Chairman Wotumi: Wolf in sheepskin

On 23.06.2024 Chairman Wotumi of the ruling party, NPP in Kumasi came out to say Ghana is developing faster than Europe for which reason it is needed one party to stay in power for more than eight years.

Young Chairman Wotumi, born Bernard Antwi Boasiako, Ashanti Regional Chairman of the NPP, touched on a vital issue concerning the 1992 Ghana Constitution. His obvious intentions are to keep the NPP further in power seeing a potential power loss later this year in December as a real option. Personally, Chairman Wotumi is heavily entrenched in the business of Galamsey, illegal mining. Videos on social media document shootings around his gold claims which makes it very questionable that he should be the right person to speak for a better Ghana.

The performance of his party and the previous NDC administration has proven to Ghanaians that democracy is not working as of now for Ghana or Africa. To write such remarks let's conclude critical observers that dictatorship should be the answer while it is not in the many forms seen in African countries. There are more forms of governance possible in Africa than only democracy or dictatorship in Europe often referred to as the 'Third Way'. While in Europe the term 'Third Way' was never discussed in detail but was seen during the Cold War as the fight and conflict between Capitalism and Communism in its deeper meaning had -but was never seen that way- to touch the political system as well.

Chairman Wotumi touched on a crucial issue certainly not meant by him in that direction a true wolf in sheepskin. To bring out a society and with it, its economy from Colonialism into Independence requires no party manifestos covering four or eight years but a vision for at least one hundred years to come divided into achievable short-term plans. Neither NDC nor NPP have presented any such vision to the good people of Ghana. Instead, their short-term suggestions and solutions to keep them in power are compared to the time and resource factors a move backwards.

This is visible in the fact that many initiatives by one party are ignored by its successor and that the maintenance of factories, buses, streets, etc. is not seen as important as getting such projects off the ground. Based on the above-mentioned two factors Ghana can be described as a hamster running the race of its life in a closed wheel certainly not a wheel of fortune.

To address the development problem of e.g. Ghana with a vision and a long-term strategy and a human face only elected Kings can perform for the nation well especially when elements of the old Greek system are adopted and new modern elements are added to the ancient concept of a glorious nation.