OBSERVER'S CORNER

It is yet another moment to give thanks and glory to the Almighty Yahweh for seeing Ghana through yet another elections without chaos and bad omen. Elections are made possible by campaigns altogether classified as politics. No matter what the case might be and will be in any social system even in the animals kingdom a level of political dispensation and interactions. As our elders say they youth are the future leaders pave way for this paper to be given a moment of showcase. Politics described by scholars is a way of winning and exercising political power gives room for all and sundry, most especially the youth to engage in it. Politics has been understood in our era and therefore gaining roots for them to make good and reasonable choices enough for their communities. Winning political power and exercising authority should not be the sole responsibility of the old but also the youth. This should not in any way that will bring the practice into the mud. Politics these ...

  themes It has been a long and hard fight by the flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo-Addo. The journey began in the 4th republic era somewhere in 1992 when he won the parliamentary elections to represent the people of Abuakwa South Constituency. It has not been easy despite the notion that that constituency was the stronghold of the NPP. He had a strong conviction of leading the people of Ghana one day. For a person from the Kyeb i royal family and a member of the political family, it is no surprise to anybody that he shows zeal towards political leadership. Being nephew to the doyen of Ghanaian politics, Joseph Boakye Dankwa and son of William Akuffo who became a ceremonial president under the 2nd republic tells anyone the kind of family he comes from.  The struggle to the presidency by Akuffo-Addo started in 1996 when he contested primaries to lead his party against former president Flt Lt. John Jerry Rawlings but lost to ...

I will continue to ask this questions, "are Ghanaians dumb?" This is in relations to our inability to ask our political figure what it takes to honor their promises Deep within me I know I will be to a political party with this post. During the 2008 elections, Late Professor Evans Atta-Mills made a promise to electorates pertaining to fuel prices and when he reduced it about 1% Ghanaians complained that he did not honour his campaign promise of reducing fuel prices drastically. It could be that that is his measurement. Here we are again in the middle of another promise or bunch of promises by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) with their free education among others. Ghanaians again have not taken the pain to ask within which period will that promises be honored. I believe the other promises will also follow the same pattern if we had ask the politicians when those promises would be honored. Ghana is a country full of natural resources yet we have not been able to tap into ...