It is an extreme banana for someone to conceive that, his/her bona fide father is scheming to ostracize him/her from the family when he/she is unsullied. It is only a philistinic person, who will truckle to this leg – pull. It is monkeyshines for the leaders of the NDC to allude their impending electoral drubbing to the doorstep of the Electoral Commission on the premise that, there were discrepancies in the bygone voters registration exercise, by pampering into nationwide protest against the officials of the Electoral Commission. Come on! the NDC men, we are knackered with your mumbo jumbo and abracadabra. I do say frequently that, when an organization, institution etc is being led by yahoos, this kind of hocus – pocus intends to be uncurled _ but trust me, they will founder on any attempt to engage into such barren exercise.
In every electoral phase, the Electoral Commission interfaces with all the partisan political parties responsibly and assiduously of which, every party nominates proxies to all the polling station centers in order to witness the proceedings and the complexion of it _ even sometimes, there could be some party sightseers, aiding the party in every aspect of it also. This scene is warranted by the officials of the Electoral Commission, because their prime aim is to enhance transparency, coordination and credibility among all its neighboring political members, which in this case, the political parties. The Electoral Commission is an autonomous body, although they are authored under the directive of a president, but regardless, they do discharge their constitutional duties independently – without a litany of supervision, connotation or colouring from any political headquarters.
Since the inception of the Electoral Commission in 1993, it has presided over not less than seven general election in Ghana. One can abhor the characters and structures there sometimes, but nobody can overlook their consistencies in all these years. Their workers are entrenched with the tenets of that profession even though, they may have contrasting political backgrounds. They have been undaunted and doughty in declaring of titanic results throughout those periods. Fascinatingly, of the seven general election they have conducted, the NDC have had a major personalities than the NPP : they have got three of them ( Jerry John Rawlings, Atta Mills and John Mahama ), while the NPP has acquired two (John Kufour and Nana Akufo Addo ).
It was the same Electoral Commission which chaired the voters registration in all those NDC presidential years _ but queerly, they foresaw the same organization sacrosanct then, since their party was very close to the NPP in vying for the presidential seat unlike this time round. I quite remember, even when it was generally perceived that, Kwadwo Afari – Gyan, the then Electoral Commissioner was a well – wisher of the NDC party and H. E. John Agyekum Kufour won all his two terms presidential elections, he maintained him (Afari Gyan ) as the linchpin of the Commission for 8 – year irrespective of it, because he ( John Kufour ) had the belief that, he cannot pervert the standard of professionalism in that sector. The NDC party members are a mere gasbags and thus, want to be in the limelight always. Negligence has been their hallmark and which is what paralyzing their party pervasively.
It is explicit now as to why, the Flagbearer of the NDC Party, John Mahama earmarked the movers and shakers of the Party as well as the subordinates ‘ illiterates ‘. The NDC Party has no sumptuous plans for the citizenry and which has made the electorates apathetic in the party. Discotheques and rearing of chicks wouldn’t provide arena for job creations – the core craving of the youths. Whilst Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is publicizing stupendous objectives to boost the growth of the country, John Mahama is rabbiting on his delusional plans as if he’d become intoxicated. If the NDC Party has anything to do, they should erect proper structures and generate judicious campaign messages instead, because whatever the Flagbearer of the NDC Party, John Mahama has verbalized to the citizenry are hogwash.
The Electoral Commission doesn’t define who wins an elections _ they just supervise it. It boils down to the ability to coax the electorates with mesmerizing but practical ambitions, which it eludes the NDC Party wistfully for now. The NDC can even embark on a global or international demonstration against the Electoral Commission, but the fact is, it won’t provide any room for them to escape their imminent electoral vanquishment.
By : Prof. Dinkum.
(The Buzzing Rapine of Erudition)
E – mail : dinkumchoice@gmail.com
