This was a generally agreeable article which tragically crash-landed with the ridiculously misconceived opinion that a mere merger between the roundly exhausted Nkrumaist quacks and charlatans, i.e. the PNC, the PPP, the GCPP ... read full comment
This was a generally agreeable article which tragically crash-landed with the ridiculously misconceived opinion that a mere merger between the roundly exhausted Nkrumaist quacks and charlatans, i.e. the PNC, the PPP, the GCPP and the now scandalously effeminate CPP itself , might be the elixir that may revive the Nkrumaist dream.
I must add that 0% of 0 is still zero and that those who still bank their quixotic hopes on rounding up a gang of non-performers to create mass and substance in the CPP are simply delusional.
Indeed apart from the CPP, which has itself been reduced to a comical road-show act, none of the other parties mentioned for a possible merger, make any outward claims as to being Nkrumaist or socialist in their political persuasions so why anyone would want to rope them into an alliance for which they are unlicensed or unqualified, beats my imagination.
Kojo T 8 years ago
We are in a pathetic situation.But never say never.We shall rise again
We are in a pathetic situation.But never say never.We shall rise again
Nii Teiko 8 years ago
The CPP is no more relevant because of the NDC. The incompetent NDC has about 80% of its supporters drawn from the CPP. The inference here is that CPP would perform poorly just as the NDC if they should be given the nod to ru ... read full comment
The CPP is no more relevant because of the NDC. The incompetent NDC has about 80% of its supporters drawn from the CPP. The inference here is that CPP would perform poorly just as the NDC if they should be given the nod to rule. Nkrumah died with all the good things he had and I don't there is any wise person in both NDC and CPP of today to take the mantle from where Nkrumah left. The only alternative to salvage Ghana from the current economic mess, even with oil money, is to bring the semblance of Kuffours good governance that raised Rawlings created HPIC Ghana to a lower middle income Nation.
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 8 years ago
The Nkrumaist nonsense is gone forever.
The kleptocratic NDC is the custodian of whatever is left of that inept legacy. The others are, as Shabi rightly said, o% of 0 which is indeed 0.
Long live the Danquah heritage!!!
The Nkrumaist nonsense is gone forever.
The kleptocratic NDC is the custodian of whatever is left of that inept legacy. The others are, as Shabi rightly said, o% of 0 which is indeed 0.
Long live the Danquah heritage!!!
Shabi 8 years ago
Dr SAS, sometimes you make me wonder what exactly your political - if any, proclivities and motives are.
For a person with a 'Dr' appended to his name, one would have expected that your contributions to such discussions, w ... read full comment
Dr SAS, sometimes you make me wonder what exactly your political - if any, proclivities and motives are.
For a person with a 'Dr' appended to his name, one would have expected that your contributions to such discussions, would veer more towards meaningful and appreciable intellectual analysis than the petty childish and emotional tantrums that you diffuse in favour of Danquah and against Kwame Nkrumah.
The discussion and arguments of the merits or the demerits of the two personalities - Danquah and Kwame Nkrumah, have long been settled by the practical evidence of contemporary history in which Danquah remains an unknown quantity whilst Kwame Nkrumah continues to earn greater adulation and respect around the world as the scales of prolonged imperialist subservience continue to fall off from the eyes of the world. Railing and raving ad nauseam in the impossible task to elevate Danquah from the rubbish bins of history will only end up in greater frustration which is expressed by the ugly tantrums which you frequently exhibit on this platform.
I do not know what you mean by "The Nkrumaist nonsense is gone forever" because Kwame Nkrumah continues to enjoy much more widespread respect and credit than even when he was alive and more than current living leaders of the world - including those from the so-called advanced imperialist countries who continue to exceed the presumed downsides of Kwame Nkrumah a thousand fold.
Again, if you credit Danquah for the existing stark and bleak socio-economic conditions on the ground in Ghana at the moment - conditions which you vaingloriously attribute to as the "Danquah heritage" - whether it is being executed by the NDC or the NPP, then Im sorry but you are definitely not doing Danquah, your mentor and hero, any good. The truth however is that the terrible conditions existing in Ghana at the moment is what the imperialist neo-colonial policies of neo-liberalism would inevitably lead to in any developing country. In any case I find it difficult to reconcile your evident political penchant with your inability to physically co-exist with same in your native country.
Kleptocracy is and has always been an inextricable and the most vital component of neo-liberalism, capitalism, colonialism and slavery which are all inter-related facets of the evil hematophagous creed of imperialism. To single out and indict the current NDC govt, which by the way is an unapologetic and brazen practitioner of the neo-colonial policies of neo-liberalism, is not only unfair but also an intellectually dishonest analysis. Perhaps their (NDC) only undoing is that they have outdone the Danquah/Busia clique in that contemptible and offensive transgression against humanity. For you to turn common logic upside down to insinuate that the NDC is an Nkrumaist party only with the sole intent to vilify Nkrumah is a bit ludicrous, seeing that you yourself have emphatically asserted that we are living in a presumably successful golden age of the Danquah heritage.
C.Y. ANDY-K 8 years ago
I had just this morning completed drafted an article in my mind on revamping the Nkrumahist agenda (note: not tradition), and thinking of how to find time to type it out.
We of the now largely moribund TheNkrumahistforum d ... read full comment
I had just this morning completed drafted an article in my mind on revamping the Nkrumahist agenda (note: not tradition), and thinking of how to find time to type it out.
We of the now largely moribund TheNkrumahistforum did our utmost to make the splinter groups, including the CPP, to unite. We failed. It became clear to some of us that we were faced with unthinking delusional nincompoops with over-bloated egos of themselves!
Now, you are right in your analysis of the NDC and NPP as just being neo-colonial appendages and stooges of the international finance capital that dominate the world. See what they are doing to our oil and gas find, with the so-called Nkrumahist parties remaining mute too! Pathetic! So, you failed to observe that such stooges also existed in the CPP tradition (the right-wing forces represented by the Ayeh Kumis and Gbedemahs). They are the forces that formed the PNP and made Hilla Limann, a Domboist, the President of Ghana. And they are the forces that rallied again to form the splintered Nkrumahist parties, with platitudes to Nkrumah's ideals and agenda. Hassan Ayariga's coughing performance at the IEA debate generated more public attention than Dr Sankara's private sector should be the engine of growth of the CPP re-assurance of the money-bags at home and abroad.
Then in stepped the real local money-bag Nduom, after a tenure of politically prostituting with the NPP and the rest is history. The CPP, at least, would have been in a far more credible position had Nduom also joined the NPP outright just like his fellow PP, Blay, the visa racketeer. Imagine what havoc the two of them would have caused in the NPP by now. Sweet revenge!
My position is that you cannot merge the present self-proclaimed Nkrumah tradition parties under the CPP and expect them to cause more than a ripple if they failed to articulate the radical state-centered agenda that the Nkrumahist agenda is.
And more importantly, you CANNOT expect them to unite under the banner of the discredited and warts infested CPP and expect Ghanaians to rally to their cause. Nkrumah himself said it clearly that he wouldn't revive the CPP if returned to power. What he wrote and his instructions are all there for all to read. But, as we know, even those wanting to lead the party don't read his books. We heard the security capo who was once their presidential candidate admitted that much when being vetted! That's not a tradition some of us can give our votes to. We know what will happen once in power. Limann's example is there for us to learn from.
These are the gists of my thesis.
Shall find time to write my article.
Andy-K
Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago
Your tongue in cheek question about the CPP, Kofi Thompson, is akin to asking if a slave is emasculated while a slave on the plantation. You, Kofi Thompson, members of the NPP and NDC along with idiots on Ghana's Supreme Cour ... read full comment
Your tongue in cheek question about the CPP, Kofi Thompson, is akin to asking if a slave is emasculated while a slave on the plantation. You, Kofi Thompson, members of the NPP and NDC along with idiots on Ghana's Supreme Court are no different from most American whites who are in denail of the effects of centuries of slavery and servitude being at the foundations of the plight of America's black/African American population.
So just as America's Whites are unwilling to subject themself to just 50 years of no education, no meaningful employment but farm labour, no access to the internet, no rights to law of the land because they will be relegated to not having rights under new laws and decisions in enacting laws that affect their every lives to see if there is a remote posibility of a negative impact so it is the dimwits in the NPP and NDC are hell bent on holding the CPP down by selling all CPP assets and thus the ability to be viable party in Gjana politics people continue to pose idiotic questions about the CPP. The NPP and NDC are active because they have and continue to steal funds from the nation's coffers to keep them relevant even while a moronic Supreme Court of our land sit idle by and play see no evil, hear no evil of the plight of the injustice visited upon the CPP by the conspired actions of the NPP and NDC.
Some 40 years after Nkrumah left the political stage in Ghana his ghost still scare the crap out of the NPP and NDC and their respective bands of cowards who are very petrified of the rise of the CPP from the ashes and thus continue to hold the slave chains and yet ask if there is life left in the CPP.
Nii Teiko 8 years ago
Traditions thrives at all times. There is one and only one political tradition that has demonstrated with a proven capacity to stand the test of time, and that tradition is the Great Dombo-Danquah-Busia tradition. Obonsam Ra ... read full comment
Traditions thrives at all times. There is one and only one political tradition that has demonstrated with a proven capacity to stand the test of time, and that tradition is the Great Dombo-Danquah-Busia tradition. Obonsam Rawlings did everything within his ambit to stop this traditional movement but all to no avail. The mighty hands of the lord God almighty is on us so who can be against the anointed ones? Now that the NDC is constructing a 20 million dollar headquarters, one would wonder how the CPP is going to get on their feet. Nkrumah truly died the CPP. My advice to you noise making so called NKrumaist is that you better pack you bags and baggage and join the NDC where you have your kind. The NPP has no room for change resisting ' fixated buffoons'.
Yaw Yeboah 8 years ago
I don't think your claims of the 'Dombo-Danquah-Busia' tradition being the only political tradition actually stacks up. Since 1992, how many Presidential Elections have been won by the NPP? If I am not mistaken it is only 2, ... read full comment
I don't think your claims of the 'Dombo-Danquah-Busia' tradition being the only political tradition actually stacks up. Since 1992, how many Presidential Elections have been won by the NPP? If I am not mistaken it is only 2, and the remaining majority have been won by the NDC.
The NDC has continued to win elections by claiming that they are Nkrumahists and side-lining the CPP. The Volta, Northern, Upper East, Upper West & Brong Ahafo Regions originally CPP strongholds under President Nkrumah have continued to vote for NDC, because of their claims of being Nkrumahists. The NDC have also followed the campaign tactics of the CPP, by focusing their resources on targeting rural areas.
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Nei Teiko 8 years ago
Yaw, that is the main reason why I suggested that the so called nkrumaist should stop deceiving themselves as Nkrumahs'adherents. better identify themselves with the ndc.It is beyond my comprehension why all the Nkrumahs' lea ... read full comment
Yaw, that is the main reason why I suggested that the so called nkrumaist should stop deceiving themselves as Nkrumahs'adherents. better identify themselves with the ndc.It is beyond my comprehension why all the Nkrumahs' leaning political parties could not collectively pass the 3% mark in all general elections since '92, yet we have hundreds of thousand of you idiots out there claiming to be DIE HARD Nkrumahist. Is it not stupid, and defy common sense for you guys to play Nkrumah and turn around to vote NDC? It is either you lobotomized Jenks are unprincipled, incapacitated to make firm decisions on your own, or lack both.
Abeeku Mensah 8 years ago
From your use of the English language I bet you're classroom educated and thus expect you to understand what follows from here. Tradition does fools not make. It is tradition that has destroyed Ghana; it is tradition that fue ... read full comment
From your use of the English language I bet you're classroom educated and thus expect you to understand what follows from here. Tradition does fools not make. It is tradition that has destroyed Ghana; it is tradition that fuels tribalism and conflicts of tribal preferences in Ghana. To suggest acceptance of tradition irrespective of negative effects is to rain on those who buck acceptance of status in life and society to make it better for themselves and community. Yes NDC or NPP can build the tallest and largest buildings known to man to impress those easily impressed but will not buy wisdom, honesty, principles and respect. Remember the CPP in its truism could not be bought by Paa Kwesi Nduom and thus bought his own party along with those money could buy. The NDC has shown itself not to be smart but a bunch of thieves and yellow belly cowards who worship at the Rawlings alter; NDC cannot shoot straight. The NPP has shown itself to be cunning thieves, hypocrites and advocates of tribal preference. The hands of the Christian God must not be at work if the NPP is engaged in acid wash of its members, purging of its members on a witchhunt exercise and failed to wrestle power from the NDC; God does not fail in his promise does he? Those two parties will crash and burn because principles, wisdom, foresight and love of nation trumps all the shenanigans from both. If the ideals of CPP was about money would Nkrumah and his men not have siphoned off all the so-called money left behind by the colonial masters? Did Nkrumah hide assets to the ying-yang like all those who came after him? Did Nkrumah the evil dictator enshrine in the Ghana constitution anything that absolved him or his men from prosecution for misdeeds? Why do you think the good "Christians" of the NPP and NDC sought and gained indemnity in the constitution? You can do better, Nii Teiko, by not being a cheer leader of the here and now people full of absolute hypocrisy, intellectual dishonesty and morally bankrupt dimwits.
This was a generally agreeable article which tragically crash-landed with the ridiculously misconceived opinion that a mere merger between the roundly exhausted Nkrumaist quacks and charlatans, i.e. the PNC, the PPP, the GCPP ...
read full comment
We are in a pathetic situation.But never say never.We shall rise again
The CPP is no more relevant because of the NDC. The incompetent NDC has about 80% of its supporters drawn from the CPP. The inference here is that CPP would perform poorly just as the NDC if they should be given the nod to ru ...
read full comment
The Nkrumaist nonsense is gone forever.
The kleptocratic NDC is the custodian of whatever is left of that inept legacy. The others are, as Shabi rightly said, o% of 0 which is indeed 0.
Long live the Danquah heritage!!!
Dr SAS, sometimes you make me wonder what exactly your political - if any, proclivities and motives are.
For a person with a 'Dr' appended to his name, one would have expected that your contributions to such discussions, w ...
read full comment
I had just this morning completed drafted an article in my mind on revamping the Nkrumahist agenda (note: not tradition), and thinking of how to find time to type it out.
We of the now largely moribund TheNkrumahistforum d ...
read full comment
Your tongue in cheek question about the CPP, Kofi Thompson, is akin to asking if a slave is emasculated while a slave on the plantation. You, Kofi Thompson, members of the NPP and NDC along with idiots on Ghana's Supreme Cour ...
read full comment
Traditions thrives at all times. There is one and only one political tradition that has demonstrated with a proven capacity to stand the test of time, and that tradition is the Great Dombo-Danquah-Busia tradition. Obonsam Ra ...
read full comment
I don't think your claims of the 'Dombo-Danquah-Busia' tradition being the only political tradition actually stacks up. Since 1992, how many Presidential Elections have been won by the NPP? If I am not mistaken it is only 2, ...
read full comment
Yaw, that is the main reason why I suggested that the so called nkrumaist should stop deceiving themselves as Nkrumahs'adherents. better identify themselves with the ndc.It is beyond my comprehension why all the Nkrumahs' lea ...
read full comment
From your use of the English language I bet you're classroom educated and thus expect you to understand what follows from here. Tradition does fools not make. It is tradition that has destroyed Ghana; it is tradition that fue ...
read full comment