Against all the odds and dire predictions, The Electoral Commission of Ghana has produced the list of persons who registered with NHIA cards for the Biometric Voters register used for the 2012 general Elections. Contrary to the wild and unsubstantiated estimates, the total turns out to be less than 50,000 out of a total of over 14,000,000 on the roll.<\/p>\n
Deleting and reregistering those affected can easily be accommodated within the now extended exhibition period planned to begin within the next three weeks.\u00a0 Thus we have come to the end of the \u201ccomedies\u201d for Election 2016, and we should all perk up, get our popcorn and soda, and settle down comfortably to take in the main feature film, titled \u201cWooing Ghanaians to vote for me as President on November 7 2016; starring John Dramani Mahama & Nana Akufo-Addo, plus a host of supporting B movie starts.<\/p>\n
At long last, the attempts by the NPP and its misguided ventriloquists to impose a specific process for establishing the credibility of the electoral roll we will use for the forthcoming election has run its long and tortuous course, finally stuck in sand on a dead end alley.\u00a0 The mantra, Validation by any possible means: fair or foul\u201d is now beached on the sands of dead end pier. It is time to put the shattered vehicle into reverse gear, find the tarmac road and follow the EC\u2019s road map and drive s head as possible to the finishing line that is but barely five months away.<\/p>\n
Bothe of the leading men and their numerous supporting cast in the upcoming race have a lot to do to learn and deliver very convincing lines to we the people of Ghana, so we can rate their \u201clast show\u201d performance as deserving of the best actor Oscar trophy called the Presidency of the Republic of Ghana.\u00a0 For now, the odds may appear to be favouring the man showing his trailer, \u201cAccounting to the People\u201d from the back of an information service van now doing a tour of the regions. However as we film buffs learnt from our unauthorised tutelage at Kumasi \u201cOcancil\u201d, we should never discount the eternal cinema lesson of \u201cJack bewu lass show\u201d<\/p>\n
Let me now try my hand at writing the screenplay and the potential winning lines for the two stars, starting with the challenger Nana Akufo Addo before tackling those for the man who is already miming his lines on the road show, John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n
First and foremost, Nana Akufo-Addo and his supporting cast must apologise unreservedly to the women of Ghana, for the comments made by one his honourables, and generally for the misogynistic behaviour of the New Patriotic Party attitude and shameful disregard towards more than 50% of potential voters. For me, no serious candidate for the office of the President of Ghana can or must tolerate the absurd notion that our women can only get to the top of the ladder of achievement when they offer their bodies as inducements.<\/p>\n
The words spoken by Mark Anthony in Shakespeare\u2019s Julius Caser are very apt for the Nana Addo & the NPP to imbibe:\u00a0 \u201cO judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts, and men have lost their reason. Bear with me. My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar, and I must pause till it come back to me.\u201d My brother, this is the time for you to demonstrate statesmanship\u00a0 political savvies and sense of purpose by not allowing the ,manufactured, baseless and frenzied hatred of Charlotte Osei, to impair\u00a0 your judgment and allow your colleagues who have clearly demonstrated their loss of reasoning to put the majority of voters off the idea of voting for you. In twi, the NPP\u2019s lingua franca, \u201c Ma momfa wansena ho abofuo, ma mo nbere mo kuro\u201d (to wit, Don\u2019t allow your hatred of Charlotte Osei to destroy your appeal to the majority of the voting public)<\/p>\n
The NPP does not need its own American experience here. There the presumptive Presidential Candidate for the \u201cOsono\u201d Party, Donald J. Trump, has an unfavorable rating of over 70% among women who have also indicated that they are unlikely to vote for him. \u00a0As a distinguished scholar supposedly leading a bunch of capable \u201cmen\u201d, I need not remind you of the well worn quote: \u00a0\u00a0“Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned”. Make haste quickly to nip this perception of you and your party that you are scornful of our women. As it is said also \u201cone swallow does not a summer make\u201d. My advice is to smite this defective swallow down now, or forget the dreams of a long and rosy summer.<\/p>\n
For the other leading actor, your lines must be clear and focused. You and your supporting actors are coming to the end of an eight year career in the Ghana movie.\u00a0 So you need to remember that the part of the audience who do not fawn on you irrespective, but are in to be persuaded by your demonstrated talent and its effects, will not take lightly to you offering promise of \u201chappy ever after\u201d for a future time when your acting career will have been long over and your movies will now be playing as \u201ccomedies\u201d<\/p>\n
We the undulating audience will largely judge you on the effects of your past performances, especially o they made us cry in deep disappointment or inspired by the reality of your words and promises to moving our personal condition from Maslow\u2019s Basic needs towards the top of the pyramid self actualisation mode. Thus you will need to show us how the bricks and mortars; paved roads, shining overhead bridges etc. have Impacted positively on improving the quality of our individual and collective lives over the road travelled for the past 8 years.<\/p>\n
It is people who will cast their votes on November 7. They will not do so on manufactured or paper statistics of jobs. Therefore, they will regard as cynical the state of shiny new school blocks in a milieu of long unemployed teachers; shiny new hospitals when qualified nurses have been without jobs for 3 years, branded shiny buses when the people are so poor they can neither afford the fare or be tempted to go spend their inadequate income on expensive basic services.<\/p>\n
Whether Jack will die at the end bad be replaced by the co-star is a judgement waiting for the \u201class show\u201d when the audience will be swelled by the \u201cfree show\u201d hordes of undecided voters whose vote will count for the same value as the vote for those of us who either paid for expensive tickets or enjoyed VIP treatment on account of our unalloyed and jaundiced adoration of the two leading Men.<\/p>\n
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By: Dr.\u00a0Charles Wereko-Brobby<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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