John Mahama
It is nauseating to see and hear otherwise knowledgeable people twist the facts to mislead the people.
People are not in doubt about our preference in this political game but we won’t lie for advantage. We will use data to defeat the forces of evil, darkness and retrogression.
Those who do not want to see us on the news stand love to hate us and hide to read about the true state of affairs in the country.
If really the NDC, Mr. Mahama and their followers mean well they will not suddenly be commending Mrs. Jean Mensa and the EC for a yeoman’s job in Assin North.
They found it convenient to do so because the Assin North by election went their way. The NDC demonstrates this hypocrisy without any sense of shame otherwise they won’t be heaping praises on Mrs. Mensa and her EC they claimed have no credibility among the voting population.
Listen to Mrs. Mensa in an interview with the Daily Graphic. She stated that the recent by elections in Kumawu and Assin North should be a wake-up call on political parties to refrain from bastardizing the election management body when polls do not go in their favour.
She said the two by elections clearly revealed the inherent transparency, robustness and integrity of the systems the commission put in place for the 2020 elections.
Our elders say insinuations know who they are directed at and we all know the political party that went to court to challenge the 2020 presidential result even without any data in their hands.
Very often Ghanaian worry about the direction of our democracy but instead of helping to put things right their partisan agenda push them to mislead the people by poisoning the environment.
We think the time has come for well meaning Ghanaians to call out these journalists, professors and civil society and politicians to speak to the facts so that majority of Ghanaians will reap the true dividends of democracy and not clamoring to be delegates to pick crumbs from the table of politicians.
We encourage the NDC as a major political party to desist from always wanting to have its way when the rules do not favour them.
Every executioner we are told fears lying down supine, so perhaps that is the story of the NDC.
They will become attractive if they tell Ghanaians now why they failed in 2012 to 2016 and what they will do differently to avoid the arrogance of power and dumsor as well as other policy failures if given the mandate to govern.
They must know that some others think their alternative is scary. Of late we are worried about the utterances of the Speaker of Parliament, Mr. Alban Bagbin but that is for another day.
In conclusion we urge the NDC to abide by the rules of democracy and not what it thinks it must be. They must reign in everybody to mature into the game.