1.0Mathematical 7https://mathematical7.com/m7rich600338<blockquote class="wp-embedded-content" data-secret="yVHEtWhLrl"><a href="https://mathematical7.com/m7/my-political-diary-day-50/">My Political Diary – Day 50</a></blockquote><iframe sandbox="allow-scripts" security="restricted" src="https://mathematical7.com/m7/my-political-diary-day-50/embed/#?secret=yVHEtWhLrl" width="600" height="338" title="“My Political Diary – Day 50” — Mathematical 7" data-secret="yVHEtWhLrl" frameborder="0" marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" scrolling="no" class="wp-embedded-content"></iframe><script type="text/javascript"> /* <![CDATA[ */ /*! This file is auto-generated */ !function(d,l){"use strict";l.querySelector&&d.addEventListener&&"undefined"!=typeof URL&&(d.wp=d.wp||{},d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage||(d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage=function(e){var t=e.data;if((t||t.secret||t.message||t.value)&&!/[^a-zA-Z0-9]/.test(t.secret)){for(var s,r,n,a=l.querySelectorAll('iframe[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),o=l.querySelectorAll('blockquote[data-secret="'+t.secret+'"]'),c=new RegExp("^https?:$","i"),i=0;i<o.length;i++)o[i].style.display="none";for(i=0;i<a.length;i++)s=a[i],e.source===s.contentWindow&&(s.removeAttribute("style"),"height"===t.message?(1e3<(r=parseInt(t.value,10))?r=1e3:~~r<200&&(r=200),s.height=r):"link"===t.message&&(r=new URL(s.getAttribute("src")),n=new URL(t.value),c.test(n.protocol))&&n.host===r.host&&l.activeElement===s&&(d.top.location.href=t.value))}},d.addEventListener("message",d.wp.receiveEmbedMessage,!1),l.addEventListener("DOMContentLoaded",function(){for(var e,t,s=l.querySelectorAll("iframe.wp-embedded-content"),r=0;r<s.length;r++)(t=(e=s[r]).getAttribute("data-secret"))||(t=Math.random().toString(36).substring(2,12),e.src+="#?secret="+t,e.setAttribute("data-secret",t)),e.contentWindow.postMessage({message:"ready",secret:t},"*")},!1)))}(window,document); //# sourceURL=https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-includes/js/wp-embed.min.js /* ]]> */ </script> https://mathematical7.com/m7/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/hand_writing.jpg275183The honorarium we paid them, 500 Naira to each of the 5000 agents, a last-minute unexpected manna from heaven courtesy of a former senator, a retired general and a close friend, became an insult to their psyche.  On the night of the eve of the election, we learnt that in every nook and cranny throughout Ogun State, bags of money were being carried around and distributed to those that will carry out the nefarious infestation of the minds of hungry citizens through buying of their votes. This also means destroying their consciences and their souls.  Even though no one refunded our ‘toilet roll’ money, they quickly collected the bribes (20 times what we offered as allowances) from the other major political parties, enough to feed their families for a few days after the elections before returning to deal with the consequences of their return to rejected old ways that have become vomit.  Most of our own paid agents did not even show up at their posts again.  They simply teamed up with agents of the rich parties to collect their own share of the spoils of the ‘war’ at the booths.  They left us high and dry with no agents in most polling booths to hold forth for a fledgeling political party like ZLP.  At the end of the day, the elements took control.  Dapo Abiodun of APC was declared the winner.  Adekunle Akinlade of APM may have ‘lost’ but definitely not because he was not a good candidate. His albatross was the manner he was foisted on the people. His victory would have meant that an entire State succumbed to the whims of one person, a god whose home would have been turned by now into a ‘mecca’, with an altar where the citizens would worship for years to come.  The elections in Ogun State do not make physical or spiritual sense. Millions of the citizens were praying in mosques and churches for intervention of spiritual forces that will rescue them from further enslavement as a result of politics of the worst kind.