Even less than 12 months after the 2008 elections, the NPP Deputy Communications Director, Dr Arthur Kennedy has started describing being in opposition as “hell” and “frustration”. He used this expression in his attempt to measure the first 100 days of the NDC in office and the NPP’s 100 days in opposition.

In an interview with Peacefmonline, Dr Kennedy said it is not easy being in opposition after eight years of wielding state power and with several plans to achieve set goals. According to him, it’s like a dream shattered, because as he puts it: “you know what is to be done but you have no chance to do it”.

He expressed the need for his Party leaders not to wash their dirty linen in public, or else they could be in opposition for another 30 years, because when they were in power, they never thought they could soon be out of power so soon.

He added that winning in 2012 will require that the Party be renewed or re-invigorated and provide leadership from the polling station to national headquarters. To him, the party seems to be approaching 2012 with misguided self-confidence which is dangerous and might make the Party lose again.