They say they want 2025 Power and they are still sleeping and talking on WhatsApp platforms in the five regions of the Northern Axis!
THEY ARE WAITING FOR GODOT!!
They are waiting for their flagbearer to visit so that they can hang around him to show they are working.
They assume they can easily get 2025 Power by sleeping while DOMINIC NITIWUL is working very hard in the deep belly of Bimbilla!!
Proper retail compaign
We were on recce in some border communities in the Tatale, Bimbilla, Kpasa and Nwanta general areas.
At Bimbila, we met DISCO the popular Bimbila butcher who said that since December, Defence Minister Dominic Nitiwul has been touching base with his constituents. So off we went to see with our eyes what the Bimbilla MP was up to
We went off the Bimbilla-Yendi road at Makayili and went on the red-earth road through Dipah, Gbenie, Nakpah and Blimador.
Hey! We were surprised to see Hon. Dominic Nitiwul with a few NPP officials – and without any media attention – seriously engaged in proper retail campaigns deep in the belly of the Bimbilla Constituency.
The locals said he started campaigning from about 10 AM,. We were surprised that Hon. Nitiwul still had the stamina to continue campaigning from about 5 PM to10.30 PM, when “DISCO” and I got tired of following Hon. Nitiwul around the meeting grounds, and we left to Bimbilla.
Observations
(1). At the Mankpah area alone, Hon. Dominic Nitiwul had eighteen (18) meetings with “Sectional Leaders” – in the form of small focus group discussions.
(2). The constituents concens were for basic needs:
(a). More electricity poles and “street” lights.
(b). Repair and extension of access roads and provision of more culverts to make roads motorable in the rainy season.
(b). Plastic chairs for community meetings.
(c). Conversion of CHPS Compound facility into a clinic and provision of extra beds for patients.
(d). Provision of additional boreholes for wholesome drinking water.
(e). Jobs/training opportunities for the village “scholars” who had acquired some level of education and certificates.
(f). Curiously, someone appealed to the MP for a replacement of his “smartphone” he lost during the 2020 election campaign.
We were surprised that the constituents did not express concerns about topical issues such as Debt to GDP Ratio, Corruption Perception Index, Inflation, Insecurity which are trumpeted daily on urban radio and television. Is it the situation that the topical issues discussed on urban radio and tv are not the concerns of the electorates in the villages and hamlets?
(3). Wherever he went, community members, especially women, threw their cloths on the ground for Hon. Nitiwul to walk on. Some prostrated and sung praise songs and made tonguefull shrill sounds. May be, it was out of respect for the community members that Hon. Nitiwul wisely avoided walking on the cloths. It was very surprising to observe that community members seem to show such respect and adoration for the MP for Bimbilla, especially as they stayed well late in the night to welcome and listen to him.
(4). It was very surprising to note the sort of positive response and support for Hon. Nitiwul, an MP and Minister whose government and political party are said to have no legs to stand on and have no moral right to win the December 2024 general elections.
Hey! They say they desire 2025 Power, yet they are still not organised and united for greater works in the five (5) regions of the Northern Axis. They are still sleeping and talking on WhatsApp platforms. They are waiting for their flagbearer to appear so they can follow him around and pretend to be working.
Hon Dominic Nitiwul has started early to work hard in the Bimbilla general area.
What are you doing for yourself, your Party, your Parliamentary Candidate and your Flagbearer?
You desire 2025 Power and you are still sleeping and WAITING FOR GODOT?
I shall return
Owula Mangortey
Bimbilla
28th January 2024