John Mahama
The Scriptures have very clear guidelines about how to conduct ourselves so that our tongues do not become more lethal than the most deadly weapon on earth.
“A fool utters all his mind: but a wise man keepeth it in till afterwards,” as contained in Proverbs. In such circumstances, we speak before we have the opportunity to think about the implications of our words. Therefore, it does not matter our status in society, especially in election year, as some political actors engage in hate speech that threatens the peace and security of the country.
That is why the NDC is on the prowl advocating coup d’état as the most plausible means to achieve its regime change agenda, because screams about hardships in the country is not resonating on the electorate.
Chiefs, members of the clergy, Imams, traditional leaders and civil society groups are praising Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for his audacious policies. The NDC is scared and its members have become coup mongers.
We have always trusted the ability of Ghanaians to escape John Mahama’s diagnosis of short memories because majority of our compatriots remember the hard times Ghanaians endured during the Kutu Acheampong regime when the people consumed some very smelling rice called “Tugyimi” whose scent takes over whole neighbourhoods when on fire, but we endured it.
Again in 1983, during the reign of Jerry John Rawlings, the people queued to buy uncooked kenkey because there was general shortage of food in the country. Here too, the people scaled the trap of famine experienced in other jurisdiction with the milling spectacle of malnourished children on the streets.
We have had more terrifying economic difficulties in the country before than now. John Mahama has short memories so he has forgotten that somewhere in 2015, common cassava was missing on the market, forcing many chop bars to close down because the tuber could not be found anywhere in the country.
When John Mahama mounts the campaign platforms, he is unable to tell the people how he hopes to “reset” the country.
He prefers to attack the integrity of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and to a large extent his political “nemesis” President Akufo-Addo for the tonnes of praises being heaped on the NPP government by chiefs, members of the clergy, Imams and civil society groups for the unprecedented development initiatives ongoing in the country.
John Mahama is so upset by the verdict of the Asantehene, Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, at a ceremony in Cape Coast when he described the free Senior High School (SHS) policy as the most audacious social policy intervention in the Fourth Republic, and it was after this that the NDC flagbearer has become dazed and confused like someone under the influence of alcohol and whose wisdom has departed his body.
Thus, John Mahama in his desperation complains about the show of love being showered on his opponent, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia by the broad section of the society and, thus, reduce our politics into insults instead of dealing with the issues.
And in his confused state, John Mahama today has developed the appetite for the violent overthrow of the Akufo-Addo government based on his figment of imagination that the NPP is corrupt, when the NDC flagbearer is unable to point to a single act of corruption by officials of the current government, forcing President Akufo-Addo to respond thus; “I am happy to be called a clearing agent, but I am happy I am not Government Official One.”
John Mahama’s warped logic and justification for a coup d’état require psychiatric examination because during the NDC regime from 2012 to 2016, Ghana was plunged into blackout, disrupting livelihoods and businesses but nobody called for the violent overthrow of the Mahama administration.
Akufo-Addo, then opposition leader, never called for military intervention but as a true democrat, he demonstrated his belief in the ballot box and the will of the people, and indeed in 2016, the people endorsed President Akufo-Addo’s credentials as a democrat and voted massively for him. In contrast, is John Mahama’s appetite for coups because he lacks the capacity to appreciate the tenets of democratic governance?
John Mahama is a threat to our democratic process and for which reason we call on the people to reject the NDC again on December 7.
John Mahama has lost focus on the campaign trail.