John Mahama
The NDC is really desperate for power. If power eludes the party and John Mahama for the third time next year since they last lost power in 2016, they will lose the centre of their world.
John Mahama and his people are like drowning people who will clutch at the straw.
Thus, they see any difficulty facing the country as an opportunity to showcase themselves as the saviours and liberators who have the concerns of the people at heart.
So when the challenges arise, the NDC is quick to point accusing fingers at the Akufo-Addo government in the hope that the people will become fed up with the NPP government and vote massively for it in the 2024 polls.
Even when their attention is drawn to the misdirected aggression, true to their character they persist in their propaganda in the belief that for public opinion to be effective it must be sustained.
Remember when the World Bank and the UNDP drew the attention of the propagandists to the deficiencies in their conversations; these politicians and their collaborators in the media, academia and civil society will not budge.
The agenda for regime change by these people is a sacred one that must be fulfilled at all cost even at the peril of lives.
In Assin North, the NDC adopted all kinds of strategies including name-calling and lies to win the by-election. Our people are becoming discerning but most people in rural communities buy into any propaganda because of the present difficulties facing the country.
Till date the NDC accuses the NPP of vote buying when John Mahama and his people shipped tonnes of goodies such as Wellington boots, cutlasses, motorbikes and insecticides that they distributed to the voters.
Perhaps that is no vote buying as far as the NDC is concerned. By now it must be clear to the ruling NPP that the NDC means “business” and it does not care if the country goes up in flames for John Mahama to be president again.
The NPP must rejuvenate its election winning machinery on the scale of what happened in 2016 that Ghanaians accepted the narrative that power in the hands of incompetent Mahama was scary alternative.
That reality is still here with us as the issues that played up in 2016 are still in the camp of the NDC because so far John Mahama has not told Ghanaians what new things he will do in 2025 if elected president, so that the people will not live with dumsor again and new teachers who teach for three years will be paid for three months.