Commentary -Even He Obetsebi-Lamptey Had Wanted To Be President

Interesting times in the body politic of Ghana are emerging just days after the late ‘King of Peace’ – President Professor John Evans Atta Mills was buried, after a sudden demise on July 24, 2012.

When the dust settled after the funeral and burial, the first thing the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) did, was to hold a press conference to attacked His Excellency President John Mahama and his Vice, Paa Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur.

The said press conference which was addressed by no other person than the NPP’s certificate-less National Chairman, Jake Otanka Obetsebi-Lamptey, who was at his usual best, found it expedient describing the new President in all available derogatory ways. Amazingly, the same Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey, at point in recent political history of Ghana, had wanted to become President of the reputable republic when he and other sixteen “thieves” (with all respect to General Mosquito) went into a hot race for the flagbearership of the NPP in 2007. The tone of the press conference was nothing but a decoy to lure the NDC into the gutter-politics that the NPP is highly noted for. And for Mr. Obetsebi-Lamptey, it was a point to re-launch himself; as he was virtually adding nothing better to the course of Nana Addo-Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s crave for the presidency.

It has been either Jake goes on radio to goof, or pick petty quarrels with the very people he was working for as a party chairman.

Interestingly, the very day he addressed the press conference, the same Obetsebi-Lamptey was not able to defend his claims at the press conference, on radio.

It appears that the NPP has lost credibility as majority; and its leadership is not doing Akufo-Addo any good, and the best way to soothe him, is to be talking just to massage his ego.

With his recent issue concerning state bungalow controversy flashing back all around him, the NPP Chairman struggles very hard to contribute in a manner that would help dodge the many an anger of his fellow party bigwigs.

But that would only hit the snag as his grabbing of the state property through unorthodox means would continue to haunt the NPP for good.

Obetsebi-Lamptey could go on using all kinds of name for the President and his Vice; and nobody would mind him, since he seems to be doing a good job for the government.

After all, Ghanaians are watching his over-bloated ego with keen interest, and he should not stop making the work very easy for the NDC.

But one thing that should not stop resonating in the mind of Obetsebi-Lamptey is that, even he, without certificate, had wanted to the President of the Republic of Ghana.

He should take a closer look at himself and asked a very simple question as to how he would feel if lies and insults are heaped on him as a President or his Vice President.