NEW APPROACHES TO OLD DEMONS: BEFORE THE ELECTIONS COME

 "Whenever the elections come we are given a blank cheque to buy the best of what we want" Patrick Lumumbu.
 As a fierce unrepentant critic of previous student association governments and a product of graceful stay and ageing existence in this environment, I owe myself one duty and that is to make common sense unlike Ben Murray Bruce.
 It is that moment again when the bias of choice sets friends in disarray and enmity, however the joy of the yuletide is that such situations do not last long, they come and like weather is long gone before the wake of effect.
 It seems the Old demons have come back again like the biblical analogy of exorcised spirits seeking for the body of whom they were expunged to dwell in once again, but like the grace wisdom grants to man abounds, it teaches one to learn from the experiences of others to be wiser by the virtue called 'leverage.'
 The old demons of sentiment which are greater than the most powerful tyranical Roman emperors and dictators of the Mahgreb's needs more refined and sophiticated approach to deal with them this time.
 I have had the priviledge of being consulted by some of the gladiators rocking the stage currently especially both presidential and vice presidential hopefuls, and having been a victim of political rape and betrayal I had every cause to stand against the histronics and patented support-me-appeal that characterise people of unproven and questionable character, rather I had to advise and appeal as a gentleman and a senile umpire seeking for the best of representation for a people who have lost faith in campaign promises.
 Like professor Lumumbu said "when we get our blank cheque, instead of buying a Mecerdes we opt for a 'tuktuk' tricycle, and we expect the tuktuk to behave like a mercedes." We vote the wrong persons to power and expect power to change them forgetting power amplifies the personality of the person, thereby making the torments of the old demons hotter and more pernicious than the previous.
 Okofia  'Oakland' is a 'small ville' and a place where the enormity of misrepresentation is lucid and haunts the leader by the virtue of the fact that unlike the levites, he is a priest drawn from amongst and lives amidst his people, so he cannot play the ostrich.
 By the time the elections come, Your's sincerely may no longer be eligible to exercise the luxury of franchise, but as a duty and an obligation my tenancy in the apartment of opinion behoves of me I speak out in sincerity at least that when the demons come back again, let them meet a house or body occupied by new inhabitants.
 By inhabitants I mean progressive ideologies and policies that are centred around bringing the best out of the over three thousand students that have decided to make okland their choice for now.
 The job of the incoming executives led by whoever will be the president should be mostly centred around projects that would enhance the capacity of every Tomiwa, Dike and Haruna that passed through this ambience of learning.
  Take away from us  Old demons, because there is a people rising.

Khaleb-Power Ogbonna is a student Media brand maker and writter.