TWO FRIENDS, DIFFERENT CAMPS; TOYING WITH THE FUTURE OF A NATION

If politicians feverishly are planning for the future… the electorates in whose hands lies the decision of who leads them ought to be prepared by now. Sometimes, I become very overwhelm with thoughts of who really among the two front liners (NPP & NDC) deserve the chance of leading this nation in 2016. 

If you think am in anyway hallucinating by discussing 2016; a period two and a half years from now, then far are you from right. 

The NPP is leaving no stone unturned. They have already set the ball rolling by booting out their ever vociferous General Secretary and Party Chairman out of the scene. Probably, for being the cause of their downfall in elections 2012, as sections within their own camp claim.

The NDC will follow suit very soon! Or have they not already? My clue…! The President recently was on a “Thank You” tour of the Ashanti Region. He never minced words with his desire of a one million vote from that end of the country in 2016.

I am not the least worried about the signs of desperation in exhibit by the two leading parties. But my worry is whether “WE” the Electorates are also preparing for these desperados come 2016. It’s a prove beyond all reasonable doubts that, they BOTH have nothing good under their sleeves to change the dwindling fortunes of our mother land.

Otherwise, they would both, whether in power or opposition should have been engaging in constructive discussions to help move our nation forward. Instead of becoming the experts they are at the usual blame game.

Unfortunately, their accomplices in the media have helped them pushed such calculated desires effortless. If the media have not helped now, or even times in the past, how can a certain factual or doctored tape of our President be on air for some time now without the true tape surfacing? Were there no media men at the event where the said tape was recorded??? What’s their interest in keeping secret what might help the Ghanaian populace put this issue to rest?

The media platform has become a hub for a GANG of persons in the name of Communications team members, to hurl accusations, falsehood and counter claims at each other.

The two Parties in my candid opinion have lost it. Interestingly, they have succeeded to an extent in blindfolding the nation that they are from different camps and with different ideologies. This I doubt. A person who is your friend behind the scene cannot be an enemy in the open…unless; they want to tell us no such friendship exists as they have always told us…They are not just friends but of a feather…hence the same in competencies pervades either of them.

But can the solution be an alternative party, apart from the NDC or NPP. In times past, I thought I saw that glimmer of hope in a certain PPP…but frankly, I no longer think same. The PPP to me, if not all within their inner circle, are like a typical kwahu man who is a diehard fan of OKWAHU UNITED, but equally supports Accra Hearts of Oak. When the two sides happen to get the chance to lock horns, he would instead support Hearts to the downfall of OKWAHU UNITED. Don’t ask me what I meant by this!

Every day, I wake up to the conviction that, there would come a time for a certain generation of leaders to rescue this nation from the downslope. This too, appears to be a mirage. When I transverse our University campuses each day… the probable future politicians in whose hands the future politics of our nation lies are of no difference. They only not do politics the old generation way; but are equally maliciously tactical. Preparing themselves to continue in their steads of nation looting. No wonder they (NDC & NPP) call it a breeding ground.

As Elections 2012 was eventually decided in the law court, so might be SRC election of G.I.J. In UCC, there is an injunction on the whole voting process; because a certain disgruntled disqualified candidate would stop at nothing to get the right thing done. KNUST am reliably informed is going for a re-run to correct an initial election, which allegedly was marred with irregularities.

I am not against the seeking of redress by anyone that deems it appropriate. But the issue is, where there is no wrong, there is no need seeking for a right. The question that remains unanswered is to what extent has the successor generation become ingrained with the “misdeeds of the older generation”. Does that not put the future of our nation in limbo? Only time would tell.           

TO BE CONTINUED!!!