"Rot in the system"

Recently, I was watching a brief summary of the presentation of the report of the transition committee set up in one of those Northern states. I knew exactly how it would end and yes, they didn't disappoint. The new governor bemoaned the failure of the immediate past administration and claimed that everything in the state was in pieces blah blah blah. We are very familiar with this, right? But have you ever stopped to think that such things are well-organized schemes to fool the people? When a new governor or president is elected, he quickly goes ahead to discredit his predecessor by outlining the debt, corruption and lack of funds in the treasury, and then he concludes by saying that 'even though we met a lot of rot in the system, we will try our best to pick up the pieces and put things in order'. In the next four years, he would do just that: pick up the pieces. At the end of his tenure, when you ask him why things are still bad, he'll say, "You know, we met a lot of rot in the system." That's the standard excuse. By the time he leaves office and his successor is elected and if that successor is from a different party, he'll also tell you that he met a lot of rot in the system and that he'll try to pick up the pieces. This is the excuse that they all use to cover-up for their deliberate failures and the funny part is that it never expires. Nigerians will continue to buy it. So as they get poorer, the politicians get richer. Why on earth can't we pull the scales from our eyes???