To a 72 septuagenarian trying to do an Election Buhari over a quint something, I would say debate banza to anyone who will sit by for a minion to pronounce mutum banza against a sterling and brilliant compatriot. Debate on whose terms, I will ask. Certainly, it should not be one on any NCCE, or other terms beyond those of the IEA.
The way an opponent is sweating and restless, I see signs of desperation. I would interpret that as whatever the septuagenarian is doing is on the right track.
His messages are probably getting effectively through, and he should avoid any digression. People need to be taught useful lessons in this motherland.
Those who think they own us all and would want everything to happen on their terms need lessons of humility to cure their arrogance and impunity. We all say we want to build institutions and strengthen them to withstand manly pressure.
If there is an institution which has been trying to build a presidential debate culture for some 16 years, it deserves our support.
You don’t trash it because you see my compatriots to be so gullible to swallow the cooked contents of a green book and deliver votes.
A strategy that can get an opponent not to say ‘Me dwene ho a me nte aseℇ’ and translate that as ‘I can’t think far’ must be working.
I translate ‘I can’t think far’ as that ‘I am myopic with my thoughts, with little else to offer beyond my procurement governance.’ School buildings, roads, aerodromes, are all about procurement which is the mother of all avenues for stealing public funds. Sole sourcing procurement, that is.
The Green Book is procurement; the campaign message is procurement; new STC buses are all the debauchery of procurement.
What is presented as work done is procurement. Someone forgot that my 2008 salary is now a quarter of its worth.
Even single spine was procurement of favours from salaried public workers. Like all intended procurement benefits, its effect has drastically waned with a cedi destroyed by reckless borrowing to procure the not so productivity yielding means and measures.
In many respects, single spine was to bribe and that is why its unlikely lasting effectiveness could not be figured out ahead.[Procurement cheating by soul sourcing].
Leaders cannot get their ministers to tell their success stories even when there are any.
And it is dangerous to pick and choose when to tell success stories. Professional success story tellers tell those stories. A Mallor not poison Mallory, opportunity, just like an IEA debate opportunity, was made to slip by just like that. Debate chances may be gained or lost when they come. You don’t invent your own chances as if you can compel anyone to debate you.
There are professional success story tellers you employ to tell your success stories.
Some are so good even when there are no weapons of mass destruction, they can convincingly argue wars fought on that with public support. That is it.
A certain second on the presidential ticket tells us compatriots that he has stated 170 facts of our miserable economic circumstances and that they require the kind of response which will make a debate redundant.
So please tell us; tell us about all the 170 facts. I am sure by the time congress’ telling would be over, the election would have come and gone.
In all quests, particularly in the search for election fortunes, chances come and go.
The smart campaigner grabs the right opportunities and exploits them.
The complacent one lets them slip and when he realises it was a golden chance gripes or whines and attempts vainly to retrieve them.
They are the types who were unfortunate in childhood, unlike us, to have learned ‘an opportunity once lost can never be regained.’
I totally agree that we, the suffering compatriots, are the ones anyone looking for debate after trashing debate should engage because we are trashed. If congresspeople understood ‘run away’ like they ‘can’t think far,’ they would have thought less procurement and more productivity.
To him, who is being trapped and ensnared into a debate, I say beware.
The trap setters never agree to do anything unfavourable. Let them keep saying you are running away from debate.
Agree with them you are running away from inane wicked plot to trap you and that you will fight and run away from debate so you live to fight an election to victory.
ɔsono strategists ought to be able to avoid a banza debate which would be any debate organised outside the auspices of the IEA.
Concurrently, they should be able to convince my compatriots that it is a ploy and that the genuine debate is what congresspeople ran away from cabalism where there’s none.
By Kwasi Ansu-Kyeremeh
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