Serious undertakings, and silly utterances, it must be election time

Alongside Christmas, and other special occasions that tend to untether some folk from their common sense moorings, election periods are sometimes referred to as the silly season, a warning to innocent bystanders that among the serious, life shaping undertakings offered, will be quite a few silly utterances, sententiously declared.
Rwandans living in Japan at a polling station in the City of Kobe yesterday. Courtesy.
Rwandans living in Japan at a polling station in the City of Kobe yesterday. Courtesy.
Vincent Gasana