Politics got dirtier, funnier and more comical when people who are suppose to know better reduce themselves to laughing stocks. Hahahahahahahaha! I remember my piece titled; 'I am still laughung' Indeed I am still laughing.
Preparing towards my own parliamentary primaries in January, I took keen interest in orphan constituency primaries to draw lesson for mine. IT IS A LESSON my daddy says. There were several shockers in these primaries since November 19 2011. These shockers make analysis a bit more difficult and good reasoning more remote. Remote in the sense that one can not just look at any result and draw immediate conclusion that this is what the delegates considered.
On Saturday November 19 2011, the biggest political shock for me and especially key senior politicians and Eastern Regional executives was unleashed when Akropong costituency delegates voted for their women organizer to beat their chairman with just two (2) votes. Biggest political shock because it was more surprising than FONKAR 3.9%; In the later, every Ghanaian expected a lose for FONKAR though not with such a humiliating margin but in Okorase 2011, people expected the chairman to win with about 80%.
'Mama' paid for virtually every expenditure of the constituency and supplied community needs but delegates were looking at something else. What were they looking at/for? Some of the reasons were funny if you asked me. Refusal to answer phone calls and inaccessibility were some of the reasons I was given later on. So I asked and keep asking what I should do.
Buffer stock director; most hailed minister of agriculture; hon kwesi ahwoi was a disaster and so was Akuamoah Boateng. My own comrade Adongo was floored but comrade Mutala won. Brother Livingstone took New Juaben North like nobody's business vying against his former regional boss who made the system so hot for him to resign. Stone has not got a bicycle but he was the delegates choice. What do delegates want. A regional boss or a resigned district boss? Delegates; a set of complex individuals. Trumpeting your own personal qualities makes noise in the ears of these 'HONOURABLES' They have their own criteria and they make their own judgements and decisions.
Who is a car owner to a delegate? What is a car to a delegate? vanity oh vanity. If a delegate's mind is made up on one candidate, the others mere presence annoys him/her. I am pretty sure that when Zita realized that Akuaku had no car, she thought she had an urge over her. She should have asked me to tell her what happened at the elephants' camp in my constituency. A fuel dealer, supposed not to have gone to school before stood against an MA holder. The message was level of education when in actual fact, majority of the delegates were the fuel dealer's 'mates' The result was 86 for MA holder and 625 for fuel dealer.
I am busily going round my constituency interacting with my delegates and constituents. I have been trying to find out what they expect from me and all. I had a call from a friend who funnily asked; do you have a car? I wanted to know what he meant by that question and he told me about Zita's asertion that Akuaku should not have won because she has not got a car. I was shocked. So she went into the race with a car owner's mentality that all drivers are her slaves and should take orders from her?
No wonder she could not do well as a minister in two seperate ministries. Car owner losing against Johnny walker? How many of the delegates came in their own cars? If she went campaigning that Akuaku had no car, did she not think she was refering to all delegates who had no cars of their own? Aspirants who feel others without their level of wealth should not be voted for should ask if the delegates have their level of wealth. I am enjoying this as comic relief. Concerto cantata after a hard day's hustle.
I rest my case. I am in my boat cruising to Madagascar to meet my friends; the delegates - chairman; the big position that displays its worth at conferences. Secretary, women organizer and youth organizer of each branch are the most important personalities in this yuletide.
MERY CHRISTMAS, HAPPY NEW YEAR and DOUBLE DOUBLE PRIMARIES for 2012.
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