It Is Time To End The Tribal Politics In The Volta Region

For two decades or thereabouts,voting in the Volta Region of Ghana has been based on tribal grounds. Whether the candidate is capable of representing the best interests of the nation or not has not been relevant.

The fact that the National Democratic Congress was founded by an Ewe man, in the person of the then Flight Lieutenant John Jerry Rawlings, greater majority of Ewes, with exception of very few level-headed ones, have always voted for NDC.

What most people must know is that Rawlings founded the NDC for all Ghanaians and not just for the Volta Region although some have made it sound this way.

Ghanaians have turned blind eyes to this tribal way of voting but I am afraid to say that the time is now right for this niche which has been carved for the Volta Region to be reconsidered. In other words, a truthful reconciliation exercise must be carried out if Ghana is to move forward.

A glance at our recent general elections would tell every cynic that the NDC won 100% in the Volta Region.The question I am throwing at my brothers and sisters in the Volta Region is that, are you comfortable with this trend in voting when the NDC is fairly well accepted in other regions of Ghana?

In fact if Ghanaians would vote on tribal grounds the Northern and Upper Regions would always come first and Ghana would be better off going a Federal State instead of a tribal political society. One thing the Ghanaian does best is that they do not want to be blamed.

Effectively, people might think otherwise when in fact something is truly and really wrong that we need a change. To put the above to test I am appealing to my fellow Ghanaians in Akatsi and Buem constituencies to vote for the Progressive People's Party on a matter of principle, irrespective of political party affiliations. Someone told me in London over a week ago that in the Volta Region, if you dress up a dog in suit and tie in NDC colours, it shall defeat every other political party in the 2 (two) by-elections.

There is an obvious truth in this suggestion provided a dog can be allowed into our House of Parliament. But should we live this way and claim to be a One Nation?

Ghana needs an overhauling. The Woyome case is going on and on and on. $80,000 (Eighty Thousand US Dollars) worth of Ghanaian Gold has been impounded in Turkey or thereabouts.

Our President co-incidentally visited Turkey at the time. Judgement Debts are understood to have been paid twiceto recipients. These are some of the crucial points that need to be discussed and if there are no dissenting voices in Parliament to challenge some of these issues Ghana would be bending over backwards in to the “One Party State” days of Osagyefo.

My call to our folks in the Volta Region is to change the one way traffic of voting and vote for the alternative political party, the Progressive People's Party (PPP) at the by-elections. We are all Ghanaians and we have very good ideas to put forward.

God Bless our Homeland Ghana to get another political party, the PPP into our Parliament to join the minority in working for the best interests of our Nation.