Joy Emordi
EMMANUEL OBE in this piece chronicles the political development in Anambra State and writes that ahead of the 2011 elections, women are squaring up to contest every available position in the state with the menfolk
Before long, the arena will be saturated again with electioneering in Anambra State, a state
that has become a hotbed of political controversies since 1999 when the present political dispensation berthed in the country.
The situation was already getting to boiling point when the Independent National Electoral Commission and the state Independent Electoral Commission called off their programmes for the 2011 elections and the local government elections in the state.
The postponements brought about a very much needed breather to the political firmament of the state. While INEC premised the cancellation of its timetable on a schedule it said was rather too tight for it to keep and therefore needed to get the National Assembly to amend the Constitution to suit its new programme, ANSIEC excused its shift of the council poll on the non-availability of a viable voter register from INEC.
Before then the party offices of the All Progressives Grand Alliance and the Peoples Democratic Party had become beehives as politicians aspiring for elective offices made endless trips to brief their state party executive committees of their intentions to run for office.
Particularly dramatic about the situation in the state was the mass movement of top politicians and federal legislators elected on the platform of the PDP to APGA.
Leading the pack are ex-Senator Joy Emodi, who represented Anambra North in the Senate and Uche Ekwunife, former governorship candidate and member of the federal house representing Njikoka/Anaocha/Dunukofia.
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