WITH BARELY 15 months to go for Ghana’s fourth general election under the 1992 constitution, a founding member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) has predicted that the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) from whom the NPP wrested power, will collapse under the weight of another defeat.
“The NDC as a political party would surely crack open at the end of the December 2004 elections. Never in my political life have I have come across a political party heavily infested with moles which multiple like germs every minute,” Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, the vociferous NPP functionary told The Chronicle in Accra.
Speaking in an interview over the weekend Dr. Tamakloe said these moles in the NDC leak every plan or anything discussed at the highest level of the party to the government “within the twinkle of an eye.”
Smiling to a question by The Chronicle as to whether the so-called moles were planted by the NPP in the NDC, Dr. Tamakloe said, “The NPP has not planted any moles in the NDC but I can tell you that on two occasions at our rendezvous, two of these moles from the top hierarchy of the NDC nearly collided because faith eluded them but after having discussions with both informants, they virtually came out with the same information.”
He said the NPP is not only amazed about these moles but find them refreshing because some of them have been in government before.
Referring to Mr. Ekwow Spio Garbrah’s exit from the NDC which The Chronicle reported has opened a Pandora’s box in the NDC, he commented: “I can assure you that with the mudslinging, backbiting and attacks in the party that the paper reported, very shocking revelations would be coming out soon and that would shake the party to its very foundation.”
The NPP stalwart expressed dismay about the failure of the rank and file of the NDC to recognize that the party is unsafe, saying the NDC is full of parasites and opportunists. “They are people who have never been faithful. They only joined the party because of what they think they would gain. They aligned themselves with the wining party and maneuvered to gain attention from the hierarchy. They have never and would never believe in the party’s philosophy.”
Dr. Tamakloe said anyone who enters politics in the contemporary history of Ghana with the aim of achieving material gains may make the money but would eventually lose it terribly.
He said any member or official of the NPP who might try to soil his hands with malfeasance would definitely be exposed and disgraced.
The NPP capo noted that there are many more questions than answers to what happened to the following personalities, Vincent Asiseh, former press secretary of the NDC, Owuraku Amofa, the Ahwoi brothers, Faustina Nelson, Nana Akuako Sarpong, Nuama Donkor and Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu.
Others he mentioned were Kofi Awoonor, Owusu Acheampong, Sam Pee Yalley, Kofi Asante and Mike Gizo who have all remained mute for various reasons. He said he would not be surprised if Dr. Mustapha Ahmed, Member of Parliament for Ayawaso East deserts the NDC.
