Rejoinder: Concerned Ghanaians demonstrated against John Mahama in New York

The story carried on October 2nd, 2012 in your widely read Ghanaweb entitled, “Concerned Ghanaians demonstrated against John Mahama in New York” did not present the real picture of the scenario. In that, the concerned Ghanaians the story claims demonstrated were rather about a dozen well known members of the NPP and their Nassara Club wing in New York City.

These few NPP members who came to demonstrate in front of the President's hotel, were shocked to see a mammoth number of Ghanaians they claimed demonstrated against the President, bye-passing them on their way to see and hear the ever charming and charismatic President Mahama at a town hall meeting he held with them at the hotel in Manhattan. And a lot of people from the audience are not card-bearing members of the NDC, but just ordinary Ghanaians, and were very fascinated by his powerful oratory and excellent expertise in analyzing the state of the various sectors of the Ghanaian economy.

Obviously, this minute demonstration was pre-planned and stage-managed by their party gurus in Ghana with the view to embarrass the President in the eyes of his contemporaries, the International leaders attending the UN annual event in New York City, but it never made any major impact. The picture they posted on Ghanaweb with about a dozen of their demonstrators creates impression that, there were lot of other Ghanaians in the background, but this is their own figment of imagination to manipulate the minds of people in Ghana and of your readers on the web. The bottom line is that, whoever visits New York City and comes to “Times Square” knows that, the avenue is always busy with beehive of activities by huge crowd of tourists from all walks of life.

Their placards carried the same rude and rancorous messages, replete with character assassination, acrimony and unfounded allegations that the parent party uses in their propaganda in Ghana against the NDC government.

But interestingly, in spite of their effort to make his Excellency President Mahama unpopular in their desperate goose chase for power, his popularity is soaring exponentially, as he leads in the polls. Fact is that take it or leave, the sudden and unexpected emergence of Mr. Mahama on the presidential platform has completely transformed the political campaign dynamics, because many Ghanaians attest to his high sense of humility, magnanimity, sagacity, charisma, eloquence and youthful exuberance, among other qualities-making him more marketable and outstanding among all other candidates.

And these qualities are undoubtedly resonating and arresting the attention of many NPP supporters who have expressed their willingness to cast their vote for him and the NDC in general come December 7th, 2012.

The NPP has realized that because of the tremendous success chalked by the NDC government towards the successful implementation of the Better Ghana Agenda, they have no practical and pragmatic message to the electorates and hence resorting to vilification, insinuation and castigation, thereby beating below the belt, because they have no proves to these allegations.

They are fighting a loosing battle and chasing a mirage. But we are optimistic that, with the unflinching support that the President is gaining nationwide to carry on with the legacy of the late President Mills, God willing, we will retain our incumbency, by winning the elections massively, come December 7th, 2012 to move this nation forward.

NDC!!! One Touch!!! Eye Zu!!! Eye Za!!!

Husseini Y Baba AlWaiz, Press Secretary, NDC New York