Like Trump in US, can Wajackoyah pull off a surprise in August polls?

Roots Party presidential candidate George Wajackoyah at KICC during the launch of his Presidential manifesto on Thursday, June 30 2022. [Samson Wire, Standard]

Many have termed George Wajackoyah as a joke taken too far. But it’s that season in global geopolitics where some extreme jokes have been institutionalised.

In 2016, the mayor of London, one Boris Johnson, came with an idea that sounded like a joke; get the United Kingdom out of the European Union. It was preposterous because the British are as Europeans as Madagascar is African. That joke was voted for overwhelmingly in a process dubbed Brexit.