Anenih and 2015 elections: Who is afraid of primaries?
June 10, 20131 Comment »
By Roz Ben-Okagbue
The full implication of the recently truncated Nigerian Governos’ Forum (NGF) election result was not lost on the powers that be even though many less politically inclined Nigerians were unable to grasp it. It clearly indicated that one cannot rely on the governors (or any delegates from their states) to ensure that the current President will scale through the 2015 primaries. Indeed it is now obvious that should primaries be held today with the level of transparency with which it was conducted the last time, the President may not win. The overwhelming support received from the North in 2011 cannot be guaranteed this time around and without that, the outcome of the election is most unlikely to be successful.
Okagbue writes from Lagos. The Sun Newspaper
The full implication of the recently truncated Nigerian Governos’ Forum (NGF) election result was not lost on the powers that be even though many less politically inclined Nigerians were unable to grasp it. It clearly indicated that one cannot rely on the governors (or any delegates from their states) to ensure that the current President will scale through the 2015 primaries. Indeed it is now obvious that should primaries be held today with the level of transparency with which it was conducted the last time, the President may not win. The overwhelming support received from the North in 2011 cannot be guaranteed this time around and without that, the outcome of the election is most unlikely to be successful.
Okagbue writes from Lagos. The Sun Newspaper
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