In the spirit world, especially in the realm of the fetish priests, sometimes they are disappointed by their “powers.”
The present generation familiar with the antics of magicians would recall their incantations when the going gets tough. They would invoke the spirits and ask that they should not put them to shame. It is for this reason that Akans say, “akom kor a n’aka ntwahu.”
It appears John Mahama and his NDC have lost touch with the realities on the campaign trail.
Many students of politics can hardly understand the nuances of the 2024 polls.
With less than six weeks to the D-Day, the pundits and pollsters are confused about the outcome of the elections.
Those who are beating their chests and claiming provisions in forecasts including Mussa Dankwah’s Info Analytics cannot see their way very clear. While Mussa Dankwah claims to be a pollster of international acclaim, he has abandoned the field work and resorted to telephone interviews, when he knows that for any research to be credible all the samples must have the equal chance to be interviewed.
Besides the 24-hour economy, the NDC is struggling to carry the voters with them to the extent that the party’s vote bank, the Volta Region, is jumping out of the Umbrella Family. If that were not the case, will John Mahama, with many years in politics be comparing NPP policies to kenkey and “akple” apparently to denigrate the NPP and by extension Gas and Ewes.
When all the schemes and machinations have failed to stop the rising popularity of Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, the NPP presidential candidate, John Mahama and his team have intensified the hate and smear campaign.
John Mahama, who complains about Mahamudu Bawumia for “flirting” with Christians even as a Muslim, last weekend was seated by the Chief Imam, Sheikh Nuhu Sharubutu at a conference of Muslim chiefs and clerics. In the lexicon of the NDC, when Mahamudu Bawumia enters a church house he is a religious prostitute, but when John Mahama does same, he is a believer in inter-faith.
Instead of going back to the drawing board to take a look at its flagging fortunes, the NDC MP for Keta, insinuates that Mahamudu Bawumia can continue to pull the crowd but on Election Day, he will buy “agbelimor” and some ingredients to sway the minds of the voters in the Volta Region to vote for him and John Mahama.
The NDC is in denial and delusion, thinking that the Ghanaian voter is the same like many years ago when they used to buy their conscience with “bentoa”, “kobi”, cutlasses and matches. The discerning minds of the Ghanaian electorate will reverberate across the length and breadth of the country on December 7.
The Bawumia factor has changed the face of our politics to the extent those who dwell on personal attacks instead of focusing on the issues have become political dinosaurs. That tag stares John Mahama in the face, and perhaps that explains why he says his opponents have cast an Indian spell on him.
We thought prayer warriors such as Opambuor, Owusu Bempah, Nigel Gaisie and Kofi Oduro have been interceding on his behalf. Maybe John Mahama is yet to change in order to have a clean heart by Owusu Bempah’s Bible.
The chief of Kedzi near Keta, welcoming Dr. Bawumia during his campaign in the Volta Region, said the NPP flagbearer extols virtues that represent the values of the people of Anlo, and added that “Insha Allah” the Almighty God should do his heart’s desire to become President of the Republic.
The popular refrain during some competitive programmes on television networks in recent days during the eviction of contestants has been” biribi b3 si.” Something historic “wanna” happen on December 7 when the Digital Man and the Man of Vision and Destiny will be crowned the President Elect of the Republic of Ghana.