Will John Dramani Mahama Ever Be Elected As Ghana's President Again?

It appears that the well-oiled John Dramani Mahama election-campaign-juggernaut is hurtling towards the crossing line, far ahead of the other contestants vying to lead the National Democratic Congress (NDC), as its presidential candidate, for the December 2020  elections. Amazing. It is an extraordinary situation - and pretty bizarre. How has that come about?

There is a world of difference between trying for the presidency three times in a row, as an opposition party's candidate, and finally getting lucky at the third try, and ascending to the presidency by winning the election - and vying to regain power as president, again, after being turfed out of power by a dissatisfied electorate that overwhelmingly felt their country needed a firm and visionary leader, who could give Ghanaians the decisive leadership needed to transform it. It is incredible that so many intelligent people in the NDC fail to see the big-picture-reality-on-the-ground that led to President Mahama's humiliating defeat in December 2016. Hmmm, eyeasem o.

The notion that a laid-back politician who was lucky enough to rise to the presidency, and lead  Nkrumah's Ghana for six solid years, but subsequently then lost power when he was roundly defeated by his main opponent,  the then opposition New Patriotic Party's (NPP) candidate, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo (by nearly a million votes), is somehow going to defeat President Akufo-Addo in 2020, is pure fantasy. "Poppycock, Kofi!", to quote an old wag I know. Hmmmm, eyenokware trodooooo, Massa! NDC fuoeee, mu ensore oooooo toooom. Haaba.

Finally, if it is ever to regain power again,  the NDC must wake up to the brutal reality that the vast majority of ordinary Ghanaians, see John Dramani Mahama as a very personable gentleman, from a privileged background, who messed up big time as their nation's leader - and who, many of them have not forgotten, opted to surround himself with devious and despicable characters such as the Stan Dogbes: when what their homeland Ghana actually needed most at the time, was leadership made up of men and  women of integrity, who were principled and bold enough to act to halt the brutal gang-rape of  Mother Ghana that went on during the Mahama-era. For many today, that is why John Dramani Mahama will never be elected again as president by a majority of voters, in any presidential election, in today's Ghana. Case closed.