Oedipus and question

My big question is: Why is power attractive?Sophocles indicated through the main character in the play, that power is attractive because it's an extollment of the individual. Oedipus is confronted in the beginning of the play by the suffering people of Thebes because he is an established association of success attained through individual accomplishments-he's a problem solver. Oedipus' achievements granted him power and before Thebes asked for his assistance they praised him and remarked upon his success in previous occurrances. Oedipus desired to maintain that power because he was continually extoled.