Re: PEPEFOUR LINE-UP

Thank you for your lead story “PEPEFOUR LINE-UP” in the Wednesday January 23rd edition of the Accra Daily Mail. The paralyzing hopelessness, perhaps even opportunism of the political class of the North is nauseating.

Concerns about the structural poverty and underdevelopment of the North as part outcome of deliberate policy reaching back from the colonial period, recedes as viable solutions and options are sacrificed in pursuit of petty ambitions.

The same political class of the North in the NDC worked in overdrive to frustrate the bid of Alhaji Mahama Iddrisu in his quest for leadership of that party. Key players of this in the NDC are also engaging other segments of the society to trumpet their suitability as Vice Presidential material. This is pitiable as the claims they make regarding their suitability or made on their behalf by apparently rented cheer groups ring all too hollow.

The rapid development of the North cannot be by an act of charity or patronage of others in the leadership of the country. This has been seen before. And the poverty of the North has persisted.

The generation before ours aspired higher and left lasting legacies. We need to do better by rising beyond and above pettiness and drooling opportunism.

Bomani-Bisung
P. O. Box M190,
Accra.
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