THE growing number of running mates and candidates withdrawing from the election race shortly after nomination raises serious questions about the integrity, judgment and motives of some of the people seeking public office. It is difficult to understand how a person can pay an exorbitant nomination fee, mobilise hundreds of registered voters to support a candidature, submit nomination papers and present themselves as ready to govern, only to abandon the race when elections are just around the corner. Politics cannot be treated like a market stall where one moves to whichever side appears to be....