By now, every serious political party aiming at winning 2024 general elections should be having sleepless nights crossing their T's and dotting their I's whiles doing some serious thinking about their fortunes at the next polls.
The drama at the recent Arise Ghana demonstration is undoubtedly a snapshot of what 2024 election is going to be like, take it or leave it.
You can decide to comfortably blame protestors for attempting to breech routes dictated to them for all you want, do not however deliberately forget that several reports indicated that efforts were been made by both known and unknown hands within government to stop the demonstration entirely. So when they failed even after attempting to use the court, a resort to the usual police brutality became the order of the day.
The police kept saying they've been given strident orders from "above" to prevent demonstrators from using a particular route to present their petition to the president. Who is that person at the ABOVE? Is it God or Allah? Jesus or Mohammed? Your guess might not be far from right.
In 2020, opposition political parties went to war with toothpicks, cup of tea without biscuits, comfortable slogans of flipping and flopping whilst their opponent went to the battlefield with guns, ammunition, military and police personnel armed to teeth etc.
Someone who was seeking reelection didn't shy to be horrendously violent and claimed seven innocent lives to retain his seat and no one got punished for all those murderous acts.
This same person has openly declared that under no circumstance will he hand over power to any opposition party and the same leaders of opposition parties are walking around, behaving and acting like "Mama Ba" and "Dada Ba" hoping to win 2024 election with such approaches because this government has failed woefully with distinction...... This is a joke of all ages!
This person we are talking about is synonymous to violence, he is exceptionally tyrannical, a benevolent dictator and has no respect for human rights and dignity so how do you treat such a person like you're dealing with either a Catholic priest or a Pentecost elder?
If any political party want to win 2024 election, they must really sit up, stand up to match up. As it stands now, there's no party that seem ready to match the brutal style of Ghana's Idi Amin because 2024 election will not be a joke taking a clue from the happening at the just ended Arise Ghana 48 hour demonstration.
Da yie!
The writer of this piece is Tetteh Djem Bismark, a writer, youth activist, political communication strategist and brands management enthusiast.
His personal views are solely his and does not in anyways represent that of a group or organization.
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