enugu State,
APC National Welfare Secretary
7. Nelson Alapa, ANPP, Benue State, APC
National EX-Officio (North Central)
8. James Ocholi (SAN), CPC, Kogi State,
APC National Deputy Legal Adviser
9. Sharon Ikeazor, CPC, Anambra State,
APC National Women Leader
10. Pastor BD Lawal, CPC Adamawa State,
APC National Ex-Officio (North-East)
11. Senator Annie Okonkwo, APGA, Anambra State,
APC National Deputy Chairman
12. Senator Ositsa Izunaso, APGA, Imo State,
APC National Organizing Secretary
13. Sunday Chukwu, APGA, Ebonyi State,
APC Deputy National Secretary
14. Dr Jok Alamba, APGA, Plateau State,
APC National Ex-Officio
15. Dr Anyim Nyerere, APGA, Abia State,APC
National Vice Chairman (South-East)
16. Emeka-Olisa Akamukali, DPP, Delta State,
APC National Auditor
17. Sir Romanus Egbunike, DPP, Imo State,
APC Deputy National Welfare Secretary.

Note: Barrister Sharon Ikeazor, APC National
Women Leader was falsely listed as a
Muslim

CFCfan: 'Like' this post if you think Senator Chris Ngige (APC) will win.

drema

emecury: put it by christian and muslim

All those I posted are Christians so make una find another lie

I w definately cast my vote 4 obiano,,he is well known for his audacity,his fearlessness,most importantly his knowlege of human psychology..but I love dem all

With respect to Ifeanyi Ubah, personally, I think a business man cannot be a politician.
He can only see politics from a business point of view which will not be beneficial to the state.
I am not from Anambra, just expressing an opinion.

CFCfan: 'Like' this post if you think Senator Chris Ngige (APC) will win.

PLZ DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN MAKE A SHARP-SHARP DRIVING LICENSE OR NATIONAL ID IN ENUGU STATE? I JUST LOST MY NATIONAL ID AND HAVE NO SINGLE MEANS OF ID AT THE MOMENT AND THERE'S AN URGENT NEED FOR ONE.

PLS TELL ME HERE OR SEND INFO TO ayadeola@gmail.com

kenonze: chris Ngige will win despite any political platform. Ngige will still win even as an independent candidate. i spent the whole of last week in Anambra, visited all the senatorial zones, sampled opinion undercover. am not a politicians but my independent assessment never fail me.

You're very right, Ngige once defeated Dora Akunyili who was and is still a better candidate compared to these nonentities calling themselves gubernatorial candidates. Imaging a NECO holder wanting to govern Chinua Achebe's state.

hmm...dnt underestimate tony nwoye. quite sure pdp haz sumthn up der sleeves

Lol.. Ngige already has 100 'likes' on this thread

Nnewi1stSon: it is not a 'maybe'@ i dare jonathan to conduct the elections free; Adaobi and Bamanga tukur will be stunned by the results! People over here are fed up with Apga!

u lie! No anambra man in his right sense will vote against apga, mark it.

The battle is between Chris Ngige and Ifeanyi Ubah. Every other vote casted will end up being wasted

haconni:

PLZ DOES ANYONE KNOW WHERE I CAN MAKE A SHARP-SHARP DRIVING LICENSE OR NATIONAL ID IN ENUGU STATE? I JUST LOST MY NATIONAL ID AND HAVE NO SINGLE MEANS OF ID AT THE MOMENT AND THERE'S AN URGENT NEED FOR ONE.

PLS TELL ME HERE OR SEND INFO TO ayadeola@gmail.com

Adeola? You want to use it to rig election or what? Are you one of the APC recruits?

moshino:

Ngige would have had a better chance if he was in any other party. Don't forget, it's the party's name that they put on the ballot papers, and I'm not sure how many Anambrarians that'll ink for APC. Just a thought!

Its unfortunate that a lot of APC members on nairaland are yorubas and hausas, those igbos on NR that are against APGA knows little about anambra b4 obi took over. Even LP and PDP will score more than APC. Anambra people will hardly vote a regional party bc they know the implication of doing so. Anambra is an apga state.
Tomorow result would read:
APGA 1st
PDP 2nd
LP 3rd
APC 4th

CFCfan: Fact: Governor Peter Obi (APGA) is the longest serving Governor of the state in the current 4th Republic. He will complete his 8th year in office next March.

Are we in 4th republic? Though,obi will complete his 2nd term by next year march, but in all,he wud be spending less than 8years because his tenure was truncated by the purpoted impeachment and andy uba short tenure.the following 2 people spent more than 9 years as governors of their respectiv states: jolly nyame (taraba),ibrahim idris (kogi)

what happened during the battle between Dora Akunyili and Chris Nigige? Was Ngige an APGA member during the Senetorial election? You should have one thing in mind which is the states favourite man and also remember that the broom is unique in its own way . Even the illiterates can easily identify the party with its Uniqueness(which is the broom). So anything can happen my brother.

guonno:

Its unfortunate that a lot of APC members on nairaland are yorubas and hausas, those igbos on NR that are against APGA knows little about anambra b4 obi took over. Even LP and PDP will score more than APC. Anambra people will hardly vote a regional party bc they know the implication of doing so. Anambra is an apga state.
Tomorow result would read:
APGA 1st
PDP 2nd
LP 3rd
APC 4th

Pls Vote for Dr. Willie Obiano for Governor Anambra State... The Man with a vision... Vote for continuity... Vote on the Igbo Chicken... APGA for Anambra...

CFCfan: 'Like' this post if you think Senator Chris Ngige (APC) will win.

Apparently the people supporting Ngige are sitting behind their computers in far away places liking posts, while those supporting Obiano are in the field working.
Hope they won't cry wolf when the results are out.

Sylvyangel: I jst have this feeling that this election wont end well, no matter who wins there will still be accusations abt rigging and going 2 court and all that, am not in anambra now i hope 2 get updates frm this thread.

Has any election ever ended well in Nigeria? Na naija we deh.

simpleseyi:

You're very right, Ngige once defeated Dora Akunyili who was and is still a better candidate compared to these nonentities calling themselves gubernatorial candidates. Imaging a NECO holder wanting to govern Chinua Achebe's state.

You have a PHD as president, how good is he doing?

The day is here.

Accreditation has begun in Anambra. So far, the exercise has been peaceful, according to Channelstv.

CFCfan: Accreditation has begun in Anambra. So far, the exercise has been peaceful, according to Channelstv.

same with AIT