The FREE SHS CAMPAIGN was not effective strategy because NPP could not define it.On the contrary,you don't need to campaign on free shs to be elected.Now listen,don't insult the intelligence of Ghanaian electorates because th ... read full comment
The FREE SHS CAMPAIGN was not effective strategy because NPP could not define it.On the contrary,you don't need to campaign on free shs to be elected.Now listen,don't insult the intelligence of Ghanaian electorates because they did not vote for Nana Addo and NPP in 2008 and 2012 you may still need them.Remember we are talking about general elections where each party will present a presidential candidate and a parliamentary candidate at the same time at the same polling station.In 2008 and 2012,the NPP lost both the presidential and parliamentary elections in 8 regions.Have you taken your time and asked yourself why NPP won in only 2 regions out of 10?Yes,I will tell you what,NPP lacks effective campaign strategy and I am afraid the 2016 results will be no different.Now listen,vigilance is part of effective strategy thus making you charismatic.Now tell me,do you think NPP can win more than 2 regions in 2016?I don't think so because they lack effective campaign strategy.With the kind of leadership they have now,it will be very difficult to convince the 4 swing regions to vote for them.Mr Badu,you are also part of the problem.You seem to lack manners by the language you used in this article and that is what NPP members need to change,especially the campaign team.Respect is an essential ingredient in campaign because you need the votes of the majority not only from your faithful members.You need even votes from the NDC camp to win elections so better learn how to lure voters and stop using abusive language.Thank you.
K. .M, Australia 9 years ago
To some of NPP members,to win power is to act in political bravado. Some of them are arrogant and speak with too much pride. To be lifted up, you must be humbled. But if you lift yourself up, then people will bring you down.
To some of NPP members,to win power is to act in political bravado. Some of them are arrogant and speak with too much pride. To be lifted up, you must be humbled. But if you lift yourself up, then people will bring you down.
Jeremy 9 years ago
Is arrogance exclusive to only NPP? I don't think so, same can be said about NDC. I do not also think arrogance and pride are bad attributes, it is only in its excessive form which is bad. If arrogance and pride are bad, then ... read full comment
Is arrogance exclusive to only NPP? I don't think so, same can be said about NDC. I do not also think arrogance and pride are bad attributes, it is only in its excessive form which is bad. If arrogance and pride are bad, then both NPP and NDC are guilty.
TRUTH CONQUERS 9 years ago
It is also very interesting to find such a huge party always blaming the Electoral Commission and the winning Party for their defeats without sitting down to analyse the situation well. How can you blame somebody for losing ... read full comment
It is also very interesting to find such a huge party always blaming the Electoral Commission and the winning Party for their defeats without sitting down to analyse the situation well. How can you blame somebody for losing in 8 regions? Where were your field officers at the time of the elections? Did they go to sleep? Find the causes of your defeat and stop the easier way of telling people that the elections were rigged every time you lose.
Jeremy 9 years ago
A cunning "thief" cannot be caught with ease.
A cunning "thief" cannot be caught with ease.
DusTY-FooT-pHiloSophER 9 years ago
He just answered the woes making your party ineffective at the polls and you threading on the same route for satisfaction. Now, let my help you out by putting it blunt before you, thus, SEARCH FOR THE ROUTE CAUSE OF YOUR DEFE ... read full comment
He just answered the woes making your party ineffective at the polls and you threading on the same route for satisfaction. Now, let my help you out by putting it blunt before you, thus, SEARCH FOR THE ROUTE CAUSE OF YOUR DEFEATS IN CHAINS AND BLAME LESS THE ELECTORAL SYSTEM PUT IN PLACE.
Get it now, mate?
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago
So you don't know the NDC use foreigners from Togo, Mali and burkina to vote for them. Campaign message is not a reliable tool to win elections in Ghana but vigilance does, just as Afari Gyan made us understood in court. And ... read full comment
So you don't know the NDC use foreigners from Togo, Mali and burkina to vote for them. Campaign message is not a reliable tool to win elections in Ghana but vigilance does, just as Afari Gyan made us understood in court. And the question is, why vigilance?' Vigilance' because the NDC is alway finding means to steal. On this note it is clear that the strategy to win election in Ghana is stealing and nothing else . And that unholy enterprise of stealing is what the NPP lacks. We believe fairness and that is causing us a great deal. So for Christ sake let no idiot presume that NPP loose elections genuinely.
Ato Williams 9 years ago
Well composed advise.
Well composed advise.
KKO 9 years ago
My Friend,
The author has hit the nail right on the head. Even in the advanced countries only about 60% of voters vote on issues, and most the time it is about parochial interest – foreigners are taking our jobs, the terr ... read full comment
My Friend,
The author has hit the nail right on the head. Even in the advanced countries only about 60% of voters vote on issues, and most the time it is about parochial interest – foreigners are taking our jobs, the terrorists are invading our country, benefit cheats and health tourists are invading else, etc.
What is sophisticated about the people of the Volta Region, for instance, voting 90% for the NDC election after election just because Victor Owusu gave a fitting answer to Agama’s constant heckling nearly forty years ago?
What is so sophisticated about the people who have been living in filth in Accra for the past five years continuing to vote for the party that has done absolute damn all about it? Even in the Central Region where we pride ourselves with voting on issues, didn’t the people of Cape Coast vote for Rawlings barely a years after he had likened their hygienic practices to those of cats?
The bottom line is in Ghana, the NDC and the CPP before them, recognise that the end justifies the means. So lie as much as you can about your opponents because the mostly illiterate and non-deccerning rural voters will buy any nonsense. Even in Accra, market women maintained that if the NPP came to power, the dollar cedi rate will collapse, thus reducing the amount of cedis they got from the remittances from their relatives abroad. Some of us have rightly reduced the amount we send home, even if that means some hardships for them!
KKO 9 years ago
This was meant as a response to Boy Kofi's posting!
This was meant as a response to Boy Kofi's posting!
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
Do you agree with me that NPP lacks effective campaign strategy?How are you going to win the 4 swing regions?Do you have effective strategy to win more votes?If yes go and give it NPP.Thank you.
Do you agree with me that NPP lacks effective campaign strategy?How are you going to win the 4 swing regions?Do you have effective strategy to win more votes?If yes go and give it NPP.Thank you.
KKO 9 years ago
If you ask me, my simple strategy will be for ALL Akans to vote like the Ewes, Dangbes and Northerners have been doing. "Mia deka or Vote for me because I am a Northerner!" Akufo-Addo will probably not say that for obvious re ... read full comment
If you ask me, my simple strategy will be for ALL Akans to vote like the Ewes, Dangbes and Northerners have been doing. "Mia deka or Vote for me because I am a Northerner!" Akufo-Addo will probably not say that for obvious reasons. But every Akan who cannot stand the obvious discrimination against Akans, and the Asante in particular, should get ready to spread this simple message, "WO NUA TSE EGUABA DUA DO A NNWE EGUABA BUN!"
Jeremy 9 years ago
Yours is high sounding, but there is an element of truth. Political power is not won on a silver platter,it is won through every available means, including foul means.If indeed NPP wants power, the followers must cease behavi ... read full comment
Yours is high sounding, but there is an element of truth. Political power is not won on a silver platter,it is won through every available means, including foul means.If indeed NPP wants power, the followers must cease behaving like saints,--there are no saints in politics!
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
Are you saying NPP has no effective strategy to the 2016 general elections?Okay,go and tell NPP to do that maybe they will succeed.I wonder how every Akan will vote for NPP so if all other tribes vote against NPP?What will be ... read full comment
Are you saying NPP has no effective strategy to the 2016 general elections?Okay,go and tell NPP to do that maybe they will succeed.I wonder how every Akan will vote for NPP so if all other tribes vote against NPP?What will be the results?Thank you.
Jeremy 9 years ago
I am afraid in politics voters have an inclination towards their own, this does not happen only in Africa. English would like to vote for an english prime minister, while a scottish would prefer a scottish. It is not the best ... read full comment
I am afraid in politics voters have an inclination towards their own, this does not happen only in Africa. English would like to vote for an english prime minister, while a scottish would prefer a scottish. It is not the best practice, but am afraid it is the reality.
BOY KOFI 9 years ago
Try it and see the results,good luck.
Try it and see the results,good luck.
Jeremy 9 years ago
Didn't the voters in the north listen to President Mahama, when he told them to vote for their own?
Didn't the voters in the north listen to President Mahama, when he told them to vote for their own?
KKO 9 years ago
Very simple. According to the 2010 census, the five mainly Akan regions of Ghana make up 58% of the population of Ghana. The three northern regions together with the Volta Region make up 25%. Of the 16% in Greater Accra, the ... read full comment
Very simple. According to the 2010 census, the five mainly Akan regions of Ghana make up 58% of the population of Ghana. The three northern regions together with the Volta Region make up 25%. Of the 16% in Greater Accra, the Akans probably are still close to a majority there.
So the simple answer is that the Akans have not behaved the way the other groups have otherwise we wouldn't be in the position we are in at the present time!
Jeremy, you are right. Even though people have accused the NPP and its antecedent UP of all kinds of things, they have not been as nasty as the others, and that has been their undoing!
Jeremy 9 years ago
Based on your analysis, if indeed Akans are tribalists as the NDC followers would like us to believe, then NPP that has been tagged as Akan party will never lose an election in Ghana. I will reiterate that NPP followers are n ... read full comment
Based on your analysis, if indeed Akans are tribalists as the NDC followers would like us to believe, then NPP that has been tagged as Akan party will never lose an election in Ghana. I will reiterate that NPP followers are not doing themselves any favours at all. They should start hitting the ground running!
Ama Spintex 9 years ago
Awake NPP, more vigilance to beat the NDC at their game
Awake NPP, more vigilance to beat the NDC at their game
The FREE SHS CAMPAIGN was not effective strategy because NPP could not define it.On the contrary,you don't need to campaign on free shs to be elected.Now listen,don't insult the intelligence of Ghanaian electorates because th ...
read full comment
To some of NPP members,to win power is to act in political bravado. Some of them are arrogant and speak with too much pride. To be lifted up, you must be humbled. But if you lift yourself up, then people will bring you down.
Is arrogance exclusive to only NPP? I don't think so, same can be said about NDC. I do not also think arrogance and pride are bad attributes, it is only in its excessive form which is bad. If arrogance and pride are bad, then ...
read full comment
It is also very interesting to find such a huge party always blaming the Electoral Commission and the winning Party for their defeats without sitting down to analyse the situation well. How can you blame somebody for losing ...
read full comment
A cunning "thief" cannot be caught with ease.
He just answered the woes making your party ineffective at the polls and you threading on the same route for satisfaction. Now, let my help you out by putting it blunt before you, thus, SEARCH FOR THE ROUTE CAUSE OF YOUR DEFE ...
read full comment
So you don't know the NDC use foreigners from Togo, Mali and burkina to vote for them. Campaign message is not a reliable tool to win elections in Ghana but vigilance does, just as Afari Gyan made us understood in court. And ...
read full comment
Well composed advise.
My Friend,
The author has hit the nail right on the head. Even in the advanced countries only about 60% of voters vote on issues, and most the time it is about parochial interest – foreigners are taking our jobs, the terr ...
read full comment
This was meant as a response to Boy Kofi's posting!
Do you agree with me that NPP lacks effective campaign strategy?How are you going to win the 4 swing regions?Do you have effective strategy to win more votes?If yes go and give it NPP.Thank you.
If you ask me, my simple strategy will be for ALL Akans to vote like the Ewes, Dangbes and Northerners have been doing. "Mia deka or Vote for me because I am a Northerner!" Akufo-Addo will probably not say that for obvious re ...
read full comment
Yours is high sounding, but there is an element of truth. Political power is not won on a silver platter,it is won through every available means, including foul means.If indeed NPP wants power, the followers must cease behavi ...
read full comment
Are you saying NPP has no effective strategy to the 2016 general elections?Okay,go and tell NPP to do that maybe they will succeed.I wonder how every Akan will vote for NPP so if all other tribes vote against NPP?What will be ...
read full comment
I am afraid in politics voters have an inclination towards their own, this does not happen only in Africa. English would like to vote for an english prime minister, while a scottish would prefer a scottish. It is not the best ...
read full comment
Try it and see the results,good luck.
Didn't the voters in the north listen to President Mahama, when he told them to vote for their own?
Very simple. According to the 2010 census, the five mainly Akan regions of Ghana make up 58% of the population of Ghana. The three northern regions together with the Volta Region make up 25%. Of the 16% in Greater Accra, the ...
read full comment
Based on your analysis, if indeed Akans are tribalists as the NDC followers would like us to believe, then NPP that has been tagged as Akan party will never lose an election in Ghana. I will reiterate that NPP followers are n ...
read full comment
Awake NPP, more vigilance to beat the NDC at their game