PRESIDENT MILLS MUST REUNITE THE NDC - BEFORE IT BECOMES TOO LATE TO DO SO!

If, like me, dear reader, you haven't forgotten the many examples of naked tribalism, endless nepotism and the abuse of power for the welfare of family and friends, which went on during the tenure of the Kufuor regime (and literally enabled a well-connected few, exploiting top-secret insider-information, to grow super-rich overnight - at the expense of our nation and it's hapless taxpayers!), and are therefore keen to ensure that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) does not return to power any time soon, nothing could be more worrying and disheartening, than the continuing inability of the National Democratic Congress' (NDC) two main factions to unite - months after the party's July 2011 Sunyani national delegates congress to select its candidate for the 2012 presidential election.

One finds the deliberately alienating actions of the NDC's two rival faction's rather difficult to understand. Do those (mostly-too-clever-by-half self-seekers!) riding on the coattails of President Mills, and the many smooth-talking opportunists surrounding Mrs Rawlings (who doubtless see her as an excellent business opportunity!), not understand that they will get nowhere politically on their own - and that their party faces certain defeat in December 2012 if they continue attacking each other with such venom openly: and fail to engage each other with a view to fashioning a working relationship that will ensure their party's success in the December 2012 elections?

How can a group of so many highly-intelligent individuals carry on destroying their own party with such reckless abandon, in a manner that even far less intelligent people would never dream of attempting - let alone actually go ahead to waste money and precious energy breathing life into such utter madness and obtuseness?

The time has come for President Mills to show that he is a man of mettle, for a change - and ensure that the NDC is reunited: as he promised he would ensure happened, after he won the primary to select his party's candidate for the December 2012 presidential election.

It is he, not those purposefully-hard-of-hearing self-seekers who surround him (and appear to have literally barricaded him inside the Osu Castle - to ensure that precious few outsiders can go to see him for one-on-one meetings), whom posterity will hold responsible for the rift in their confounded party.

President Mills must understand that his legacy is slowly but surely being destroyed by a few selfish people around him - out to profit personally from his tenure. If he wants to be re-elected for a second term as Ghana's president, he must take the necessary steps to reunite his party - before it becomes too late to do so. A word to the wise...

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