Vice President John Mahama; Please Come Again!!!

John Mahama's recent outburst that President Rawlings's comments do not augur well for the NDC is quite interesting.

He said the party must find ways and means of addressing Mr Rawlings' concerns as his comments do not augur well for the party.

“It gives the impression of a party that is not united and solid and often that can affect your chances electorally. So it is an issue that the party needs to confront and deal with. He has some grievances and if I pick some of the issues that he normally raises, one is about justice, you can't just pick people and put them in jail, you need to go through a process to prove their guilt”.

Was I really reading the above from the vice president of the republic? Or was I dreaming about an imaginary politician who has nothing of substantive value to say, yet chose to say something, anyhow, because he was being interviewed? Is John Mahama's reckless statement a cursory insight into President Mills's better Ghana democratic governance? Has Mr. Rawlings stated that you should pick people and put them in Jail? Who said justice should not take its course? Again, who said the wrongs of the past should not be investigated?

This reckless assertion that Rawlings wants Mills to jail former government appointees under John Kufuor is just one of those outdated propaganda which used to be peddled by pseudo-capitalists ages ago. Who doesn't know that, the re-election of the NDC to power in 2009 was as a result of the people's believe in the NDC as having the capability to clean the rot that had engulfed the social fabric of the country, after the NPP had virtually taken the country as its private property and dissipated our natural resources in a wanton abuse of power that virtually brought Ghana's economy on it's knees? Do we need a rocket scientist to tell us that former government functionaries ought to account for their stewardship? So what is wrong if Dr. Rawlings calls for accountability?

If the likes of John Mahama are happy that the current government has dithered in investigating and prosecuting the fraud perpetrated by the Kufuor's government, some of us are not and he should not fool himself into believing that the better Ghana that was promised is being delivered.

Did the manifesto for better Ghana not promised social justice and punishment for economic and political crimes? So what is John Mahama talking about? My questions are endless and I need unscripted answers from the vice president.

John Mahama's comment must not be taken lightly. It is one of the many sad episodes in Ghanaian politics. In twenty-first century democratic Ghanaian politics, some of our respected leaders have the habit of intellectualizing idiocy. They speak ill of commonsense where their nascent ideas are laid bare in the face, and their intellectuality questioned.

And again, what was he thinking when he said that President Mills was voted into power by Ghanaians and as such is a president of Ghana and not an NDC president? Who said President Mills is an NDC President?

Which party's mandate brought President Mills and John Mahama to power? Was it an independent ticket or the NDC? I seriously wonder if John Mahama and his boss are really running this country or a bunch of sycophants who have their ears are the ones ruling Ghana. What has the pair done to protect the principles and ideals of the NDC? Instead of protecting the ideals on which the NDC was founded they have rather encouraged their trusted median contacts to run down the ideals, principles and idiosyncrasies of the party. How can you be a Christian and not be Christ like? How possible can somebody claim to be an NDC and not believes in the principles and ideals that gave birth to the party? Where was John Mahama's conscience when he made this bizarre remark?

How many times are we going to allow ourselves to be victimized by the unbridled folly and reckless remarks of our experimental politicians? John Mahama, and many who think like him, has conveniently forgotten the machinery that won them their elections. As an elected official of a political party, you are sworn to uphold the ideals, philosophies and idiosyncrasies of the party you serve. You have been elected to serve the interests of the party and a mandate to further the goals of the party.

Politics is a very interesting phenomenon. It avails all manner of people with an opportunity to flaunt their peccadilloes on the unsuspecting public. For me, John Mahama is a phony little fake who preyed on the gullibility of the uninitiated to propel himself into the ranks of those that must be listened to. In terms of substance, he is considered a non-starter. Why do Ghanaians tolerate the morally obnoxious, and justify their eccentricity? As a citizen, I lament deeply over the many bad choices we have made by electing some human-caricatures to positions of trust.

Why do we as a people fear so much to speak the truth and live by it. The vice President has no moral authority to admonish we the young ones because he is part of a leadership that is making the NDC a laughing stock in the eyes of Ghanaians. Let our leaders be principled, else our society shall never make that progress we the young ones are optimistic about.

I am amazed at the level of extreme obsession by people in government to run down the Mr. Rawlings. Why is it acceptable for Mills and his cronies, to treat Jerry Rawlings as a fugitive in his own party, yet see the scrutiny of John Mills as a taboo? I weep when l hear outrageous verbal attacks on former President Rawlings. What makes these verbal assaults and distortions all the more painful is that, they are being orchestrated by nomadic minds in government who have abandoned our nations many problems and are making unsolicited careers out of a perverted politics. Rawlings has sacrificed so much for the NDC and does not deserve this from the people he brought into political limelight.

Who in the NDC doesn't know that John Mahama got compromised by Francis Poku with cash inducements which made him burry his conscience and the truth when he was supposed to be defending the avowed principles of the NDC in opposition?

Even if President Mills decided not to contest the 2012 elections or (God forbid) something untoward happens to him, the NDC would not suffer one bit. Its foundations are indeed strong. For those still in doubt, what else explains the phenomenon of a party that was pursued in opposition for eight years and still emerges as strong as ever especially within the context of African politics? It was not by dint of the personalities like John Mahama who in any case was compromised by the security capos of the time. It was precisely because of the principles underpinning the party's strength. You can never claim to be an NDC and not be loyal to the avowed principles of the party. It is not a cliché. It is indeed the practical reality.

Let this be a warning to those acerbic politicians in our political parties, who think rather pathetically that their political careers have spanned over decades and therefore cannot be wrong. There is a new breed of interpreter in Ghana today. That breed is generically called “Youth” and they are as smart as they are vicious and eager to overturn any semblance of pretentiousness at the highest echelons of any political party. I have always held that those who cannot understand and comprehend the changing dynamics of political activity today have absolutely no business trying to become political players.

Those at the helm of the NDC's affairs must think ahead, or the party risks getting defenestrated at the earliest possible opportunity due to a seething popular sentiment that, the president "is in over his head", and out of his depth. Every political party has its own ideals, ideologies and idiosyncrasies. The NDC is not different and the President and his vice must sit up and offer us a leadership that befits the status of true sons of the NDC. We cannot continue with the same broken ideological policies of Mills and John Mahama.

I shall be back!!!

Emmanuel Dela Coffie
www.delacoffie.wordpress.com