People more often than not, choose to misconstrue unbridled assertiveness and superfluous confidence as a sign of irrevocable arrogance.

But I, for one, do not acquiesce to such an isolated thinker’s notion.

To me, every successful person needs to have a bit of both arrogance and ignorance in order to burst through the horizon.

There is this misconception of the centre right politicians and arrogance which I find it quite bizarre.

The likes of former UK PM Johnson, the almighty Trump of the U.S.A, and a hosts of the UK Conservative party politicians have had their share of the accusations.

But, in the grand scheme of things, these are people whom started it so good by attending posh schools, colleges, and universities like Prempeh College, Eaton College, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, among others, and have thus become extremely tenacious, assertive and over confident over time.

My dear reader, Senior Napo, a subtle mind, and a product of my alma mater, is not arrogant by any stretch of the imagination. He is rather tenacious, assertive and over confident.

What is extremely nauseating though, is the unpardonable dishonesty and hypocrisy being exhibited by the NDC babies with sharp teeth(apologies to the late Rawlings) who have carved a niche of shenanigans and sarcasm for themselves.

These are people who allegedly received bespoke training to attack, insult, and denigrate subtle minds in society in the name of politics.

There is no denying or ignoring the fact that the late Rawlings sadly raised concerns over the insulting behaviour of the NDC babies with sharp teeth, many of whom do not even have passing acquaintance with the formation of the party he joyously autographed with his blood.

In retirement, the NDC founder and the first president of the Fourth Republic, the late President Jerry John Rawlings, would now and then, contribute to the national discourse.

He kept the successive governments on their toes, as a matter of fact. He thus earned the accolade, Dr Boom, for his vociferous and the no nonsense approach.

To his credit, though, the late President Rawlings was the chief critic of his own party (NDC). Indeed, the late President Rawlings did not shy away from pointing out the erstwhile Mahama administration’s irreversible incompetence and corrupt practices.

Regrettably, the NDC’s boisterous brats who are not privy to their party’s history kept insulting Rawlings for rightly expressing his grievances over the irreversible mess in the party he undersigned with his blood. .

If you may remember, prior to his demise , the NDC babies with sharp teeth, torn their founder, the late Rawlings, into shreds with unabashed disgust.

The late Rawlings’s crime was to candidly fret thy soul with grief, and wondered if the deadly armed robbery attacks in the country were real robberies and not the work of unpatriotic partisan creatures motivated from either within or without to undermine the nation’s security in order to pave the way for certain parochial ambitions.

The late President Rawlings concerns back then stemmed from the fact that some people were unblushingly hopping from one Radio/Television station to another nagging, shrieking and grouching over the serious national disaster such as the bloody armed robbery attacks without proffering any practicable solutions.

The NDC babies with sharp teeth attitude towards the late Rawlings was extremely appalling. Take, for example, the late Rawlings had this to say during the NDC’s 2012 National Congress: “Mr. President, fellow Ghanaians it is said that we should not throw out the baby with the bath water, but what we do when some of the babies in the tub are babies with hard teeth, biting and spewing some very horrible invectives? Should they not be lowered out with the dirty water? After all one bad nut is all it takes to spoil the taste in your mouth”.

“When we find ourselves at a wooden bridge with some planks rotten, do we wait to get new planks before removing the rotten ones or do we remove the rotten ones immediately?” (JJ Rawlings, August 30, 2012).

If you would recall, during the State of the Nation Address on Thursday 8th February 2018, aside from the extraneous and incessant heckling of President Akufo-Addo, some of the babies with sharp teeth allegedly disrespected their founder, the late Rawlings and his wife, Konadu Agyemang Rawlings.

The NDC babies with sharp teeth conspicuously cheered their Doyen Mahama and ignominiously ‘catcalled’ at their founder, the late Rawlings and his wife, Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings.

It all began when President Akufo-Addo was blissfully introducing the dignitaries present at the State of the Nation Address. The babies with sharp teeth cheered plangently at the mentioning of Ex-President Mahama’s name and hooted upon hearing the names of the founder and his wife. Their conduct, so to speak, was replete with arrogance, and destitute of honour and respect.

Indeed, it was quite strange for the so-called brassbound supporters to disrespectfully hoot at the very person whose brainchild (NDC) has rather made them ‘somebody’s’.

Personally, I was extremely depressed in spirits and could hardly contain my emotional intelligence. But in a state of utter puzzled countenance, I soliloquised: “how could human beings be so ungrateful?” “How on earth could any human being show utter disrespect to the breast that fed him/her?” “The world is not fair indeed.”

Well, I need not be belabouring on the evolution of National Democratic Congress (NDC), but for the sake of balanced annotation, I shall give a brief history of the making of NDC at some point.

In fact, the NDC babies with sharp teeth made it a habit of abusing their founder. Take, for example, prior to the 2016 election, the babies with sharp teeth were reported to have called for their founder Rawlings’s blood.

Back then, the late President Rawlings sadly expressed his surprise as to how and why the NDC babies with sharp teeth could orchestrate needless attacks on him.

“The ex-President cited the petition presented by the Great Consolidated Popular Party (GCPP) leader, Henry Lartey to the Economic and Organised Crime Office (EOCO) and the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) asking them to investigate circumstances under which he (Mr Rawlings) reportedly received an amount of $5 million from the late Nigerian Head of State, General Sani Abacha, as gift in 1998.

The late Rawlings was reported to have said that the NDC babies with sharp teeth were behind the ploy to sully his hard-won reputation (See: ‘$5m Abacha cash, NDC chasing me-says Rawlings’; dailyguideafrica.com, 18/10/2016).

In fact, back then, I was not the least surprised that the NDC babies with sharp teeth could go to such an extent of bringing the name of their party founder into disrepute. After all, didn’t the party National Chairman, Asiedu Nketia, once call Rawlings a barking dog?

Much as I was not a fan of the late Rawlings, I do not think the man deserved all the vile attacks from the babies with sharp teeth, the members of the party he worked strenuously to bring to existence.

Honestly, the conduct of the NDC babies with sharp teeth reinforces Kwame Sefa Khayi’s favourite and melodious rendition, which goes: ‘Ghanaian politics is saturated with hypocrisy and dishonesty’.

K. Badu, UK.

k.badu2011@gmail.com