The pathologically self-serving Akufo-Addo detractor, also popularly known as The Idiot-of-Irmo, South Carolina, and recently known as The Cretin-of-California, did not put forth any meaningful grist, by way of worthwhile criticism, against the three-time flagbearer of the country’s main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) to warrant the sort of banner headlines afforded the patent guff shamelessly passed off as questions worthy of critical examination by any well-meaning and morally responsible Ghanaian citizen, except the avowed, albeit thoroughly defeated, detractors of Ghana’s former Attorney-General and Minister of Justice (See “… Takes on Africawatch, Kweku Baako and Paul Afoko” Ghanaweb.com 5/13/16).

Indeed, absolutely no meaningful attempt is made to question the credibility of the supposedly aggrieved Mr. Paul Afoko, the duly suspended National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, vis-à-vis the Serbian military training affair, alleged attempts to preempt the election of Mr. Afoko and the purported reactivation of a hitherto dormant party account by Akufo-Addo partisans. As usual, all we are served with is a facile presumption of innocence on the part of the suspended NPP National Chairman. Needless to say, this anti-Akufo-Addo propaganda spin, like all the rest before it, will not wash. If anything at all, it will further confirm what many a keen observer of NPP affairs has invariably come away with, vis-à-vis the running factional shenanigans raging in the party, and the decision by the anti-Akufo-Addo faction, of which Dr. McHypocrite is a frontline operative, to keep the party perennially riven at all costs, even while also feigning absolute non-involvement or complete innocence.
For starters, even if the party were truly in need of conflict resolution experts, it would still be grossly remiss and flagrantly unfair to involve The Asantehene, knowing full well that the 1992 Republican Constitution of Ghana does not approve of the interference of monarchs and chieftains in either the internal or external affairs of any legitimately constituted and registered political party in the country. But even more significant and worthy of note is the fact that elaborate institutional structures exist within the party to deal with disciplinary and constitutional matters, which clearly explains the justified suspension of unruly Fifth Columnists like Messrs. Afoko, Agyepong and Crabbe, among a remarkable number of others. One also wonders why the axe of party discipline has not been brought to bear on the pate of McHypocrite. Perhaps the most obvious and logical answer is that McHypocrite is more of a marginal annoyance than an effective Vidkun Quisling, though gauging by prime media play afforded his at once lurid and jejune antics, one would think McHypocrite were a major force to reckon with.

On the question of the reactivation of a hitherto dormant party account by operatives of the Akufo-Addo playbook, as it were, what is worthy of public attention and discourse is not whether, indeed, any such account was reactivated but rather the basis upon which such reactivation was effected. It goes without saying that no keen observer of NPP politics expected a mischief-making McHypocrite to highlight this most critical aspect of the issue, because any bold and honest attempt to doing so would undesirably expose the seamy underbelly of the anti-Akufo-Addo factionalists. Thus it is absolutely no accident that McHypocrite would choose to attack Mr. Kweku Baako, the meticulously sleuthing editor-publisher of the New Crusading Guide, for so deftly and poignantly exposing Mr. Afoko for the reprobate liar that he has clearly and absolutely proven himself to be, especially in the matter of the Serbian military training affair.

And then, also, isn’t it predictably strange that McHypocrite should conveniently fail to mention the clearly circumstantial involvement of Mr. Paul Afoko in the acid-dousing slaying of Mr. Adams Mahama, the former Upper-East’s NPP Regional Chairman?

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