Ghanaian Politics: Justice, Not Political Advantage, Young Man – Urges Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jnr., Ph.D.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

The Akan have a saying that “It is only the fool who permits his gonads to be stepped upon twice by his opponents/enemies.” I have thoroughly crushed the gonads of this SOB before; back then, he promised to file a lawsuit against yours truly for calling him the arrant and congenital fool that he inescapably and veritably is. Now, the SOB has come up with another chunk of rancid meat captioned “Televising Supreme Court Will Offer No Political Advantage” (Ghanaweb.com 4/17/13).

Anyway, it may be recalled that when I set his rotten butts on fire the last time, the SOB apologetically claimed to be “a critical neutralist” in the service of the salutary enhancement of Ghanaian democracy. But it is all too clear that the poor soul has absolutely no appreciation, whatsoever, for a transparent democratic culture; and this is the reason why he sees no advantage in having the Akufo-Addo/New Patriotic Party petition challenging the political legitimacy of President John Dramani Mahama multicast.

You see, he has spent most of the last three months vigorously campaigning for the NPP petition to be summarily deep-sixed without any hearing because in his warped imagination, the international community has already approved of the declaration of Mr. Mahama as the winner of Election 2012 by the clinically roguish Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan who, by the way, announced a total voting figure that was way above the number of registered voters in the country. And inextricably caught with his pants down, as it were, Dr. Afari-Gyan fatuously insists that it was a genuine slip of the tongue, and that he ought to be allowed to get away with such seditious and capital crime. Fat chance! New Yorkers are wont to say.

The fact of the matter is that even a clinical idiot appreciates the fact that judicial transparency can only enhance the quality of deliberative arguments and the ultimate verdict that will eventually be returned. Thus having the Akufo-Addo petition multicast also implies, and rightly so, that the same much-touted international community that supposedly endorsed the legitimacy of Election 2012, would also have the legal right to examine whatever sustainable forensic evidence that the losing party has to back up its vehement protestation of a flagrantly rigged Election 2012.

And the foregoing, needless to say, is precisely what has mischief-makers like the author of the article under examination literally peeing and defecating in their pants. Unfortunately, the die has already been cast; and so far, true to form, the Akufo-Addo/NPP faction has set the global community into seriously re-thinking the credibility of Ghana’s Election 2012, and even others before the latter.

Indeed, it is my unabashed contention that had Nana Akufo-Addo won his party’s presidential nomination for Elections ’92 and ’96, the history of how elections are conducted in Ghana would be totally different today. Needless to say, Strongman Jerry John Rawlings would still have gotten away with capital crime, just as he did in the case of the abduction and brutal assassination of the three Akan high court judges – now, don’t you write to me bitching about the “tribal” undertones of my articles; the assassination of the judges was incontrovertibly an Anlo-Ewe orchestrated act of intimidation and ethnic cleansing. And this is why telecasting the Akufo-Addo petition globally adds a significant boost to the personal security of the sitting judges – Justices Sarkodie, Koranteng-Addow and Agyepong were not this lucky.

Then also, we now have an International Criminal Court (ICC) poised to taking “good care” of any certified butchers left among the knavish ranks of the so-called National Democratic Congress who may be spoiling for an open season on the Atuguba panel of Supreme Court judges.

The foregoing, of course, is what writers of articles like that which is captioned “Televising Supreme Court Will Offer No Political Advantage” fervidly wish Ghanaians to have forgotten so soon. So far, the Akufo-Addo side has forensically demonstrated beyond the proverbial shadow of any doubt that Election 2012 was anything but transparent and fair, minor glitches in evidentiary presentation notwithstanding. And on the latter score, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the former Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Ghana and the NPP Vice-Presidential Candidate for Elections 2008 and 2012 deserves our unstinted admiration.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. Department of English Nassau Community College of SUNY Garden City, New York

E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net

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Ghanaian Democracy: U. S. Has Not Applauded Mahama Government – Says Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jnr., Ph.D.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

There is a Ghana News Agency (GNA) news report circulating on the Internet falsely claiming that the Obama Administration is in full support of the veritable bog-peat that is the ongoing New Patriotic Party (NPP) petition hearings before the Supreme Court of Ghana (See “US Applauds Ghana’s Political Institutions In The Wake Of Election Petition” MyJoyOnline.com/Ghanaweb.com 5/11/13).

The said article is full of the kind of propagandistic sophistry which the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has inimitably mastered and perfected with unenviable notoriety. For starters, if the Obama Administration wanted to dispatch a message resoundingly applauding the way and manner in which the Akufo-Addo/NPP election petition is being handled, such approbation would not be issued through a Ghana News Agency reporter on a study tour of the United States, as part of a routine professional enlightenment and enrichment package annually organized and hosted by the U. S. Department of State, or Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Needless to say, such a progressive and image-boosting message would have been retailed and/or relayed through the resident American chief diplomat or ambassador in Accra. Secondly, anybody who has been sedulously watching the trajectory of the Akufo-Addo/NPP petition is fully and embarrassingly aware of dastardly and relentless attempts by President Mahama, with the shameless complicity and collusion of Presidents Alassane Ouattara and Thomas Yayi Boni, of the Ivory Coast and Benin, respectively, to brazenly stampede and abort Ghanaian democracy.

Indeed, contrary to what the anonymous GNA reporter would have the rest of the world believe, but for the dogged and steely determination of the 2012 presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party and his associates, the entire institutional process of electoral redressing would have been cavalierly bulldozed by the key operatives of the ruling National Democratic Congress, with the flagrant and unconscionable support of former Nigerian strongman Gen. Olusegun Obasanjo, the man who led the dubious ECOWAS group of election observers into the country and curiously, albeit quite predictably, claimed that Ghana’s most massively rigged general election was also the finest of its kind in the entire West African sub-region in the postcolonial era.

And dear reader, do you wonder why the primeval continent’s march towards the democratic rule of law and order is as dispiriting as it presently is? Even more significant must be highlighted the fact that the aforementioned Ghana News Agency reporter specifically and categorically solicited the official opinion of Mr. Michael Pelletier, the deputy assistant secretary of public diplomacy and public affairs, as well as African affairs in the United States’ Department of State.

And on the preceding score, it goes without saying that even a cursory glance at the rather unusually long job description of Mr. Pelletier is enough to adequately inform a toddler of the fact that the most deserving pabulum of a response was what the American diplomatic official gave the obviously naive and exuberant GNA reporter.

You see, government-sponsored media operatives like our unnamed Ghana News Agency reporter, who participated in the 2013 Spring Professional Fellows Program here in the United States, ought to be frankly admonished about the glaring fact that recklessly gussying up patent falsehoods, such as the inescapably benighted manner in which the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress regime and the Afari-Gyan-chaperoned Electoral Commission handled the NPP petition, as a remarkable example of Ghanaian democracy, does little to effectively advance democratic political culture in both Ghana and the African continent at large.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D. Department of English Nassau Community College of SUNY Garden City, New York

E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net

The opinions expressed are the author’s and do not necessarily reflect the views or have the endorsement of the Editorial Board of http://www.africanewsanalysis.com, http://www.africa-forum.net and http://www.wapsfeatures.wordpress.com