If
the 2015 elections were held today, and President Goodluck Jonathan was
on the ballot as a candidate of the ruling PDP, the result will be a
most humiliating defeat for the All Progressives Congress (APC) in the
South-East. Very few people in Igboland will vote for the APC. The
South-East is the highest support base for Jonathan and his party.
It
is not because Jonathan has performed creditably in the zone. If you
speak with many of the political leaders in the zone privately, they
will express their disgust for the President’s unresponsive leadership
style. However, despite the initial promise shown by the APC, it has
simply refused to carry Ndigbo along. This attitude might have been
borne out of the initial permutations about 2015 within the party.
The
APC does not seem perturbed how it is perceived in other regions apart
from the North. For those who are on the ground in Igboland, the party
is still being perceived rightly or wrongly as a Northern party. Many
conservative Igbo voters are very reluctant to join such a party.
Although some individuals within the party such as Governor Rochas
Okorocha of Imo State and Senator Chris Ngige are popular, such
popularity has yet to be transferred to the party.
Posted 11 July, 2014.
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