If there is anything consistent in the DNA of the NDC and its leaders, then it is their penchant to be inconsistent.
Anyone who doubts this assertion should listen to them on the conduct of public affairs.
Over the past six months, the government has initiated a number of initiatives to put back the economy on an even footing. It started last year when the NDC and some of their collaborators in academia and civil society groups put pressure on the government to go for an International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout, but at that time, the NPP government made it clear that it was in a position to steer the economy out of the woods using internal resources. The NDC and its apparatchiks intensified their agitations saying the economy was on the path of doom. Then in July last year, the government told Ghanaians that it has decided on an IMF bailout.
Hell then broke loose with the NDC and its collaborators saying the return to the IMF is the admission of incompetence by President Nana Akufo-Addo.
That marked the opportunity for the NDC to preach gloom and doom for the country, demanding that the people call out the government for the impending hardships.
Come this year, the NDC and some economists in academia started predicting when the bailout will be ready and that any delay beyond the first quarter would lead to the collapse of the economy.
When Ghana was not able to meet the deadline, they again predicted that the earliest time the country will receive a bailout will be at end of second quarter or early in the third quarter.
When the bailout came in May to the pleasant surprise of many Ghanaians, the NDC prophets of doom again sounded the alarm that the conditions would suffocate the people. Even conditionalities not listed in the programme were said to be part of the document.
No doubt they started the sing-song that the IMF has asked the government to review its flagship programmes especially the free SHS, with some of them beating their chests that it vindicates their position for a review of the social intervention initiative.
When the IMF said it had no such intention and the Chinese government denied claims that it will seize Ghana’s resources in case of default, they have shamelessly not found it necessary to retract their anti government activities.
It appears that the NDC and its collaborators find it difficult to stay with the truth and facts and can only share in what promotes their interests.
Listen to the way they took the Supreme Court to the cleaners when it shot down their election petition in 2021 and its directive to Parliament to expunge Gyakye Quayson’s name from Parliament. Indeed, NDC is an institution that must be watched carefully. If the party and its leaders ask you to look up and you don’t look downwards, something will fall into your eyes.
So when the Supreme Court ruled against President Akufo-Addo describing his directive to Domelevo to proceed on leave, the NDC and its friends called the judges fearless and ready to expand the frontiers of our democracy?
The paradox of the NDC’s double standards is that among them are very knowledgeable people including lawyers who know that cases sent to court may not meet one’s expectations. And those who disagree with rulings at any court can go on appeal and even at the Supreme Court call for a review.
Or they have forgotten that as true believers in the rule of law one can only disagree with a court ruling but desist from name-calling?
Truly the NDC is living according to its ideology of being born out of a revolution and, therefore, finding it difficult to accept the dictates of the rule of law.
We advise them to learn the dictates if they want to become true democrats and erase the tag of showing hypocrisy and double standards, otherwise soon majority of Ghanaians will desert them because they are untrustworthy.