Mimiko is stupid !

Mimiko is Stupid !

Honestly , I think so

And I am sure avery few of us who are stupid

people are thinking this way

I don't know whether you are among

And for me ? I think I am one of them

And I am sure we are many

Those that believe that the Governor Olusegun

The outgoing Governor of Ondo State has been Abayomi Mimiko acting ,

Stupidly after his candidate , Eyitayo Jegede lost the election

In circumstances which was engendered by high level of

Judicial and political conspiracy

We are angry that Mimiko is not a Nigerian politician

We are doubting if he is a HUMAN being

We do not believe he is a made in Nigeria politician

We cannot just believe that a Nigerian politician

Can and should behave like this

Going by the whole scenario and circumstances

which surrounded the denial of victory of Eyitayo Jegede

We are expecting Mimiko to behave like some of his counterparts

Who had suffered electoral humiliation while in power

And particularly some of whom who were

Never traumatised with judicial instrument

None of whose candidate was prevented from campaigning

And none of who whose candidate was not excluded from

the various debates in their states

Yet , Mimiko, whose candidate suffered plethora of injustices

Has refused to GO to the Tribunal to slug it out !

Mimiko and his candidate has rather taken their fate in graceful latitude as if there are no genuine grounds for judicial engagements

And just like he did when Chief Olusegun Obasanjo verbally abused and assaulted his parental sensibility

Mimiko , as a responsible and well brought up Yoruba ,Egi,

Warned all his media friends

Not to return or exchange any salvo of insult to the Statesman. Unlike a counterpart of his who would have rained torrents of abuses on the Ebora Owu

And unleashed his internet mad dogs after the baba

Nay , Mimiko never did that

He and Jegede is not contemplating going to the Tribunal

While some of us

i mean those of us

Who wold have profited financially and otherwise

From the legal tussle one way or the other

have been telling him

Pointing out the grounds of laws

Citing the necessary sections of the statutes

And quoting legal authorities and luminaries

Pointing out the various mis-step

Which are brazen in their illegalities

Committed by INEC and the Courts

Some good grounds which we have told him

have remained inconsistent with the Constitution

of the Federal Republic of Nigeria law

And aberrations and dirty slaps to the Electoral

But this strange politician of our time

Has obstinately like an Egi refused our entreaties

To go to the Tribunal

Has rejected our prodding to 'Sue the bastards '

As the lawyer will say

The best performing Governor to my opinion

Has remained unconvinced

And refused to be convinced

Why he should waste his time

Waste his money and goodwill

And expended productive efforts

On series of legal gymnastics

To challenge the conduct of

the 2016 Gubernatorial election

in Ondo state despite the brazen malpractices

political and legal conspiracies

It is this singular refusal of his

that some of us

Foolishly think that

He is stupid ! .

Is he not ?

How Rawlings ruined NDC electoral victory in Ghana

• POLITICS

How Rawlings ruined NDCelectoral victory 

 December 16, 2016

Jerry John Rawlings

The massive defeat suffered by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in last week’s general elections has created confusion among top officers of the outgoing governing party.

Gurus in the party are at one another’s throat over who actually caused the party’s humiliating defeat in the December 7 polls, with one group insisting that former President Jerry John Rawlings, who founded the NDC, should take the blame, saying he did not campaign for President John Mahama’s re-election bid.

 JJ’s Influence

The Greater Accra Regional Organizer of the NDC, Anthony Nukpenu, has insisted that no personality other than Mr. Rawlings contributed to the party’s defeat, claiming that he (the ex-president) continuously tagged the Mahama administration as corrupt and that gave the opposition the weapons to fire more salvos.

“We as a party have a founder in the person of Jerry John Rawlings and as party members, we felt he should be a protective cover for the party and the government; but he chose to arm the opposition against us,” he said, adding, “The NPP got to our heels by campaigning against us heavily on this so-called corruption perception and anytime they made that claim they claimed that the founder of the NDC is the one who said the president is the most corrupt person and his appointees are very corrupt so they should be voted out.”

Corruption Weapon

Mr Anthony Nukpenu underscored, “So if you have this message being used against you by your political opponents and courtesy the founder of your party, it goes a long way to affect your political fortunes. And that has been one of the tools that caused us to have this humiliating defeat.”

He said President-elect Nana Akufo-Addo’s acknowledgement of President Rawlings in his acceptance speech was an indication that the former president ‘armed’ the opposition with a ‘weapon’ for the elections.

“One of the tools he gave them was corruption, and Nana Akufo-Addo in his acceptance speech congratulated him. On what basis was he congratulating him, thanking him so much for what he has done for him?” he queried.

Founder’s Hesitation

Mr. Nukpenu also claimed the former president shut his doors to the NDC but allowed the NPP to come in, saying, “We as a party made moves to have a meeting with our founder, he did not agree; but he had the time and opportunity to open his doors to Volta Regional NPP executives to have a meeting with them.

“What is he telling the world? So things have gone bad; we don’t want to go there. I know the several moves that we made when we needed him and he turned us down. He has brought us to opposition which has been his call, so he should call us; we are ready to go to him.”

In JJ’s Defence

However, in a sharp rebuttal, the party’s National Organizer Kofi Adams, who was the Campaign Coordinator of the NDC, dismissed the Regional Organizer’s claims and said the party was yet to take stock and know what went wrong.

Kofi Adams, who was once President Rawlings’ spokesperson said, “Nobody has done any research to show why we lost, and until we have done so, the blame game must cease, and our former president and founding father must be allowed to have his peace while we work around a strategy to bring everything on board.

“We went into the elections with the hope and desire to win. We did not win the elections. Leadership would have to take the responsibility for our inability to win the elections. Let us blame nobody, especially our founder.

“Those of us in active leadership at the national, regional and at all levels, should take responsibility for what has happened and let us focus for the next agenda which is making sure that once we hold the government to its promise and also make sure that no matter what, we get back to power to continue the great job that the country deserves.”

Conspicuously Absent

The absence of the former president on the NDC campaign trail was so conspicuous that it has become talk of the town.

Apart from Cape Coast in the Central Region where the NDC launched its national campaign in August, Mr Rawlings was never seen at any NDC campaign event, including the manifesto launch in Sunyani, Brong-Ahafo Regional capital, in September.

Mr Rawlings refused to endorse John Mahama when he attended the Cape Coast campaign launch, but asked the party supporters to wait till after the elections before he would go round the country ‘to rebuild the party.’

He refused to disclose whom he voted for on December 7 when asked, saying that his vote was secret.

Old Man

At a point when everybody was asking about the whereabouts of the former president in the NDC campaign, the party’s General Secretary, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, said brazenly that the former president was too old to campaign for the ruling party.

He had queried cheekily on Joy FM that “If Jerry is your father will you pull him to campaign at this age?”

By William Yaw Owusu