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Ade Coker and Co. must be
stopped in their dirty tracks!!
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Friday, December 4, 2015
Folks, I have followed developments at the NDC front well
enough to know that what Ade Coker and the Greater-Accra
Regional leaders of the NDC are doing to Sam George (winner
of the primaries in the Ningo-Prampram area) and Honourable
Namoale (incumbent NDC MP for La Dade Kotopon and winner of
the recent primaries there) will definitely plunge the NDC
into needless trouble. Ade Coker and his gang must be
stopped right-away in their tracks before what they have
planted grows to cause havoc.
Why are some of these NDC officials so lazy upstairs to know
that the trouble that they trigger at the constituency level
will eventually tear the party's ranks apart?
This very Ade Coker mobilized and led a team of military
personnel to Ningo to cause confusion, apparently because he
supported the spent horse E.T. Mensah and feared his defeat
at the hands of Sam George. And it happened. Now, he is
manipulating the situation to cause more trouble.
If Ade Coker and Co. were really interested in seeking the
welfare of the NDC in that constituency, they would have
known long before the primaries that E.T. Mensah was a
liability to the party. His constantly bad relationship with
the chiefs and large segments of the society in the
constituency sent warning signals long ago but Coker and Co.
failed to see them to know how to patch differences. The
chiefs and people had already vowed to "teach E.T. Mensah a
bitter lesson" at the 2012 polls. By a slight quirk of
circumstances, however, he won the seat even though the NPP
candidate did well; but retaining him for Election 2016
won't work this time. That's why George's victory over him
should be regarded as a timely change for the betterment of
the party there.
Suspending Sam George just because he made utterances
interpreted as demeaning is neither here nor there. He made
those utterances in the heat of the confusion that Ade Coker
and others were causing. In other words, whatever prompted
George's utterance can be traced back to the provocation
caused by Coker and Co. Turning round to suspend him on that
score is just a mere attempt to undermine him and cause
disaffection among his supporters. How can the NDC benefit
from this untoward situation?
The same applies to Namoale. The allegations used to suspend
him are baseless and should be condemned. Unless the NDC
wants to lose its support base in that part of the
Greater-Accra Region, it should get Ade Coker and Co. out of
the way for peace to prevail.
After the bitterness that occasioned the primaries in some
of the constituencies, it is time for peace-making and
strengthening of ranks, not the kind of stupidity that Ade
Coker has initiated.
The reaction of the NDC national leaders to this development
is another cause for concern. They are saying that the
allegations against George and Namoale are being reviewed
and that they haven't been suspended.
I want to tell them straight to their face that they are
treading on dangerous grounds to behave like the NPP people.
Suspending winners of primaries won't help the party's
cause. Are these NDC leaders so mindless of where the party
stands?
I strongly wish that the fence-mending efforts will begin
immediately to restore sanity into the party's ranks in the
troubled constituencies. This is the time for reason to
prevail over useless sentiments wrought by senseless
animosity toward the real trench-workers of the party.
What is Ade Coker himself worth to the NDC? How many voters
can he grab or win over for the NDC to warrant his doing
things to erode the party's support base? His foolish
manouevres shouldn't be tolerated at all. When it comes to
the crunch, he should rather be shown the exit.
I shall return…
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