Johnson Asiedu Nketia
A recall of NDC General Secretary Johnson Asiedu Nketia’s remarks in 2012 when his party was declared winner of the elections under unconvincing circumstances is instructive today as the opposition party sulks loudly over its loss at the December 7 polls.
He said in Akan as he took a swipe at Nana Akufo-Addo at the time that a person who has lost the election and was expecting that a delegation would go to his residence to beg him won’t have that privilege. He repeated “that won’t happen.”
The obviously elated John Mahama also stated that the EC had spoken and those who had issues with the outcome of the verdict should go to the Supreme Court.
Unfortunately, even as the former President is sulking over his defeat, he does not appear to be inclined to the course the NPP took when it was robbed of victory.
Today, the NPP has won a Presidential election, the margin beyond what the NDC managed to steal from the former in 2012.
What went round has come around and today the NDC is crying foul over an election everybody but the opposition has described as the finest in recent times.
We are hard pressed not to believe that the NDC is unable to head for the Supreme Court because of its inability to assemble convincing evidence to back its case.
The cacophonic street carnivals fueled by lies being churned out by the opposition leadership is nothing but a face-saving strategy.
It has worked because but for it the rank and file, membership of the party would have descended upon the leadership.
The truth might never be known by the ordinary members for whom the rather complex computation of pink sheet figures is incomprehensible.
Having displayed what modern IT systems can do in electoral computing circumstances in both the 2016 and the recent elections, the NPP has a lot to teach its NDC counterparts.
The two parties are light years apart from each other when issues of computing are on the table.
The calls for the NDC to go to the Supreme Court as the former President told the NPP in 2012 is showing no signs of abating even as the defeated politician remains in the trench of defiance.
Very soon Ghanaians must tell him to either go to the Supreme Court or spare us the noise about fabricated claims of electoral thievery.
The confusion afflicting the former President has infected the youth he continues to lie to.
A preference for street carnival to proceeding to the Supreme Court by the former President and his party is surreal.
Not all idiots can go to court. Right or wrong?