John Mahama
The campaign messages of former President John Mahama have been described as jokes which can hardly appeal to discerning Ghanaians.
The Concerned Voters Movement (CVM), a political pressure group which has in the past months been active in analysing and putting out its observations about the former president and for that matter the NDC campaign strategies, described as unserious the contents of the opposition party.
In its recent statement on the NDC, the President and Founder of the CVM, Razak Kojo Poku, noted after perusing the commentaries from the communication bureau of the opposition party concluded that it has nothing tangible and convincing for Ghanaians to want to have return to power.
“The campaign messages, policy alternatives and strategies of the NDC for December 7, 2020 and unconvincing for discerning Ghanaians,” the CVM noted.
The CVM wonders why the wise persons in the opposition party are not supporting their leader with convincing ideas.
“They appear to have folded their arms and watching from the peripheries as their man prepares of course for his second defeat at the polls with the kind of strategies he is implementing,” the CVM stated.
The vacuum created by the silence of the wise persons, including its founder Jerry John Rawlings in the NDC, has led to immature and self-conceited persons in the party to engage in unproductive rhetoric.
“The loudmouthed youth appear to have sidelined the mature ones who are for now on the margins,” the CVM added.
What Ghanaians want now is a comprehensive rebuilding of the economy after the negative effects of Covid-19 and not the kind of loose talk the former president is engaged in his campaign trail, according to CVM, which adds that “mortuary and Okada politics are not what can address the Covid-19 imposed challenges in the country.”
“The Sammy Gyamfi daily ritual of verbally attacking the NPP on television cannot change the fortunes of the NDC because Ghanaians understand the parties they are dealing with because the records are available for comparison,” the CVM claimed.
Applying the 2008 and 2012 propaganda strategies by the current NDC communication bureau would only help NDC to further move down from 44.4% to around 30-35% in the 2020 general elections, the CVM predicted.
By A.R. Gomda