Zaa Nyaya
Quite a sad commentary though, but the political class is pushing the country to the brink of war.
We are, however, certain that the peace, unity and stability of Ghana will remain unscathed before, during and after the December 7, 2024 general election.
Those beating the war and coup drums, including the flagbearer of the NDC, John Mahama, are just making lame threats. But all peace-loving people must be worried about a certain trend; and that is the preaching of violence by the NDC leaders and their apparatchiks who dread the looming electoral defeat.
Listen to some small fly somewhere in Tamale calling himself the NDC Tamale South Chairman, Zaa Nyaya, bragging, “We have weapons for 2024 elections.” He added that the NDC is equipped with all the necessary tools for the elections, similar to the security agencies that will be present on Election Day.
John Mahama and his NDC want to derail our democracy, the toast of all students of good governance across the globe.
The NDC, born out of revolutionary root and in the words of John Mahama, “when it comes to unleashing violence, no one can beat us to that,” and it is for this reason that the NDC has never believed in the ballot box.
It is generally accepted that democracy does not provide solutions to all our problems, but nobody has yet prescribed an alternative.
The ballot box gives the opportunity to every Tom, Dick and Harry to exercise his or her choice. It has never been done through brute force or violence as advocated by John Mahama.
What awaits us on December 7, is the exercise of the ballot box but not the bullet that the NDC is stockpiling to intimidate people on Election Day. It is absurd for a presidential candidate of a political party, after filing his nomination to contest democratic elections, to be saying the climate is conducive for a coup d’état.
John Mahama, that character is only a hypocrite and an inconsistent politician who does not believe in the ballot box that gives opportunity to all to decide on who gets elected as president but the bullet that subverts the free will of the people.
John Mahama must be punished in the December 7 elections for taking the people for granted.
When Ghanaians slept in darkness for more than four years because of dumsor, nobody advocated the violent overthrow of John Mahama’s government.
The question is: why is he saying that if the corrupt practices happening under the NPP government had taken place during his tenure, there would have been a coup?
The NDC does not believe in the democratic process and its members have been preaching the use of undemocratic means to change the government. In civilised societies and democracies, the people have the patience to wait for the ballot box to demonstrate their disapproval of the sitting government, by voting to remove such a regime.
No matter the challenges of our times, the December 7 polls offer us the chance to retain or remove the ruling government from office. The NDC sees power slipping through their hands for the third consecutive time, and therefore its leaders are bent on causing confusion in the country.
That was the main reason why John Mahama pushed some of its members on the streets like sheep which have been led onto the fields, to cause mayhem.
Fortunately for Ghana, the police have more intelligence than the NDC’s security led by Kofi Boakye, and therefore nipped John Mahama’s plans in the bud.
The NDC could not overturn the peace of the country and the people are going about their duties without let or hindrance. The fact is the NDC has no clues to “reset” the country, hence its strategy of focusing on the economic difficulties in the hope that by causing disaffection against President Akufo-Addo, the voters will turn against Veep Mahamudu Bawumia.