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Research body predicts massive 85% voter turnout in Anambra governorship poll
The African Development Institute of Research Methodology (ADIRM), an applied research and technology development institute, has forecast a remarkable 85 percent voter participation rate in Saturday’s Anambra state governorship election.
During a Tuesday presentation in Abuja of pre-election polling data collected across the state’s 21 local government areas, ADIRM Director Dr Temitope Olufunmi Atoyebi characterized the upcoming election as among the most politically energized and participatory in Anambra’s electoral history.
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She characterized the poll as “a comprehensive, evidence-based assessment of voter perceptions and likely outcomes ahead of the forthcoming gubernatorial election.”
Atoyebi stated that ADIRM’s research reveals a politically aware electorate prepared to fulfill its civic responsibilities, noting that over 91 percent of survey participants confirmed voter registration status, while 85 percent declared definite voting intentions – suggesting “growing trust in democratic participation within Anambra State.”
“Demographically, the 26–35 age group — representing 29 percent of respondents — remains the most politically active, while 85 percent of voters possess at least secondary education, underscoring the state’s reputation for informed and analytical voting. Gender participation was nearly balanced, with males at 54 percent and females at 46 percent,” she said.
The findings also indicate a decisive victory for incumbent Governor Chukwuma Charles Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance (APGA), with the sitting governor receiving an overwhelming 85.7 percent “Yes” votes from survey participants throughout all 21 Local Government Areas.
She said: “Our findings reveal a clear and decisive preference among voters for the incumbent Governor, Prof. Charles Chukwuma Soludo of the All Progressives Grand Alliance. Governor Soludo is projected to win all 21 LGAs with 85.7% of total votes cast, while candidates of the APC and Labour Party are expected to secure approximately 7.6% and 5.0% respectively.”
“The survey, conducted between October 1 and 31, 2025, involved a scientifically selected sample of 73,500 respondents — 3,500 from each local government — representing diverse demographic, educational, and occupational categories. With a margin of error of ±2%, the poll is among the most extensive pre-election studies ever conducted in the state.”
“Across the state, respondents highlighted road rehabilitation, urban renewal, youth empowerment, and education access as reasons for their preference, while 75 percent of participants rated the current administration’s performance as Excellent or Good.”
“The report further noted that APGA’s campaign machinery has been the most visible and consistent, with a mean visibility score of 4.6 out of 5, driven by grassroots mobilization, town-hall engagements, and community radio outreach. Door-to-door mobilization emerged as the single most effective campaign strategy (29%), outpacing social media and elite endorsements.”
The echoes of the drums rolled out to celebrate the rescue of the 44 teachers and students, kidnapped from some schools in Oyo State, after 56 days in the bush, would surely be disrupted abruptly, with the divergent echoes of a fresh abduction, this time coming from Kogi State.
Reports indicate that the gunmen, struck on Tuesday at the Government Secondary School, Odo-Ekina, in Dekina Local Government Area of the state, abducting four students, the school principal and a National Examinations Council (NECO) ad hoc staff member.
Authorities of the Kogi State Police Command, who immediately unleashed their operatives in hot pursuit of the abductors, said the attack occurred at about 5:25 p.m. while the students were writing their NECO examination.
Saliu Oyiza Afusat, an Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) and spokesman of the command, said a combined team of police personnel and other security agencies has launched a search-and-rescue operation following the incident.
Informing that one of the students was actually rescued immediately, she said efforts were ongoing to secure the release of the remaining victims and apprehend the attackers, adding that Naziru Bello Kankarofi, the state Commissioner of Police, alongside the Brigade Commander and the State Security Adviser to the Governor, Commodore Jerry Omodara (Rtd), were already on the way to the scene for an on-the-spot assessment.
Oil prices are expected to go down now with the announcement of Donald Trump, US President that he will no longer impose a 20 percent “safe passage” fee on ships passing through the Strait of Hormuz.
The POTUS, hinged his reversal of the decision on the intervention from some Gulf countries, who pleaded with him not to toe the line due to the massive economic impact the decision would make on the region.
Indeed, oil prices had shot up immediately Trump announced the new levy on Monday while declaring the US ‘the guardians of the Hormuz strait,’ a measure which he said was to pay for the cost of guarding the volatile area in order keep supply of oil flowing.
Reports said that Gulf allies of the US worked frantically to get Trump on the phone in time to talk him out of the idea altogether, while a flurry of appeals came from Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Qatar.
In response, the POTUS, posting on his Truth Social platform, wrote: “Based on highly productive conversations with Middle East leadership, I have decided to replace the 20% United States Reimbursement Fee with Trade and Investment Deals that the various Gulf States will be making into the United States.”
Trump, who said the investments would be “MASSIVE but, at the same time, extraordinarily good for them, and their future,” added that the deals would see factories, plants, and equipment pour into the US at “Historic levels.”
The Gulf nations have committed to invest trillions of dollars in the US, though it remains unclear how much of that they will actually spend over the next several years.
Meanwhile, the US continues to bomb Iran in what appears to be a resumption of active conflict between both countries, despite an ongoing roadmap to end the conflict.
Reports say operatives of the Osun State Police Command, and those of the Department of State Services (DSS) had tracking the trail of Adeniyi Adeyemi, controversial Director General of the Presidential Foreign Intervention Promotion Council (PFIPC), for weeks, before he was eventually pulled out of his hole on Tuesday.
However, the duo, were said to have pulled back after failing to track him through his mobile phones, which he had reportedly switched off for about two days, making it difficult to locate him, leaving the stage for the members of the Police Intelligence Response Team (PI-RT) led by Moses Lohor, a Chief Superintendent of Police (CSP).
Lohor, said to have previously served as the Commander of the Anti-Kidnapping Squad of Osun State, and reported to have been involved in high-profile security operations and controversies, after taken over fielded his men to pick up signals from their well-oiled signal networks.
Regarded by many Osun residents as one of the key security officers who contributed significantly to the peace and stability enjoyed in Ilesa and other parts of the state during his tenure, he was said to have relied on his contacts before his transfer out of the state, said to have raised concerns from the public about the security situation he would be leaving behind.
His exit from the state was said to be hinged on an incident in 2024, in which he allegedly shot one Iyanda Alowonle, then Chairman of Osun State Motor Transport System, in the stomach at the police station in the state prompting an order for his arrest by then Inspector General of Police (IGP).
His effort was said to have paid off when he successfully tracked down the controversial PFIPC, boss, who was seen on Tuesday evening, in a shot video on social media undergoing interrogation, and eventually handed him over to Ibrahim Gotan, Commissioner of Police in the state.
The PUNCH quoted one of the sources as saying: “The arrest (of Adeyemi) took place on Tuesday morning by the IRT squad, who immediately moved him to Abuja. After he was arrested, he was taken to Ibadan and from there to Abuja.”
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