It is often said that the highest level of insanity is to keep on repeating a particular thing while expecting different results but in the case of the high-ranking members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), their thirst for political power is rather the case.
Without being abusive, it is accurate to observe that a considerable number of the members of the NDC have allowed their piggish thirst for power to influence them to either act or talk in a lunatic manner, a situation that is becoming deplorable.
This insanity is expressed in several forms. Well, I don’t think it is sane for a social democratic party to oppose a policy like free Senior High School as the members of the NDC did when it was first introduced in 2017.
For lack of a better word, it is simply lunatic for a political party that is grounded on the social democratic philosophy to oppose a policy that seeks to give the poor free access to secondary education. Nonetheless, that is exactly what all the high-ranking members of the NDC did.
The power-thirsty inspired lunacy of the NDC is also expressed in how their 2020 Presidential candidate, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has been contradicting himself on the causes of the country’s economic crises.
What other than a craving for power would have caused Mr Mahama to vehemently oppose the position that Ghana’s economic woes are caused by the coronavirus pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war but propagate the same message on the international scene? This self-contradiction cannot be described as sane behavior.
It is equally not normal behavior to suggest to the government to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), arguing that they have the solution to the country’s problems and turn around to say the Fund has wrongly diagnosed the problem. That is exactly what former President John Dramani Mahama did.
The highest peak of this insanity is the attack on all leaders of state institutions that disagree with the position of the NDC on important national issues. Judges are being insulted. Selected Chairpersons of the Electoral Commission (EC) are getting their share of the NDC’s attacks.
The worst happened recently when Mr Mahama attacked the competence and integrity of the Managing director of the IMF, Kristalina Georgieva, just because she did not side with his partisan position on the country’s economic crises.
This insanity also finds expression in their recent press conference against the EC. The NDC thinks the Electoral Management Body cannot instruct the National Identification Authority (NIA) to do its work, but they are right to hold a press conference to tell the EC what to do.
I don’t know what other than insanity would have caused these power-thirsty fellows to carry themselves in this manner.
So much lunacy was also displayed in this press conference as the largest opposition party told the public that they had boycotted the Inter-Party Advisory Committee (IPAC) meetings, the only mutually beneficial forum they can advance their grievances though they have a lot to complain about.
Since everybody in the party is misconducting themselves, their most acerbic sharp teethed baby, Mr Sammy Gyamfi, sat in the studious of a national television station like the TV3 to literarily insult the symbolic figure of the land, President Akufo-Addo.
As shameless as they are, no elder in the party has condemned this lunatic act. Power is indeed sweet, but it is unacceptable to act lunatically in one’s quest for it because no right-thinking citizen would want to entrust power to the hands of such people.
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The writer is Bala Ali, a political activist