Ghanaians are expected again this year to vote in a landmark polls December 7 to renew our commitment in democracy.
Interestingly, the political field is awash with a lot of excitement because for once in the history of the 4th Republic, the build up to the December 7 showdown is keenly witnessing the resurgent of a Convention People’s Party which dormant in the previous elections virtually paralyzed Ghanaian politics.
That resulted in a duo-political dominance by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Many CPP supporters who could not stay out of politics had a difficult choice albeit necessary, to exercise their franchise by choosing between what they considered as two unfriendly parties.
The resurgence of the CPP has added more excitement and euphoria in the build up to the December 7 elections, and as expected in all competitions, the preceding days are becoming sentimental and passionate.
Indeed that is expected. In a competition of this nature the human interest often moves into the realm of excessive passion and sentimental.
The beauty about our case is that perhaps apart from pockets of indecent behaviours by some erratic zealots, we have not recorded incidents that can be compared to what precedes elections in other African countries.
It does not in any way suggest that those unfortunate incidents cannot be played here in Ghana. In our view, the incidents of war and other disturbances that occur in other African countries in election years sometimes start as pockets problems like what we currently are experiencing in Bawku in the Upper East Region.
That is why we are very much concerned about Government’s inability to put on finger on the exact problem in the Bawku conflict.
We only have to pray that the God Lord help us to control our temper in this trial moments. As we enter the home stretch, Ghanaians will allow the good sense of judgement that has ruled their passion to still continue at this critical period of our political life.
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