Glover's Dirty Garbage To Akufo-Addo & NPP

Commentary



The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) value for mischief as an important plank of its campaign strategy through the use of character assassination has bounced to the fore, just hours after the late President; Professor J.E.A. Mills was buried in Accra, Friday.

Interestingly, the party, known to be unchallenged mischief title holder in Ghana’s political history, did not use any occasion to commence its grubby agenda, but the funeral of the Asomdwehene.

The NPP is crying wolf that the nation’s broadcaster did not capture its Presidential candidate, Mr. Williams Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo at the time he was filing past the mortal remains of the late Ghana’s President.

The party, through its lightweight king of acerbic political attacks, Titus Nii Kwartei Glover, was claiming that the Television crew of the Ghana Broadcasting Corporation (GBC) had orders from certain superiors, not to capture Nana Addo at the funeral.

What is nauseating was the fact that Mr. Glover went ahead to accuse President John Mahama, of having a hand in what he claimed happened on that mournful Wednesday.

It is however, unclear as to whether Mr. Glover had the backing of the heavyweights in the party before coming out with such childish statement.

Be as it may, the NPP top brass would never have the moral courage to call Mr. Glover to order, based on the fact that the young unemployed chap (courtesy Mr. Ken Agyapong, who fired him from his Kencity Media), has been used for too many dirty works.

With his not read through careful statement within the public domain, not only has he breached the very consensus reached by all political parties, to use the demise of the late President to change the face of political discourse; to be decent, but has opened the floodgate on his candidate, who he was nonsensically trying to impress, to barrage of attacks.

Since the statement landed on various social networks, Nana Addo and the NPP have been at the receiving end, amazingly from their own members and supporters.

Mr. Glover has proven to the whole world that the NPP is a party in which any idiot (with apologies to Mr. Kwame Piani) could just get up and issue statement against the larger interest of it candidate and the party as large.

In fact, Nana Addo is very likely to break down and weep bitterly, if he should chance on some of the comments made on various social networks; all because of the carelessness of Mr. Glover.

Mr. Glover should be told straight in the face that, in his attempt to impress Nana Addo and the NPP, he should rather come up with innovative ideas that would bring votes to the party and not what would bring Nana Addo and the party to public derision.

Now the party would be spending days to defend the indefensible and in no time, make another person other than President Mahama its target, which would definitely expose them to more public mockery.

In any case, much blame should not be put on Mr. Glover, because he has been offered too much room to operate in the NPP and that has made him to be talking and doing things as if there are no serious-minded people within the party.

He would grow such wings because when the NPP was looking for people to travel all the way to the United Kingdom to denigrate the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, he was the centre of attraction; and when he failed woefully, nobody had the guts to question him.

Now, he has done it again, and the NPP big shots are cursing the day they made him to travel to the UK for that creepy agenda, which did not succeed.

Mr. Glover has only succeeded in denigrating people; and now he is not getting the right NDC target and has only been successful with bringing shame to the NPP and its flagbearer, days after they resolved that the dirty politics should be a thing of the past.

Ghanaians, especially supporters and members of the NPP are patiently waiting for the party to bring Mr. Glover to order, as the party has often touted itself as a party that could discipline miscreants.

The NPP hierarchy should simply access some of the social networks and carefully reflect on the harm that their beloved unemployed mischief kingpin has caused to Nana Addo and the party, and move things from there.