The Ghanaian Voters Dilemma Every Four years

Since 1992, the democracy of Ghana has witnessed an intense power contest between two dominant political parties with one symbolized by an eagle with an umbrella beneath and the other a limping elephant.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has enjoyed 32 years of the power struggle since it was formed during the pre-constitutional period through a revolutionary leader Late President Jerry John Rawlings while the NPP are close to their 16th year in the power struggle.

To distort the monopoly of the former, in 1992, the Northern People’s Party established by the late Hon. Simon Diedong Dombo was reconstructed or reformed into the current New Patriotic Party(NPP).

The latter contested and lost in both the 1992 

and 1996 elections to the incumbent government NDC led by the Late President Jerry John Rawlings.

The NPP were favored in the eyes of the Ghanaian public due to the economic crisis the country was suffering from in the 2000 election. The NPP won the election with an appealing gap and still continued to with the next election in 2004 until the NDC broke the mantra of the NPP to reclaim power in 2008.

Subsequent elections saw the NDC winning until 2016 when the NPP reclaimed power till date.

History between this political parties has woven a pattern of 8 years as each government’s tenure of office but with the numerous transitions in government that has occurred, the livelihood of the average Ghanaian is nothing to write home about.

Some Ghanaians,share the view that the country’s political scope needs a fresh and refreshing identity because the actions of these two parties have further exacerbated 

the living conditions of citizens and all this parties do is by either year-round squabbling and shallow arguments or build blind defense of the wrongdoings of party stewards.

The country needs a new direction but changing to what we desire, observe and expect will definitely not be found in bushes and on bare grounds like manna in the days of old. To get a responsive and result oriented outcome from this political party’s, every citizen needs to conduct an introspective review of self, society and country. It requires strength and a sense of purpose.

Without a radical paradigm shift, establishing the foundation and rebuilding meaningful change to propel Ghana to a new equitable, just , truly independent and self sustainable economy would be literally be the country chasing after wind.

Alternatives may look scary, retrogressive and destructive but neither a coup d”tat or another violent revolution by disappointed youth will be the solution.

Citizens must protest their disappointing through exercising their constitutional rights of voting for a NEW FACEin the political scope BUT who would best fit the NEW FACE;