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Media should not be fooled by those seeking elective posts

 ‘A leopard cannot change its spots’ is a common saying meaning that a person’s character does not really change no matter how hard they try.

The idiom comes from the Bible, and more specifically Jeremiah 13:23. In addition, there is an English idiom that ‘don’t judge a book by its cover’. This broadly suggests that one should not prejudge the worth or value of something by its outward appearance alone.

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