Dear Politician,

         It would only sound fair that I congratulate your guts to pick up a nomination form in attempt to lead us to the promised land, even though between you and me, its plain to see you are only interested in squeezing the already clabbered adulterated national resources; resources meant for the 170 million demos you intend to govern now cornered for your selfish ambitions. But you see sir, the gods are not to blame, it is the ultracrepidarians of followers who probably don’t know or too lazy to demand what is truly theirs I appropriate my blame.

I am glad when i heard you sir have put your life, and financial resources on the line going by the do or die nature of the political clime we live in – very noble and brave thing to do for your country sir. You have even gone out of your way to invent new publicity stunts, organized press conferences and have taken the pain to write a length paged manifesto. You Sir, have festooned our cities with posters and flyers of your smiling face, shinning in armour like the true soldier Nigeria deserves – quite laudable I must commend, and in all sincerity sir, none of them have gone unnoticed. I totally understand all these things must be done, after all, about 70% or even more of your budget goes into campaigns.

To my amazement as I listened to one of your paid promotional campaigns, you boastfully promised to provide a cleaner and greener city, advocating various beautification projects including free toilets. The bewildering thing is that your words don’t match your actions sir! You promise to clean our cities, yet you Sir, litters it morning and night with posters. You have utterly defaced our towns and your flyers litters our parks incessantly. You sir are the chief nuisance constitutor! You are the mess maker! You have nonchalantly violated every environmental laws placing your grammatical-error-filled-junk-piece-of-papers on our bridges, road signs, street lights, and walkways. Our once beautiful roundabouts now completely look like shrines of the paper goddess, yet you sir faithfully pledge your undying support to tackle global warmings. You carry brooms about at your rallies, even draw some on your posters but your brain never instructs you to sweep the city clean with those brooms, you sir are a disgrace of biblical proportions!

Sir with all due respect, I would admonish you and your nitwitted, semi-parboiled brain campaign strategists to emulate those foreign cities you visit with public loots. If those countries litter their cities as you do yours, i guess there’ll be no place for your foreign escapades. Its such a shame that you sir only look but barely see, you rarely see how other developed democracies engage in more constructive forms of campaigning. I implore you to warn your political bandwagons- the set you use to perpetrate evil to desist from defacing our communities, I know their lives depends on the crumbs that fall from your golden table, they have sold their souls for rice and palm oil but please tell them to stop their stupidity.

Finally before i drop my pen sir, i wish you victory in the upcoming 2015 general elections if the electorates think you deserve it too. I would also like to note to you sir, that victory in the 2015 elections will not be dependent on how many posters you print but on integrity and your vision for the Nigerian state. For what does it profit a politician, who spent his cash printing posters and still loses the elections. Be wise sir, Be wise.

Yours in State,
Badejoko Adewale.

Badejoko Adewale is a social entrepreneur, the founder of The Advocate For Transformational Change. He is @Tha_Krone on twitter.

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