The reason why we are still
lagging behind in the comity of nations is because our presidents both past and
present have failed to prioritize every given opportunity in ensuring that its
citizen's physiological and safety needs are met. They prefer to be lethargic
in governance and waste their time on frivolities till the tail end of their
administration before they begin to show seriousness.
Extra time, an additional time
needed or given to accomplish a task or project has become a phenomenon in our
polity. It has taken over our system and now cuts across every facet of our
lives.
In football, it is a period of
usually 30 minutes added to the end of the game if both teams have the same
score. In extra time, the unexpected should be expected. Extra time could make
or mar a team.
In politics, anything can happen
in extra time, it is in extra time that our government pretends to get serious
with governance. At every given task, most Ghanaians especially in government
prefer to handle such with levity till the dying minutes, when they run out of
time, they put the blame on other people and after wards seek for extra time.
There hardly seems to be a politician, institutions or profiteers of the
government that are not guilty of extra time. The recent cancellation of
the district assembly elections scheduled for March 3rd is a good example of an
extra time phenomenon.
After reassuring Ghanaians
repeatedly of its readiness for the elections after several postponements, it
took a supreme court to tell the Electoral Commission, it was working outside
the laws of the soil, whence directed same to stay and operate within the
confines of the law because they are a creation of law themselves.
In explaining their reasons for
the cancellation, Supreme Court panel, allotted all the blames at the door
steps of the commission and reiterated its commitment for the polls and
insisted the postponement was necessary and could not be circumvented.
How else does one explain such an
unmitigated effrontery of our electoral commission in the attempt to deny an
aspirant? After 23 years in this same battle without much improvement, the Ghana
electoral commission has in a release asked Ghanaians for an "extra
time" of unnumbered weeks to be able to rout lay a new bill before our
legislature and I am is forced to ask why the seriousness in this "extra
time" and what magic do our electoral commission intend to perform in
weeks unknown in dispelling those ragged tagged terrorists which they have not
done in four years?
After failing to fulfill its core
campaign promises and with less than a year to the general elections, the
ruling government has suddenly realized they are in extra time and have started
showing seriousness in all their unfinished projects all over the nation. How
possible it will be for these unfinished projects to be completed in less
before the December polls is what I am yet to know but in extra time, just as
it is in football, anything can happen.
Before now, it has always been an
easy ride by hook or by crook for the ruling government in the capture of the
seat of power and for the first time in our democratic history, an opposition
party is going neck in neck with the ruling party in the capture of the seat of
power. Right now millions of dissenting Ghanaians are considering the
opposition as an alternative government at the centre to fix the dumsor.
Instead of asking themselves how
they got entangled in this web by allowing the wind of change mantra catch up
with them, the ruling party and its members have resorted to blame games, they
have continued to blame the past rulers and opposition for the myriads of
problems bedeviling our nation.
Just as it is done in football,
after the normal regulation time without a winner, we have been caught in the
web of extra time and, the most anticipated day of the year is the day this
extra time will be played. It will be between the ruling party, National Democratic
Congress, (NDC) and the main opposition party, New Patriotic Party, (NPP).
Will the defending champions NDC
be able to beat the rising opposition party, NPP and win the trophy back to
back or will PPP or CPP the under dogs who many never believed will get to this
final stage rise up to the occasion and beat both parties to the title?
December 7, 2016 will tell.
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