Election fever is going to infect Moi University with student elections due in a few months.
Not too long will the campaign trail be in full mode and guys in suits will start greeting people all over the pavements. The varsity compound will be decorated with campaign posters of aspirants.
These times make for easy money. Elsewhere, ladies will be debating on who is the most handsome aspirant in the battle of the wits.
However, many aspirants will do wrong things in pursuit of rummaging for votes. Some will take loans, miss classes and even put up with unbearable slurs so as to navigate through the mucky waters of campus politics.
Everyone wants to win, conversely, many do not know how to maneuvre such state of affairs. For one to be triumphant, here are the advices for the aspirants.
Get complete support from the opposite sex
This is one of the most sensitive areas. For a guy you have to ensure your personality is outstanding. Use pictures that glue a lady. For instance one who is heading to the library to stare at it. Your presence in the midst of the female comrades should have an effect.
Ensure your appearance is spot on by wearing fitting suits and avoid over size suits. Mark you, ladies can vote for a guy not because of his manifestos or anything else but because of his good looks.
If you are a lady you must forget about decency. Ensure to highlight some of your fundamental features in your posters. Pose very careful for the camera to capture your cleavages and other “goodies” if you have. Don’t be shocked when you identify a number of men with your posters in their rooms. I bet the so called “team mafisi” will be obsessed with your posters and they will vote for you.
Give fake promises
Not only do students like promises, but voters all over the world too. Once you tell them the truth, you are deemed boring. The lies will make them fantasise and guess what? Sometimes fantasies makes us satisfied.
In most cases, campus students go through a lot of challenges but they shy away from speaking their mind. As an aspirant how can you capitalize on this to harness votes?
First, identify the problems they are enduring. Second, during the final “Kamkunji” at students’ center tell them you will address those particular issues. Of course you will not, but just tell them. You will be voted in, in large numbers.
Buy drinks
You know what? Theory has it that, drinks are equal to votes. Get some funding from your county governor or any other loaded person. Take the whole class and friends for lunch.
Afterwards, these people will start singing your name all over and telling their friends about your good deeds and how generous you are.
Get some wannabes to howl and wail your name during cross – fire. But don’t be a spendthrift. This is to avoid frustrations if you do not make it.
Do not play cool
It is said that “politics is a dirty game and forever it will be”. Outdo your competitors and opponents.
Make use of all your arsenal by identifying your competitor’s weaknesses and use it against them. This works all the time. Both you and your competitors are desperate for conquest. So use all means to thrash them out. Don’t hold back, wishes come later.
Harness your popularity before the election
When keen, you will be amazed at what people do to those they don’t like. But when they like you they will regard everything you do as right even if you are wrong.
This will also help you after your term in office. Even if you did not deliver, they will still appreciate you because they like you.
