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Isn’t Dr. Wereko-Brobby
telling the NPP the Truth?
By Dr. Michael J.K. Bokor
Tuesday, January 5, 2016
Folks, I have insisted all this while that the NPP can save
itself from more disaster (at least, by presenting workable
and reliable alternatives for governance to spice
contemporary Ghanaian politics) if it abandons its
anachronistic rogue and book politics to turn attention
toward issues dear to the lives of the people.
I have made it clear that elections are won at the polls
when voters are persuaded to give their consent to
candidates assuring them of good governance, based on
policies and tested personal integrity, and not through the
rhetorical acrobatics in the mass media or just any public
space or even through legal gymnastics in court at the least
prompting.
So also have I made it clear that the NPP's Akufo-Addo and
his running mate (Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia) haven't learnt any
new lesson to add value to themselves and their party so as
to win the hearts and minds of the electorate. From what has
unfolded so far, it is clear that the NPP isn't making any
progress at all to indicate that it can win Election 2016.
The party's fixation on technicalities, culminating in the "huhudious"
work by Dr. Bawumia and all those wasting time, money, and
energy looking for just anything in the form of a political
straw to hang on to won't solve any problem for the NPP.
Instead, they will erode their credibility further, as is
the case of the 76,000 Togolese voters' case that the
Electoral Commission has discredited and for which the NDC
is urging that Dr. Bawumia be arrested for deceiving
Ghanaians. Terrible harm to his integrity!!
Now, the issues are assuming a more interesting turn for the
worse. Dr. Charles Wereko-Brobby, a suspended high-ranking
member of the NPP, has hit hard the same chord that
resonates with me:
"I want to hear NPP talk about the fuel price hikes, the
wrongs going on in Ghana. This is the time to offer
alternatives, not keep complaining and wasting our time with
threats of going to court. There’ll be no new register. End
of the story,” he said on Asempa FM Monday."
Certainly, an astute observation to make! But instead of
seeing sense in Dr. Wereko-Brobby's advice, the NPP leaders
are going for his throat, dismissing him as a "mysterious
and greedy politician" (as framed by Nana Obiri Boahen,
Deputy General Secretary).(See
http://www.myjoyonline.com/politics/2016/January-5th/npp-descends-on-mysterious-greedy-wereko-brobby.php).
Is that so? Dr. Wereko-Brobby a mysterious and greedy
politician? I don’t think so. Having formed his own party
and collapsing it into the NPP, how would he turn out to be
mysterious and greedy? I think otherwise about the man. He
may be too brazen, but he is telling the NPP what it needs
to know and act on to improve its politicking.
Of course, there is a lot happening that the NPP can
capitalize on for its campaigns; that is, if there is any
change in the direction of campaigning for it to make. Dr.
Brobby is on suspension but not prevented from commenting on
the party's lack of purposefulness. Or...?
As is the case now, all those suspended by the Akufo-Addo
team are free to say whatever is on their minds. Will the
NPP now turn to gagging them in addition? Or will they be
expelled from the party to end it all? Even then, they have
every right to make their voices heard. Folks, do you see
how these NPP people behave?
I shall return…
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