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What exactly is the NPP’s
electioneering campaign message?
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Monday, November 30, 2015
Folks, there is much coming from the NPP front to make me
wonder whether the Akufo-Addo camp really knows how to do
things to win the hearts and heads of the electorate.
I have said all this while that there is nothing to prove
that Akufo-Addo has learnt any lesson with which to improve
his politicking after losing Elections 2008 and 2012.
Instead, he has succeeded in tearing apart his own party,
weakening it more than expected. Such a divided house isn't
even attractive for the mushroom political parties to team
up with in unseating the NDC administration.
As if that is not enough, there is nothing coming from
Akufo-Addo and his team to tell the electorate how they will
solve the problems that they haven't ceased condemning
President Mahama as "incompetent" to tackle. The barrage of
condemnatory utterances is all they are bombarding the
electorate with. Who will vote for such a party on the basis
of such hollow condemnatory utterances as the following:
1. ... some journalists have been paid whopping sums of
money by the John Mahama administration to keep their focus
on the internal happenings of the NPP (Fraudie Blay). NO
EVIDENCE GIVEN BY HIM FOR US TO KNOW WHICH JOURNALISTS HAVE
BEEN SO BRIBED AND CORRUPTED. And Fraudie Blay claims to be
a lawyer!!
2. ... the John Mahama-led National Democratic Congress
government has set up a slush fund, whose sole purpose is to
aid in the fomenting of trouble in the NPP, thereby damaging
the party ahead of the 2016 election (Fraudie Blay). NO
EVIDENCE GIVEN BY HIM FOR US TO KNOW HOW MUCH HAS BEEN SUNK
INTO THIS SLUSH FUND, WHERE IT IS DEPOSITED, THE
SIGNATORIES, AND ANYTHING ELSE. And Fraudie Blay claims to
be a lawyer!!
3. ... government has sanctioned the formation of a crack
team, supported by elements in the National Security set up,
to make the job of attempting to damage the NPP a top
priority (Fraudie Blay). NO EVIDENCE GIVEN BY HIM FOR US TO
KNOW ANYTHING ELSE APART FROM HIS DANGEROUS ALLEGATION. And
Fraudie Blay claims to be a lawyer!!
4. ... The infighting in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is
not only blown out of proportion, but also planned and
executed by forces outside the Danquah-Busia-Dombo family (Akufo-Addo).
NO EVIDENCE GIVEN BY HIM FOR US TO KNOW ANYTHING ELSE APART
FROM HIS EMPTY ALLEGATION.
Questions for Akufo-Addo: Was it external forces that made
him bulldoze his way through to muscle other NPP
Presidential aspirants out of contention so he could lead
the NPP to Election 2016 (for the third time)? Was it
external forces that made him set up his forces of
destruction to clamp down on voices of dissension (including
those of the Kufuor camp and other respected NPP voices of
reason so he could have his way paved to lead the party)?
Was it the external forces that acid-bathed Alhaji Adams to
create the congenial environment for him to boot out those
party administrators legally put in office by the NPP's
delegates? Was it external forces that propelled the
emasculation of Paul Afoko? Was it external forces that
killed the NPP member (his alleged admirer) at Asawase?
Can Akufo-Addo tell us that it is external forces that are
questioning his own integrity for all that he claims to be?
I am more than confident that Akufo-Addo is lost!! He is
still not able to come to terms with reality and cannot know
why Ghanaians won't put him in office as their leader.
Francis Poku might have eaten back his own words (claiming
that he didn't say anything of the sort published about his
opinion on why it will be risky to elect Akufo-Addo as
Ghana's President); but the harm to Akufo-Addo by whatever
was gleaned out of the interview has already been done. Kofi
Coomson isn't talking; but what he put out there in the
public domain about Akufo-Addo still has its relevance.
I take issues with Akufo-Addo on all that has been happening
at the NPP front thus far: Is it external forces that are
making it difficult for him to show any acceptable
leadership skill to keep the NPP united? Is it external
forces that are making Fraudie Blay and Abankwa steal the
NPP's funds to make Akufo-Addo look a dullard in their
scheming?
And considering the manner in which he is behaving in the
NPP camp, is there any assurance that he can do things more
convincingly to keep Ghana united if the electorate should
go for him? If for nothing at all, President Mahama has
succeeded in cementing that bind of national unity. Under
his watch, we haven't had any ethnic-based internecine
warfare as happened under his predecessors. He has proved to
be a unifier. Is that what Akufo-Addo is? Not so, at least,
from what we already know about him.
Folks, there is much to say, but we will pause here to say
that Ghana's problems are systemic, not caused by John
Dramani Mahama but by people and circumstances preceding
him. His manner of administration may have its own
peculiarities or add to those problems, but he isn't o blame
for it all as the NPP people are suggesting. How will the
systemic problems be solved beyond removing Mahama from
office? And who is to solve those problems?
Certainly, not the crop of NPP people baying all over the
place. They haven't given us anything different from what we
already have had from Mahama ---promises here and there. Of
course, Mahama has made good some of the major promises,
which is good for his standing. How about the Greeks coming
with gifts at night (the Trojan Horse)?
The truth is that the electorate won't be moved by what is
coming from the NPP camp. Akufo-Addo and his team have still
not found their bearing to move where they can click. They
are embittered for no good reason and will remain so till
wallopped again. Poor souls.
To know these NPP people is to dislike their kind of sterile
politics. President Mahama and his team aren't making as
much progress as expected, but they can't be easily
supplanted with an Akufo-Addo team that is even not sure of
its own capabilities to solve pertinent problems.
I shall return…
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