Dr. William Boakye Akoto an ex-NPP MP warns his party and says a difficult post-congress reconciliation awaits the NPP in this free-for-all “I want to be president” contest. History, he asserts, can still repeat itself
Even for the politically uninitiated, the impending flag bearer contest in the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) is going to be anything but uneventful. Indeed, signs are emerging to show that the contest can be illustrated with snapshots of a battle between a hungry lioness, who must as well feed her cubs, and a swift gazelle who has the will and the way to survive in the wild.
Against this looming scenario, the party must brace itself in advance to deal with a critical problem of managing a post-congress reconciliation exercise. This issue must be pre-empted because of the posturing of some of the contestants; whose war chests (private banks) combine neatly with their over-rated sense of self-importance.
Some contestants have developed this ‘I must win’ mental condition and have begun spending so much money in order to gain some advantage over their challengers. With that much money spent to match their self-confidence, inflated egos or self-delusion, we can reasonably anticipate that many of them in the event of losing at the congress could become financially and psychologically deflated. Consequently, they may decide to stay indifferent to the party’s affairs or ‘proceed on leave’ (UGM style). Any of these options could prove counterproductive to a post-congress reconciliation exercise by the party.
Source: GhanaWeb
