U.S. mid-term polls shakes Mahama

It is a well-known axiom in Ghana that when your brother’s house is on fire, you fetch and keep a bucket of water by your side, in case fire gets to your house.

This adage is so befitting though, the United States (U.S) is so far away from Ghana; but the fact is that the President John Dramani Mahama Government should take a serious look at how the Democratic Party of President Barrack Obama has performed poorly in the just-ended U.S. Mid-Term elections.

Speaking to The Informer, a close Aide of President John Mahama who pleads anonymity said “even though the President as Chairman of Economic Community of West Africa States (ECOWAS) has been busy with disturbing matters happening in the sub-region like Burkina Faso’s current political issue and that of EBOLA, he was aware of the outcome of the Mid-Term election in the U.S.”.

According to this source, one disturbing event the President lamented over was how the Democratic Party lost Maryland and Massachusetts- which they had always won- to the Republican.

“Relating the results of Maryland and Massachusetts to Ghana, the President holds the view that this will be a big “political tsunami” should the NDC loss constituencies like the Ho Central or Ketu North to the NPP in the 2016 Presidential elections; and its consequences to the electoral fortunes of the Party.

“To be honest, the President has been shaken by the strange outcome of the Mid-Term Elections in U.S., juxtaposing it with President Barrack Obama’s popularity coupled with his pro-poor policies, particularly of his Health-Care Reform Bill (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act),” the source hinted.

According to the source, the outcome of the just-ended Mid-Term Elections depicts the power of floating voters whose vote are performance based; and the earlier President Mahama and his Government wakes up to the reality by year this time, to convince floating voters in Ghana, the better his electoral fortunes in 2016.

Asked what the realities are, the source replied “with the myriad of corruption cases that have engulfed his government, worsening unemployment among the youth, the untold hardship brought upon Ghanaians; and the unfulfilled promises, President will succeed in sending the NDC into opposition”.

Without mincing words, the concerned source at the Flagstaff House charged media houses sympathetic to the government to let the President know of the realities on the ground and stop the unnecessary praise-singing.

“My brother sometimes is nauseating reading praises being showered on Government from friendly media houses, even in the face of myriad of problems Ghanaians are faced with.

In fact, the President must be told the truth if the NDC does not want to go the way of the Democratic Party per the shocking outcome of the Mid-Term Elections in U.S.”, the source concludes.