This headline sums up the current state of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and would continue to be for a long time to come.
They might have to transition from the campaign mode which many thought accounted for their viciousness.
This is a group of Ghanaians who refused to tell us what the former President John Evans Atta Mills was suffering from until his death.
Indeed they said at a point that nothing was wrong with him yet the man was suffering from an undisclosed ailment. Their effort at concealing the true condition of the country’s President is still fresh in our memories.
So soon they have forgotten the Mills’ times and started throwing stones when they live in glass houses. A retaliatory action can easily bring their structure down.
For a party which can do anything including expediting the death of a president to retain power, they must be feared and kept at arm’s length because they are dangerous.
The picture of the late President is still vivid in our memories. He was made to do some jumping exercises for the cameras by his handlers at the Kotoka International Airport when he arrived from a medical trip abroad. They did not know that Ghanaians knew that their president was ill.
Eventually, the then president died, and Ghanaians, although saddened by the loss of the First Gentleman, posed many relevant questions about the death.
Indeed none of the questions pertaining to the deceased received a response. It is as if they had rehearsed the silence because they did it so well that to date, they are still keeping the details of the Prof’s death to their chests; as they would a sacred covenant.
Everything about the late professor and president’s illness, his health tribulations and eventual death were concealed from the people of Ghana. It was as if the health status of pubic officers, such as the President, should not be known by the people they rule.
Today, the health status of a convalescing Vice President, Mahamudu Bawumia, is a subject the NDC is pursuing through the Minority in Parliament. These are interesting times and it would appear that we ain’t seen anything yet about the kind of things the NDC would be showcasing as they live out their days in opposition.
If they played out a hide-and-seek game with the health of former President John Evans Atta Mills; his weird death and the autopsy report which never came out, would continue to haunt them and intrigue the people of Ghana.
Let them release the autopsy report so that the many postulations being made, among them his possible strangulation or even poisoning would be stopped. That for us is more important than Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s health status.
If we may ask: why is the subject of Mills’ death a haunted one in the NDC? Is the mysterious death of the late president responsible for someone suffering nightmares and hallucinations because he is thought to have a hand in the outright murder?