Asiedu Nketia
Today the ‘barking dog’ has been silenced by his maker. Of course not by those who seek to idolise him today and show fake love to him in death.
The ‘barking dog’ as they called him without deference is no longer around to point at the ills of the NDC in the hands of its present leadership.
The opposition NDC at the hands of its current crop of leadership is an amazing political grouping.
The intrigues in the party’s quaver are varied; none of them conforming to normality.
They did not expect the man they claimed to have tamed to die so soon. That the unexpected has happened they have had to quickly change the template but with disastrous outcome as being played out.
The party’s scribe Asiedu Nketia has suddenly found in the death of a man he loved to hate a campaign material worth exploiting.
At desperate periods, any opportunity no matter how irrelevant is worth the try. Perhaps that is why the party is lounging at anything that comes its way.
Until the curtains are finally drawn over the death of former President Jerry John Rawlings, we shall see many bizarre occurrences as the NDC seeks to usurp the funeral of the former President from the state, an oddity which only the NDC can try its hands on.
As a former President, his funeral arrangements lie on the bosom of the state. President Akufo-Addo is nowhere near shirking his responsibility in that regard. That is why he has duly directed the bereaved family to liaise with the Chief of Staff about how to deal with the subject.
It sounds surreal therefore that Asiedu Nketia would want the state out of the funeral arrangements of someone who was President of this country.
He could be haunted by the unrespectable ‘barking dog’ tag he festooned around the neck of the deceased when he was alive.
We know the so-called leaders of the party who encouraged young men to become ‘babies with sharp teeth’ and charged them with the mission to ridicule the deceased.
Last week a so-called remembrance march was organised somewhere in the Volta Region, and blimey we could not believe what image Ghanaians were showed. Two images, one of a living man who is seeking a return to the corridor of political power and the other, that of a man who is no longer part of this ephemeral world embossed on the banner which they showcased as they marched. They had without doubt been directed by the brains behind the political activity to do that. Perhaps they could by so doing reverse the negative image they created about the man they loved so much to hate and to present as a bad man because of his high decibel barking.
What was Mr. Mahama’s picture doing on the banner during the march? How can you mourn the living? It is only in the NDC that you can see such sacrilege.
Of course some of them clapped for the book authored to tell us more about the dead man when he was in his political prime.
We are not qualified to doubt the contents of the book because after all, the author and the man no longer with us both worked together and knew each other very well. We can only express our concern about the hypocrisy of those who are trying in vain to reverse the irreversible after they worked hard to achieve the impression they are now running away from.
Two books of condolence, one at the State House and another at the party headquarters suggest that we might have two funerals; one by the state and the other by the NDC with Asiedu Nketia as the chief mourner. The surreal occurrences are just beginning.