The newly-elected presidential candidate of the Convention People's Party (CPP), Mr. Ivor Kobina Greenstreet, deserves to be congratulated for his stunning victory.
In his own inimitable fashion, he is a spellbinding speaker, who exudes the same sense of moral authority that Germany's wheelchair-bound finance minister, Wolfgang Schauble, does - and, like Germany's finance minister, Greenstreet also has a powerful intellect.
And, no doubt, just as Herr Schauble is an inspiration to many a physically-challeged European, so too will Greenstreet become a role model for many of Africa's physically-challenged. And, rarely for an African politician, he has 'street credibility' in abundance. Excellent.
Ivor Greenstreet must now move quickly to reach out to those he defeated - and ask all of them to play a frontline role in helping to further strengthen the party, and take its message of making Ghana a self-reliant nation that harnesses its resources for the benefit of all its people, across the country,
Having now selected their candidate for the presidential election scheduled for this November, one hopes that all the CPP's members, and its supporters across the country, will put the rancour generated by the battle to select the candidate to represent the party in that election, firmly behind them.
Since all four contestants had agreed to accept the results, and support the eventual winner, it is such a pity that the advisors of Samia Yaabah Nkrumah, did not seize the moment of her loss, to turn her defeat into an opportunity for her to capture the imagination of Ghanaians.
They could have done so, if they had gotten her to recompose herself quickly, after being defeated by Greenstreet, and got her to congratulate him immediately after his victory was announced, and, after declaring that she would support him wholeheartedly, gone on to implore the rest of the party's members, and Ghanaians generally, to give Greenstreet a chance to realise Nkrumah's vision for Ghana - by voting massively for him in November.
Such a bold and upbeat concession speech would have endeared her to ordinary Ghanaians - and earned her their respect. Her advisors missed a golden opportunity to portray her to the nation as a humble and very special human being, a generous-spirited politician and large-hearted political leader. Pity.
That notwithstanding, there is work to be done for Mother Ghana, and the long-suffering people of our dear country, by the CPP. And there is no time to waste.
We must change the nature of today's dog-eat-dog society, by transforming it into a more caring and sharing one - before its egregious lies and contradictions, its totally unacceptable extremes in wealth, its unjustifiable inequalities and capricious injustices devour all of us all in a massive fireball: folliowing a huge social explosion.
Alas, such is the plight of our homeland Ghana, and its people, today, that all genuine followers of Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah must put aside personal ambition, and pursuing the pariochial interests of the various Nkrumahist political parties they support - and labour hard to arrive at a consensus that will enable them to finally unite.
Ghana desperately needs to realise Nkrumah's vision of an industrialised and prosperous society, that is an African equivalent of Scandinavia's egalitarian societies.
Above all, this must become a fair and equitable society with a system that ensures and guarantees gender parity. Let us set an example to the rest of the world by reserving half of the seats in Parliament for women - from across the spectrum.
To achieve all those ends, Nkrumahists must first win power, to enable them implement policies that will rescue Mother Ghana from the clutches of the self-seeking vampire-elites that have allowed our nation to be exploited for the benefit of a greedy and powerful few.
Vested interests have held Nkrumah's Ghana to ransom for far too long. We must take our nation and its resources back from all of them without fail.
For those in Ghana who are scared of the repercussions of such a move, one's humble advice, is that they must sound out the leaders of one of the world's biggest investment fund managers, BlackRock, about how such a move to right egregious wrongs against Ghanaians would play out with them.
There is nothing to fear - today's biggest fund managers want the companies they invest in to be ethical and fair whenever dealing with developing world nations. If we renegotiate new win-win agreements, what has each side got to lose in the long-run, I ask?
Why don't all the leaders of Ghana's political parties invite BlackRock's managing director and head of corporate governance, Ms. Michelle Edkins, to Ghana, for a conversation about such a development - and use the Kosmos and ENI agreements as case studies: since both agreements have been controversial?
We must renegotiate every single agreement that the Republic of Ghana has signed, which is not in the interest of our nation and all its people - and replace all of them them with win-win agreements. There cannot be a new paradigm in Ghana without that.
That is why Nkrumahists must heed the call for them to unite and win power again - and be put in a position to finally implement policies that will be protective of the national interest at all material times: and use their mandate to actively seek the well-being of our nation and promote the welfare of all Ghanaians, going forward into the future.
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