Both former President John Dramani Mahama and Johnson Asiedu Nketia appear to be playing on the minds of the electorate, as they make desperate attempts to get unsuspecting Ghanaians to support the National Democratic Congress to return to power.
The National Democratic Congress has an abiding agenda to create an ignorant, backward and rural society. That is the reason why John Mahama, in particular, eroded the gains made by his predecessors to the point of turning everything he touched into garbage – from SADA and education, through health and agriculture to the banking sector.
As would be expected, he would equally need a prop at the Electoral Commission to keep him in power. Because that failed, and like a pampered kid, he had to get into useless tantrums, buoyed by lieutenants with no known stations in life, to disturb our serene political environment.
Election petition
We had thought, like most Ghanaians felt in 2013, that the 2020 Election Petition was over, with all its clowning and deficits in evidence as well as ‘professional tomfoolery’ and legal mumbo-jumbo.
It appeared that we were in for a long haul of ‘drunk tunes’ as the same characters resurrected, despite claims from within that, indeed, the 2020 battle had been lost and won, and that John was only fiddling for 2024 daggers drawn against the person of the Electoral Commissioner.
Of course, we felt these occasional jibes at the EC were belated defence mechanisms from the Sammys and Dominics and Tsatsus, which were just going to fade off with time, while we think and engage one another on more important issues of development.
Distraction agenda
Unfortunately, we were to be distracted by the same bunch of empty barrels who broke the pot and came home shedding crocodile tears about a crocodile chase.
But how Nemesis works to put such characters to shame has been manifest in the obvious disagreement about how investigations should be conducted into the so-called over one million thumb-printed ballots that illiterate NDC polling station agents failed to detect, resulting in Mahama taking another slap from President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo in the 2020 elections.
And the NDC’s distraction agenda is also obvious in the noise on the floor of Parliament, backed by equally mischievous communicators and poisonous media stations who appear to have been hired to sing the Mahama drunk tunes.
What Mahama is engaged in – away from topical conversations like the Agenda 111, Keta tidal waves, crime fight, food security, as well as his credibility as the NDC next candidate – is simply a departure from reality and our forward march into industrialisation.
It is the hope of the Daily Statesman that while Mahama persists in his frivolities, the NPP government and party will ignore his rants, and prove to the electorate that, from the north through the Volta region to indigenous Accra, Mahama is now only known as a glib character more interested in writing history as a clown, than a student of a prestigious institution like Achimota and as a former President of Ghana.
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