At 1700 GMT today the NDC closed nominations for picking of forms for the Presidential and parliamentary primaries and the five minutes of fame of a certain George Boateng came to an end.

George Boateng is the man who seemingly of his own volition decided to contest President Mahama in the NDC primaries, but in the process he brought some much needed levity to a process that could explode in the months to come.

He failed to get his forms endorsed on time, thus quietly falls out of the race and back into the obscurity from whence he came.

We will remember his high points and his low points. When he promised to execute gay people by firing squad under his government, or to legalise weed for export (actually that wasn’t his worst idea). We’ll also remember when he checked himself into a psychiatrist hospital to debunk rumours he was cuckoo for cocoa puffs.

If the NPP could find one George Boateng, maybe all their problems would go away.

The NDC primaries are slated for November 7, 2015.