Does The NDC Need A New Beginning In Which Honest And Principled Servant-Leader-Types Dominate And Run Their Party - With Naana Opoku-Agyemang And Zenator Rawlings As Presidential Candidate And Running Mate Respectively?

That our nation needs a strong opposition party able to offer Ghanaians sensible policy alternatives and prevent tyranny by the majority from occuring in our homeland Ghana is not in doubt.

The question then is: Can the National Democratic Congress (NDC) ever

return to power again? The simple answer is: Only if former President

Mahama and all the corrupt and arrogant rogues amongst those who

surrounded him during his presidency are banished from the NDC

permanently.
The plain truth is that if it is ever to become a viable political

party able to win power again, the NDC must first disown and then root

out all the corrupt elements in the party, whose greed and dishonesty

- during the 8 years that the party governed Ghana - lost their party

the trust of the vast majority of ordinary people in Ghana and led to

its humiliating defeat in the December 2016 presidential and

parliamentary elections.
After banishing Mahama & Co the NDC must then focus on fashioning

creative policy alternatives that will lead to a fairer and more

equitable society in Ghana - and by the sheer force of the logic

underpinning those policy alternatives force the government to adopt

them for the benefit of ordinary people: who will always remember who

actually originated those policy alternatives adopted by government.

Above all, the NDC's leaders need to understand clearly that there is

a world of difference between constantly criticising a hugely popular

President Akufo-Addo, and criticising the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as

an entity - which alas is beginning to show all the signs of ending

up becoming a very corrupt political party full of greedy

vampire-party-hacks itself too.
Many ordinary Ghanaians - including even me - resent the needless and

endless knee-jerk criticism of President Akufo-Addo at every turn by

NDC propagandists, because such citizens see him as a creative and

incorruptible leader, who is protecting the nation's best interests

in terms of creating a Ghana in which free education will bring about

social mobility for the poor, and protecting the remainder of our

natural heritage for the benefit of present and future generations -

in cracking-down hard on galamseyers and the other criminal syndicates

brutally gang-raping Mother Nature so brutally, by engaging in illegal

sand-winning and illegal logging across rural Ghana.

To secure the party's future, the NDC's present leaders and most

influential members must set up a think tank as soon as practicable -

to come up with the radical and creative policy alternatives they need

to offer ordinary Ghanaians. Whatever be the case, they must study

and leverage Australian Professor Bill Mitchell's radical full

employment ideas. Bill Mitchell is a Professor in Economics and

Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity (CofFEE), at

Australia's University of Newcastle.
Everything else that ordinary Ghanaians need will flow from full

employment: free education from kindergarten to tertiary level; free

quality healthcare; well-designed and well-built affordable housing

in new green cities; expanded and modernised infrastructure; etc.,

etc.
Finally, the NDC needs to think the unthinkable: select Professor

Naana Opoku-Agyeman and Dr. Zenator Agyemang Rawlings as their

presidential and vice-presidential candidates respectively for the

2020 elections by acclamation - to signal a new beginning in which

honest and principled servant-leader-types dominate and run the party.

Even if they lose the 2020 presidential election, they would have

gained sufficient exposure and name-recoginition nationwide, to give

them a headstart for the 2024 presidentail election. Food for thought.