Nowadays we wonder if NDC and Mr. John Mahama understand the letter and spirit of our Fourth Republican Constitution, especially what it takes for democracy to endure.
Democracy is not just a number game but it is governed by rules too. We are worried whether Ghanaians are very discerning as we claim to be or we are really forgetful as postulated by former President Mahama.
Do Ghanaians remember the allegations the NDC and former President Mahama made against the EC and the Ghana Police Service during the run up to the Kumawu by-election and fast forward Assin North.
On the day of election in Kumawu, the NDC was on roof tops with some of their media friends, professors and Civil Society Organisation (CSOs) claiming the NPP was using the security and electoral officials to rig the election when they knew there was no way the NPP was going to let go it’s stronghold.
The NDC latched on one incidence in which an election official was said to have asked party agents to sign pink sheets before the declaration of results as the grand scheme by the NPP and the EC to rig the election.
No explanations from EC officials resonated with the NDC. Some of these propaganda activities gain so much currency in the media space because the NDC has willing journalists including senior ones who are prepared to be their megaphones.
We find some of the rationalization of actions of the opposition by some journalists, professors and civil society as myopic, self centered and absurd.
Another sad observation is that this same group of people engaged in very jaundiced analysis of the outcome of the Kumawu by election claiming even before the declaration of the results that voter apathy will cause the NPP the seat.
When that was a fiasco they then shifted gear to the fact that NPP lost grounds and the NDC increased its votes when they know that throughout the history of the Fourth Republic voter turnout has always been low.
Yet these otherwise lights of our society sit on national television stations to distort the facts. The tragedy of our time is the fact that professors whose stock in trade include the use of data, facts, figures and research have decided to compete with political party propagandists to Please Mr. Mahama and the NDC. We do not worry about who supports the NDC because they have the right to do so but our pain stems from their claim that they are independently minded people and apolitical.
The NDC will never stop shouting fire in a crowded setting just to cause confusion. So since they were pushed into opposition after the December 7, 2016 general election, the police and the EC have become their enemies as the security and the EC are always plotting to rig the election.
Former President J. A. Kufuor said at one time that a pick pocket will start shouting “thief, thief” when he realises that he was going to be exposed in reference to the attitude of the NDC.
Ghanaians heard them shouting that the NPP was buying votes in Assin North with projects and goodies but the NDC’s vote buying there was an eye sore.
This makes us wonder whether the journalists, academia and civil society people in the media space are afraid of the NDC or it is the case that they have refused to see the truth because they are wearing wooden glasses.