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Woa look oooh... These
paranoid NPP people paaaaa
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Folks, just look at these NPP people and their campaign of
hot-air blowing: "New voters’ register or not; Mahama must
go—NPP"
As reported, "A former Chairman of the opposition New
Patriotic Party (NPP), Peter Mac Manu, has served notice the
Mahama administration will be changed in 2016 whether the
Electoral Commission compiles a new voters’ register or not.
Mr. Mac Manu, who is the leader of Nana Akufo-Addo’s 2016
Campaign Team, made the assertion at the party’s
headquarters on Thursday. He was responding to the EC’s
position not to create a new voters’ register...
“We also have a special message for President John Mahama
and his NDC. Please listen to this message carefully. With
or without a new register, your time is up; change is
coming. The Ghanaian people cannot wait to get rid of you
with their votes. The Ghanaian people are not prepared to
have this year’s election stolen from them.
“The Ghanaian people are fed up with the eight years of
needless suffering under the NDC. Ghanaians have had enough
of your incompetence, corruption and deceit. They have risen
to the challenge for change. Ghanaians are ready to protect
the ballot at the various polling stations and we the NPP
are steady and ready to lead the people on this charge for
change”. (See
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/New-voters-register-or-not-Mahama-must-go-NPP-407647).
What again should we tell these NPP people before they stack
more on their house of cards to fall flat on them?
Will president Mahama just GO because the NPP people wish
so? While President Mahama is connecting with the voters,
explaining his government's performance to them and urging
them to be patient and tolerant while it addresses the
challenges, these NPP people are busy, goring each other,
dismantling their own party's structures, and blowing hot
air all over the place.
Is that how to make President Mahama GO? Is that how to
effect the change that they are dreaming of?
Elections are won by those who know how to connect with the
voters, not those creating smokescreens behind which they
hide to foment trouble;
• not those instigating violence in pursuit of their skewed
political ambitions;
• not those offering no particular solution to the problems
that they mount rooftops to hammer on as if those problems
just cropped up when president Mahama took over the rein;
• not those enjoying the comfort of their perch in the
affairs of the NPP;
• not those "doing tricks" with the party's finances;
• not those who don't know how to do productive politics and
resort to insults and tribal politics.
When will these NPP people stop blowing this hot air and get
down to real political business among the electorate?
Now, they know that a new voters register is, after all, not
their saviour at the polls? Their kind of "kokompe politics"
is beyond ridiculous!!
Why are they back-tracking now on the voters register after
doing all they could (including the al-Houdini work of a
fictitious Togolese voters register) to have things done
their way and failing? After isolating Ewes to be
disenfranchised because of their being characterized as
"Togolese" by the NPP and its Dr. Bawumia? After failing to
give Ghanaians anything on the Ghanaian voters register
regarding happenings in neighbouring Burkina Faso and Ivory
Coast, contrary to what they did about the Togolese one?
Then, just when the EC has begun cleaning up the register,
what do we have? The NPP has ordered it to stop, forthwith
all internal auditing processes rolled out by the electoral
body towards cleaning up the 2012 register of voters ahead
of the November elections. Its reason? “Until all parties
can satisfy themselves on the modalities and the means by
which the so-called internal cleaning is being done.” (See
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/NPP-orders-EC-to-stop-voter-roll-audit-407716).
Just before then, the NPP had expressed alarm at the fact
that the EC had discovered multiple registrations of about
200,000 people in the Ashanti Region. (See
http://www.myjoyonline.com/politics/2016/January-14th/ecs-claim-of-200000-multiple-registrations-in-ashanti-strange-npp.php).
And now, the harsh tune is that the EC is signing the tune
of “a particular political party” whose name Mac Manu
couldn’t disclose at the press conference. This kind of
paranoia won’t fetch them any political capital.
Tweeeeeeeeeeaaaa!
I shall return…
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