Does The NDC Need A New Beginning In Which Honest And Principled Servant-Leader-Types Dominate And Run Their Party - With Naana Opoku-Agyemang And Zenator Rawlings As Presidential Candidate And Running Mate Respectively?

That our nation needs a strong opposition party able to offer Ghanaians sensible policy alternatives and prevent tyranny by the majority from occuring in our homeland Ghana is not in doubt.

The question then is: Can the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ever return to power again? The simple answer is: Only if former President Mahama and all the corrupt and arrogant rogues amongst those  who surrounded him during his presidency are banished from the NDC permanently.

The plain truth is that if it is ever to become a viable political party able to win power again, the NDC must first disown and then root out all the corrupt elements in the party, whose greed and dishonesty - during the 8 years that the party governed Ghana - lost their party the trust of the vast majority of ordinary people in Ghana and led to its humiliating defeat in the December 2016 presidential and parliamentary  elections.

After banishing Mahama & Co the NDC must then focus on fashioning creative policy alternatives that will lead to a fairer and more equitable society in Ghana - and by the sheer force of the logic underpinning those policy alternatives force the government to adopt them for the benefit of ordinary people: who will always remember who actually originated those policy alternatives adopted by government.

Above all, the NDC's leaders need to understand clearly that there is a world of difference between constantly criticising  a hugely popular President Akufo-Addo, and criticising the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as an entity - which alas  is beginning to show all  the signs of ending up becoming a very corrupt political party full of greedy vampire-party-hacks  itself too.

Many ordinary Ghanaians - including even me -  resent the needless and endless knee-jerk criticism   of President Akufo-Addo at every turn by NDC  propagandists, because such citizens  see him as a creative and incorruptible  leader, who is protecting the nation's best interests in terms of creating a Ghana in which free education will bring about social mobility for the poor,  and protecting  the remainder of our natural heritage for the benefit of present and future generations - in cracking-down hard on galamseyers and the other criminal syndicates brutally gang-raping Mother Nature so brutally, by engaging in illegal sand-winning and illegal logging across rural Ghana.

To secure the party's future, the NDC's present leaders and most influential members must set up a think tank  as soon as practicable - to come up with the radical and creative policy alternatives they need to offer ordinary Ghanaians. Whatever be the case, they must  study and leverage Australian Professor Bill Mitchell's radical full employment ideas. Bill Mitchell is a Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at Australia's University of Newcastle.

Everything else that ordinary Ghanaians need will flow from full employment: free education from kindergarten to tertiary level; free quality healthcare; well-designed and well-built  affordable housing in new green cities; expanded and modernised infrastructure; etc., etc.

Finally, the NDC needs to think the unthinkable: select Professor Naana Opoku-Agyeman and Dr. Zenator Agyemang Rawlings as their presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively for the 2020 elections by acclamation - to signal a new beginning in which honest and principled servant-leader-types dominate and run the party. Even if they lose the 2020 presidential election, they would have gained sufficient  exposure and name-recoginition nationwide, to give them a headstart for the 2024 presidentail election. Food for thought.