14/03/23
By: Godwin Ako Gunn
I laughed at my own headline, because it sounds insane, but it is what it is !!!
I laughed because some smaller Political Parties are becoming busy bees settling for PR job from the EC, and are not concentrating on core duties like securing political power or securing parliamentary seats, while some passionate Ghanaians are looking for a Third Force.
If Obi’s performance in Nigeria, can’t motivate our smaller Parties in Ghana, then nothing can !!! If you don’t agree with me on Obi’s performance, keep it to yourself. Nigeria didn’t just vote for change, they trusted a Third Force !!!
Back home in Ghana, our versions of a Third Force are behaving like Civil Society Organisations, struggling for a voice and not a vote.
The position they have taken on the new CI reflects their inexperience, lack of knowledge of how things work at the polling stations and registration centres and how data is gathered.
People won’t troop to District capitals to register, Political Parties will mobilise to do that !!! The success of previous elections and even the success of the NIA, can be attributed to the involvement of both the NDC and the NPP !!!
Voters have always been grateful to both the NDC and the NPP for our roles in enlightening voters, and assistance during registration and voting exercises.
Our numbers in Parliament reflect the trust citizens have in us. The faster the smaller Parties wake up, the better for them.
Political Parties must be hungry for change, must be hungry for power, and must be hungry to prove their worth !!!
I may be unfit to advise them, but I am qualified to state that a Third Force with teeth will make both the NDC and the NPP sit up.
Let the smaller Parties stop the jokes because all of us have a country to rescue from ineptitude, greed, selfishness and carelessness.
Keep hope alive, Better days ahead !!!
Kun Fa Yakun
