Bunch of potbellied former officials of stamp and nature who had long left office for other jobs were with high hope of coming back and keeping their sons to continue milking from the country’s resources were busy distracting them and forcing them to do some things against their wills. They had been known for forming cliques of benchwarmers and vacuum fillers, waiting daily in wings that may fall off the excess diversions of the new president.
Many others were of the moneyed class who had contracted with the old president - whose status, as rich men were not borrowed, who had milked international and local banks in fraud and illegal businesses and got covered at the process. Politics had made him the most bankable politician in Africa. Almost all the administration that came up after independence knew them. They had handed posts and commissions of enquiry and fund for the past administration but could not be remembered for anything good. They had swallowed all money given them on those contracts and wrote it off.
They could easily buy off a state and its voters if they found it necessary. They made so much money in politics that they killed their conscience for taunting them. They could feed the entire nation for a whole month and still had reserve. Within sight, they could right off the country’s budgets into their account or buy up an oil reserve and lodge the money anywhere they wanted to.
They had been led to these committees by influential business magnates who hailed from the next end of the country, with link to global business, to buy up these positions that had not been given out and to give to those they demand fit for it and milk from them in any project they would be given.
While they were active with the plans, the judges in the electoral tribunals were busy applying techniques and expertise, announcing their decisions and suggesting that the only resort of the aggrieved party was an appeal to a higher court, which made biding decisions on those cases.
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The honeymoon period for the new president was soon over and it was time for them to tackle the country’s numerous problems, which had been left by Mr. President. The celebration had long ended. The visitors at the poll would soon take oath of the office and new government would emerge. Memories of the election were still rising and dying in many hearts and yet to many, memories of it were fast eroding, but not definitely on the mind of those that suffered losses and dislocation in the exercise. The new president would not and did not deny the fact that Mr. President rigged him into power. He was only a sycophant who was installed against his wish.
 At first, he had tried to maintain outstanding neutrality to sensitive superpowers hiding in darkness, empowering his excuses with continued silence and ill health. By his breed, it was sure, clear and certain that he was one of the vanishing breeds of political idealist but was spotted because of his family long history in politics. As a mark of his good quality, he was decent enough keeping the family name, comporting himself in a manner that would foster a reconciliation with angry hearts who were his predecessors' political enemies. His election now as the president set the seal on a remarkable political career.
He was somehow better, buying hearts and making promises of better days ahead. He asked for forgiveness openly and extended a warm invitation to anyone that would want to come to him for talk on the building of the country. He had also called parties to order, fraternized with them, calling for a comeback from slow tribunals who could not cast fear aside and pronouncing their judgments any day, any time. Sometimes, they could be pressured to do the will of their clients or otherwise, yet to some, they could out of pride pronounce their judgment without fear or favor to anyone or to any party.
 In one of such cases, the electoral board office caught fire. The fire which resisted all effort to stop consumed the buildings, so that for the judges, gathering clues at the tribunal proved impossible. Speculations thereafter became many and mostly unreliable, and it all centered on popular views, reports and ideas.
The new president was in full force now wanting to do everything and knowing everything at a short time. In the previous times, when he had not been elected, his public appearance was fewer. He sought to call for unity government and call sin by its name in the way the election was conducted. A system of government was anyone would accommodate each other’s interest, gradually relinquishing others of their seat. Those whom his predecessors had used in frustrating the plans of others from the minor parties and sending them for a fresh training abroad and in professional institutes on scholarship. The more he tried to bind them together the more they had torn apart.