Elections 2005 Casualty

Published:  04 April, 2008

Elections in Africa place very expensive burden on candidates who are vying for office. Some invest their earthly earnings to no avail, while others invest little or nothing to get elected. In societies where people are not educated or politically illiterate, candidates spend unnecessarily on the voters to induce them for their votes. There are those who invested heavily in the 2005 elections and are yet to recover from their financial encumbrances. Those who threw their weights behind the candidates that became victorious are today enjoying the 'fruits of their labor' even though not all of them have gained from such ventures.

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