The highly anticipated special delegates’ conference lived up to the bidding of the pundits last Saturday.
The whole of the day, the media landscape, be it radio and television as well as social media followed the event at all the 17 venues to provide their listeners and viewers with up-to-date developments. The prying eyes of the media cannot fail to pick even a whisper at any venue.
The people also followed their favourite media houses to be abreast of the happenings at the conference. Although some of the media houses with their so-called panelists have their agenda, the outcome of the conference exposed their hypocrisy.
These people, buoyed by the propaganda, wished there was trouble at the venues that they can use to promote NDC’s rescue mission. Obviously, these so-called neutral and independent commentators knew the pedigree of Vice President Bawumia, they tried to convince their audiences that the perceived strengths of Dr. Bawumia was because of the support of the establishment.
Undoubtedly, Dr. Bawumia as the Vice President has some influences, including incumbency advantages, so also has he got some disadvantages such as failure of some government policies.
And to succeed, Dr. Bawumia has to dig deep into his competences to explain the difficulties in the economy to resonate with the delegates across the country, to become the penultimate presidential candidate of the NPP.
Suddenly all kinds of pollsters have sprung up on the media space to foist their half-baked polls on us. The outcome of the delegates’ conference exposes their polls besides that of the Veep, but instead of commending Dr. Bawumia for his spectacular performance, they are showing their true colours as naysayers and predicting that those who placed poles behind the Vice President will cause “thunder” in November.
These commentators too are learning the Goebbelsian tricks and have begun to discredit the landslide victory of Dr. Bawumia, saying it is a “bought” verdict as well as support from the establishment.
In their moment of over-bloated egos, they think Dr. Bawumia has nothing to offer and he even superintended the “collapse” of the economy, although they know that conclusion lacks merit.
Even some of the candidates, while the exercise was going on, were shouting that wolves have taken over the venues and causing mayhem, for which reason they were calling for showdown. From today, the commentators will launch their attack on the so-called establishment candidate, with some very weird theories and hypothesis. They are ready with strange reasons why the other four in the race for November are likely to appeal to the grassroots than Dr. Bawumia, and we must expect great surprises in November.
If there is no agenda how come people who understand the nuances of the country’s politics conclude that all the special delegates are government appointees. These people in the media, academia, civil society, clergy and politics must credit us with some intelligence to understand elementary logic.
Be that as it may, we are happy about the peaceful conduct of the special delegates conference albeit some two incidents that were managed as a family misunderstanding.
It is sad that this exercise that was seen as very peaceful was observed by former President John Mahama with another lens, perhaps with a wooden spectacle. If he was following the event with a normal spectacle, he would not dare describe the isolated cases as a reflection of NPP’s penchant for violence.
Mr. Mahama has difficulty living up to his status as a statesman and abandon propaganda as the means to achieve his so-called rescue mission. After 30 years of our democratic dispensation, we must strive to call a spade a spade, not a long spade, to make politics a clean game devoid of lies and other unethical behaviours.