Campaign coordinator of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) says Hilary Clinton's defeat in the US presidential elections should offer useful lessons to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
According to Kofi Adams, the clear lesson is that "you can't force your way into power".
He explained to Joy News Wednesday that Clinton's victory in the Democratic Party primaries did not reflect the true aspirations of the grassroots.
Hillary Clinton in June 2016 became the first woman to capture the presidential nomination of a major party in the U.S after beating Bernie Sanders.
A Forbes publication said, "Bernie Sanders lost the Democratic Primary -- but won the Democratic Party".
Mr Adams endorsed this view saying the former first lady's fierce opponent Bernie Sanders won the hearts of the people adding, "Clinton should have known that she was not the true choice of her party hence Trump's victory was a signal to the Democratic party that they got their choice wrong."
Extrapolating the political events of the US which is 9,898km from Ghana, Mr Adams suggested Nana Akufo-Addo is not the true choice of the NPP despite a 98 percent victory margin in the NPP presidential primaries.
"...the system worked against Bernie Sanders to get her elected as was done here in Ghana to get Akufo-Addo elected. When you force your way to power, Ghanaians will not accept you," he noted.
The trend in Ghanaian politics is that a Republican victory results in an NPP victory while a Democratic party's victory is seen as a sign of an NDC victory.
NPP and the Republican Party share the same symbol of the Elephant and they both came to power in 2000 and exited power in 2008.
By this extrapolation, some interpret the Republican victory as signs of an impending defeat for the NDC in the December polls.
The NDC win power anytime a Democrat wins and it was in this spirit that the NDC General Secretary, Asiedu Nketia, endorsed Hilary Clinton.
But in the wake of Clinton's defeat, Kofi Adams pointed out that earlier, the Deputy NDC General Secretary, Koku Anyidoho, had linked Donald Trump to Mahama.
Mr Anyidoho believes that despite the strange linkages between the US and Ghana politics hovering around the 2016 elections, President Mahama will win the 2016 presidential elections.
"President Mahama and Donald Trump are not in the same [situation]" he told Joy News' Francis Abban.
This is because while Donald Trump is an outside seeking political office, President Mahama is a sitting president seeking re-elections and American's have never rejected any sitting president.
He said just as Americans re-elected Clinton in 1996, George Bush in 2004 and Barack Obama in 2012, Ghanaians will also give Mahama a second-term.
" This will not reject a sitting president and Ghana will not do that", he predicted.
Ghanaians go to the polls on December 7.
Source: myjoyonline
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Ooh Kofi the educated ***barred word***, another lesson is about the trend in choice of the people. 2 terms and then your party goes .How about that? Good, u guessed right, your time is up long time !
Jimmy Carter, George Bus.h senior, Gerald Ford. List of some rejected sitting presidents in the USA, Adams, study a little please.
Mahama and the NDC are those forcing themselves on Ghanaians.If you are not forcing yourselves on us why giving out all these goodies? Look at the type of language and insults, that is a signs of forcing yourselves on Ghanaians. Ghana want Nana Addo and Isha-Allah he will win the election the way Trump won in America.
kakakra obedi nti. listen to urselve. ur time is up.
OOOooohhh would someone tell this KA to shut his ***barred word*** mouth. What would they have not say and do had Hillary won? You can force your way to keep power the the day will by all means come for you.
Nana will force his way so that he can save the country from the hands of you corrupt people.Kofi Adams be ready to be 'Locked Up'.
THIS KOFI DOES NOT KNOW THE HISTORY OF GHANA.WHO HAS FORCED HIS WAY TO POWER IN GHANA?IT IS HIS MASTER RAWLINGS WHO FORCED HIS WAY THROUGH THE BARREL OF A GUN FOR 20 YEARS.IT WAS PEOPLE LIKE AKUFFO ADDO WHO HELPED TO LIBRATE US FROM THE SHACKLES OF RAWLINGS MURDEROUS REGIME. AKUFFO ADDO WILL COME KOFI MARK IT ON THE WALL AND THE NATIONAL DEMONIC PARTY WILL BE A THING OF THE PAST.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
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Kofi let me get things straight to you , Nana is not forcing himself onto Ghanaians but rather Ghanaians are forcing Nana onto themselves .We Ghanaians will never let Nana alone till He liberate us from Mahama Lead corrupt leadership