A great scholar you really are; very decent, polished, English. Nana Akufo Addo must read this: Food for thought.
A great scholar you really are; very decent, polished, English. Nana Akufo Addo must read this: Food for thought.
Mr. Figure-Out 9 years ago
Bravo SAS? Is somebody out there taking good notes of this glorious piece of work which, by any stretch of imagination, have exhaustively delineated the problems confronting the NPP and also classically offers the necessary ... read full comment
Bravo SAS? Is somebody out there taking good notes of this glorious piece of work which, by any stretch of imagination, have exhaustively delineated the problems confronting the NPP and also classically offers the necessary strategy and skills to mitigate same? Let those who have ears listen. I hope Dr. Ahoofe will forward this write up to Nana Addo and the hubristic loose talking duo, Ken Agyapong and 'Sir' John, the two disgraceful critical buffoons who think the NPP is their personal property.
Nemesis 9 years ago
I very much agree with you.
I very much agree with you.
Baffour Agyemang 9 years ago
Excellent article, bravo Dr. SAS. However isn't Nana Addo being giving too much messianic statutes? considering the Ghanaian attitude especially the people close to him and those he will be working with if elected president.
Excellent article, bravo Dr. SAS. However isn't Nana Addo being giving too much messianic statutes? considering the Ghanaian attitude especially the people close to him and those he will be working with if elected president.
Baffour Agyemang 9 years ago
Nana may have all the good intentions but for the people around him, can Nana commandeer effectively over such people? This doubt about Nana is perfectly captured in the article as " Thus Nana’s own inability or incapacity ... read full comment
Nana may have all the good intentions but for the people around him, can Nana commandeer effectively over such people? This doubt about Nana is perfectly captured in the article as " Thus Nana’s own inability or incapacity to call to order these political hangers-on is one major reason why we are today smarting under the NDC mess. Unless he is able to put his feet down to tame these hawks, we will be engaging in a fight in futility" This is what we saw in what made the NPP tear themselves apart while he passively look on. It would have taken Nana soo long to realise his ambition to be president should he be voted in 2016 and through this long ourney to the top he has gathered too much friends, assocites, strings, moulds etc.
Kofi Ata, Cambridge, UK 9 years ago
Dr SAS, this is brilliant advice for Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP and I hope they are reading and listening. Some of the problems your discussed have started already. Sir John is reported to have said that he would organise losers ... read full comment
Dr SAS, this is brilliant advice for Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP and I hope they are reading and listening. Some of the problems your discussed have started already. Sir John is reported to have said that he would organise losers' party for Alan as well calling for Alan to be charged for causing financial loss to NPP.
Again, Mustapha Hamid did not use appropriate language in responding to a suggestion that Alan should be Nana's running mate. He said, that would be a political suicide. Though he made a good point that because both Nana and Alan are Akans from the south, NDC will use it against NPP as an Akan party. The choice of words were unfortunate because it could discourage unity. What he should have said is that the suggestion is not a good idea rather than it would be political suicide.
Dr SAS, I agree with your view that Nana has been unable to manage those hawks around him and that worries me. Had Nana condemned Kennedy Agyapong's beat or kill Ewes and Gas statement and disassociated himself from him, who knows what could have happened in 2012. My worry is that if Nana is unable to manage or control those around him, then what sort of a president would he be? This is the man Ghanaians have been made to believe that he is decisive but it appears he is not. Perhaps, he needs Kennedy Agyapong's money for the campaign but at what cost?
Kwaku Ananse 9 years ago
As long as we have Sir John, Kennedy Agyepong, and the later-day saint, the functional illiterate Wontumi, NDC's work load is halved.
We Akans (esp. Ashantis and Akyems) refuse to explore the tendencies and mindsets of oth ... read full comment
As long as we have Sir John, Kennedy Agyepong, and the later-day saint, the functional illiterate Wontumi, NDC's work load is halved.
We Akans (esp. Ashantis and Akyems) refuse to explore the tendencies and mindsets of other ethnic groupings. We make so many simplistic assumptions and analysis, the bottom line is that we infuriate and marginalize majority of Ghanaians so that they will rather make do with a party they can relate to regardless of the hardships.
Elections are about numbers and whether we accept or reject the notion, the NDC by their posturing appeal to more people in Ghana than the NPP.
When you lose an election and drag the entire country through the supreme court based on unfounded suspicion, accuse the EC of things you can't prove in court, you create disaffection amongst the electorate.
Only positive reinforcement and a focus on selling your party to the masses can bring a semblance of real chance of the NPP turning the corner. The over-reliance on NDC's ineptitude and corruption as the NPP's message and selling point has not worked in the past and will not work this time.
The euphoria within the NPP is the fact that NDC has not delivered and therefore people will definitely have to vote for NPP, wherefore definite NPP victory for 2016. How simplistic and ridiculous. Fact - regardless of the economic outlook, NPP will not get more than 5% of votes in Ketu South and NDC will not get more than 10% of votes in Bantama that is the reality on the ground. Your job therefore is to figure out how to appeal to those voters who can't relate to your party.
Schengen 9 years ago
The author misses one thing, or he knows it but cannot say it since he is writing for the party newspaper - New Statesman. Akufo-Addo himself, as a person, divides Ghanaians into two. There are those who love him intensely an ... read full comment
The author misses one thing, or he knows it but cannot say it since he is writing for the party newspaper - New Statesman. Akufo-Addo himself, as a person, divides Ghanaians into two. There are those who love him intensely and there are others who simply loath him. This has nothing to do with partisan politics or people having suicide pacts with NDC. Many of those who hate him don't even like NDC.
What our country really needs is a new breed of politician - people who think differently from the old horses like Akufo-Addo.
It is such a pity for us that a third force is not coming up in Ghanaian politics to give both major parties a run for the money.
SAS says our nation is crying for redemption. That may be true but it is no more than they use to do. We have been burdened with several bad rulers that our people are ALWAYS crying for redemption.
Only a new kind of politics will redeem them!
Btw, SAS, when were you last in Ghana to see things for yourself?
Dr. SAS, Attorney at Law 9 years ago
I was in Ghana last year Dec. 3rd, 2013, and I bought a ticket last May to visit on Dec. 3rd, this year, but I am having second thoughts.....Don't ask me why.
I was in Ghana last year Dec. 3rd, 2013, and I bought a ticket last May to visit on Dec. 3rd, this year, but I am having second thoughts.....Don't ask me why.
TEE 9 years ago
GOOD ADVICE
GOOD ADVICE
hon mahadin wa 9 years ago
Good piece! the hawks around nana should refrain from making comments likely to make nana's tasks of uniting the party difficult.
Good piece! the hawks around nana should refrain from making comments likely to make nana's tasks of uniting the party difficult.
mensah abrampa 9 years ago
This is not a bluster, neither shooting from the hip nor kind of "You come busting in here and shoot off your bazoo at me" stuff but a very substantive and insightful write-up from a man who appears to love his country, the N ... read full comment
This is not a bluster, neither shooting from the hip nor kind of "You come busting in here and shoot off your bazoo at me" stuff but a very substantive and insightful write-up from a man who appears to love his country, the NPP and Nana Akuffo Addo, all very dearly. There are some firebrands in the NPP whose loyalty to the cause of the party has never been in doubt but have always found it difficult to understand that politics is a game of numbers and making compromises if you want to win. I hope Nana Akuffo Addo and his team will take Dr SAS' exhortations and counsel to heart and endeavor to find ways of winning the hearts and minds of both friends and those labelled as foes and enemy combatants. I pray they would be more prudent, deliberate and purposeful in their decisions and actions that the party may succeed in its bid to wrestle power from the suffocating grip of a corrupt, clueless and incompetent NDC administration and save our dear nation from further deterioration.
Philip Kobina Baidoo 9 years ago
A very good analysis. I hope SAS will make the effort to send a copy to Nana if he truly knows him in person. Though, I have my reservations regarding his chances, however, if takes some of these invaluable advice on,II don ... read full comment
A very good analysis. I hope SAS will make the effort to send a copy to Nana if he truly knows him in person. Though, I have my reservations regarding his chances, however, if takes some of these invaluable advice on,II don't see how he cannot win come 2016.
LONTO-BOY 9 years ago
Dr SAS, this is a well-written and impressive piece. Of course, Nana Akufo-Addo's thumping leadership victory is unsurprising. However, the real battle is the 2016 general election. This general election is there to be won. B ... read full comment
Dr SAS, this is a well-written and impressive piece. Of course, Nana Akufo-Addo's thumping leadership victory is unsurprising. However, the real battle is the 2016 general election. This general election is there to be won. But what will drive NPP to victory?
Just as you've pointed out, moving the party forward, Nana Akufo-Addo must unify the party. That would be hugely important for NPP, in terms of appeal and strength.
The NDC government might be incompetent and corruption-ridden, but what is undeniable is that the party is an effective campaign juggernaut. Therefore, the leadership of NPP would be delusional into thinking that with the economic hardships Ghanaians are going through, 2016 would be a walk in the park towards victory.
The key is NPP's election/campaign strategy. Ghana's politics is tribal, and NPP cannot depend on the votes of its traditional voters to win 2016. There is a distance and distrust between NPP and some ethnic groups/tribes and regions in Ghana. The NPP leadership must understand why they[Nana Akufo-Addo and most MPs] failed miserably to win in most of the regions in the 2008 and 2012 elections, whereas, NPP under Kufour's leadership did better. Is Nana Akufo-Addo the party's biggest electoral asset?
hustler 9 years ago
Nice piece there. Please do ensure you send a copy of this to Nana. Cheers
Nice piece there. Please do ensure you send a copy of this to Nana. Cheers
A great scholar you really are; very decent, polished, English. Nana Akufo Addo must read this: Food for thought.
Bravo SAS? Is somebody out there taking good notes of this glorious piece of work which, by any stretch of imagination, have exhaustively delineated the problems confronting the NPP and also classically offers the necessary ...
read full comment
I very much agree with you.
Excellent article, bravo Dr. SAS. However isn't Nana Addo being giving too much messianic statutes? considering the Ghanaian attitude especially the people close to him and those he will be working with if elected president.
Nana may have all the good intentions but for the people around him, can Nana commandeer effectively over such people? This doubt about Nana is perfectly captured in the article as " Thus Nana’s own inability or incapacity ...
read full comment
Dr SAS, this is brilliant advice for Nana Akufo-Addo and NPP and I hope they are reading and listening. Some of the problems your discussed have started already. Sir John is reported to have said that he would organise losers ...
read full comment
As long as we have Sir John, Kennedy Agyepong, and the later-day saint, the functional illiterate Wontumi, NDC's work load is halved.
We Akans (esp. Ashantis and Akyems) refuse to explore the tendencies and mindsets of oth ...
read full comment
The author misses one thing, or he knows it but cannot say it since he is writing for the party newspaper - New Statesman. Akufo-Addo himself, as a person, divides Ghanaians into two. There are those who love him intensely an ...
read full comment
I was in Ghana last year Dec. 3rd, 2013, and I bought a ticket last May to visit on Dec. 3rd, this year, but I am having second thoughts.....Don't ask me why.
GOOD ADVICE
Good piece! the hawks around nana should refrain from making comments likely to make nana's tasks of uniting the party difficult.
This is not a bluster, neither shooting from the hip nor kind of "You come busting in here and shoot off your bazoo at me" stuff but a very substantive and insightful write-up from a man who appears to love his country, the N ...
read full comment
A very good analysis. I hope SAS will make the effort to send a copy to Nana if he truly knows him in person. Though, I have my reservations regarding his chances, however, if takes some of these invaluable advice on,II don ...
read full comment
Dr SAS, this is a well-written and impressive piece. Of course, Nana Akufo-Addo's thumping leadership victory is unsurprising. However, the real battle is the 2016 general election. This general election is there to be won. B ...
read full comment
Nice piece there. Please do ensure you send a copy of this to Nana. Cheers