THE BEARING OF USA AND UK POLITICS ON GHANA::: Today, the Democrats appeared to have lost the Senate to the Republicans and the NPP in Ghana thinks that is a sure bet to their winning 2016 elections? What a woooow!! Perhaps, this is the apparent divorce of the two political systems we used to interpret on which political party in Ghana was likely to win the next elections. Major political activities in the UK and USA having to do with the election of members into the House of Commons and the House of Representatives have severally been interpreted as pointers to the next political party to win the next elections though unscientific. The political dynamics have changed. In the first place, Ghana is not the same as the United States or the United Kingdom and for that matter, the two sovereign countries political systems are not tied to each other. In fact, the variables that contribute to the establishment of the political systems are not the same. The current President of the United States of America Barrack Obama is on the verge of completing his 2nd term of office which makes him ineligible for re-election as per the Constitution of the United States. He therefore would bow out and a fresh candidate fielded by his party. Same cannot be said of Ghana. President John Dramani Mahama is to complete his 1st term in office in 2016. Per the Constitution of Ghana, he is eligible to stand to be re-elected by the people of Ghana. President Barrack Obama watched over the administration of the Democrats for two consecutive terms but President Mahama has watched over one. In any case, I remember vividly how the NPP rejected the assertion in 2008 that the victory of the Democrats in the US of A over the Republicans was an indication of their losing the 2008 elections to the National Democratic Congress of Ghana. At the time, George W. Bush of the UK of A had completed an eight year two terms of the Republican Administration. To take you back a bit further, the gamble was equally played in the year 2000 when the Democrats lost the Senate to the Republicans. The NPP jubilated and made assertions that they were winning the 2000 elections. At the time, a particular candidate had served two terms in both countries. Is it the case as we have it today? Even in the year 2012 when the Democrats took hold of the Senate the NPP still rejected the fact that a similar bearing as was used in the past would still be at play making the NDC the obvious winners. This, they rejected even to the point of challenging the results at the Supreme Court. Today as we have it, Professor Mills, a single candidate alongside Obama a single candidate, would have elapsed their two terms in 2016 which could give credence to the long but unscientific political mathematics. President Mahama is to conclude his first term in office by 2016. What is the bearing that would apply? In any case, since when have Ghanaians resolved to rotate power between the NDC and the NPP? After it took the NPP and its antecedents over 30 years in opposition before tasting power in 2001, was political power not changing hands between the Democrats and Republicans in the USA and the Labour and the Liberal Party in the UK? Some of these fallacies could best be told as tales and not as a ground for establishing political history of a nation. ..........ASK!..........
Posted on: Thu, 06 Nov 2014 12:52:01 +0000
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