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So, Akufo-Addo's own
trusted lieutenants will kill him?
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Sunday, January 3, 2016
Folks, it is disgusting to have the doomsday prophecies from
charlatans of Rev. Owusu-Bempah's type begin fouling our air
so early in 2016. After opening their mouths really wide to
make all kinds of predictions and prophecies that never came
true as far as the fate of Akufo-Addo is concerned at
Elections 2008 and 2012, they are now turning their
"searchlight" inwards and telling us what we don't really
need so early in this year.
Owusu-Bempah is out to tell us that none other but those
close to Akufo-Addo are planning to assassinate him because
they don't want to have him win Election 2016 and become
Ghana's President. (See
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Some-people-are-plotting-to-kill-Nana-Addo-404878).
Eiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiihhhh. Asem ben nie? So early in this
election year?
Is this an attempt to confuse Akufo-Addo or to drive him
more into the labyrinth of religiosity in the deceptive
belief that God will fight his battle for him to win
Election 2016? Folks, God doesn’t fight such electoral
battles; and anybody thinking otherwise will end up looking
for dung where no cow grazed. Electoral battles are fought
and won or lost on the basis of pragmatics and mundane
happenings in the lives of the people vis-à-vis the
manouevres of politicians, not on the basis of “faith” or
any fuzzy belief in a God that no one has seen before or
will ever see. God doesn’t sit at the seat of government;
neither will he choose for the people who should govern
them. It is the people themselves who do so on the basis of
what they see about those seeking their mandate.
Whether God appointed rulers for Israel in Biblical times is
not at issue here because we are not Israelites (of old) or
Israelis (of now). We are Ghanaians!! No one should deceive
anybody in this context. The people will choose the leader
they want; and as is often said, a people get the government
they deserve. Don’t ask me why.
Of course, I am not surprised at the use of violence as
“prophesied” by Owusu-Bempah because the United Party (UP)
political culture is known for using violence instead of
reason and connections with the electorate in pursuit of its
political objectives. How about the bomb-throwing in the
First Republic, the murder of political opponents in this
Fourth Republic, or the acid-bathing of their own leaders?
Nothing stops them from using any means of violence to get
their pound of flesh.
I wouldn't have batted my eyelid over this noise from
Owusu-Bempah but for the fact that he was instrumental in
pumping up Akufo-Addo's intransigence at the end of Election
2012 and creating the negative impression that he (Akufo-Addo)
had won the polls but was cheated. Did he not even predict
the death of president Mahama and the Asantehene?
And rather whimsically too, Akufo-Addo has bought into such
vile prophecies and snuggled to these characters and many
others to create the impression that he is favoured by God
but defeated by human machination; hence, the NPP’s fixation
on the vain and exaggerated claim that “the battle is of the
Lord’s”.
Akufo-Addo’s desperate manouevres to use religion as a
crutch ended in smoke, especially at the end of the Supreme
Court’s hearing of his damn useless petition; but those who
know that weakness of his won't let him be. They know how to
bait him and are up on their feet to do so, as this
Owusu-Bempah has just begun doing after a long spell of
silence when disproved by reality. There are many others in
the orthodox religious establishment (including Samuel
Asante-Antwi, the unofficial spiritual leader of the NPP)
and wayside religious groupings—be they Christian, Muslim,
Traditional African Religion, Hare Krishna, or whatever—who
are blowing hot air to make Akufo-Addo feel that God is with
him in his quest to become Ghana’s President “at all costs”.
Folks, characters of this sort are roaming around, making
this kind of noise because discipline has broken down in our
Ghanaian system. Otherwise, why won't they be taken on to
substantiate their claims and be put in the slammer if they
fail to do so?
To assuage any doubt, let it be said here and now that
nothing but Akufo-Addo’s own unbridled quest for political
power and mindlessness of the forces arrayed against him
will kill him. It is possible that the tension being built
up in his system by his own over-ambition for power will
boil over and cause serious health problems that will doom
him.
I have tried hard to know why he is so invested in becoming
Ghana’s President “at all costs”, having already told us
that the incompetence of the Mahama-led administration has
compounded Ghana’s problems and would be a huge burden to be
carried by his successor. So, is Akufo-Addo really pushing
himself to the point where he will carry that burden and not
sag under it? Why push himself into that tight corner,
anyway? Is it because he considers himself as the modern-day
Sumanguru Kante to keep Ghana on its feet even when there
are no Almoravids to threaten it? Or because he has seen a
way out that no one else is capable of seeing?
Folks, as the situation stands now, I am more than convinced
that there is a lot to worry about, especially if utterances
of the Owusu-Bempahs are placed in context. Of course, I
won’t be surprised if any plot is hatched in-house against
Akufo-Addo, clearly because one reaps whatever one sows.
With all the hatchet-man’s actions being taken against just
anybody perceived as criticizing him, should anybody be
surprised if some of those aggrieved people capitalize on
the loopholes in the NPP set-up to do what Rev. Owusu-Bempah
claims to have foreseen?
Of course, an action will definitely beget a reaction.
Stepping on toes all over the place will have a negative
sequel, which must be accounted for. In the long run,
though, the future of the NPP lies in the hands of its own
leaders and members. If assassinating Akufo-Addo is what
will pave the way for the NPP’s “brighter future”, so be it.
In any case, if the assassins turn out to be members of
Akufo-Addo’s own inner circle, the NPP will have much to
worry over. Is Owusu-Bempah sending the NPP on a mad search
for its true identity in this contemporary era?
I shall return…
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