For many a Ghanaian who is ardently paying attention to the various policy ideas from the two main presidential candidates, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and John Dramani Mahama, their messages hinged on digitalization and 24-hour economic model respectively.
The NDC, and their presidential candidate, John Mahama, have been harping on this phantom idea with no clear-cut evidence of feasibility of the idea.
For months, all the party’s leaders, commentators, communicators and members have failed to give flesh to the apparently boneless 24-hour economic mantra.
While we are still grappling with what the policy idea entails, John Mahama hits us cold in the groins with his position that the policy proposal is not compulsory and that it is voluntary.
What this means is that Mahama doesn’t see the 24-hour economy as anything serious. A policy he tells us would lead to a transformative shift of the economy is not ‘by force’ as he put it.
This is shocking because the 24-hour economy happens to be the main campaign message of the opposition NDC.
Clearly, Mahama has no intention to implement any 24-hour economy. Aside from being an aspiration and not a policy, there is no energy to carry it through if he wins the elections.
A political party’s thematic policy must not be voluntary, it must have the ingredients that coerce people to come onto it.
He will not implement any 24-hour economy because there is nothing to it. He would turn around to say that the people didn’t embrace it if he fails to roll it out.
From the outset, we made it abundantly clear that the 24-hour economy was a sham and that it’s a political gimmick just to win votes. We have been proven right by John Mahama himself. If, in the unlikely scenario that he wins the elections and fails to bring forth a 24-hour-like policy, and we question him, he would tell us that it is not by force to implement it.
Mahama is still incompetent in opposition and would be disastrous in government. Let’s reject him.
P.K.Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.
Source: P.K.Sarpong, Whispers from the Corridors of the Thinking Place.
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