IS IT NOT WRONG TO INSULT THE SPOUSES OF CANDIDATES RUNNING FOR OFFICE – ESPECIALLY THOSE WHO AREN’T RUNNING FOR OFFICE THEMSELVES TOO?

Nana Biakoye, O, Massa, why? I (and many others too!) probably loathe the NPP more than you do - but can you tell an ignoramus like me, what exactly was the point of your piece? The concerned person, who pointed your astonishing piece out to me, actually described it, as, quote: "...such a hate-filled diatribe." End of quote.

I refer to your article entitled: “NPP; Stop Skating On Thin Ice” (which, incidentally, makes you look suspiciously like a plagiarist - as a large chunk of it is the same as the title of one of my old articles!), which appeared in the features web page of www.ghanaweb.com on 27th November, 2008.

Massa, surely, if you wanted to convince the independent-minded Ghanaians whose votes will make a difference between victory and defeat for Professor Mills, and who have still not made up their minds as to who to vote for as president in this December’s election (even at this late hour!), it would have been far better for you to have concentrated on the issues that matter to ordinary people - and showed them how the good professor would resolve their many difficulties if they voted for him to become Ghana's next president?

Would it not have been more beneficial to the cause of the good professor if you had used your opportunity to convince people like me, for example, that he would seek to create a more equitable society in Ghana than the elitist NPP has done thus far: having succeeded in turning our nation into one in which, today, there are such huge disparities in wealth?

Massa, would it not have been far more effective if you had tried to convince the independent-minded voters that Professor Mills will ensure that his family and that of his political appointees do not use their political connections to amass fortunes during his tenure - and stop them from repeating the unfortunate example many say our current president and the greedy and tribalistic crowd that surrounds him, have set, in our public life?

Finally, Massa, have you never heard of the phrase "their step-children” to describe the children who previously-married individuals who come together when they remarry, bring into their new union? Surely, if Nana Akufo-Addo's wife isn't running for president, her character isn't an issue at all, for ordinary Ghanaians, is it?

Has she informed you that she intends to set up the NPP equivalent of the 31st December Women’s Movement: and set about using state resources to grow it, if her husband were to become Ghana’s next president, by any chance - in which case why haven’t you shared this confidence with all of us: as that is a matter that would certainly be of concern to ordinary Ghanaians?

Massa, although I am a nobody, may I humbly suggest that you are a little more charitable when you write about the spouses of politicians who are running for office - so that God will smile a little more kindly on you too? Please, leave out such insults - especially to the self-respecting spouses of politicians: who themselves, aren't running for any office. Haba!

Presumably, one would be more than right in saying that you are one of the few human beings on the surface of the planet Earth, without any character-blemish at all, personally?

Well, I freely admit to being full of faults as a human being: as well as being a super-buffoon, a world-class ignoramus and a semi-literate of the very worst kind - to save you from having to wear yourself out, unnecessarily, heaping insults on poor old me, too: since that seems to be your favourite game!

Massa, I am sure that there are a few independent-minded voters, who will say to themselves, that Professor Mills, whom all Ghanaian acknowledge to be a good and decent fellow, and one of the few honest men in Ghanaian politics, today, doesn't deserve supporters like you.

Well, hopefully, in addition to your many other ‘virtues’, one hopes that you are not also one of the many "My-party-my-tribe-right-or-wrong" myrmidons: who wear blinkers permanently and are too thick to think and too blind to see - and whose blind and unthinking support of political parties, encourages our political class to continue worshipping at the cult of the mediocre?

Hmmm, Ghana - eyeasem oo: enti yeawiaye paa, enia? Asem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!