Commentary: Shame On Those Who Wish President Mills Dead

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) ought to fight a common enemy, which is the New Patriotic Party (NPP), yet the NDC problems, seem boiling within, with self-destruct menacingly staring it in the face.

When the latest political mischief of ‘President Atta Mills’s death’ broke last week, the large majority of Ghanaians and political observers believe the mischief, as it happened in the 2008 election year, was being re-enacted by the opposition NPP.

However, when an intel picked from the Osu-Castle, pointed to the fact that the latest news of another ‘death’ of President Mills emanated from the Castle itself, the Informer wasn’t only flabbergasted, but was also sad.

The Castle doom-mongering prophets, believe Ghana was going to experience Nigeria’s Musa Yar’Dua’s debacle and whispered this through the secret megaphones, loud and clear into the opponents’ quarters for onward relay to the cacophonous media which pounced on same without cross-checking the fact. The NDC needs, as matter of urgency, to look within for a quick solution to the basket-mouth epidemic it is inflicting upon itself, especially so, in an important year of a competitive elections which must be won ‘at all cost’ and won within ‘all die be die’ atmosphere.

The NDC is, arguably, becoming escalated bits of self-destruct individuals with personal interests to safeguard than a political party with a common purpose, industry and destiny – which should hold itself together with single purpose of pulling together, the so-called floating voters, without whose magnanimity the party couldn’t have returned to power in the first place.

The individual interest in political office, has today over-blotted collective party interest; and this is, on daily basis becoming a bother, and creating sleepless night for those who seem to have loved that party than even themselves.

When these bunch of egocentric individual would climb up top on the tree of NDC, but unwisely cut down the trunk from the top, with unwise-thinking that the tree would fall and they survive, the Informer, would give its candid advice that when the tree they are cutting eventually falls, they would become the most-hurt individual victims of the disastrous result than the party supporters and floating voters.

To cite a case-study as it happens in the Ledzokuku Constituency in Accra; A local apex decision-making body went to congress to elect a parliamentary candidate it feels could stand up to the challenge. However, certain individuals who think their sheer opportunity to serve on various governmental department boards; in ministries, as Municipal Assembly Heads etc. choose to behave ultra vires the party decision, therefore, end up creating animosity, public hatred and apathy towards once a vibrant NDC party.

Indeed, in the NDC today, people think more about their individual interest than the party’s ; and therefore the party continues to suffer under the excruciating burden of this petty liability, than asset, of people who seem to forget that they are in an elections year, which cruises on, menacingly toward the fast-approaching December.

But to those who choose to destroy the party, and to large extent, the Castle from within, The Informer says SHAME!!! on them.