Essential Ndubuisi
By :Tai Emeka Obasi.
If there was any time a particular party had been very glaringly determined to take power, the present situation in Anambra State People’s Democratic Party, PDP aptly fits that moment.
It will be 16 solid years by March 17, 2022 that a state, predominantly PDP by honest party membership census, tasted power last in a state known by its uniqueness in every life endeavour. Yes, predominantly PDP…, but the state chapter of the party had failed in four consecutive attempts to wrestle power from the power-dominant All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA.
It started with the arrival of a very principled and unassuming personality, whose firm campaign promises to prove that the people were the cause instead of Anambra State itself being cursed, was rewarded with majority support in his entry into partisan politics and subsequently into governance.
His Excellency, Peter Obi came, saw and conquered! He came at a time the people earnestly wanted a clear departure from the Dr. Chinwoke Mbadinuju days – an era generally perceived as the worst by any governor in a PDP garb. The people spoke, but the Independent National Electoral Commission, INEC was manipulated to temporarily deny their wishes. However, after 33 months of legally battling for his mandate, the Appeal Court eventually upturned that manipulation and restored the wishes of the people from the claws of Dr. Chris Ngige, who was the major beneficiary of that ‘hijack’.
