Dear aspirant,
Let me first of all congratulate you for having passed through the vetting stage. In fact I didn’t expect anything less. If you had failed the vetting I would have been surprised judging from your palpable zeal and charisma.
The fact is, you are about to go through one of the toughest stage of pursuing your dream; the campaign brouhaha leading to the elections, a fact of which I’m sure you are aware. I would be glad if by now you had pre-planned how you are going to drive your campaign train, the money to spend (if you don’t have just call me ok? hahaha), the members to uphold your name and posters. You might even be thinking of getting means of transportation for stubborn voters like my roommate because he wouldn’t just walk to the voting center from the hostel just to vote. The rest of the requirements for winning this election let me leave it for your team (abi you chose them?). You need these and more because they are essential if you have the intention of winning.
Though I may know you or might have heard of your name, I won’t vote for you. Yes!!! I won’t until you give me a reason to. Sorry if I sound harsh but I think I should just let you know. The fact that I smile when you approach me doesn’t mean I would vote for you whether rain or shine. I may collect all that you share: water, books, phones, pens, lipsticks, nourishments and others but if you think that would secure my vote, forget it. To vote on that line is to sell my integrity which I have hardly earned.
You have a good GPA; you dress well (with all those suits in this merciless, scorching sun because of the elections). I say that is good …. But it’s not worth my vote. We have people in this University who have all such qualities too (myself included).
Of all the areas or positions that you are zealously contesting for, there are problems that need to be addressed. And that position is crying for a striking leader who can alleviate it from suffering and bring joy to the students, hence my question to you is, how prepared are you to stand up to the position’s demand? I don’t vote base on looks or fluency and definitely not on dressing. I want to see confidence coupled with experience, I want S.M.A.R.T policies!
I get piss off when your supporters appear to be begging me to vote for you and wake me up every dawn with your quotes on WhatsApp. It makes me think you are desperate for power. And whosoever has such insatiable taste for power; power would elude him/her (fruit for thought).
Am I being too difficult? No. I am just fighting for the betterment of my fellows and myself. We don’t deserve poor leadership, poor planning, mismanagement, embezzlement and such which manifest in the lot of shortcomings in services needed for our education. We deserve excellence not mediocrity.
I may consider you as an alternative to other aspirants but you really have to prove yourself to me before you can earn my votes. I know I have a single vote and is nothing but it’s all I have and I would use it wisely.
Yours faithfully,
Lawer Mensah Enoch.
(Concerned citizen)
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