By William
Yaw Owusu
Monday, December
08, 2017
Former Consul to Dubai, Daniel Osei, has observed
that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) does not appear to have learnt any
lessons from their disastrous performance at the polls last year, which
truncated then President John Mahama’s second term bid.
He said the leadership of the party is repeating the
same mistakes that led to its massive defeat by trying to impose the former president
on the party for the 2020 polls, when the fundamentals that led to the humiliating
defeat are still unresolved.
He said Mr. Mahama cannot be the NDC’s ‘surest bet’ for
2020, once the party’s leadership has still not ensured that there is
re-organization at the grassroots.
Mr. Osei said a member of the party, on a social media
platform called APN, wanted to know if the NDC had learnt any lessons from the
humiliating defeat and whether the Prof Kwesi Botchwey 13-member Committee that
investigated why the party lost had done any good or harm to it, adding that
the question had kept him thinking.
“We have not learnt any lessons. The hijacking of
the party by the ‘Onaapo’ crew (in reference to the Mahama camp), with their
same feel good ‘Onaapo’ antics and deceptive explanations have kept the party
hostage and also bankrupt of ideas,” he fired, adding, “The deliberate
insistence on repeating the mistakes of the past with the calculated lies we
tell ourselves is very sad and the end result is also very predictable.”
Corruption
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“On the issue of corruption, it was bad enough that
we had funny situations like the Ford saga and its resultant fallout; today we
have glaring images of the former president’s brother Ibrahim, being hauled
before EOCO to make good on a debt of GH¢12 million+ (120 billion old cedis)
for nonpayment of duties on his goods for over two years when we know traders
get their goods auctioned off for far less,” Mr Osei stressed.
The Consul added, “How I wished it was all a lie
when the story first broke, but alas..... After he finally paid, for whatever
reason, they decided to put copies of the checks for payment online for all to
see. How redemptive was that? It only confirmed he actually duped the
government as charged and made our communicators work even harder.
“On the back of all this, and worse; we embrace the
nonsense theory of ‘our surest bet’ as we boldly replace ‘no abaabase’ with ‘sankofa’
as if we are entitled.”
Mr Osei insisted, “No! We haven't learnt anything
folks, and we better sit up.”
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Report
He said that the Prof Kwesi Botchwey Committee Report
has the potential to solve the NDC problems but the leadership of the party had
thrown it into the dustbin because if the recommendations were fully implemented,
there is no way the former president is going to be accepted by NDC delegates
to lead them again.
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