IMPOSTORS IN POWER

IMPOSTORS IN POWER

African political space is direct opposite of what obtains in any regimented sphere. The political gaming and gambling of most African politicians, defy all known logics and political principles that emphasize civility, logicality and rationality, in any democratic system. Elections in African nations, Nigeria being the chief, is no longer the survival of the fittest. It is the dominance of the richest.

With monetary power, they wangle their ways, doling out bales of currencies, like piles of leafs, plucked from nearby trees. They brandish Pound Sterling, American Dollars and European Euros, in the midst of hunger stricken citizens, to hijack electioneering process. Like gamblers in casinos, they sit around the table in the dark, setting strategies on how best to commandeer with cash, the wish of helpless poor.

They are impostors in power, having nothing to offer than to make the people to suffer more than they have ever been. From doorposts, they tactically trail and tailor the people to the polling booths, till the votes are cast. Then, like a dog innocently lying flat on the floor, they lie blatantly, denying ever coming close to the electorates, much less influencing their voting decisions. By all means, crude or crook, they end up holding the scepter of power.

After feeding fat like fattened cows, at the expense of the posterity of the impoverished people, they impose another impostor, just to hold power in perpetuity. There are too many impostors holding brief for some Master impostors in the polity. They are only occupying the seat of power, they are not in power. Like a toothless buffalo, they lack the power to oppose the obnoxious notions of the impostor that imposed them on the throne.

It is no longer the survival of the fittest but the dominance of the richest. It is no longer about the best hand, it is now about the biggest liar to steal the conscience of the populace. It is no longer about meritocracy but the celebration of mediocracy. They are impostors in power.

Morack Akin-David is a biographer, content creator and author of “Rich Brag, Poor Beg”.