For many Ghanaian Progressives, until the rebuilding of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's Convention Peoples Party (CPP) is completed - in a Ghana that is a functioning multi-party constitutional democracy - supporting a National Democratic Congress (NDC) regime, no matter how distasteful some might find it, is preferable to supporting a party such as the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
Alas, as we all know, that party traces its roots to Dr. J. B. Danquah. He was an elitist who believed in inherited privilege - which is the greatest enemy of meritocracy. He was also a self-seeking quisling and an Akan tribal-supremacist politician.
And on top of all those negatives, was also a paid agent of foreign powers - imperialist nations that were bent on exploiting our country's natural resources on their own terms. With the help of politicians like Dr. Danquah, they hoped our nation would remain a client-state of theirs permanently - run by pliant puppets of theirs: till the very end of time.
For all his intellectual brilliance, Dr. J. B. Danquah was a bigoted snob, who often despised non-royals and was contemptuous of virtually all non-Akans - the selfsame prejudices secretly shared by many of the most influential of his political descendants: particularly the NPP's "real owners"!
Such narrow-minded backwardness in the mental outlook and world-view of Ghanaian politicians, ought never to be accepted in today's world - which to all intents and purposes, has become a truly global village, in the internet age.
And that is why no true pan-Africanist and Nkrumaist will countenance the enterprise Ghana, a unitary republic and our ethnically-diverse homeland, in which no one tribe is superior or inferior to another, falling into such divisive hands ever again.
Who, for instance, wants the tribal Chieftain of a tribal-supremacist cabal, dominating a particular regime in power, at any given point in time in Ghana's history, going forward, to be arbitrarily imposed on our nation, as a de facto monarch of Nkrumah's Ghana - as the perfidious Kufuor & Co., sought to do whiles in power, I ask?
Never again will such an intolerable outrage be tolerated in our homeland Ghana. Period. That is why for most Ghanaian Progressives, nothing is more frustrating than the seeming lack of any sense of urgency, at all, being shown by so many in the Mills administration.
Ditto their continuing failure to grasp the importance of bringing about the necessary changes in the administration - which will strengthen the NDC regime sufficiently, to make it possible for it to ensure that President Mills is re-elected for a second term in December 2012.
As an irreverent friend said to me recently: "With respect, God neither stands as a candidate, nor votes in elections anywhere in the world - not even in the Vatican: to elect the Pope. And as his son Jesus Christ made it so abundantly clear, when he famously said give unto Caesar what is his due (to paraphrase him!), Heaven expects temporal powers to take care of the business of governing and managing nation-states - whiles it deals with the important business of managing the universe and promoting the spiritual well-being of the cosmos. Ghanaians under pressure from a harsh economic climate, certainly do not want to hear President Mills telling the world that God is Ghana's president - and that he 'makes presidents'. He does not. Period. Ghanaians cast votes to elect their president - not God: whose name does not appear on ballot papers in presidential elections in Ghana, either."
The truth of the matter, dear reader, is that it is time President Mills sat up, and acted decisively to save his party from certain defeat in December 2012.
And it is also time that the NDC's many highly-intelligent individuals amongst its top-brass, understood clearly, that their party will be defeated in the December 2012 elections, if their regime does not send a clear signal to ordinary Ghanaians that between it and the NPP, it is the only major political party in Ghana, which will deal effectively with rooting out corruption when in power - and that, that, a priori, means it will ensure that all the revenues from oil and natural gas production off our nation's shores, are used to help transform our nation into an African equivalent of the egalitarian societies of Scandinavia.
Above all, they must make it absolutely clear to ordinary Ghanaians, that the NDC will prevent our oil and natural gas deposits from ending up as the personal assets of dishonest and crooked individuals acting as legal fronts for greedy politicians - as happened during the Kufuor-era, when well-connected private individuals, who neither paid a pesewa upfront nor contributed a cent in development and production costs, somehow ended up with a share in the jubilee oilfield.
The complacency being shown by some in the NDC government is hard to fathom. Are they so intoxicated by power that they do not see it literally slipping out of their hands? Or have some of them got their long snouts so deep in the trough of awoof-and-unaccountable-sika, that they do not see or hear the disenchantment of ordinary people in Ghana - many now totally fed up with their colourless regime?
The honest and humble President Mills - who, as is well known, is one of the few individuals-with-influence amongst Ghana's educated urban ruling elites, who actually cares about the plight of ordinary people - must sit up before it is too late. He and the advisors he listens to and trusts, must understand that it is pointless for the current president of the Republic of Ghana, to put his faith in God to rescue his regime from certain defeat in December 2012. It won't happen.
With respect, God gave all of us brains - and it is up to those who are enjoying the perks of office in the Mills administration to have the nous and gumption to devise strategies that will enable them fight and win the December 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections.
And here is some free advice from a patriot who does not expect any reward (financial or otherwise!) for the advice he gives, which they can begin with: They can put clear blue water between the NDC and the other political parties in Ghana, and steal a march on the opposition NPP, by doing the smartest thing that any group of politicians in their present predicament can do - the NDC regime of President Mills ought to, as soon as practicable, if it wants to be returned to power again, publicly publish the assets of all the appointees of President Mills and their spouses (from the president himself, down to the district chief executive of the smallest district in Ghana!) - and promise to do same upon leaving office.
At the very least, that will restore some faith in this regime amongst many ordinary people in Ghana - the perfidious NPP "Enkoyie" propaganda notwithstanding. A word to the wise...
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