A fool, his noose and thoughts

They say you only know the essence of tact when a fly ever settles on your testicles. In as much as this assertion is flawed because it precludes women from the fray of those who might need tact to go about their everyday lives which really is not my focus for now, I am of the view that this adage or maxim is for those who have everything to lose. I don’t know if the seriousness of this issue has been downplayed because it is a housefly that has been used to portray the imagery which gives people the luxury to think that tact is what it should take, but imagine a tsetsefly settling on your testicles and you are now reading a manual or instructions on how to unsettle it from its new home. Not me. I will just slap it outright altogether with the balls and allow the chips fall where they may. Let me kill the tsetsefly and have my pains to deal with.

 I am sure that Mr. Alban Kingsford Sumani Bagbin, a supposedly National Democratic Congress (NDC) Party stalwart is at an all time low since it is becoming apparent that he has found himself taunted by a tsetsefly for a long time such that being tired to further contain the impudence on his testicles, has picked a sledge hammer to hit it on his own balls thereby bursting it in the process.

Why do people think that they can only make reforms or gain capital by denigrating others or passing disparaging remarks about others to make their points sink in?

With Alban Bagbin’s status as he seeks to profess to us as though it has ever mattered, he could have convened a meeting to table his problems or findings on why the NDC party lost in the 2016 General Elections but he decided to sear and punch holes in the party’s mast and drown everyone with him. It is alright to wash your dirty linen in public but it is also prudent to note that the kind of linen you seek to wash would turn out blinding white and clean. You do not come washing rags in public without minding the fact that you would offend the sensibilities of observers.

In Mr. Bagbin’s quest to becoming the flag bearer of the largest opposition party and eventually becoming the President; the Father of the nation, it was unwise of him to call the ability of the disabled or handicapped into focus. I personally think that it would pass as one of his all time lowest in his political career and so do most people. He should have known that no one tests bullets they have collected for battle on themselves just to ascertain its potency. It’s suicidal to go on that tangent especially in public because some things can only be contextual. Even the infamous bank heist or closing and consolidating of 7 banks is being held in camera, let alone questioning the ability of the handicapped?

Whereas some observers think that his quest to lead the party is far-fetched simply because of his dwindling electoral fortunes at his constituency which was nothing worth writing home about, hence would not be a match to unseat a sitting President who trounced an incumbent to become the number one Gentleman of the nation, I think that its beside the point. What matters is, he has to retract his words and if they were not passed to spite people with disability, then he should explain his stance to make us understand him, for Ghanaians have always been tolerant with Politicians.

Writer tweets @vilejah