Festival of Bribes
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In Umuezechime, a quiet town in southeastern Nigeria, Uncle Chike, an incorruptible school principal, keeps the peace, settles disputes, corrects people’s bad grammar with quiet pride, and drinks his palm wine gently over newspapers, convinced that doing right in small ways is enough to make the world better.
One day, everything changed after he went viral for publicly rejecting a political inducement, and declared to the political aspirant’s agents, “No, I will not collect your rice.”
From being pushed into early retirement by those who felt disrespected by his public refusal, Uncle Chike fights back by running for office to fix corruption. In his quest, he is surrounded by a system that refuses to change; a cousin who treats corruption like a career strategy; a campaign manager obsessed with going viral; a preacher delivering divine campaign prophecy, and political opponents who will stop at nothing to get him out of the way.
Election day erupts into a full-blownFestival of Bribes. Backed by the formidable godfather ‘Chief Odogwu Global’, the ruling party’s candidate, Dikko, dismisses the bribery allegations, referring to the inducements as nothing more than ‘fuel for the engine of democracy.’
As the town fractures between those who will vote, those who will sell, those who will stay silent, and those who will help rig the process, the election result begins to take a life of its own, forcing the town to confront a dangerous question:
What does it really cost for the right candidate to win? And who must pay for it?
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Language: English
Category: Fiction
Format: Print edition
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