Televising Supreme Court Presidential Election Petition Proceedings Will Not Serve Purposes Of Its Proposers

Author's note: This piece was written on 12/4/2013. It is being posted today, because I was unable to do so on the day. Please read on:



According to their harshest  critics, having now got what they sought, those extremist politicians who originally asked for -  and were seeking to exploit - the live televising and broadcasting of the Supreme Court's hearing  of the presidential election petition challenging the declaration of President Mahama as winner of the December 2012 presidential election by the Electoral Commissioner, will get no political advantage whatsoever from it.


In the view of those critics, unfortunately for the  aforementioned hardline and extremist politicians, the tense atmosphere  in the country no longer persists.


Thus, what was a clever ploy  meant to pour fuel on  the fires of disorder,   will now become a national forum to expose a  falsehood -  specifically designed to facilitate  a hoped for power grab,  with the assistance of  judges they initially thought would be on-side.


Apparently - if those critics are to be believed -  with the exception of the die-hard foot-soldier types used as cannon fodder by cynical politicians,  who were,  and are still disappointed that  their dreams of enriching themselves were dashed in December 2012  - and now vainly hope  their party's candidate will be declared  president by judges - many ordinary people   have come to terms with the fact that someone other than their  preferred  candidate  won the presidential election, and have moved on psychologically.


What the live broadcast of the December 2012 election petition hearings will now apparently do -  contrary to what those who proposed it were said to be hoping for,  in the view of critics -  is that they  will rather make the vast majority of fair-minded and patriotic  Ghanaians even more determined to speak out boldly,  against any political party  and politicians that refuse to accept the verdict of the Supreme Court - to ensure that the country stays peaceful and orderly.


For that reason,  those selfsame critics  predict  that the live  televising and broadcasting of the Supreme Court presidential election petition proceedings will  not serve the purposes  of those who originally  proposed it.


Well, with their outrageous and anti-democratic fulminations  of late, damning ordinary Ghanaians for their apathy in not being angry and predicting violent revolution, surely, that can only be good for Mother Ghana?


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