Are you sure Donald Trump didn’t take cue from Akufo-Addo after the WhiteHouse Invocation of African Saints to the rescue
The behaviour of Donald Trump after the US November 3 elections, is reminiscent of the conduct of Akufo-Addo in 2012 and his call for Obra Spot ‘Arab Spring,’ which coalesced into a petition to the SC challenging the Elections 2012 results.
A bad sportsman he has always been all his life. As a child, he is famed at Accra-Swalaba as the boy who snatched his ball from invited friends, after they out-class, out-excell and out-perform him with skillful dribbling. Dada ba.
True to this behaviour, he has never ever called to accept defeat in a contest and to congratulate the winner. A typical example was what transpired, during the NPP presidential primaries in 1998 at Sunyani. He was tutored on respect for elders, after the behaviour put up, when JA Kuffour trounced him.
On another display of a sore loser, this time at the University of Ghana, Legon Campus in 2007. Firstly, it is now established that he was the mastermind of actions that brought the NPP presidential primaries to a stale experience when his Action Trooper recruit, Laud Commey, was caught dishing out a hefty slap at the extra-large Paul Afoko. Any strange coincidence he [LaudCommey] is the Deputy Chief of Staff, Operations?
Laud Commey has been mentioned as the man fomenting trouble at Odododiodoo, accused of having armed released prisoners on presidential pardon to orchestrate mayhem. In 2007, a firearm discharge killed an assistant of Laud Commey at Awoshie. He is one of the executives of the private militia mastermind such as the Action Troopers, De-Eye Group, Delta and Invisible Forces. These militia formations are instruments of coercion for a serial and an unapologetic loser.
Need it be said here that Akufo-Addo didn’t only refuse to call his mate from University of Ghana, Prof Mills, who won the 2007 elections; but used the occasion to threaten Ghana’s democracy when he intimated that he couldn’t restrain his militants and promised to make Ghana ungovernable.
Thereafter, the country was plunged into a period of incessant fire outbreaks at public places and at traditional markets in Accra, Kumasi and across the country later. At a public forum, an NPP activist pronounced her admiration for Hopeson Adorye, the NPP parliamentary candidate for Kpone-Katamanso Constituency, applauding him for having dished out a hefty slap to someone.
On the same platform, another NPP activist used the occasion to incite his compatriots to burn electricity power transformers and disrupt supply of same. Till date, the true state of causes that exacerbated and protracted power outages which globalised coinage gained currency and entered English vocabulary as dumsor, has never been established. However, its artificial nature is as bare for fundamentals as Dr Kwabena Donkor used his engineering background to diversify and improve the dynamics of the country’s power supply.
In spite of the painful treatment meted out to President John Dramani Mahama, after Akufo-Addo refused to concede defeat in the 2012 elections and threatened to make Ghana ungovernable, President Mahama was humble and modestly honest when he conceded defeat in the 2016 elections and congratulated President-elect Akufo-Addo.
Elections 2020 is about character. It is about the destiny of the country, and a question of a decent and a trusted pair of hands to receive the mandate thrust on December 7, 2020. JM is the infectious and obvious choice for President in 2021.
By Comerade Shmuel Ja’Mba Abm
