Let’s support “no change” campaign

I wonder why and how the New Patriotic Party will sacrifice a candidate who pulled over 49% of the total vote for any other candidate.

The question that keeps ringing in my mind is when would my dear N.P.P. stop repeating a wrong doing to avoid mistakes because there is an adage that first fool is not a fool and if a wrong doing is repeated it becomes a mistake.

After reading my reasons, faithful Kukrudites would understand why I made such statements.

It is an undeniable fact that forgetting the past is a recipe of disaster and a repetition of mistakes; therefore, I want my fellow Kukrudites to cast their mind back to 1996 campaign when former president Kufuor was our candidate.

Readers would bear with me that in every corner of the country that we toured, the then candidate Kufuor was cheered, hailed and called by our numerous supporters as Adu Boahen. It took the campaign administrators a whole lot through television, radio, sign post advertisement and what have you to make the less educated ones who are the majority during voting to know that our candidate was no longer Adu Boahen rather Agyekum Kufuor. By the time the name Agyekum Kufuor became popular, elections were over which the N.P.P. lost. Do we want to repeat this same error?

The point I want to raise here is that if any other candidate is chosen other than Nana Addo, supporters in various villages would be cheering Naanana Na shoo, thinking that Nana is still the candidate, by the time they get to know that Nana Addo is no more the candidate elections might be over.

Secondly, if any other candidate is chosen, Ghanaians would be made to believe that all rumors and allegations made against Nana were true, therefore, a fresh page and chapter of allegations and rumors would be opened for the newly elected candidate which may take a couple of months to defend instead of using all those months to market the candidate. In my candid opinion all allegations peddled against Nana Addo were well defended, therefore, the party has all the time to market him rather than defending as to whether he did this or he did not do that.

Every faithful Ghanaian will bear with me that marketing Nana would be much easier and less costly for the party than any other candidate base on the fact that sign boards and bill boards of Nana Addo are found everywhere in the country, with this, the party needs less financial support in adding a few bill boards to the already existing ones in whipping him up.

In my view it is not financially prudent to waste all these resources unless I'm made to believe and understand that despite all the social capabilities and political insight of Nana Addo, he is still not well cooked to lead NPP and for that matter Ghana as a whole.

Last but not the least, in the history of our party, Danquah-Dombo-Busia tradition, no presidential candidate has been able to pull such a huge percentage in his first appearance on the ballot paper even as compared to other political parties, none of their presidential candidates pulled so much votes as Nana Addo did except Jerry whom we all know how he won his elections.

Therefore, I don't see the plausibility of sacrificing such a candidate. Unless we come into compromise that we all want to start from the scratch instead of topping up the 49 percent that we had.

I reason in line with the opinion that, even though the NPP has always welcomed competition for office as a bedrock principle, It is thus imperative to ensure the return of Nana Addo in 2012 to continue with the enduring legacy Kufuor left behind. Ghanaians truly deserve good governance and a Better Ghana not a Bitter Ghana shown by Atta Mill's led Government.

I therefore entreat all delegates to vote for Nana Addo Danqua Akufo Addo to bring NPP back into power.

Credit: Baah Acheamfour.
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