Okudjeto Ablakwa On Sekou Nkrumah And Konadu’s Campaign Launch

Deputy Minister of Information, Samuel Okudjeto Ablakwa has described the invitation and subsequent presence of Dr. Sekou Nkrumah, son of Ghana’s first President, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah at the formal launch of Nana Konadu’s flagbearership campaign as an act of ‘politics of convenience and opportunism’.

The Deputy Information Minister does not understand why the ex-President and his spouse, Nana Konadu will accuse President Mills of trying to do away with the ideologies of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) by enlisting the services of some elements of the Convention People’s Party (CPP) into the ruling party, and yet throw an invite to the son of the founder of the CPP to their campaign launch.

According to him, it was former President Rawlings who gave Dr. Kwame Nkrumah a befitting burial to the extent of building a museum in his name. “What can be more supportive of the Nkrumaist course than this?” he asked.

“What amazed me in this whole discussion of Nkrumah was that Dr. Sekou Nkrumah was invited and made the main speaker. It is a clear evidence of politics of convenience and opportunism. In the first place, if you are not in support of their ideologies, then there is no use inviting his son and using him to your advantage simply because you think he is disgruntled (with the current administration). There is no logic in all of these things, and you cannot even understand it…,” he stated.

He posited that if one wants “to ostracize the CPPs from the NDC, then we should not have anything to do with them. Their members should not be criticized so that if it is time for a big programme which will be in our favour, we will call them to come and talk in support of our quest….,” he added.

Okudjeto Ablakwa, who was speaking as a panelist on Radio Gold’s Alhaji and Alhaji programme, pooh-poohed the speech delivered by the former First Lady at the official launch of her campaign saying there was nothing significant in her address. To him, the import of her message indicates that the rest of the NDC members who are not in support of her candidature are infidels.

“The launch did not give us any clear message it was just an opportunism…we are not seeing any clear fact. I listened to the speech and I didn’t see any vision or ambition, I didn’t get the link of what is really driving this ambition. What do they want to do that President Mills is not doing? The only significant thing about the launch was the way people were allowed to pour insults on the president to the extent of calling him impotent…,” he added.