Please permit this to be published in your widely read newspaper. Now that our leaders are talking about 2011 when they are barely at the middle of their existing mandate, and instead of continuing with the provision of the promised dividends of democracy, you see all manner of approach being employed by them aimed at returning to their seats come 2011. You will see governors visiting traditional rulers in their states. Ordinarily, they had ignored such traditional rulers before now. You see some of them receiving funny awards from known and unknown quantities and in most cases they buy such awards. They now go about seeking endorsement indirectly, but they should know that the masses are no fools.
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Nowadays: you will see, for instance, “Gov this Mass Employment Initiative”; you will see fake commissioning of one project or the other; you will see all manner of noise-making and advertisements – most of them useless, unnecessary and worthless spending of tax payers’ fund; you will see governors paying to ensure that their pictures appear in the media constantly as if that would help them, whereas such cannot cover the atrocities and inadequacies they commit on daily basis. They should know that such things and methods rather irritate the masses. It would pay them better to make less noise in order for their continued misdeeds to be forgotten to be forgiven.
In Nigeria, it is even when you are corrupt that sycophants sing your praises and this annoys most onlookers, especially where security agencies are influenced as well.
Conversely, what is going on in Ekiti now, for instance, should convince any doubting Thomas that rigging would not be tolerated in future elections, as voters would insist that their votes are counted.
Steve Udeme, 89 Bende Street, Umuahia, Abia State.
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