The distinguishing characteristic of those opposed to the NPP government is their creativity in negativity or what is otherwise known as prophets of doom. Ewes refer to it as “aforkunya.”
Listening to a section of the media, academia, civil society and members of the opposition NDC and we wonder whether or not they followed the NPP’s special delegates’ conference last Saturday.
Perhaps it is part of their regime change agenda to give a dog a bad name in order to hang it. For if that were not the case, these naysayers would not seek to blow the isolated cases at some of the venues last Saturday as the norm and use their medium to create the impression that the NPP is on the path of breaking apart.
Instead of celebrating the success of the conference in consolidating internal democracy in our political parties, a section of the media and commentators want to undermine Veep Bawumia’s landslide victory by their Goebbelsian lies that but for their claim that he is an establishment candidate, he could not have won. What bunkum!
These media houses and their stakeholder communities are not humble enough to admit that their analysis were wrong even when the facts are held before their eyes, perhaps because they prefer wooden glasses to the normal ones.
How constituency chairmen became appointees of the government overnight and are afraid to be sacked by President Akufo-Addo, only those media houses, their journalists, some professors and commentators can tell and assign reasons why they are saying so.
Not too long ago, the NDC went to congress and in the run-up to that, hordes of former President Mahama’s appointees and party bigwigs were in tow campaigning for him and even called him the presumptive presidential candidate of the NDC.
Back then these independent media houses and so-called neutral professors and commentators did not question the breach of the party rules at the time, but gleefully parroted it. This is difficult to understand in our efforts to sustain the country’s democracy, but may be the NPP should accept that since the party is the standard bearer its members must avoid any blemish in their activities.
After all, Mr. Mahama indicated it when he acknowledged the political roots of the NDC saying “that no one can beat us in unleashing violence.” As for the consistent outbursts of Mahama, they only expose him as a very inconsistent person when his principles are subjected to the litmus test.