Akufo-Addo and the Challenge of Progress

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• Slugger 12 years ago

  They are lost in the woods n are just making noise 2b heard. 2012 elections that they lost with all their lies is still hunting them to their grave.

  They are lost in the woods n are just making noise 2b heard. 2012 elections that they lost with all their lies is still hunting them to their grave.

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• Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 12 years ago

  Look at how your dirty so called rigged president disgrace himself yesterday by giving states nation address? This has never ever happenend in ghana before. Mahama could not even say one sensible thing. Oh! God me man
  ghana ...
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  Look at how your dirty so called rigged president disgrace himself yesterday by giving states nation address? This has never ever happenend in ghana before. Mahama could not even say one sensible thing. Oh! God me man
  ghanan paa nie?

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• Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

  Your uncle Akuffo Addo will NEVER be president of Ghana. He can only end up being the president of Akyem land.

  Your uncle Akuffo Addo will NEVER be president of Ghana. He can only end up being the president of Akyem land.

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• Dumega Prosper Jnr. 12 years ago

  Some dreamns cannot be achieved, not in Nkrumah's Ghana.
  
  The people, the discerning and intelligent Ghanaians have spoken and elected a young and inspiring, dynamic and progressive minded president, in person of His Excell ...
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  Some dreamns cannot be achieved, not in Nkrumah's Ghana.
  
  The people, the discerning and intelligent Ghanaians have spoken and elected a young and inspiring, dynamic and progressive minded president, in person of His Excellency, President John Dramani Mahama.
  
  It's too late for Akuffo Addo and his clique, the Akyem Mafia to be expecting anything out for a 69 year old academic flop.
  Ghana deserves better. No local tribalist will ever mount Ghana's presidency, period!!!!!! That dream, if it were at all, is just a mirage!!!

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• Oba Nyansa ni baako Pe in Ghana 12 years ago

  Whether you like it or not Ashantes like Nana Addo too much than your corrupt Mahama. Do you know that?

  Whether you like it or not Ashantes like Nana Addo too much than your corrupt Mahama. Do you know that?

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• XXXX 12 years ago

  WE NEED WATER AND ELECTRICITY NOT A HUGE STATUE. HE CAN GIVE US HOPE, SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS WITHOUT BEING A PRESIDENT. ALL WE NEED IS A LEADER WHO CAN DELIVER

  WE NEED WATER AND ELECTRICITY NOT A HUGE STATUE. HE CAN GIVE US HOPE, SOLVE THE PROBLEMS OF THE ORDINARY CITIZENS WITHOUT BEING A PRESIDENT. ALL WE NEED IS A LEADER WHO CAN DELIVER

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• Ben 12 years ago

  good to hear your voice buddy. but your candidate is not a chosen leader for Ghana. He cannot force himself on us. Adu Boahen was the best unfortunately he couldn't win. Kuffour was less better but had some common sense. This ...
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  good to hear your voice buddy. but your candidate is not a chosen leader for Ghana. He cannot force himself on us. Adu Boahen was the best unfortunately he couldn't win. Kuffour was less better but had some common sense. This man Akuffo Addo is, sorry to say, a reckless coward. Bring Alan. and learn Ghana's culture properly. you don't win your opponets to your side by being insulting, bad language, and very bad adjectives. help NDC to rule well and the people will recognize you and give you the power.

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• john 12 years ago

  This is a well-written essay but shallow in content. How is it that the NPP has allowed itself to be branded as an elitist party? The author may need to address this question. As things stand now, the party is allowing itse ...
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  This is a well-written essay but shallow in content. How is it that the NPP has allowed itself to be branded as an elitist party? The author may need to address this question. As things stand now, the party is allowing itself to be be destroyed having clearly lost an election; its current contradictory manner in dealing with parliament beats the minds of every rational political theory. Come next election, all the NDC needs to do is point out how NPPist shabbily treated the president not because of principle but because he comes from the northern part of the country. Once the north , and central, and Volta are won, the NPP is again left to fight for greater accra and their stronghold. I am a symparthizer of the NPP; the Kuffuor administration did some good things especially during the first term but the party at at now lacks any credible political strategy to win a general election. A major party cannot run to the supreme court for it to deliver to her an election.

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• GHANA FIRST 12 years ago

  IT IS A SHAME TO WRITE THIS KIND OF ARTICLE
  WHEN PEOPLE HAS STOLEN VERDICT AND IT IS BEING CHALLENGE IN COURT YOU CALL IT A CHALLENGE OF PROGRESS
  GROW UP AND DONT WRITE THIS DIRTY PROPAGANDA ARTICLES TO WIN SYMPATHY
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  IT IS A SHAME TO WRITE THIS KIND OF ARTICLE
  WHEN PEOPLE HAS STOLEN VERDICT AND IT IS BEING CHALLENGE IN COURT YOU CALL IT A CHALLENGE OF PROGRESS
  GROW UP AND DONT WRITE THIS DIRTY PROPAGANDA ARTICLES TO WIN SYMPATHY
  IS IT NOT BEAUTIFUL FOR ONE TO TAKE HIS GRIEVANCES TO COURT THAN TO TAKE THINGS INTO THEIR OWN HANDS
  LEARN!!!

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• Oba Nyansani Baako Pe In Ghana! 12 years ago

  Ebe ye mo se sini NDC! The way you fools are taking Ghanaians for ride is too dangerous and we have to stop you fools now before it will be too late.

  Ebe ye mo se sini NDC! The way you fools are taking Ghanaians for ride is too dangerous and we have to stop you fools now before it will be too late.

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• Ronny 12 years ago

  If this writer is short of words or vocabulary, he must go back to school. You cannot, as a preamble start your articles with the same thing all the time.

  If this writer is short of words or vocabulary, he must go back to school. You cannot, as a preamble start your articles with the same thing all the time.

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• Kakraba Cromwell 12 years ago

  Mr Ofori Atta, Which world are you living in? Please remember the elections are over just in case you have forgotten
  Find something better to go with your time.
  Issac Osei all the way.
  We will not Allow the dwarf-Akuffo- ...
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  Mr Ofori Atta, Which world are you living in? Please remember the elections are over just in case you have forgotten
  Find something better to go with your time.
  Issac Osei all the way.
  We will not Allow the dwarf-Akuffo-Addo the confirmed drug addict(by wikileaks) to lead NPP AGAIN Tafiakwa!!!!!!!!!!

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• luck 12 years ago

  I have never considered voting for the npp because of their tradition of greed.And it has not for that matter crossed my mind at all to give them a trial until i read your posting.If the npp wants to win elections in ghana,th ...
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  I have never considered voting for the npp because of their tradition of greed.And it has not for that matter crossed my mind at all to give them a trial until i read your posting.If the npp wants to win elections in ghana,then the best person to do so will be ambassador Osei.I met him in Landon and God the guy has style and charisma.He must be your great hope.

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• DO THE RIGHT THING 12 years ago

  What is the meaning or purpose for this article? What is it aim to achieve. Ghanaians choose NDC over NPP period. Come out with article that can move Ghana forward. If you have any good plans, wait when you party wins power, ...
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  What is the meaning or purpose for this article? What is it aim to achieve. Ghanaians choose NDC over NPP period. Come out with article that can move Ghana forward. If you have any good plans, wait when you party wins power, implement your policies.

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• There is no Akufo Addo 12 years ago

  These Akyem people have no shame. Empty talk, contradictions and utter tomfoolery is their lot. Yen Akanfuo party. Which sane northerner, Voltarian, Ga, Fanti, Nzema, Ahanta etc. will vote for your tribalistic party. Save ...
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  These Akyem people have no shame. Empty talk, contradictions and utter tomfoolery is their lot. Yen Akanfuo party. Which sane northerner, Voltarian, Ga, Fanti, Nzema, Ahanta etc. will vote for your tribalistic party. Save your breath. Nana will never be president.

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• peace 12 years ago

  Your tribal attitude and arrogance is the problem hanging around the neck of addo dankwa kuffo. Never never think health insuarance is been so successful that tout it around everybody vote for your matemehp party. Do take it ...
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  Your tribal attitude and arrogance is the problem hanging around the neck of addo dankwa kuffo. Never never think health insuarance is been so successful that tout it around everybody vote for your matemehp party. Do take it that the problems in this country is not all about FREE SHS. You were decieving yourself with that fake program. ghanaians are wide awake and will not allow a group tribal henchmen to think they gang up rule us. your like are mile stoe around HIS neck. Give us break.

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• Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

  The man ought to forget about the presidency. He should rather concentrate his energies on becoming the King of Akyem Land and not the President of Ghana.

  The man ought to forget about the presidency. He should rather concentrate his energies on becoming the King of Akyem Land and not the President of Ghana.

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• no more gay corrupts mahama 12 years ago

  EKECTIONS IS NOT OVER,TILL IS OVER,THIEVES NDC MAHAMA ARE CORRUPTS,CRIMINALS MAFFIAS,GOD HATE THAT PERIOD,

  EKECTIONS IS NOT OVER,TILL IS OVER,THIEVES NDC MAHAMA ARE CORRUPTS,CRIMINALS MAFFIAS,GOD HATE THAT PERIOD,

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• mahama solomon usa 12 years ago

  MAHAMA IS BIG THIEVES,BOUGHT JET,SHIP,GHANA GOLD TO IRAIN,OIL,WOYOMESAGA,USLESS,INCOMPETENT NDC MAHAMA,BIG CORRUPTS,GOD HATE THAT,PERIOD

  MAHAMA IS BIG THIEVES,BOUGHT JET,SHIP,GHANA GOLD TO IRAIN,OIL,WOYOMESAGA,USLESS,INCOMPETENT NDC MAHAMA,BIG CORRUPTS,GOD HATE THAT,PERIOD

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• Ike Kumasi 12 years ago

  ABI U WISH HE IS YOUR FATHER OR HMM EVEN UNCLE. ABOATOLIWAKWASIAPANIN

  ABI U WISH HE IS YOUR FATHER OR HMM EVEN UNCLE. ABOATOLIWAKWASIAPANIN

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• Vodoo Xebieso 12 years ago

  Whether you like it or not, Mahama is your president while your stupid father is over there chasing giant she-apes for sex.

  Whether you like it or not, Mahama is your president while your stupid father is over there chasing giant she-apes for sex.

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• Kofi John 12 years ago

  It is a suprise to me that the media can accommodate all these nonsense.

  It is a suprise to me that the media can accommodate all these nonsense.

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• Hamid 12 years ago

  This is well written and argued but not at all impartial.
  
  It is true that the NDC is not what it is really saying it is and is just posing but to say that the NPP is a grass-roots party and people based is to depart from ...
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  This is well written and argued but not at all impartial.
  
  It is true that the NDC is not what it is really saying it is and is just posing but to say that the NPP is a grass-roots party and people based is to depart from the truth. Actually, NPP wants to be those things you ascribe to it but in reality, it is not. It has failed to be that!
  
  Yes, parties transform and the NPP is not exactly like its tradition but it is ingenuous to try to cut the party completely away from its forebears. It still has some elements of those age-old characteristics - both the good and the bad.
  
  But the place you completely spoiled your write-up is when you so blatantly pitch for Akufo-Addo. Then I remembered your name is Ofori-Atta. You give the man too much credit at a time when the NPP desperately needs someone who is NOT Akufo-Addo. If he doesn't win the Supreme Court case and become president now, he will be 72 going into 2016. No matter if Abdoulaye Waye was president at an older age, 72 will be too much for Akufo-Addo to be seeking the presidency. His party may like him but many other non-NPP Ghanaians are not willing to vote for him. They will add his advanced age to all the negative things they have invented about him.
  
  And if the NPP subscribes to democratic principles as you claim, then the candidature should be open to any party member who is qualified to contest for it without any pre-voting arrangements that weigh the contest in favour of one man before even the first votes are cast - as happened the last time around. Surely NPP has someone else more Ghanaians than die-hard NPP fanatics can rally around? Akufo-Addo is not that man!

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• Dery 12 years ago

  IF THIS MAN WAS WORKING IN MY OFFICE, I WOULD HAVE SACKED HIM RIGHT AWAY, COZ HE WASTED PRECIOUS TIME AND ENERGY THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHANNELED INTO PRODUCTIVE BUSINESS, TO DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE. YOU CAN DEFINITELY NOT ...
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  IF THIS MAN WAS WORKING IN MY OFFICE, I WOULD HAVE SACKED HIM RIGHT AWAY, COZ HE WASTED PRECIOUS TIME AND ENERGY THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN CHANNELED INTO PRODUCTIVE BUSINESS, TO DEFENDING THE INDEFENSIBLE. YOU CAN DEFINITELY NOT TURN A STATUE IN TO A HUMAN BEING.

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• ASHANTI BOY 12 years ago

  People, the perpetual loser Akuffo-Addo is behind this article. Is he seeking to keep the strangle-hold on our Party? No way. Ghanaians don't like him for many reasons. Let us resist this attempt and give it to Allan, a m ...
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  People, the perpetual loser Akuffo-Addo is behind this article. Is he seeking to keep the strangle-hold on our Party? No way. Ghanaians don't like him for many reasons. Let us resist this attempt and give it to Allan, a more appealing candidate and a potential winner. We have seen your trick, Akuffo-Addo. You have had your chance but Ghanaians don't like you.

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• Mahome 12 years ago

  After reading two paragraphs, I lost interest and did not read. Look, you guys are injuring the NPP big time. It is true that the NPP represented the elite as many of us find reason and solace in aligning with the NPP, but yo ...
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  After reading two paragraphs, I lost interest and did not read. Look, you guys are injuring the NPP big time. It is true that the NPP represented the elite as many of us find reason and solace in aligning with the NPP, but your penchant for disrespect of others views, and your inability to accept reality hurts. Sorry, but your guys might suffer great deal in the coming days. Find better ways to do things.

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• Banana.com 12 years ago

  Those who think and say the elections are not over until the SC rule can be liken to a sleeing passenger who reaches his destination in deep sleep and fails to alight. He will have to pay the price for that by having to pay a ...
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  Those who think and say the elections are not over until the SC rule can be liken to a sleeing passenger who reaches his destination in deep sleep and fails to alight. He will have to pay the price for that by having to pay another fare from the point he wakes up back to his intended destination. For npp the rest of Ghana will get to 2016 when they still will have to come back to 2012 and the time we the get to 2012 we are in 2016. Ei dei be! ke! ke!.

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• robork 12 years ago

  Having read your article,I have come to the conclusion that you are either narrow minded or totally blinded by your party affiliation.I can not say which one u are!!
  It is good to name people who aged in their leadership of ...
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  Having read your article,I have come to the conclusion that you are either narrow minded or totally blinded by your party affiliation.I can not say which one u are!!
  It is good to name people who aged in their leadership of their countries, but what you did not point out was whether they brought these countries out of poverty, hunger, corruption,debt etc etc, or whether these people sent these countries down the road of poverty, hunger, drought, debt and corruption.
  You being a former student leader means 'Jake shit'to the hungry people in ghana.
  You talking about the Rawlings era means 'Jake shit' to those who lived during the Nkruma era who would also recollect the stories of people being fed to lions at flag staff house, and the house arrest people were put under.Read the biography's of Nkruma and Colonel Bernasko.
  Look here Mr Ofori-Atta, what ghanaians want is a selfless man or woman who true to their words want to help the people of this country.
  You can argue heaven and earth and be party partisan, but when you have a goverment in power/ a ruling goverment(the NPP)who would send uneducated bastards to represent our country to negotiate on subjects and issues which they have no 'Jake shit' idea or clue about, then we as a country are in trouble. If the NPP wants to be tribal about issues, then let us ghanaians remind them that we are all not ashanti's.
  That is why we can give prominence to a man like Kofi Wayo who from nowhere now wants to rule in the country,(i am yet to determine which state in the usa his accent belongs to).
  No goverment in the developed countries or what we term as the developed countries refers to or blames goverments that were in office twenty or more years ago for their hardship. They would rather look at the immediate past and move on.
  That is why you can hear the Prime Minister of the uk calls the BBC stupid and yet it is not leading news.
  What we call news is really disturbing, so when I read articles by people like you, I am baffled.
  YOU MIGHT AS WELL ASK THE OUT GOING POPE TO STAY ON!!! OR MUGABE TO RULE TILL DEATH!!!, what next.
  People like you hide behind words like ideology/Nkrumaist/Rawlingsm/Busiast and go on naming them, to come up with your BIG FAT BULL SHIT...
  Spare us the details in your mind, we are a nation with young ambitious people ready to take on the world and develop.We are not ready for your political Jake shit if they are of no good to us.
  Thanks and please put your pen were it belongs ..up your .....!!!

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• Ike Kumasi 12 years ago

  which hope are you talking about here, if dont have any better thing to say u better stay in your closest and cry, NONSENSE

  which hope are you talking about here, if dont have any better thing to say u better stay in your closest and cry, NONSENSE

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• NanaAddo 12 years ago

  Stupid,I am glad I read only the last paragragh/conclusion else I would have bn as stupid as you.

  Stupid,I am glad I read only the last paragragh/conclusion else I would have bn as stupid as you.

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• joana amsterdam holland 12 years ago

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  what dunjfdsxcoiuplkjmngtfd

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• Adongo 12 years ago

  Oh! What will it take to get these cancerous akyem/asante monkeys out of the system of the country?
  
  You cannot change their DNA. It is perpetually ingrained in their genes!
  I bet my behind, THEY WILL NOT PEACEFULLY ACCEPT ...
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  Oh! What will it take to get these cancerous akyem/asante monkeys out of the system of the country?
  
  You cannot change their DNA. It is perpetually ingrained in their genes!
  I bet my behind, THEY WILL NOT PEACEFULLY ACCEPT THE SUPREME COURT VERDICT.
  
  This country is in for a long, long haul.
  
  
  Adongo

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• Dumega Prosper Jnr. 12 years ago

  How painful it can be!!!
  Governance in Ghana will never ever be a family pull again as we saw under Kuffour whose nephews and children chopped post and economic emancipation wawawa!!! It's too late for Akuffo Addo.
  The nigh ...
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  How painful it can be!!!
  Governance in Ghana will never ever be a family pull again as we saw under Kuffour whose nephews and children chopped post and economic emancipation wawawa!!! It's too late for Akuffo Addo.
  The night has fallen over your ambition you never took care of in your youhtful days!!
  It's gone forever.
  
  We have a prominent and strong leader not supported on drugs in person of His Excellency John Dramani Mahama, period!!

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• Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

  Don't demean Nkrumah by comparing the the CPP to the reckless PNDC.

  Don't demean Nkrumah by comparing the the CPP to the reckless PNDC.

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• npp nima 12 years ago

  Akufo Addo will die soon

  Akufo Addo will die soon

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• KWEKU TWENEBOA 12 years ago

  Folks this piece is the clearest indication yet of a possible Akufo-Addo shot at the presidency for the third time in 2016. It's now easy to see why he's at the supreme court.

  Folks this piece is the clearest indication yet of a possible Akufo-Addo shot at the presidency for the third time in 2016. It's now easy to see why he's at the supreme court.

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• Paul Amuna 12 years ago

  You make your arguments so eloquently and though I do not necessarily share your views, they are nonetheless well put. But, and a very big but: You completely forget that somehow, the NDC that you so discredit and argue 'have ...
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  You make your arguments so eloquently and though I do not necessarily share your views, they are nonetheless well put. But, and a very big but: You completely forget that somehow, the NDC that you so discredit and argue 'have falsely and fraudulently hijacked' the ' mantra' seem to have persuaded a sizeable number of the population to come to their cause as evidenced in the election outcome. Surely you cannot blame the NDC for the weak and poor leadership and lack of national appeal of the so-called "smaller Nkrumahist parties".
  
  For one thing, the CPP under Ndoum and latterly under Samia Nkrumah has failed to attract national interest and traction. It is seen by some to be inherently weak with too much in-fighting and yes, for power thus culminating in Ndoum, their main 'financier' leaving to form yet another 'fringe' party - the PPP. The PNC similarly lacks national appeal and is only moderately strong in a few constituencies. It is in my view, also very unbalanced and seen by some as mainly a party run by people from the northern parts of Ghana (rightly or wrongly). It is also clear to me that even the PNC current leadership is divided, disloyal and corrupted by other parties not least the NPP itself as evidenced by the attitudes and utterances and actions of the their chairman and his son, who seem to work more for the NPP than the PNC.
  
  If you are lamenting the fact that the Nkrumahist parties are not playing their proper role or have not realised the vision of Nkrumah who was afterall a 'ONE NATION' visionary for Ghana (and Africa) then you are right, but don't blame NDC and 'it's press' or "media programmes" for that. I agree with you, merely professing to be an Nkrumahist party does not translate into being truly Nkrumahist and may be the Mills-Mahama presidency has yet to prove its credentials in this regard.
  
  However you will agree with me that for all his faults and "18 years' misrule" as you put it, I seem to recall that president Rawlings was the first to restore Nkrumah's image and pride of place in our beloved country and can be credited with e.g. The Mausoleum and Museum and other attributes of Nkrumah.
  
  By the way, why are you not lamenting the fact that under the NLC and Progress Party government that followed it after Nkrumah's in my view 'wrongful' overthrow in 1966, the CPP and anything Nkrumah was BANNED from our political discourse, intellectual activity including even research (except where the research was meant to discredit him) even in our University history and political science departments? And who was in charge of the history department at the University of Ghana at the time? None other than "Knotnonpiat" himself - Prof. Adu Boahen, a stalwart and co-founder of the NPP and one of the staunchest anti-Nkrumahists of our time. How do you expect the true Nkrumahist parties to have grown and maintained his initial momentum and one-nation popular focus? Would you therefore agree with me that the 'precedents' of the present day NPP had a direct role in diminishing and almost destroying not just Nkrumah's vision and philosophy for the CPP and other Krumahist parties? Just think about it objectively.
  
  That Nana Akufo Addo is a democrat in the terms you describe him is fine by me. I also happen to believe from his own biography that in his student days, he was a staunch Nkrumahist and that in a way attracted me towards him and I happen to believe that 'once an Nkrumahist, always one' therefore were he to become president, I want to believe he would be more sympathetic in that direction (but with the current climate and behaviour of his party faithful, I can no longer be too sure of that).
  
  That said, you completely miss the fact that Ghanaians somehow have tended to favour the NDC, even with the dwindling influence of Rawlings. Indeed some of his supporters were even punished by the party, something I am happy about, to let them know that just because they are affiliated to Rawlings doesn't make them special or above the law or party discipline. It is a relief for me to see that a party like the NDC is fast ridding itself of Rawlings and the disgraceful and undemocratic actions of his wife, Nana Konadu who has been rightly punished just so they all know that yes, you may start a party but 'one person does not make a party' nor must they be so domineering.
  
  I'd like to point out to you that it is a very dangerous thing to think that only certain people with the type of personality and acumen you ascribe to Nana Akufo Addo are best suited to rule or run the affairs of a country. It is the unwisest thing ever to do. For we all have a very short lifespan, but nation states and governments will continue to evolve and develop till thy kingdom come. Those who believed that 'Nkrumah never die' woke up to the fact that he had been booted out of office, and his power and influence were diminished overnight. What is lasting and relevant is the contribution that a person makes and what they leave for posterity. Krumah in his wisdom, WROTE extensively and for some of us, we have only come to know him through his writings and now belong to his school of thought or philosophy. I wonder how many of the people you so admire have made such accounts of their own work and philosophy including Nana Addo? Can you point to any of our past leaders who has been so effective and / or influential to their generation and the young ones in Ghana, let alone Africa and indeed the rest of the world? Do you know how many biographies scholars the world over have written of Nkrumah? Even far more than most leaders through history and in the West!
  
  Finally, if we want our nation to develop, I admonish you to think more objectively and argue on the merits of what each one of us irrespective of party affiliation can contribute to our national development, good governance and our prosperity. In my considered view, no single party or individual holds the keys to our national fortunes, nor is any particular group or party more qualified to 'make our nation great and strong'. It is therefore insulting for anyone to make their arguments based on that very premise without credible evidence to support it. That approach in my view only serves to divide, rather than unite us.

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• Halalal Bacon 12 years ago

  Make shortie the president of Abuakwa. Not Ghana.

  Make shortie the president of Abuakwa. Not Ghana.

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• GOAHEAD 12 years ago

  NPP ARE SORE LOSERS.

  NPP ARE SORE LOSERS.

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• Nana Yaw 12 years ago

  He lost fair and square. All his patapaa madness is to trick his party for a chance to run again in 2016. That is his only way to hold on to the flagbearership. Akuffo Addo is a trickster and is only using the supreme court t ...
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  He lost fair and square. All his patapaa madness is to trick his party for a chance to run again in 2016. That is his only way to hold on to the flagbearership. Akuffo Addo is a trickster and is only using the supreme court to pursue his evil agenda!!!

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• Kojo T 12 years ago

  For the many years that the 'Alhaji and Alhaji' weekend radio talk show has been serving as the flagship propaganda platform of the NDC it has never failed to replay the speeches of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah before, during and after ...
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  For the many years that the 'Alhaji and Alhaji' weekend radio talk show has been serving as the flagship propaganda platform of the NDC it has never failed to replay the speeches of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah before, during and after the show. This is backed by old CPP songs which serve as the main tune of the show.
  What is more of concern is the consistent invocation of the 'matemeho-people' description by panellists of the show as part of efforts to effect a negative restructure of the public image of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and its leaders". " By 2000 the NPP has emerged as a " National Party" . Is it now accepting its exclusivity?

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• VAQ 12 years ago

  OFORI-ATTA, DO YOU SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT AKUFO-ADDO AT 68 IS IN A SOUND MIND? A STATESMAN THAT BELIEVES THAT "YE AKANFUO" THAT'S NOT ONLY DERAGATORY BUT A SENSE OF DEEP TRIBALISM ESPECIALLY FOR SOME ONE WHO WANTS TO HOLD THE ...
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  OFORI-ATTA, DO YOU SINCERELY BELIEVE THAT AKUFO-ADDO AT 68 IS IN A SOUND MIND? A STATESMAN THAT BELIEVES THAT "YE AKANFUO" THAT'S NOT ONLY DERAGATORY BUT A SENSE OF DEEP TRIBALISM ESPECIALLY FOR SOME ONE WHO WANTS TO HOLD THE JOB OF THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE POSITION OF THE LAND. AKUFO-ADDO IN MY OPINION HAS NO SENSE OF CREATIVITY AND LACKS DIRECTION AND HIS PERSONALITY DOES NOT FAVOUR HIM AT ALL. AKUFO- ADDO AT 68, HIS BEST DAYS ARE BEHIND HIM AND NO DYNAMISM OF ANY SORT, LET'S CONCENTRATE ON 2016 AND MOVE FORWARD AND NOT BACKWARD.AKUFO-ADDO IS IN THE PAST NOT IN THE FUTURE MY FRIENDS.

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• Paa Kodwo 12 years ago

  WE STILL CONTINUE TO TALK WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST EFFORTS TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF TETTEH QURAHIE, A MAN OF ORDINARY BACKGROUND WHO HAD A GREAT VISION FOR GOLD COAST AND BROUGHT COCOA BEANS TO EXPERIMENT IT IN THE COUNTRY.
  
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  WE STILL CONTINUE TO TALK WITHOUT THE SLIGHTEST EFFORTS TO FOLLOW THE EXAMPLE OF TETTEH QURAHIE, A MAN OF ORDINARY BACKGROUND WHO HAD A GREAT VISION FOR GOLD COAST AND BROUGHT COCOA BEANS TO EXPERIMENT IT IN THE COUNTRY.
  
  TODAY IT IS THE BACKBONE OF THE ECONOMY OF GHANA
  
  WHEN SHALL WE STOP THESE IRRATIONAL SUMMONS AND PREACHINGS AND TO START TO THINK ABOUT PRACTICAL TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS TO STIMULATE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT AND TO ERADICATE DESTITUTION AND POVERTY IN GHANA.
  
  WHERE IS OUR INNOVATION TO TURN THE WHEELS OF INDUSTRIALIZATION WITH INDUSTRIAL OUTPUT IN THE COUNTRY.
  
  LET US STOP THESE PREACHINGS AND THE SUNDAY SCHOOL SERMONS.
  
  IT IS TIME FOR GHANAIANS TO LEARN ABOUT THE PARABLE OF THE TALENT IN THE HOLY SCRIPTURES.
  
  MAN CANNOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE.

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• mensah abrampa 12 years ago

  Your feature article is so impressive and very factual. The name Ofori-Atta has a long history of intellectual acumen, wisdom and truly independent mind. Some ghanaians, you know as well as I do,hate the truth perhaps as a r ...
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  Your feature article is so impressive and very factual. The name Ofori-Atta has a long history of intellectual acumen, wisdom and truly independent mind. Some ghanaians, you know as well as I do,hate the truth perhaps as a result of allergies they have developed over the years for the truth by associating with people who are avowed haters of truth and unrepentant sadists.
  The NPP, though erroneously labeled as elitist, is the only party in Ghana that truly believes in true democracy, the rule of law and order and development of the human resource of the nation to its fullest potential. The 8 years of NPP administration bear more than adequate testimony of what the NPP stands for as a party.
  The NDC came to power 4 years ago at a time oil had just been discovered and the outgoing NPP administration had introduced many social intervention programs and had resuscitated the ailing economy bequeathed to it by the Rawlings led NDC administration to a middle income status. No administration in the history of the nation has ever had it so good with the expectations of the luxury of an oil rich economy. Expectations were very high for the new Mills led NDC administration and many ghanaians were highly optimistic of a heavenly future,at least for our ghanaian standards.On assumption of office they quickly embarked on a borrowing spree and borrowed more money from external sources than all previous administrations put together. The newfound national swagger and optimism soon evaporated into thin air whilst ghanaians witnessed the hurried dismemberment of the social intervention programs.
  Whenever the NDC is in power there is a breakdown in law and order with footsoldiers seizing toilets, lorry parks, ransacking the offices of DCEs and never ever receiving even a slap on the wrist.
  The country naturally endowed with oil, gold and diamond is now broke and the Mahama administration has responded with the removal of the subsidy on petrol, the safety net for low paid ghanaian workers. What about the growing corruption in high places? What about the settlement of dubious judgement debts to cronies out of court? What about the administration buying imported finished petrol when we have the Tema Oil Refinery and we produce crude oil at home?
  This NDC party is like the Republican party of America. Whenever they are in power they increase the national deficit. Clinton wiped out the deficit left by the outgoing Bush senior administration and left a huge surplus. Enters George Bush junior in 2000 and he wipes out the huge surplus and bequeaths a huge deficit by the time he was leaving office in 2008.The NDC has done sufficient damage in 4 years and we can't afford another 4 years of kleptocracy and ineptitude.

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