NPP is celebrating its by-election victory in Atiwa with giddiness that I find it difficult to understand. The two biggest Parties in Ghana went into this Atiwa contest with different aspirations. NPP went in there to win the constituency that has voted for NPP since 1996 with overwhelming margins so retaining the constituency was not in doubt, what was in contest here was not who was going to win but if the NPP can increase its margin of victory to prove the 'unpopularity' of Mills and his NDC administration which was sadly not achieved. In a contest that attracted all the big guns from both parties, NPP failed to get its voters to the polls to prove its point, only 53% of registered voters voted and that is not good enough. The excuse of the presence of the Police and the Army scaring the people to come out to vote is not a good one, we ought to find a way to get our voters to the voting booth, simply as that or we will laugh at the wrong side of our mouths again in 2012.

NDC aim in going to the Atiwa elections was not to win it because that was an unattainable aim. NDC wanted to achieve two aims; first, to reduce the number of voters who will cast votes and reduce the NPP margin of victory compared to what NPP obtained in the 2008 general elections which it achieved.

The second aim, the most important to the NDC was to do a test run of the intimidation tactics they intend to apply in 2012 at constituencies that vote for NPP and see how effective it is by reducing the number of voters in the NPP strongholds whilst it increase its number of voters in places like Volta region and the three Northern regions.

NDC is cachinnating over the results of the Atiwa by- election because it achieved its aim of reducing the margin of victory and unveiled its 2012 tactics of unleashing mayhem on its opponents. In a classical NDC intimidation tactics, the NDC national woman organizer, Anita De-Souza ran her car over seven NPP supporters injuring all of them with three of these victims still on admission in hospitals.

Looking at the numbers, NDC achieved its aim because NPP won this constituency with 27,000 voters in 2008 to NDC's 7800. The by-election saw NPP numbers down by more than 6,000 while NDC nimbers were only down by about 1,500. This has given even President Mills some hope of getting a second term if he can repulse the Konadu Agyeman threat. When he returned from his futility Switzaeland sojourn, he was emboldened by the election results in Atiwa he has this to say;On the recent Atiwa by-election, President Mills said

"the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was well aware that the constituency was the stronghold of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) but went in to make a point by reducing the margin in the previous elections “Let me then serve the warning to the NPP that in 2012, we will give them a run for their money,” he stated."

I don't think the NDC wanted the President to show its ace card yet, but he did and NPP can learn something out of this by-election and find a way to get its voters to the polls especially in their strong constituencies because NDC is poised to create mayhem in its strong areas and if it has to be scaring the voters by running their four wheel drives over voters as its National woman Organizer Anita De-Souza did to achieve its aim, so be it.

NDC has a lot of devilish plans to deny NPP victory in 2012 by using Ben Epson, Kwesi Pratt and their like minded journalists to create divisions in NPP by concocting fables that exist their morbid brains to create divisions in NPP. The recent allegation of Alan Kyerematen being behind a new Party in Asahanti region is one of those plans and NPP should not allow these stupid stories to divide them.

NDC will do anything to win the 2012 elections as one of their leaders blabbered out recently.

"NDC: We Would Win Election 2012 By "Hook Or Crook"

Date: 04-Sep-2010

The Deputy National Propaganda Secretary of the ruling National Democratic Congress has sent out a strong message to the opposition New Patriotic Party that the NDC would win the 2012 elections by “hook or crook”.

Speaking on Citi FM, September 4, Madam Ladi Ayamba said President Mills and his administration are on top of affairs and she is confident that the party will do everything possible to ensure that they retain power in 2012. "

The 2008 election victory by NDC is turning out to be a pyrrhic victory. Since assuming office more than eighteen months ago, the cohesiveness of NDC is unravelling with Nana Konadu Rawlings backed by her husband, the former President and founder of the NDC, Flt.Lt. Dr Rawlings is baiting to challenge President Mills for the NDC Presidential nomination. The 2008 victory has exposed NDC as lacking the manpower needed to rule Ghana, our dear country, but making life a little comfortable for ordinary Ghanaians is not NDC priority, as long as the their bigwigs get their mansions and cars while they preach against property owning democracy and their fool soldiers, oh! sorry, they want to be called foot soldiers buys into it, that is all what matters to them.

Folks, they are against you the ordinary people owning property so that skeletons like Asiedu Nketiah, Kwabena Adjei and "Yaw Mpopos" like Anyidoho, Segbefia, Ben Epson and railway track idiot like E.T Mensah can aquire properties and lord it over all of us.

"AAAH!!!, GHANAFUO ATO ABA BONEE PAA"

Justice Sarpong

Houston, Texas