Dear Osei, since I still do not know the titles you hold, I continue to call you simply: “Osei”. I am told you are an “Old Boy”, i.e. you are an old student of Mfantsipim. Since I heard that news, I have taken time to look out for you during recent MOBA functions, hoping to spot you so that we could have a chat of personal and national interests. However, I have not been successful. So I am forced to discuss some of the issues in this open letter. Believe me, I do so as a patriot who has the interest of our nation at heart. Perhaps your absence from public functions is in line with the role Mr. Thatcher, the husband of Mrs. Margaret Thatcher, the former British Prime Minister played. As you might be aware. Mr. Thatcher remained a recluse keeping to the shadows of his wife’s public role until a near disaster struck the family following the disappearance of their son during a motor rally adventure in the Sahara Desert.
Dear Osei, by now you must be used to and must have gained absolute understanding of the public opprobrium your wife is held among a large section of the population. If you are used to the national media, you must be a worried man or in reverse gear you must have the thickest skin any person in this country currently possesses, apart from that of your wife. Sadly enough, the truth is that your wife has boxed herself to a corner to such an extent that people in this country either love to hate her or hate to love her and are only waiting to hear the news that she no longer occupies the exalted position she currently holds
The facts are simple, in John Dramani Mahama NDC administration, this country has witnessed the most incompetent, the most criminal, the most corrupt, the most nepotistic, the most ethnocentric, the most tribalistic, the most greedy, the most disastrous, and the most destructive political administration this country has ever witnessed right from the colonial days to the present generation. We have in John Dramani Mahama, a president who operates like a neophyte in public service. In terms of pedicle, John Dramani Mahama must be the most qualified person to be President of this country. John Dramani Mahama has served in the private sector before entering the public sector. In public life, he has acted as assemblyman, a parliamentarian, a deputy minister of state, a minister of state, a vice president, a president in waiting, an acting president and as full president.
Unfortunately, he has proved to be the worst performer of all the people who ever had the singular opportunity to sit in the converted seat at the State House. It is quite obvious, John Dramani Mahama went through apprenticeship. However, unfortunately, from the records of his performance, it is obvious and clear that apprenticeship never went through John Dramani Mahama. It is also quite obvious he neither learnt anything on his climb up the ladder nor that history which he read at the university does not mean anything to him. Sometimes, from distance, it is very difficult to define whether the acts of commission and omission of John Dramani Mahama NDC administration arises from criminality or lunacy. I have come to believe and accept that it borders on both.
Ghanaians have been reduced to that level of despondency that we see our salvation in December 7, 2016, when we hope to throw into the hottest part of hell this evil demagogic, satanic John Dramani Mahama NDC administration. Indeed, John Dramani Mahama NDC administration has fallen foul of all shades of opinion as well as all interested groups in this country in its hostile, antagonist attitude that it is very difficult to appreciate and understand the sources of audacity and confidence with which John Dramani Mahama NDC is approaching the December 7, 2016 elections. In fact, as the saying goes, if a blind man should threaten you, then it means he has his leg on a stone. Undoubtedly, John Dramani Mahama NDC administration has an ace in its pocket which it hopes to spring out come December 7, 2016. Undoubtedly, every sane and competent analyst knows that the ace is the Electoral Commission, the constitutional body established to act as an independent objective referee with integrity and accountability in the matters of elections. .
American boxing legend, Bernard Hopkins once said: “If any of your kids or grandkids want to box, distract and discourage them early. In fact, I would tell my worst enemy’s kids not to box. I don’t believe that any part of the body was made to be hit.” Let us cast our mind back to the last days of Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan, the disgraced former Chairman of the Electoral Commission. Let us remind ourselves of the ignominy he suffered during the eight months of the Supreme Court suit only to be rescued with a national award, a national award scheme which has been desecrated by the way some Heads of State recklessly and indiscriminately dish them out as if they are dishing out sweets at children’s party. One would have thought that the fact that the defining battle of Dr. Kwadwo Afari Gyan took place in the four walls of the Supreme Court during which evil tongues surmise that air fresheners had to be introduced to clear the place of some foul scent rather than in the comfortable confines of the offices of the Electoral Commission would cause even the most ardent supporters of democracy to advise their wives from picking up the position of the Chair of the Electoral Commission, unless they could act with the grace of Caesar’s wife, not only espouse physical beautiful but also morally beautiful.
Today, everybody in this country is aware that the Electoral Commission is not only in bed with the criminal, corrupt, incompetent, greedy John Dramani Mahama NDC administration but receives daily instructions from the State House every morning before business resumes at the offices of the Electoral Commission. Today, the Chairperson of the Electoral Commission is behaving like the Piped Piper of Hamelin. She might have mortgaged her post-election future and that of her family in far away United States as it is being rumoured but that will not save her from the wrath and anger of the people and the carnage which is likely to follow from any attempt on her part to derail the legitimate rights of the people to elect their legitimate leaders of their choice. The Christians have a ready example of what happens to greedy people who sell their education, conscience and honour for “thirty pieces of silver”. The story of Judas Iscariot is for all to learn a lesson from. A fool indeed has said in his heart that there is no God. History has a wonderful way of repeating itself, Isha Alla.
Dear Osei, I do not know the role you play in the affairs of your wife. But as the old tortoise told his clan when the ignorant hunter made the sacrilegious effort of gathering the bunch of tortoise he found in the bush in order to send the bunch home as gift to the village chief and the youngest tortoise among them asked the oldest tortoise why he is not doing anything to save them, the old tortoise responded: “there is an old wise man in the forest and there is also an old wise man in the village. Let him take us to the chief and let us see what will happen to him and us.”
POINTOF ORDER
BY
KWAME GYASI
E-mail: makgyasi@ug.edu.gh