Thursday, November 14, 2013
Folks,
in Ghanaian politics, there is no certainty except the strong conviction among
some of us that the Ghanaian politician is not to be trusted to sacrifice
personal interests at the expense of the national one.
When
it comes to self-serving, what is on the mind of the Ghanaian politician is
nothing but making hay while the sun shines (Or as my Nigerian friend puts it:
Making HASTE while the sun shines---because the sun won't shine forever!).
Thus,
when Ghanaian politicians decide to go into one political camp, we don't expect
them to stick there, especially when there is the likelihood that no condition
will be permanent therein. The Ghanaian politician can't afford to miss the
gravy train.
Over
the years, some have used the al-Houdini vanishing trick to appear and
disappear from political camps just to get their bread buttered. You may have
your own particular examples to cite.
But
what has begun emerging from Haruna Attah (we must all know who he is) gives me
a funny feeling that he may not necessarily be rooting for President Mahama
just because he wants to be given an appointment. Of course, we had earlier
heard rumours that he might be appointed to a Ministerial position to head the
Ministry of Information or to be the President's Spokesman. It didn't
materialize; but he is not fazed as he continues to root for President Mahama.
Here
is the latest report on him:
Managing
Editor of the Accra Daily Mail, Alhaji Haruna Attah, has told Radio XYZ he
voted for President John Mahama in the 2012 general elections and will do
everything possible to ensure he wins the 2016 elections.
“…I
voted for John Mahama; I think he’s a good president; he’s a good man and I’m
going to work towards his sustenance in office,” Haruna Attah, who has always
been known to have sympathies for the main opposition New Patriotic Party
(NPP), told XYZ Breakfast Show host Moro Awudu Thursday.
“I
have a good president right now who I’m going to support all the way to 2016
and beyond”, he stressed.
Dissociating
himself from the NPP’s 2012 Vice Presidential Candidate’s maiden Aliu Mahama
memorial lecture, at which, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia criticised the Mahama
administration’s handling of the economy, Haruna Attah said: “We have a
President and we have to support him and let him succeed; let his Government
succeed”.
According
to him, the wish by opposition elements for the government to fail is highly
flawed and must change.
“…They
think if they pull down a government, they’ve succeeded in something. When a
government fails, a nation fails and everybody suffers,” he said.
Hurrah!!
A fly will bite an
elephant if it can find a weak spot in its hide; and the ant knows best how to
do so to force the elephant into killing itself. The big flappy ears are
vulnerable and become the target. Our NPP friends are quick to find fault but
are hard of hearing, especially about their own inadequacies!!
Haruna
Attah is on a mission to prove to them why their “book politics” is not only
anachronistic but is also anti-Ghana. Not everything happening in the country
is bad as is always trumpeted by these NPP people. And as they go about
undermining everything they consider as detrimental to their political cause,
they make their politics unpalatable.
Yesterday,
they were hounding the Chief Justice with their petition for investigation to
be done into utterances attributed to Ms. Victoria Hammah to the effect that
Nana Oye Lithur (Minister of Women and Gender Affairs) secretly influenced the
judges hearing the NPP’s petition against Election 2012. Even before the dust
settles, they have rushed to Parliament with the same petition.
They
are running around in circles, raising dust to blind themselves and the
gullible segments of the Ghanaian populace just to pursue their narrow,
selfish, property-grabbing democracy of sorts. In effect, they won’t relent in
their Mahama-loathing campaign of dirty politics. All in a vain attempt to make
it difficult for the government to manage national affairs.
Sooner
than later, they will know the bitter truth about their suicidal politics,
especially when their own followers begin undermining them from within. Harunah
Attah has set the pace; even though we may have good cause to question his real
motives.
Folks,
what do you think is motivating Haruna Attah to go this distance? Of course, he
first came to light as a keen and ardent admirer/follower of JJ Rawlings
(married to Nana Konadu Agyemang-Rawlings' younger sister) and was appointed
the Director of the defunct Ghana Film Industry Corporation.
That
relationship soured and Haruna Attah became a vicious critic and tormentor of
Rawlings, writing scathing articles to undermine Rawlings' integrity,
especially as he displayed his pro-NPP colours.
Those
of us who know him can't believe what he is turning himself into this time. Has
he turned his back to the NPP and is now speeding to join the bandwaggon of
President Mahama? Obviously, especially if we scrutinize his singular
demolition exercise against Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia for the speech he delivered to
mark the first anniversary of the death of the former Vice President (Aliu
Mahama).
Well,
every good thing will attract support. President Mahama needs our unflinching
support, and we will give it to him. Let the Haruna Attahs join us to help him
succeed!!
I shall return…
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