THE 2021 election will have the highest number of independent candidates at parliamentary level in the history of the country, a development which may result in a totally different complexion of the National Assembly after the polls.Eastern Province has 43 independent candidates while North-Western has 15 and there are more in other regions.Political parties must immediately analyse this scenario even before they get drowned in campaigns to establish the causes.There are many reasons that could have led to the proliferation of independent candidates, which obviously need dissecting.Invariably, candidates who have opted to go solo are dissatisfied with the outcome of the adoption process and feel strongly that they should have been the preferred candidates.However, some candidates have gone independent out of selfishness even when the adoption process was scandal-free.Others may have made emotional decisions to leave their parties to stand as independents and will only realise their fatal error of judgement when they get into […]
TOO MANY ‘INDEPENDENTS’
