Opinions of Wednesday, 13 August 2014
Columnist: Dabbousi, Fadi
By: Fadi Samih Dabbousi
It baffles me to see a perceived Statesman reduce his rhetoric to mere jargon. Alan kwadwo Kyeremanteng, my name sake, for Kwadwo’s sake wise up; you are forcibly creating travesty, which seems better hidden under your living room carpet than outside where it is having a shambolic effect on your skewed campaign.
It is quite democratic to voice out your message in the most effective way possible but this message becomes a two-edged sword when it is used knavishly. I am not going to correct you because you have gone a notch further beyond redemption but let me state unequivocally, that your chanting about floating voters whom you can pool in to win Presidential elections is nothing but catastrophic and unwise.
I believe that those floating voters, many of whom have sympathised with Nana seeing, knowing and believing that he won the 2012 elections fair and square, have already landed in camp. It was no secret the massive disenfranchisement that eventually informed his decision to go to court and in the meantime, where were you? You had gone to roost with your hens abroad.
I remember when Nana was conceding, you put up a shameful act of reading and correcting the speech for the purpose and as soon as Nana had read it, you vanished with a wide grin as if you had won a sac race. It is not true that only NPP people want Nana. In fact, as at now, even the disgruntled NDC members want him, albeit some hooligans from their midst are probably supporting you to avert his comeback, a thought that rocks their very foundations being aware that the CLS culprits will certainly languish in jail, and deservedly so.
Then you insult the faculty of the respectable delegates by telling them that you would pay the executives. I beg your pardon! What is the source of your money? What do you own by way of businesses that can ensure a steady supply of cash to fulfil your promise? This sends me back to the allegation made by the NDCTalkTrue group about you receiving favours from John Mahama to sustain your hollow promises.
I am postulating, at this juncture, that even Dr Mahamudu Bawumia can single-handedly and without any campaign give you a sound beating at the polls were you to run against him. My worry is that you are being wantonly exuberant with your vilification of Nana Akufo-Addo and it seems you carry a personal vendetta against him for no reason. Would it not be prudent that you bowed out knowing that an imminent defeat will burn your last card and distort the little respect that a handful of people have for you? I have information that on your tour of Nima, the very few delegates who noticed that they had wasted their time meeting with you, received a miserable Ghs20 for coming. Is it not a shame that a cash man as you would give such a meagre amount? The difference is that people do not want Nana’s money because they willingly will dole out their votes for the love of GOD, Country and him.
It was all over the media that some people were sleeping with the NDC during the election petition to conjure ways of stealing the verdict, which came to pass, were you one of them? I would hate to believe so but I am inclined to.
Were you not aware that massive rigging went on and with the supposed collusion of the Israeli company STL? All that time that Nana Akufo-Addo was campaigning to snatch power form the hands of gluttonous greedy bastards and babies with sharp teeth, where were you? You were all over the world trying to win the top job at the World Trade Organisation assisted by your unable comrade, John Dramani Mahama.
You should be ashamed of yourself. For a once respected Statesman to stoop so low as to bring into his message ludicrous assertions and lies is not only shameful but prodigal and wasteful. You have tarnished your image and reduced your dream to mere parody; you need to hear it from someone who would neither lick anyone’s boots nor tell fallacies about any current event be it in their favour or against them. To see you in such dire need for recognition, which is not forthcoming, breaks my heart. Regarding health issues, you are wishing Nana what one would not even wish his foe
What does it take for you to understand that the delegates and, for that matter, the majority of Ghanaians have made up their minds on Nana? Has it not being blatantly clear to you that in your tour, the few delegates who attended did so out of pity knowing all too well that you are not a marketable candidate?
The lie that you have peddled about Nana abandoning you is woefully ineffective and smacks of blasphemy against GOD and man. How can you bamboozle the delegates and Ghanaians like that? Were you not the one who preferred to spend your time out of the country at abrokyiri as you pulled all the strings possible to get the WTO job? So what is Nana’s onus in this? I wish you would tow an honest and truthful line to genuinely win the favour of people.
With regards to the election petition, you lied about your lame excuse. The party did give you an accreditation but you were not around to exert your presence. You were rather busy eating your steak and gravy in the plush hotels of America and other countries while the suffering NPP delegates and electorate chewed gari and groundnuts.
So please, spare us your jargon and tell the truth.
Keeping Ohene-Ntow and Katakyie Opoku Agyeiman to support your false messages is not healthy for a sustainable future in NPP politics, so drop them like you would your over-used shoes, because they will cause you nothing but pain.
A word to the wise is enough and a volume to the visionless is useless.
Issued by: Fadi Dabbousi Alert Ghana C&MN