Politics is about power to govern. Those that compete for power obviously want to govern. In governing, the governors definitely benefit in many ways including financially.
This is very obvious. Although this a fact of life and politics, publicly demanding that the ruling party should benefit is politically naive. The common man on the street interprets such demands as selfishness and that if you don’t belong to the DPP, you are not a priority for positions or government business. Once that image settles in the mind of the people, the party will start losing support among urban population.
The result of the 2014 general elections showed that the race was very tight. The party should work towards getting more support than losing support. Creating an image of selfishness is one sure way of losing support.
Chakwera is knocking on the door of power and if DPP loses support even by an inch, it will find itself in opposition sooner than thought. I was very angry with Joyce Banda when she said, “ino ndi nthawi yathu yotakakata.”
Such language shows that you are not there to serve the country but to benefit. DPP should send the message of serving the country not benefiting.
Yes it is true, the DPP and its members will benefit as the ruling party but loudly demanding more benefits will alienate the common man whose vote will be needed in just four years.
We don’t want to see DPP members intimidating public officials in the name of wanting to ‘benefit.’
There are better ways of ‘benefitting’, like delivering the promises that the party made during the elections and earning another term after satisfying the electorate. In life and politics in particular some truth is better downplayed.
True friend of the mighty DPP.
