The Story of The Yutong Bus: The Catastrophic Race for the NDC flagbearership

A well-furnished bus was handed over to a driver to drive for four years. At the end of the mandated four years, the driver was to arrive at an agreed destination with the passengers.

However, the Yutong Bus could not get to its destination due to the fact that it was nearly driven over a cliff. The bus now hangs at precipice (half of the bus hangs in a balance facing the valley downwards and the other half precariously hangs on top of the hill).

Whilst the bus is yet to be towed onto a flat surface for diagnosis to determine all the nutty challenges that caused the accident, the friends of the driver who was behind the wheels before the accident occurred, have started going to town to declare that he is the best and the most shining driver. They even argued that he is the best driver for the bus that he has run into the precipice. His friends further accused an earlier driver of the Yutong bus who was pensioned 17 (seventeen) years ago as the cause of the accident.

Some others have also joined the fray to compete for the position of a driver for the Yutong Bus that hangs in the precipice? Sadly, instead of the passengers who are still on the bus, whose life also hangs on the precipice, devising ways of rescuing the Yutong Bus, they have rather resorted to insulting and attacking each other over who should be the next Yutong Bus driver.

Whilst the passengers who argue for a new driver are accused of undermining the driver who was behind the wheels before the accident occurred. The proponents of the ‘accidented’ driver vehemently posit that the bus was lame and the front row passengers were the cause of the accident.

The fact is that the Yutong Bus is still at the precipice. Some, together with the old driver (or his friends), are fighting to assume and maintain the next drivership. The passengers, whose future is at risk and uncertain, have fallen prey to this sad spectacle.

The question is, are the passengers of the bus really thinking and concerned about the bus that is at the precipice? Who really cares about the bus?

Inevitably, if care is not taken, the Yutong Bus will tilt over the cliff with a clangour of a catastrophe.

Shalom!

Kofi B. KUKUBOR