Dear Ghana,
We have made history again. Ghana has entered the peaceful and successful book of elections again. We are happy to see this. I woke up this morning to realize I wasn’t dreaming.
The much anticipated elections, which ended and the boiling tension coupled with agitation and anxiety from both party supporters and sympathizers has ended without any unwelcomed incidents. We thank God. The Grace of God and the nature of Ghanaians has made all these possible.
I have revered President John Dramani Mahama as the Commander In-Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces always but what I feel for him today in my laconic set up is enormous. The president showed maturity and respected the rule of law. I doff for him.
When many of us were wondering what was keeping the Electoral Commissioner long in pronouncing the winner for the Presidential Elections, President Mahama broke the silence and promised his followers and Ghanaians he was going to accept the results irrespective of the outcome. I was elated. He reduced the tension later in the day in his capitulating call to the main opposition leader, Nana Ado Dankwa Akuffo-Addo.
…………True leadership.
Nana Ado’s victory was a conspicuous triumphant trample on his contender. The margin and vote intervals could as well be attributed to many factors
President Mahama took the people for granted. He thought he had the power and it was not possible for him to be ‘garbaged’. He called Ghanaians names. He said we had short memory and we were under no circumstance going to use the irritating dumsor to unseat him after he had fixed it. He was wrong. The effect of dumsor is still lingering. He said he was not going to spend outside budget during election year since there will be labour agitation and as a President, he was going to be firm and stick to the budget. There, he propounded the much trended and talked about ‘dead goat’ syndrome.”Dead goats don’t fear knife” he said.
President Mahama uses the slightest opportunity to jab his main opponent and sometimes attacks his character and personality. They defend the undefended.
We were watching……
President Mahama created and celebrated graduate unemployment and sees nothing wrong with it. He went the extent to say, the Universities are oversaturated with the humanities and the people need to align themselves to the trend. Literally, Mr. Mahama is telling us we go to Universities to read useless courses. I don’t blame him.
Now you see?……… People were watching and keenly waiting.
We advised Mr. Mahama to fix the economy but he wouldn’t listen. Any advice or suggestion that comes from anyone obviously is from the opposition. Prices of things kept ascending and rocketing meanwhile salary of workers was stagnant. The Cedi kept sagging but his Economics Vice President and the able Minister of Finance felt they were the know- alls in Ghana.
We watched but hmmed to it
The major contributing factor is his tolerance to corrupt officials under his watch. Like many African leaders, their insatiable appetite for power will not let them crack the whip on whoever is culpable. President Mahama rather celebrated the many daylight robberies under him. He never allowed prosecution of the daily increasing number of corrupt officials he worked with. Either he doesn’t know, he doesn’t want to know or he doesn’t deliberately know. He either reassigned them to do more or issue statements to counter. So does he know? Perhaps it is the loot and share syndrome.
They got money ooo. They are rich papa. They amassed enough wealth that can last for decades.
Dear reader,
It is said that when things go left, nothing is right and when things go right nothing is left. I presume they should have incorporated this touted phenomenon. They instead sidelined Jerry John Rawlings and attributed his wisdom to old age. Really?……… Rawlings never hesitate to put them where they belonged, he said at their campaign launch “The task ahead of you won’t be an easy task. I will reserve what I have to say till after the elections when I will come round the country to share with you how I think we could restore the kind of strength that can take us well into the future. There are certain weaknesses that we need to deal with”. The NDC misunderstood this and treated it with disdain.
President elect,
Welcome, congratulations, Build this corruption infested country. Make it great. Build it. Invite technical brains to help. Our Schools are graduating some humans words cannot describe and our Hospitals are in deplorable states. Fix the economy, build the factories and dams you promised. Pride and arrogance should be out of the way. Complacency doesn’t build a Nation. Unify the country and let us live together as one. Make us import less so our country can also be celebrated not only for our hospitality and tolerance but productivity. Ghanaians voted for you and you are urged not to take them for granted.
If you do,……… and even you point guns at us, we will exit you.
God bless Ghana and Our New President Nana Ado Dankwa Akuffo-Addo
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