“It’s Alan’s Turn – Let’s Give Him A Chance”

This is wrong - “It’s Alan’s Turn – Let’s Give Him A Chance”.

By: Fadi Samih Dabbousi

I chanced upon another unprofessional and empty article captioned “It’s Alan’s Turn – Let’s Give Him A Chance”.

Sadly, the writer, one Katakyie Kwame Opoku Agyempang is again at his deceptive best with a vexatious deliberation as he cloaks himself and his compatriots in sheep’s clothing. In fact, I see this as a last ditch attempt to avert a shameful outcome at the special delegates congress on the 31st of August, 2014.

I have always posited that it is the heading of any submission that indicates the kind of content it carries and this is no exception. The pitiful points that he raised are an indication of denial. He has refused to accept the fact that the delegates are quite discerning and have already made up their minds. The votes emanating from the diaspora are indicative of the impending events and the trend that follows is along that trajectory.

Mr Katayie, it is not about favours. When it comes to the business of Ghana, the “holier-than-thou” attitude that you seemed to want to inject in your article would serve not the purpose intended. In fact everyone knows that the traits you described Alan with are superfluous, overly exaggerated and unmeritorious. The simple fact is that the employment of cheap talk sends a weak signal and weakness is not what the Ghanaian agenda requires as at now. We want an authoritative person “who will and shall” commandeer this ship to safety – we want someone who can “UN-SINK” this ship.

Now, Alan is 58 years old? And so what? What has age got to do with governance? How many honourable people have stood for this position twice, thrice and more on the ticket of their political parties and finally won? Francois Mitterand and others. Even the upcoming US elections will feature stoic veterans who will be running for the umpteenth time and they are pretty old too. Senator McCain, John Kerry and the lot, they all will clamour to fight for the flagbearership of their respective parties and that is a clear indication that age is not the issue but the ability to govern is.

Having a clean bill of health makes Nana Akufo-Addo apt for the job. Wisdom is a trait inherent in him and I will not repeat how overly tested he is. So if I were you, I would desist from echoing this mantra to the chagrin of the delegates. You have mortified us with ludicrous reasons why we should vote for Alan and I must say that they are completely inconsistent with the issues of today. Claiming that he was the Managing Director of a company at age 22 does not make him experienced to run for President. Ghana is not a trading company, Ghana is a nation drowned and lost in canker, debt and frequent scandals of astronomical proportions that have rocked our very foundations over and over again – then you come back and disturb us with sordid misrepresentation of facts that do your candidate more harm than good.

You did not say “No Alan No Vote” for the simple reason that it would not have washed down well with NPP supporters, because he is unpopular in our midst. Your baseless assertion that Alan has the ability to attract floating voters and voters from different parties is not only an insult to our party faithfuls but a dismissal of reasoning. The floating voters have already settled on Nana and so have those would-be defectors from other parties. They know that Ghana is not to be toyed with and as such are openly pledging their votes for the “Abotarewura”, Nana Akufo-Addo.

Give a sensible advice to Alan and have him throw in the towel. This is the time for us all to unite behind one man, Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, who is, by all means, the heavy weight in this contest. There is no need for violent vituperations as you began your campaign with, which can be forgiven, at least if you tried to straighten your course.

For your information, Alan could have maintained 20% in the Flagbearership contest and at least survived to fight another day but you, Gake and your affiliates have not helped him one bit. This time around, I am predicting less than 10% and that would mar his attempts at securing the votes of delegates in any future endeavour.

So go back to Alan and respectfully ask him to step aside, if not for anything, at least to avert the humiliation of an unqualified thrashing that awaits him.

The fact that you stated, “Let’s do him a favour,” smacks of disloyalty to this nation and contains much verbiage. I shudder to imagine what would happen to Ghana and Ghanaians should Alan and his few boys take over the mantle with this mentality of DOING PEROPLE FAVOURS.

Ghana’s business is SERIOUS BUSINESS and in this regard we do not do favours for anyone at the expense of the suffering masses.

#IAmForNana #SheiNanaSheiBawumia

Fadi Samih Dabbousi

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