NPP to Demand Power Sharing

With many of their leading members openly acknowledging the party cannot win the upcoming November 07 general elections, and having lost the battle for the compilation of a new voter register, intelligence gathered by The aL-hAJJ indicates that hardliners in the opposition New Patriotic Party are lacing boots to activate the party’s alternate plan of returning to government “at all cost”.

Leading members of the NPP, this paper has gathered, are said to have given up on the demand for a new register following the rubbishing of their petition by the Electoral Commission.

They are now reported plotting how to make the Mahama administration ungovernable through Arab spring-like civil disobedience.

Intelligence reports available to The aL-hAJJ has revealed that elements of the biggest opposition party, whose forebears employed similar unorthodox tactics in the days leading to the overthrow of Ghana’s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, are said to have reverted to an “old” plan to instigate the citizenry against the Mahama government.

The aL-hAJJ has also gathered that the power thirsty NPP bigwigs, most of whose relevance in politics is tied to Akufo-Addo’s continuous stay in the political scene, are plotting to use allies in civil society, student bodies, workers unions and pressure groups to disrupt the approaching November elections.

As part of the largest opposition party’s scheme to subvert the Mahama-led National Democratic Congress government, the country will beginning from this week witness more and more labour unrest, endless simultaneous demonstrations and sit down strikes with the resolve of paralyzing the government to set it on collision course with the masses.

This action is to eventually rope in majority of Ghanaians, particularly the teeming number of unemployed youth and students who will be at home as a result of strikes by lectures and many others who are likely to lose loved ones arising out of health workers strikes; to rise up against the Mahama administration.

Already, the Industrial Workers Union and the Trades Union Congress yesterday commenced a two-day nationwide demonstration and have lined up series of events in the coming days in protest of hikes in utility tariffs and fuel price hike.

In the event that this fails to yield the desired result as the Mahama government has in the past survived similar mass protests, the NPP is said to be preparing its polling agents to create confusion and cause mayhem at the various polling stations when processes for the November election begins.

Letting out NPP’s intended evil plot to disrupt the polls, acting General Secretary cum National Organizer of the party, John Boadu, in reaction to EC’s response to the NPP said, if the current voter register remained in its current form before the general elections, the NPP would ensure that only those who are verified biometrically get to vote.

According to John Boadu who was allegedly caught on tape saying the NPP is “dead” and cannot win the election, “manual process will not be allowed if the register continues to be in this state - not when the register is incurably flawed.”

The party’s present position on the concept of “no verification, no vote”, is a marked deviation from what it signed up to at a recent Inter-Party Advisory Committee to allow manual verification aside the normal biometric verification for people whose particulars appear on the voters register but may be rejected by the biometric process.

The NPP’s 2016 campaign manager, Peter Mac Manu has also confirmed an earlier report by this paper that the party will soon switch to its plan “B” as the EC has failed to yield to their demand for new voter register.

This plan “B”, The aL-hAJJ’s intelligence has gathered, is to scuttle the processes leading to the November 07 election and possibly, ensure that the polls does not come on as scheduled. This is to ensure that the president’s term in office would have elapsed to warrant the conditional stepping down of President Mahama and his government.

To cash on the vacuum that this will create, the NPP will then push for a temporal government of national unity to steer the affairs of the country until fresh elections are conducted to elect new President and parliament.

The plot, The aL-hAJJ gathered, has been necessitated by the fact that many leading members of the biggest opposition party see Nana Akufo-Addo’s chances at this year’s polls very slim, especially, when President John Dramani Mahama is going to make a strong case for a second term in office citing the numerous and visible infrastructural projects spread across the country.

This, among other reasons including the fact that the opposition NPP has no message in the impending election, is what has led to many kingpins of the party including multiple position holder, John Boadu, suspended National Chairman, Paul Afoko and others to have openly said the party was most likely to taste its third consecutive defeat in the November 7 general elections.