Ndoum, You Missed The Boat
By Ekua Kwansema
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When all the political apparatus are being marshaled to the last political battlefield that would send the elephant back to the bush, out of nowhere came Paa Kwesi Ndoum. But before I continue, do you know that Tain shares a common border with Ivory Coast and that country's football team is called the Elephants of Ivory Coast? I know what you are thinking. And I presume my guess is as good as, what you are thinking. The defeat of the Osono on Friday would send it close to the borders of Ivory Coast where Ghanaians would donate it to the country for good.

Now back to Kwesi Ndoum and his antics. Immediately after the Sunday's presidential results started trickling in, it did not take too long for Ghanaians to know who was the clear winner, in spite of the astronomical figures that were being manufactured from the Ashanti Region. No wonder the Ashantis make us believe that the so-called Golden Stool came from the heavens. “Mr. Domestication”, I love that man, was the first major political figure to come out and declared that Professor Mills won, therefore, Akufo-Addo should concede defeat. All this while Ndoum who became a puppet of the NPP and as a result the CPP people never took him serious was somewhere drinking Champaign .

Nobody in Ghana heard Ndoum comment that in the interest of peace and fair play the very NPP government that he served and they later turned round to indict him for corruption, should concede defeat for the country to move on. In fact Ndoum waited hours after the Electoral Commissioner, Dr Kwadwo Afari-Gyan has declared a stalemate and announced preparations for the final elections in Tain before issuing a statement with two other losing presidential candidates for the loser of Sunday's election to accept the results.

Ndoum could not even speak to the cameras but he released a press statement. The man who has already launched his presidential ambition for 2012 when we do not even know the eventual winner of the current elections could not come out of his hiding to speak about what he feels if right for Ghanaians.

No wonder even though he is a brainy man people still doubt his integrity. It has already been determined that Friday's election in Tain would determine the next President of Ghana. Therefore, Mr. Ndoum, you missed the boat. Probably you have been drinking too much. Too little, too late, too much garbage that does not add anything to the plate.

I suggest you stay at where you are until Professor Mills is crowned the next President of mother Ghana come Friday. All eyes are glued to Tain. There would be massive invasion of NDC gurus who would put their men at the less than 80 polling stations in that constituency. I also love General Mosquito (I have fallen in love with two men already), who asked all NDC top guns to rush to the area to become polling watchdogs. And as usual the press would descend heavily into that area. There would at least be three to six pressmen and women at all the polling stations. Therefore, where would the NPP pull its tricks again? They are at a dead end. Abraham Lincoln, the 16th President of the United States, whose bible President-Elect Barak Obama would use during his swearing-in ceremony on January 20 once said “You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time.”

NPP's game is up. Their cup has runneth over and their evil deeds would follow them until the rest of their lives. Ghana would be better off without these dishonourably men and women who just came out of their hungry holes to eat everything they find on the plate.

Mr. Ndoum, Professor Mills, the entire NDC population and the good thinking Ghanaians do not need your advice. Please keep it. Your statement is late and could therefore pass as useless. But as God lives and we are all alive by HIS Grace, Akufo-Addo would see Canaan (Presidential Palace), but would never sleep there. Ghana would be a better place without these NPP thieves.

Ghanaians should wait until I start writing about the evil deeds of the NPP after the inauguration of Professor Mills. Mr. So-called Document (Kweku Baako) would envy the kind of documentation that I have in my possession that should send shivers down the pines of President Kufour all the way down to some top NPP functionaries. Stay tuned!

ekwansema@yahoo.com

Source: Ekua Kwansema

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Ndoum, You Missed The Boat
Alex Ampaabeng (Lexi | London- (Location: United Kingdom) | 12/31/2008 9:34:00 PM
his is the best piece of article I have read from any journalist in Ghana. I must confess, a true international piece of work with pure academic quality and professionalism, backed by facts that generates the hunger to read on.
I'm sorry, but can you please tell me how long you have been writing? I use to follwo NPP, but to be honest, what has been happining in the past few years coupled with the 99% turn-out in some of my own Ashanti region makes me sick. Ghana, the number one centre for Democracy in Africa is gradually loosing its position to few people's greed, and being a centre for international mockery.
Thank God some journalists like you will help expose these political crooks.
Many thanks again for such a lovely article
Alexander Ampaabeng
MBA, MSc (De Montfort University, UK)
I beg to differ
Nemi Kwesi Nemi | Maryland-USA (Location: United States) | 1/1/2009 4:54:00 PM
I personally do not find any problem with the wait-and-see approach by Ndoum in asking the NPP and Nana Addo to accepting defeat after the final numbers for the run-off were posted by the EC.

Did the calls by Ghanaians who made the call earlier by way of projections of earlier results make any difference? No. The approach by Ndoum therefore should not be the yard-stick to label him as either a crook politician or "missing the boat".

Recall the last US prez election where John McCain was all over the place making pronouncements without even waiting for or knowing the facts. (suspending his campaign to leave to Washington to delibrate on the bailout, calling for the firing of the SEC head, etc). It hit him right in the face when people came to see him as hot headed.

If one has facts which shows that another person is a crook or can not be trusted, it is important it be presented rather than personalize it. I believe that the writer (journalist) failed to do so and her work seems to have a pre-conceived goal based on the context.

Re:ALEX
C.0 | LEICESTER-UK (Location: United Kingdom) | 2/24/2009 9:25:00 AM
ALEX DEAR,I SEE YOUR STRONG DESIRE FOR POLITICS IN YOUR COUNTRY BUT PLEASE I WILL NOT FAIL TO WARN THAT GHANA SHOULD LEARN 4RM NIGERIA.NIGERIA IS THE GREATEST IN AFRICA BUT STILL SUFFERING.I DONT BELIEVE THAT WITH THE CHANGE OF GOVERNMENT IN GHANA,THE NATION WILL BE A PARADISE.BE WARNED!!!!
 

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