₦airaland Forum

ANAMBRA - A perfect bumper sticker for Governor Willie Obiano’s campaign stomp should read, “Recession out, investors in”!

This is stating it as clearly as former American Vice President Joe Biden did on the re-election campaign trail back in 2012 when he proclaimed to a crowd of cheering supporters in Detroit, Michigan, “Osama bin Laden is dead and General Motors is alive”


As far as bumper stickers go, Governor Willie Obiano has a compelling catalogue of achievements on the security and economic fronts to adorn the colourful profile of a thousand bumper stickers. But his re-election is not expected to be half as tough as Obama’s 2012 summer run against Mitt Romney.

Obiano’s record has placed him beyond the optimistic aspirations of the most ambitious opponents in the forth- coming election. His vision and creative policies have saved the state from economic recession and in the process foisted some sort of political recession on the state that has left the political landscape starved of formidable opposition.

But politicians are creatures of habit, and like the Bourbons that ruled most of Europe centuries ago, the political actors in Anambra seem to have learnt nothing and forgotten nothing from the past. So, the race is on, and following the same familiar pattern of intra-elite war with little or no bearing on the real issues of concern to the electorate.

In its current form, the race to the polls is simply a battle between progressives, swept along by the discernible outcome of Obiano’s strong ideas and transformative vision and those die hard traditionalists stuck in time with nostalgia about the fading era of strong men like Peter Obi.

This divide has made the race primarily a contest between Governor Willie Obiano and his predecessor, Peter Obi. It really could have been a tripod but for the fact that Tony Nwoye of the APC is generally perceived as bereft of meaningful political capital. His antecedent is a troubling chronicle of political thuggery and the fact that the APC as a political vehicle is anathema in the region.

And things couldn’t get any worse than recent revelations by the World Bank that President Buhari’s declared obsession is with developing the North at the expense of the rest of the country.

All of a sudden, whatever little merit there was to Nwoye’s dangling carrot of linking Anambra to the centre has been completely pulverized by this revelation. Successful political campaigns are scarcely built on such parochial vision in a plural society, except of course you’re running under the moniker of Trump or Buhari. The party was over for Nwoye long before it started.


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Obiano the best governor in Nigeria

THEY WILL NOT ONLY SHIVER AT HIS ACHIEVEMENT BUT THEY WILL KILL THEMSELVES.

Obiano is a big thief, Nwoye reveals. Watch video below :

https://www.dropbox.com/s/6m7r1c30idhx5j6/VID-20171011-WA0005%20%282%29.3gp?dl=0

I concur nwoye is a no hoper it is a straight battle between APGA and PDP! Obiano V Obaze. Obaze wins!

biacan:
Obiano the best governor in Nigeria

This is the first I have seen this moniker associated with an intelligent comment. Anyway, the correction to the comment is that "he is a good governor but certainly not the best in Nigeria".

tuniski:
I concur nwoye is a no hoper it is a straight battle between APGA and PDP! Obiano V Obaze. Obaze wins!

You all will come back and cry rigging on the 19th of october!

Clerverly:
You all will come back and cry rigging on the 19th of october!

U meant to say November right? Anyway, except INEC declares APC's nwoye winner it can't be rigging!

Obiano deserves no second term. But... he is the best candidate among other others.