If this was a 400-meter race then the final bend that had Paul Kagame RPF, Ngotanyi, Phillipe Npayimana an Independent and Frank Habineza of the Democratic Green Party was in the very last stages of a race. In Rutare Sector in Gicumbi district, Locals started arriving here as early as 8 am and as we had come used to seeing, they continued to be energized by many artists who were out there on the platform making sure that the whole experience was one to see. An interview with Odate who was the Secretary General of the Liberty Party and had also just finished her tenure with the EALA General Assembly yielded results. asked why her party had joined a coalition for another candidate, this was what she had to say. “What we’ve been observing in our country it is a real transformation. We want to continue in the same way, we want to continue this transformation that you observed yourself and we think our party could not do better”.
Asked her that there were rumors that the RPF had paid off some parties here, what was her comment on that? And in her response, sharply she came back. “Never, we’ve not been paid we spent our own money, our savings in the party, we fundraised amongst ourselves to even buy these fernions, to buy new clothes with Kagame picture because we want to campaign for him.”
It was then time to wait for the RPF Ngotanyi candidate Paul Kagame who came to the place and as we had become used to seeing of late, He stepped onto a Land Rover and went through the crowds and the crowds were ecstatic, cheered as he also cheered back. It seemed it was all meant to be written in the skies. Talking about the excitement, locals came ready and expecting to dance. The artists didn’t disappoint and neither did the dancers. There were some dance moves that anyone with interest in dancing could borrow a leaf from.
When he started, he was speaking passionately to silence. He began by talking about the fact that they had made choices in Gicumbi in Rwanda and whoever did want those choices could well leave Rwanda alone. He also said that electricity at this point was no longer a dream. Children came to the stage and that just showed how President Paul Kagame had grown himself as a brand and as a father figure and very much now as a grandfather figure.
