By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Garden City, New York
Nov. 2, 2014
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net
Well, the National Vice-Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alhaji Said Sinare, may want Ghanaians to believe that President John Dramani Mahama won their mandate fair and square in Election 2012, but the General-Secretary of the party is buying none of it (See "Ghanaians Will Retain NDC in Power - Ambassador Sinare" Ghana News Agency / Ghanaweb.com 11/2/14).
In fact, the first statement issued by Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, popularly called General Mosquito, in the wake of the scandalous declaration of his boss as the clear and undisputed winner of the 2012 presidential election by Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Ghana's Electoral Commissioner, was to sheepishly fault the key operatives of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) for being abjectly lax in their vigilance, thereby causing the results of the presidential election to be declared in favor of Little Dramani.
And so it well appears that Alhaji Sinare, the newly named Ghana's Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, did not really mean the same the other day, when he plaintively declared that Ghanaians are apt to retain the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress government come Election 2016. His statement could not have been more insulting to the intelligence of the good and hardworking people of Ghana, retorted General Mosquito. And the Mosquito Man ought to know what he is talking about; for hasn't he been the one tallying up the scores around the Dumsornomical clock, even as the leaden and sluggish likes of Alhaji Sinare sat duck on their prats and heartily chatted the night away?
Besides, doesn't everybody know that it was the Atuguba-presided Supreme Court of Ghana that pontifically and flabbergastingly decided that "over-voting" and all, Little Dramani had to be "judiciously" afforded the favorite toy for which he had recently killed the Simpa Elephant who had so unwisely presumed to balk at the same? The same Supreme Court had so facilely and cavalierly argued that all elections are won and lost at the polling station. Still, according to the Mosquito Man, Little Dramani had not really clinched his presidential trophy at the polling station; rather, he had "Kawukudi" Uncle Kwadwo into calling the endgame in his favor.
Either way, isn't it rather ironic for a man being diplomatically posted to the most politically undemocratic kingdom on Earth to be talking democracy and electoral retention of the most democratically knavish political party in our country? But then, can one really fault Alhaji Sinare for pontificating so scandalously about a battle that his party never really won, but whose trophy and bragging rights, somehow, found their way into the jittery laps of Little Dramani? After all, didn't he have to say something nice to the man who had found it proper and fitting in his heart to sponsor Alhaji Sinare, once again, to Mecca on a second Islamic "Ph.D." called the Hajj?
Then also, the Mosquito Man may be right, after all. For precisely what does Alhaji Sinare mean, when the new Ghanaian Dean of Mecca says "the NDC government is working assiduously to put smiles on the faces of the good people of Ghana"? Isn't this very quote an inescapable admission of the fact that for nearly two years now, Little Dramani has been giving his countrymen and women nothing short of raw anger, and disappointment and grief?
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