The 100 Days In Office Jamborees

It is now common place amongst our Local Government Chairmen and political office holders to itemize their achievements, when they’ve clocked 100 days in office. This practice has spread like a typhoon or tsunami to the extent that anyone in position of responsibility that has not celebrated 100 days in office is seen as an oddity.
This practice is new so prevalent, that even governors have been bitten by the bug and feel duty bound to reel out their achievements within 100 days in office. However, in realpolitik, as long as the political office holder keeps on delivering the dividends of democracy, basically it is immaterial if those achievements are publicized or not. In saner climes, as long as the mandate has been given to you and you’ve earned the people’s trust, it is expected that the political appointee keeps on doing what is best for the people. Our politicians should not climb the tree like the proverbial lizard, fall and expect people from diverse quarters to start clapping for them.
Insofar as the political office holders are acting in good conscience as their office demands, tributes, accolades and encomiums are not needed to do the work.
As a matter of fact, it is assuming a nauseating dimension, the extent to which local government chairmen go the extra mile to convince the innocent bystander of their administrative acumen especially when they elect to reel out their supposed achievements within 100 days in office.
Someone ought to tell these local government chairmen that the end justifies the means. The public is more interested in the end product more than the fripperies that occur in between.
All political office holders should know that the masses expect them to keep on delivering the dividends of democracy. We cannot be cajoled into believing that because you reeled out some projects early on your timeline, it now seems that you are successful. Rather, your success or lack of it will be determined by your scorecard at the end of your tenure. There is no need to look for cheap popularity, through your claims of one achievement or the other.
There is a place for concerted and intentional planning. Once in office, the political office holder is expected to draw up quarterly or biannual templates to fix their developmental blueprints. Methinks they (the political office holders) should not be under too much pressure to show what they’ve done within 100 days in office.
Rather, the political office holder on resumption of duty should assemble some eggheads, to piece together the requisite projects and timelines without resorting to an haphazard developmental framework. I believe that such long term planning could be much more beneficial to our leaders in authority than the more popular 100 days in office.