NPP Flagbearership Not For Sale!

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

You see, the problem with Dr. McHypocrite is that he simply cannot understand why he has miserably failed to clinch the presidential nomination of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), even after "massively" investing what the Fante-Asebu native arrogantly claims to be his most cherished and prized "treasure." And so, perhaps, somebody ought to alert this megalomaniac to the fact that authentic adherents to the liberal-democratic tenets of the New Patriotic Party staunchly believe in leadership by merit, and not merely because some self-exiled political opportunist firmly believes he can simply bribe his way into the presidency.

GYEEDA, SADA , Woyome and all, Ghana is simply not for sale; and neither is the NPP presidential candidacy a prize readily available to the highest bidder. I have said this before and hereby reiterate the same - Dr. McHypocrite does not belong among the ranks of the democratically minded leaders of the New Patriotic Party. His lurid tactics to climbing to the top, nauseatingly recalls the then-future Prime Minister Nkrumah's jaundiced taunting of Drs. Danquah and Busia for being guilty of hailing from two of the most prominent royal families in the erstwhile Gold Coast.

The sham logic here was that, somehow, unlike the inordinately ambitious African Show Boy, Drs. Danquah and Busia preferred to stick with the inexcusably repugnant British colonial status quo. Of course, subsequent playout of events would find Nkrumah massively trading with the apartheid regime of South Africa, even as he pontifically advocated for the massive and summary deportation of the white settler-colonists, and even as the recently deceased Nelson Mandela languished in the Robben Island Maximum-Security Prison (See Kwame Arhin's The Life and Work of Kwame Nkrumah).

Francis Kofi-Nwia Nkrumah would also side with the marginal forces in the anti-apartheid struggle by snubbing the greatest African liberation fighter of our time, Nelson Rolihlahla Dalibhunga Mandela. Today the apostles and disciples of Nkrumah are fighting desperately to deny this indelible historical truth.

The fact of the matter is that Nana Akufo-Addo has worked as hard as the hardest working key operatives of the New Patriotic Party, and much harder than the rest of us, to establish his prominent and eminent leadership credentials among the vanguard ranks of the NPP national executives. The preceding achievements did not come to him as a birthright, as the Orangeburg, South Carolina, political scavenger would have Ghanaians believe. And his wicked insult to the intelligence of the NPP supporters and Ghanaian voters, in general, ought not to go unpunished.

Nobody has prohibited Drs. Apraku and McHypocrite from contesting the NPP flagbearership; and, in fact, these self-proclaimed enemies of Nana Akufo-Addo contested the party's presidential nomination and miserably flopped in 2007 or thereabouts. And so other than the great clinical possibility of either of these gentlemen having contracted the cynical disease of "Selective Memory Loss" (SML) or Amnesia, it is not clear just what these disgruntled wannabe-presidents are griping about.

It is also significant to observe that Dr. McHypocrite massively lost his most recent contest to represent his own home district of Asebu in our National Assembly or Parliament. And so he had better be advised to first learn how to crawl before beginning to rudely scream, lunatically, at his political betters.

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*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of English
Nassau Community College of SUNY
Garden City, New York
Dec. 18, 2013
E-mail: [email protected]
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