Numbers Speak Volume: The Looming Defeat Of The Elephant

After spending an estimated two hundred and fifty million dollars ($250m) on the 2008 presidential and parliamentary campaign, with nothing but utter disappointment to show for it, the NPP government, in its classic, fascist mode of operation, continue to deceive her crestfallen sympathizers just to prevent them from giving up on Nana Akuffo Addo in the presidential run-off scheduled for December 28th, 2008.

With her poor performance on the December 7th poll, NPP continues to propagate that the party has a comfortable lead in the election.

Did you know that under Nana Akufo-Addo’s leadership, the NPP has lost nearly half a million of their supporters (498,965) i.e. from 4,658,314 in 2004, the NPP is down to 4,159,349 in 2008?

Did you know that the injury to the parliamentary seats of the NPP, are up to 21? Whiles at the same time, the NDC gained 20 additional seats in parliament making the NDC the party with the highest number of seats in parliament (114)?

Did you know that seven (7) regions out of ten (10) have given legitimacy to the message of change. Yes, this is true! And yes the remaining three (3) regions can!

Did you know that the difference between the NPP and NDC votes was 824,701 in the 2004 presidential elections? That is 4,658,314 for the NPP and 3,825,613 for the NDC. This over 800,000, difference has been narrowed to 99,715 in 2008. That is 4,159,349 for the NPP and 4,056,634 for the NDC.

Did you know that out of the 8,465,834 Ghanaians who voted on the 7th December, 4,306,395 representing 50.9% of them voted for the message of change? These include NDC (4,059,634 or 47.92%), CPP (113,494 or 1.34%), PNC (73,494 or 0.87%), DFP (27,889 or 0.33%), DPP (8,653 or 0.10%), RPD (6,889 or 0.08%) and IND (19,342 or 023%). The NPP enjoyed the support of the smaller parties in 2000. Today, these parties are not prepared to go with the NPP, an indication of how the NPP has lost ground.

In the face of this overwhelming evidence of change, the NDC is offering the good people of this country, a leader who can be TRUSTED to bring about the needed investment in people, jobs and the economy.

Moreover, with the National Democratic Congress of Prof. John Atta Mills holding a clear majority in the next parliament of the Republic of Ghana, it would interest many to know that the NDC now stands to elect the next Speaker of the Parliament and, subsequently, appointing the chairpersons of the respective committees of the august house.

Most importantly, this phenomenon seems to change the dynamics of the election. In a word, a vote for Nana Akuffo Addo puts him in the uncomfortable and risky situation of governing a “developing” nation with an infant democracy with his party in the minority. In other words, Nana Akuffo Addo stands the chance of running the nation as a dictatorship just to have his way –much like Robert Mugabe’s Zimbabwe and Musharaf’s Pakistan. Nana Akuffo Addo (no president in any democracy for that matter) can not govern Ghana on executive orders alone. It would be disastrous!

Therefore, with the NDC forming the majority in next parliament, the only logical and wisest democratic choice is to vote for Prof. Atta Mills in order to form an executive that would quite amicably compliment an NDC-led legislature to lead the transformation and development that Ghana so direly needs.

Vote for Prof. Mills and the NDC for a Better Ghana.

Source: NDC Youth Forum

Posted by Fela O Fela (felaofela@gmail.com)