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We did not anticipate anything less than what is unfolding on the political terrain. Neither are we taken aback by the many interesting scenes being rolled out in the countdown to December 7. Coming in droves, they do so in many forms, all sharing a common trait of political chaos.
That is the true picture of the country today as captured by radio stations and newspapers, channels which present their own worrying nuances and worsening the already inappropriate political ambience by their presentations.
While some of these ploys look ordinary, others trigger questions about the state of our nation and the mindset of individual players on the political terrain and their real intentions for standing out to be voted for.
We are either engaged with making sense out of a labyrinth of a cooked recording of a politician from the largest opposition party, the voice of a national organizer of the ruling party which he does not dispute, a so-called prophet presenting himself as a presidential candidate or witnessing a presidential candidate condemning a project of his counterpart in another party.
That is not all. The same prophet points accusing fingers at Electoral Commission officials for allegedly asking to be motivated and stoking a fresh fire in an already charged political terrain.
Things are unfolding with such speed and intensity that we can describe the political engine of the country as overheated.
Some of the actions provide us with necessary comic reliefs without which many Ghanaians would just retire to the Accra Psychiatric Hospital or its Pantang counterpart for attention. Imagine a self-styled prophet seeking to become president because he thinks he is primed with answers to the country?s troubles. A female politician whose emergence elates gender activists that at last their kind has responded to their campaign of calling the bluff of their male counterparts disappointing her admirers with her wild and largely unrealistic promises of a car for every journalist.
After ignoring the heat generated by the NDC?s Yaw Boateng Gyan and even describing the obviously inflammatory contents as innocuous, campaign strategists have decided to engage in a tit-for-tat reaction.
Unfortunately, the ploy was so poorly arranged and executed that observers did not have to be intelligence officers to conclude that it was nothing but a ruse.
We are rued about the spate of political affairs, especially as puerile propagandists are allowed to continue to run the show, having lost their voices albeit briefly after the demise of the late President Mills.
Shouldn?t we be a bit serious about how we do politics and manage the affairs of state generally?
