Short in ideas, short in intellect, short in depth!

The heading is taken from the Guest Column piece in the Sunday Standard of June 15 – 21, 2014: “ANC did it, BDP poised to win.”Imagine my disappointment when I read the article, not to find why the BDP is poised to win just because the ANC had won.

One expected to read the explicit resemblances between  BDP and ANC which made the two parties to share political fortunes, making one to win just because the other had won, paralleling their winning streak of elections. There was nothing in the piece remotely comparing the two parties backgrounds:  history, ideology, challenges or reliable statistics of any nature!  I think the columnist words should be tossed back at him!

Granted both the ANC and the BDP have been embroiled in allegations of corruption that implicated the heads of state, comparison of the two political parties to the extent that what one can do the other can do as well, is rather farfetched.

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