If you really want to know the true nature of a certain political party called the New Patriotic Party (NPP), you do not have to look very far. Because that party changes its positions on any political issue every time to deceive people into believing that they love Ghana more than anybody else.

I have said it so many times that the NPP’s vice presidential candidate, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia is highly deceptive and possibly a fraudster. No doubt, many Ghanaians are now awakening to the fact that this guy in his zeal to become the second commander-in-chief of the Ghana Armed Forces has simply developed a lying tongue by saying anything just to get Nana Akufo-Addo elected as the next president.

Mahamadu Bawumia claims to hold a doctorate degree in Economics. We are not quarrelling with him over that. But have Ghanaians tried to check out why Bawumia has locked his thesis that earned him the doctorate degree with a password? Indeed if you are dishonest person, you will always go the Bawumia way. Bawumia has a PhD in Economics yet no one can read his thesis.

For your information, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia spent a lot of time and ink praising some of the policies adopted by the PNDC under Jerry John Rawlings to help Ghana recover from the severe economic constraints in the 80s. Therefore, how can Bawumia who is now the so-called economic wizard and darling boy of the NPP open up his thesis for Ghanaians to know exactly what he wrote about the PNDC. That is why Bawumia has kept his thesis under lock and key. Bang!

In August last year, Mahamadu Bawumia aided by desperate Akufo-Addo, hurriedly organized a fake press conference, and concocted a story that there were over 76,000 Togolese on Ghana’s voter register. This confident trickster even went further. He told the assembled press that what he had found out was even the tip of an iceberg. Bawumia claimed it was just 10% of what he would reveal to Ghanaians within a month. Within a month, was the timeline Bawumia gave to Ghanaians. Therefore, we were all very expectant that the so-called smoking-gun that will compel the Electoral Commission (EC) to do a new voter register would be released at least at the end of September last year.

Meanwhile, we had scores of NPP supporters and some NPP sycophants who have clothed themselves under various dubious organizations zealously running with the false story by deceptive Bawumia, without bothering to cross-check the veracity or otherwise of that bogus claim.

September 2015 came and we heard nothing from Bawumia. And another month also came but there was stone cold silence from Bawumia concerning the additional information of foreign names on the voter’s register that he promised to release to Ghanaians.

Indeed the lies that were spewed by the NPP concerning the bogus foreign names on the voter’s register reached a crescendo that the EC finally decided to hold a stakeholders meeting to collate views on the issue. Interestingly and strangely, deceptive Bawumia whose bogus claims led to the stakeholders meeting left town and did not attend the meeting. Nana Akufo-Addo who stands to benefit the most if the EC had agreed to a new voter’s register also left Ghana leaving poor Mac Manu to defend the phoney claim.

The result is what we have recently heard from the EC that Bawumia and his NPP lying gang failed to provide any convincing proof on the 76,000 Togolese they claimed are on the voter’s register. I totally agree with those calling for the arrest and prosecution of phoney Bawumia.

Indeed, after eight (8) months and still counting Bawumia has not been able to provide any additional information on the so-called bloated voter’s register. Yet, we have this loose talking guy waiting in the saddles to become vice president of Mother Ghana.

Ghanaians have not forgotten that the lies by Bawumia compelled some NPP supporters to write on walls in Accra, Takoradi, Ho, Cape Coast, and Kumasi among others demanding a new voter’s register. There were other NPP supporters led by the hooligans, Let My Vote Count Alliance, that went on demonstration on the streets of Accra that led one of them to lose an eye.

I have made my own prediction concerning Bawumia. And I am not afraid to repeat it. That 2016 will be the last time we will see of Bawumia on the political field. Like it or not Akufo-Addo will go down again in 2016. And once Akufo-Addo goes down, Bawumia would be political history. The NPP will surely purge itself of Bawumia and to borrow from the political commentator, Mr Kwesi Pratt, “he will see his political smoothness”. But I am warning the NDC that the 2016 Election is not going to be a walk-cake. The NDC has to work for that win.

If the NDC is going to solely rely on the current implosion, mistrust, and confusion in the NPP to coast to victory, then I am sorry to tell them that that is not enough. The NDC needs something more than that. Every hand must be on the deck! The party members must work harder than never before because everything of theirs will be on the ballot on Monday November 7. It would definitely not only be President Mahama on the ballot.

God forbid if President Mahama goes down on November 7, everybody who calls him or herself an NDC member, sympathizer, foot soldier, financier name them goes down with him. Therefore, anybody who has been placed in any position of responsibility by President Mahama, must work extremely hard to justify the confidence reposed in him or her.

President Mahama has had enough of some lapses by some appointees. The embarrassments are huge and enough! The NDC must spare President Mahama of these avoidable embarrassments so that he would be able to sell his achievements to Ghanaians for a second term.

President Mahama cannot be everywhere at every time. He only has two eyes just like everybody else. Therefore, if he puts you in any position of responsibility and trust, all what he and Ghanaians expect of you is to excel. He expects you to do things that would contribute in making life bearable for all Ghanaians. At least even if you cannot do much in your area of scope, please spare him any embarrassments!

God be with us all!


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