After the tenure interpretation judgment by the Supreme Court that affirmed the tenure of Governor Peter Obi in 2007, Anambra, where since 1999, governorship elections always attracted external interests, became the first state to witness staggered election in the country's election calendar.
Many analysts are of the opinion that the state attracts more than cursory electoral interests because of its strategic importance to regional and national politics coupled with its human and material endowments.It is however not surprising that less than a month to the November 18 governorship election, high level intrigues, scheming, backstabbing and a lot of undercurrents have dominated the state's political space pointing to some factors that will shape the outcome of the poll. These factors include Federal might, incumbency, religion, intraparty squabbles and conspiracies.
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