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Kennedy Agyapong reveals a
major aspect of the NPP’s grand agenda
By Dr.
Michael J.K. Bokor
Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Folks, we have
restrained ourselves from diving into the public
discourse on Kennedy Agyapong’s denigration of Mrs.
Charlotte Osei, Chair of the EC, for a good reason.
As is characteristic of us, we wanted to go beyond
the mere implications of that denigration to explore
the real issues behind it. We are convinced that
what Agyapong said fits into the grand agenda of the
NPP, which is what we want to examine now.
The nub of Agyapong’s drivel against Mrs. Osei is
known. What is not known is its nitty-gritty, the
fact that it is a calculated attempt at helping the
NPP prosecute its grand agenda even as it recognizes
that it has no substantial campaign message to outdo
the incumbent. Thus, focusing attention on the EC
and its Chair has become an attractive weapon of
demonization so that doubts could be raised about
Election 2016 and its outcome.
As a known
hatchet man in the NPP camp, Kennedy Agyapong thinks
that he has enough clout to cut Mrs. Osei to the
size that the NPP has carved for her. So, why not go
for the bulls’ eye as far as her moral self is
concerned? Attack her as a loose woman so her
credibility will plunge in the public sphere. Then,
anything done by her or coming from her will be read
against that script of immorality. Once regarded as
immoral, nothing from her will be credible. Pronto,
Kennedy Agyapong went to town on that score!! And he
represents Central Assin in the Central region!!
I don’t know whether what he is in the news for
is what the Assin Central voters sent him to
Parliament to do; or whether the Assin people will
be proud of him as such; or whether by investing him
with electoral power, they are proud that he is in
the news for the wrong reason and purposes. But I
know that what he is doing fits into the grand
agenda of the NPP to construct Mrs. Osei as a dog
(or a bitch, as Agyapong will be wont to
characterize her) to be given a bad name and hanged
for the NPP’s electoral woes.
This grand
agenda is multi-faceted. Based on the foundational
posturing of militancy, street demonstrations, open
confrontations with the state institutions charged
with law enforcement, campaigns of calumny against
President Mahama and the NDC, recourse to
quasi-military training of their followers grouped
into all kinds of vigilantes, and acerbic political
rhetoric, the NPP aims at causing and sustaining
tension in the country in pursuit of its political
objectives.
It is known for all that it does
in compliance with Akufo-Addo’s call-to-arms,
couched as “All-die-be-die”. That is why it is
fixated on the kind of rhetoric that highlights
doom, gloom, and chaos, not peace and tranquility. A
cursory analysis of such rhetoric shouldn’t leave
anybody in doubt about the NPP’s choice of weapon to
fight its cause at Election 2016.
The
persistent use of media and journalists and other
elements (including traditional rulers) sympathetic
to their cause to undermine the incumbent and to
heighten their scare-mongering politics is a
well-orchestrated move to push forward that agenda
of making the country ungovernable for President
Mahama. That is why the Kojo Yanksons and Co. are
running head-over-heels to bad-mouth President
Mahama. That is why the shoddy cub-journalistic
trash released by Manasseh Azure Awuni has become
their fodder to chew on and vomit out as if it would
fetch them any political capital.
But beyond
all that vile move is the real stuff, which is to
target the reputation of the EC Chair at this time
to tear into shreds so that the main aspects of the
grand agenda to cause chaos in the country could be
nurtured and implemented when they lose the
elections. It was in this sense that Kennedy
Agyapong had earlier warned that Ghana would burn if
President Mahama wins Election 2016. The main text
is that the NPP should be the winner at all costs,
regardless of what the voters decide. That explains
why Peter Mac Manu could say that the NPP would
collate and announce the election results on its own
without recourse to the EC. With this mentality
misguiding them, these NPP people are burning energy
to sustain their campaign of “patapaa”.
An
intelligent analysis of the situation tells me that
after losing Election 2012, the NPP leaders realized
that they could have taken the matter to a different
level if they had fingered Dr. Afari-Gyan (former EC
Chair) as the cause of their woes long before
polling day. They did so through many fabrications
and knee-jerk operations that ended up in smoke.
That was why after the results had been declared,
they launched a persistent campaign of calumny
against him, calling him all sorts of names and
wishing him dead. When they lost the petition
hearing, they went into overdrive and cursed Dr.
Gyan. He is still alive.
Realizing that they
had lost the bid, probably because they hadn’t been
proactive enough to tarnish Dr. Gyan’s image before
Elections 2008 and 2012 to make anything coming from
him unbelievable and unacceptable, they have chosen
to do so this time, seeing Mrs. Osei as a sitting
duck to be picked up for denigration. Why? Because
once they dent her public image at the level of
morality, she would come across as “incompetent”,
“discredited”, and unbelievable. In that sense,
anything done by the EC under her will itself be
regarded as such. That is the sticky point in this
Kennedy Agyapong-led personal attack.
They
have already created the impression that the EC
isn’t qualified as a neutral body to conduct the
elections; or that it is ill-prepared to do so just
because their call for the compilation of a new
voters register has been rebuffed. What the Supreme
Court has set in motion is just a step toward
complicating matters. If care is not taken, the
situation could end up being manipulated by those
already convinced that they have already won
Election 2016 in advance and are just waiting for
the date of the polls to confirm their self-worth.
It won’t happen, which explains why the NPP’s agenda
is a major threat to the country.
We note
here that Agyapong’s personal attack on Mrs. Osei at
this time is a calculated move to test the pulse of
Ghanaians. So far, the quick negative reaction to
his inanity may alarm him and those pushing that
button, even if they won’t openly acknowledge it or
budge to pressure for Agyapong to apologize. As
Agyapong has countered, he will strip Mrs. Osei
naked if anybody dares him. Crass stupidity!!
What he implies here is that once the NPP has
settled on Mrs. Osei’s reputation to tear into ugly
ribbons, it won’t set her free or relent until its
mission to “decimate” her is accomplished. This is a
kind of “psychological warfare” to intimidate her
beyond control so she will lose her mojo. In other
words, the main purpose for denigrating her is to
weaken her morally in the eyes of the public and to
render her untrustworthy such that whatever comes
from the EC that she chairs will be equally
dismissed as discredited. The NPP’s agenda on this
score is clear. It aims at tarnishing the EC Chair’s
reputation so she can’t have the moral courage to do
her work, torn apart as she is likely to be in the
face of the public humiliation.
But this move
is childish. Unless Mrs. Osei truly sold her
conscience and offered her body to secure the
appointment, she has nothing to fear from this
personal attack. And if she can muster up enough
courage to proceed to court, she should do so. And
if she has nothing to fear, she should pursue
litigation on this serious allegation to its logical
conclusion. Sane minds will support her to the full.
The nagging question is: What did Kennedy
Agyapong say when she was appointed to head the NCCE
at the death of Larry Bimi? Did she offer her body
for that one too? If not, why not? Or is she now
being dismissed as a whore because she is the EC
Chair whose role in Election 2016 and others is what
the NPP fears, even after endorsing her when
appointed by President Mahama? And why the paranoia,
anyway?
In reinforcing his inanity, Agyapong
is reported to have said that the only reason for
his taking on Mrs. Osei is that she is in bed with
the NDC to retain President Mahama in office, which
explains his personal attacks on her. So, why choose
to base everything on her offering her body when he
cannot substantiate it? Just read his pronouncements
here
(http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Dare-me-and-I-will-strip-Charlotte-Osei-naked-Ken-Agyapong-451376)
and tell me whether Agyapong is not being fuelled
more by political mischief than any fact about Mrs.
Osei’s immorality. Boasting to strip her but turning
to say why he will do so and not giving us any
evidence of her immorality smacks of mental
retardation.
And what do Agyapong and the NPP
fear? Simple, as explained by Agyapong himself: (a)
to “expose all the 'diabolic plans' of the EC boss;
(b) “The woman’s posture and attitude is enough to
let people know who she is. If you like dare me, and
I will you show why Charlotte Osei is doing that.”
His claim that “but for the intervention of
some people he respects in the NPP, he would have
said even worse things about the EC boss” wraps up
everything about him as a madcap politician, leading
to doom the NPP’s armada of rogue politics in our
time.
Folks, are you surprised that so far,
nothing has come from the NPP Establishment to
either support or condemn Agyapong? You shouldn’t.
After all, what Agyapong is doing has the blessing
of Akufo-Addo and his cabal. Anthony Karbo’s
statement that the NPP won’t react to it sums it all
up. What will the NPP say differently, anyway,
knowing very well that Agyapong is the man doing
their hatchet job? The bitter truth is that what
Agyapong has begun doing it forms part of the NPP's
grand agenda to cause disaffection for Mrs. Osei and
to prepare minds to reject the outcome of Election
2016 if it doesn't favour the NPP. Too bad for
Ghanaian politics.
I shall return…
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