The governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) Chairman Dr. Kwabena Adjei and Accra Metropolitan Archbishop of the Catholic Church, Charles Palmer-Buckle has suggested that the two main parties involved in the election petition case ‘should’ share power. They believe power sharing will help lessen political tensions in the country, especially after the August 29 verdict of the Supreme Court on the petition.
Mr Men, come again? How can water and oil mix? It will take a very good scientist with a PHDx2 to make that mixture happen. And by the way, are the two parties the only political parties in Ghana? What if the other parties had submitted grievances to the Supreme Court that they’ve also been cheated out of their votes, how will power be shared?
Power sharing in Ghana is no-no. Politics in Ghana has really not matured to the state where 2 parties can join heads and hands to think and manage the country. We’ve not even grown past insults and name-calling. Very bad idea if you ask me!
When people take or offer ‘solutions’ this way, it only shows that the ‘now’ is what matters but not a long term solution to impact the generation yet to come. An achievable solution is needed to ensure the future stability of the country especially when it comes to selecting leaders in the country. Calling for power sharing is calling for massive looting and massive under-development.
If power sharing is the best way to go, the country should be prepared to stomach a much higher level of corruption and other political vices because if the other party is not even ‘that’ corrupt, as humans that they are, you won’t expect them to openly bite the finger that will provide them their share of the cake if things are going wrong.
Don’t forget, each political party MUST still hold on to their supporters… If the strong-holds in the party are not in favour of any policy in place, the leadership of the party is in trouble or even party faithful’s (think UK), you tend to loose supporters.
What I’ve equally noticed in Africa is that when a very prudent, generous, straight-thinking individual ‘earn’ themselves a little post, be it managerial, presidency, supervisor or even clerk, they suddenly realise that the best way to show people they’re in power is to wear a monster face and do otherwise. Who accounts to whom?
What the country needs is a government made up of efficient, patriotic politicians who can solve the nation’s economic problems for the benefit of the majority of Ghanaians who are poor and disadvantaged.
Friendly controversies and constructive criticisms is what will make a country governable. There should be an alternative Government in waiting and checking the corrupt practices of any incumbent Government – that is why we have something called ‘OPPOSITION’.
Yeah, we can cite other countries it has/not worked for but this is Ghana- we don’t thrive on violence to get our messages across, we don’t spill blood to show muscles; we practice democracy.
The main issues affecting the country and Ghanaians remains unattended to – unpaid salaries, monies flying out of the window, poor education and they’re talking about power sharing.
Mr Archbishop should go and prepare his sermon for church and leave that power sharing ‘rut’ he’s talking about!