Dr. Kwabena Adjei: Please Come Again!

I have listened to Dr Kwabena

Adjei, the chairman of the national

Democratic Congress pour his heart out on the seeming

intra-political

brawl in his party.

Not only am I stunned by his oversimplification of events, I lament over the

untenable rationalization of the politics of attrition going on in

both party and government and an attempt to gloss over the issues.

I don’t want to sound condescending; however I am amazed at how Dr

Kwabena Adjei sought to distance himself from the mess he helped created by simply

saying he does not know Herbert Mensah as an NDC sympathizer.

Where is Dr Kwabena Adjei coming from? Is he coming from the planet

mars? If he claims he does not know Herbert Mensah, what was he doing

with the party hierarchy during the campaign? Did Herbert Mensah help

finance the NDC campaign in election 2008? What was Ato Ahwoi doing with Herbert in

his office during the campaign if indeed he is not a party

member? Did candidate Mills visited Herbert Mensah’s office in the run

up to the election 2008 to discuss election strategies?

We need answers to these questions.

With all humility, Mr Chairman, you have got it all wrong. You are part

of the bigger problem. What has your leadership done to assuage the

fears of party members on the divisions in the party?

Like children, Dr Kwabena Adjei and his executives have discarded their

decisive moral stance against indiscipline, attrition, treachery and

politics of patronage by so-called powerful people in government, and

have instead used primitive attacks to defend the unacceptable behaviour of Ato

Ahwoi and others!

Instead of dealing with the problem head-on by calling Ato Ahwoi to

order, the party chairman is preaching divisions in the party.

I can hardly conceal my sorrow when I hear people talk about the

problems coming from the Rawlingses.

Ato Ahwoi is the divisive element in the NDC and his utterances are

destroying the cohesiveness of the party. He should be told in no

uncertain terms. First, he threatened that Spio Garbrah could only be

appointed as a minister of state over his death body and now he has

resurrected a very thorny issue of President Mills’s health which in my

estimation could come back and hunt the President.

There were several tales of him denying party sympathizers access to the presidency.

What good reasons do we have to validate the actions of Ato Ahwoi? In

any case, what was wrong with what Herbert said? If the man says he knew ministers

in the current administration who are nurturing presidential

ambitions but did not mention names, what was wrong with that?

All these problems in the NDC can be traced to the doorstep of Ato

Ahwoi. He lies, schemes and manipulate for his selfish gains. And

instead of the Party leaders calling him to order, they are rather

stoking the fires by their public comments.

Part of the problem is also stemming from the government and the current executives

who thought they could marginalize certain

groups/individuals in the party by excluding them and their followers

from decision making.

What was the basis for Asiedu Nketia’s press conference? Was it

necessary?

What is the point really?

Has Nana Konadu really come out and declared her intention to contest

President Mills? In Any case, haven’t we heard President Mills himself

come out boldly to declared his intention for re-election in 2012? Again haven’t we

also heard Vice President John Mahama declared his

presidential ambition through Honorable Algban Gbagbin during a ceremony organized

in one of the villages in the upper west region? Until now,

John Mahama has not dissociated himself from that pronouncement and I

haven’t heard the party leadership make any statement to that effect.

Therefore why all this knee jerk reactions?

In the eyes of many party faithfuls, Dr Kwabna Adjei has lost his credit worthiness.

The party leadership has failed to deliver in this

particular instance. They must focus on their own shortcomings instead

of taking a position on an issue that has the potential to divide the

party.

Dr Kwabena Adjei has so far divided and polarized the NDC more than he

has united it since his re-election as chairman.

The NDC is not any better than it was in the 1990s, and now is the time

to huddle as one people and ask serious questions.

As the party evolves, and begins to acquire the frightening face of an

intra-party democracy, many party members are caught in the furrow of

ignorance and cryptic ululations for corrupt party leaders. Our sense of criticality

is only limited to tearing the Rawlingses apart, while our

political paymasters indulge in treachery.

Those who entertain the thought that, they could amass wealth at the

expense of party unity must rethink their position. And those who see

leadership as heaven’s gift for politicians, and as such would not

challenge the political leadership, will live to regret their hypocrisy.

There is huge leadership crises in the NDC and someone must sit up and

whip the likes of Ato Ahwoi into line.

Each of us has a role to play to effect the needed changes. As a social Democrats,

we can either choose to dance to the lyrics of the

new

order, or stand up to be counted.

The party leadership must rise to the occasion and polish the party to

reflect the lofty ideals that they spout. A healthy NDC will reflect in

the way it governs.

The leadership must breathe sensitivity into the party, at the same time breath out

sycophancy, hypocrisy, treachery, attrition, politics of

patronage as well as politics of entitlement.

The NDC leadership must have the courage to hold the party together by

steering clear from divisive politics. And whiles at it, they must

discard the vindictive suggestions of their policy advisers, and reach

out to past executives to build a united party and a better Ghana.

Dr Kwabena Adjei, this is the time for you to show leadership. Come

through or be gone!

We shall be back

Emmanuel Dela Coffie

emmanuelcoffie488@yahoo.com/www.delacoffie.wordpress.com