Appoinment blues: without sabotage, my boss would have been in public office by now – Nsemkeka
The expectations of the people of Ho West of the Volta region and beyond are hanging in the balance. A lot has happened since the appointments began in the new government.
We have been met with serious disappointments because some illustrious individuals, including a fine brain, have been ignored. Why is this so? It seems like sabotage from somewhere we do not know.
There is a gentleman, whose converts and followers in the Ho West Constituency and other parts of the country are very many. We asked him constantly when his appointment was coming, and he always responded that we must relax.
We, and many across the country, did not have any doubt at all that he would be named for a job once our party would win the general elections and form a government.
In the Ho West Constituency, he organised the largest youth group for the NDC in 2018 and 2019, and nurtured us to become leaders and executives of the party at various branches and wards. We are all over the place, and we owe our membership of the party and our loyalty to the party to him.
He is a master tactician and explainer of political strategies and policies, so when he contested in two parliamentary primaries in 2019 and 2022, it was indisputable that he was the darling boy of all, and he gave the best hope to the youth to hang on in politics and work for the NDC.
He was unsuccessful on both occasions because he did not have the financial muscle like his other contestants.
But even after his defeats, he was the most sought-after by constituents during the general campaigns in 2020 and 2024. Every community wanted him to visit them to campaign for President Mahama and the NDC.
Indeed, he had availed himself more than expected. Day and night, he was in the hamlets and communities, connecting with the people and breaking down NDC’s manifesto and campaign promises to them, and convincing them of why they must choose NDC but none other.
He lived with his family in Accra, but he came down to the constituency constantly at all weekends, and during most weekdays at his own cost. When he was around, he also featured regularly on radio interviews and recorded his messages, which he spread out in many communities across the entire Volta Region.
A lot of times, he left the constituency very late on Sunday, only for him to appear on national TV in Accra, communicating for the party very early on the morning of Monday. He was also on national TV and radio in Accra, sometimes very late in the night. For eight years of our party’s opposition period, he got himself engaged in these activities.
We saw him actively involved in the activities of the NDC Professionals Forum, and he made us join the Young Professionals of NDC. He became a key member of the forum, but still joined the professional youths to embark on house-to-house campaigns in a number of regions during the campaign.
We knew of the group, “Lawyers in Search of Democracy (LINSOD)” as the advocacy wing of the NDC Lawyers Association only after he became its President in September 2023. His team had issued several press statements, and he had granted several TV and radio interviews across the entire country on behalf of LINSOD. He told us LINSOD had been in existence for nearly three decades before he became its President. This was news to us.
Besides communicating for our party in the Volta Region constantly during the campaign, and joining the national communication team as well, and appearing in the media at several ungodly hours for the party, he was also one of the national trainers of polling agents.
He trained the polling agents of Adansi Asokwa, Upper Manya Krobo, and Ada Constituencies. Far away, Adansi Asokwa in the Ashanti Region was his home base away from home. Party officials and agents in the constituency consider him as the main, or part of the, mastermind of annexing the parliamentary seat of the constituency for the first time.
It is not a secret that he got the engine of his vehicle severely damaged on his way to the Upper Manya Krobo Constituency to train polling agents. That vehicle is still out of use. It is not lost on most party faithfuls how he stood firm against Hon. K. T. Hammond and his team at the collation centre in Adansi Asokwa.
It is believed that the parliamentary results of the constituency would have been manipulated in favour of K. T. Hammond had he not been at the collation centre.
My boss had played many other tremendous roles in the activities of the NDC even years before most of us began to learn about politics. Those have been properly documented by him, and many senior comrades of our party knew him very well then and now.
During the general campaign, he solicited support for the party, and he got some persons close to him, whom he led to donate money and 1,000 t-shirts to the Volta Regional Secretariat of the party, and 2,000 t-shirts to the national party through the General Secretary of the party.
With his credentials and track record narrated in this write-up, it is unfathomable that any appointing authority shall easily miss such a hardworking and reliable stalwart in assigning jobs. Not only does he deserve it, but he shall also excel in whatever task he may be given.
We strongly believe that he has been skipped so far only because someone may be sabotaging him. We have come to this conclusion because everyone knows that he has demonstrated beyond imagination that he is an asset for our party.
Even as he is not in government, and has not been appointed as many have expected, he is still speaking for our party, in the media, and granting interviews regularly on the volatile Chief Justice removal process.
He courageously did the unthinkable in taking on the fearful Ghana Bar Association in a press conference to the admiration of all members and supporters of our party, as well as well-meaning Ghanaians.
We pray that the appointing authority shall think more about the several hundred thousand of us across the country, who are looking up to him, than the few who may be out there trying to do everything necessary to sabotage him for whatever reason.
My boss is Lawyer Eric Delanyo Alifo. In him, I have full trust and confidence.