TEETH THAT CAN’T BITE IN recent times the Convention Peoples Party (C.P.P) has been crying a certain cry and that cry is called the “criminalization of Nkrumah in the 1992 constitution.” I have been quiet and listened attentively for a period of days as my own brother and good friend Ernesto Yeboah has been championing this rather lame argument. Lame because whatever is in the constitution that they (C.P.P) are crying over does not affect their political chances in any way whatsoever. But lets examine now what their argument is. Ernesto Yeboah says that, there is a provision in the 1992 constitution which bars Nkrumah from stepping in Ghana, indeed according to him, he is to be arrested immediately he is spotted by anyone in Ghana. The problem I have with this submission is that, one, Ernesto has never given us the reference in the constitution so we could all check, at least I have never heard him give any reference, secondly, and I stand to be corrected on this one, in 1992 when Ghana as a country was returning to multi party democracy, Nkrumah was already dead and therefore it makes no sense for anyone to put such a provision in the constitution barring Nkrumah from entering Ghana unless the framers envisioned Nkrumah waking from the sleep of death and living again. Thirdly, even if it is true, is it a relevant issue for a political party which is seeking to win the mandate of the people to pursue, fourthly, how many people even know there is such a provision in the constitution (that is if it exist) let alone care or be bothered about it. To conclude, what I think the CPP should be focused on is how to get Ghanaians to believe in them again like Nkrumah did in his days. I also think it is time they as a party stop playing the Nkrumah card, it wont work, the generation of today is not a history generation, they are technology focused and if you cannot get Nkrumah into technology by changing the style of branding and marketing their political campaign no young person will buy. Those who knew Nkrumah and what he stood for are our grand parents who are long gone, our parents were children in those days and for us the present generation it is the history we came to read, and the history is more about Nkrumah as a person than the CPP as a political organization. So when you remove Nkrumah from the CPP it becomes a political group that has TEETH THAT CAN’T BITE.
Posted on: Thu, 26 Sep 2013 12:00:03 +0000
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