By William
Yaw Owusu
Wednesday
August 15, 2018
Former Consul
General to Dubai, Daniel Osei, has bashed former President John Dramani Mahama
once again, entreating the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to
reject the former leader of Ghana as the party’s flagbearer for the 2020
presidential election.
Mr Osei, who is fast
establishing himself as a torn in the flesh of Mr. Mahama through his incisive
articles on why the NDC members should reject him, said if the party makes a
mistake to select Mr. Mahama, they would be doomed at the polls in 2020.
“We must reject JM;
he is a big mess and must be retired. He refuses to do the civilized thing and
step aside but the delegates can retire him if they are well informed.
“Mahama will have
less than 50 percent chance of winning the general elections. He has offended
too many people and groups in our party, the NDC and too many groups in the
general electorate, including doctors, trainees, military, AGI etc,” he
admonished in his latest article.
Not Serious
He said “he’s not a
serious man and must not be burdened with such a serious responsibility as
flagbearer. As president, he hardly made it to Flagstaff House before 11 am and
was just not a serious leader,” adding “his partying ways are well documented,
he’s a fun guy maybe, but not a strong leader, and Comrades we can’t afford
another Enye hwiii, so so lukewarm leadership.”
Mr. Osei said “the
NPP is serious about retaining power in 2020 and we must come strong and be ready
to work for power!”
He added that the
NDC cannot entrust its future into the hands of the former President once
again.
“With all due
respect, Mahama had no business being president because he didn’t understand
the awesome responsibilities of that office nor the need to lead the party to
victory. Go back to the video of his visit to Major Mahama’s widow and the
insensitive joke he said to the young son of Major Mahama, the cruel laughter
and the temerity to put it all on Facebook and announce he went there to give
her money, etc; that video sums up Mahama for me.”
Delegates’ Education
He said the NDC
delegates must be made to understand that “a primary victory is not a general
election victory, so that they will make informed choice during the December 7,
2018 NDC presidential primary.
“They must get it
rightly. They must be presented with reasons why former President Mahama is not
likely to succeed in the general election, and reasons why Mahama is not our
best choice. The facts show he’s our worst candidate for the general elections.”
Mr. Osei said the
NDC’s rank and file knows a Mahama defeat in the general election is possible
because they’ve experienced it. They saw it, if they are given the true facts
of our defeat, they can only conclude the likelihood of defeat with Mahama is
real.”
Amissah-Arthur Factor
Mr. Osei revealed
that former Vice President Paa Kwasi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur, who died recently,
was preparing to contest his former boss Mr. Mahama.
“Most of the party
elders know this because he told them and he hinted at this during the
revolutionary lectures. I know this because he told me himself and his strange
passing raised a lot of questions in the minds of Fantis.
“How attractive is
he (Mahama) now to Fantis? Right or wrong, they blame him for his poor
treatment of Paa Kwasi, the late Vice President. This complaint was made by
residents of Central Region prior to the 2016 elections and Mahama’s response
was to erect big billboards of Lordina, his wife, throughout the region. This infuriated the people of the region, and
we saw the results. We lost 80 percent of our seats in Central Region.
Posture in Opposition
He said Mr Mahama
“has done nothing different in opposition, and has been exposed as grossly
indecisive and weak, he’s an extremely weak leader.”
“Indeed, his
weakness in his home region, Northern Region, is well documented and has gotten
worse. His disrespect for the biggest tribe in the North, the Dagombas, is a
silent killer which cost us votes in 2016 and will cost us more votes in 2020
if we present him, and he has become more unattractive in opposition.”
He alleged that
“evidence of his diabolical acts in Upper West against NDC candidates, which cost us half of our seats in that
region should tell the delegates this guy will only further sink our fortunes
in that region.”
JM Banter
Mr. Osei said he
does not like the way Mr. Mahama is being foisted on the NDC as flagbearer,
saying “I don’t enjoy this perpetual banter on JM at all but it’s forced on
us.”
“The unfortunate and
sad reality is we have a real chance of winning, but JM can’t win. He simply
can’t.
He said after the
NDC lost, he and a couple of NDC members, including Kojo Bonsu, started the
re-organization of the party for 2020 but the Mahama loyalists made things
difficult.
“Kojo Bonsu, others and
I- our meeting place was my house, and we hit the ground running on the 12 of
December 2016 with the goal of preparing the grounds. Can you image how much
good work could have been done by now?”
“Listen to their
apologists today and you will conclude the same sycophancy and think-less
approach is being engaged.”
“We must give
ourselves a real chance at victory and it includes presenting a more formidable
and attractive choice. It’s of critical importance. Let’s be dispassionate and
not conflate things out of convenience. Let’s think through the facts facing us
and make conclusions based on facts and not assumptions.”
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