The Greedy Incompetents Still Rule OK in the NDC?

When Providence gave the National Democratic Congress (NDC) an eleventh-hour reprieve, by giving it a game-changing  opportunity, the same self-seekers who used and abused President Mills so ruthlessly, yet again put collective self-interest  above that of their party's well-being and  long-term survival.


Johnson Asiedu-Nketia's body-language  was just so revealing,  when he announced that the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NDC,  had decided to endorse President Mahama as the party's candidate at an emergency national delegates congress, for the December presidential election.


Indeed his body language spoke volumes. The man who in any society underpinned by an ethical ethos would have been forced to resign his position -  when it came to light that he, a board member,  was supplying concrete blocks to the very entity whose supervisory board he sat on - was so eager to maintain the chop-chop status quo that he forgot that he was actually mourning Ghana's fallen leader, President Mills.


Perhaps Asiedu-Nketia & Co.  thought they were being terribly clever by taking advantage of the cessation of hostilities in the propaganda war between the NDC and NPP, occasioned by President Mills' demise, to avoid controversy erupting over their Machiavellian ploy to impose President Mahama on their party.


(Well, since I am not beholden to any political party -  because unlike so many others in the Ghanaian media, I refuse to sell my conscience at any price -  I shall speak my mind freely in this matter,  and at this particular  point in  time,  regardless. Public opprobrium in a nation full of spineless fence-sitting hypocrites is like water off a duck's back to me. But I digress - so  back to topic, dear reader.)


That  undemocratic outrage,  is a grave error of judgement, which  Johnson Asiedu-Nketia's  hard-of-hearing faction-of-greed in  their confounded  party will come to rue on election day. As sure as day follows night.


Someone with a conscience in the NDC,  ought to go to court immediately to stop this Soviet-style cover-of-the-night tactic, designed   to prevent a democratic choice  being  made,  in selecting a replacement for President Mills,  as the party's  presidential candidate.


With respect, President Mahama is not a suitable choice as the NDC's presidential candidate for the December election.


If truth be told, with all his baggage, he will be an even easier target for the NPP's elite  propaganda special force's blunderbuss  weapon-of-mass-destruction, than President Mills (May his soul rest in peace) ever was.


The shameful  attempt by those who ruthlessly exploited President Mills,  to do same with the new president, will guarantee defeat for their  party in the upcoming December presidential election.


The NDC's powerful rogues have seen an opportunity to continue keeping the  lid firmly on the corruption  and abuse of power, which  they got away with,  under a sick and dying man they refused to release from their vice-like grip -  till death laid its icy hands on him:  and finally freed him.


Their latest self-interest-manipulation will enable them  remain super-wealthy NDC Godfathers and lords and masters of the Osu Castle,  for only a few more months, at best.


With respect, foisting President Mahama on the NDC as  the party's presidential candidate,  is the height of folly.  It will simply guarantee the party heading straight for the political wilderness.


It will only enable the opposition New Patriotic Party  to maintain its vote-winning narrative of ridding our country  of a corrupt regime dominated by "greedy bastards" busy milking Mother Ghana dry.


Having secured  a replacement marionette,  alas, it would appear that  the greedy incompetents still rule OK in the NDC. Pity.


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