The silly season is here, clearly!
Alexander Afenyo Markin has officially declared Ghana's electoral silly season opened!
I mean, how else does one explain how a State Of the Nation Address debate in Parliament so degenerated into the newly named Majority Leader going into such an illogical attack on Professor Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang.
Speak of ageism! Gendered ageism! That all of the glaring nuances in this very problematic speech were lost on a sitting MP, NPP's Leader in Parliament, shocking!
Listen, Dear Sir, Parliament is not the place for loose talk. Keep such unsavory destructive thoughts to your living room. Not our house of Parliament! And not about Prof! Ghana's first female Vice Chancellor of a public University. Distinguished politician. Amazing all round woman. A stateswoman who stands tall as a symbol of hope for Ghanaian women.
What is baffling is that this is coming from an MP whose President is in his eighties. How rich! The only way this adds up is if you consider that he may have been throwing shades at his own boss, the President, as has become fashionable these days in this "it wasn't me, blame Akuffo Addo" narrative that's being pushed. Speaking to God by pretending to speak to the wind. We see you Honorable!
Everything else that was said was just as illogical.
That she didn't make impact in the last elections? Please, check the records. Numbers don't lie. If you're tone deaf and do not know what time it is, certainly, you can appreciate basic mathematics.
To say Prof performed abysmally at the Education Ministry and then proceed to speak about the construction of the E-blocks in the same sentence can only be disingenuous at best; as Leader of a side whose government is responsible for this nightmare of an educational system we're grappling with!
In a country where notoriety pays, sadly even in politics, one can see why in his new role and eager for some attention, Afenyo Markins made this unfortunate choice. So sad!
Small piece of advise though ... This election is far too important for juvenile popularity games. So much rests on this election for us as Ghanaians and your politics of illogicality would not be countenanced! Not this time. Not when our country needs saving. Not at the dawn of our historic first female VEEP!
