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Tribal democracy showing its ugly face as politicians take victory lap

Is it not a gross overestimation of one's capabilities for one to purport to have single-handedly put another person into elective office?

Like it did not matter that the said elected official bagged the popular vote in a highly competitive race. That several hundreds of thousands of people cast their votes in their favour. And that they did not only spend time on the campaign trail, gunning for the seat but also had to jump over all manners of hoops strewn in their paths.

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