24/07/2022
Hmmm! These days, politics in Ghana has become something else ooo! For some people, If they're not in government nothing should work well in this country .
Common commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the passing of one of the deceased Presidents of this republic, former President Professor Atta Mills who incidentally is the first sitting president to die in office and NDC, for reasons best known to them, refused to join government so that the nation could observe such a solemn occasion together as a national event? My goodness!!
Must we continue, at the least opportunity, seek to deepen the animosity within the political environment and continue to polarize the nation all because we want to achieve political relevance? In fact, there's too much pettiness in Ghana's politics that it's becoming something else in the view of some of us.
Abaaa! Two separate events for one singular purpose, at the same venue, on the same day by our political leaders who should have for once, united around that one event? In other words, former President Mahama and his people waited for the official commemoration ceremony led by the president to be over at the park and he also entered there with his people for their separate version of the program π€£ And do you know the reason?
it's all because;
1. they think being seen by Ghanaians to be doing things together with government may not work to their advantage politically and so creating these unnecessary controversies may do the trick for them.
2. another possible reason is that they want to divert the attention of Ghanaians from the credit that could come to President Akufo Addo and his government for renovating the Asomdwee Park (the burial place of the former President) and for making that event a national one.
In fact, in all of this, it's quite ironical if not paradoxical having to celebrate the memory of a man we all claim to be a man of peace in his life time in that atmosphere of rancour and division largely orchestrated by his own political family.
Rest in peace Prof. Mills.