The Tactics of Ghana's Incumbent and Recumbent Government

At least, the purpose of the opposition party in a democracy is to awaken the incumbent government to work to develop the nation.

However, in Ghana, everything about the opposition and the incumbent seems to have taken a turn for the worse.

That's not what democracy proposes. Democracy, as it is known to be the system where the voices of the majority of the masses are heard, must have been a powerful tool to bring us progress. But why is it rather the opposite?

That's the bone of contention.
Do you have any idea why we remain the same? I have an idea! According to conventional wisdom, our leaders don't want us to rise through the ranks to question them.

This might sound awkward in your ears but just take your time and deeply think about it and see.

It's like the whiz kid whose elders are always preventing him from getting closer to them because he will question them about what they are doing. However, if they are honest elders, why should they fear him? They should not since they are doing things right.

Why then do you think is making them not come back to us again after they win power? They only come back when it is yet another round of election so they come to beg for our votes.

The goal of every politician is to come and salvage the nation but then everyone comes into the post and does something else. Something different from what they promised us.

They even whisper that it is never easy to fulfil our promises. If it were you in their position, you couldn't do anything so you must take time.

Too horrible to hear that! What then can we do to avert that thing?

It takes a lot of sacrifices to make progress happen. If you are not ready to lose, then you are never prepared to grow. That's how it worked for some prominent countries to exist.

Today we happily call these countries the first world countries. They are the developed or global north nations.

My question is how can we change the horrible thing in the government that on the outside, everyone is an angel but as soon as they get in there, they turn into devils? They even turn into the angels who will see the truth and keep quiet.

That's why Albert Einstein said the world suffers not because of the bad ones, but because of the silence of the good ones over the bad happenings.

So the main job of an opposition or recumbent government is to put the incumbent or the active government on its toes to sharpen development and one of the tools they employ is 'propaganda mechanism'.

Propaganda is simply the tool used by one party to bring down the images of the other parties. A typical example is the recent event or indecisiveness of President Nana Addo to append his signature on the anti-LGBTQ+ bill. That was a powerful tool for the NDC to tarnish the NPP's image.

It was the same for the NPP when the Woyome issue popped up during the NDC-led administration. The NPP used that as one of their weapons against the NDC. That tool is sometimes used to shape the nation.

Tarnishing the image of one party is to attract the masses to like the "tarnisher" and hate the tarnished.

When the opposition party does that, the active government will do anything it can to avoid its image from being contaminated so you see it wake up to do something. We may deny them our votes if they remain dormant.

But with all this, the opposition government comes into power and repeats the same thing.

At least, that was the time to have learnt lessons from their colleagues who came and messed up. They wouldn't however learn anything or is it just some "tactics"?

If it is tactics for power exchange, then, you and I suffer. We will suffer even more if we pretend to support their negative habits in the name of party affiliations. Be cautioned.

Professor Patrick Loch Otieno Lumumba proposes a solution: All that the opposition is looking for is to be heard. The active government should listen to the suggestions of the opposition at least once. Nothing more nothing less.

Otherwise, the opposition government will oppose everything that the active government proposes (even if good), and then propose nothing. They oppose everything and propose nothing but be mindful, that I am not political party-focused, I am for the progress of Ghana.

It might echo in your ears that Ghana can't change but it takes you and me to change it. Do you know why? We are the voters.

Every party possesses this habit, the habit of playing tactics with governance as though it is a football, but it won't help us. If it would, by now we are developed---a sixty-seven-year-old Ghana. Or what do you say the age is?

Let's adopt the concept of progress orientation such that if you are in opposition and get the chance into government, you try and change the narrative. Don't repeat the negative habits of the previous government.

What if as an active government, you do what is right all the time without having to wait for the opposition to push you? What will happen? That's one of the simplest ways we can develop.

Don't wait for any opposition to shout before you cultivate the growth mentality so that you can work in the interest of the masses---the youth.

Ok, what if all political parties come together to take one path or work to develop the country? After all, it is the aim of each of them to want to bring progress, that's if they are not liars.

If they should win power individually, they tend to forget what they came to do.

That's why I am proposing that "the democracy" that is making parties fight for the government's seat is not good for Ghana.

What is better for Ghana is "the democracy" that will make all parties put together their policies, for us the citizens to assess them and select those policies we want them to work on so the selected few can come together and tailor their foci and energies toward developing the country. I call it the coalition system.

To me, this will be better than what we are currently practicing but it can only work for us if we are not pretenders.

Also, think about it and see. Or you are thinking of a military system? Nope! That system comes with killings or some forms of destruction and more importantly, we have the chance to always reelect a leader at elections so a coup is not a good way.

But why do incumbent governments still not want to act without the pressure from their opposition parties?

It is because they haven't even cultivated a good mindset in the first place as developers, otherwise, they don't need an opposition or someone to push them with disturbances before developing their own nations. Who will then do it if not us?

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