John Mahama
Perhaps this year’s election is synonymous with the end times.
If one wants to go to the extreme, it can be likened also to an Armageddon or apocalypse.
The revelations on social media and sometimes traditional media are mind-boggling. A famous Member of Parliament (MP) says when the handshake goes beyond the elbow, then it is something else and one must be careful.
Ayikoi Otoo, one-time Attorney-General, once in pleading for late Sir John at the Supreme Court, said the loose talk of his client might have been occasioned by what he called “gbeshi”, in other words some bad spirits.
Indeed, some of the political actors, especially in the camp of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), including their leaders, are affected by “gbeshi” or “ntasi ntasi” in Akan, also meaning confusion or possessed by some evil spirits.
John Mahama, his running mate, Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, Franklin Fifi Fiavi (Prince) Kwetey and other same characters in the NDC give cause for worry during the run-up to the December 7, general election.
We think that John Mahama and his team are dazed by the sheer numbers who are meeting the presidential campaign team of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by Veep Mahamudu Bawumia, his running mate, Matthew Opoku Prempeh (Napo), wife of the Vice President, Samira Bawumia, National Chairman Stephen Ntim, General Secretary Justin Kodua, Kennedy Agyepong and Chairman Wontumi.
Prior to the launch of the NPP campaign, many pundits did not give Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia a dog’s chance in the race, citing economic difficulties facing the country.
A few years ago, John Mahama mocked Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for following an Akan party, and that NPP delegates will not give him the nod to lead the party.
John Mahama swore whatever deity and claimed the party will use him and dump him. When against the fake predictions of John Mahama he won the primaries to become the presidential candidate of the NPP, the conspiracy theories had to change.
Again, years ago, the propagandist, Fifi Kwetey told the whole world that a Muslim cannot be President of Ghana, an indication that the claim that the Zongo communities populated mostly by Muslims are their vote banks is just to make Muslims voting machines.
The NDC has no love for them, even if they pontificate about it, it is merely for electoral gains. The poor state of most Zongos and the residents show that there is no love relations between the Zongos and the NDC. Now that the going has become tough, Asiedu Nketia is preaching division with a plea to Muslims to vote for the NDC so that they can be protected.
The question is: what kind of protection do Muslims require to live in Ghana? The state of Ghana is under obligation to protect everyone in the country, irrespective of political persuasions. By inference, Asiedu Nketia is telling those who will not vote for the NDC that they are endangered species in their own country.