The Greater Accra Regional Youth Organizer of the ruling National Democratic Congress, Amos Blessing Amorse, is asking NPP’s Old Tafo MP, Vincent Ekow Assafuah, to consider an industrial attachment slot with NDC’s Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa.
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The vicious youth leader made this comment following Mr. Assafuah’s claims that President John Mahama has rented a luxurious private jet for his trip to Japan and Singapore.
The NPP NP went ahead to emphatically state that “Altogether, the cost comes to an incredible $690,000 without including waiting times and/or stopovers”
However, his claims in a Facebook post turned out to be false as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Stan Dogbe replied to him by stating that the President actually went on the trip by a commercial flight.
This, the NDC Youth Organizer has seen as an attempt by the Old Tafo MP to do what his senior colleague in parliament, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, was doing when the NDC was in opposition, but failed to properly learn from the Foreign Affairs Minister.
Vincent Ekow Assafuah should we secure INDUSTRIAL ATTACHMENT slot with Sam Okudzeto Ablakwa for you? You’ll do it for the period that Parliament is on recess!
During the days of the NDC in opposition, Okudzeto Ablakwa now Forign Affairs Minister was doing a serious oversight works on the executive that many called him the “Investigative Journalism MP”. He accuratly tracked all the expensive trips by then President Akufo-Addo using luxious private jets and exposing grave public sector corruption scandals.
Amos has since urged NPP’s Rev Ntim Fordjour and Vincent Assafuah to take mentoship lessours from Okudzeto Ablakwa:
There is nothing wrong with aspiring or dreaming to become like someone. That is the essence of mentorship or understudying someone you admire or which to be like in future.
Often times, we delude ourselves with the thinking that because someone used a particular approach to get to the top, we must also use the same approach to catch up with him or her or become like him or her. That is where most of us sometimes get it wrong.
You can desire to become like someone, take him/her as mentor or understudy the person but use different approach to climb to the height the person has gotten to or go higher. This is so bescue, personality traits are not the same. Beyond traits inherited, our environment also plays a key role in shaping our thoughts and behaviours.
You and your mentor or someone you look up to may come from different backgrounds, different cultures, religion etc. As a result, if you attempt to use his/her approach to get to the top, you may scale-off.
That is why in politics, some politicians became famous through media appearances while ome became famous through their grassroots engagements and others through their wealth etc. You may think that somsone you looked up to became famous through political communication so you must also start communicating for your Party in order to be like him/her. Chances are that, you may not make it because you may not be as good as the person. This goes beyond politics. It’s everywhere!
This discussion has come up because of the embarrassing calamity that has consumed Vincent Ekow Assafuah. When the NPP lost the 2024 elections, someone of their less than 100 MPs who survived the anger of Ghanaians saw a window of opportunity to do some of the things some NDC MPs did in opposition that made them famous. There was nothing wrong with that thinking though!
Rev Ntim Fordjour and Vincent Assafuah, in particular, started jumping around to announce their presence that a new breed of Ablakwas, Sam Georges, John Jinapors, Isaac Adongos have emerged. Without tightening their knots properly, they have ended up reducing themselves to nothing but empty brats chasing fame through crude means. Call it Jandam!
It is not always the case that we must do exactly what others did. There is a saying that when your friend passes bad air targeted at you and you hastily attempt to retaliate, you may bring out the real thing. That is the sad state of affairs Vincent Assafuah finds himself. He has not only embarrassed himself but his Constitutents too. Some are even questioning whether there are no better candidates in Tafo to represent them than Assafuah!
Lesson!
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