As a Progressive and an Nkrumaist, as well as a pan-Africanist and patriotic Ghanaian nationalist, who loves Mother Ghana passionately, I want to see the National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration returned to power again.
This is because it is the lesser-evil-choice to make, in the Ghana of today - and most definitely an election outcome that is in our country's long-term best interests.
A party that is empowering youth from disadvantaged backgrounds through the Local Enterprises & Skills Development Program (LESDEP), and thus bridging the gap between the rich and poor in Ghana so imaginatively, deserves to be returned to power again, for that initiative alone.
It will help defuse the time-bomb we sit on: the huge and unacceptable disparities in wealth, created by the unfathomable greed and self-serving elite-enriching policies of the perfidious Kufuor & Co., during the tenure of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) regime, between January 2001 and January 2009.
That yawning chasm between rich and poor in Ghana, will widen and be further entrenched, were the party of Kufuor & Co., the NPP, to be returned to power again, in the December presidential election. That must not be allowed to happen, at all costs: for the stability of the Ghanaian nation-state and the cohesion of our society.
Through the LESDEP an enterprise culture is being created amongst the poorest of the poor - and some of our nation's oil revenues ought to be sunk into it, for its effectiveness as a wealth-creating poverty-alleviation initiative - and as a result, the large underclass created by the results of massive elite-rip-off, during the days of the golden age of business for Kufuor & Co., is being offered hope for a better future and a real stake in the enterprise Ghana.
As it will be recalled, dear reader, even Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, NPP's presidential candidate for the December election, in a candid moment not too long ago, said that the economic transformation of Ghana, will take at least ten years.
So clearly (in my view), it is daft to change regimes midstream. However, in order to ensure that an NDC administration is re-elected to power again, both President Mills and Vice President Mahama must be made to step aside. That will give the NDC a clean-slate start - as well as the opportunity to renew and reinvent itself.
And it must be done quickly - and the sooner the better, for all concerned. President Mills and Vice President Mahama, must be replaced by a President Martin Amidu and Vice President Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings. That dream-ticket stands a very good chance of defeating the presidential candidate of the NPP, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo, in December.
It is said that a picture is worth more than a thousand words. Anyone who saw President Mills deliver the state of the nation address to Parliament a few days ago, must have had one common shared-experience - the evocation of a vivid mental picture, in their mind's eye, of a president seeming to be completely worn out physically and mentally, by the cares of office.
To the independent observer, he came across as a tired and unpopular old man going through the motions of doing his duty to his nation and people, at great emotional cost to himself. If truth be told, it was a sad and pitiful sight to behold - but as is traditionally the custom in this land of hypocrites, none present was willing to say so openly: even though everyone present was clearly embarrassed by the sad and embarrassing spectacle.
Surely, we must end this absurd national charade now - and spare a gentle and decent man: by allowing him to retire gracefully to a quiet life, and enjoy the evening of his life with his dear wife in peace?
For Mother Ghana's sake, President Mills must now be prised away from the many ruthless crooks, who are holding him hostage in the Osu Castle, for their own selfish ends - and want him to carry on regardless and fight the December presidential election.
The Minority in Parliament's cruel but necessary gesture, in flashing red cards en masse at the president, was most definitely done on the nation's behalf - and his NDC party must heed it now: for its own good and the president's peace of mind.
Anyone who listens to Ghanaian language current affairs radio phone-in programmes regularly, will be left in no doubt at all, that if the NDC allows itself to sleep-walk into the December 2012 presidential election, with President Mills as its candidate, he will be roundly defeated - in a landslide win by Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo.
And those who have also watched Net 2 TV's poisonous Street Parliament programme, will attest to the fact that there is clearly a groundswell of opinion amongst a majority of ordinary Ghanaians, that President Mills is not a suitable leader for Ghana, at all.
Indeed, his dismissal of the former Attorney General, Martin Amidu, sealed his fate, with most ordinary Ghanaians - and permanently doomed his chances for the presidential elections in December.
The issues around Martin Amidu's dismissal, crystalised, for the average citizen, long-held but diffused and unfocused feelings, that somehow President Mill's personality and character traits, did not make him the kind of decisive and charismatic individual, that most Ghanaians want as the leader of their country.
The dismissal of Martin Amidu was seen by many ordinary Ghanaians, as an attempt to cover up the truth about the Woyome judgement-debt payment scandal - and to put a lid on the gargantuan crimes being committed against the people of Ghana, by some of the individuals surrounding Mills, at the Osu Castle.
The picture that that grave error of political judgement - Martin Amidu's dismissal and the daft Kweku Anase explanation for same by the government's PR team - conjured up, in the average person in Ghana's mind's eye, a picture of a weak-willed man reluctant or unable to act decisively as a Ghanaian president should in such circumstances.
In the view of most ordinary people in Ghana, President Mills is literally being held hostage, much against his will, in the Osu Castle - by greedy criminal-types (President Rawlings' "greedy bastards"): bent on using the period of the president's tenure, as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, to enable them rip Mother Ghana off, on an unprecedented scale, and send their personal net worth into the stratosphere.
There is a general perception amongst most Ghanaians, that Mills and Mahama have failed our nation and their NDC party - by presiding over the worst political shambles (of an administration and party in total disarray) in our nation's history.
It might be an unfair assessment of the administration's many good works spread across the nation - but that perception exists nonetheless: and in politics, perception actually amounts to reality, for many voters, come election day.
The faction of the NDC that is Rawlings personified, to ordinary Ghanaians, must understand clearly, that their party faces an existentialist crisis - which also has within it, the gem of a perfect solution to the mess created by that weak duo, President Mills and Vice President Mahama: and their disastrous always-endeavour-to-please-all-at-all-costs duet-of-disaster and their nation-wrecking "Fa ema Onyame" philosophy of life.
Short of putting a gun to his head, Rawlings and Co. must find a way to force Mills to resign immediately. And as soon Vice President Mahama is sworn in as president, and Martin Amidu is appointed to the position of vice president, Mahama too must be forced to resign as president. Nana Konadu Agyemang Rawlings should then become a President Amidu's vice-president.
Perhaps ex-President Rawlings can then happily go to his grave, knowing that in depriving Ghana of the leadership of a principled northerner by removing President Limman from power in 1981, he finally gave Ghanaians yet another honest president, from the north - by removing the hapless Mills and ensuring that Martin Amidu replaced him to lead the NDC to victory, in the December presidential and parliamentary elections.
Rawlings & Co. must not leave the removal of Mills and Mahama a day longer than is necessay, if they want their party to remain in office after the December elections - for, alas, the NDC will disintegrate were it to lose power in the December elections. A word to the wise...
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