NDC Foot-Soldiers Should Better Manage Their Expectations

To these ndc party FOOL-soldiers on rampage because their party has won power, please hasten wisely and manage your dreams sensibly because I have had the experience of political power and learned that, those that struggle the most during campaign aren't, necessarily, the same that reap the benefits.

The dynamics of opposition is marked different from when power is won. In opposition, your relevance is appealing to everyone but in power, your relevance becomes a nuisance. In opposition, you would constantly be called upon to work, but your calls to be considered for a job will not be answered.

Even those you used to share things in common while in opposition, would demand that you wiped their bums after attending nature's call, just because they've been fortunate to catch the eyes of the appointing-authority. They'll not answer your calls because they've attached a status.

The homes of 'God fathers', 'God mothers' and 'Swiss cheese holes' of self-styled power brokers then become destinations of holy pilgrimage. And when you have no links to any of these, then you should consider yourself a potential opposition member, albeit your party in power. Examples of this really abounds.

In opposition, the fight is collective but in power, the benefit is segregated. In other words, when the victory comes, there will be people in power; there will be people with power; there will be people without power; and last but certainly the most saddest, the people in power and still confined to opposition.

You can be appointed a Presidential Staffer but never get to meet the President in person throughout the 4 or 8-year term. That's where you come face-to-face with real dynamics of political power play. What is more intriguing is your own colleagues lording over you because of they have the ears of 'power' brokers.

The overwhelming victory of ndc didn't come, ostensibly, from any special campaign strategy, or, competence of John Dramani Mahama. It has more to do with global wave of shoving aside incumbent governments, largely due to pressures from global crisis, coupled with some locally-generated economic challenges.

As such, the next ndc administration has an insurmountable task, vis-a-vis expectations of Ghanaians. The mountains of sugar-coated fairytales promised the good people of Ghana, completely outweighs the call-to-arms by party FOOL-soldiers for revenge on political opponents. They better stay well- focused.

Justice A. Newton-Offei
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