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This Pyrrhic victory won't
work well for Akufo-Addo
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Folks, in writing to bait the NPP gang assisting Akufo-Addo
to get rid of dissenting voices in their political cabal, I
knew that they would dig in and axe Kwabena Agyepong and
Sammy Crabbe. What they had set in motion couldn't be
reversed. So, it has happened that Agyepong and Crabbe have
been put in the freezer. (See http://www.myjoyonline.com/politics/2015/December-10th/npp-suspends-kwabena-agyepong-crabbe-indefinitely.php)
Others emerging as critical and condemnatory of Akufo-Addo
will be lined up for similar punitive measures. I have in
mind Joshua Attoh Quarshie whose utterances are even worse
than what has landed Afoko, Agyepong, and Crabbe in the
political Siberia.
But this Pyrrhic victory being won by Akufo-Addo will not
oil his political wheel for victory at Election 2016.
Instead, it will erode his support base within and outside
the NPP cabal.
By suspending Agyepong particularly, the NPP masterminds
might be using this action to set up a smokescreen---a
facade---to attempt eroding the negative impression of their
cabal as Akan-based. It won't wash with anybody. It still
remains what it has been in the sight of the people---and
has now become worse, especially now that the tyranny
against dissenting voices has reached a crescendo of
abhorrence!!
After seeing the video clip on that Hajia Fati's pouring of
"libation" or sweeping away of Agyepong as well as the
popping of "champagne" by NPP supporters, I laughed out
really loud. How narrow-minded can't these people be?
Party officials duly elected at the NPP's national delegates
conference to administer the affairs of the party have been
framed up and driven out like stray cattle, an action that
reasonable party followers would view more seriously than
these buffs are doing. What are they celebrating? That those
elected to perform legitimate duties for the NPP have been
nipped by a handful of so-called party leaders supporting
Akufo-Addo? Or that the votes of the delegates who chose
Afoko, Agyepong, and Crabbe have been undermined? Wherein,
then, lies the essence and value of the people's voice in a
democracy of the sort that the NPP claims to be practising
internally?
If they consider Afoko, Agyepong, and Crabbe or any other
person expressing dismay at happenings in the party under
Akufo-Addo as the problems to be tackled to pave the way for
Akufo-Addo to win the Presidential elections, they are
deceived.
As we have persisted in saying, the problems militating
against Akufo-Addo emanate from him, not from outside.
Nothing done or not done by anybody should be misconstrued
as the cause of his political woes. Only he can redeem
himself.
It must be clear at this stage that Akufo-Addo has muddied
his own party's waters and should be prepared for whatever
fate awaits him even before Election 2016 is held. And that
fate will be a sad and sorry one!!
Now, Afoko, Agyepong, and Crabbe will go all out to do
whatever they can to serve purposes that will hurt
Akufo-Addo. And they will be joined by those in the party
supporting them. There are countless others who know how to
do things and will lend support to them.
Folks, Akufo-Addo has succeeded in adding more problems to
what he isn't even able to carry as of now. He will sag
under the weight. It is just a matter of time for him to
wobble and hobble. This time, he will visit Mecca and the
Vatican for God's intervention, but it won't happen. The
battle that he thinks is being fought for him by God has
already ended in his disfavour. He is really confirming poor
opinions about him as a divider and not a unifier, a
vindictive person, and not a leader to help put in power to
rule Ghana. An intolerant braggart!!
Here is the barrier that he has set in front of himself:
alienating those who would genuinely have worked for him;
turning those perceived as members of the Kufuor faction
against him in a more pointedly abrasive manner;
destabilizing the NPP's front and making it increasingly
difficult for the party to remain united. At least, under
circumstances surrounding Elections 2008 and 2012, the NPP
was united, even though he lost. How about now that he has
torn it apart this way?
Clearly, the road for Akufo-Addo will be really rough and
tough. I wonder what he stands to gain from this
high-handedness against critical voices in the party. This
imposition of the culture of silence will hurt him more than
win favour and goodwill for him. H e will definitely regret
winning and gloating over this Pyrrhic victory against the
party's own national officers. I foresee more rumpus and
will continue to monitor happenings at the NPP front.
I shall return…
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