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CHRIS-VINCENT Writes: Pray for the Democrats–NPP Will Go into A Political Oblivion If Nana Akufo-Addo Loses the 2016 Election

Nana Akufo-Addo
Nana Akufo-Addo

The New Patriotic Party is currently running on its last fuel: the unhealthy but necessary inside side-lining and the never seen before financial bulwark the party faces continue to have undeniable operational deficiencies on the party’s pre-election activities.
It’s true that the democrats are back to the battlefield but they are deeply wounded. There’s no sight of a backup and the unspoken of internal financial blockage has literally slowed the already weakened engines of the party’s campaign trail.
But there’s a natural sense of hope—a wounded soldier is usually vicious compared to the healthy well fed. Also, the incumbent government has succeeded in tilting the fight in favour of the near dead elephant with the many wrong turns it has unjustifiably taken with the economy.
The unbearable hardship Ghanaians face in itself makes a strong case for the NPP but the truth remains that, nowhere has an incumbent government ever been easily disposed, especially when you have an aggressive politician like President John Dramani Mahama leading a pack of young wolves, running a door to door campaign backed by a somewhat unlimited resource.
On the face of things, the odds may seem to be directly in favour of the NPP but the party is still severely struggling to grasp what can really fetch them power—and I mean, a boot to boot campaign with the NDC.
Instead of being proactive, the NPP seems to have become a station full of reactors–worrying itself with responses and criticisms of the Mahama government’s conducts even at this stage. For instance, spending a whole week on the issue of President Mahama “sharing” money wouldn’t win the NPP a single vote and neither will it stop the “deadgoat” from doing what he regards as reasonable in these desperate times.
For me, the NPP has not been able to strongly reboot itself since the last mighty fall, and this is evident in the fact that the robust campaign machinery we saw from the party in the last election and the one before has still not yet been re-created. Perhaps, it’s still being sabotaged by a bunch of ‘Agenda 2020’ separatists.
Of course, what those hamstringing the campaign train do not realize is this; the NPP would need more than a celestial intervention to put a formidable front together if it dare pushes itself into another 4 years of opposition. If it loses another election at its current state, the party will certainly go into a political oblivion and it may take another 8 years to come back in shape for a fair fight.
Even the staunchest reasonable supporter of President Mahama and the NDC would agree that it has been a milky 4 years, and the Mahama-led NDC administration has been full of incompetence and misjudgements. It’s such obvious lapses that an opposition party ought to capitalize on for power.
There isn’t going to be such a loose penalty kick opportunity for the NPP in a long time again if it fails to convert what’s been served into an electoral win.
From SADA to the infamous bus branding scandal, it’s apparent President Mahama and those at the upper echelon of the NDC are walking on egg shells—well aware of how they’ve failed to make a good case for themselves in the last 4 years.
Nevertheless, the onus lies on those with the means within the NPP to push the wounded elephant off the ground to pluck the once in a century opportunity the NDC has presented—making it easy for power to be taken away from them.
It is time for the big political battle to be fought and every so called democrat, including those housing an ambition for a future power, ought to take centre stage to ensure the NPP jumps out of the pit of opposition by fully supporting Nana Akufo Addo to win this election.
If not, it’s going to be another long, sad and unbearable 8 years in opposition for the NPP.



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