Akufo-Addo Endorses Insult

It is difficult to understand why a presidential candidate of a political party whose performance in elections in a region dominated by Ewes can best be described as woefully abysmal, to be endorsing nauseating insults being heaped on that particular ethnic group by his loyalists. But that is the story of New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo. The NPP flagbearer has decided to look away whiles his loyalist and campaign dog, a certain Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr. who says he is a Ph.D. has been on the loose tearing to shreds the Ewe ethnic group on his behalf.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofee Jr., the tribal bigot who is a member of the governing board of the Akufo-Addo-backed Danquah Institute, in an article in defense of the NPP flagbearer’s allegation of drugs by a newspaper, has ran riot and descended heavily on the Ewe Ethnic group, describing it in very derogatory terms.

It would have been expected that Nana Akufo-Addo would register his abhorrence for the tribal extremism displayed by Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofee and distance his person, party and presidential campaign from the nation-wrecking conduct of an apology of a Ph.D. like Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, who obviously is an educated illiterate as far as the dangers of ethnic politics and its practical devastating effect on the African continent in particular is concerned.

The otherwise vociferous NPP flagbearer’s loud silence since Okoampa-Ahoofee’s brazen insults of Ewes is deafening, an indication of his tacit endorsement of the degrading statements, by his close loyalist, of the second largest ethnic group in Ghana.

Recently, Nana Akufo-Addo openly endorsed open insults of director of communications of the NPP and Member of Parliament for Okaikoi South, Nana Akomea who said deputy minister of tourism, James Agyenim Boateng was “a stupid fool,” claiming the NPP MP “…was rather the victim.”

The Danquah Institute tribal bigot stated that the overwhelming majority of Ewes are “mutants” who are not bona fide human Ghanaian citizens “like the rest of us.” He postulated that the insignificant number of Ghanaian-Ewes who are of enviable repute and diligence almost all belong to the NPP.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofee Jr. stated that the allegation of drugs use by Akufo-Addo, who he fiercely campaigns for to become the next President of Ghana, is a glaringly and brazenly pathological “NDC-Ewe Obsession” with the character and personality of the NPP flagbearer.

He added that it is not just an obsession with the character and personality of Ghana’s former Justice Minister, but a seemingly incurable NDC-Ewe penchant for the abject distortion and assassination of the personhood and personality of the NPP flagbearer.

Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe also insinuated that the overwhelming majority of Ewes, by his warped logic, are not Ghanaians and thus are not diligent like the rest of ‘them’ bona fide human Ghanaian citizens.

Okoampa-Ahoofe’s conduct is in conformity with what has become known in contemporary Ghanaian politics as the ‘all-die-be-die’ philosophy of the NPP flagbearer, which has explicit tribal connotations.

Nana Akufo-Addo, whiles addressing a gathering of his party members in Koforidua in the eastern region months ago made it clear that NPP members should resort to all possible means including violence in the 2012 elections to ensure he becomes President of Ghana.

According to the NPP flagbearer, Akans are not cowards and that Akans have allowed themselves to be intimidated by some other ethnic group during elections in the country for far too long. He encouraged his ‘yen Akan fuo’ to imbibe his philosophy of ‘all-die-be-die’ and lay down their lives for him become the next president of Ghana by emerging the winner of the 2012 presidential election.

The NPP flagbearer promised his party faithful that owing to the vast opportunities available to a president of Ghana, he would adequately reward all those who will lay down their lives for him to become the next president of Ghana.

Some political pundits have said that the NPP flagbearer was referring to Ewes who he and his close allies apparently have morbid hatred for.

It would be remembered that the Akufo-Addo campaign team in the 2008 elections largely blamed the defeat of the NPP flagbearer on the Volta region. It was against this backdrop that some of his close allies devised a wicked strategy in the office of the MP for Abuakwa South, Hon. Samuel Atta Akyea to criminally implicate the people of the Volta region so as to trick the Electoral Commission to annul results from parts of the ‘NDC World Bank’ that would have undeservedly given Akufo-Addo a first-round victory.

But for a timely interception of the dastardly plot by Radio Gold, an Accra-based private radio station, through a special intelligence mounted by the station, dead bodies which were in the process of being moved from the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi would have been dumped at various locations within the Volta region under the supervision of Atta Akyea and his gang.

According to a conversation in Atta Akyea’s office that has been captured on tape and aired to the hearing of the world, which was later authenticated by Atta Akyea himself, these nation wreckers were going to make a convincing claim that NPP polling agents were killed in the Volta region for which the EC needed to cancel some electoral results from the region.

It is mindboggling the extent to which Nana Akufo-Addo and his group of desperate politicians hate the Volta region and particularly Ewes and will do anything to tarnish the image of this peaceful ethnic group for political expediency.