THOUGHTS OF A MYSTERIOUS MAN

Ezanetor Rawlings

With Ebow Duncan

One Seat, Ezanator and NDC

Patience is a phenomena which the sages say can remove mountains, but in the case of the Rawlingses it has not removed even a hill.

What it has done is to demonstrate that the claim that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) belongs to the Rawlings family may not be true.

Political parties are formed sometimes to pursue political and ideological goals. Sometimes, they are focused on winning political power. They can also be formed to push other agendas.

In the case of the NDC, it said that it was formed primarily to ensure that political power did not slip from the hands of those who controlled it from 1981.

There was some legitimate fear that if power escaped from the hands of the PNDC lords and its cadre core and fell into the hands of elements of the United Party and former or genuine revolutionaries who had suffered abuse under Rawlings there would be retribution.

Self-preservation was the clarion call and everybody who was anybody in the PNDC was whipped into making sure that the PNDC without the pee retained political power.

 The NDC was a political party which needed power and was ready to do whatever it took to capture that power.

From 1992, loyalty to the party could only mean voting for it or getting others to vote for it. Winning elections were central.

1992 was the year, the nationality of Mr Jerry Rawlings was being challenged in the courts. It was the year in which there was growing advocacy for trying Rawlings and his associates for human rights abuses. It was the period of agitation over extra –judicial killings under the PNDC and Professor Albert Adu Boahen was threatening every kind of inquiry into all aspects of Rawlings rule.

That was a hectic part of our history and people with PNDC backgrounds were sitting on tenterhooks.

They needed to win the elections by hook or crook to gain their peace of mind.Perhaps that explains how the NDC was formed as an election machine and has remained so ever since.

Voting in an election has become a crucial party duty of all members because of this history and can you believe the surprise when it turns out that some who claims ownership of the party may never have voted in any election?

Ezenator Rawlings, first daughter of the Rawlingses does not have her name on the voters register.

That could very well mean that she has never voted for the NDC and her father.

For sure, when John Mahama was locked in a fight over who should become President of Ghana, Ezanator did not think it was important.

She did not campaign for John and she did not bother to register so she could add her lone vote to those for John Mahama and the NDC.

In other words she was not in the least troubled by the prospect of a Nana Akufo-Addo victory in the2012 presidential elections.

Ezanator, the loyal NDC member whose family owns the party did not vote for the NDC only three years ago.

What can be the basis of her claim that she is the best person to represent the people of Klottey Korle on the ticket of the party she didn’t vote for?

Isn’t it interesting too that her mother and her National Democratic Party (NDP) want President Mahama and the NDC to lose the 2016 elections, but Nana Konadu wants Ezanator to win on the NDC ticket?

Hasn’t the struggle for the Klottey Korle seat in Parliament revealed too much already?

Wow!!!