Politics is a dirty game, they say.
It also seems to be a game for hypocrites.
Nigerian politicians are fond of staging photo ops to project a caring image to their fellow Nigerians.
Most times, though, the actual actions of these politicians and the effect of their policies don’t seem tally with their compassionate, we-are-one-with-the-common-people photo ops.
In this post, we present 9 politicians who may have fooled their countrymen and women this way.
9. That time Edo State governor Adams Oshiomhole purchased fruits from the streets.
8. That time governor Tanko Al-Makura sampled useless beds at Government College, Keffi in Nasarawa State.
7. When Kaduna State governor Nasir El-Rufai was photographed eating sugar cane before his people. Well played. 
6. When the ‘My people, My people’ guy from Imo State, Rochas Okorocha, carried a baby while roasting corn in public.
5. Aisha Buhari, wife of Nigeria’s president Muhammadu, sure knows how to fry akara for the common women…while the camera rolls.
4. Transport minister and former River State governor Rotimi Amaechi is the best ‘political stylist’. Kontinu.
3. That time governor Akinwunmi Ambode of Lagos State patronised a local roast plantain seller (boli)…emphasis on ‘patronised’.
2. Ambode probably took the cue from his predecessor now works and power minister Babatunde Fashola. What is it with Lagos governors AND boli?
1. But the ‘fairest of them all’, of course, is the ‘stomach infrastructure’ governor of Ekiti State Ayo Fayose. This guy can play the game for Africa.
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