All contestants project themselves as prospective winners. Dead heat isn’t speculated. Or is it? Let us politely ignore the 29 party-less independents though each fancies himself/herself victorious. Let’s stay with party-contested seats. There’s 57 constituencies! Divide 57 by three, get 19! That could be a spectacular result: fantastic dead heat implying no party qualifies to form government; alternatively none of the parties winning outright simple majority! Hung parliament would result, compelling any of the two parties to negotiate government of national unity (GNU). Objectively, how does ‘As I See It,’ see it? ‘As I See It,’ will try to make an objective analysis undeterred by the plausibility of respective party stalwarts and pundits accusing column of subjectivity. Here we go:
On the face of it, the BDP with its debilitating baggage of misrule should be ruled out of victory. Imagine voters voting for a party creaking and croaking under the burden of so numerous indictments: Corruption allegations, state enterprises startling mismanagement, corrupt awarding of business tenders, endemic instability manifested in the primary elections battles and leakages of state secrets, spooky petition attempts to win by-electio, two former presidents breaking ranks with party to punch holes in the current party administration, terror tactics applied against the opposition and the media obviously to intimidate the public to reject the opposition!
