He says “madness has invaded the party,” that is, Ghana’s main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), the very party of which he was the National Chairman until his well-deserved indefinite suspension by the party leadership, to wit, the NPP’s National Executive Committee (NEC), last year (See “NPP Now Party of ‘Madness’ – Afoko” Classfmonline.com / Ghanaweb.com 3/23/16). And so it ought to be clear to all by now, including Mr. Paul A. Afoko, of course, that it was because of his great nonesuch wisdom that had made him imperiously envisage himself to be the only sane wise man in the New Patriotic Party that got him deservedly booted out of party headquarters. The rest of the mad fools had come to the inescapably accurate conclusion that Mr. Afoko and his other two musketeer collaborators simply no longer belonged among the top-echelon membership of the party.

And so isn’t it rather farcical for him to claim that he is still the substantive National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party? Well, he has also been mischievously touted as the NPP’s “first-ever elected chairman of northern extraction,” almost as if to imply that his legitimate and deliberate removal as party chairman also symbolizes the rejection of the northern-descended leadership of the party. What those who expediently play up this aspect of Mr. Afoko’s regional identity conveniently fail to address is that it was highly respected NPP elders and leaders of northern descent like the nonagenarian Mr. C. K. Tedam who led the righteous move that culminated in the indefinite suspension of Mr. Afoko, whom Mr. Tedam, the veteran northern political pioneer and legendary educator, bitterly described as insufferably rude and grossly disrespectful of his elders, incorrigibly presumptuous and pontifically dictatorial in his dealings with the rest of the party’s leadership.

We must also significantly point out that Mr. Afoko is also the first northern-descended National Chairman of the New Patriotic Party whose flagrant leadership irresponsibility led to the acid-dousing assassination of Mr. Adams Mahama, the first-ever NPP Regional Chairman to be so savagely and unconscionably slain in the history of the party. Mr. Afoko also scandalously betrays himself as one who is woefully incapable of thinking critically and logically. For instance, Mr. Afoko claims that in suspending Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe from the party, the NPP’s leadership has also roundly rejected both the electoral support of the longtime ardent Akufo-Addo detractor and that of the Nyaho-Tamakloe Family, as if to imply that the entire membership of the Nyaho-Tamakloe Clan has been blindly and unreservedly voting NPP since the inception of the country’s Fourth Republic.

Even if such decided poppycock were true, it would still defy common sense and logic. But what is even more important to observe here is the fact that Mr. Afoko is predictably too dishonest and disingenuous to extend the same logic to justifiably encompass the fact that Mr. Gregory Afoko’s acid-dousing assassination of Mr. Adams Mahama automatically implicates the entire Afoko Family and Clan. Now, my dear reader, couple the preceding paralogia with the fact that the suspended NPP National Chairman had abortively copped an alibi for his indicted brother and prime suspect in the dastardly assassination of Mr. Mahama, shortly after the inexcusably barbaric slaying of the latter hit the national news headlines, and give us your take.

In other words, why would Mr. Paul Afoko implicate the entire Nyaho-Tamakloe Clan in the reprehensible political misbehavior of only one member of the Nyaho-Tamakloe Clan, and yet refuse to be reckoned to be complicit in Mr. Gregory Afoko’s midnight acid-slaying of Mr. Adams Mahama? Even more farcical is the fact that the man who proudly claims to be passionately and pathologically a Kufuor-Kyerematen factionalist, also wants the rest of the party membership and the nation, at large, believe that he has what it takes to rally the various shades of ideological leanings behind Akufo-Addo for a 2016 presidential election landslide win. As somebody reminded yours truly recently, has anybody noticed how the incessant leaking of confidential headquarters memos and other affairs almost came to an immediate halt with the condign suspension of the “Three Musketeers”?

No wonder then that the Bolga street toughie has so irredeemably convinced himself that he is the sole sane member among the executive echelons of the country’s main opposition New Patriotic Party. Could have fooled me, Bio-Atinga!!!

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