Election 2024: Former Presidents Trump and Mahama, and the swing states factor

Fellow Ghanaians, there’s indeed light at the end of the tunnel for us with the resounding victory of former Donald Trump of the United States of America. The current tragic government shall soon vacate us in peace or in pieces.

No way could anyone in his or her craziest prognosis and diagnosis, or wildest imagination, predict the victory of former President Trump. The euphoria that followed the endorsement of vice president Kamala Harris as the replace of Joe Biden ignited unprecedented political vibrancy across the US with a record number of volunteers soaring up with tones of cash piling up from donors. But the sudden and abrupt end of that political enthusiasm like the urine of an impotent man when Kamala lost to Trump with only 226 electoral votes to Trump’s 295, has shocked many!

For those of us in Ghana from across the Atlantic waiting for our own electoral D-Day, this unexpected defeat of Kamala Harris must actually press the panic button of the governing New Patriotic Party in Ghana just as Trump's victory is nothing but an “audacity of hope” for his counterpart former President John Dramani Mahama.

But some bold and thick thieves and criminals in the Akufo Addo administration who have aided and abetted in running the country aground and are not prepared to accept that their time of accountability has come, want to castigate this new down of reality. They try to run away with their toddler explanations that really cannot hold water.

In the first instance, we all know that if Kamala Harris had won, they would have been the first to not only mirror her victory with Bawumia's prospects, they would have drawn similarities between Kamala and Bawumia and resonate and associate the American elections with Ghana's upcoming election.

In fact, when the NPP's communicators began referring to former President Mahama as a danger and threat to democracy when he called upon the Ambassador of the USA to Ghana over the excesses of the Supreme court and the Chief Justice that has become an extension of the ministry of Justice and no longer an arm of the government, it was clearer these sinister communicators were referring to Donald Trump, who has been maligned and demonized by the Democrats as a threat.

It is imperative to point out that there's a striking similarities between Trump and Mahama just as there are between Kamala and Bawumia. Aside the fact that Bawumia and Kamala are unusual vice presidents with the former being a Muslim and the latter being a female vice presidents in a rather strange ways, they both have served under clueless bosses who have held their respective countries to a devastating ransom which Kamala and Bawumia have decided to distance themselves away from.

Consider the comatose state of the Ghanaian economy for example, in the case of Bawumia, which has become a colossal foul mess like a dog's dinner created by Akufo Addo and enabled by him as vice president which he now wants to dissociate himself from as a running mate seeking to succeed his boss Akufo Addo.

Kamala on the other hand, also decided to flee from the mess of her boss Joe Biden whose handling of global crisis such as war in Gaza and Ukraine that have outraged the American public. And with the commonest denominator between the duo (Kamala and Bawumia) being the higher cost of living, with Ghana being the worst.

As for Mahama and Trump, both have suffered political persecution and witch-hunt, and a whole office of Special Prosecutor was instituted by the worst thief Ghana has ever seen to investigate an innocent man and a Saint. And this is actually the common fate former President Mahama shares with former President Trump and now president-elect which Trump will soon share with Mahama.

Supreme court of New York had convicted Trump on 34 counts on claims of leaking of Classified Documents to abuse of women and tax evasion charges!

Frankly, we all bought into the shenanigans and propaganda of the Biden-led administration until God delivers justice between them and Trump using the number Seven Factor: the “Swing States".

As a student of religion, I am familiar with the fact that the number seven (7) is one of the most powerful numbers, including number nineteen (19), in the spiritual realm. And this is reflected across creation.

For example, there are seven layers of heaven (the space), seven layers of earth, seven colors of rainbow, there are seven continents, seven seas etc. And of course, there were seven Swing States in the American election and the day of the election, "Tuesday", has seven letters. The “Swing States factor” had therefore played a crucial role in rescuing the USA from an immediate and untimely civil war, collapse and decay. Nevada, Arizona, Michigan, Georgia, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin were the SEVEN Swing states God has used, to facilitate and fortify Donald Trump back to power in the White House.

The question many Ghanaians are now asking while knowing the answer very well is, would former President Trump's victory influence the victory of former President Mahama? The answer is a clear yes. Not because they are both former presidents, and not because Ghana is the hub of democracy in Africa. But it is because the God who has taken Trump back to the White House, is the same God we are dealing with in Ghana. He shall get Mahama, too, back to the FlagStaff House. In Sha Allah.

The “injustices” perpetrated against Trump, the badmouthing, the deAmericanization, and demonization of Trump was what God considered and took him back to the White House against all odds. Something Trump shares with president Mahama. They are both victims of bad political opponents, especially in Ghana.

In the case of Ghana, however, the seven ‘Swing States factor” is not really about some states or even regions in Ghana as we are practicing unitary system of government. Rather, they are the ills of this current government which, while in opposition, they identified and aligned them with president Mahama as his monopoly, only for them to come into government in 2017 and have done worse than Mahama. These “Seven Swing States” in the context of Ghana are the excessive borrowing (Wisconsin), Cedi depreciation (Nevada), Supreme court’s consistent misbehavior (Arizona), Electoral Commission apparent biases (North Carolina), the unspeakable economic mess (Georgia), the paralyzing hunger pandemic across the country (Michigan), and the never-seen-before scale of unfathomable corruption/thievery under Akufo Addo (Pennsylvania).

In his numerous lectures, Dr. Bawumia had actually called out the Mahama government for too much borrowing. The Walewale Adam Smith and Ghana's first "Timothy" of economic mismanagement is on record to have said that Ghana doesn't need to borrow money nor tax anybody or anything, and that we have the resources and so the need to shift Ghana from taxation to production.

He and other men of barrel of the gun to rob us in awaiting at the time, came up with most catchy but useless and fraudulent slogans such as one district one factory; one village one dam, to hoodwink the masses into voting for them. Today, eight years later, Ghana's public debt is cruising around 765 billion from 122 billion in 2016! The borrowing factor as Ghana's “Swing state” in the upcoming election, has actually swung back at the vice president Dr. Bawumia just as Michigan Arab voters swung the state against Kamala.

Dr. Bawumia has been famously credited for the infamous quote that, "when the fundamentals are weak the exchange rate will expose you". This is another “Swing State” going into the December election next month. The cedi was 4 cedis in 2017 to one dollar when Bawumia became the vice president.

The cedi has since been on a free fall nosedive since the inception of the current government. Bawumia claim that he jailed the cedi and gave the keys to the Inspector of General Police (IGP) turned out to be the most embarrassing claim when the cedi broke the jail and depreciated to 17 cedis to one dollar as we speak. Ghanaians have now had to mobilize more resources in order to buy few things because of this gross incompetence, and the "Swing state" of who manages the cedi better shall swing against Bawumia! Four cedis to a dollar is certainly better than a 17 (or even worse) cedis to a dollar!

Furthermore, the Supreme court's disgusting bow and submission to the Executive branch of government is another repugnant "Swing state" that shall decide who becomes the next commander-in-chief of the republic of Ghana. The epileptic and repulsive conduct of the current Chief Justice, her ladyship Gertrude Torkono, is one clarion call for the liberation of Ghana Ghanaians simply can't ignore. Her approach to the business of the judicial arm of government, has been a different level of nonsense and legal gibberish in recent times that is a threat to the relative peace we are enjoying.

How does the Judiciary under Gertrude stewardship justify their disregard of the anti-LGBTQ Bill signing by the president which is almost more than a year, and the less than three hours adjudication of the case of the four expelled MPs in Parliament by the Speaker?

How did the president decline signing the anti-LGBTQ bill in the name of court proceedings on the Bill when nobody was in court about the case until the following day, and the Majority leader Afenyo Markin's coming to the court about a matter that was yet to be decided?Fellow citizens can recall that when the anti LGBTQ law was passed by Parliament and subsequently submitted to the office of the president for assenting of the Bill, the presidency claimed some citizens went to court to protest the Bill and until the Supreme court gives a verdict on that, the president could not assent it. Meanwhile, nobody was in court at the time the Bill was presented.

However, some idiots actually took the issue to court the next day to thwart the assenting of the Bill after this shameless excuse from the presidency. Till date the Supreme court has not finalized its verdict for the president to assent the Bill or not. But Afenyo Markins literally went to the Supreme court to alert the Bench about the possible action by the Speaker of Parliament regarding the embattled sacked MPs before the Speaker could even carry out his constitutional duty and ruling by rusticating the said MPs.

This blatant biases on the part of the Supreme court as a demonstration of the adage that, "nobody bites the finger the feeds her or him", is one critical "Swing state" that shall decide the fate of vice president Bawumia. Not by Mahama nor the National Democratic Congress, NDC, but by the Almighty God, the most Just.

Moving on, the flagrant disregard of the collective commonsense of Ghanaians by the Electoral Commission, EC, is yet another “Swing State”. The conduct of the last elections was simply absurd and disgraceful. And the Chief Justice appears even more decent than Jean Mensah the EC boss and his yes-men and bootlicking assistants many of whom were once the hoodlums of the current government. Well, their conduct as former hoodlums which granted them the job in the first place has constantly come to bear and they have promised more and total thuggery for their paid masters. But, In Sha Allah, not in this year's general elections.

And for some of them and anybody scheming to compromise the odour of sanctity of this most crucial election, God may take care of them before the election day. After stealing the last election for president Akufo Addo which is the main reason for our current economic mess, Jean Mensah refused to testify in an (in)competent court of jurisdiction. And the judges could do nothing then as they are very powerful today and struggling to encroach upon Parliament which is even an arm of government.

Moreover, most certain "Swing state" in this election will be the tragedy of stinking economic mess invented by Akufo Addo Ghanaians have ever seen which has degenerated into a hanger epidemic in the country. These two twin evils are like Michigan and Pennsylvania states with majority of Arab and Jewish Americans who both punished Kamala Harris, Dr. Bawumia's colleague. Well, the economic shutdown and its accompanying hunger and drudgery Ghanaians are grappling with shall punish Dr. Bawumia.

In the nutshell, fellow Ghanaians, the greatest factor as Ghana's "Swing state" that shall determine our own "Donald Trump" in the person of former President John Dramani Mahama, will be the unmitigated corruption pandemic and thievery which is the main cause of all the above injustices and biases, hunger and suffering, mismanagement ad what are view.

When I woke up this morning Nov 7 to the news that president Akufo Addo has unveiled his own statue to (dis)honour himself, I threw a punch in the air and exclaimed: "I knew it!"

You see, an agama lizard that jumps and falls from an Iroko Tree says it will praise itself if nobody does. But another African dictum says that be careful of how you hit (pat) yourself on the shoulder lest you dislocate it.

The latter proverb is the case of our dear president who has destroyed everything we have ever built as a nation, and what Galamsey (illegal mining) activities have done to our water bodies under his watch, from 2017 to 2024, underscores how evil his regime of corruption has dealt us a blow! The colorless water bodies are now red, a reflection of his bad governance.

President Akufo Addo shall forever be remembered as a man who sold the souls of his fellow country men and women to enrich himself. Indeed, he is a thief to be remembered; he is a disaster to be remembered; he is unarguably the worst thing that has ever happened to Ghana.

May Allah bless Ghana with free and fair elections and change the current “diapers” of the country. Aameen!