Despite the many years of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA)’s domination in Anambra politics and the fact that Presidential candidate of Labour Party Peter Obi is from the state, the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) will take the state in 2023.
The reason is that despite all the years, Anambra remained a PDP state.
This is the calculation of the vice presidential candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) and governor of Delta State, Senator Ifeanyi Okowa who was represented by PDP member of presidential Council and chairman of United Nigeria Airlines, High Chief Prof. Obiora Okonkwo at the 20th Coronation anniversary and Ofala festival of Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Nnaemeka Achebe.
Okonkwo in an interview after representing Okowa said: “PDP is fully prepared for the campaign. Anambra has always been the home of PDP, and you may wish to check it. In the past, we have won landslide in all the presidential elections, and almost all the time, we have won majority of the national assembly election, and I do not think this will be different.
“The campaign committee is coming up to Anambra, and we will campaign in every corner of Anambra State, starting from every voter, every polling booth, every ward and every local government.
“I have no doubt that at the end of the day, Anambra people will know that we need to be reconnected to Abuja, and the only wire that will give us that connection to the political grid is PDP.”
Although APGA has dominated Anambra State, Okonkwo described the party as a friend of PDP.
He said: “APGA had controlled the state in past times when PDP had won 95 per cent of the votes in the state, both in the presidential and national assembly election in Anambra State. I think it is going to be the same.”