Bereft of ideas and possessed more with the poison of intimidation, stampede and vile propaganda, members of the NDC have, since 2001, pretended that nothing good has taken place in Ghana under an NPP administration, though the record of growth in agriculture and manufacturing, for instance, has been a resounding legacy of the two NPP administrations.
So, in line with their tradition of applying noise of every form to their campaign for political power, such weapons have been brazenly used to shoot down every achievement and vision that will bring more and more improvement in the lives and livelihoods of Ghanaians, particularly those from vulnerable communities.
Pranks
From attempts to degrade the Free SHS programme, through reforms in the banking sector, to job creation and re-ignition of the energy sector to drive our national industrialisation agenda, the NDC propaganda machine has sought to twist the facts by harping on issues that they are afraid and even embarrassed to tackle on the relevant platforms.
The latest in that desperate move is the noise about pushing the governing NPP off the precipice before they can prove their corruption and incompetent cases against the Akufo-Addo administration.
Earlier, they had lied that they had won the 2020 general elections – presidential and parliamentary – and had sent illiterate young men and women screaming to the headquarters of the Electoral Commission claiming that John Mahama had won the elections, but was being denied the mandate to take over and form a government.
Then, pushed by civil society to conduct some self-sanitisation, they reluctantly went to court, without evidence except the unprofessional assemblage of writs that kept being thrown out.
Exposed
Now it is becoming clear that their agenda into the 2024 general elections is to make ugly noise and take advantage of the high vulnerability levels in the countryside and poor urban communities to confuse the electorate.
Even when the ruling administration has masterpieces of development like the Pokuase and Kumasi interchanges, and a buoyant environment that is attracting investments and businesses with global image to show as a credible government, the response from them is a cacophony of voices from some Minority MPs, communicators and the defeated presidential candidate denying the fact of hope on our horizons.
Antidote
When the Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia therefore urges the NPP leadership to focus on telling their story of resounding success and flourishing image as a global partner, we believe the cal must as well go to constituency and regional executives in whose backyards the stories of development are being told in graphic detail.
From the emerging One District, One Factory initiatives along the Dodowa, Somanya road into the Berekum Tomato Factory, and farther into the north, the people who must tell the story include those who pride themselves on being party executives and foot soldiers.
They are those on the ground who know what is happening in their constituencies.
MPs, MMDCEs
Again, when the Vice-President urges MPs and top party functionaries to focus on the government’s success stories, we believe that is because they have the files on development initiatives taking place across the country and are in a position to explain issues better.
Looking back at how the party sat down and failed to click in that regard during the last elections, despite the remarkable achievements, NPP members need not be told that a more sinister plot is being hatched in that same vein that should alert them to fight back with every ounce of blood in their veins.
But that should also alert party leadership to the need to elect constituency and regional executives who have some basic sense of street research when the party opens nominations to pick party executives.
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