Monday, December 27, 2010

Political Groups

Sounds really boring, right?

Well, this post isn't gonna be. I'm going to use a 12 year-old kids contemporary vocab (slanguage involved). Now, in Nigeria, just like in the US of A, there are political groups, like the Democrats and the Republicans. Here, there is the PDP (Peoples Democratic Party), and the AC (Action Congress). The PDP's symbol is an umbrella. The umbrella's made out of three colors, green, white, and red. And the AC's symbol is a traditional broom, native to Nigeria (I think). Here is a picture of one:


They're going toe to toe all the time, just like two other political parties that I know...one starts with d and the other starts with r. Anyway, PDP is larger than AC, and is in control of many different states. AC doesn't have many states under it's wing, but the ones that it does claim have been drastically changed for the good. In those states, there's not as much corruption, the cities are cleaner, it's overall nicer. PDP...well, let's just say that things stay the way they were before. Just less money in the civilians pockets, and more moolah in the PDP politicians'. Just about a few weeks ago, there was an election in our state, Osun, and AC won! Hurrah! Already, things are changing, like bigshot politicians don't get to have sirens on their cars, which makes them just a tad bit more humane. A lot of people were happy that day. It was so bad, my parents phones could barely call anyone, the network was so clogged. Good things are coming! Hopefully.

Hooray! 

Signing off,
The Traveler

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