Corridors of Power
The wife of one of the presidential aspirants caused a stir last week when she arrived at one of the shopping malls in an upscale city suburb. The woman was accompanied by a retinue of bodyguards who pushed and shoved other shoppers out of the aisles as the 'memsahib' leisurely dropped items into the shopping trolley which was being pushed by one of the bodyguards. When she was done, she went straight to the teller where she jumped the queue demanding that she should be served at once. The other shoppers who had been queueing patiently were unceremoniously forced out of the queue and the woman's demands met. The supermarket management ignored the loud complaints of the many shoppers who had to wait until her-excellency-to-be was served!
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Still on presidential aspirants, one of them went to visit veteran politician Martin Shikuku who is ill. The blunt-speaking "Servant of the People" did not spare the aspirant. Instead of the niceties which the aspirant may have expected, Shikuku went ahead to dismiss his presidential bid telling him God was not happy and that he should drop out of the race. The aspirant was so angry at Shikuku that he left the hospital without giving Shikuku the gifts he had brought along.
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An MP has reportedly abandoned his rural home and is no longer using one of his cars allegedly because they are haunted by the ghost of one of his workers whom he allegedly "sacrificed" to win the by-election last year. Wags in the village claim the ghost appears at the home and chases the MP and his family around with a panga. The ghost also pops up in the car which the MP used during the by-election campaigns. The MP now has to spend nights in boarding houses near his rural home whenever he visits to meet with his constituents.
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Another presidential aspirant is faced with a unique problem — too many of his relatives are aspiring for political office in the next elections which has cast him in a bad light. The man's relatives have ignored his pleas that some of them give up their political ambitions insisting it was their democratic right to run for office!
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