Politics, as defined by Harold Lasswell, a famous political scientist, is who gets what, when, and how. He explained that politics is about who has the power or influence; what resources, benefits, or decisions they get and when they get them; and how they manage to get them (methods, strategies, and power dynamics). Lasswell’s definition summarises politics as the distribution of power and resources in a society.

So, politics is fundamentally a logical game of influence and interest. It is believed that anyone who intends to engage in politics, is already in politics, or was at one time involved in politics has one purpose at heart: it is to pursue a certain interest, which can be personal, group, regional, or national in nature.

From the above, it is safe to say every human being has at one time or another been involved in politics. Therefore, Aristotle, a political scholar, was not wrong when he said that humans are political animals, i.e., wherever two or more persons are found, the game of interest must ensue. In other words, long before the advent of modern political ideologies and systems of government, like democracy, communism, oligarchy, theocracy, and the like, politics was already built within the human system.

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