Tuesday 29 November 2011

DR. SEKOU NKRUMAH: SILENCE IS GOLDEN - WHERE SAMIAH NKRUMAH & THE CPP ARE CONCERNED!

Dr Sekou Nkrumah is reported to have said that the Convention Peoples Party's (CPP) chairperson, Ms Samiah Yaaba Nkrumah, is "inexperienced" politically - and is apparently being manipulated by others in the party for their own ends. Incredible.

With respect, Dr. Sekou Nkrumah must not underestimate Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's daughter, Ms Samiah Yaaba Nkrumah. She is the most politically astute of all Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's children - and certainly far more mature as a politician, than Dr. Sekou Nkrumah is.

Samiah is very much her own woman. That is why she, and not him, happens to be the CPP's chairperson. Doubtless, there are the cynical and the uncharitable, who will say that Sekou Nkrumah abondoned the CPP because he lacked political maturity.

As a wag who spotted him at the Labone Coffee Shop not too long ago, said to me just this afterrnoon: "Kofi, one cannot imagine Samia going to sit at the Labone Coffee Shop to have coffee with Kweku Baako - and falling under his spell to such an extent, that in return for a mere offer, of a vague and unspecified possible future role, in an administration led by Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, she would come out publicly, to endorse the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) presidential candidate for the December 2012 election."

I am sure it is pure nonsense on bamboo stilts, and that there is not an iota of truth in it - but there are those who will say that, that someone could misread even an innocent social engagement of his, with Kweku Baako, at the Labone Coffee Shop, itself speaks volumes about his place in contemporary Ghanaian politics.

The fact of the matter, is that when it mattered most, Sekou Nkrumah abandoned ship - whiles Samia Yaaba Nkrumah, on the other hand, not only stayed in the party of Nkrumah, but has now taken over the position of captain, to steer the CPP into calmer waters: and bring it to its home port, safely. That is maturity in practice.


Above all, Sekou Nkrumah must not forget that he chose to leave the party of Nkrumah on his own free will - nobody forced him to do so. Talk, they say, is cheap - and Sekou does an awful lot of it, unfortunately. His sister, on the other hand, is working hard, on the ground, to revive the party of Nkrumah.

If he has nothing positive to say, he would be wise to follow the maxim, "silence is golden", in matters to do with the CPP - and Samiah Yaaba Nkrumah's role in it. At the end of the day, it is really none of his business, if truth be told. A word to the wise...

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