Democratic governance thrives with the conduct of regular elections to give the people the opportunity to exercise their franchise in an open and transparent contest.
In as much as democracy is largely a number game, it plays also by the rules. And that is why there is always an umpire, clothed with a legitimate mandate to conduct free, fair, credible and transparent elections.
Since the National Democratic Congress (NDC) lost miserably in 2016, and John Mahama’s darling girl, Charlotte Osei got booted out of the Electoral Commission (EC) for stated misconduct, the Umbrella Family has always engaged in a fierce brawl with her successor, Jean Mensa.
Every step taken by the Jean Mensa-led EC has always been questioned by John Mahama to the extent of ordering his supporters onto the streets in protest against what the NDC said was a bloated provisional voters’ register.
After an abysmal showing by Omane Boamah during a live broadcast of the EC’s engagement with the political parties, John Mahama and team will not relent in their needless fight.
Unable to convince Ghanaians about their concerns, now John Mahama has taken over Bernard Mornah’s fight with the EC, claiming less fancied presidential candidates received the nod to contest the December 7 elections, but the EC found it convenient to disqualify Bernard Mornah of the People’s National Convention (PNC).
We are not surprised about the posturing of John Mahama in discrediting the other candidates in favour of Bernard Mornah, because the PNC man is more NDC man than other leading members of the Umbrella Family.
We are fascinated at the level to which John Mahama, a former President of the Republic of Ghana, has reduced this year’s elections into one of tribal and religious bigotry instead of offering solutions to resolve our challenges.
We think that the NDC is not interested in the future of the country but the personal interests of its leaders. We trust in integrity of the Ghanaian voters to select a new leader whose ideas have received global acclamation like the drone delivery service.
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It is sad to say that John Mahama has become a loose cannon saying anything, not perturbed about his image as a former president whose otherwise wise counsel will be sought in times of any unforeseen national crisis.
The attempt by John Mahama to push us to the precipice makes us wonder whether there are no more elders in the NDC.
Do we take it to mean that elders such as Mahama Iddrisu, Kofi Totobi Quakyi, Huudu Yahaya, Ato Ahwoi, Kwamena Ahwoi and Doe Adjaho have been sidelined and are no longer consulted?
We have warned the New Patriotic Party (NPP) leadership to be vigilant to keep the momentum of its campaign and for the National Security Secretariat led by Albert Kan-Daapah to make sure “they see everything, say everything” even as they whisper in their bedrooms.
The plot to destabilise the country will thicken in the coming days, but we are telling the NDC that they, the nation wreckers are few and the patriotic ones are many.
We have picked signals that soon they will be moving from church house to church house polluting the minds of Christians not to vote for Bawumia because he is a Muslim.
It is sad that the NDC has reduced our politics and Election 2024 to an absurdity where it is about religious and ethnic bigotry, not about our future and future generations as well as about how we can be major players in the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
John Mahama is about his abysmal past and that is why he can compare digitalisation to kenkey, the favourite meal of the Gas. That is why on the campaign platforms where he must articulate his vision for the country, he told them thus, “As for you Gas, you only like kenkey, fish, and pepper. That is the most important for you and Bawumia is talking about digitalisation. You cannot have digital kenkey.”
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