The NDC is claiming, without a shred of evidence, to have exposed a sinister agenda led by Brigadier General Michael Opoku, General Officer Commanding Central Command of the Ghana Armed Forces, to intimidate voters and rig the 2024 general election in favour of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), in Ashanti region of all places.
It went on to state that due to the army officer’s dirty work he did for the NPP government during the Ayawaso West Wuogon bye-elections, he was promoted from Colonel to Brig. General. Is the NDC seriously crying today that someone had been rewarded for carrying out government’s dirty work?
When in 1993, Justice Abban lied in his judgment on the NPP’s petition to the Supreme Court against the celebration of the 31st December Revolution, was he not promoted to the position of Chief Justice?
And talking about President Akufo-Addo rejecting Emil Short’s recommendation. Can we hear the NDC complaining here? Didn’t NDC government, in 1996, reject the recommendations of Emil Short’s CHRAG report to put before court, three top government appointees, namely Ibrahim Adams, Osei-Wusu and AdjeiMarfo, to answer questions as where they got money from to put up mansions and acquire properties beyond their means? Did the NDC government not produce a White Paper which white-washed and made holy,these crooks, making meaningless its sacred motto, probity and accountability? People who stole tax-payers’ money and denied the poor a better living condition were set free and treated as heroes by the NDC.
The NDC has not produce any evidence in all its recent allegations. Perhaps what it did in 1992, 1996 and 2000 is seriously haunting this opposition party today, frightened that giving the opportunity, the NPP may do the same.
Ghanaians should know that there is no Ghana Armed Forces training camp in Asutsuare. The said camp is about ten kilometers away near a village called Kongo and it is even off the main road.
Ghanaians will need more than empirical evidence to prove that Brig-Gen Opoku has turned his residential apartment into an armory. Who witnessed the offloading of caches of arms and ammunitions in that compound? Is the NDC not playing on the gullibility of Ghanaians so when alarmed they will spread this falsehood as if they are eye-witnesses?
Such lies can create disturbances and violence and it is not right and proper to allow this to go unpunished. There must be a law that will punish people who lie to politically tarnish the reputation of others. We need to go the UK way.
All said, is the NDC correct in the mind? That NPP will want to use violence and intimidations to rig elections in Ashanti region? This is a safe haven for the party and it is the only region which has consistently voted for the NPP since 1992. Why intimidate voters there and leave out regions, like the Volta, Oti and others in the North? This does not make sense.
The NDC lost credibility when it said it came about these allegations from credible intelligence it had picked. Picked from where?
In summary, the NDC is admitting today after over thirty years that “The Stolen Verdict,” written by the opposition on account of the massive rigging and other acts of violence and lawlessness during the November 1992 presidential elections, was a credible account. The problem here is that while in the “The Stolen Verdict,” evidence was provided, in the case of these NDC’s allegations, no evidence has been provided.
The NDC will always cry wolf when there is not even a mongrel around. It is an act to deceive its supporters and have a good excuse to explain how come it lost elections.
In 2020 the NDC made a huge noise that the elections were rigged and pushed its youth into the streets to besiege the EC head office and create mayhem. While the youth did just as they were instructedto do and came under counter attack from the Police, suffering beatings from truncheons, being water-cannoned and pepper sprayed, the NDC gurus gathered at a member’s house to attend a party tomerrily celebrate its defeat in the election.
When it finally went to court, knowing after all that fools do go to court, it could not provide a shred of evidence to even lead Ghanaians to where they can find anything to suggest rigging took place during the elections. After the court case, the NDC, being truthful for the first time, told Ghanaians, it went to court to make the Electoral Commissioner announce the presidential results, professionally.Maybe, she was to put on slit and kabaa and not evening wear.
Again, recently the NDC made a false accusation that the EC had delisted hundreds of thousands of names from the voters’ register. And yet, when confronted it could not point out one name that was delisted.
And today, the NDC is saying the NPP is preparing to rig big time by intimidating voters in its stronghold.
The NDC must be honest and confess to the dirty plan it has for Ashanti region, in order to reduce NPP votes there. This is its agenda and these recent false allegations are just the preamble. The party knows what I am talking about.
When it comes to lies, propaganda and acts of lawlessness, the NDC will never disappoint.
Editor’s note: Views expressed in this article do not represent that of The Chronicle
