Haruna my Brother,
Your submissions tend to divide the Party more than unite her. I have strong belief and now set as others have already expressed, that ... read full comment
Kwabena Nkansa-Dugan
9:18 AM (1 hour ago)
to elephant-patri.
Haruna my Brother,
Your submissions tend to divide the Party more than unite her. I have strong belief and now set as others have already expressed, that you are only set to send this Party to perpertual opposition to serve your new status as a non NPP member.
Nana for God's sake is a petitioner in the suit and I cannot believe you want Alan to be in court while Nana rests in his Nima home.
Now the suit itself is long overdue. We could have gone to court in 1992 and remember even when Kufuor conceded in 1996 we had reasons to cry foul.
Mahama just decend from the clouds because they are blinding you and for once imagine that this is 2008 and the EC declared Nana Addo winner and the NDC have a quarter of the evidence we have today to cry foul. Knowing what your new playmates can do, what do you think will happen in Ghana?
Now who says it is only NPP who believes there was gross cheating for the NDC? The PPP, CPP, NDP and all strongly believe they have good reasons to go to court to challenge the results but have decided not to.
If you believe the NDC won outright and the EC was right in its declaration, speak to your new playmates and at least one or two will confess to you, that they did what they had to do because they needed that victory.
Nana may be 100 so long as he is fit to stand and is the best we have we will present him. So stop this Alan-Nana business because you clearly hate both men and hate the NPP. After all we all know how Rawlings was full of praise for Adu Boahen after the old man died.
He also spoke well of Baah Wiredu when he died, after he claimed that all NPP ministers were rogues and ritual murderers. You only praise and support Alan because he is not in charge and your sour submissions will easily set up an Alan-Nana war in the NPP which you love to see go down the drain and stay in opposition for ever.
This strong desire to see the NPP split is because this idea of Alan been prevented to campaign for 2016 will not wash. Alan maybe on everybody's lips because he has been the strongest challenger to Nana at the primaries. That however does not guarantee that he will run in 2016 what with this WTO job coming or even if he does there is no guarantee that he will win. Take a look at NPP primaries. Safo Adu came close to Adu Boahen in 1992 but both gentlemen lost to Kufuor in 1996.
If you still remain on this Forum, just keep your thoughts to yourself.
Hon. Dugan.
--- On Fri, 18/1/13, Mahama Haruna wrote:
From: Mahama Haruna
Subject: Re: [Elephant Patriots] STRATEGY TO LEAD NPP AGAIN!!
To: elephant-patriots@googlegroups.com
Date: Friday, 18 January, 2013, 5:52
Already Akufo-Addo's devotees are postulating all sorts of theories to keep him as Presidential candidate of NPP for 2016. Akufo-Addo will be 72 years old by 2016.
Knowing very well the age factor will surely be his greatest stumbling block to his 2016 agenda; references are being made by his supporters to situations in other countries such as US Senator John McCain and Ronald Reagan going into the American Presidential race in their seventies.
There is also the argument that there is nothing wrong with Nana Akufo-Addo being added to Africa's club of leaders above seventy (70) years which includes Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe, 87, Cameroon's Paul Biya, 78, Liberia's Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, 76, Namibia's Hifikeepunye Pohamba, 75, and Kenya's Mwai Kibaki, 71.
The situation in Senegal in which Abdoulaye Wade, a long-time opposition leader, ran for President four times, beginning in 1978, before he was elected in 2000 at age 74 is being used as another reason Akufo-Addo must go for 2016.
They point to the fact that the late President Mills lost elections three times before he won and so there is nothing wrong
with Akufo-Addo going for the third time.
The coming days are interesting.
The current leadership of NPP are simply using the Court case to remain relevant to their supporters and as well make Nana Akuffo Addo an obvious candidate at the next party primaries.
It is now clear that the decision by the National Executive Council of the NPP which is presently dominated by Akufo-Addo's henchmen, to contest the elections in court is a strategy to be relevant in the internal politics of NPP.
The game plan is simple;
1. Deny the results declared by EC;
2. Create an impression in the minds of NPP supporters you are the real winner but was cheated;
3. Go to court and this will stop Alan Kyeramaten's people from campaigning as long as the case is in court;
4. Prepare the grounds;
5. Ensure that polling station elections are organised by January or February so as to maintain your people at grassroots and subsequently at the constituency, Region and National levels.
All insults are welcomed.
Haruna, why this single-minded pursuit of Nana? What is your game plan? Don’t you see members of this forum have ‘given up on you’?
Age has no relevance where leadership is concerned. Leadership is not an age contest.
Having good health, (hear, see, speak, analyze, decide, delegate) not being corrupt, having respect for the people who have chosen one to serve them, having respect for the laws and institutions of the land - in order words, love of country – matters more to voters.
Nana Akufo-Addo has all these in abundance. That is why twice he presented himself and twice he was selected by his party to run for president (the last time by over 130 000 delegates). Millions of Ghanaians believe he won this election and there is the evidence to prove it. We hope and pray that the judges will be brave and act in the supreme interest of Ghana. Ghanaians are watching, as is the rest of the world. The outcome of the case is crucial to the peace and stability of our country.
A President Akufo-Addo, after justice has been served by the Supreme Court, will ‘preside’ (oversee/steer/direct) over a team of competent, politically seasoned men and women to deliver much needed socio-economic development to the people of Ghana.
The countries that you mentioned have not ‘buckled under’ because their leaders are in their 70’s.
Egya 11 years ago
Some people have no shame. What is this doing here?
Some people have no shame. What is this doing here?
John Agyekum Diawuo KUFFUOR 11 years ago
My brother it simply shows where political sychophancy has led many of us. We no longer see,reason and dream of nothing if not on NPP and NDC colours, if this is really not the case what has the first comment really got to do ... read full comment
My brother it simply shows where political sychophancy has led many of us. We no longer see,reason and dream of nothing if not on NPP and NDC colours, if this is really not the case what has the first comment really got to do concerning this feature?
Egya 11 years ago
This is what we should be doing for ourselves as Ghanaians - to support our own local banks and make them fund our local business men and women
This is what we should be doing for ourselves as Ghanaians - to support our own local banks and make them fund our local business men and women
KWAME K 11 years ago
This is good stuff. Congrats to First National. Let us support our local banks that have the entrepreneurial spirit. delightful!
This is good stuff. Congrats to First National. Let us support our local banks that have the entrepreneurial spirit. delightful!
Kwabena Nkansa-Dugan
9:18 AM (1 hour ago)
to elephant-patri.
Haruna my Brother,
Your submissions tend to divide the Party more than unite her. I have strong belief and now set as others have already expressed, that ...
read full comment
Some people have no shame. What is this doing here?
My brother it simply shows where political sychophancy has led many of us. We no longer see,reason and dream of nothing if not on NPP and NDC colours, if this is really not the case what has the first comment really got to do ...
read full comment
This is what we should be doing for ourselves as Ghanaians - to support our own local banks and make them fund our local business men and women
This is good stuff. Congrats to First National. Let us support our local banks that have the entrepreneurial spirit. delightful!