Ahead of the Anambra State local government elections, the ruling All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, is in disarray.
It could be recalled that the Anambra State Independent Electoral Commission (ANSIEC) finally expressed readiness to conduct the much-anticipated local government polls.
The election will be the first 10 years after the last one was conducted by former governor, r Peter Obi.
Indigenes of the state have all along been yearning for Local Government elections, calling on successive governors to conduct it to give the people at the grassroots a sense of belonging. The exercise is slated for 28 September.
There have been pockets of complaints from various political parties about the promptness of the election.
Most of the political parties, including Labour Party (LP), All Progressives Congress (APC) have complained about the process.
While some parties have vowed to boycott the process, others are already thinking of dragging the state government to court.
Meanwhile, APGA, which is the party in power in the state, is also in deep crisis.
The two major problems of the party in the run up to the election are factionalization and the crisis of disenfranchisement of intending contestants.
The Edozie Njoku faction of APGA leaning on a Supreme Court ruling has continued to lay claims to being the authentic faction of the party.
The faction has opened a separate state party secretariat in Anambra, away from the state party secretariat of the faction loyal to Governor Chukwuma Soludo and Barr Sly Ezeokenwa as national chairman.
The party secretariat at Udoka Housing Estate have been bubbling with party stalwarts who have intention of vying for the position of local government chairmen and councillors as they were seen coming to pick their forms.
Hon Tony Ezekwelu in an interview told journalists that their forms were in high demand because everyone knows that it is the authentic faction of the party presently.
This is regardless of the fact that the Ezeokenwa-led faction has also sold its forms.
But in a new twist, the state government, sensing the popularity of the faction, moved against them.
