The Al-Hajj in our last edition faulted Mr. Alfred Woyome, the embattled businessman at the centre of the GHC51m judgment debt for going all out to point fingers at supposed individuals and groups in both the NDC party and government for being the cause of his current predicament.
Captioned: Woyome, You Cannot Fight Everybody And Win; we counseled the businessman and ex-diplomat, Mr. Alfred Agbesi Woyome to stop digging-in for more imaginary or real enemies after his brief incarceration and eventual criminal charges.
Our advice to Mr. Woyome was predicated on some publications recently in certain newspapers sympathetic to Mr. Woyome’s cause, which sought to attack the Finance Minister Dr Kwabena Duffuor, the Economic and Organized Crime Office (EOCO) and even by extension President Mills.
Two weeks earlier, we published an interview with an anonymous senior and influential member of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) party and government who warned members and functionaries of the party not to think of self-interest in the wake of the on-going turmoil bedeviling the party.
According to this high NDC figure, “no one should delude himself or herself that the present difficulties the party is going through over the past few weeks would inure to any one individual’s advantage.
“What is required of each and every loyal rank and file now is; self-preservation and restrain, and not to attempt at scoring cheap, albeit, fleeting triumph over a so-called perceived faction or personality, since we all will be gone by the time the-chips-are-down”.
Earlier, on December 20th 2011, The Al-Hajj carried on its front page a story with the banner: “The GHC42m Judgment Debt Cash Nightmare-WOYOME’S CROSS-As power play in NDC continues.”
We recounted then in the story how high ranking officials within the NDC party and government, in what looks like a suicidal adventure were deeply involved in the whole Woyome affair.
We concluded in that story by warning that, the pursuit of personal ambitions to such dangerous levels, is like sitting on a branch and cutting beneath it with a machete.
In today’s edition, we want to re-emphasize the need for the leadership of the party, senior members, the presidency and all those who matter in the NDC government and party, to be circumspect in the way they handle the Woyome issue.
Alfred Agbesi Woyome, we all know had stepped on some toes in the party in the past, but make no mistake, any attempt by anybody in government to opportunistically use this matter to exact vengeance from Mr. Woyome would be doing grave harm to the party and government.
It must be made clear that in this Woyome case, there will be no victor and vanquished in the party. In the final analysis, the NDC party and government will bear the gravest brunt of any calamity that will befall any of its leading members in this issue.
The Al-Hajj was taken aback when it heard that Mr. Woyome was bundled in the cells with hard core criminals when he was arrested recently. Attempts by certain individuals within government and party to remedy the situation and change his abode at the cells was said to have been vigorously rebuffed by certain individuals who have prayed for a very long time in the past for an opportunity to pay the businessman in his own coin.
Those people must know that in this situation of saber-rattling, it is not Woyome who will suffer but the party and government in general.
While we are admonishing Mr. Woyome to desist from his bellicose posturing against certain imaginary enemies in Government, we are also cautioning that no member of the party should take advantage of this current weak position of Woyome to attempt to avenge what he/she might perceived as the businessman’s past wrongdoing in the party. If care is not taken it is this personality brawl that will finally nail the coffin of the party.
We want to admonish all members of the GREAT NDC party and government that in this Woyome affair the MIGHT OF RIGHT MUST PREVAIL INSTEAD OF THE RIGHT OF MIGHT.
