Giants war" at Ayawaso west

…Akosa, Alan, Sowu, Arthur Kay, Agyepong In Contention

Political giants have piled up firepower in their armouries and brandishing mobile arsenals, as they ready for the battle of who next becomes Member of Parliament for Ayawaso West Wugon.

Consequently, the incumbent MP Akosua Osei Frema Opare must be feeling like a mother Kangaroo in the midst of pickpockets because, her pouch which houses her baby is threatened by a field of eight interested parties, seven of them accomplished in their own right.

The race to become President J. A. Kufuor and possibly “President” Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo’s MP (Nana lives at East Legon which is within the constituency) has become so interesting and complex that, it may not be a marathon but a sprint eventually.

Local gentleman and the gentleman’s gentleman Mr. George Isaac Amoo who was quite recently short-changed out of the NADMO coordinator post, looks to be a shade ahead as at the present time.

One-on-one contacts with constituency executives tell the story of how the affable gentleman, rumored elsewhere to be a hot candidate for the NPP vice-presidency slot with Nana Addo, has rekindled a previously-thought cold relation with some renegade disciples, who contributed into doing him in 2004.

Indeed on New Year’s Day George Amoo re-lived his old traditional merry-making with an all-night-party bash of wining, gulping and dancing for all constituents at his Dzorwulu house.

Our elders say (TON-TON-TE,-TON-TON-TE) as the boozing was on-going tees were being crossed and jays dotted in the most fraternal of ways, which left the mass of constituency guests swearing that if it took heart and soul they would thumbprint Amoo back to power.

But a worrying array of competitors have shot from nowhere rather suddenly, given the development an interesting twist such that political watchers in the constituency need to put emerging developments in their pipe and smoke.

Defeated NPP presidential aspirants Alan Kwadwo Kyerematen, Kwabena Agyei Agyapong and Arthur Kennedy have all reared up their heads unofficially, even though their agents are not willing to say so.

Mr. Kyerematen’s threat comes against the backdrop of his prosperity for big-spending, which economically-bankrupt Ghanaians are quick to jump to because it has the suiting ability to scale economically challenging barricades such as school fees, electricity and water bills, feeding etc. If ALAN CASH goes on ahead to spend hugely like his trademark brand dictates, then all contenders could be in for real trouble for not even the World Bank could be that competitive.

The failed aspirant’s chase for the MP seat has been engineered so he assumes a constituency to operate from as a pivot, in a future assault at the NPP presidential slot yet again.

Next is the plain-talking Kwabena Agyepong who topped the Common Entrance Examination in Ghana in 1974 when first cycle education was at its purest.

A product of Mfantsipim School and the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Mr. Agyapong is a civil engineer by trade who has grown to be entrenched in politics.

The last time around when he was presidential spokesperson, he made an onslaught for one such MP seat in the Ashanti Region and got a slap on his buttock for his troubles.

Agyepong was set aside because he had hardly been seen in the constituency for three or so years, even though cross-checkers in tradition say his murdered father under J.J. Rawlings’ regime hails from there.

Arthur Kennedy, the aspirant with the least number of votes is also said to be lacing his gloves just in time for the contest, and so is embossment capo Mr. Amoakohene who is rumoured to have hit the campaign road already, with a spent budget of some ¢2000 Ghana Cedis.

Minister and incumbent MP Akosua Frema is said to be flirting with the idea of a second try at the cherry, and is credited with some foot soldiers who have been elevated economically in the constituency as her pivoted trump-card.

But one of the biggest pieces of news is the leak from NDC circles that capt (rtd) Clend Sowu who almost single-handedly foiled the ARTHUR-YEBOAH Coup of 1967, is actually leaving Volta region to stake a wild claim to the Ayawaso West Wugon seat.

The ex-soldier is thought to be relying heavily on the PROMISE-OF-HEAVEN-AND-DELIVERY-OF-HELL record of the incumbent Akosua Frema to ride to Parliament yet again.

Informed sources say, Capt. Sowu will walk through the NDC primaries just like light through darkness, in his quest to right Frema’s perceived monumental wrongs of stagnant development. One of these wrongs has compelled NPP Ayawaso West local kingpin Kwasi Afriyie to defect to the CPP, as one of its Constituency party official.

Also on the flip-side is the imposing personality of Prof. Agyeman Badu Akosa of the CPP, who just lost the Party’s sole presidential slot to Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduom.

This time around, the Pathologist by first-trade Akosa would have to battle a formidable Ivan Greenstreet who happens to be a CPP nativional executive official, in the primaries.

Others things being equal the Ayawaso West Wugon Constituency seat is potentially the most explosive powder-keg in the country, right from the various Party primaries to the very final one.

As to whether it will be CASH, INCUMBENCY, ISSUES-RELATED OR YENIM WO FIRI TETE, the element of time will tell.