Opinions of Friday, 23 August 2024

Columnist: Rockson Adofo

On December 7 2024, John Dramani Mahama will be retired from politics by Dr. Bawumia

John Mahama (left) and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia John Mahama (left) and Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia

Hey guys, I have some news for you that will gladden the hearts of serious, honest, and discerning Ghanaians. This news is a prediction but not a prophecy.

Following recent empirical observations strengthened by the launch of the NPP's manifesto for the 2024 general election, the mood in the country confirms that Mr. John Dramani Mahama will soon be retiring from active politics.

He will humiliatingly be defeated by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the NPP’s presidential candidate, forcing the NDC to desert him in droves, hence his automatic retirement.

Now, some people from his NDC World Bank, thus the entire former and present Volta Region, have come out to distance themselves from the NDC. They were, until their decampment from the NDC, staunch members and supporters of the party, and Mr. John Dramani Mahama.

Their reason for criticising and quitting the NDC, or their decision to not vote for the NDC in the upcoming December 7, 2024, election, is simply that Mr. Mahama and the NDC have taken them for fools for far too long. All consecutive NDC administrations have denied them basic infrastructural developments or jobs, they say.

According to them, all the few developments they have in the region have been provided to them by the NPP administrations of both former President John Agyekum Kufour and current President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. Therefore, why should they vote NDC to continually be taken for nincompoops as though they don’t deserve the respect and rights to live as normal Ghanaians by their own NDC party?

They are determined to reward the NPP and Dr. Bawumia with their votes so that the NPP continues to give them a share, if not a fair share, of the national cake.

This public declaration by some Voltarians has been replicated in other regions by NDC members who are disenchanted with their party’s propaganda, lack of vision, and inability to come up with solid, realizable policies and programs.

They prefer most, if not all, Dr. Bawumia’s announced policies and programs as enshrined in his 2024 NPP manifesto to the already-made public “nkokɔ nketenkete” and the Lions Farming 24-Hour Economy policy by Mr. John Dramani Mahama.

The NDC, a political party without vision, unlike the NPP, cannot, in a thousand years, improve the standard of living of Ghanaians but worsen it if, unfortunately, given the nod to rule Ghana.

It is following this realisation that some of their core supporters are leaving them to join the NPP led by the big brain Dr. Bawumia, aka Mr. Digital, mocked by the NDC as the “Driver’s Mate.”.

Fellow Ghanaians, please vote for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in the December 7, 2024, general election, because among all the contesting presidential candidates, he is by far the most visionary, competent, dynamic, and dedicated to serving his country and people without discrimination but with fairness and equality.

Let us all go out in our numbers to do house-to-house campaigning to canvass for Dr. Bawumia and the NPP.

I plead with all my fans and friends on Facebook to use any genuine means possible to rally support for Dr. Bawumia to digitalise Ghana to create more jobs for the people and bring prosperity to the nation.

Mr Mahama, I am writing this publication to notify you about your impending redundancy. The looming redundancy will frighten you enough to put in your resignation to avoid compulsory retirement.

Whether Mr. John Dramani Mahama likes it or not, he will be retired, as said earlier.

NDC folks, please get ready to prepare your sad farewell party for Mr. Mahama on his retirement date of December 7, 2024.