I have seen a piece being circulated largely by NDC members on numerous Whatsapp platforms. I have also read same piece on some online portals. I wanted to ignore simply on account of the headline but had to proceed because I realised the author boldly added several titles to the nation-wrecking piece. Ambassador Alhaji Abdul-Rahman Harruna Atta, MOV! I suddenly realised that this title-wielding writer is the same old Harruna Atta who years ago made his living solely at the Statesman Newspaper owned by Nana Akufo Addo, now President of the Republic of Ghana, and also President-elect of same Republic.
I decided to reply and promised myself that I was not going to use any harsh word on the former Mahama appointee until I read from that piece ‘the little old man from Kyebi.’ It dawned on me that the veteran journalist was not going to rely on the toothcomb of objective analysis in that dishonourable piece. In regurgitating the discredited lies of the NDC about the 2020 elections, Alhaji Ambassador Harruna Atta, OMV allowed his most irritating vice, bigotry, to get the better of him.
The former Ambassador would have made much sense to many people if he simply pursued his insults on Nana Addo. That is given! But he tried being analytical and in the process confounded lovers of logic, common sense and rational thought. Read him “…For an incumbent, that boasted of such a huge majority before the elections, to now be scrounging and thieving around for figures to bolster its parliamentary numbers, is not only pathetic but embarrassing.” Before his lamentable decline, Alhaji MOV would have simply recalled that Ghanaians voted for a leader they can trust. The Ghanaian voter also says that at the local level your party symbol and the good deeds of your party will not be enough to win you a seat; Indeed Alhaji should recall that the NPP overturned a huge parliamentary majority enjoyed by the NDC in 2016. The difference is that the NPP did not only do well in the parliamentary election in 2016 but also humiliated his new paymaster. One is therefore hard-pressed to find any significant reasoning behind this lethargic thought from the veteran journalist.
Ambassador Atta also wrote “With all the inordinately vulgar amounts they spent in branding the country with Nana Addo’s leering image and NPP logo (on hoardings, billboards, posters, radio/tv/print) and the claim of doing so well in running the nation these past 4 years and it was only a measly 51% they could manage, it should tell them that, these elections were not won by Akufo-Addo and the NPP, they were snatched…” To start with, the Ambassador got his livelihood in 2013 via ambassadorial appointment from an incumbent who got only 50.3%. If the Ambassador was not writing whilst holding a glass of Johny Walker, he would have noticed that the vote difference of over 500,000 secured by His Excellency Nana Addo is one of the highest ever obtained in the second term bid of any government in Ghana. Indeed, only Jerry Rawling did better. A number like 51% accurately represents the politics of Ghana and the policies of an incumbent who invested massively in social interventions targeting the poor.
It gets worse as the Ambassador annoyingly attempts to link Nana Addo with the post-election violence largely instigated by the losing and bitter JM. Whether the crusaders of this sanctimonious guff actually believe it, or whether it is familiar multivocality, is immaterial. A sycophant who spent several years demonising the (P)/NDC and now a Janus-faced defendant of that aberration should be forgiven on account of stomach politics. Consequently, I will suggest that the attempt to offload the mayhem visited on Ghanaians for deciding to renew the mandate of a government that has the welfare of the people at heart, can only come from a greedy old crook whose livelihood has been interrupted. In what the veteran journalist called an epilogue he embarrassingly stated “The over 6 million of us who voted for him stand by him…” What about the others who rejected his unpatriotic paymaster? Looked at from any angle, you cannot help but come to the conclusion that Alhaji needs to take a deserving rest, and allow young people and sane Ghanaians to go about their lives in peace.
Alhaji’s paid-for piece is a worrying mix of the monstrous and the mundane. This is a former Ambassador who takes pride in affixing MOV (never mind how he acquired it) to his name, and yet shamefully throws his weight behind an invasion masquerading as democratic protests. JM, if he wants to stage a come-back as is widely speculated, must be wary of vengeance-obsessed dummies like the former Ambassador. By way of my own epilogue, i suggest that whether JM concedes or not, the popular will of the Ghanaian people will not change. Ambassador Atta’s cheap political livelihood is not about to be restored any time soon.
By Seth Osei Darko
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