Monday,
June 23, 2014
Folks, we need to place
happenings in our contemporary times within their proper context, especially as
far as the NPP’s kind of “rogue politics” is concerned.
Those of us who know the history
of Ghana will never sit down unconcerned for them to mislead anybody. They are
doing things today to project themselves as more patriotic than anybody else, which
is captured in the very name of their political organ (the New Patriotic Party
(NPP)); but truth be told, there is a huge question mark hanging over their
kind of patriotism.
They are no more patriotic than
those not hailing from the tribal confluence on which their party depends for
sustenance. Ask yourselves why it is only two out of the 10 regions
constituting Ghana that continue to give them what they need to remain in
contention. No need to elaborate.
Those of us probing into issues
will continue to question their true values and stick our necks out to say it
as it should be said. If they can, let them attempt cutting off our necks. We
don’t fear their intrigues because we know they cannot survive when TRUTH
confronts them.
It is obvious that they hate
criticism, which is why they don't want someone like me to be at their heels.
They will do all they can to stifle opposition/criticism so that what they
uphold as their version of the TRUTH will be rammed down the throats of
everybody. But they are deceived.
They did so when the
Danquah-Busia Club formed by the late Attakorah-Gyimah of Nkukuo Buoho in the
Offinso area (who happened to be the last old guard of the Ashanti Pioneer
newspaper, a very strong anti-progress medium, a defender of the Asante
hegemony) was using his experience to get things going for them at the time
that Justice Frank Daniel Annan (a member of the PNDC and the first head of the
National Commission for Democracy) was spearheading Rawlings' reform of the
political system toward the establishment of the 4th Republic. And Justice Annan
had been living in Kumasi, where he made a name for himself and his family.
Very interesting!!
Sometimes, when I consider the
scathing personal attacks on some of us by these NPP elements, I wonder what
they do to themselves, thereby. And I question whether they really want to know
how to fit into modern-day Ghanaian politics—and whether they can do so without
knowing where their party came from to be what it is today. Or whether they
fear being confronted by or with their own Avatars.
And when they easily disparage
the NDC and its predecessor (PNDC and the AFRC or June 4), I laugh them to
scorn. They fear history. If they don’t do so, can they face the dark days of
their own political culture and the diabolical intrigues of their forebears?
There is no dispute with the fact
that the NDC emerged from the struggles of Jerry Rawlings and those supporting
his call for a drastic transformation of Ghanaian politics from its "privileged"
(according to the Gospel of the Danquah-Busia ideology) to "underprivileged"
status, which is why someone like the privileged William Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo
finds it difficult to reach out to the underprivileged Ghanaian segments of the
electorate to support him.
Now, he is playing hide-and-seek
with his own party members: pretending to be hands-off and not wanting to
interfere with the ongoing wrangling in the party but tele-guiding everything
from his safe haven. How can these NPP people be so pathetic? And they think
that Ghanaians cannot read deeper meanings into goings-on to know that they are
chameleons ready to change colour, shape, and form according to the political environmental
influences? Are these people really the “interrectuals” that they have
portrayed themselves and wasted resources on propagating?
My good friends, there is a lot
to persuade me that these NPP people are novices in contemporary politics. They
are yet to know how to fit in to be accepted as Ghana’s “redeemers”, which is
why all their vile politics against the NDC and the Mahama-led administration
will bounce back with a terrible boomerang effect to knock them cold!!
I don’t intend to flog the dead
horse that they are; but I just want to reiterate the point that they are
wasting their time and resources to look for dung where no cow grazed. By their
fruit have they been known all this while. And that fruit is really bitter.
Repulsive!! Only they are yet to know themselves.
And the NPP poses a more troubling
threat to our democracy than the NDC does. They have just confirmed my poor
opinion of them by taking to the streets in Kumasi on an ill-thought-of public
demonstration of frustration (the “Ya Ye Den” demonstration).
If you doubt it that they are
wrapped up in themselves and will do all they can to raise dust if not in power,
go back into history to find out what they did at the first general elections
ushering in this 4th Republic in 1992 when they boycotted the
Parliamentary elections after losing the Presidential elections of November 23,
1992, to the indefatigable Jerry John Rawlings!! Their so-called _Stolen
Verdict_ reflects everything repugnant about their “book” politics.
And what they attempted doing again
after losing Election 2008 to the late Atta Mills is difficult to gloss over
too. As for their anti-Ghana politics after losing Election 2012, I needn’t say
anything. The facts are still available to prove to all that they cannot accept
defeat; and they will continue to be defeated for as long as their “rogue
politics” prevails. Such a political camp needs to be closely watched and
outsmarted lest it draws us back.
I shall return…
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