Martin Amidu's Moral Authority Could Eventually Make Him President

Until he succeeded in obtaining verdicts  from the Supreme Court,   that Waterville BV Holdings and Isofoton SA should return  monies  paid to them,  when they secured judgement-debt orders against the government of Ghana, from the lower courts, Mr. Martin Amidu was seen by many of Ghana's cynics,  as  a man who had needlessly sacrificed his political career,  for a people  who were undeserving  of his  honest stewardship whiles in government -  because most of them were themselves corrupt individually.


Having achieved a feat unparalleled in Ghana's political history  -  by twice securing, as a private citizen,  judgements from the Supreme Court,  ordering the return to  government chest,  of various  sums paid out as a result of  lower court orders,   as judgment-debt to Waterville (Euro 25 millions) and Isofoton (US$325,497) - Mr. Martin Amidu's moral authority in the Ghanaian political world,  and society generally,  is now greater than that of any contemporary Ghanaian politician currently resident in Ghana.


Today, it has become fashionable to heap praises on Mr. Amidu - yet precious few spoke on his behalf when he was dismissed from office by the late President Mills. Such is is life in a nation full of moral cowards and hypocrites.


(It is one of the main reasons why some of those who stood up for him through their writing,  when powerful self-seekers-in-high-places  conspired to remove him from office as Attorney General -  for wanting to expose corruption at the very heart of the Mills administration - have refrained from commenting on his famous victories in the Supreme Court.)


The New Patriotic Party's Mr. P. C. Appiah-Ofori,  missed the point,  when he said he would recommend that Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo,  appoints Mr. Martin Amidu to his cabinet,  as  his Attorney General, if the December 2012 presidential election petition currently before the Supreme Court, eventually  opens the way for the New Patriotic Party's  December 2012 presidential candidate  to become Ghana's president.


It is others who will  serve in a future administration led by Mr. Martin Amidu - not the other way round.
What seems to escape the  P. C. Appiah-Oforis, is that rare in the Ghanaian society of today, Mr. Martin Amidu is trusted by virtually all  Ghanaians,  as an honest and principled politician who seeks the welfare of ordinary Ghanaians and their nation.


They see  his type as the sort of politician Ghana ought to have - and his activism as a  harbinger of a new kind of  politics that might eventually evolve in Ghana.


As a result of Mr. Martin Amidu's moral authority, today,  he dwarfs  all his contemporaries in the world of Ghanaian politics.


It is that rare quality, his moral authority -  most precious of any politician's  personal attributes globally -  that   has won  Mr. Martin Amidu  the admiration  of a majority of Ghanaians.


Whatever their party affiliation, ordinary people  yearn for someone like him  to serve them as Ghana's leader - to finally bring to an end the ongoing brutal gang-rape of Mother Ghana by our nation's educated urban elites.


Indeed, that is why  it is not beyond the realms of  possibility that Mr. Martin Amidu's moral authority - in a nation in which corruption is said to be widespread and endemic -  might very well put him at the head of a one-nation cross-party coalition,  at some point, which will propel him to the presidency:  winning  a landslide victory in a future presidential election.


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