The opposition NDC has settled on its flagbearer GEOGRAPHICALLY from the northern part of Ghana. Without any attribution to ethnic or tribal politics, I will summarize their strategy as one of keeping the 99 sheep in the compound locked and keyed whilst they set out to chase the one missing sheep. This should send a certain signal to the ruling NPP.
In the politics of Ghana, Northern Ghana and the original Volta region are ideologically and geographically placed together as one – they are called the NDC strongholds.
I intimated clearly at the very beginning that I do not intend to introduce ethnic or tribal politics into this analysis, BUT I shall carve this around GEOGRAPHICAL and IDEOLOGICAL underpinnings nonetheless. Will the NPP fall for a certain propaganda being pushed and perpetuated by the NDC that the NPP is an AKAN PARTY? The question that immediately comes to mind is, where does the NPP draw its majority support from? Yes, the NPP draws its majority support from the AKAN REGIONS, and so we shall in the wisdom of best democracies keep locked and keyed our 99 sheep in the compound just like our opponents the NDC has done, so that we could also go out there to chase for the 1 lost sheep. Does this send a signal without emotions? And are we going for the tragedy of falling for the trap set by the NDC that the NPP is an AKAN PARTY? *Yes, parties all over the world do draw their support base from particular constituents for varied reasons and that doesn’t make those parties tribal or ethnic. Thus, NPP drawing it large support base supposedly from Akan Regions doesn’t make it an AKAN PARTY. NPP is a national party with a large support base in the Akan regions with some support from all other regions, just like how the NDC draws its majority support from the North and the original Volta regions.
We should not shy away from our support base just because of some propaganda stunts that we are an Akan party, never. If such propaganda stunts, meant anything, NPP should not have been in power today. I will further submit that this piece does not intend to invoke ethnic or tribal politics but will practically stay within the confines of GEOGRAPHICAL politics, which teaches us how democracies elect their party leaders.
The NPP will balance the equation by electing its flagbearer from Southern Ghana to strategically position itself in competing favourably with the NDC having chosen their flagbearer already from Northern Ghana.
As a Northern brother and a dye in the wool NPP member of good standing, I appreciate the role played by my respected senior brother, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia his excellency the vice president of Ghana. He has led this party as a number two man for almost 15 years now in 2023, undoubtedly. His best has been displayed beyond measure, and we say Ti puusiya, di ki en le lanyerani as Nankani and Kasena people will say.
It’s time to reorient the thinking around the Ghanaian people towards elections 2024 since the NPP will either win or lose the elections. Our economy arguably today is not in the best of shapes, mandating the NPP to front one transformational leader of our time who has already in his declaration of intent to run for the leadership of the party put forward his GREAT TRANSFORMATIONAL PLAN (GTP). Let’s not toy with the political future of the NPP, for we either break the 8 by winning or losing. Alan Kyeremateng is the answer any day!
The writer is very mean when it comes to publicly espousing his ideas in writing, but he loves to engage in oral debates. But under this very significant moment of the great NPP, a second article will attempt a numerical analysis of our political geographical regions without missing out on religion and how it affects our voting pattern here in Ghana.
I remain Michael Abogro, a former regional youth organizer of NPP, Upper East Region of Ghana. In humility, I do submit.
