Short Is A Cut Above Blay Or Ntim And Both Blay And Ntim

I’m struggling to understand the thinking that a streak of losing elections at the national level in the NPP somehow should engender sympathy and evoke a groundswell of sympathy strong enough to deliver the chairmanship of the party to the candidate in question - Stephen Ntim.

We must reminder ourselves that winning has everything to do with luck. You only had to look at one of world football’s most celebrated clubs, Sir Alex Ferguson’s Manchester United: how would they have garnered as many titles and cups without luck? It may be risky, if not foolhardy of us, to entrust our fortunes to a man who has gone beyond the ‘third time is the charm’ redemption mark. There is too much at stake to gamble on sympathy. Election 2020 is too vitally importantly to us for us to place its stewardship in hands known to have a dicey relationship with mother luck. NTIM will be catastrophic to our electoral fortunes.

And there is BLAY. It is becoming obvious that one never knows where he stands: with you or against you. There is President Akufo-Addo busy making anti-corruption a main plank of a 20-year gov’t, on the one hand; and there is wily old Frederick standing next to the President almost oblivious to His Excellency’s message and busy bribing constituencies with buses and what-else-have-you, on the other hand. Blay wants the chairmanship so badly he won’t play ball and he won’t play straight. He won’t act fair. There is nothing wrong with coveting the chairmanship, but you must not make the NPP we all fought so hard to bring in look bad to get it. Blay is ready and willing to make hollow the promise of anti-corruption of the President to the people of Ghana and, thus, risk the integrity of this gov’t for self-gain. If our delegates endorse Blay and his way of doing things, what message will that send to the nation? That the NPP (gov’t and party, respectively) is at cross purposes? That manifestation will spell electoral disaster in 2020. As innocuous as the Blay buses bribe looks today, we won’t be able to contain its ramifications tomorrow - if it’s allowed to determine the outcome of our national chairmanship contest.

Lastly, there is ALHAJI SHORT. With Short it’s Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr. Bawumia and the NPP only first, second, third and last. With him, it’s politics the good old-fashioned way: go out on the campaign trail, meet the people/ the delegates and put over your pitch and hope to God you made a good impression. No scandals; no tantrums. Just solid, straightforward, intelligent, and credible “‘I am ready to be National Chairman’ for the reasons given and my name is ALHAJI SHORT.”