The Opposition Npp As It Stands Now Has Nothing To Offer.

The democratic and political landscape in Africa has never been the same since most countries reintroduced or introduced multi-party elections. I have mentioned in most of my posts and opinions that what is remaining for us to do is to seek ways to consolidate and nature our democratic processes. Though the focus is only on political parties I have the opinion that all stakeholders like the civil society, religions groups and professional bodies ought to help provide that balanced contribution.

Citizens and politician alike should see to it that they play their part. Nevertheless, the problem we have is that everyone thinks they are opposition parties. Instead of supporting the government of the day everyone wants to replace the party in government every time there are elections. I think democracy should not be judged by how many elections a country has. It should however be judged on how mature or unselfish the opposition is.

I believe Ghana's democracy has developed a lot and people are beginning to understand their roles and rights as citizens. In this regard anyone who thinks will ride on the ignorance of voters will be shocked come 7th November 2016. People are becoming more and more informed. People are now beginning to understand why we are facing challenges as a country. It is not because the National democratic congress(ndc) which is the party in government has failed as selfish opposition parties would have people think. People are now starting to understand that we are having these problems because we did not put certain measures in place as a country some years ago.

The problem of electricity, lose of jobs in mines and dropping cocoa prices has nothing to do with President John Mahama. Not investing in other sources of energy which would have been done 20 years ago has nothing to do with President John Mahama. The dependence on cocoa as the main source of national income has nothing to do with Ndc but consultants, leaders and politicians of yesteryears. Hence anyone who wants to use this as a ride to power is just a selfish individual. With the work that is being done by the current government in changing the face of the country and opening up the road network. No political pact can even unseat the current government. With schools, health centres and universities being constructed only a selfish politician will even think of going into a political pact and expect to win.

And talking about political pacts. People are cheating themselves that if opposition parties went into a pact they can unseat the ruling government. With the current political landscape this can not happen in Ghana. What our politician lack is the understanding of the voter and the reason for change.

The other point to note is that people mistake having a lot of press conferences,demonstrations and condemning or discrediting government and the country outside Ghana to being popular. People should know that Ghana is not Greater Accra or Ashanti region alone. Neither is it Eastern region and Brong- Ahafo region alone. People vote on what they see and not what they don’t see. In 2008 and 2012 people started celebrating when they heard results from the above regions I mentioned above. But when results from other places some celebrations were short lived. Why is this so? Because the npp that time worked in most rural areas. The Ndc is doing more than that-the whole country is benefiting from the many projects.

The opposition as it stands has nothing to offer. They are just selfish people who want to ride on that motive. Ghanaians should not even think about giving some people a chance because we will live to regret that. The character and attitudes of some parties and their followers is a danger to the consolidation of our democracy.

Ghanaians rejecting these kind of people is a blessing in disguise.

Ibrahim Hardi:
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