Who debate epp?

– So, your candidate missed the greatest opportunity. – Which one? – The presidential debate? – (Hisses) Nonsense, is that one anything? – It was many things. – I agree – to you people who do your politics on social and old media. You all sit down in the comfort of your sitting rooms, debating […]

– So, your candidate missed the greatest opportunity.

– Which one?

– The presidential debate?

– (Hisses) Nonsense, is that one anything?

– It was many things.

– I agree – to you people who do your politics on social and old media. You all sit down in the comfort of your sitting rooms, debating theories and postulating on your numerous gadgets. For most of you, even PVC self, una no get. Most of you cannot win a poll in your own family, yet you sit down raising dust over politics.

– Tell me one organized society that was not built on theories and postulations as you called them?

– I guess the key word is – organized societies. Is ours an organized society?

– We want it to be.

– But its not. Tell me which organized society pushes into political voicemail, reports of its citizens being massacred by armed bandits as is happening all over the north? Which organized society gets pre-occupied with election when all its universities are closed?

– Huum!

– Which organized society continues as if nothing is wrong when entire towns have been overrun, ransacked, burnt and pillaged? Which organized society politicizes the abduction and murder of its generals or make trite of the mass murder of its troops in the field of battle?

– That’s the more reason they all should have shown up at the debate so that we know who has the best solution to our intractable problems. The debate would have guided us to vote appropriately.

– Well, the incumbent said other issues preoccupied him.

– Much like an unserious husband, crying wolf after his pregnant wife delivers; normal pregnancy gives a nine months notice. Your president had advanced notice of the date for the great debate. It was not priority to him.

– The other guy rushed back from America but chickened out on hearing that the big man did not make it.

– Wrong calculation.

– Why?

– He missed a golden opportunity to sell his candidacy to the people.

– You keep saying ‘the people’. Most of the people have no electricity to watch a televised debate; those who do were watching British football. At any rate, his friends and advisers say it’s a classic move.

– Classic move to display contempt for citizens even before you have clinched their mandate.

– They argue that having launched his manifesto; interacted with people and published his programmes and the difference he plans to bring to governance; he really had no use for a debate in a two-horse race.

– That’s the problem of feeling anointed. An anointed candidate believes the people’s fate is sealed; that they have no options. The worst of us are anointed to ruin the lives of the best of us. They hold us in utter contempt and take us for granted. They feel no need to talk to or chat with us when they could talk at us.

– Wow!

– There are professors among the aspirants, while the two horses have no certificate to display in the stable.

– Who certificate epp?

– Exactly, who certificate epp? You were here when a famous employer made the first degree a prerequisite for prospective drivers. He had no certificate and had neither respect nor value for those who do. Semi-literate governors employ people but fail to pay them. Yet we wonder how our country continues to be the laughing stock of the whole world and why our best continue to stow away in search of the lowest jobs in other lands. We wonder how we pull below our weight in every aspect of governance.

– What can we do?

– The best of us should start taking governance seriously. Start by registering as party members in their wards and positioning themselves into positions to influence the electoral process.

– You say that as if votes count in this clime.

– Well, they do not count because we don’t make them count. If we are not there at the selection process, how could we hope to change anything? It is obvious our people have decided on a two-horse race, so good people should infiltrate those cults with their altruism and superior ideas, that’s a starting point.

– Who organized the debate?

– Elites!

– Now you get me. Elites don’t vote. They hide behind the screens of their expensive gadgets blowing big grammar. Real voters are not swayed by turanci, they don’t know either the colour or content of the manifesto, and they have no television and no social media presence. They’ll queue behind the anointed candidate that drops enough crumbs they could scramble for. The almajirai, the members of road transport unions who constitute the majority of voters would vote for the highest bidder and the rot continues. Even today’s students are in the mix.

– You forget the ethno-religious bigots who would back a dog if it barks up their religious and ethnic tree. The ones who openly express faith in electricity bill in lieu of certificate. Our country is not ready for the change it would require to join the comity of nations. The next selection is a walkover for the two horses that hold the people in contempt and the disunited elites would go home with the title of ‘once ran’.