It has become even clearer that President Mills and the new NDC are bent on reviving utopianism (Nkrumaism) as a political ideology for the ruling party- instead of- as it should be- pragmatism (Rawlingsism) been the guiding model of governance as a political movement.
Latest Wikileaks report has confirmed what some of us have argued for a long time that there is a scheme, planned and projected by the leadership of the NDC to replace the NDC party tradition with an Nkrumah tradition.
Hannah Tetteh, minister for trade and industry speaking as director of communications for the transitional team of the new NDC government in 2009 told a US official that the new NDC’s long-term plan was to make NDC founder Jerryjavascript:void(0) Rawlings ‘powerless’ in order to be able to bring the CPP and PNC to join the bigger and winnable NDC to consolidate power.
We have all been witnesses to all the efforts within the NDC to see the founder in that so-called state of powerlessness.
Interestingly, as the President and his men and women at the castle continue to reject their true heritage, founding and living ideals and rather intensifying their pursuit of Nkrumaism, the living sons and daughters of Kwame Nkrumah are flatly rejecting the NDC.
Samia Nkrumah, first woman to be elected chairman of the CPP and the only Member of Parliament for Jomoro is a daughter of our first president. She has remained independent in parliament mainly because she believes in neither the majority NDC nor the minority NPP.
The CPP see her as the new face of their Revival. Sekou Nkrumah, former Boss of the National youth council (NYC) under the Mills administration also just quit the NDC recently mainly because he does not believe in the current NDC leadership. He adds that he wants not to stand in the way of the sister’s quest to rebuild the CPP by being part of the NDC whose continues growth will spell doom for the CPP.
On his new Friday morning radio show on Xfm95.1, a local radio station based in Accra dubbed ‘ let’s talk politics’, Sekou Nkrumah pointed out that he does not see how Nkrumaism or socialism so to speak will work in the new world order of globalization and the dominance of a free market economy.
Sekou also cannot see how a ‘dead’ CPP can be resurrected except when the NDC which he believes has usurped the CPP constituency disintegrates- something he doesn’t see happening soon.
The nagging question here to ask is, how come President Mills and friends are the only ones who cannot see that even Nkrumah’s sons and daughters disapprove of the agenda of the new NDC.
Whiles Sekou Nkrumah is displeased with the current NDC leadership despite Mills’ quest to make Kwame Nkrumah the focus of his traditional roots, Samia Nkrumah is working hard to revive the CPP and give it a better chance of reviving Nkrumaism.
What then is the essence of what we’re doing in the NDC? Busily trying to deny our true identity and rather seeking a ‘borrowed identity’ of Nkrumaism even in the face of stiff opposition from his sons and daughters? J. J Rawlings and Kwame Nkrumah may have some similarities but they are distinct in their own political thinking and tradition.
The two most nationalistic political movements in Ghana, the CPP and NDC can be traceable to these two statesmen. We will therefore have to continue to ask of the question of identity. Without Kwame Nkrumah, it would seem to some of us that CPP will be without identity.
Likewise with the NDC which will be a totally confused group of people devoid of any identity without Rawlings or Kwame Nkrumah factor.
What all this means is that Kwame Nkrumah and Jerry John Rawlings are men of their own thought and identity. So that if the NDC is running away from the living Rawlings identity- which is what they are clearly trying to do without the necessary success- shouldn’t they now be searching for an identity of their own instead of running after a borrowed identity?
And isn’t it obvious that without leaning against either Nkrumah or Rawlings, the NDC becomes a group of unidentifiable people without one common set of values and principles to fall on a political movement?
There is no other identity for the NDC if it does not identify with Rawlings. And if Atta Mills and the new NDC continue with this needless effort to have a borrowed identity of Nkrumaism, then the party must be prepared to have a borrowed status in Ghanaian politics.
Just as a Ghanaian calling himself JOHN MILLS is not necessarily an English man, so will a group of politicians whose politics have been inspired by Jerry John Rawlings can never succeed at any point in time in turning such a living inspiration into an Nkrumaist inspiration.
Let the President Mills and the NDC stop acting confused and giving the impression that the party is suffering from identity crisis before it is too late since it is obvious that Ghanaians will not vote for a confused group of politicians incapable of identifying themselves to rule this nation.
Signed:
Amenga-Etego SaCut
NDC youth activist
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