The Enugu State Peoples Democratic Party Campaign Council has denied the allegations that it was planning to unleash violence to rig the March 18 governorship and House of Assembly elections. SaharaReporters had earlier reported that the Labour Party Governorship Candidate, Chijioke Edeoga, had alleged that the PDP and its government in Enugu distributed political thugs in some local government areas, arming them with weapons to unleash terror on residents and rig the polls.
It was quite tragic and traumatic reading an open letter to Governor Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi from Chief Okey Ezea yesterday. This is because it was riddled with
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As the politics of 2023 picks up in Enugu State, Chinenye Ugwu interrogates the contentious issue of zoning of the governorship seat
The Nazi propaganda machine, Joseph Goebbels, offered one of the most popular rubrics of propaganda: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, the people will eventually come to believe it.”
Often referred to as the “illusory truth effect,” this is a cognitive bias and glitch in the human psyche, which tends to equate repetition with truth. Enugu politicians have tried to put this to full use. They saturate the media and social media with a fairy tale of how Enugu’s founding fathers agreed on governorship zoning in the politics ushering in the current democratic dispensation and threaten anybody that wants to truncate it. But the question is: how could anybody truncate what does not exist?