By William
Yaw Owusu
Monday, December
04, 2017
Former Consul to Dubai, Daniel Osei, has observed
that the incessant tagging of party members, who disagree with the camp of
former President John Mahama, is dividing the opposition National Democratic
Congress (NDC) further, making it difficult for the party to unite.
He said recent events have shown that it is the
Mahama camp, which is endangering the party since the former president’s core
supporters have become intolerant of dissenting views and constructive
criticisms.
Stronger
Grassroots
“I don't care who becomes our flagbearer. I don't
have a candidate and I don't need to have a candidate to understand the value
of organizing for our desired goal of victory 2020,” he said in his latest
epistle as the NDC seeks to reunite after a bruising defeat in 2016.
Mr Daniel Osei said he had always stressed the need
for serious grounds work and the importance of starting the processes of
reorganization early, adding that selecting a flag bearer would be easy if the
grassroots are already fixed.
Leadership
Sabotage
The former consul claimed the attempt to commence
the reorganization as soon as the NDC lost the December 7, 2016 general
elections, was dashed by the national executives of the party.
“If the party executives are insisting on imposing
the former president as flag bearer – FINE -- why endanger the party's
prospects in the process of that agenda? Why can't we build our party up while
the former president rests and when it's right time he announces his return?
Can't we chew gum and walk at the same time?” he wondered.
Mr. Osei observed, “Because the focus has been on
engineering the return of former President Mahama, more than building the
party, they see any advice not emphasizing their position as bad and must be
defeated with insults and the attack dogs, even if the advice is good for their
agenda in the long term. If former President Mahama becomes the flag bearer,
doesn't he stand to benefit from a stronger party if attention is paid to
treating this lame horse of a party as he now describes us?”
Phantom
Voters
He said, “We are not using information wisely. We
are too tone deaf and focused on silly feel-good sentiments and managed to
conjure up the false narrative that somehow one million NDC members didn't vote
and so they will come out and vote in 2020 and our surest bet is this person or
that person. Really? I feel scandalized, folks.
“We are wasting good opportunity just sitting. We
were rejected by the electorate. Period! And if we want to return to power, we
better sit up. Talk to your friends, the teachers, nurses, doctors, engineers,
businessmen, workers and you will find person after person who voted for Prof
Mills (RIP) in 2008, supported NDC in 2012 and voted against Mahama in 2016.
These people are real and we must sit up and listen to them and their concerns
and organize around that from the branches up!”
Mr Daniel Osei asked, “How many NDC parliamentarians
are in parliament today but JM lost in their constituencies- in the North, in
Accra and elsewhere? This is information we must pay attention to. When you ask this, they retort, ‘but there
are places the former president won but the parliamentary candidate lost,’ and
they say it as if it's an intelligent response.”
Imminent
Disaster
According to him, disaster is awaiting the NDC in
2020 if the opposition party continues to sweep the problems that made them
lose under the carpet, adding that “those who have hijacked our party don't
have a clue as to what must be done.”
Mr. Osei posited, “To the sycophants, it's all about
the money and the so-called advisers simply are clueless. We saw this movie
play out in 2015-2016.”
EC
Voter Register Debate
The former consul said the NDC gurus were wrong when
they sided with the Electoral Commission (EC) to deny Ghanaians a new voter register
and said it contributed to their massive defeat.
“Remember our insistence on no registration and the
NPP wanting a totally new register? Why would we want no registration to take
place? In the four years between 2012 and 2016 there was a very short limited
registration prior to the assembly elections and it was hardly engaged. Did no NDC
person turn 18 in that four-year period, and why wouldn't we want to register
them?” he queried.
Mr Daniel Osei noted, “In their simple-mindedness,
they concluded we won with the 2012 register and should do whatever it takes to
hold onto it, all the while not recognizing we were hurting ourselves.”
Lazy
Thinkers
“Instead of engaging a robust registration of our
people and using the information to organize our campaign, the lazy thinkers,
who managed the campaign, felt it was sufficient to bully their way through with
the old register,” he charged.
He said the NPP was hungry for power and prepared
better to beat the NDC to its game.
“What happened to the proposed change in the
election date to November? Did we not have the majority in parliament to make
the change happen? It was not done because the original intention was just not
holding - grounds were not good and grounds never got good because we refused
to do the hard work to help make grounds good, and today, grounds STILL no
good,” Mr Osei observed.
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