It has been an amazing past weekend especially for curious observers of the so-called TEIN-NDC national conference organized by the ruling party at Winneba in the central region. Even before the end of the first day of the conference, it became apparent that it was a shambolic one with a hidden agenda. Not only that. The events of the first day also revealed that the conference was organized under the auspices of TEIN-NDC but as a cover to create a platform for vice President John Mahama to launch and project his political schemes.
Why, can John Mahama say, heart in hand, that he would have said the things he said there if others including the NDC founder Jerry Rawlings were present in that conference? I double doubt it in my books.
First, let’s examine the substance or lack of it in some of the things he said. Talking about so-called indiscipline within the NDC, he claimed that President Rawlings succeeded during his reign largely due to total discipline and unity that existed within the P-NDC. It goes without saying from that premise that President Mills is largely not succeeding because of the lack of discipline and unity within the NDC today. What the vice president failed to tell us is that President Rawlings exhibited certain leadership qualities that elicited such discipline and unity from party faithful—qualities that are woefully missing in this current government which includes John Mahama who is lamenting endlessly about indiscipline and lack of unity. Why is the veep looking at only the symptoms and disregarding the main cause of the so-called indiscipline and lack of unity? Does he think that President Rawlings would have succeeded in instilling discipline in the P-NDC if he engaged in politics of exclusion ism as they’re doing now? Would President Rawlings have succeeded if he disregarded and treated with disdain the people who put him at the helm of affairs? Absolutely not!
It even mesmerizes me the more that the veep does not realize that his usage of that TEIN platform as though it was his personally organized platform to respond to accusations put out against him by party members is the height of indiscipline. Does the veep want to tell Ghanaians that if Dr. E-spio-G and founder Rawlings and the others he accused of spearheading the internal indiscipline and disunity were present at that shambolic conference, he would have made those statements nonetheless? Again, I double doubt that because if he did, and these people also took their turn to speak and make similar remarks, the result would be absolute pandemonium. Therefore, the veep in his attempt to address the issue of indiscipline ended up grossly demonstrating such same attitude. I can remember on July 1st 2008 when President Rawlings wanted the NDC leadership to wake up from what he called their ‘anesthesia’ before the general election, he called a press conference in his house. Recently, when the founder wanted to point out internal machinations against him and his wife throughout the country, he issued a press statement. Can John Mahama and his cohorts take a cue from that the next time and stop abusing the NDC platform before their actions finally tear apart the already disintegrating NDC as a party?
Meanwhile, whoever coordinated that shambolic TEIN-NDC conference must be telling us why the entire conference was turned into a John Mahama campaign platform. They should also be telling us why articles were circulated among the audience, of people such as Dr. E-Spio-G and others whiles speakers addressed the conference. Was it meant to cause disaffection among the students for such personalities? And can the vice president tell us that that was a much disciplined thing to do? Do I need to prompt the vice president John Dramani Mahama to either try to practice what he preaches or stop pontificating?
As for John Mahama telling Ghanaians that people within the NDC are meeting every Sunday and plotting against him because he has suddenly become the greatest threat to their political ambition, he needs to come again on that! For how could a man who recently went on radio to announce emphatically that he would not contest President Mills for president suddenly perceive himself as the greatest threat to someone’s political ambition? Is he now trying to confirm to Ghanaians that his pronouncements on radio Ghana were mere gimmicks just to throw dust into our eyes? Because since he is not contesting Mills in 2012, how is he a threat to someone else who may be harboring ambitions to contest President Mills? Or is there something the vice president is not revealing to discerning Ghanaians as yet?
Vice President John Mahama took advantage of the platform created exclusively for him to give lame responses to accusations that have been put out against him. I will not address all of them—only the one that concerns me. For I stated recently in an open letter to the vice President That; He only accepted to partner Prof Mills in 2008 general election after seeing a ‘horrible health file’ of the main candidate shown him by Ato Ahwoi. I say he lamely responded to this because he merely denied seeing any such file. But who would expect anything different from him? Merely denying is a useless endeavor and does not answer the main questions raised. Namely that; during the occasion to announce him as the running mate to Prof. Mills, NDC founder Jerry Rawlings was conspicuously absent, and we know that he was not absent because he wanted to be, but because John Mahama and his co-conspirators including Victor Smith and Ato Ahwoi wanted him absent. The founder even made a last-minute effort to be there when he realized the plot against him but was too late to the event—and this is on public record. What Ghanaians would therefore expect John Mahama to be telling us is why he didn’t communicate his sudden decision to run as veep to the NDC founder, and why he didn’t want him present at the announcement even though admittedly, founder Jerry Rawlings was on his heels to take that decision? Only then can we tell between the lines. Until then, I maintain that the reason for all those machinations against the NDC founder is the ingenuity and dishonesty that culminated in that decision to run as vice President.
And why is John Mahama running away from being associated with the Mills presidency? What is wrong if people call it a Mills-Mahama presidency? The fact that it’s unprecedented doesn’t make it wrong. Or does it? So why is John Mahama complaining or rather amplifying that his name has been equated with Prof. Mills in this presidency? Could it be that he is ashamed of Mills’ leadership qualities? Shouldn’t he rather be excited over that elevation—that is if he himself is not the one trying to amplify this self elevation? He should tell us if this is all a part of his grand campaign to succeed Mills on a silver platter on the blind side of all of us.
The actions of John Mahama and his surrogates at that TEIN conference have rendered the theme of that conference meaningless and useless. Or perhaps, given it a different meaning, for how can there be unity and victory for the NDC when he decides to usurp such an important occasion for his personal benefit at the expense of other crucial NDC figures who were absent at the ceremony? Is this different from what they did in Tamale recently during the funeral of the late northern regional chairman of the NDC when as a deliberate policy and action, Haruna Iddrisu as Master of Ceremony in cahoots with others blatantly refused to openly announce the donation of the NDC founder to the family despite several promptings, and even though there was a prominent chief designated by the NDC founder to represent him at that funeral in his absence? Did John Mahama and his cohorts foster unity within the NDC at that funeral by refusing to acknowledge the presence of the NDC founder’s representative at that funeral or they promoted pettiness and divisiveness? How long can we sustain this hypocrisy of preaching virtue and practicing vice? How long?
There is no wonder that the discerning NDC students at that Winneba conference loudly protested against many of the hidden machinations to deepen the disunity and promote John Mahama. They openly protested and even disrupted the speech of P.V Obeng when articles were been circulated about other NDC people absent at the conference. They also protested and even hooted away and disallowed from speaking, a known charlatan Vincent Kuagbenu (National service coordinator) whose main purpose on that platform was to denigrate the NDC founder and wife, the former first lady—something he’s been known for doing lately. Even the incompetent NDC national youth organizer Ludwig Hlodze was booed away disgracefully when transport allowances for delegates was unexpectedly slashed down from the promised 45gh to less than enough to transport some delegates back to their home regions—an occurrence that generated a lot of dissatisfaction and confusion leading to some of them deserting the grounds in protest. So: I couldn’t be wrong if I describe that TEIN conference as shambolic.
Let’s all stop digging our own graves if we don’t want to sing our own dirges.
SaCut Amenga-Etego
(NDC youth with conviction of principle)
Monday, November 29, 2010
Sunday, November 14, 2010
Open Letter to Vice President John Dramani Mahama of Ghana
OPEN LETTER TO VEEP JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA
Dear Veep,
I have never written to you before. And today, I have chosen to write to you because I need to get some issues off my chest, and these issues are crucial to the future of the NDC. I hear from the grapevine that you want to become President one day, and you have been cultivating that ambition for a while now. I hope it is not true because the NDC foot soldiers—who are also partly king makers—have spoken to my ‘chosen ears’ and have said that they won’t support you in such an endeavor since you don’t appreciate their contribution to your becoming vice president of Ghana. So my advice to you is; perish the thought before it gains root.
So much naked opportunism has engulfed the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) lately. A lot of what is happening today in the NDC begun long before 2008 when the party was preparing itself to return to office. Everyone is talking today of strife in the NDC but no one is tracing the history of that strife. As a keen observer, participant and a student of NDC power play, I have my own understanding of how it is that we have found ourselves in this quagmire and the negative role you as an individual have played in all of this.
There are several dimensions to the situation but I’m looking at it purely from the point of view of the pure opportunism that has led to so much subterfuge on the part of so-called senior people in the NDC—you’re not excluded. I want to believe that the politics of exclusion ism that has become a part of your government today is not a historical oddity. I’m not amazed when I hear people like you in the ‘new NDC’ boasting vainly that the NDC today can do better without the involvement of its founder. What amazes me about you really is the fact that you describe everything the former president says as ‘coup mentality’. I’m beginning to wonder if you really understand what that means. People said the same thing in 2008 when it was publicly and naively declared that the NDC founder’s involvement in the campaign will not only fail to add to the party’s fortunes but will actually take away from it. Later, no one had to be convinced that but for founder Jerry John Rawlings’ role in the campaign, the NPP would have schemed their way to the Jubilee house (now flagstaff house). After all, you will agree with me that you couldn’t pull any sizeable crowd during the campaign—not even in your own home town.
I want to believe that the subterfuge was initiated by you and aided by Ato Ahwoi, Victor Smith and others. Why, didn’t you announce to the entire world that you were abandoning your parliamentary seat in order to pursue further studies abroad? Why did you not announce again to the entire world when you changed your mind? Is it not an open secret that just like in 2004, the NDC founder also in 2008 did all he could under the Ghanaian sun to convince you to partner Prof. Mills for the general election? How did you treat the overtures from the founder Jerry Rawlings? In my books, you treated it with indignation to the extent that the founder’s efforts to convince you was misconstrued as bothering you so that you even refused to see and talk to the NDC founder in your own house at one time—an incident that has become legendary. Or are you going to deny that this ever happened?
It was first claimed by your apologists that you turned down the request and support of the founder because you were earlier rejected by Prof. Mills in 2004 despite the support of the founder. In that case, even though you may have been interested in partnering the Prof., you were unprepared to be rejected at the last minute for someone else—again. That sounds like a genuine concern but it is only a claim. There are those who want Ghanaians to believe that Founder Jerry Rawlings did not support your bid in 2008 as running mate but rather AG Betty Mould Iddrisu. These people—in my books—are not real students of NDC power play. They draw their naive conclusions from what they hear in the news or rather, they just want to cover up for your insincerity.
Sir, you will confess, if even you have just the appearance of an honest man (because I don’t believe you are an honest man) that Betty Mould Iddrisu’s name came up only after the former president had given up convincing you in his effort to suggest a perfect pair for the NDC in that election—you practically embarrassed him for it. Or did you want him to keep begging you forever as though the entire destiny of the NDC was in your hands?
Where and when did your dishonesty begin? Again, in my books, it begun when you suddenly changed your mind and lost interest in your personal development through further studies abroad—something you were initially unprepared to give up for politics. It was so sudden any keen observer had to be curious—even suspicious. I have personally tried to understand the true motivation for your sudden turn around. I have been investigating and asking questions ever since, and I have come to a firm conclusion that your primary motivation to partner Prof. Mills in 2008 was purely opportunistic—you vainly hope to succeed as President on a silver platter. And I will make that clear to you very soon.
But did we only have an issue with a running mate in 2008? There were also issues with the health status of the Prof. in 2008. There were several reports concerning his health status. In the end, some of it turned out to be untrue—not all of it. Prof. Mills himself publicly declared that he had to seek treatment in China, and later in South Africa for a sinusitis—an inflammation of the membrane lining the sinus of the skull. This health status of the Prof. became an open worry to the power brokers in the party. This is not speculation—and you know it—as senior members such as Ato Ahwoi has been heard in public announcing that he met with the founder and others over suggestions of a ‘plan B’ to deal with the uncertainties associated with the ill-health of the main candidate of the NDC for the 2008 election—Prof. John Atta Mills.
Other insiders such as Herbert Mensah, a private businessman and one of the known campaign strategist of the NDC in the 2008 general election has also been heard publicly revealing that the ill-health of the Prof. was a worry to many including Ato Ahwoi who even described him as becoming ‘delusional and hallucinating’. Therefore, the worry of the power brokers in the NDC even before 2008 over the main candidate’s ill-health is not in doubt.
Tell me sir, was there really a long term ‘plan B’ or not? Prudently, there must have been. For how could the NDC go into the General election in 2008 plagued with ill-health in its flag bearer without a ‘plan B’? And this is where your sudden change of mind to run for vice president comes to mind. Strangely, when you decided to run, you refused to do what any honest and sincere man would have done—go back and inform the NDC founder—the man who recruited you into the party—of your sudden decision to follow his initial suggestion to partner Mills—a suggestion you treated with contempt and ridicule. Rather, you clandestinely went about canvassing and lobbying to be considered by the Prof. as running mate. It has come to light, that one of the key people who held the key to that decision is Ato Ahwoi. And who brought this to light? Ato Ahowi himself. He has openly asked Prof. Mills not to appoint certain people into the new NDC government—and he hasn’t. A so-called leading member of the NDC Alhaji Bature—who also claims to be your bosom friend—is also on record to have announced openly that Ato Ahwoi is responsible for the endurance Prof. Mills put up in the run up to the 2008 election despite his ill-health. He claimed that Prof. Mills wanted to quit but was prevented solely by Ato Ahwoi. So: obviously, Ato Ahwoi had a big say in who became running mate—only next to the Prof. himself—or isn’t it?
Sir, there was a whole lot of hoo-ha in this country when the founder and his wife publicly declared their support for Betty Mould Iddrissu as running mate to Prof. Mills in 2008. Some People quickly concluded that they were doing it to oppose your bid for the same slot. But did you inform the Rawlings’ of your bid? I double doubt that! So: did you and your apologists expect founder Jerry Rawlings and his wife to support a bid they were unaware of? And is that why you connived with Victor Smith, then Aid to former President Rawlings and now Ghana’s ambassador to the Czech Republic to show ‘obscene loyalty’ to the founder? Or you think we don’t know you’re an integral part of the reason for the sudden TXT message dismissal of Victor Smith by President Rawlings?
let them who are unaware be informed that Victor Smith had knowledge of when and where you were scheduled to be out-doored as running mate to Prof. Mills but it is public knowledge that founder Jerry Rawlings arrived at that event very late and missed the entire show all because of the scheming of you and your cohorts, Victor Smith and Ato Ahwoi to keep him out of the event. The founder was misinformed with regards to the time by Victor Smith.
But why would Victor Smith go in cahoots with you and others to deceive Founder Jerry Rawlings while working as his personal aid? Was there a hidden agenda known only to Victor Smith and his collaborators which includes you? Why did you not want the founder present at your out-dooring as running mate? Could it be because the founder would have stood by his principles and attempt to expose all the subterfuge that had culminated in that event on that day? Did Victor Smith scheme with you to avoid this exposé? And if he did, did he not deserve in hundred fold the Txt Message dismissal he received soon afterwards? In my books, he deserved it doubly as much as your dishonest and disingenuous self deserved exposure.
Yes sir, we would continue to ask questions—and not just questions but draw conclusions when we get there. And one of such conclusions is that your sudden decision to run as VEEP contrary to earlier suggestions and persuasions are for purely opportunistic reasons as stated earlier. You were the real ‘plan B’ that Ato Ahwoi put in place for the uncertainty with the ailing Prof. Mills. Why, Ato Ahwoi had full access to the supposedly ‘horrible and unpromising health file’ of the candidate Mills. And he showed it to you who suddenly and vainly saw greater prospects of becoming a future president on a silver platter. Or didn’t he? I’m sure you’re disappointed that the President is still alive and kicking today. But knowing that founder Jerry Rawlings will expose your opportunism, you schemed with the obscenely loyal Victor Smith to avoid it. It is obvious and can be substantiated easily through the entire unraveling conspiracy—and you cannot even deny it. So you want to become President of Ghana on the blind side of founder Jerry Rawlings—and a scheming Victor Smith is on hand to facilitate that agenda. Isn’t it sir? Is it any wonder that Victor Smith immediately joined your campaign team and was immediately put in-charge of protocol at the presidency soon after the NDC won the election 2008 and later made ambassador to Czech Republic? Would you expect any less for his loyalty to that grand scheme orchestrated by you and your cohorts?
Or you think it is difficult to figure out why one of your most hyped visits abroad in recent times is the one to the Czech Republic supposedly to solicit engineering partnerships with the Czechs? Of course, ambassador Smith still has a role to play in making that grand scheme of you becoming a future President on a silver platter come to fruition—though from a safe distance. I want to see how this vain scheme of yours will materialize on the blind side of the NDC founder and former President of Ghana Jerry John Rawlings. Or have you apologized to the NDC foot soldiers whom you claimed on an opposition NPP platform that they lack a sense of sacrifice and have no right to demand reward for their effort in making you vice president as though your becoming a running mate to Prof. Mills in 2008 was an act of sacrifice at the expense of your further studies abroad?
Time will tell but there is no becoming President on a silver platter on the NDC ticket—again. Not this time!
Courageously yours,
SaCut Amenga-Etego
(NDC youth with conviction of principle)
Dear Veep,
I have never written to you before. And today, I have chosen to write to you because I need to get some issues off my chest, and these issues are crucial to the future of the NDC. I hear from the grapevine that you want to become President one day, and you have been cultivating that ambition for a while now. I hope it is not true because the NDC foot soldiers—who are also partly king makers—have spoken to my ‘chosen ears’ and have said that they won’t support you in such an endeavor since you don’t appreciate their contribution to your becoming vice president of Ghana. So my advice to you is; perish the thought before it gains root.
So much naked opportunism has engulfed the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) lately. A lot of what is happening today in the NDC begun long before 2008 when the party was preparing itself to return to office. Everyone is talking today of strife in the NDC but no one is tracing the history of that strife. As a keen observer, participant and a student of NDC power play, I have my own understanding of how it is that we have found ourselves in this quagmire and the negative role you as an individual have played in all of this.
There are several dimensions to the situation but I’m looking at it purely from the point of view of the pure opportunism that has led to so much subterfuge on the part of so-called senior people in the NDC—you’re not excluded. I want to believe that the politics of exclusion ism that has become a part of your government today is not a historical oddity. I’m not amazed when I hear people like you in the ‘new NDC’ boasting vainly that the NDC today can do better without the involvement of its founder. What amazes me about you really is the fact that you describe everything the former president says as ‘coup mentality’. I’m beginning to wonder if you really understand what that means. People said the same thing in 2008 when it was publicly and naively declared that the NDC founder’s involvement in the campaign will not only fail to add to the party’s fortunes but will actually take away from it. Later, no one had to be convinced that but for founder Jerry John Rawlings’ role in the campaign, the NPP would have schemed their way to the Jubilee house (now flagstaff house). After all, you will agree with me that you couldn’t pull any sizeable crowd during the campaign—not even in your own home town.
I want to believe that the subterfuge was initiated by you and aided by Ato Ahwoi, Victor Smith and others. Why, didn’t you announce to the entire world that you were abandoning your parliamentary seat in order to pursue further studies abroad? Why did you not announce again to the entire world when you changed your mind? Is it not an open secret that just like in 2004, the NDC founder also in 2008 did all he could under the Ghanaian sun to convince you to partner Prof. Mills for the general election? How did you treat the overtures from the founder Jerry Rawlings? In my books, you treated it with indignation to the extent that the founder’s efforts to convince you was misconstrued as bothering you so that you even refused to see and talk to the NDC founder in your own house at one time—an incident that has become legendary. Or are you going to deny that this ever happened?
It was first claimed by your apologists that you turned down the request and support of the founder because you were earlier rejected by Prof. Mills in 2004 despite the support of the founder. In that case, even though you may have been interested in partnering the Prof., you were unprepared to be rejected at the last minute for someone else—again. That sounds like a genuine concern but it is only a claim. There are those who want Ghanaians to believe that Founder Jerry Rawlings did not support your bid in 2008 as running mate but rather AG Betty Mould Iddrisu. These people—in my books—are not real students of NDC power play. They draw their naive conclusions from what they hear in the news or rather, they just want to cover up for your insincerity.
Sir, you will confess, if even you have just the appearance of an honest man (because I don’t believe you are an honest man) that Betty Mould Iddrisu’s name came up only after the former president had given up convincing you in his effort to suggest a perfect pair for the NDC in that election—you practically embarrassed him for it. Or did you want him to keep begging you forever as though the entire destiny of the NDC was in your hands?
Where and when did your dishonesty begin? Again, in my books, it begun when you suddenly changed your mind and lost interest in your personal development through further studies abroad—something you were initially unprepared to give up for politics. It was so sudden any keen observer had to be curious—even suspicious. I have personally tried to understand the true motivation for your sudden turn around. I have been investigating and asking questions ever since, and I have come to a firm conclusion that your primary motivation to partner Prof. Mills in 2008 was purely opportunistic—you vainly hope to succeed as President on a silver platter. And I will make that clear to you very soon.
But did we only have an issue with a running mate in 2008? There were also issues with the health status of the Prof. in 2008. There were several reports concerning his health status. In the end, some of it turned out to be untrue—not all of it. Prof. Mills himself publicly declared that he had to seek treatment in China, and later in South Africa for a sinusitis—an inflammation of the membrane lining the sinus of the skull. This health status of the Prof. became an open worry to the power brokers in the party. This is not speculation—and you know it—as senior members such as Ato Ahwoi has been heard in public announcing that he met with the founder and others over suggestions of a ‘plan B’ to deal with the uncertainties associated with the ill-health of the main candidate of the NDC for the 2008 election—Prof. John Atta Mills.
Other insiders such as Herbert Mensah, a private businessman and one of the known campaign strategist of the NDC in the 2008 general election has also been heard publicly revealing that the ill-health of the Prof. was a worry to many including Ato Ahwoi who even described him as becoming ‘delusional and hallucinating’. Therefore, the worry of the power brokers in the NDC even before 2008 over the main candidate’s ill-health is not in doubt.
Tell me sir, was there really a long term ‘plan B’ or not? Prudently, there must have been. For how could the NDC go into the General election in 2008 plagued with ill-health in its flag bearer without a ‘plan B’? And this is where your sudden change of mind to run for vice president comes to mind. Strangely, when you decided to run, you refused to do what any honest and sincere man would have done—go back and inform the NDC founder—the man who recruited you into the party—of your sudden decision to follow his initial suggestion to partner Mills—a suggestion you treated with contempt and ridicule. Rather, you clandestinely went about canvassing and lobbying to be considered by the Prof. as running mate. It has come to light, that one of the key people who held the key to that decision is Ato Ahwoi. And who brought this to light? Ato Ahowi himself. He has openly asked Prof. Mills not to appoint certain people into the new NDC government—and he hasn’t. A so-called leading member of the NDC Alhaji Bature—who also claims to be your bosom friend—is also on record to have announced openly that Ato Ahwoi is responsible for the endurance Prof. Mills put up in the run up to the 2008 election despite his ill-health. He claimed that Prof. Mills wanted to quit but was prevented solely by Ato Ahwoi. So: obviously, Ato Ahwoi had a big say in who became running mate—only next to the Prof. himself—or isn’t it?
Sir, there was a whole lot of hoo-ha in this country when the founder and his wife publicly declared their support for Betty Mould Iddrissu as running mate to Prof. Mills in 2008. Some People quickly concluded that they were doing it to oppose your bid for the same slot. But did you inform the Rawlings’ of your bid? I double doubt that! So: did you and your apologists expect founder Jerry Rawlings and his wife to support a bid they were unaware of? And is that why you connived with Victor Smith, then Aid to former President Rawlings and now Ghana’s ambassador to the Czech Republic to show ‘obscene loyalty’ to the founder? Or you think we don’t know you’re an integral part of the reason for the sudden TXT message dismissal of Victor Smith by President Rawlings?
let them who are unaware be informed that Victor Smith had knowledge of when and where you were scheduled to be out-doored as running mate to Prof. Mills but it is public knowledge that founder Jerry Rawlings arrived at that event very late and missed the entire show all because of the scheming of you and your cohorts, Victor Smith and Ato Ahwoi to keep him out of the event. The founder was misinformed with regards to the time by Victor Smith.
But why would Victor Smith go in cahoots with you and others to deceive Founder Jerry Rawlings while working as his personal aid? Was there a hidden agenda known only to Victor Smith and his collaborators which includes you? Why did you not want the founder present at your out-dooring as running mate? Could it be because the founder would have stood by his principles and attempt to expose all the subterfuge that had culminated in that event on that day? Did Victor Smith scheme with you to avoid this exposé? And if he did, did he not deserve in hundred fold the Txt Message dismissal he received soon afterwards? In my books, he deserved it doubly as much as your dishonest and disingenuous self deserved exposure.
Yes sir, we would continue to ask questions—and not just questions but draw conclusions when we get there. And one of such conclusions is that your sudden decision to run as VEEP contrary to earlier suggestions and persuasions are for purely opportunistic reasons as stated earlier. You were the real ‘plan B’ that Ato Ahwoi put in place for the uncertainty with the ailing Prof. Mills. Why, Ato Ahwoi had full access to the supposedly ‘horrible and unpromising health file’ of the candidate Mills. And he showed it to you who suddenly and vainly saw greater prospects of becoming a future president on a silver platter. Or didn’t he? I’m sure you’re disappointed that the President is still alive and kicking today. But knowing that founder Jerry Rawlings will expose your opportunism, you schemed with the obscenely loyal Victor Smith to avoid it. It is obvious and can be substantiated easily through the entire unraveling conspiracy—and you cannot even deny it. So you want to become President of Ghana on the blind side of founder Jerry Rawlings—and a scheming Victor Smith is on hand to facilitate that agenda. Isn’t it sir? Is it any wonder that Victor Smith immediately joined your campaign team and was immediately put in-charge of protocol at the presidency soon after the NDC won the election 2008 and later made ambassador to Czech Republic? Would you expect any less for his loyalty to that grand scheme orchestrated by you and your cohorts?
Or you think it is difficult to figure out why one of your most hyped visits abroad in recent times is the one to the Czech Republic supposedly to solicit engineering partnerships with the Czechs? Of course, ambassador Smith still has a role to play in making that grand scheme of you becoming a future President on a silver platter come to fruition—though from a safe distance. I want to see how this vain scheme of yours will materialize on the blind side of the NDC founder and former President of Ghana Jerry John Rawlings. Or have you apologized to the NDC foot soldiers whom you claimed on an opposition NPP platform that they lack a sense of sacrifice and have no right to demand reward for their effort in making you vice president as though your becoming a running mate to Prof. Mills in 2008 was an act of sacrifice at the expense of your further studies abroad?
Time will tell but there is no becoming President on a silver platter on the NDC ticket—again. Not this time!
Courageously yours,
SaCut Amenga-Etego
(NDC youth with conviction of principle)
Monday, November 1, 2010
The YFL is aware of planned and projected machinations by people in government as well as surrogates of President Mills to launch a full scale media WAR against the former first lady of Ghana and vice chairperson of the NDC Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings. We have intercepted several text messages-one of which reveals the entire plot by Ato Ahwoi who have engaged the so-called ‘Coffee shop mafia’ of ‘caricature journalists’ and also formed the group- alliance for responsible opposition (AFRO) ostensibly to thwart any plans or presidential ambitions that may be nursed by Mrs. Rawlings for 2012.
According to a ‘private and confidential’ text message sent by James Agyenim Boateng, deputy information minister to other colleagues including Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Koku Anyidoho, inussah Fusseini Etc. Etc. he lamented about the presence of people linked to the Rawlings’ in the AFRO group which he described as ‘a group of hungry CPP guys’ he cannot trust well enough. The deputy minister says he believes that some of the AFRO boys have links with someone close to Mrs. Rawlings-a situation he describes as dangerous if the purpose of the group to thwart any ambitions that Mrs. Rawlings may be harboring towards the presidency in 2012 is to be achieved. James Agyenim Boateng went further in his message to state that the AFRO group will not achieve its purpose as ‘uncle Ato’ wants it-to scatter the ambitions of Konadu Agyeman Rawlings if things continue the same way.
He even goes on to claim that the ‘commandoes’ of the former president Rawlings are ‘sniffing around’ for some named people rooting for Nana Konadu and gathering good intelligence whiles they’re (Government) dealing with ‘hungry CPP guys’ who cannot be trusted because they may have close ties with Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum whom he believes could leak their plot to the NPP and cause a scandal.
The YFL also learnt from the intercepted text message sent by the deputy minister that several meetings have been held to pursue this agenda with people he described as ‘new faces’ being around during those meetings without prior notice to the rest of the team of schemers-a practice he cautioned must be stopped immediately to prevent leakages.
The YFL will like to caution all those behind this plot to be Wary of the dire consequences of their covert activities within the NDC in their attempt to impose a politics of exclusion ism on all of us. It is important for these people with blind and primitive loyalty to president Mills to be reminded that the NDC Flag is not a bona fide property of Prof. Mills and no one can be excluded from contending for the leadership of the NDC. They also need to keep in mind that the so-called ‘coffee shop mafia’ failed to bring down Prof. Mills when the NPP contracted them to do so. It would therefore be a nonstarter to depend on them to bring down Mrs. Rawlings. They shall fail again as they have always failed!
As for the AFRO group, they must be careful what agenda they pursue for their political patrons as this plot has failed even before it is executed. Those who have run out of political strategy and steam and who have resorted to these kinds of discredited intrigues must be prepared to take the blame when the NDC eventually suffers irreparable disunity among it’s rank and file since no plot or scheme of theirs will go unchallenged by we the NDC youth with conviction of principle who don’t only believe in fair play but also are a vanguard to the values and virtues that form the bedrock of the NDC. If these intrigues and politics of exclusion are a part of the ‘new NDC’, we would resist it as an alien culture that must never be tolerated and integrated into our culture as a party.
We also call on President Mills to as a matter of urgency call to book, all those people who are calling Mrs. Rawlings unprintable names because of suspicion of her involvement with recent activities of party foot soldiers in the MOVEMENT FOR KONADU 2012 calling on her to step out and contest president Mills for NDC flag bearer in 2012. These people are beating WAR drums within the NDC and if the president is worth his word and his position as party leader, he must openly denounce these unprintable statements from his henchmen whose over-zealousness could soon provoke further reprisal actions from avowed supporters of the former first lady. And that cannot douse the big hoo-hah that has been generated already in the past few weeks. But let no one-be it association of regional chairmen or a clique of compromised or caricature journalists-make an attempt to gag Mrs. Rawlings and not expect a democratic rebuttal from her equally numerous and dedicated loyalists.
Signed:
SaCut Amenga-Etego
YFL general secretary
According to a ‘private and confidential’ text message sent by James Agyenim Boateng, deputy information minister to other colleagues including Nii Lantey Vanderpuye, Koku Anyidoho, inussah Fusseini Etc. Etc. he lamented about the presence of people linked to the Rawlings’ in the AFRO group which he described as ‘a group of hungry CPP guys’ he cannot trust well enough. The deputy minister says he believes that some of the AFRO boys have links with someone close to Mrs. Rawlings-a situation he describes as dangerous if the purpose of the group to thwart any ambitions that Mrs. Rawlings may be harboring towards the presidency in 2012 is to be achieved. James Agyenim Boateng went further in his message to state that the AFRO group will not achieve its purpose as ‘uncle Ato’ wants it-to scatter the ambitions of Konadu Agyeman Rawlings if things continue the same way.
He even goes on to claim that the ‘commandoes’ of the former president Rawlings are ‘sniffing around’ for some named people rooting for Nana Konadu and gathering good intelligence whiles they’re (Government) dealing with ‘hungry CPP guys’ who cannot be trusted because they may have close ties with Dr. Paa Kwesi Ndoum whom he believes could leak their plot to the NPP and cause a scandal.
The YFL also learnt from the intercepted text message sent by the deputy minister that several meetings have been held to pursue this agenda with people he described as ‘new faces’ being around during those meetings without prior notice to the rest of the team of schemers-a practice he cautioned must be stopped immediately to prevent leakages.
The YFL will like to caution all those behind this plot to be Wary of the dire consequences of their covert activities within the NDC in their attempt to impose a politics of exclusion ism on all of us. It is important for these people with blind and primitive loyalty to president Mills to be reminded that the NDC Flag is not a bona fide property of Prof. Mills and no one can be excluded from contending for the leadership of the NDC. They also need to keep in mind that the so-called ‘coffee shop mafia’ failed to bring down Prof. Mills when the NPP contracted them to do so. It would therefore be a nonstarter to depend on them to bring down Mrs. Rawlings. They shall fail again as they have always failed!
As for the AFRO group, they must be careful what agenda they pursue for their political patrons as this plot has failed even before it is executed. Those who have run out of political strategy and steam and who have resorted to these kinds of discredited intrigues must be prepared to take the blame when the NDC eventually suffers irreparable disunity among it’s rank and file since no plot or scheme of theirs will go unchallenged by we the NDC youth with conviction of principle who don’t only believe in fair play but also are a vanguard to the values and virtues that form the bedrock of the NDC. If these intrigues and politics of exclusion are a part of the ‘new NDC’, we would resist it as an alien culture that must never be tolerated and integrated into our culture as a party.
We also call on President Mills to as a matter of urgency call to book, all those people who are calling Mrs. Rawlings unprintable names because of suspicion of her involvement with recent activities of party foot soldiers in the MOVEMENT FOR KONADU 2012 calling on her to step out and contest president Mills for NDC flag bearer in 2012. These people are beating WAR drums within the NDC and if the president is worth his word and his position as party leader, he must openly denounce these unprintable statements from his henchmen whose over-zealousness could soon provoke further reprisal actions from avowed supporters of the former first lady. And that cannot douse the big hoo-hah that has been generated already in the past few weeks. But let no one-be it association of regional chairmen or a clique of compromised or caricature journalists-make an attempt to gag Mrs. Rawlings and not expect a democratic rebuttal from her equally numerous and dedicated loyalists.
Signed:
SaCut Amenga-Etego
YFL general secretary
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