Honourable Alban Bagbin, Minority Leader and NDC MP for Nadowli West, would certainly not forget the 6th of March for as long as he inhabits the earths surface.

The Honourable MP would not forget day not because it was the day on which Ghana was 50 or because the parade was one of a kind, or because Kufuor gave a stunning speech.

The Minority would not forget the day because it was the day that protocol and political maturity was thrown to the dogs as he was thrown out of the Independence Square for reason only the NPP can fathom.

As a responsible person in leadership position and because the NDC had decided to be present at the Independence Square, the Minority Leader arrived at the place but unlike other NDC MP’s such as Hon John Mahama, Hon Moses Asaga, Hon Nii Amasa Namoale, Hon Akua Sena Dansua, and Hon Ibn Abass, who were not prevented from getting to the stand that was reserved for MP’s and other VIP’s, Hon Bagbin was prevented from joining his colleagues.

According to an eye witness report, try as the Minority Leader did to be allowed to join his colleagues, the NPP security detail refused him entry so out of frustration and not wanting to reduce himself to a nuisance, he had no option but to leave the Independence Square.

This show of political immaturity by the NPP according to watchers of the political scene is Kufuor and his NPP’s way of punishing the Minority Leader for exposing their dishonesty and letting the whole world know the kind of ingrates and liars who are currently in charge of Kwame Nkrumah’s Ghana.

According to the watchers of the political scene, Hon A.S.K Bagbin was pushed away from the anniversary parade because on the eve of the anniversary, on the floor of parliament, the Nadowli West MP was the only person who acknowledged the presence of Ghana’s illustrious son, Kofi Annan.

Speaker Begyina Sekyi-Hughes, John Agyekum Kufuor and Majority Leader Felix Owusu Agyepong all ignored Kofi Annan when they had the opportunity to speak.

This was a man who only a month or so ago, the NPP used to try to score political points.

As is their trademark, they are specialists at using and dumping people so after using Kofi Annan, they can no longer be bothered about him and so totally ignored his presence that night in parliament.

The very alert Hon Alban Bagbin, when it was his time to speak, acknowledged the presence of Kofi Annan and his beautiful wife and certainly embarrassed Kufuor and is NPP to the marrow.

Aside acknowledging the presence of Kofi Annan, the Minority Leader also corrected a factual inaccuracy in the speech of the Duke of Kent and that also dealt a serious blow to Kufuor and his NPP.

In the said speech obviously written by the history-distorting “mate me hu” politicians, the Duke of Kent, peddled an untruth to the effect that it was Kofi Abrefa Busia, the CIA agent, who seconded the motion in the then Legislative Assembly on the eve of our independence.

The Minority Leader, who could not allow such an obvious untruth to stand, corrected history and made it emphatically clear to the Duke of Kent that it was the then Deputy Minority Leader, S.V Dombo, who seconded the said motion and not Kofi Abrefa Busia the CIA agent.

So it was only in letting the truth stand that the Minority Leader had to be treated like a plague and kept away from the independence square by Kufuor and his NPP.

Kufuor and his NPP may have succeeded in pushing the Hon Alban Bagbin away from the Independence Square but the Minority Leader still stands tall in the eyes of right-thinking Ghanaians because he did not allow Kufuor and his NPP to either push the presence of Kofi Annan and his wife away from last Monday’s event, and also did not allow the liars to lie about the political history of Ghana.

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