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Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the NPP’s bitterest defeated
ex-flagbearer for the 2012 Presidential Election has started a “Thank You” tour
of the 10 regions of the country.
Nana Akufo-Addo is going on this tour because there have
been severe wrangling in the NPP concerning who to lead the party in 2016
following the declaration and confirmation by the Supreme Court (SC) that
President John Mahama was duly and validly elected in the 2012 Presidential
Election.
One wonders why Nana Akufo-Addo will embark on such a
tour when he told Ghanaians that he was taking a break in politics on the same
day that the SC dismissed his slapdash petition case on all the six pleadings.
In case you may have forgotten it is this same Nana Akufo-Addo who told the
Central Regional delegation of the NPP last week that he was even cutting out
of the country for one month to rest and consult with his God, so why this
sudden U-turn to embark on a thank you tour?
By the way, who is Akufo-Addo going to thank? Is it the 5
million supporters who voted for him to lose the 2012 Presidential Election?
Does Akufo-Addo believe in those supporters? Or Akufo-Addo is embarking on the
tour to thank the Supreme Court?
Nana Akufo-Addo rejected the results declared by the
Electoral Commission and went to the Supreme Court. For eight months he kept
the whole country under shrouds only for his terrible case to be thrown out on
August 29, 2013. He did not believe in
the votes cast by his supporters that was why Akufo-Addo did his own arithmetic
on the election results and went to court believing that he was going to become
president through the back door.
Therefore, with the issue finally settled by the SC, who
is Nana Addo going to thank? Is it those who voted for him or those who did not
vote for him or the members of the SC?
Normally people go on thank you tours when they have won
something. It is highly odd and unusual for a losing candidate in a major election
to embark on a thank you tour. Is Akufo-Addo going to thank his supporters for
helping him run a bad political campaign which eventually led to his defeat? Or
is he going to thank them for swallowing his lies and deception during SC
petition case?
It is strongly believed that Nana Akufo-Addo is being
goaded on by some of his supporters in the top hierarchy of the NPP to use the
tour to test his popularity and ability and also silence the dissenting voices
in the NPP which have become much more pronounced in recent times.
Nana Akufo-Addo still harbours the false impression that
he will one day become president of Ghana that is why he is still talking about
his one-dimensional free Senior High School education which did not fly with
voters who saw it as a political gimmick to deceive them for their votes.
Indeed Akufo-Addo’s refusal to go away from the political
turf is going to divide the NPP and what we are currently seeing in the NPP is
just the least of their problems. Because if Akufo-Addo, who still commands a
sizeable following of the NPP delegates decides to run again for the 2016
election, the NPP will split into two. Just watch my lips, “If Akufo-Addo
decides to run in 2016, the NPP will split into two.”
Nana Akufo-Addo is a political spent force. He has no new
ideas for the NPP or Ghana but because he still harbours deep hatred for the
Ashanti faction within the NPP who did little to get him elected, Nana
Akufo-Addo has decided to draw rings around the NPP by staying around and
shinning his eyes on everything that goes on in the party.
To say the least, this strange thank you tour by Nana
Akufo-Addo is needless and a waste of time. It is rather going to hype tensions
in the NPP which is sharply divided and is struggling to find the soul of the
party which is currently missing.
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