“ No Anambra governor has been elected by slightly more than one-tenth of registered voters in the state. That has nothing to do with IPOB, which is a relatively new thing,” he said.
“Anambra has historically had very low voter turnout. In 2017, Willie Obiano, was elected with 234,071 votes and his predecessor, Peter Obi, who also spent two terms as governor polled 97,833 to win his second term.Ī board member of the election monitoring group, YIAGA Africa, Ezenwa Nwagwu, who has been in Awka, the Anambra State capital for about a week, told me on Wednesday that concerns about potential low voter turnout as a result of insecurity were largely media inventions. Even though the state has a population of about 4.5million, the most populated in the South East, with a registered voter population of 2.5million, the highest voter turnout for any governorship election in the last 22 years has been less than 300,000.
