The Candidate Test: How to Spot a Fake Leader Before You Vote: Full Edition

How to Spot a Fake Leader Before You Vote

Adaeze manages human resources at a Lagos bank. In a typical month she interviews fifty candidates, verifying CVs, calling former managers, and engaging background-check firms for senior hires. Last election cycle she voted for a senator whose CV she had never seen. She did not know where he went to school, what he had done before politics, or whether he had managed a budget larger than his household's. The Candidate Test is the professional due diligence framework applied to political candidates: a five-step forensic process — CV audit, character assessment, policy lie detector, team check, and a 20-question interview — that treats electing a government the way a careful employer treats hiring a CEO for your life.