By Ekua Kwansema

The NPP people claim they are the gentle party, which is why during the 2000 electioneering campaign President Kufour supposedly earned the title “Gentle Giant”. A gentle party to me is a party, which is free of violent men and women. However, the opposite is the situation.

The NPP used to have a big macho minister who used to tower above everybody in the central region. This man called Adumadze is the modern day Okonkwo (Remember Things Fall Apart?). Reports have it that when he walks the soul of his feet hardly touches the ground, and his temper is beyond imagination or measure. Those who worked with Adumadze were always under constant fear.

Mr. Adumadze earned the record of being the only known minister in Ghana ’s history to have seized a taxi from a driver and drove it all the way from the Eastern Region to the Central Region. But before Adumadze drove the taxi away, reports have it that he turned himself into a boxer and brutally assaulted the taxi driver.

Ghanaians waited anxiously for President Kufour to act, but he did nothing. As a result, Adumadze continued to assault people until he lost favour with the Kufour administration and was eventually kicked out. The last time we heard, Adumadze has lost the NPP primaries and was brooding over his loss when one of the two journalists who had gone to his house to “console” him was turned into a punching bag by Adumadze. But there seems to be another Adumadze in town. Or should I say there seems to be another person who has taken off from where Adumadze left. Enter Kennedy Agyepong. For those of you who do not know Kennedy, he was residing in Bronx , New York some years back before he decided to go back to Ghana and became a politician and eventually a parliamentarian.

Those who knew Agyepong in Bronx during his taxi driving days cannot believe why this man has become so arrogant that he thinks he owes the whole world. Why would Kennedy not be? If you were Kennedy and not doing any credible business in Bronx but have some luck smiling on you by having your NPP people set you up to owe chain of businesses in Ghana today, would your wing span not be much bigger than the Super Jumbo Jet (It’s the world’s largest commercial aircraft unveiled by Airbus)?

Kennedy Agyepong is known to spew venom. There are many occasions that he spews things from his stomach instead from his head. Kennedy talks in the same vein like Dick Cheney, the out-going Vice President of the United States . Dick spits his words out and does not care whether it hurts you or not. That is how Kennedy speaks. But he is not alone. Remember there are many NPP people who speak and acts just the same way. It is okay to speak your mind, but to me it is not okay to talk down on people.

Any wonder Ghanaians are fed up with the arrogant posture by the NPP people who have sat on the happiness of many hardworking Ghanaians for the past 8 years. Any wonder why the party is having difficulty convincing Ghanaians that they would change their attitude if given another four more years. Any wonder this week has turned out to be a begging spree by all the NPP top gurus.

But just when the party is struggling to make traction by way of convincing Ghanaians to send them back to power, which has prompted President Kufour, Akufo-Addo, Christine Churcher and a host of others to go round begging and kneeling in front of fishermen and others, the new Adumadze (Kennedy Agyepong) has struck again. This time he was reported of pouring his venom during an interview with the Angel FM morning show being hosted by Mr. Kwame Adinkra.

Probably Kennedy Adumadze (That’s how I will now call him), thought its already December 29 and that his party has won the presidential run-off because what he said does not resemble a party that has any humbleness or respect for Ghanaians or a party looking for people to send them back to power. For those of you who did not hear the whole story let me tell you what happened. During the interview Kennedy Adumadze said “People who are mentally unstable will vote for NDC”.

The new Adumadze continued by saying the 47 percent of Ghanaians who voted for the NDC are not in their right state of mind. Kennedy Adumadze thinks those who voted for Professor Mills and other NDC parliamentary candidates are not in their right frame of mind. I guess we are dealing with a sick man who I recommend should see a psychiatrist because anybody who is in his right frame of mind would not say the things he said. He is a walking time bomb for the NPP people.

But just hold your breath and read the other things Kennedy Adumadze said. He said he has lived in Bronx before (Of course Bronx is a shantytown in New York with so many mice that each individual can receive eight if they decide to share them), knows a lot about street violence so nobody should mess with him. That is tantamount to threat.

Is Kennedy Adumadze one of the faces of the NPP, which is looking up to Ghanaians to send them back to power, come December 28? I think Ghanaians have had enough of these people. Even while their presidential candidate is begging voters, the party’s campaign chair says they are not beggingvoters but just feeling apologetic, only for the presidential candidate to come back again and say that they are actually begging but there is nothing wrong in begging for forgiveness. So which version should Ghanaians run away with? Version Akufo-Addo or Obetsebi-Lamptey? Aso de nsu. Truly this party, which is reeling under severe pressure, is in disarray.

The Fantes have this common saying “Aboa rebowu a opin”, meaning any animal that is slated for the slaughterhouse struggles. Therefore, its an acceptable norm to see the NPP people struggling and sweating all over the place as they prepare to hand over power to the next incoming president, Professor Mills, who I predict would win the run-off come December 28. Make no mistake the writing is on the wall. Even the NPP diehards’ see it; they sense it and they feel it.

By the way did anybody notice that after doing some rounds, shedding some crocodile tears with his heavy gold award hanging around his neck, begging people from region to region for failing to fulfill his promises whilst in power, being in denial that even the NDC won majority seats in parliament, Mr. Menya Maba (President Kufour) has done it again! He is gone. Damn Akufo-Addo if he wins or lose, that’s probably what he said before he left for Nigeria .

ekwansema@yahoo.com