Why Is The New Patriotic Party So Desperate To Hang On To Power At All Costs?

If the powerful tribal-supremacist crooks who have dominated the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in the eight years they have been in power for,  think that they are going to get away with their crimes against Ghana, by bribing the electorate, they had better revise their notes quickly.

A young taxi driver’s comment about the NPP‘s amazing apologies to Ghanaians, and the government’s incredible u-turns in making a number of sudden policy reverses, ought to be food for thought for all those in the NPP, who are so desperate to hang on to power at all costs.

The young man (and his friends!) wondered aloud just what it was that the NPP was so desperate to hide, that it was even prepared to reduce fuel prices all of a sudden; let imprisoned commercial drivers out of jail; refund fines imposed by the law courts to errant commercial drivers; allow banned wax prints into the country again; etc. etc., in order to win the presidential run-off.

Although he had voted for Nana Akufo-Addo in the first election, he said he thought it prudent to vote for Professor Mills in the run-off - so that the nation would finally discover just what it was that the NPP big-wigs were trying to prevent Ghanaians from discovering: “Hmmm, ayesei ye, djama womu epra yen paa ankasa!” (For those who don’t speak Twi, to paraphrase him: Perhaps they have done a great deal of damage financially to our country!).

As to the rumour now doing the rounds that some of the NPP members were apparently claiming that they could have easily stolen the election if they had wanted to, because they had the support of the high command of the security services,  he wondered whether the NPP's big-wigs thought they had the support of the junior ranks in the security services support them too.

He was keen to discover just what is it that they wanted to hide from Ghanaians. To him it was one of  the main  reasons why so many Ghanaians wanted change – the same reason why they were going to vote for change too in the run-off of the presidential election!).

Whatever happens on 28th December, 2008, the fact of the matter is that since we are not operating a parliamentary system of government, constitutionally, it is the largest single party in parliament, as opposed to which parties can form a coalition of a majority in parliament, that will occupy the majority benches and choose the speaker, the first deputy speaker, as well as all the chairpersons of the various parliamentary committees.

Thus, in that sense, change has already occurred in Ghanaian politics, as it happens – and the National Democratic Congress (NDC), will play the oversight role of the legislature in our democracy, and protect the national interest at all times, going forward into the future!

The powerful tribal-supremacist crooks who have wielded such power in the presidency under President Kufuor, had better get used to the idea that they will never be able to steal the election on 28th December 2008.

And if they want some free advice, let them resign themselves to their fate and prepare mentally for longish spells in jail, as they are held to account by a nation totally fed up with their Kokofu-football politricks. 

Ditto fed up with the NPP's leaders' arrogance; their sophistry; the unfathomable greed they have constantly displayed throughout their tenure; and their engaging in grand larceny on a scale we have seldom seen in our country’s chequered history, thus far.

Hmm, Ghana – enti yeawiaye paa, enia? Asem ebaba debi ankasa! May God bless and protect our homeland Ghana, always. Long live freedom! Long live Ghana!