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So soon, a “victory
ram” for President Mahama?
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Saturday,
April 30, 2016
Folks, strange things
continue to happen as far as the mindset, attitudes, and
direct involvement of chiefs in partisan politics are
concerned. President Mahama is on a nationwide tour
dubbed as "Accounting to the People" that involves
commissioning projects undertaken by his government and
meeting the chiefs and people to assure them of what his
government intends doing to improve living standards.
His opponents consider the
tour as an abuse of incumbency and have even hit below
the belt to dismiss it as "useless". Yet, they cringe at
what unfolds, especially the massive show of support for
him and the declaration of goodwill toward him in his
bid to seek a renewal of his mandate at Election 2016.
Wherever he's been so far,
the chiefs and people have openly expressed their
admiration for him. The pictures are all over the
mediascape for us to see. We've also heard utterances of
varying import. Those chiefs who have openly shown
appreciation to President Mahama for providing
development projects to their communities, creating the
impression that they support his bid for a second term
have been quickly insulted by Kweku Baako as unwise, a
euphemism for their being stupid. The NPP has also been
quick to condemn them. But the chiefs aren't fazed at
all. There is no way anybody/anything can stop the
overflowing joy that they have at being given their
share of the national cake.
According to the Gospel of
Malik Kweku Baako Junior of the New Crusading Guide
newspaper, any chief who endorses a President is unwise.
And many chiefs have either openly endorsed President
Mahama’s bid for a second term or indirectly rooted for
him to turn Kweku Baako’s crank. The latest is from
Nkoranza in the Brong-Ahafo Region, prompting me to ask
whether the Nkoranza chief (Okatakyie Agyemang Kodom) is
the most unwise chief In Ghana today, according to the
Gospel of Kweku Baako? He has done what will shock
anybody who knows what is at stake in our current
political dispensation.
Not to be outdone in showing
appreciation for President Mahama, the Nkoranza chief is
reported as donating a ram he describes as a "victory
ram" to President John Mahama to celebrate his victory
in the upcoming 2016 general elections. (See
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Nov-Poll-Nkoranza-Chief-donates-victory-ram-to-Mahama-434947).
Scary as this gesture may be, especially to the
political opponents of President Mahama, it says a lot
to suggest that it will take more than mere insults and
condemnatory statements to either deter the chiefs or to
stop them entirely from siding with the politician of
their choice to lead the country. It seems Article 276
of the 1992 Constitution is so toothless as not to have
been included in the Constitution at all.
In this case, the Nkoranza
chief has gone a long stretch:
1. He has predicted a
massive win for the President due to his unparalleled
achievements in the Brong Ahafo Region and Ghana at
large (which reduces to absurdity all the noise being
made by Akufo-Addo and all others dismissing President
Mahama as a failure).
2. He has justified his
donation of the "victory ram", saying that the first
time he donated a ram to President Mahama saw him
winning the 2012 election; and he was confident that
this second ram will secure the President another
victory.
Here we are, folks. The Nkoranza chief has
taken the matter a notch higher. Will he come across,
then, as the most unwise chief, according to the Gospel
of Kweku Baako? Or are other chiefs waiting to express
their appreciation come out with other gestures to push
them up the ladder of stupidity as Kweku Baako will
characterize them? At the end of President Mahama's
tour, which chief will win the unenviable title as the
most stupid (according to Kweku Baako's Gospel)?
Eyes
are watching. Those opposition politicians watching too
may be more than worried at this point.
I shall return…
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