Following the NDC’s decisive victory in the just-ended elections, innumerable views have been expressed, but what I find extremely difficult to appreciate is the lamentation by Honourable Afenyo-Markin that: “Yes, the result stings, and I know it hurts” (See: “Election 2024: The result stings, hurts; but we must respect the decision of Ghanaians — Afenyo-Markin” on modernghana.com).

In no sense mercurial, no development can be fostered in a country with a non-listening leader. One does not need to be conversant with the treatises of Sen, Rostow and Putnam to know this. What Honourable AM ought to understand is that if a leader turns a blind eye to the gnashing of teeth by the masses, it does not augur well for his party in elections. When Ghanaians bemoaned Mr Ofori-Attah’s abysmal performance at the Ministry of Finance, what did we get? Things grew from bad to worse, but the NADAA-Bawumia government could not be bothered.

The attention of the Honourable must be drawn to the fact that HE NADAA had become ludicrously comfortable with his job that he forgot that their retention of the occupation of the “white seat” was based on hearkening to the lamentations of the masses. My unflappable contention here is that he had a moral duty of hearkening to the lamentations of Ghanaians as we wrung our hands in daily anguish, but chose the exhibition of crass hubris and grandiose pomposity instead, in stark contrast to his saint-like submissiveness in his 2016 campaign.

More so, he was supposed to prove to us that he was up to the task by promptly and effectively reviving the economic ruins of Mother Ghana. What was not warranted was his lacklustre governance of being at the helm of affairs, while shamefully and continuously demonstrating his obsequious conviction that the next government will rather be able to salvage the economic ruins of the country. A tacit admission that the NPP failed woefully. Consequently, in a logical sense, it should not be surprising that the party lost, after all, there was no demonstration of NADAA’s emphatic equality to the task the people of Ghana entrusted into his care.

Honourable, as you pitifully describe your loss with such plethora of adjectives, bear in mind that you have subjected Ghanaians to monumental hardships. It is, thus, significant to take cognisance of the fact that you cannot take people for granted forever. What I am primarily concerned about here is the veritable fact that Ghanaians possess the abject knowledge and confidence of ruthlessly dealing with politicians who have the proclivity for the exhibition of downright insensitivity and sheer pomposity.

Well, we studiously watch proceedings as NPP hands over the mantle to his “partner”, hoping against hope that they will be able to turn the corner, while seizing the opportunity to wish Nana Kwame Bediako Cheddar all the best in his future political endeavours.

Kwabena Aboagye-Gyan (kwabena25@hotmail.com)