Monday,
May 25, 2015
Folks, I have
been pondering the trouble shaking the NPP out of joint and wondering why there
is so much venom against Paul Afoko (National Chairman) and Kwabena Agyepong
(General Secretary) and why backhanded moves are being made to remove them from
office—as if kicking them out will be the solution to the problems hindering
Akufo-Addo from becoming Ghana’s President at general elections.
My conclusion is
straight-forward. To win political power, the NPP doesn’t have to eat its own
babies. It is not a party born out of a revolution to do so. Only revolutions
end up eating their own babies. For the NPP, eating up its own children is a sure
way to grab political power in our time.
The truth is
that putting Akufo-Addo in power needs more than side-swiping Afoko and
Agyepong. They are not the stumbling blocks. They are just people caught in
unfortunate circumstances wrought for them by their own overzealousness in
pursuing a political cause that they barely know how to relate to.
Of course, a
brief look into the circumstances that shot Afoko and Agyepong into the NPP’s
kind of politics will serve a good purpose. I will attempt doing so now, even
if minimally, to prove that they are mere victims of circumstance, suffering
the kind of sad fate that awaits those who don’t stop to look and listen before
leaping in the turbulent waters of Ghanaian politics.. They are not threats to
Akufo-Addo. It is the Ghanaian electorate that is threatening Akufo-Addo
because he isn’t who they think will solve their problems.
Winning
political power shouldn’t have been so difficult for Akufo-Addo. After all, he
has done all he could to establish himself as a force to reckon within Ghanaian
politics, even though the forces arrayed against his quest for power are
unyielding.
The results of
opinion polls organized by different bodies (most of which have turned out to
be his own ventriloquists) indicate that he is “the most influential” Ghanaian
politician in our time. So, why is it difficult for that acclamation to
translate into his ascending to the Presidency to consummate his long-held
ambition of becoming Ghana’s President “at all costs”? For the records, his own
father accomplished it all—being one of the famous “Big Six” in Ghanaian
political parlance, becoming Ghana’s Chief Justice and titular President before
the Acheampong-led coup threw the Danquah-Busia political crop into disarray.
We acknowledge
here the conspiracy of the anti-Nkrumah military/police toads in the rise of
the Danquah-Busia cabal to the ultimate status; but we admit also that Edward
Akufo-Addo really distinguished himself in all that he set out to do in life.
He was principally endowed with the brains and personal attributes/composure to
be a successful lawyer and politician. For the records, let’s admit that he,
Peter Ala Adjetey and Francis Akpaloo made Ghana proud as the first crop of
lawyers to be trained at the Middle Temple in London. They earned their
bragging rights as such and distinguished themselves in their service to Mother
Ghana. Both Justices Akufo-Addo and Akpaloo ended up as Chief Justices of Ghana
while Peter Ala Adjetey excelled in law and politics, becoming the National Chairman
of the NPP and leaving behind a rich legacy to be admired.
Of all, though,
only Edward Akufo-Addo used his influence to pave the way for his son (caught
up in inexplicable circumstances of erratic behaviour) to enter Middle Temple
with a 3rd class under-graduate degree. Middle Temple doesn’t admit
such candidates. The rest of the story can be uncovered in the ill-fated suit
filed against Akufo-Addo by Justice Francis Kpegah, which the mafia in the
Ghanaian judiciary scuttled.
Interestingly,
the use of the “mafia” network by Akufo-Addo isn’t limited to the judiciary. It
transcends all other sectors of national life, wherever he has a high stake
that is threatened by better-qualified material.
Happenings in
the NPP that have culminated in the fracas now tearing apart the party take
their root from that groundswell.
Flashback: The Alliance for Change and its series
of street demonstrations (beginning with the “Kume Preko” one and ending with
the Wie me Preko” version) that Akufo-Addo joined hands with Dr. Nyaho Tamakloe
and others to mastermind ended up filling him with the vain expectation that he
could become Ghana’s President. His insistence on having the last laugh has
torn him away from those who would otherwise have made it easy for him to
realize his childhood ambition. Akufo-Addo lacks traction today because of his
own miscalculations, leading to the point where sacrificing his own party’s
National Chairman and General Secretary has become the most attractive option.
Read this report here if you are in doubt: http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=359553.
Here and now: Picking on Afoko and Agyepong is the
last desperat34 kick in Akufo-Addo’s political death throes. As the
manipulation of the situation continues, he is wont to reap the whirlwind
produced by the wind of political intolerance that he has sown in his own
party. How does he hope to achieve his ambition by dividing his own house
against himself?
Afoko and
Agyepong have turned out to be easy targets (sitt9ing ducks to be picked at
will) for those expecting nothing but a Pyrrhic victory in their own political
camp. Such a Pyrrhic victory won’t lead to the seat of government. It is designed
to be local and will remain so. Stifling Afoko and Agyepong will ensure such a
Pyrrhic victory.
Flash forward: Many questions, then, arise: Isa
Akufo-Addo really more interested in such a Pyrrhic victory? Why? More
questions than answers here.
I want to tell
him that there are better and more conducive ways to chalk electoral victory
toward the Presidency than what he is using to kick out Afoko and Agyepong,
officers of the NPP duly elected by the party’s delegates. Can Akufo-Addo not
think of better ways to win Election 2016 than sacrificing Afoko and Agyepong?
Of course, he cannot because he doesn’t know what it takes to win the
Presidential elections. The fault is in him, not in Afoko and Agyepong!!
I shall return…
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