In order to avoid the future chaos that the doom-mongers amongst the membership of the elitist New Patriotic Party (NPP) predict in December 2012, perhaps we ought to simply change the way we elect Ghanaian presidents: From the present constitutional requirement of “50 percent plus one” to one in which to become president, a candidate must win a majority of the votes cast in more than five, of the 10 regions of Ghana.
Surely, that will force all our future presidents to stop engaging in tribal politics when in office – as they will have to court the support of all ethnic groups in Ghana, and also spread development countrywide, to ensure that they have widespread support in all the 10 regions of Ghana: to get them re-elected for a second term as president?
We will then definitely see a permanent end to the nonsense on bamboo stilts, which the kind of tribal-supremacist Kokofu-football-politricks that went on during the Kufuor-era, represents, in our homeland Ghana: the unitary Republic of diverse-ethnicity, which is such a beacon of hope for many in Africa and was founded by that great pan-Africanist, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah! One hopes that the great and the good of Mother Ghana, who are currently reviewing the 1992 Constitutionl, will take this simple idea on board: as it will definitely make a difference in the way those who are elected in future, to serve as our presidents, conduct themselves during their tenure of office. A word to the wise...
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