Ernest Owusu Bempah, Please Not Again!

Does Ernest Owusu Bempah realise he is a refugee in NPP, someone on self-imposed exile from his NDC and NDP?

First, he came out to say that he personally advised ex-President Nana Addo to sack IGP Dampare, but the president refused to listen to good advice. He therefore highly praised H.E. John Dramani Mahama for sacking Dr. Dampare.

The matter here is that we are talking about an NPP national executive officer, who is claiming the ex-president does not listen to advice and the party’s General Secretary is very mute but rather chooses to chase Adjoa Safo for also coming out to express her feelings about the party.

While we were trying to forget how divisive Ernest Owusu Bempah was, there he comes out again on social media, this time claiming that the party made a wrong choice in putting up Bawumia as flag bearer.

Is he now aware or did he know this much earlier?  Did he advised Nana Addo, who as usual would not listen? Is Ernest Owusu Bempah not aware at how things developed in NPP which gave Bawumia an astounding victory in both the Super Delegates Congress and the National Delegates Congress? He must be joking if he is claiming ignorance of events leading to how Bawumia was picked. As a national officer, he assisted in every step taken to land Bawumia a landslide victory, and he is now claiming the Party made a wrong choice?

To pull him out of his hypocrisy, I refer him, to the strategic but unconstitutional way the grassroot party delegates were elected, where in some constituencies, such elections took place at dawn. This divided the party at the grassroot, and as a national officer did, he protest?

Ernest Owusu Bempah should also not deny that as a national officer, he was not aware that, the delegates albums of about 80% of the constituencies, were tampered with in the national office, with the secret replacement of people suspected to have changed their minds on Bawumia. He should come and tell us what he did about this.

Most importantly, what advice did he give to Nana Addo to inform him that the NDC had set a trap by challenging the NPP to field a Muslim flag bearer when the NDC had never fielded a Muslim flag bearer and only once put up a Muslim running mate? As a born and bred NDC guy, Ernest should have recognised this trap easily and warned against it. The NDC had openly said no Muslim can be president in Ghana and like joke, it was proven in 2024.

The NPP went into Elections 2024, with so much pride and arrogance, highly believing that the choice of the party will be accepted by all. With 82% win for Bawumia in the Ashanti region’s Super Delegates Congress, the NPP started bragging that the region will give at least 80% of its votes to the NPP’s presidential candidate on December 7, 2024.

But even with the carefully picked delegates for the National Delegates Congress, Ashanti region, gave 66% of their votes to Bawumia, which was realistic to the 64.94% votes from the region in the general elections. Ernest Owusu Bempah did not see this as bad omen to warn the party. The NDC who begged for 30%, were gifted almost 35% of the votes in the region.

Truth be told, if this is what Ernest Owusu Bempah is saying about the 2024 General Elections, then party leadership should back out and allow the views and opinions of the main support base to decide who should be flag bearer.

Ex-president Nana Akufo Addo should have realised by now that his true friends were those who would tell him what he needed to hear, but he kicked them out of sight. And those he thought were real friends and kept close to himself, always told him wrong stuffs and today these people are now blaming him for the party’s loss. Maybe they want to catch the eyes of the next potential flag bearer and become kingmakers again, while Nana Addo would be cast away.

On the other hand, is Ernest Owusu Bempah being used to achieve the aims of the Establishment in the party by rendering Bawumia unfit to be flag bearer again? It is on social media that Nana Addo had declared to Bawumia that “it is finished,” when the flag bearer went to pour out the truth to him about how the NPP party and government made sure he lost the elections. Now, we are told Nana Addo has secretly anointed a successor, as the Prophet Samuel secretly anointed David, king.

In all this, did Ernest Owusu Bempah not see that measures implemented by the NPP government did not favour Bawumia? He kicked against E-Levy and other economic measures in cabinet but they were implemented, anyway, and government and NPP became more and more unpopular. Ernest Owusu Bempah should tell us that the Establishment had someone already in mind and since it could not risk to have Alan lead the party, it sacrificed Bawumia so that after his pre-destined failure, the crown prince would be introduced to us.

All the same, Ernest Owusu Bempah should just shut up and comport himself and stop maligning the very person, H.E. Nana Akufo Addo, who made him who and what he is today.

Hon Daniel Dugan

 

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