Is this Some Sort of Reverse Psychology or What?

By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

Garden City, New York

Oct. 30, 2015

E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net

Team Bawumia has already amply demonstrated beyond the proverbial shadow of any doubt, through the widely publicized voter fraud in the Ketu-South district of the Volta Region, that the current nationl Voters’ Register is irreparably compromised, and so only a clinical idiot would suppose the New Patriotic Party’s demand for the establishment of a new Voter’s Register to be about a conspiracy to prevent northerners and Ewes resident in the Asante Region from Voting (See “NPP Plotting Against Northerners, Ewes in the Asante Region – Koku Anyidoho” Adomonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 10/20/15). I suppose this siege-mentality funk has something to do with the history of Ewe “revolutionary” attempt to reduce the country’s Akan ethnic majority and our northern relatives to the status of practical mendicants in our own land. After all, wasn’t this what the Rawlings-led Anlo-Ewe revolution was squarely about?

Their bronze busts stand in the forecourt of the Supreme Court Buildings in Accra for the whole world to bear witness and testimony to the greatest Anlo-Ewe contribution to the development of postcolonial Ghanaian political culture. On the economic side, of course, not little has been done towards the complete destruction of what used to be known as GIHOC – the Ghana Industrial Holdings Corporation. And so, Mr. Kennedy Ohene Agyapong is scarcely jiving, when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of Parliament for Assin-Central ripostes that the latest lunatic funk/bout of Mr. Anyidoho has been indisputably engendered by the former Atta-Mills communication director’s deathly fear of the Mahama-led government of the National Democratic Congress’s being totally bereft of any remarkable and/or worthwhile governance record. The Deputy General-Secretary of the NDC could have saved himself a lot of trouble, if he had bothered to compare notes with the likes of Messrs. Chris Atim and Alolga Akata Pore before going ballistic with his latest exhibition of rank idiocy.

And if, as it clearly appears, he does not know this, then perhaps it would go a long way in meliorating his madness, somewhat, for Mr. Anyidoho to learn that most Akans have consanguineous links with our northern brothers and sisters going back centuries. It is only the Anlo-Ewe who have the routine habit of tracing their ethnic and cultural identity and moorings to Notsie, the Republic of Benin. And so it would be to his own good to stop involving our northern kinsfolk in a battle that the Trokosi Nationalists cannot win. If he has credible intelligence pointing towards an NPP conspiracy to deny Ewes and northerners the franchise, and thus their civil and human rights, by all means, let Mr. Anyidoho name names and shame those deserving of the same. And is this career political parasite claiming that there are no members and supporters among the rank-and-file constabulary of the New Patriotic Party of northern and Ewe descent? And just why would the key operatives of the NPP attempt to disenfranchise Ewes and northerners in only the Asante Region, when the party’s Akan majority populace predominate in at least six regions of the country, including the Greater-Accra Region, which the Akwamus and Akyem, by turns, once ruled and continue to exert remarkable influence on?

And also, just what special good has the NDC government done for northerners and Ewes to make these groups of Ghanaians feel an immutable obligation to voting for Mr. Mahama and his Abongo Boys? You may, perhaps, talk about the promise of motorbikes to illegal Togolese crossover/ double-dipping voters, but you cannot talk about the NDC’s having bequeathed Ghanaians a National Health Insurance Scheme, because we all know that this is a New Patriotic Party legacy a la President John Agyekum-Kufuor, the “Diawuo Man,” and not the legacy of any of these NDC presidential criminal suspects. And so, really, how far does Mr. Anyidoho intend to carry such malarkey?!