Re: The NPP Still “Doesn't Get It” is Full of Nonsense

I can deal with honest people and not hypocrites. With all due respect, this writer is patently biased. Only one example from the article is enough to prove his bias. He think he can even read why Mr. Kufuor or Nana Akufo-Addo wanted to be President - just ambition. Dr. Bokor, how do you know that?! Are you divine? The writer only sees negativity in the NPP. The worst part is that he pretends to be advising while he only lambastes the NPP. Shame on you, Dr. Bokor. You should be at least intellectually honest.

Anyhow, to refute some of the many nonsensical information in this article, the NPP is flat-out not about to implode and only NDC fanatics like this writer believe that. The NPP, albeit now reconstituted and with a different name, is the only party that has existed in Ghana since before Independence. The NDC is not even 20 years old yet. Meanwhile the CPP is virtually dead. Many of its (un-principled) leaders sold their souls to the PNDC. Why this writer tries to mislead a discerning readership like that is plainly pathetic. If you think that President Mills can somehow just plug the nail into the coffin of the NPP, you are not worth your Ph. D. Even the P/NDC could not destroy the UP tradition.

The writer makes it sound like Voltarians/Ewes could vote for the NPP in some high numbers, based on the NPP's behaviour. The NPP had power for 8 years, treated the Volta region very well and even much to the chargrin of its (the NPP's) supporters did not really correct the Ewe hegemony in regards to how they disproportionately control many government agencies since the tribalistic President Rawlings P/NDC regimes made things so. Yet the NPP did not reap any electoral rewards from the Volta region. So, this writer is misleading in identifying the NPP's Volta/Ewe problem as important in its quest to return to power. I don't hate Ewes. In fact, our local party chairman is Ewe and he is a long-time friend of mine. However, strategically, the NPP's focus cannot be on the Volta region. Also, the NPP has to duly complain about irregularities in the region, close the border whenever it controls the government in order to ensure fairplay in the region during elections. Simply put, any serious advisor to the NPP will tell it to enhance its votes in the swing regions of Western, BA, GA and even Central. Even up North, the NPP increased its votes and need to focus its attention towards continuing to improve in those regions.

Every time any party loses an election, analyses need to be done. Some finger-pointing will also naturally occur. Some of those things are necessary towards fixing the problems. For example, certain actions or inactions of the Kufuor government clearly unnecessarily injured the NPP to lose the election. NDC types cannot "advise" the NPP to just not talk and think about that. The NPP needs to learn from that so that in the future it could maximise its re-election prospects and not shoot itself in the foot. Self-serving advise from writers like you, who are patently biased and misleading, should be condemned.

While the article has a touch of truth such as the NPP's elitist approach to politics that do not connect well with ordinary people, the NPP's Akan straight-jacket (at least at the level of its flagbearership), etceteras, there is no question in my mind that any NPP sympathiser reading this article will find it misleading, self-serving and nonsensical, overall. Sir, the next time you are writing about the NPP, just write an honestly critical piece and don't try to pretend you care for the NPP - you clearly do not.

The NPP is not that in that bad a shape as you wish for and lie about. Where the party is in defeat, in terms of the number of MPs, overall votes and party strength is much better than the NDC was 4 years ago and more so 8 years ago. Please leave the NPP alone so that it can do proper soul-searching and find workable answers to help it make a comeback.