It was Hitler’s Propaganda Minister, Joseph Goebbels who said that “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.”
According to the Nazi propaganda chief Joseph Goebbels, though the lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the truth is the greatest enemy of the State.
This is an excellent definition of the “Big lie,” and flowing from this is the mercenary politicking of the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC).
As Ghana prepares for the 2024 elections, a chorus of leading politicians of the NDC have devised a new strategy to repeatedly shove their big lie down the throat of the average Ghanaian, in the hope that it could reverse their political fortunes which is irredeemably in comatose.
That pushback sits at the heart of the fictional publication codenamed ‘Agyapadie’ making the rounds.
The 38-page document, which lacks an identified author, prominently features the Okyenhene, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin on the cover, with President Nana Akufo-Addo and his late father on the subsequent page.
The Okyenhene, Osagyefuo Amoatia Ofori Panin, has dismissed the document as pure fiction fabricated by those who have long sought to incite hatred against the Ofori Panin household and Okyeman.
But the NDC won’t stop.
Even more insidious is how the NDC flagbearer, John Mahama has waded into the matter making categorical statements regarding the Agyapadie document.
Mahama’s words and actions indicate that he has no regards for our democratic norms.
Such a highly dishonorable, dangerous man, and the NDC looks more like a personality cult than a political party.
And as the path toward this anti-democratic attitudes and behavior gains steam, we are told some key players of the NDC are actually behind the Agyapadie fictional document.
At this stage, the question that remains to be answered is if indeed the likes of Omane Boamah, Okudzeto Ablakwa, Abraham Amaliba and Edudzi Tamakloe are the authors of the Agyapadie document?
The NDC leaders and supporters are at perhaps their lowest point politically.
They have reached a crisis point as the party is now led by donkeys.
A party of sycophants and low-grade activists.
The NDC came to no longer care all that much about programs and policies.
It’s little over three months to elections but the NDC is still going through the motions.
No campaign message. No policy proposals.
Added to this is the acquiescence of NDC leaders to this thoroughly dangerous brand of politics.
Obviously, Mahama and the NDC have done more than enough to their own political obituary.
Ernest Kofi Owusu Bempah
Deputy Director of Communications, NPP