Not long ago, many NDC sympathisers wouldn’t want to be identified as such. They would readily hide their NDC identity.
In the 2012 elections, in which John Mahama controversially won with several fraudulent polling station recording results like twenty seven ten, meaning 2,710 in figures, many Ghanaians even denied having voted for the NDC.
A greater majority of students of almost all secondary and tertiary educational institutions in Ghana supported the NPP as the most preferred political Party to the NDC, and all the other parties.
The same applied to the professional bodies, businessmen and women, traders, farmers, the fisherfolk, etc.
Ex-President Rawlings once stated that in fact, the NDC had never genuinely won any elections in Ghana. The NDC in the fourth Republic had at all times been foisted on Ghanaians.
The NPP of the UP tradition has claimed pre-eminence as a better governing political party for several decades, notwithstanding going through times of political hostilities.
Memory may recall that after having performed very well as President of Ghana between 2001 and 2008, the NPP lost power to the Mills-led NDC under some unexplained circumstances. Careful investigation has revealed that it was due to voter apathy for some reasons, particularly in the Ashanti Region.
In 2016, Ghanaians snatched back political power for the NPP, in hope of having fielded a political “messiah”, sent in to liberate Ghana from our hard times yoked on us by the poor performance of the NDC, and to fix the broken.
In barely four years of a supposed “messianic” administration, the high hopes and great expectations of governance delivery have amounted to nothing but disappointment, the results of which have culminated in disaffection and apathy. The expected “messiah hero is now scornfully looked upon as a villain. Now, let us ask ourselves what went wrong? The obvious answer is that we made a very wrong choice of a leader, and a sad mistake for accepting an opportunistic person who had never been in, and knew nothing about the principles of the UP tradition, of which the NPP is its surviving offshoot.
What has angered NPP followers and Ghanaians with unprecedented indignation is that, a President is a father of a nation. A father’s arms are expected to extend and reach out to everybody in every community. Not to reach out to everybody in Ghana vertically, but rather horizontally, with some expected development achieved, or project in progress to benefit all. Yet this our President is a selective discriminating sectionalist, whose fatherhood of Ghana is concentrated on his family members particularly, and extended to his friends and cronies.
The President has been overtly admonished for leading a family, friends, and cronies administration, yet he’s adamant, and pays no heed to any corrective advice.
His government is centred and focused particularly in Kyebi, where even a Kyebi cemetery has been refurbished for tourists attraction. But for a few places in Ghana, where friends and cronies with influence in the government
have asked for a little bit of facelift and indeed, they’re boot-licking cronies, all other places in Ghana are neglected for development.
There’s also the AGYAPADEƐ project for Kyebi and Akyem Abuakwa people, made into a book forwarded by Ken Ofori Atta, Ghana’s Finance Minister, and indeed a cousin of President Akufo-Addo.
NPP and Ghanaians have every good reason to be indignant of what is happening in Ghana, and these are the main causes of the Party’s membership disaffection and general voter apathy.
Students in tertiary educational institutions have been turning their attention away from the NPP of today to the NDC, and the reasons are obvious.
Should we sit unconcerned and watch our Party rot away by losing its pre-eminence that has been attained through the dedicated hard work, of men and women of high repute, knowledge, and dedication.
It’s highly incomprehensible how everybody serving in executive position under President Akufo-Addo has been made into his command and control “zombies”. His vice-President is equally an ethnic/tribal and sectionalist ideologue who squares up well with his boss, the President inside the Jubilee House.
The Akufo-Addo administration and its machinations make NPP followers realise that we are mere herd with a selected “caste” of “royal” leadership shepherds, from where our leaders must be selected.
It’s time now for us the teeming youth and masses of the Party to remove these shackles from our necks, and claim equality for leadership in the NPP.
It’s time to regather and form one united and solid front to defeat our opponents in elections.
It’s time to reclaim the glory and reputation of the Party from its current course of diminution. The NPP is ours, and we must claim and clutch hold of it firmly from falling asunder.
Source: Mynewsghana
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