It wasn’t too long ago that President Macky Sall was cited as the shining star of democracy in our region.
That he has finally revealed his essential nature, for it is said that power doesn’t change, it only reveals persons, and has exhibited his desire to cling to power, has finally answered a nagging question that has long troubled me.
I remember, sadly, also, that jnr Kabila once postponed elections in the DRC on account of no money to procure logistics and to organise elections. But time caught up on him. And he used the Anglophone formula.
Then and recently, I have had to wonder whether power is so intoxicating that once one gets a sip, one gets so hooked on its flavour that one loses common sense and most crucially, morality, the little of which finds its way into that quagmire .
And those two are not alone in their appetites, Monsieur Ouatarra, next door, is not exempt, it seems.
But don’t be fooled, the Anglophones have their game too, they rig elections in favour of their preferred candidate, sometimes their protégé, sometimes their buddy.
Essentially, power, a la African, which vests vast power in the hands of the executive and with no real effective controls has proved to be a sweet and maddening potion, that once tasted, holds hostage all principles and considerations.
Just thinking
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THE RAMBLINGS OF THE FORGOTTEN SEER. 