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During campaigns, politician do extra –ordinary things to win the hearts of their supporter who in return will vote for them hence ascending into power.
The easiest time to access a politician is during campaigns because they are down to earth people. All in all, things do change when these leaders are elected. They disappear from the vicinity of the common mwananchi and the only place you can see there is on TVs.
In the recent past, you saw President Uhuru and his Deputy William Ruto taking sodas from a simple kiosk without really minding.There after Ruto had lunch in a local hotel with his high school friend.
But a famous politician from the land of miraa seems to have outsmarted all of them by trying to do what ordinary people do in a bid to acquire political greatness.
Having lived a high-class life he decided to try the ordinary f ordinary mwananchi life.He did this by putting on torn shoes to show that he was just a simple man like his audience in a political rally.
The crowd cheered him as he tried to walk on the dais in those torn shoes.To him, he had scored and the people in the rally believed that he is just a common mwananchi.
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