It was the day for the NPP parliamentary primaries and I heard the news reader go over the list of various constituencies, how the respective parliamentary aspirants articulated their visions and how bright or dim their chances of wining were. Some aspirants were actually called on air to further articulate their visions as a form of last-minute campaigning.
Now, when it got to the Tamale central constituency, the news reader said one of the contestants, a London-based indigene of the constituency, Alhaji Iddrisu Musa Superior, instead of coming down home to campaign and personally fraternize with the delegates, chose to campaign and interact with his party people, all the way from his base in London through the power of internet.
It was even reported that when the time was due for final campaign messages by the aspirants to the delegates, Musa Superior still decided to remain at his base in London and rather communicated with the delegates of his constituency through the power of the internet (Skype). And in the end, his tactic worked to perfection because he won the contest convincingly.
I was actually wondering, just as I believe most Ghanaians did, how such an approach could work to perfection in an environment where voters never do things for candidates for free. But in my view, I guess the people decided to vote for him because of the level of sincerity they saw in his campaign message.
In an interview granted to Citi FM and conducted by Moro Awudu after the declaration of the winner of the Tamale central constituency NPP primary, Musa Superior said that even though he last visited his constituency somewhere in 2010, he had been in constant touch with his people through the magic of the internet and also talked to them regularly.
But what I believe delivered the parliamentary slot to him was his two-pronged superior approach of:
1. conscientising his people that they were wickedly deceived and shamefully taken undue advantage of in 2008 by evil-minded and indecent liars who capitalized on the unfortunate incident of Ya Na and went round telling them to vote against the NPP.
2. teaching one product of the 19 years of P(NDC) mis-rule, which is the teaming unemployably unemployed JSS drop-outs of this great nation of ours, who have virtually made internet cafes their first homes and engaging in all sorts of fraudulent activities, that the power of internet goes far beyond the obnoxious ‘sakawa’ phenomenon and viewing nude pictures.
From my checks, Musa Superior is himself an Andani and I know every Andani and Abudu person is decent and very much law-abiding. Their seldom actions which have unfortunately put them in bad-light have largely been as a result of foolish manipulations of their emotions by irrational and narcissistic thugs masquerading as politicians.
In my view, all the three Tamale parliamentary seats and that of Yendi were all won by the NDC in the 2008 general elections as a result of shamelessly senseless politicization of the Ya Na issue. The NDC, after two and a half years of being in power, have not been able to give even a clue as to how the mystery surrounding the Ya Na issue could be resolved.
The best they have been able to do for these Andanis they (NDC) so very much deceived into voting for them, was to present charge sheets with contents worse than that of septic tank, before a learned judge in a competent court of jurisdiction.
And when the case was fittingly thrown out of the window by the judge and the Andani youth who felt justifiably deceived by the NDC went on rampage and tore down the deceitful edifices of the NDC, the lying tongues of the NDC leadership, particularly that of Atta Mills, became exposed and started shaking ‘wraga wraga’. This was when a hurriedly arranged meeting was held with the Andanis at the castle, during which more brainless promises were still made.
There is one unfortunate thing I have found about the president which I believe must be a great source of worry to the entire Ghanaian citizenry if we are serious in protecting the sanctity of our fledgling democratic governance. And it is simply this: This is a person whose legal ‘wizardry’ has unceasingly been over-touted on roof tops by the legion of NDC apologists. Ghanaians have been told that until the birth of Atta Mills, our nation had had no qualified lawyers.
Any lawyer who criticizes Atta Mills is quickly reminded of the fact that he/she was taught by the former. They say Atta Mills’ 25 years of lecturing at the law faculty is a feat no man borne of a woman can ever achieve. The question therefore is: was Atta Mills his own lecturer as a law student? Hasn’t Ghana had law professors since the days of the legendary Don Diego d’Azambuja?!!!
Yet, this person who the followers of the NDC would want us to see as the ‘king kong’ in the area of knowledge of law, was the very same person who hastily proclaimed that justice had not been done and that he was going to make sure the reverse happened, following the “acquittal and discharge” of those 15 Abudus rounded up in the middle of the night and flown down to Accra to face murder trial without an aorta of evidence being presented in court against them.
In the thinking of our law ‘king kong’ president, justice is done only when a judge rules a case in your favour after having presented absolutely useless propaganda materials, as evidence, before him/her. And even as we speak, he does not seem to have learnt any useful lesson from the “acquittal and discharge” of those 15 Abudus who were kidnapped in the middle of the night and flown to Accra, and still goes about making reckless promises to the Andanis.
Now, there is a saying that: “if you apply the same method, many times over, in solving a given problem but expect to get a different result, then you can be fittingly described as being insane”. And in my honest view, unfortunately, this is the state in which the Mills-Mahama administration finds itself at the moment.
In the mid-80s, the PNDC instituted the JSS programme which they claimed was going to produce graduates whose level of intelligence will far exceed that of Greek legends as Socrates and Aristotle, with creativity one-million times efficient than that of British and German legends Sir Isaac Newton and Albert Einstein respectively. But rather conversely, the first batch of graduates churned out by this system had a failure figure of over 90% and this trend doesn’t seem to have changed as at now.
For 19 years, plain lies were told by the P(NDC) with reckless abandon. And during the 2008 electioneering campaign, the same evil act was on full display by the erroneously christened ‘New NDC’. They thought effects of their demonic lies were going to be eaten up by continuous deceitfulness even while in power. But little did they know that plain lies and vile propaganda are not the food of posterity and that every lie told today, will be well-preserved to confront the liar in future, irrespective of how long the said lie is allowed to lay fallow.
In the end, the originators of this education system were falling over one another for placements in overseas institutions for their children in order to ensure brighter future for them. Those whose parents could not afford to send them abroad therefore remained here, went through the bogus system, came out as failures and fell on ‘sakawa’ as their sole means of survival.
Nevertheless, what Alhaji Iddrisu Musa Superior has done through the power of the internet is certainly a great source of motivation and hope to these millions of able-bodied youth who have unfortunately been submerged in this disastrous ‘sakawa’ phenomenon.
I would therefore urge our nation’s teeming youth, whose academic advancements have been ruined, to please jettison this ‘sakawa’ phenomenon and rather put their self-acquired knowledge in the field of ICT to productive use to enable them to shake off the shackles of perpetual socio-economic servitude inflicted on them by an iniquitous P(NDC) education policy.
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Musa Superior’s Superior Superiority