Rethinking presidential communications framework

Tunde Olusunle
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Seasons of politicking have always excited me through the ages. They come with multidimensional appeal and inspiration for both the creative writer and the recorder of history in motion, the journalist. They are characterised by sights and sounds, specific to the season. They throw up slogans and sound bites, rhymes and rhythms, frills and thrills, which ring and re-echo in our consciousness beyond the period. Can I, for instance, ever forget a 2011 incident during which my sport utility vehicle, an Infinity QX 56, was transported by a wooden ferry across the River Niger from Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, to Gboloko in Bassa Local Government Area of the same state? It was during the off-cycle election which produced the Emeritus aviator, Idris Wada, as governor of Kogi State. My heart was effectively in my mouth for the duration of that trip. I opted to return to the state capital through a longer land route, rather than repeat that experiment.
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