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

Tsatsu "The Thief" Tsikata may not want to admit this, but it has become glaringly obvious to most Ghanaians and foreigners sedulously following the 2012 election petition that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) counsel is absolutely no match for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. And so rather than squarely focus on the damning forensic evidence presented by the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), regarding the rigging of Election 2012 in favor of President John Dramani Mahama, Mr. Tsikata has shamelessly resorted to personality attacks.

In his latest invidious salvo, the Oxbridge-educated criminal convict claims that Nana Akufo-Addo is in pointless pursuit of "a fictitious presidency" (See "Akufo-Addo Is Pursuing A Fictitious Presidency - Tsatsu" Radioxyzonline.com/Ghanaweb.com 5/8/13). The fact of the matter is that it indisputably is Mr. Mahama who has been pursuing a fictitious presidency.

For starters, the man who claims to be the best chance for Northerners to exploit the total resources of the country for their exclusive economic improvement has yet to disclose and explain the contents of the autopsy report regarding the exact cause of the death of his predecessor, President John Evans Atta-Mills.

Secondly, anybody who has been following the Akufo-Addo petition hearing knows fully well that the incontrovertible establishment of deliberate over-voting, mischievously supervised by Dr. Kwadwo Afari-Gyan, Ghana's Electoral Commissioner, in cahoots with Mr. Mahama - as clearly attested in the deliberate flouting of pre-established biometric verification rules - confirms in toto and beyond any iota of a doubt that, indeed, it is the first respondent to the Akufo-Addo petition who is doggedly, albeit quixotically and criminally, pursuing a fictitious presidency.

You see, the problem with the key operatives of the Rawlings-minted National Democratic Congress and their criminal accomplices is that they have been in power for so long that they have erroneously come to believe that ruling the country is their "Manifest Destiny" or birth-right. This erroneous belief appears to have been cemented by their ready ability to intimidate their way through rigged elections, as the country painfully and insultingly witnessed in 1992 and, again, in 1996.

As a result, the "Akufo-Addo Revolution" of electoral probity and accountability has traumatized the "Bole-Bamboi Show Boy" and his hangers-on. The good news here is that the "Televised Revolution" (apologies to Gil Scott Heron) is virtually tantamount to a historic crossing of the Rubicon, in Shakespearean parlance.

In other words, whatever the outcome of the Akufo-Addo petition before the Atuguba-led panel of Supreme Court jurists, the scandalous misadventure of Mr. Mahama into the realm of democratic abrogation is decidedly over; and over, as well, is the immutably illegitimate government of the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress.

It is also rather pathetic to hear Mr. Tsikata impugn the analytical prowess of the young genius who led the Kufuor administration's yeomanly efforts to re-denominate Ghana's monetary currency, the CEDI, which twenty years of abject misrule by the so-called National Democratic Congress effectively turned into shinplaster, or a currency not worth the price of the paper on which it was printed.

Indeed, even as Dr. Bawumia eloquently observed recently, during the Akufo-Addo petition hearings, whatever analytical errors he might have made in his epic attempt to laudably expose the veritable houses of cards that are the NDC and EC election-rigging collusion, far pales in both significant and nocence (or harmfulness) when juxtaposed with the deliberate criminal orchestration of fraud on the sacred mandate of the Ghanaian electorate.

_________________________________________________
*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of English
Nassau Community College of SUNY
Garden City, New York
May 8, 2013
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net
###