THE N.P.P AND THE ‘AKANISATION’ TAG

I know that you have been anxiously awaiting my opinion on this ‘Akanisation’ debate on the airwaves. I am sorry to have kept you waiting. It was not my fault, because I am still convalescing from the shocks of my inability to withdraw some dollars of mine from my Bankers and the sudden death of the cedi as announced by the Governor of Bank of Ghana.

I had wanted to suggest to the proponents of the ‘Akanisation’ debate to consult their elders, particularly the few left with some grey hairs and constitutional know how to re-learn the laws of the country if they have forgotten them, only to released that the very revered grey headed men are rather the worse culprit leading the crusade for nothing other than political capital. To that extent, I am not about to treat words as a miser will do to money, for it is said that if a cloth is not torn wide, it is not stitched wide.

I am telling the elders of our land that the beginning of wisdom, like Socrates’ said, is not the fear of God but the realization and acknowledgement of the extent of one’s ignorance; only in such realization and acknowledgement could one be reasonably secure against pretentiousness.

To make matters clear only and not at all for polemical reasons, I will, whenever appropriate, illuminate and espouse the pathways of the Political Parties Act and thought by occasional references to the constitution of the republic and in some cases borrow from the pool of the President’s vocabulary words such as baloney when I am choked of ideas.

I know you know what a political party is. For nothing at all you have heard of Nkrumah’s C.P.P, Papa Kwesi’s P.P.P and the rest including those under formation like yet to be formed Ken Agyapong’s Party. But for the sake of this debate permit me to quote from Act 574(Political Parties Act 200) the meaning of political party. Accordingly, the act defines political party as a free association or organization of persons, one whose objects is to bring about the election of its candidate to public office or strive for power to control and influence the actions of Government.

The Act again provided the pathway through which one can become a member of a political party. And the last time I checked, it states all citizens shall have the right and freedom to form or join political party and participate in political activities subject to such qualifications and laws as are necessary in a free and democratic society and are consistent with this constitution-the Ghana Constitution.

You and I, are yet to be furnished with evidence that indeed a non-Akan member(s) of the New Patriotic Party have been discriminated against. On this occasion, I dare the proponents of the debate to put up or shut up till the economy is resuscitated I challenge anyone to adduce evidential evidence to substantiate their claim no matter how trivial, provided it could support and suggest that since 1992 the interest of the non-akan’s in the New Patriotic Party has not been protected according to the constitution.

Besides the right to belong to a particular group is the solely the right of the individual as enjoined him or her by article 55 clause 2.

Is there evidence that the New Patriotic Party have suppressed or attempted to suppress the lawful political activity of another because the said individual is non-akan?

Goshh!, I listened with utmost disdain and shock the claim that the New Patriotic Party is an Akan Party for the simple reason that they've never in their political history elected a non-akan speaking person as their Flagbearer or Chairman since 1992. Let me ‘Tweaaa this argument if you will not let me described it as baloney. In any case, is it not the case that in the New Patriotic Party as they at all times elect their flagbearer, the situation is different in the NDC. Because we have not forgotten about Sweduro declaration and same can be said about azorka and his boys at Koforidua.

To me, this hallucination would have come to full circle if it was extended to the leadership of the party at all levels backed by ample evidence.

Wise politicians like President Mahama alluded ought to know that the power to elect a number of persons is determined by members of a party as executive officers of the party.

For me, the membership of the New Patriotic Party must rise up to the challenge, accept the tag and build around it to entrenched their support base in the Akan Regions. Because cola nut they say last long in the mouth of those who value it. And that the sun shall surely shine on those who stand before it shines on those beneath.

Isn't it the case that others have shack their responsibilities for others and are now crying foul? Is it not a fact also that, the ‘Osono’ Party draws its political support from the Akan Constituencies? In any case since when has it become a taboo for a political party to harness its strength and to claim dominant in a particular region? Why then do we as a nation proclaim certain regions and constituencies as Bantama and Ketu South?

For Christ sake, when will these elites wake up from their slumber and learn? They must learn to defend and protect the Akans with all their might and blood if possible and stop allowing themselves for the smooth permeation of the NDC’S Propaganda.

 Like it or hate it, the Akans shall continue to be the dominant group in the New Patriotic Party like Ewes in the National Democratic Congress. These is because it is only like-minded citizens who can come together to pursue a common aspirations and goals.

Little did I know that the New Patriotic Party didn't have a deliberate strategy to rope more of the non Akans into their folk, conscious of their SWOT analysis.

Before I signed off, let me suggest to the Communication Directorate, to up their game and stop using the department as a means to an end. Lets the be made of Men and Women of some communication appreciation other than those who can make noise. I mean those that will defend the policies and programmes of the party other extending felicitations.

  

Valentine according to Saint Ozor 1?

Just this morning, immediately my children woke up and after the perfunctory morning greetings, they started wishing me “Happy Valentine.” I had to ask them what it meant and who asked them to do that, behold it was their teacher. To crown it all, they told Mummy that they asked them to come to school in red dresses. They went on to tell me that the teacher asked them to buy gifts for people as mark of love, which Christ the epitome of Love show us daily. Again, I remember in my own days that I was almost completing my secondary education before I heard of “Valentine’s Day.”
But what is this Valentine and how do we analyse it?
Those that answer Valentine dread the month of February like a plague. Besides close friends who always demand that you celebrate your name in grand style, most confront you with all manner of questions bordering on the concept that your name is supposed to embody. Thus, you are asked whether you were born on the 14th of February or whether you were a by-product of love affair that took place in the month of February. One fact I have come to discover over the years is that people take those that bear the name of Valentine as experts in all known techniques of love, starting with its fundaments to its metaphysics.
Despite much research, we cannot tell unarguably the exact date the feast started, nor the route by which it entered into history. Perhaps it is connected to the life of a certain St. Valentine who was said to have suffered martyrdom in Rome as the Church hagiography would want us to believe; perhaps, as the legend of the saint’s heroic faith says, it grew out of the love shown to prisoners by the saintly Valentine; perhaps it has to do with the period in the year when birds of the earth look for mates; perhaps it is another case of substitution of a pagan feast by Christian feast as a subtle way of blighting paganism at the bud. We do not know. Valentine’s Day is part of history whose beginning has been forgotten, and whose end we shall never reach.
The popularity of Valentine’s Day could be linked to the nature of the theme it celebrates – love. Writing about love, Archbishop Fulton Sheen called it “the most used, and the most misunderstood word.” The misunderstanding inherent in the nature of love often provokes people to ask questions such as: How much of what we claim as love is love indeed? Does love have different levels and spheres? Is it possible to love our neighbour as ourselves, as the Holy writ prescribes? What is love? These are the questions with which the most comprehensive theories, treatises, and analyses of love find it necessary to begin.
To the Greeks, love could be Eros, Philia, and agape. Plato’s ladder of love in the Symposium has different loves for its rungs, up to what we commonly call “Platonic Love”. St Thomas Aquinas distinguishes between love in the sphere of the passion and love as an act of will. The former he assigns to what he calls the “concupiscible faculty” of the sensitive appetite; the latter, to the rational or “intellectual appetite”. Sometimes, people talk about metaphysical, contemplative, material and acquisitive love, etc.
Whatever form love takes, it implies a complex psychical experience of strong attraction to, intense desire for, vivid appreciation of, a profound interest in, ones object of love. The object of love could be a fellow being, institution, cause or even nature. It involves tender affection, sympathetic understanding, admiration and loyalty, with reference to its object.
But apart from a few people who recognize the fact of plurality of love in their analyses, most of us, especially the youth, talk abundantly of love, commonly in the sense of amorous appetite. These are people who confess their loving the object of their love more than their own mothers. Our elders consider this form of love to be a form of “possession” or “madness”, and would frown at anyone who would propose it as a fit guide in the choice of marriage mate. They do this, knowing that once the erotic side of love diminishes or fades away altogether, the disinterested element fades too; interest in the other’s happiness evaporates, all tender feeling is eroded, and the one desire is to get away. This is what Lucretius called “erotic befuddlement”. What Dedriot deridedly described as “the voluptuous loss of a few drops of liquid”. It is a spark thrown off by the contact or nearness of two opposite bodies.
In pursuit of this type of love there is nothing that human beings have not done, or are not capable of doing. The love portion that some ladies brew for men they suspect of unrequited love has no platonic aim. It is not out of generosity, rather to get the object of their longing, that men spend lots of money in wooing women. Women themselves do as much. To attract men, they dress in manners to arouse precipitate passion. Eyelashes are darkened with gum ammonia. Checks and lips are painted with sticks of minium or alkanet roots. Adjustable eyebrows are used and often pencilled with lampblack or pulverized or sulphuret of antimony, sometimes it is thinned to diverse shapes or shaved off entirely and painted “crescent moons” or other forms. Eyelids are shaded with kohl. All sort of things are rubbed on the face, in the hope that it will make them look beautiful. Some in the villages still wrap their fingernails over night with henna leaves to make them purple. Padded brassieres are used to make the breast look poised and … Breast enhancement has since become part of beauty regimen. There is no part of the woman’s body, in pursuit of men, that has not been perfected, decorated, refined, stretched and squeezed, bleached, reformed, compacted and shortened.
Higher than the afore-described love is what is often called genuine friendship. In this type of love, there is often the predominance of altruistic motives. It springs from mutual admiration. Here, love is thought to precede desire and to determine its wishes. Marriages built upon this type of love are often successful. Mature lovers discover that marriage transcends the act of multiplication of the species or the fantasy of sexual acts. There are some men who think that all a woman appreciates in a man is when he brandishes the erectile organ to her satisfaction. No. Marriage is more than that. It demands deep understanding and maturity from both partners.
All the foregoing classifications and distinctions, inexhaustible though, belong to the theory of human love. But the fact of love’s diversity extends to the Christian theory of love. Christianity brought about a basic shift in man’s thinking about love. Christianity sees love not in the emotion or passion, but from the infinite perfection and creativity of God. God Himself is love (I John 4: 4). “Love ye one another”. In this profound sentence, God summarized all the commandments. Love rules the world and was, perhaps, as Parmenides thought, “the very first thing created by the gods to rule the world”.
The key to peace in the world is for men to embrace the ethics of Christ – love. Confucius taught a version of it in his rule of reciprocity (golden rule). Immanuel Kant espoused it in his book, The Metaphysics of Morals in what he called the “Maxims of Categorical Imperative”. All great religions teach it. Until we start to imbibe this golden rule (love), the battle to re-make the world can as well be labelled a utopia.
The sooner we use the day of Valentine to promote this type of love, the better the world will become. Here we are again celebrating another Valentine. How do we make it serve the purpose of making the world a better place? This is the central question.

OUR COLLECTIVE IGNORANCE AS A NATION

I am about to literally swerve towards a direction that would probably pain you to the bone marrow for our collective guilt. You have two options; you either stop reading this now or read it and vent your anger in the comment box below. If you stop reading, it is good but if you read and hurl insult at me, there are two things involved.

First, you would be wasting your talent insulting someone who doesn't give a hoot about your anger. Second, you would be making your ignorance a public knowledge. I won’t even think about you before I write another. That is me, I can be as mad as hell sometimes. However, liking my piece or commending me is the second best thing to me; the best is to see someone who disagrees on a logical basis. To my potential attackers and extremists, I am not sorry for this and I remain very ungrateful for your envisaged insult in the comment box. I will also drop my pin to afford you the pleasure of insulting and cursing me live. I won't reciprocate the curses because the last time I cursed a group of people, they dried up like leaves in the winter.

Ethnicity and religion are two of the factors that define the diversity in our existence as a nation. While the first is strictly an incidence of birth, the other could be an incidence of birth or a matter of choice. That one finds himself among a caliber of people at birth is not a crime since it is simply an act of God. Nonetheless, out of celebrated ignorance, we fail to realize our diversities should not be subjected to sentimental surgery in the theatre of shallow thoughts; we have thrown caution into the air.

The boy born in the Volta cannot embrace his Sisters in the Ashanti, while the Southerners dare not walk freely in the Northern regions. Things fall apart, the centre becomes invisible. The ignorance has deteriorated so much that when an issue on terrorism is raised; we are quick to point a finger of guilt to the nearest (zongo) Muslim, when aggression and violence is discussed as a threat to the unity our nation longs for; we chant that the Northerners are at the vanguard of the vices. To us, Ashanti people are the pioneer of fraudulent and dubious acts while the Nzema tribe comes to mind when one needs a perfect example of a dishonest and deceitful tribal group.

As a Muslim man, approach a typical Christian lady for a relationship that would lead to marriage and watch out for the countenance and reply. At that point, you are in for the intellectual torture of your life as innocent biblical injunctions would be murdered to corroborate bogus and laughable position born out of no logical basis but ignorance. Try it, I mean if you are an emblematic Christian man, seek a Muslim lady’s hand in marriage and hear her tell you what even the Prophet did not envisage in His teachings. It is so ironical that the need for peace, unity and love are the ready topics these calibers of Tartuffe’s are always ready to preach anywhere they go. It is like granting a person the freedom of life and telling him not to breathe. I wonder where the concept of national unity and peace we lament is absent will come from when we go about hunting for a flying fish in the sky. I was once in a gathering where a lady commented that a good Christian versed in the Biblical teachings would never see a reason to marry a Muslim. I wonder what Jesus Christ did wrong to warrant such a twist in His teachings.

We have made ourselves so inherently low in orison that we do not know that if a person caught in the act of terrorism claims to be a Muslim, it is not because of his religion that he took to violence but because of the brutal nature inherent in him as a person irrespective of his religion. Our collective ignorance has degenerated to a stage where we think we can place religions and ethnic groups on a chart and match crimes peculiar to each. If a Hausa man is arrested for attacking another man in a lone place, it is not that Hausa people are violent or heartless; it is because of the beast nature inherent in every man which he had failed to curb. I was saddened when a colleague told me a Muslim is more likely to be involved in an act of terrorism than a Christian, while Christians are more often than not guilty of indecency than Muslims. That is how foolish it can get.

I have ran out of patience in expectation of the day we would realize that the mystery behind our birth, the strong bound between us and people we grow to know and the sacrifice we are ready to render to make them happy should also accrue to our brothers and sisters from the other parts of the country. No one brings his father, mother and siblings from heaven, yet we grow to adopt them as an integral part of our lives. Why then is it hard to adopt someone just because of his religion background and ethnic group? You are a Fante man today; your great grandchild may be the leader of a Konkomba community tomorrow. You are the choir mistress in a renowned church today; your grandson may become the Chief Imam of a mosque tomorrow. Today, you are a Hausa woman; your next three generations may be exclusively Akyem. Why then are we unreasonably determined to dig the grave our unborn children will come to be buried with impunity?

To an extent, we have grown generally myopic that we no longer dwell on merit and credibility in choice making. As long as he is a Northerner; he has the South-North, as long as his name is Mumuni; all Muslims will support him, as long as he is from the North; the Northerners will follow him, as long as she is Esenam; she is sure of securing a job at Nutsugah’s company, so far his name is John; all Christians must vote for him. We do not care about the credentials or the nature of the task that lies ahead of the man we want to choose. Someone was once quoted to have said “You will rot in hell if you do not vote your Muslim brother”. Wait; which hell? Is it the one he prepared? What if there is no hell? Is it about the Muslim brother or the competent Muslim brother? Is it about the church going Sister Blessing or the pious and modest Sister Blessing? Is it about Danjuma from the North or the credible Danjuma from the North? It is not always about where one is; it is about what one is doing there. A Christian never thought the sermon that would change his life for good would be preached in a Mosque and a Muslim never thought his life transforming blessing would come from a Pastor. Unfortunately, lives have been wasted in the quest for the wrong cause and blindly orchestrated struggles.

A Muslim friend was heavily criticized on his Facebook wall by another group of Muslims on the 1st day of January, 2014. The reason for the insult and criticism was so unfounded and strange. The team of over-knowledgeable people condemned my dear friend for saying "Happy new year" and celebrating with his Christian friends. I know that the Islamic calendar is quite different from the Western one Christians have adopted but should the difference pave way for condemning a person for the side he believes in or for wishing a fellow human well? Definitely, if these religion stone throwers are asked to tell us the date, they proceed to tell us the Western one we all admit. It is now safer to conclude that anytime a celebratory clatter arises on a religion basis, those in the other religion seek to spoil the moment for those involved with stupid self-constructed philosophies and derisory analysis. Shhh! Learn to close your criticizing big mouths and follow the glorious messages of the Bible and noble teachings of the Quran like a reasonable person you ought to be. No matter how good or convinced he is about his side, a wise person will not adopt violence or pressure to win people to his side, it is done with the example you lay with your life style and not loose-talking strategies. A well-behaved pagan is better than an unrepentant Church-goer. Being a Muslim or a Christian is not an automatic ticket to God's side, abiding by the laws of God and showing love to people irrespective of the diversities is the key.

 As a person, the writing skill and literal erudition I exhibit today were discovered by a Muslim friend. He was aware of my religion and did not for once see that as a bar to motivate and inspire me. Interestingly, he does not sing, but he made a first class in Music. Mr. Fanatic, has his discovery about me affected his life adversely because I am a Christian?  Has that prepared a place for him in hell because he discovered a hidden potential in a Christian? Now, I write not just for Muslims to read, but also Christians, Traditional worshippers, Pagans, Hausas, frafra, Ewe, etc. Exactly one of the reasons I would never join the bandwagon of people making religion a basis for helping another instead of the zeal to help humanity. If you see me attend a Mosque for the union of a Muslim friend and his wife in future and you are aggrieved, it will do you better to shut up than allow me call you a certified hypocrite and world class mediocre that you are. If you are a Muslim and I approach you tomorrow for employment and you said No because I am a Christian, it is your loss: a great loss indeed! You would be the one to lose a vibrant, competent, dynamic, promising and industrious young man in your firm. Don't even think you can substitute me; I am one of a kind, so the loss will be irredeemably bad and apparent.

To my Christian readers, your Sunday worship song is not different from a mere ranting and packaged brouhaha if you cannot treat your Muslim neighbours right, to my Muslim readers, you are only polluting the Mosque on Fridays and wasting time if religion is a condition precedent before you render help to a needy. Forget that you pay your tithe and that you send people on pilgrimage to the Holy lands that does not expunge the fact that you are irresponsible and intolerable. To my Ashanti, Ewe and Akyem friends that cannot embrace each others, I think you should be categorized among the global natural disasters like Tsunami, hurricane, earthquake, flood etc. 

Finally, I am a Guan, it is likely I meet a Fante lady reading this; I may get to like you. I would surely make my intention known. You are free to tell me “No” for any reason because I know you have the freedom of choice and I appreciate that. However, if you tell me “No” because I am a Guan boy, I will give birth to a daughter and name her after you one day. By doing that, I would be showing you I am old enough to give birth to you.

WE ARE THE GOVERNMENT

The backlash notwithstanding, I still believe that poor performance on the part of government should not breed indifference in the way we live our lives and conduct our personal affairs. My position was further strengthened on a recent trip to Nima, the muslims capital. Entering through the Kotobabi-Gutter axis, I was impressed with positive developments that have sprung up since my days as a JHS pupil at Kanda.

However, my excitement soon gave way to disappointment as I approached the Alaska precincts. All the way from Nima Forex Bureu to Over Head, the median on the carriageway was adorned with bags of solid waste in place of the customary rows of ornamental plants or neatly kept lawn. It was an incredibly disgusting sight – so incredible that I had to stop and take some pictures.

Many questions began to flash through my mind. At first I wondered if Nima and for that matter Ghana has any agency that is responsible for waste management. Upon realization that it does, I wondered what kind of mindset would prompt supposedly enlightened Ghanaians to dump household waste right in the middle of the road. Although I happened to have sighted this in Accra arround Rawlings Park, similar situations exist across the country; and this has contributed in no small way to the outbreak of diseases and incidence of so-called natural disasters.

While we must hold our political office holders responsible for fulfilling our legitimate expectations, I believe that as responsible citizens of this great nation, we should also hold ourselves responsible to basic standards of propriety regardless of the effectiveness or otherwise of government agencies and public systems. Like I have often said, we must realize that the most important things are not the things that the government will do for us. To create the New Ghana, each Ghanaian must take personal responsibility, realizing that we are the government. We will get it right someday.

God  bless Ghana.

THE LAST VOTE TO SAVE NEW PATRIOTIC PARTY’S ELECTORAL FORTUNE

The days are very close. The die is indeed cast. The New Patriotic Party’s National Executive election must surely hold. The major contenders are already known. The decentralized election debate is over courtesy the National Council and particularly the Minority in Parliament. The deadline for filing is over. The only contention left is the election proper. The long-awaited voting day is the only decisive event left to determine the next leaders of the Elephant Family to strategize to take up power from the under delivering National Democratic Congress government lead by John Mahama. But that is not the only thing at stake in this election as the election will certainly more than any other thing shape and determines the destiny of more than twenty million people who make up the dozens of space within an area known as Ghana.

In my honest opinion, the New Patriotic Party National Congress slated for the 12^th April, 2014 should be based on proven personality and integrity issues and not on the basis of ethnicity or through empty boasting by some aspirants that cannot even win the party nomination in their polling stations.  These aspirants are only trying to make themselves relevant. However, as I observed from where I stand, 2016 election is not for politicians that are rude, arrogant, unscrupulous, mischief makers and liars. Neither is it for the swift nor affluence.

2016 requires a good and viable Chairman would be liked by all. I know for sure that New Patriotic Party cannot afford to lose in 2016 to another political party just by picking wrong and lazy persons as National Executives.

For me and to me, the way forward for the New Patriotic Party is to pick a winning Chairman, especially now that it has indeed been established and accepted by many, that New Patriotic Party is the alternative platform that can bring smile into our peoples' lips once again. We have accepted it as facts that in New Patriotic Party, we are blessed with governance intellects that combined the gift with managerial experience. Also, it's a concrete fact that we have a shepherd that is a master strategist whom his name is what the Delegates (Gatewarians) are echoing day by day as the leader of the messiah-ship. Stephen Ntim can best work out of the lots to bring Nana Addo and the New Patriotic Party victory come 2016 to build and promote a stronger and united Ghana predicated on justice, equity and fair play. 

As a New Patriotic Party indigene, a young man and a stalwart my position for New Patriotic Party National Congress is to produce:  1) A Chairman that is responsive to the yelling and suffering of all New Patriotic Party  members and Ghanaians as a whole. 2)  A Chairman that empowers Women and Youth. 3)  A Chairman that is visionary, creative and has ideas. 4)  A Chairman that listen to the masses and has an open door policy. 5)  Not a Chairman that is interested in using the masses to achieve his own personal goal and interest or hidden agenda because sheep are happier of themselves, than under the care of wolves. 6)  A Chairman that is humble and ready to work with all shades of Party People. 7)  A Chairman that will remedy the lack of economic and social developments in New Patriotic Party at all levels. 8)  Finally, a Chairman Party Men and Women can describe as a Son of Brong Ahafo Region. 

Nobody has the sole right to the chairmanship slot in New Patriotic Party as one has to fight for it.  It is not given on a platter of gold or given due to emotional feelings. However, Regional arrangement should be seriously considered for fairness and equity, but where it does not happen due to marginalization, then let the chips fall where they may. 

In my opinion, the political system in New Patriotic Party should be in such a manner to command the respect of all Ghanaians, that is, it should be fair, just and equitable.  I stand to say that united we stand, divided we fall; the basic concept is that unless the people of New Patriotic Party are united, it is easy to destroy them.

However, among those indicating interest in the Chairmanship race, only one aspirant rightfully stands out among other aspirants; that is Stephen Ntim.  Stephen is more on ground than any other aspirant.  He is selfless, more compassionate and more reasonable in terms of leadership and management skills.  Ntim is a seasoned and a grassroots politician; he is focused, experienced and has a very good track record.  However, anyone (Aspirant) can try his/her luck.

 Ntim is humble and ready to work with all Party faithful and does not believe in parochial leadership.  Above all, he has the best political structure amongst his peers.  He is a man of the people, for the people and by the people and this is what Democracy is all about.  These qualities, attributes and other relevant leadership skills surpass that of any other Chairmanship aspirants.  The three criteria globally used to measure preference for a leader are competence, integrity and acceptability.  Stephen Ntim has got them all and today Ntim is acceptable to the generality of Ghanaians. 

Between now and the beginning of the Congress, I implore Delegates to hear his views, judge his competence and weigh his success in chosen endeavors.  At the same time, he will continue to seek the advice of Delegates on issues that are of utmost importance to them and the New Patriotic Party.

Where are the political activities of some of our aspirants? What is the alternative they have for the mission to unseat and rebuild the country that John Mahama demolished?

I only see one of them with a mission to rebuild the party to retake power from National Democratic Congress, where is the message of others? "I did it for Kuffour and will do it for Nana" just remains a phrase that belongs to an aspirant. Besides were they not the same people at the helm of affairs? Why didn’t they do it?

This mission to unseat an incumbent government is more than a mind game because the only advantage that is enough for us is the acceptability of our party by electorates (Gatewarians) who are variable and can change minds when they see us as not serious.

Jake Obetsebi Lamptey, where is your political strength in Ghana? Where is your base? What have you to offer? Muctar Bamba, where are your foot soldiers? The much talked about (Bamba Boys) when party men and women were brutalized across the country?

Otiko Dzaba what happened to your multilingual Prowess when you appear on Twi flagsship programs on radio?

Sir John, we are fed up with your radio interviews. Because it added nothing to us, rather you drag the name of the Party into disrepute.

 The 2016 election is widely different from 2008 election. There will be no need for further and better particulars, hence the demand for those who need power to deliver the party from opposition, Men and Women who are able and willing to serve, for there is work to be done not position to be occupied.

If we are only strong in Ashanti and  Eastern without being stronger in Central ,Western and not being strongest in Brong Ahafo where John Mahama  is recruiting his foot-soldiers (Alshabab) day by day, then to unseat a corrupt  incumbent Party would only happen in our imagination.

The Jake administration contrived the political space and usurped the powers of both NEC and the National Council, posing a grave danger to the democratic content of democracy. Most of the claims of Jake and his cohorts on the gains in the rule of law turned out to be mere political gimmicks as they were clearly unfounded and merely designed to create the impression that it was no longer mandatory as usual in the New Patriotic Party Constitution after they became Executives. 

Jake and his team should go away and retire in shame politically, what integrity has they in terms of political legacies for New Patriotic Party and Ghana to speak on? Apart from his aborted third time ambition to circumvent the party’s constitution, he brought about and left a legacy of electoral corruption in the party country wide. He should leave the political landscape of the New Patriotic Party alone. He brought a whole salad of corruption, manipulation and failures.” 

I will always hold Stephen Ntim credible for his singular act of standing up for his third term drive and wish to chair the party and his loyalty and commitment to the party’s agenda. His willingness to serve has never been dashed by his loses in elections. Not when he was maligned political as an appendage of a certain aspirant.

For how long shall we continue to entertain and celebrate mediocrity? Why must we stick to ineptitude when there is a substitute? For how long shall we continue to laugh with people who were unable to raised funds in four years to organize a centralized National Congress? We cannot and should not entrust the success of a party that is hungry for power into the hands of Men and Women who budgeted for 1.2 million cedis when indeed the actual cost was around 650 thousand cedis? Let Jake and his ilk’s tell us what they were going to use the excess 550 thousand cedis for?

For me, although they are qualified as per the party’s constitution, they are not competent enough to bring us power in 2016.

It is apparent, from street to street; from town unto town that Stephen Ntim is the messiah to write of the wrongs of those before him and unite the party in readiness to retake political power in 2016.

I am also conversant with the talking’s that He, Ntim is for Alan Kyeremanteng. But I want to proposed it should be the very reason why he should be the one chairing the party. Because Nana Addo would be better, safe and effectively protected under Ntim than any of those who are parading themselves as lovers of Nana Addo.

It's thus in our conclusion that it should be beeping in our minds that people will continue managing "that inferior thing" if the elements of alternative is not convincing.

Finally, my generation of party membership must rise and rebuild the future of New Patriotic Party, and we must do it on a new plan that involves patriotic party leadership.  When we are principled, our policies and goals must not fail.  Ntim is a man of principle. 

Let's move and show the world that we are ready to MOVE GHANA FORWARD.