Saturday 3 September 2022

Will Dr. Kwabena Duffur be elected as Ghana's next President in 2024?

There  is not a single creative-thinker, and patriotic Ghanaian, who is also discerning and independent-minded,  living in our homeland Ghana, today, who  does  not take a keen interest in politics.

Such individuals, also support the fight to make the financing  of political parties less opaque, as a way of reducing high-level corruption in our country.  

That is  because they are clear in their minds, that  shinning the spotlight on the financing of political parties, is a very effective way to help the fight to contain the baleful influence, of the powerful big-thieves-in-high-places, who initiate and dominate the state-capture  wheeling-and-dealing, egregiously   milking Mother Ghana dry, even as we speak.

The question to ponder over is: Why does it never occur to the membership of the National Democratic Congress  (NDC), that it will redound to the  longterm future well-being of their party, as a reformed  and transparently-funded political party, if they embraced the idea of setting up a charitable foundation, which  independently and transparently resources the party's  sharp-end-membership, at the (vital-for-victory) grassroots level?

Furthermore, for the sake of the vast  majority of the Ghanaian populace, has the time not now come, for former President Mahama, to help the nation that once gave him the opportunity to lead it, to return that favour? The bald fact, is that former President Mahama is a politician, who can legitimately serve  only one more term, in office, as President, if elected in 2024.

It is thus in that light that one pleads with him, to announce to the world, that he will not stand in the NDC's selection process to choose its presidential candidate, for the 2024 presidential election. He must then go on to tell the world that he will instead throw his weight behind Dr. Duffur, to ensure that the candidate of the  NDC wins that election, and is reelected in the 2028 presidential election, too.

Duffur is by far the most formidable candidate for the NDC. His rectitude, credentials and outstanding  record/legacy, as the best ever finance minister that  Mother Ghana  has ever had, thus far, since we rid our country  of its canny and ruthless  British occupiers, in 1957, will make him unbeatable in the December 2024 presidential election.

That, dear reader, is the  best way for former President Mahama  
to help both Mother Ghana, and the NDC, as an elderly statesman, who will share his rich experience with the next president of Ghana, after the December 2024 presidential election, Dr. Kwabena Duffur.

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