Germinating tribal tree governance is political nemesis

The Informer is viewing with interest, a trend in which the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) members always cook politically self-inflicting machinations and throw it in the public domain.

In recent times, from the within the NDC was a call on the President, John Dramani Mahama, to sack his Finance and Economic Minister, Mr. Seth Terkper, when the nation was still experiencing snarling economic tilts.

It was the president’s maturity and reiteration of trust in Mr. Seth Terkper that has kept the Minister in office.

Today, it is the governor of Ghana’s Central Bank, Dr. Henry Kofi Wampah, who is being haunted by the hawks, some believed to be from the President’s own family corridors. This seems not good enough for a secular and poly-ethnic grassroots natured populist political party like the NDC.

Unfortunately, the bad arguments are cooked from within the party and in the government, and is thrown to the opposition media being championed by the so-called senior journalists, who only become vocal over pedestrian issues rather than propounding constructive solutions.

Ghana, for some time now, has been going through serious economic hardships which is why the President deemed it wise to collect all his economic know-how brains from all the political divide at Akosombo and at Peduase, to dissect, pathologically diagnose and cure the canker once and for all.

In fact, those were the brains that the Ghanaian president as corporate Ghana’s Chief Executive could boast of. The situation needs all hands on deck.

However, the looming problem this paper would like the Mahama administration to address, maybe in its next appointments to key government administrative positions, must be the consideration of other stakeholders from other ethnic groups in the party.

Trying to create the impression of favouritism of one ethnic group or language, similarity in key government appointment positions is not good enough for the party in government. Indeed, this will look like building a Tower of Babel; and any attempt later to balance this would result in confusion in the cohesion of the NDC.

This paper has observed that there were accusations of the President’s wife, the First Lady, Lordina Mahama’s interference into government ministerial affairs – demanding contracts for favoured persons, even where it is obvious that there was no contract.

Today, accusing fingers are pointing at some key members of the president’s family, determining who should be where in government or its key department. Indeed, this looks like running the government from the family hut.

And all these might have had a parochial, than national interest. But would that serve the nation well, only time will tell.