The NDC Can’t Be Serious

The moon had shown its laughing face. The darkness of night lightened with flimsy twigs into wide dilating eyes. I had bestirred myself to a glass of red wine at a jazz bar in Accra when my inquisitive ears and roving eyes stealthly caught sight of two rambuctious and fleeceable buffoons drenched in sweat.

They were engaged in an acrimonious dust up. In their bliss and overt display of moral aberation, one of the pugilists accused the other of cavalierly contributing to Ghana's economic woes since he gleefully backed the electoral candidature of John Mahama in the 2012 general elections.

To my surprise, the one being accused retorted venomously that Mahama should not be held responsible for Ghana's lingering economic quagmire.He claimed it was a global economic phenomenon that had engulfed the world and so we should grin and bear it.

At that point, I was compelled in no small measure to muse over the recent disconcerting spiel, obtusely and obdurately resorted to by the National Democratic congress.So self assured have they become that, these days they live a jejune culture of delusion and megalomania.In their desperate bid to fastidiously hold on to the reigns of power, they have infestly plunged all of us into the realms of absurdity.

Of course, i hauled unrestrainedly at Collins Dauda's insipid and tendentious blabber when he rather vacously squealed that both the Bible and the Quran have predicted that at the end time, there will be hardship so Mahama cant be blamed for our lingering economic woes.It is amazing how any right thinking member of society can be suavely hoodwinked into believing this hogwash. Why would countries like South Africa and Malaysia who are also blindingly religious as Ghana is and have got a damn sight believe in the Bible and Quaran have their inflation rates pegged at 6.6 and 3.30 percent respectively as at june of 2014, while that of Ghana comfortably lies at 14.8 percent. Isnt it intriguing that in spite of the horrid menace of Boko haram, Ghana's economy can not even hold a candle to that of Nigeria?

It is rather laughable and presumptuous that squealers and popinjays of the Mahama government have gratuitously attributed Ghana's challenge of controlling inflation to the redenomination of the cedi in 2007.What chutzpa and aplomb? So on what bases did Fiifi Kwetey and his cronies squeal through their teeth, valiantly touting Ghana's economy as Africa's top economic performer in 2011 with a growth rate of 14.4 per cent?And to be certain,the bandwagon of unprecedented demonstrations and insoluble strike actions by a large section of Ghanaian workers give credence to the limpid fact that the average joe can now see through the wiles and ruse of the NDC.

Our confidence has been worn away like rocks lashed by a stormy sea.The Ghanaian wants to dissapear into oblivion in this bitter Ghana, sail gently along, let himself be carried away by the underground stream, Shut the door to the shouts and murmurs of life and to the gratting sound of the revolving door of time.We are decidedly at our wits end.

It cannot be gainsaid that the level of rancor and deprivation that has characterised the economy unconscionably is a jarring commeuppance for Ghanaians especially NDC sympatisers who gleefully sacrificed free education on the altar of an insipid and usurious "ede bee" vote buying finicky.

We had not recovered from the lithany of comical tales when a presidential staffer luridly claimed that Ghana's economic challenges stemmed from the fact that president Mahama was coronated on a Wednesday.

According to him, coronating a leader on a Wednesday portends bad omen, so in effect, Mahama is not to blame.It is so distasteful and repugnant for the banal and lacklustre Mahama government to be clutching at straws in this ensuing melee.Even more disturbing is its petulant Posture in retaining power at all cost rather than putting its shoulder to the wheel to get the economy back to where at least it took over from.

Surfice it to say that the political landscape of post colonial Ghana has been inundated with the ruse and knavery of the NDC , masters of stratagems reminiscent of the folkloric Ananse who would give his eye teeth to hide behind his failures.