The race started before the launching into the year 2016, a race amongst the strong men and few women of the United States of America, the race of who takes the lead of presidency after Barrack Obama vacates the presidential seat of the country.
The United States has been known to have been a party to the two party system, a situation where the Democrats and Republicans parties take charge of who to run for the presidential election of the States. Initially, more than four candidates from the Democrats party declared their interest in running for the presidential post which some withdrew and others suspended during primaries, leaving Hillary Clinton a one time first lady of the united states and Bernie Sanders as candidates contesting in the Democrats party.
The Republicans party had gotten more than a dozen of candidates that declared their interest which some were however suspended and some withdrawn during primaries, leaving Ben Carson, Jeb Bush, Ted Cruz, Donald Trump, Marco Rubio, and one other contestant as candidates. The countdown of each each party descended and it will until the only one candidate needed to occupy the presidential seat is chosen through the votes of the citizens of the United States of America.
However, with the ongoing campaign speeches of the candidates, it is easier for the citizens to pick their most perceived vibrant candidate as their president.
Donald Trump, has declared in his speeches the walls he will build to block the boarders against the Mexicans and the Africans, and according to vox pop, some citizens are tired of the rulership of the Bush's, while some would have prefererd Ben Carson and John Kasich as the only candidates in the Republican party and alas, citizens clamour for change as the Nigerians did.
Rulership is a position where one has sovereignty over a group of people, leadership; the capacity of someone to guide, instruct or lead a group of people. The campaign speeches of each candidate is a skeletal drawing of how each candidate will perform when he or she is declared the winner of the election. There have been different hate campaign speeches made by contestants against each other and these have not portrayed some as good leaders, but some who are interested in rulership.
In the same context, 2015 marked the year when Nigerians got the change they clamoured for as it was a tug of war between the APC candidate and the PDP candidate, Muhammadu Buhari and Goodluck Jonathan respectively, though other parties were included in the election, but ignored by the citizens as Nigeria operates on a multi party system basis. Citizens were bent on making a new government emerged, but never thought of the pros and cons of the new emergence. The same citizens that clamoured for change are weeping out complains against change about dollar that rises against naira, fuel scarcity and price hike, increment in cost of goods due to dollar increase in value. The same citizens got tired of the old body that governed, now another lamentation.
Some American citizens are against Barack Obama for legalising gay marriage, while some regard him as the best president ever. Some presidential candidates are thrown foul languages at for being racists, while some citizens applaud them. Every citizen cannot be pleased, but the differences must be glaring (Rulership and Leadership).
A leader shows the way, directs, instructs, guides, but a ruler craves indulgence in having sovereignty over the people, wanting all the benefits attached to the position. It is not too late for the citizens of the United States of America to choose their leader and not ruler. This is a time that the contest is at its peak, every candidate is tensed, and a period to know how desperate some are, and how tactical some would be if elected as the president of the United States of America.
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