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Opinions of Saturday, 16 August 2014

Columnist: Sarpong, Justice

Are These Oman Ghana Serial Callers Out of Their Minds?

Nana Akuffo Addo campaign team needs to put clamps on the Nana Frimpong Radio talk show on Oman Ghana if they really want to win the 2016 Presidential election because that talk show is dividing the Npp even amongst the staunch Akuffo Addo Akan supporters.

This Radio program is not doing any good to Nana Akuffo Addo Presidential ambition. Instead of it building a bridge to a town called UNITY amongst the Npp Presidential candidates, it is rather building a bridge to a town called DIVISION with its castigation of other Npp Presidential candidates especially that of Alan Kyerematten. Nana Akuffo Addo cannot win the Presidency without Alan Kyerematten supporters so these people should shelf the slogan, NO NANA, NO VOTE(NNNV) What if Alan supporters also sit out in 2016 with their own, NO ALAN, NO VOTE(NANV)?

The Host has no business hosting any program because he is too emotional,limited understanding of the political topics and fails to nail the few Ndc operatives he calls to ask questions about. For example, one Ndc operative bragged on his program about how Ndc increased the growth rate to 14%. Even a neophyte on Economics knows Ndc did not do anything special to increase the three or four years of economic growth between 2011 to 2013 but it was rather the coming into stream of the oil resources that spurred the economic growth during this period and the Host couldn't even nail the Ndc guy.

On 08/14/2014, the host, Nana Frimpong started the hate show with his spastic rantings against the Asantes by blaming them for Nana Akuffo Addo's previous Presidential lost . Nana Frimpong said the Asantes in Ashanti region need the might and the intelligence of the Koforidua Asantes to whip them in line in voting Nana to become President.

Not to be outdone, another lady by name Grace called in and identified herself as Akyem and didn't waste time to tore into Asantehene and former President Kufuor and Asantes as being the stumbling block on the path of Akuffo Addo's Presidential ambition. She went on to say one of the dumbest and a clear misunderstanding of the electoral laws in Ghana. She said in 2008, Akuffo Addo won the first round and Asantehene called President Kufuor not to declare Akuffo Addo as the winner,it almost robbed me of my equanimity and I attributed that jibber-jabbering to analphabetic foolishness.

Then came a call by one guy from Germany who also identified himself as Kwahu and said if the Asantes were like the Kwahu people, such a thing would not have happened to Nana Akuffo Addo.

Politics is a game of numbers, I mean addition of numbers and not subtracting numbers and though you all serial callers to the program mean well, your militant attitude is not helping Nana to add new converts to his side which he needs to win the general elections in 2016. I know almost nobody who calls himself or herself as Npp supporter will cross carpet and vote for Ndc but what this blatant bigotry comments from people like Kyeremeh, Kwame etc and others will do is that, most Asante traditionalists who value the chieftancy institution will not go to the polls and vote at all because of this blatant hate against Asantehene. It is sad when somebody can publicly say that "NA WONO ASANTEHENE NO WOYE HWAN" and the Host of this program allows him to continue such sophomoric juvenilistic vituperations without cutting his line off. How can any human being talk like this Kyeremeh guy who I think is in Spain ranting about killing or knifing people? There is no catholicon for such unguided comments.

It's so sad these people instead of using their time on the radio station building bridges to the city of UNITY are rather building bridges to the city of DIVISION amongst the Npp core supporters. This Akyem Grace should go and tally the votes Nana Akuffo garnered from the Akyem constituencies in Eastern region and she will find out that even he lost more than 35 percent of the Akyem votes. Asantes gave Nana Akuffo Addo more than 70 percent of their votes so why are the Akyems blaming the Asantes? Asantes gave Nana Akuffo Addo almost 33 percent of all the votes he got in Ghana so what else do these Militant Akuffo Addo supporters want from Asantes? My desiderium for Npp is our prior history before 1979 when Victor Owusu's path to the Presidency was blocked by the mechanizations of these same people.

This klatsch of feel good blabbering should stop. If even some Akyems will not vote for Akuffo Addo, they should not expect 100 percent vote from Asantes but people like Nana Bonsu, a Kyerematten supporter and NKOSUOHEMAA, a very intelligent woman,a Northerner who I understand calls Kintampo her home and residing in Kazakstan seems to be aware of. If the rest of the callers can emulate the wisdom from these two people, Npp will be in a great shape.NKOSUOHEMAA like Hawa Yakubu, may God bless her soul and Akuffo Addo supporter gives me hope that all is not lost. home and residing in Kazakstan seems to be aware of. If the rest of the callers can emulate the wisdom from these two people, Npp will be in a great shape.NKOSUOHEMAA like Hawa Yakubu, may God bless her soul and Akuffo Addo supporter gives me hope that all is not lost.

I have been Nana Akuffo Addo supporter since 2008 and he is the best person in Ghana to be President and we as his supporters should eschew this hatred creeping in our midst. Leave Asantehene out because he will not put on Npp 'T' shirt and start campaigning for Npp, it is not going to happen neither is he going to don an Ndc 'T' shirt and campaign for them because that is not his duty as Asantehene to get Npp Presidential candidates elected.

Justice Sarpong

(CARDINAL of TRUTH)

sarpongjustice@ymail.com