One hopes that there is no truth in reports carried in sections of the
Ghanaian media, that the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) general
secretary, Kojo Owusu-Afriyie, had said his party would make Ghana
ungovernable - were his party's leaders to be arrested, as rumours he
had heard, had it.
It would be most unfortunate if it turned out to be true that the
general secretary of a political party seeking to govern Ghana,
actually made any such statement.
Surely, no politician in his right mind would make such a statement in a democratic and peaceful nation such as Ghana?
In case it escapes politicians of that ilk, the vast majority of the
ordinary people of Ghana have moved on with their lives - having got
elections described by all the independent observers who witnessed it
as free and fair, out of the way.
Ordinary Ghanaians are not about to allow the personal ambitions of
power-hungry politicians, to let their country descend into chaos.
In any case, as they head for the Supreme Court, how are Ghanaians to
know that such individuals will not commit perjury by lying and
manufacturing evidence, in order to facilitate the manipulation of
the judicial system, to enable them achieve their power-at-all-costs
goal?
There are many independent-minded, discerning and patriotic individuals
in Ghana, who observed the counting of ballots after voting closed on
both days that voting took place.
They are lost as to how any political party could have rigged such a
transparent process, and at which stage the said rigging occurred.
Did the victors bribe all the 26,000 or so NPP polling agents,
perchance? Is it not risking the alienation of those idealistic
individuals who volunteered to do that difficult, tiring and thankless
job of party polling-agent?
Dr. Afari Djan, the Electoral Commissioner's emphatic dismissal of the
NPP's rigging claims as "false", pours yet more cold water on those
claims.
As evidenced by the normalcy we are witnessing countrywide after the
polls as Ghanaians go about their everyday lives, it would appear that
in this most unedifying of affairs, many discerning and
independent-minded Ghanaians would rather take the word of the
highly-regarded Electoral Commissioner, Dr. Afari-Djan, than that of
politicians - amongst whose working tools are insincerity and
truth-stretching - who insist that vote-counting that millions watched
with eagle eyes across the nation, was somehow affected by sleight of
hand manipulation by their political opponents.
Well, Ghanaians await the verdict of the Supreme Court. One hopes that
the judges who sit on the case brought by the NPP, will remember that
history will also judge them - and be impartial and principled. A word
to the wise...
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