Kofi "Chuck" Wayo Registers Party

‘Vote URP To Put Ghana Right’, Says Founder, Chairman, Leader, Presidential Candidate Chuck

On Tuesday, June 13, a new political party was born and registered with the Electoral Commission, after apparently gathering the signatures of 500 members in all 230 districts nationwide.

The name of the party is the United Republican Party. The founder, leader, chairman and presidential candidate of the URP is Kofi “Chuck” Wayo.

He defends this concentration of power in one hand with the argument, “because I’m the one with the brains!”

Article 7(a) of the draft constitution, which the founder is at pains to stress is subject to congressional approval, states: “The leader and founder of the party has the power to fire a member who is believed to be a spy, a non-dedicated, as well as any other misconduct that can lead to the blackmail of the image of our party.”

Art 7(b) adds: “Any member who may (emphasis ours) be flirting with other parties may also be fired irrespective of your position in the party.” It seems, Mr Wayo has absolutely no intention to offer to his party members the kind of tolerance that allowed him to become one of the Kufuor administration’s most vociferous critics, even as a defeated parliamentary candidate of the New Patriotic Party.

He left the NPP to later on join the PNC, a party he later described as the Chinchinga (khebab) Club.

For the avoidance of doubt as to who really is in charge of the URP, Chapter 7, Art 27 of its draft constitution is unequivocal: “No member or party executive has the right to suspend or sack a member, this is only (emphasis ours) the prerogative of the leader and the [National Executive Council].”

In the last few weeks alone, evidence seen by this paper indicates that American-born Mrs Wayo has transferred at least $250,000 to Ghana from her Chicago base for her husband to execute the launching process of the party. The URP Statement of Objective reads: “The URP is a body of young and old citizens of the Republic of Ghana, organized and devoted to the improvement of better life to all citizens. Every citizen must enjoy quality education, shelter, food, housing and economic freedom.”

It claims it believes in self-reliance, and when it comes to policies of state, women, children and the elderly must be given special treatment.

“Vote URP to Put Ghana Right”, screams the posters with Mr Wayo’s picture on. The URP wants Ghanaians to “feel the natural gift given to them by God,” by promoting a Ghana first approach in the use of the country’s rich natural resources.

Further, the draft constitution adds, “The human resource base should also be strengthened, to prevent (emphasis ours) citizens [from] traveling far and wide in search for greener pastures.”

The party promises to “Work hand in hand with all the political parties, governments and other institutions of other country [sic] that seems [sic] to pursuit [sic] the aims and objectives of the party.”

There are nine aims and objectives listed in all. They include, to “Promote national reconciliation and unity, safeguard the liberty of all citizens; consolidate and maintain the independent [sic] and sovereignty of the Republic of Ghana; work for the attainment of [the] well-being of all the citizens of Ghana, irrespective of social, economic, religion [sic], ethnic background; ensure that the Government of Ghana shall be accountable to the people at all times; pursue the international relations, the principle of positive neutralism and a non-alignment.”

Perhaps the sexiest of the aims and objectives is in paragraph 6: to “promote horizontal and vertical economic co-operation and tackle the dehumanization scourges of ignorance, poverty, and diseases.”

The draft document says in Chapter 2, Art 7: “We believe in the worth and dignity of man…”

Encouraging words, perhaps, coming from an American-nurtured Ghanaian from Nima, who has consistently shown very little regard for the collective intellect of the Ghanaian and carries the extraordinary hope that he, indeed, is the one with the brains to rescue this country.