An unfortunate stunt from foreign diplomacy

Opinions on Thursday, November 12, 2020

Columnist: Daniel Yiadom Boakye

2020-11-12

Alassane Ouattara, a president whose coming to power had cost the lives of nearly several hundred of the very people he claims to serve as a result of electoral fraud, has garnered international sympathy and support after several months of civil conflict, he is now the only one Engineer his way through constitutional amendments to extend his term and gain a foothold in power does NOT deserve to be congratulated for committing similar crimes that are believed to have been committed by his predecessor, Gbagbo.

His actions smell of hypocrisy in the highest sense and any congratulatory message from anywhere simply implies some tacit endorsement that is highly alienating and at odds with the principles of democracy that His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo has fought for and defended for several decades. . Ghana and beyond.

Of course, we remember the infamous “di wo fie asem” of the late former President Atta Mills, which was in connection with his inexplicable silence towards the conflict between you Ouatarra and Gbagbo, the resolution of which brought him to power in 2010.

An action that provoked the Atta Mills administration, an intense shame of which His Excellency Nana Akufo-Addo and her party led the accusation.

Ivorians will never be destroyed from the outside. If they falter and lose their freedoms, including the genocide and property destruction that characterize the aftermath of actions like this one in Ouattara, it will be because power-drunk leaders like him destroy the very people they fight for. power to rule and by extension, to serve.

This is absolutely Machiavellian and is in tune with the Abraham Lincoln quote below.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroy ourselves” – Abraham Lincoln.

Food for thought.