It ought to be emphasised that it is the kind of spectacle that one really does not want to behold. As Dr Bawumia read his concession speech after the elections, behind him, it was blindly obvious, the uncontrollable weeping of the NPP’s WO.

In retrospect, the NPP intransigently trumpeted their ability to break the eight, so the outcome of the elections was a bit of a rude awakening for the WO. Of course, it is normal to shed tears sometimes. I vividly recall the many tears I shed when my late grandmother was being laid to rest in my hometown Sekyedumase, in 2016. However, it is not clear if any NPP member has the right or legitimate cause to shed tears over the outcome of the elections.

You see, after voting for you, the masses expected you to ameliorate their hardships, after all, politics is squarely about extirpating the sufferings of the people, not ignoring them. Therefore, if you ignore the people, you are embarking on a wild goose chase. As Ghanaians meticulously follow the political affairs of the country, it is impossible to hoodwink people into voting for you all the time based on a forlorn (Free SHS) policy. Even if the policy is helping the poor get their children educated, life goes beyond free SHS education. Sadly, it is just a mere appendage of our needs. What about the economy? What about employment?

Also, it is curious, if not preposterous, for you to think that people will continue to vote for you, despite your heretical institutionalisation of nepotism. If your inexplicable aberration of the appointment of only family members to key positions in government is anything to go by, it should not be surprising to you that many Ghanaians voted against you. Dear WO, your greatest worry “will be going back to opposition”, as you wrote on LinkedIn a couple of years ago, but you failed to stop HE NADAA from sowing invidious seeds of nepotism. In short, weep not, weep not, friend.

Quickly, I need to point out that the high level of borrowing of the NPP administration must neither be flagrantly falsified nor swept under the carpet. It is outrageous as much as perplexing that they have increased our external debt in such gargantuan proportions, yet, have nothing to show for it. Where did all the money go? What about all the Covid-19 financial assistance we got from the IMF/World Bank? Yet, our dramatic pleas for concerted efforts to end our economic denudation were rebuffed with unwarranted and grotty impunity.

In sum, your decision to ignore the hue and cry of Ghanaians, and nonchalantly strumming our pains with your fingers (credit: Fugees, ‘Killing me softly’) cannot be divorced from the myriad of factors that caused your apocalyptic downfall. So I ask: Who killed the legendary King Antwi Boasiako?

Kwabena Aboagye-Gyan

(kwabena25@hotmail.com)