The NDC is also feverishly preparing to finalise the election of all its executive members at all levels.
I remain very optimistic that Ghana will continue to enjoy the peace that it has had over the years at least since the inception of the fourth republic. Did I say Ghana enjoyed peace? Hmm! But I read somewhere that peace is not only the absence of war oo. Hope you agree.
Some of us were battered into fear during most of the elections. The animosity that ensued between the major political front runners and mainly their footsoldiers and, oh, their serial callers, the least said about them the better. The heat that was internally generated was so uncalled for. And till date I must confess that I don't understand why we continue to pride ourselves on being a beacon of hope for Africa as far as the practise of democracy is concerned.
Election is a cardinal principle in the practise of democracy so if we continue to engage in such fierce struggle for power, then as a country, we leave much to be desired.
In all the discussions, I concur with Justice William Atuguba, the Supreme Court presiding judge in the 2012 elections dispute, who wondered why common elections to bring political persons into power could be so marred with such level of over-heightened strife.
But all in all, let's not lose sight of the fact that all that happens during the Election Day is not an event. It's actually a process. It begins from the conduct of some party people during the intra-party elections. The firing of insults and casting of innuendos are just one part. The character assassination strategies adopted by party people in order to score points for their choice is another.
In the run up to the general elections, opponents make use of these insults and name-calling. And not sounding like a prophet of doom, that is what we are about to witness in the 2016 general elections since we continue to hear them.
Did Mr Johnson Asiedu-Nketia aka General Mosquito, the unopposed General Secretary say during the campaign launch of their current national Chairman, that he will resign his post when "useless" members of executive are elected.
The Chief Scribe obviously should have been bold to mention the names of those "useless" ones among them. But since he didn't have the balls to do that, I want to hazard a guess. Ei, as3m oo! Haha! Let's leave that for another day. But apparently, all discerning minds now know that, some useless souls are also contesting in the NDC executive race. Was that talk necessary at all?
Oh, the NPP. Don't most of us know the violent and almost bloody struggle that went on at the party headquarters among party faithfuls? Of course, we know. Are we to brace ourselves for a replica in the 2016 General elections? Tofiakwa!
Some media outlets have started oo! You remember the media unwarranted peddling of falsehood about the health of our former president, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills about two years before the 2008 elections. You remember Baby Ansaba's public confession of using the pages of his newspaper, The Punch, to create such mendacity about the Prof.? Well, that was after the falsely accused sick Prof. won political power and sworn in in 2009. It was highly uncalled for to say the least, especially of a man who claims to have conscience.
When the Republic Newspaper published the story with the headline, "Nana Addo Health Alert" in its Monday, October 7 edition, and carried by Ghanaweb.com, of course many well-meaning Ghanaians were worried. But for the timely press statement released by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's campaign office, most of us would have believed it hook, line and sinker. A clear mischief at play in the claims of the newspaper, especially when newsmen and women worth their salt, know that the NPP flagbearer hopeful celebrated his 70th birthday not too long ago but decided to say he is 75 years old and in the same story elevated his age and claimed he is an octogenarian, OMG!
Why are we doing this to ourselves? Is there nobody to remind anybody to "Do unto others what you want others to do unto you"? Since the vultures of Ghana are ready to see her go down because of their ulterior motives, I am also determined with my quill and parchment to do all I could to thwart their machinations by exposing them.
I believe in letting Ghana peace-fill and not letting it peace-spill.
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