SPARE US THE TROUBLE AND AGONY, NPP

It is shocking to read that NPP is not ready to go to court. Well if you have not heard it I'll tell you. Nii Ayikoi Otoo, chairman of the NPP legal committee says the party is still gathering evidence and would go to the Supreme Court to challenge the results when the party is convinced that it has enough evidence [http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201212/98665.php].

Common sense tells me that if you do not have enough evidence you do not accuse someone of wrong doing. Since Sunday 9th December, 2012, the NPP has made the world understand that the NDC aided by the EC had rigged the presidential election. Our Former president Kuffour reiterated this position of his party when the AU chairman called on him. What the former president has done is he has reported the EC and the NDC to AU that the President elect and the NDC used dubious means to overturn the will of the people when his party is not very convinced that is has enough evidence.

Again, Nana Akufo Addo and the NPP addressed irate supporters that the party will do all it can to ensure that the right thing is done, when he did not have enough evidence that the wrong thing had been done. Sometimes I wonder why respected lawyers acts and behave like someone like me who have not step foot at the entrance of a law school. The NPP is not sure of what it is saying, yet it organized press conferences, addressed supporters and sat on radio and TV stations claiming vehemently that they have lost the elections because they were robbed.

We all have been in a state of uneasiness. We have stopped thinking about productivity and are worried about keeping the peace, all because someone is not sure of what he is saying. I have said it before that the NPP is dragging its reputation through the mud. I will say it again; the NPP is dragging its reputation through the mud.

I know that the NPP faithful will say it has 21 days to go to court and so by the time the period expires they will have enough evidence to support their claim. (Anyway they have spent part of the 21 days protesting). The NPP have portrayed Ghana to the international community as a country that is not capable of holding credible elections when it (the NPP) is not sure the elections were credible or not. I wonder what the international community will say when they hear the NPP is not convinced that it has enough evidence to support their claim.

According Joy Online 'A group numbering about 15, on Thursday allegedly attacked some traders at the Rawlings Park, wielding machetes resulting in many of the traders to abandon their wares for safety, while the unlucky ones sustained injuries.'

According to a release issued on Thursday by the Coalition of Market Women, “some members of our coalition have been beaten mercilessly; some are severely injured and have been hospitalized. Items worth thousands of cedis have been destroyed in this afternoon's barbaric and dastardly attacks,” [http://politics.myjoyonline.com/pages/news/201212/98677.php]. What will these women think of the NPP when they learn that the NPP is not convinced that it has enough evidence? If even they go to court and it comes out that the elections were not rigged what will the affected women and their families think of the NPP?

I wish the NPP spare us the trouble, agony and the feeling of insecurity. What the NPP need to do now is to appologise to all Ghanaians for disturbing our peace unnecessary and to get their supporters out from where they are protesting.

The downfall of a man is not the end of his life.