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Only the NDC can defeat
the NDC
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Folks, I have said it already that I don’t like the way Koku
Anyidoho does politics to damage the NDC’s interests. Ever
since he turned himself into a potentate at the
Communication Directorate of government to bulldoze his way
through the terrain and step on toes anyhow under the late
Atta Mills, I haven’t liked him at all. If my wish were
anything to go by, I would expect him to be flung far away
from anything involving the NDC. But as his fate would have
it, my wish couldn’t stand. That is why after being
jettisoned when that Directorate was scrapped, he managed to
regain some ground to become the NDC’s Deputy General
Secretary. He has already angered some of us with his
idiotic comments, one of which he has just made:
“…certain international actors are against the Mahama
administration. These forces within the comity of nations,
he announced on radio Tuesday, are working to ensure
President John Mahama and the National Democratic Congress (NDC)
lose the 2016 elections.” (See
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/Some-world-powers-want-Mahama-to-lose-2016-405346).
I needn’t belabour the negative implications of such an
idiotic utterance. Suffice it to say that it suggests some
creeping paranoia. The NDC is not known for that, and
Anyidoho must be told the truth. The NDC emerged from the
position of a third force in Ghanaian politics to become the
most formidable one feared by the NPP, the CPP and the other
mushroom parties. All that the NDC represents, they fear.
So, why should Anyidoho now turn round to make utterances
that cast the party in such a bad light?
How does he know that some in the international community
don’t want the NDC to be retained at Election 2016? And only
he knows? And if the reason against the NDC is that it is
not market-friendly, what prevents it from changing that
negative spot to become what Anyidoho thinks the NPP is, and
which has made it more attractive to the so-called
international community?
I find a lot wrong with idiotic utterances of this sort,
especially at this time when the citizens are grappling with
real existential problems and have become susceptible to
manipulation by those peddling lies to undo the government.
One expects anybody in any responsible position in the party
and government to make guarded and reasonable utterances to
court public goodwill or help the government claw back lost
grounds because of its inability to fulfill the previous
electioneering campaign promises or to solve problems and
improve standards of living.
As of now, there is much anger against the government over
its policies that are held as responsible for worsening
living standards, high cost of utility services, high school
fees—economic hardships, generally. The people are unhappy
that the energy crisis hasn’t yet been solved to ease the
burden on them. They are apprehensive of the future and wish
that the government would redouble its efforts to tackle the
challenges. If for nothing at all, they are enjoying peace
and national stability under this administration and will be
more wont to have this atmosphere than caving in to the wild
messages and dreadful promises by its opponents. It's just a
matter of living with the devil they know than the angel
flying above them with fire in its belly to spit at them if
allowed to have sway over their lives!
The NPP people may be promising honey-combs, but the people
are already wary of such a guile, clearly because of the
negative public posturing by the NPP camp, especially the
intimidation, threatening of violence, and many more.
Thus, it is pointless for anybody in the NDC top echelons to
begin going overboard as Anyidoho has done. It is more
annoying for him to make such an utterance at this time that
attention is expected to be turned to more positive things
to boost the party’s electioneering campaign efforts.
What will this allegation bring to the NDC? It is more
annoying for him not to have mentioned any name to
substantiate his claim. Was he making the noise just to
prove that he has any clout in the NDC or to prove that he
is doing any communication-oriented work for the NDC, the
government or President Mahama? Or is he still hallucinating
that what he did at the Communication Directorate under the
late Atta Mills could still be relevant to the NDC’s cause
today or tomorrow? What a nuisance he is!!
Without hitting him any further, let me say that what will
endear the NDC to the hearts of the electorate isn’t the
kind of idiotic utterances made by Anyidoho but the party’s
own ability to smooth its rough edges and reach out
successfully to the electorate with convincing messages on
what the government has been able to do so far, why it has
failed to do so in some areas, and why it needs its mandate
renewed so it can do better. Nothing else matters.
Beyond that point, the NDC leaders must look within
themselves to see where they have failed in serving the
needs of the party’s followers, especially the foot-soldiers
doing the trench work but being neglected to become
embittered. It is their ability to regain the confidence of
such party followers that will strengthen their bond and
move the party forward. No amount of wolf-crying as done by
Anyidoho will win the NDC anything but scorn. It is high
time that the wings of characters like Anyidoho were clipped
to prevent them from flying astray to damage the party’s
interests.
I shall return…
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