Jean Mensa
Perhaps the NDC has consulted the Oracle and some charlatans masquerading as men of God who might have told them that the Jean Mensa-led Electoral Commission (EC) is the only obstacle to their victory in December. Thus the NDC instead of unveiling what its return will mean to Ghanaians sees the solutions in the inability of the NPP to fulfill some of its policies.
The NDC’s running mate, instead of helping the party with wise counsel, suffers the same double standards malaise by accusing the NPP of engaging in sloganeering while John Mahama and his apparatchiks engage in what we call, “slogan-a-thon” such as “24-hour economy” defined differently by its leaders and allies, “women banking” with low interests as if this bank will operate outside the banking rules.
Perhaps Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang is touting the legacy of Sedinam Tamakloe’s stewardship when money meant for victims of the Kantamanto fire disaster ended in her pocket.
And the master of all slogans, is NDC’s “slogan-a-thon” of “Building the Ghana We Want Together”, suggesting that from 2009 to 2016, John Mahama did not build the Ghana we want.
It is like the pickpocket screaming to be the victim of his own notorious activities while his two hands are in people’s pockets. Cherished readers, pardon our “small digression or deviation” as we return to the hatred the NDC, from John Mahama to the foot soldier have for Jean Mensa.
The NDC is prepared to smear the EC and its leaders as part of its agenda to prepare the minds of the people for another abysmal performance at the polls in December. John Mahama sees his third defeat in the shadows of Jean Mensa to the extent that the NDC and its leaders will take Ghanaians on wild goose chase claiming impropriety about certain actions of the EC, when their claims to have seen wolves, is actually harmless sheep.
This is because their wooden spectacles only see defeat from the strong room of the EC, hence the decision by Asiedu Nketia to storm the headquarters with his NDC hoodlums over an issue that can be resolved through jaw-jaw instead of drawing daggers.
The NDC represents violence because John Mahama said the party was a product of revolutionary violence, and that is why the NDC lacks the argument to demand the path of dialogue to resolving disagreements.
The NDC prefers violence. It is heartwarming that the Jean Mensa-led EC, has decided to leave no one in doubt that it is prepared once again to conduct free, fair, credible and transparent elections. And as action speaks louder than words, Jean Mensa has been rolling out the actions that build trust in the electoral process, the latest being the exhibition of the voters’ register.
In its quest to paint the EC as the obstacle to the victory of the NDC, persistently, John Mahama and his cohorts have failed to get the public to align with its allegation that the EC is preparing the grounds to rig the upcoming polls in favour of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and his NPP.
In this their grand scheme, the NDC has been blinded to the Biblical charge that, “no evil formed against you (Jean Mensa) will succeed”.
We are convinced by your repeated assurances that the EC cannot rig the elections for any political party. Jean Mensa has reiterated that elections are won at the polling stations and therefore all the political parties must concentrate on their messages to the electorate, instead of attacking the integrity of Jean Mensa, her team of commissioners and the entire staff of the EC.
The NDC never learns from history, otherwise after disgracing itself at the election petition at the Supreme Court in 2021, when they failed to produce a single evidence against Jean Mensa, the EC and President Akufo-Addo, the party of inconsistencies would have resolved to leave the EC alone and pursue strategies that win elections.
The NDC should stop chasing all kinds of images and oracles for power and align its programmes with the electorate who make the decision on December 7, 2024.
If the NDC believes that now power resides in the thumbs of the electorate, then it must step up its engagement with the people, with policies that will impact on the people like the free Senior High School (SHS), arguably the most impactful social intervention policy in the history of Ghana.