Election 2020: EC's Adamance On New Register Nauseating And Fishy!

Fellow Ghanaians, a living dog, they say, is better than a dead lion. And surely, the devil you know is better than an angel you don't know.

It is biting in the butts, irritating that the Electoral Commission, EC, has so unshakably succumbed to, and disgracefully cowed before its largest benefactor's bid for second term in government, the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

In spite of the predictions by the apex global health organization, WHO, that Africa will likely be the next epicenter for the Covid 19, what concerns our "oppressors" mistaken as leaders the most, is registration of voters. A new register must be compiled come shine or rain. It's sadly saddening. Walahi.

Forget the "Kawku Anansi" and Cock and Bull story we have been regaled by the government, that the "EC as an independent body" (may God forgive them for putting such words together) wants to undertake a project it prioritizes.

Nobody bites the finger that feeds it. If President Akufo Addo had respected the independence of the commission, he would have forgiven madam Charlotte Osei and allowed her to continue as EC boss.

It is a shame that democracy is really drowning under the watch of a legal luminary like President Akufo Addo as President.

But, wait a minute. Truly, only the fool can fail to decipher the handwriting on the wall of destiny. The spread of the corona virus to Ghana, one would have thought, could have sounded a bell in the "strong ears" of all disgruntled political pythons who have been in the vanguard of the new voter's register compilation brouhaha. They should have reflected that perhaps, the almighty God Himself is not in support of such a bird-brained idea when the country is practically reduced to a poverty capital.

Today, unless someone who has just gained his consciousness back from many years of coma, you don't need Vice President Bawumia's economics lectures to know "the past is not like the present". Prices of goods and services have galloped geometrically rather than arithmetically under this current government. Meanwhile, our generation yet unborn has a gargantuan debt to pay because of the unfortunate activities of "ATM politics" of this present generation, which has actually debased governance in this country to "borrow-to-loot-and-share" among unnecessary ministers and alien portfolios holders in this government.

You see, it was a classic case of Freudian slip, when Hon. Kyei Mensa Bonsu, the Majority leader of Parliament whose legislative effectiveness as the leader of the House, has been mortgaged for ministerial appointment, said that the National Democratic Congress, NDC, can never win election in this country again with a new voter's register.

The Hon. Member made that statement out of unconsciousness. It has been the diabolical agenda of the governing party, precisely the reason why President Akufo Addo fired the former Electoral Commission boss, her ladyship, Madam Charlotte Osei and virtually overhauled the entire Electoral Commission membership with new appointees who are mainly the NPP party's apologists, apparatchiks, and "foodsodiers".

It was the reason why one of these "puppies" of the government in the EC, said there would be no the December Elections if a New Voter's Register is not compiled. So that, his paymasters would continue their "government of Kleptocracy by Kakistocracy and for Timocracy" in order to keep the "political juice" flowing forever.

For God's sake, someone must tell the leadership of the NPP, that the sorcerer or soothsayer who told them their reelection for second term bid would not be possible unless with a new voter's register, scammed them. “Every sorcerer will never be successful no matter his level of sorcery” Quran 20:69

The "political abracadabra" that brought them to government, let President Akufo Addo be rest assured, is still intact. What is not certain is the direction it will choose to swing in this year's election.

"The battle is the Lord's", someone must remind President Akufo Addo and his NPP government. And that, no amount of shenanigans, manipulations, distortions, threats, and continuous heaping upon opponents corruption allegations, can retain them in power if the cosmic force that brought them victory in 2016, chooses to deny them this time around in 2020.

And President Akufo Addo, indeed, would lose this year's election. Not out of his version of incompetence, but because he has achieved more than most just like what happened to former President Mahama. The latter brought Dubai to Ghana for Ghanaians, and his efforts were turned into sour.

Majority of Ghanaians have the penchant for castigating and pooh-poohing the achievements of their fellow Ghanaians especially if the same people were the architects of that success and glory. This is the main reason why former President John Mahama could not win again in 2016. This is President Akufo Addo’s turn.

“Kotulim yi nyuri ka gbihira, Akufo Addo gba nyu ka gbihi” (If something bad happens to someone and you are happy, be happy if same thing happens to you).

Fellow Ghanaians, fast forward, what is most staggering, confusing, but amusing, is the anti-intellectual, anti-scientific, irrational, and myopic, arguments alluded to by both the government and the EC as basis for a new Biometric Devices and register. The EC has put out many unintelligent reasons to compile the new register except the one driven by a superstitious madness: a soothsayer probably deceiving the government that only new register can win them this year’s presidential election. Space won’t allow me to enumerate them here though.

One very pathetic, and apathetic regard for maintenance culture arguments President Akufo Addo made, and for which reason a whopping sum of over 400 million cedis be used to compile a new register, was laughable. The 78 year old political godfather told the diaspora Ghanaians that, "it appears every eight years political parties demand for a compilation of a new voter's register, and therefore it's appropriate to compile one since it's been eight years when the last registration took place."

True is, we have a President who has been completely off-guard when it comes to matters of priority. His Excellency would always bite the bullet to get whatever he wants done irrespective of its nonessentialism amidst many other fundamental matters that sorely demand his attention. Despite the dilapidated state of the new regions he had created for creating sake, His Excellency deems it a matter of priority to ignore the substandard Capitals of these new regions in order to compile a new register for just compiling sake.

Before you refer me to the fraudulent reasons and lack of capacity arguments the EC raised for the compilation of a new voter's register, in the first place, why did President Akufo Addo call for a referendum to amend article 53 of the constitution? By what means were Ghanaians going to embark upon the "Yes or No" voting he quickly chickened out having realized majority of Ghanaians lack of interest in his "Yes" mantra?

Didn't the EC fix a date (December 17 2019) for that referendum? Didn't the EC know the system was not credible to decide whether article 53 of the constitution be amended? Well, the District Assemblies elections took place right? Was that “tins elections”?

The most legitimate reason I personally think the EC would have had a point to demand a new register and registration equipment, is their argument that they don't have access to the Access Control Code of the current electoral apparatus. With this code, one can track what the devices are being up to, and can manipulate whatever results the equipment produces as well.

The current EC claims that the previous EC which procured the current "discredited" equipment and its register, did not take the Access Control Code from the manufacturers. So, the argument which is being made is that, it is dangerous since the Code is not with the current EC led by madam Jean Mensa.

Hence, one can speculate the paralyzing panic of the EC, which is that, perhaps, the largest opposition, NDC, can go back to the manufacturer of the current Biometric Voter's Machines in order to use it to possibly, manipulate and rig the presidential election.

For God's sake, if President Mahama and his NDC, together with his "own" EC led by madam Charlotte Osei, didn't see the need to do that in the 2016 election when they were in power, how on earth would they be able to do that if they now want to rig the election in opposition?

Notwithstanding, the legitimate and most daunting question the EC boss must also answer with the Holy Bible on her palm is, if this is what makes the current system not credible, what is the guarantee that if new biometric equipment are purchased as they demand, they won't also take the Access Control System from the manufacturer?

And if the EC decides not to take the Access Control Code along with the new biometric devices just as the 2012 EC did, won't the fear about the opposition still going to bribe the company and hiring the Access Control Code for at least 24 hours, in order to manipulate and rig the election abound?

Nonetheless, if the EC decides to take the Access Control Code with them, what is the guarantee that the EC won't use the Access Code of these new biometric machines to manipulate and rig the election for their greatest benefactor, NPP? Especially, considering how restless, nauseating, weird, and obsessed the EC has been in their titanic efforts to compile a new register at all cost, which is the position of their benefactor, NPP?

Commonsensically, there's something fishy in this whole hullabaloo of compulsory compilation of a new voter's register at all cost in this period of disabling pandemic panic.

I console former President John Mahama and the NDC with Quran 2:216 when God says "it may be that you hate a thing and it's good for you, and you may like a thing and it's bad for you. God knows you do not know."

He who is destined for leadership never fights for it. And dogs always eat the pair of sandals of the man who forces himself to own one even though God didn't create him to be an owner of sandals.

Let President Akufo Addo's free Senior High School candidates write WASSCE first. What a vanity?

Long Live Ghana.
Submitted By:
Iddrisu Abdul Hakeem
(The Young Prof.)
The Young Shall Grow Bi'izzinil Allah.