Over the years, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has scared its main opponent, the NDC, with their seemingly resounding phrase, “We have the men.” It is perceived among the party technocrats that their party, the NPP, has the men. This dying syndrome found favour among many Ghanaians.

Invariably, those Ghanaians who also believe that the NPP has the men leave
the slogan unanswered. What that phrase means in itself and what it means when it comes to results for Ghana has not really been unravelled.

Simply put, asking some die-hard party people what that slogan means, they said, “When we say we have the men, we mean we have the men. We have technocrats in the party. We have the learned people in our party. For sure, if our party leadership needs new leaders, we don’t struggle. When we say we have the men, we mean we have the men capable of filling every portfolio and delivering results.” This is what we mean when we say, “We have the men.”

Arguably, the NPP may claim they have the men but I will want to bring to their notice that they never had the men, and neither will they have the men looking at their performance as a whole or individuals occupying government offices.
Let’s assume for Christ sake, that the NPP truly has the men; why have they not been able to fight the cedi depreciation? Or let’s say some of their men travelled; couldn’t those who stayed behind throughout the 8 years of the Nana Addo-Bawumia government not assist the economic wizkid to rescue Ghana’s economy?

Or maybe those who stayed behind were sleeping; could they not awaken from their slumber to realise that youth unemployment kept escalating like the Israel war on Palestine? Just a second, assuming only a few of those who stayed behind did not fall asleep, could they not be able to rescue this country from corruption, which has already destroyed the country? If the NPP has the men as they claim, this country should be doing very well. If Npp had the men, the cedi-to-dollar rate should be 1 cedi-1$. If NPP had the men, the faith of the public in democracy wouldn’t be as we all know it is now.

If NPP had the men, the price of kenkey would not be between 6 and 5 cedis. And had it been that they truly had the men, they wouldn’t have forced Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia and Napo on Ghanaians to vote for them come the 2024 December 7th elections.

Mentioning Bawumia reminds me, and I believe it reminds you too, of the glorious economy that man promised Ghanaians under the Nana Addo government. But here he is going about claiming to be the IT wizkid when he holds a PhD in Economics (not from a Ghanaian university to claim he has a defect because he schooled outside Ghana).

If Nana Addo could only see Bawumia from “the men they claim to have had” and give us such an abysmal performance, then do they truly have the men? Or maybe Nana Addo could not have identified one of the men they have because he himself was not in the capacity to identify one. And then he met the media, an opportunity for the vice president to apologise to Ghanaians for not honouring his promises; rather, he further wounded Ghanaians with his utterances. How could I solve all the problems of the country, then what job will call for the election of a president, he said? Will you still believe this party when they claim they have the men? You will be one of those who desire doom for Ghana should you still believe that the NPP has the men.

As if it were not enough insulting Ghanaians by presenting Bawumia for president, he also chose Napo, a man who, just after sitting under the feet of Otumfo and receiving instructions, the next minutes he insulted Ghanaians and tried to change the history of the country and that of Africa, something Nana Addo has tried and failed.

So far, from the little gists, do you think NPP has the men? Because if they did, maybe we wouldn’t have had a sitting vice president who speaks like a boy who happens to be with the mother in the kitchen during the cooking and will still ask the mother what food you prepared for dinner after the food had gone bad?

But can the NPP be forgiven for making noise about the slogan, “We have the men?” You may still believe them if you believe Kennedy has anything better to offer. Or do you have hopes that Alan will return and make the party better? Ghana and the NPP party are doomed if one of the party members ever climbs the presidency because, definitely, it would be a “woman” and not a man from the men they have.

Emmanuel Graham Nyameke will surely return with the second part; maybe the men among them couldn’t make it to high offices.