Noticeable to most if not all,not only me!
Sometimes, I doubt if conscience is part of the compositions that make the body of some individuals. Some claim what they are not capable of doing, promising that they would do it in a limited time if they secure our votes.They promise what even hundred of them might never achieve in office even if permitted to use zillions of years in office.
They canvass around the nooks and crannies of various segments of the society with their sugarcoated tongues begging for votes, playing integrity, they greet you everytime you pass by them,reminding you their fake everdead promises which they think they would achieve but power drunkenness affects them, they are intoxicated by the power to rule.
Mr.A goes round the Itesiwaju society to get voted in as the chairman of the society, he moves in and out of houses pleading with them for votes and reciting to their hearings his promises and manifesto which turn unachievable and lies because of power intoxication.
He uses rhetorics like a trained solicitor and uses logic like a logician to win people to his side and win the election.He is quite approachable,accessible and always caring to the people then.
Election comes! Alas! Mr. A becomes the chairman of the society. A great achievement to be celebrated! what next?
Tick! Tack! Tick! Tack! Time passes by. The friendly Mr. A becomes something else,the approachable Mr.A becomes unapproachable.He is seen today in Canada, tomorrow in London. He soon forgot the problems he promised to fix in a twinkle of an eye if voted into office. Power has erased the memorised manifesto in his memory. He waves to people from his black tinted exotic car. What a pity! He is no more accessible, he becomes snow in Nigeria,that’s seen once in a blue moon.
The electorates are sitted patiently waiting for the manifestation of the supposed manifesto.It’s the electorates that do suffer after election,winners of election don’t. The populace are left with their own perils while the voted in watches their plights in Yalos Diamond TV in his fancy sitting room cross-legged and picking chunks of meat with his fork lavishly being caressed by his foreign lover,who he spends the public money on.
Once power gets to their hands, getting it back is not an easy task. Impeachment or recall is seldom in this part of the world. People mandated to impeach unfunctional government are also unfunctional and collectively turn a toothless bull dog because the government have used the prolonged fork of bribery to uproot their ever-sharpened teeth which were ready to bite corrupt, ineffective and inefficient administration but now what a sorry case! It’s powerless.
They behave like saints and friends of the people before entering the corridor of power but after succeeding in achieving this,they become the common enemy of the people as a result of power drunkenness.
Why would power not corrupt them? It would because they lack the political will to seek the progress of the common society.
