The nation waited,
with baited breath, before and during the NPP-delegates congress, and Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo was, once again, given an overwhelming endorsement by to lead
NPP into the 2012 general elections.
This
interest was generated due to the unprecedented number of well-qualified and quality
of men who contested for the position and I’m really grateful to all media
houses that covered the event to enable Ghanaians get a feel of the action,
through their respective live broadcasts, kudos!
As
we all congratulated Nana Addo for emerging the winner, we never lost sight of
the amazing political maturity exhibited by all the other contestants, who are
now integral part of Nana’s campaign. This is surely a positive development
which we never witnessed in a post “FONKAR-GAME” NDC congress to elect saint
Atta-Mills in sunyani.
Again,
I thank all these other aspirants, for pledging support for Nana Addo on that
day and I’m glad Nana has included them in his campaign, and I know they are
going to be inextricably linked to Nana Addo’s government because, these are
dignified and very knowledgeable individuals.
Nana,
in his acceptance speech, on that day, looked dignified and sounded very much
presidential and it is my belief that he will bring to bear, his enormous
political experience when elected president, in order to bring economic relief
to Ghanaians, by building on the foundation laid by president Kuffour.
The
nation, again, experienced a high level of anxiety on the night of 28th
march, 2012, when Dr. Mahamoud Bawumia landed at KIA from his base in Zambia, amidst
speculations that his trip back home was for the purpose of him being announced
as the running mate for Nana Addo. Dr Bawumia was actually asked by journalists
at the airport, as to whether his home-coming had anything to do with his
running mate amibition.And as expected, and being smart person as he is, he
skillfully dodged the question and only ended up keeping the nation on edge.
Dr. Bawamia unveiled
The
following day, at NPP national headquarters at asylum-down (Accra), Dr. Mahamoud Bawaumia was again
chosen by Nana Addo to partner him for the upcoming December general elections.
Ghana is currently blessed with a ‘senior’ journalist who always receive
letters cataloguing concerns of NPP-MP’s and other NPP party officials who want
their voice heard.interestingly,letters by officials of Atta-Mills-led NDC,which
this individual is deeply in-love with, never deem it fit to send their concerns
to him for publication.Now,you see the gargantuan irony here?
This
individual supports Atta-Mills with all his hear and therefore will never do
anything to rock the boat. As such, the current NDC intra-party wild inferno
has continue to be invisible to him, while imaginary petty squabbles in the NPP
are presented as looming unprecedented apocalypse.Now,if this is what
journalism is all about, then trust me, some of us wouldn’t bother going
settling for the infamous dark days of “culture of silence”!!!
When
he was first chosen to partner Nana Addo in 2008, many were those who expressed
concern on the grounds that Dr. Bawumia wasn’t well known within the rank and
file of the New Patriotic Party. Others were of the view that there were some particular
individuals around the flag bearer, who were very much instrumental in Nana’s
choice of Dr. Bawumia, and therefore not very happy with the idea.
This
whining seems to be happening this time too. But whatever it is, I would urge
all members of NPP to burry their differences and rally behind the flag bearer
and “the chosen one”, Dr. Bawumia, for the task ahead. The Atta-Mills-led
government has totally failed and the good people of this nation have already
made up their minds to throw them out at the polls on 7th December.
However, we must not lose sight of the fact that, though NDC has no knowledge
in governance because they are simply not critical thinkers. Members of NDC
delight in pipe-dream-thinking when it comes to governance but are highly
efficient in the area of winning elections through gargantuan electoral fraud.
Dealing with
complacency
This
characteristic electoral fraudulence prowess of NDC therefore presents NPP with
a great challenge which we can only be surmounted when members solidly united
behind the party’s ticket.Already,a vagabond like Nii lantey vanderpuye,who
ironically is at the right hand of saint Atta-Mills at the seat of government
of a nation being superintended by the Almighty God Himself, has openly said he
will never obey EC regulation that mandates all of us to desist from physically
preventing people from registering but rather fill complain forms. This kind of
mind-set, coming from no other person than the operation director of saint
Atta-Mills, must certainly serve as a fore-taste of what is in-store for us, as
a people, during the coming December elections.
I
know Nana Addo is an astute politician with a sound sense of judgment and will
therefore be able to adequately deal with situations where some individuals,
with selfish interest, attempt to isolate him from the party foot-soldiers in
particular, and the citizenry, as a whole. A proper channel of communication
must be established between Nana Addo’s offices to receive every single
information coming from grass-root members of the party, and as best as
possible, Nana Addo must be accessible.
The
credentials of Dr. Bawumia are a public knowledge now. I believe he is a very
knowledgeable person and will therefore be able to handle the position of a
vice president and I wish him well. The best pre-requisite of one’s ability to
run a nation, is being an impartial judge and a good administrator and I have
absolute confidence in Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia to deliver as vice president.
However, I would urge Dr. Bawumia not to be perturbed by political desperados,
who are bereft of ideas and therefore always engage in personal attacks and
pointless “bla blaa blaaa”, as Nana puts it.
Mrs. Bawumia and
public life
I
very much ‘empathize’ with Dr. Bawumia’s young, beautiful and innocent-looking
wife, Mrs. Samira Bawumia, about how she has been dramatically propelled into
the lime-light. Madam, please take heart because the rank and file of NPP
family is very much proud of you and that you will soon get used to the public
attention. I really liked the way your little girl, Missy, was taking refuge
behind you in a picture published on page 13 of 16/8/8 edition of the Daily Guide news paper.
I learnt that picture was taken when the press besieged your home, soon after
her daddy was confirmed for the position of a running mate in 2008. Kindly tell
little Missy she will soon be moving to the flag-staff house where she can have
some relative privacy away from the prowling cameras of all these paparazzi, o.k.?
I
learnt Dr. Bawumia’s wife is a daughter of Alhaji Ahmed Ramadan (Chairman of
PNC party). Now if it is true, then this must send a clear signal to those
executives and foot-soldiers of all political parties, whose judgments are
always clouded by dogmatic politicking and therefore take delight in doom-mongering,
to appreciate the fact that we are all one people with a common destiny, though
we might find ourselves at different ends of the political divide.
My expectations of
Nana Addo’s presidency
Nana
Addo will certainly be sworn-in as president on 7th December, 2013,
and for me, I would like to see the eight years of his administration being
centered on proper human development devoid of empty political jargons, and
harness our unlimited natural resources, the latest being oil, for serious economic
lift-off in order to continue to enjoy the trust of the people, come December
2016.
Our
next group of leaders must learn to be welcoming to, and, comfortable with
people who will tell them the truth. They must not surround themselves with sycophantic
charlatans who will literally, crawl over broken-bottles just to touch the hem
of public officials’ cloak, with baseless gossips about others!
Crop
of leaders under Nana Addo administration must not create fertile grounds for
their close associates to engage in influence peddling, which always results in
bringing offices of otherwise decent public office holders into disrepute and
public derision.
There
must be total co-ordination, co-operation and openness in governance.Retrogresive
tendencies like selfishness, cronyism, nepotism and aggressive hero-worshiping,
which has become the order of the day, right under the nose of saint Atta-Mills,
must be abhorred by officials of Nana Addo presidency, since we are determined
to make a giant leap into the future in order to be counted among comity of
nations.
Corruption
must be fought with all the force we can command, so that, we can stop the
current gargantuan profuse bleeding of our nation’s coffers by way of
unprecedented “woyome-gate” thievery,disquised as judgment debt in order to
make more resources available to be chandelled into empowering our noble and
enterprising citizenry.
The
eight years of president Kuffour administration laid a very sound economic
foundation which has callously been destroyed by incompetent Atta-Mills and his
bunch of ‘chop-chop’ crusaders.But,I have the firm belief that Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo’s eight year rule will be very much capable of turning things round
through pragmatic leadership, big dream approach to governance and restore the
dignity of every Ghanaian by way of putting our current teaming unemployed
youth into productive work and making avenues
for quality/affordable education to every child.
We,
as citizens, must also eschew lassitude, corruption, sycophancy, bad
environmental practices and unnecessary splitting of hairs over issues of
national importance. We must rather learn to love one-another, and also, love
our beautiful country because, NPP in power with Nana in the saddle, Ghana is surely
destined for best of times!
Nana
has chosen Dr. Bawumia, and true to NPP party’s character, the rank and file,
backed by well oiled party machinery, has resolved to unite behind the ticket
for a resounding victory on December
7th 2012.
The
rich political experience of Nana Addo Dankwah Akofo Addo, coupled with unsullied
economic/financial shrewdness of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, is what I will describe
as NPP PANORAMIC TEAM that the citizenry can bank their hopes on for total
realization of what I would call the ultimate Ghanaian dream.
Our readiness to
market the ticket
Finally,
to Dr. Bawumia, I say, the great NPP family, as well as all those who seek to
liberate themselves from the current socio-economic abyss currently being inflicted
on good people of this nation by saint Atta-Mills and his cabal of incompetent
greedy bastrads,are solidly behind you. We eagerly look forward to benefiting
from your remarkable wealth of technocratic shrewdness.
Finally,
I know duplicitous Atta-Mills is going to unleash his foul-mouthed
juvenile-delinquents-vagabonds on Dr. Bawaumia, with the expressed purpose of tarnishing
his unquestionably impeccable image. Consequently,
Justice
Abeeku Newton-Offei
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