John Mahama
The National Security Council should be interested in some of the effusions of former President John Mahama in recent times.
So must it consider the relationship between a so-called one million excess ballot papers and now an unsound and absurd petition to the police.
Having earlier rubbished the call by the EC to the Police to investigate the former President’s one million excess ballots claim but now marching to the IGP with a tale of wild untruths about the 2020 polls all we can say is ‘there goes the NDC again.’
While the remarks may sound ineffectual, mere hot air, in security management taking things for granted could be costly.
We are dealing with a political opposition with a violent pedigree and an inclination for lying without shame the contents of the petition clearly showing what stuff the NDC is made of. Ignoring such a party and the crap they spawn is ill-advised under the circumstances.
Pushing their way to the law enforcement department for which they have little or no regard for, we wonder what they seek to derive from the petition they have presented. It is part of a grand game-plan intended to wear out the EC.
We can assure the Police anyway that at the end of their investigations if they succumb to the NDC request their report would be rubbished when it does not favour the opposition party.
The so-called excess ballot papers crap were it to be true and available at the time of their preparation of the election petition it would have found its way in the case documents filed with the apex court.
The petition is rather interesting and shows how desperate the NDC is as it searches for issues with which to rubbish what has passed as the most credible elections Ghana has ever had in her post-independence history.
The ‘EC Is Our 2024 Target’ as the former President said in one of his many scathing remarks has a correlation with the infirmed premises about some ballot papers discovered in a room and the incinerating of some wasted ballots at Old Fadama in Accra.
A tale of crap we wish to describe the winding petition which the petitioner, the party scribe, claims at the foot of the petition is hinged upon videos and other evidential stuff.
The former President’s nonsense-laden ‘thank you’ tours provide him with the vent for his frustrations and to support the grand anti-EC project. The wild no-holds-bar threats and the shadow sparring are interesting as they give the media which care, sufficient drama for headlines.
Any attempt at attacking the EC in a war of attrition is an affront to our democracy. We as citizens of this country and supportive of the democratic process will not exhibit indifference when somebody’s political project is used to attack our democratic institutions as part of a bigger plan.
We have everything to lose as a nation when we allow irresponsible remarks to fester on our political landscape.
As an independent institution tasked with the onerous responsibility of birthing presidents and for that matter providing a major service to democracy, the EC should be spared the ranting of the disappointed former President and the dirty smear campaign of excess ballot papers whose discovery has come close to a year after elections and a major Supreme Court election petition hearing.