“In all science,
error precedes the truth, and it is better it should go first than last” —Horace Walpole (1717-1797) English writer and politician.
If we go by what our politicians (the major presidential candidates
notably) are saying about each other this campaign season, we can’t but
conclude that they are all ‘misfits’ for office in 2019. They have smeared
themselves. They have used invectives dug from the gutter to paint themselves.
They have cancelled one another from the log of men and women of integrity.
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| *President Buhari |
They have thrown away their gloves and bruised their faces with bare
fists. They have either asked the umpire to stay off or have left the ring
altogether to slug it out in the mud. Now it’s a bloody street fight all the
way. When the vote is cast and the result declared, both the winner and
defeated and spectator would be losers, none a victor, even if there is a
coronation. Why? It would be a pyrrhic triumph, where you’d ask yourself if you
haven’t run all this marathon race only to end up with a mistake as your
leader.
