The election of February 6, 2010 in Anambra State has come and gone. Interestingly history has been made from the re-election of the incumbent -Governor Peter Obi. Although with intrigues and all the judgements so passed by observers local and foreign, that historic election leaves a great lessons to be learnt.
First and fore most, we have to learn from the disenfranchisement of about 75% of eligible voters. Indeed INEC no longer needs an Iwu who cannot explain what went amissed after about 72 hours of announcing an election which many condemned for having both the dead and the living and foreign names alike on the voters register.
Second we should a lesson from the obvious crack in the PDP, which culminated into a divisive votes. Third, we have to learn from spirit of sportsmanship with which the the likes of Prof. Charles Soludo, Dr. Andy Uba and other losers embraced their fate. Forth, we have a big lesson to learn from the olive branch - Gov. Peter Obi has extended to his rivals at the poll.
Given the prevailing uneasy calm in our nation and especially Anambra, one can only but encourage the likes of Dr. Chris Ngige, Hon. Ekwunife and other aggrieved persons to bury their differences and partner with Obi in order to move Anambra forward. Meanwhile, Prof. Iwu must be shown the way out of INEC office because his stay spells doom for Nigeria come 2011. He has succeeded in doing the wrong thing always with impunity and with no iota of remorse or recourse. If the beneficiaries of his style are not fed up with his indiscipline, then he had better watch his back. But while doing that, he should remember that there's someone watching over what his been doing, thus, the time for reckoning is too close for escape.
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