The first law in politics is always to respect all people you are clamouring for their votes. Once a politician disrespects, insults or alienate a certain group of people, that politician and the party he or she belongs to has committed political suicide. The reason why NPP lost the election shouldn't be far fetched. They allowed some members to infest the big elephant with parasites and vitriolic political rhetoric played a part in their defeat. They have been the architects of their own downfall and the will continue to loose future elections if they don't correct this anomaly. In politics the distance between idiot and genius, especially at the highest level can be measured in days. NPP should act in the national interest and accept the out come of the elections and not out of narrow party political ideology.

There is no perfect elections in the world. Even America with all their technology is always smarting during and after elections about rigging and dis-enfranchisement. What NPP is doing is a ploy just to save face and let the people have sympathy with them for their defeat. This also is an occasion for them to know that our political differences shouldn't degenerate into demonization or conflagration. Hatred between the two factions has morphed into unbridled state of hostility and the intensity of the hatred is much higher now and will be more visceral than what we have now.

Ken Agyapong waged war on the Ewes and Gas, Kwabena Agyapong reduced the integrity of the Ewes to it's lowest level as if they were from another planet and Ursula Owusu called the northerners cattle rearers. These people and some more pushed the damage control mode button for the party and the authorities failed to put them in check just because of their "all die be die" mantra which had gained popularity with their supporters. No tribe will tolerate this act of madness and disrespect and vote for that party. The same thing happened in the USA with the Republicans and the Latinos, Asians and African Americans punished them for that.

I really don't know how out of ten regions a party can win an election with only two. Ghana our great country does not revolve around only Ashanti or Eastern region. NDC were able to win some seats in the strongholds of NPP but it was the opposite in the NDC strongholds. NPP declared their intentions even before the election started that it should be their way or the highway. They praised the EC in all the two elections they won and used all the encomiums in the world to describe Dr, Afari Gyan and how fair and free those elections were. To blame the same man now for what is happening is very farcical and nonsense on the stilts. Now that the shoe is on the other foot they are crying foul. NPP must know that no one party is the only guardian of the Republic of Ghana and what we are seeing now happened in 2004 but the late president Mills conceded defeat too early to the annoyance of NDC supporters.

Jake Otanka Obetsebi Lamptey set himself up as the institution in 2004 and declared the NPP winners when the EC had not done so and now the same person is accusing the EC of being in bed with NDC. Even when the counting of the elections was ongoing, Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie a.k.a. Sir John asked members to get ready with their white cloths for the next day (sunday) thanksgiving church service because according to their calculations and projections NPP was winning. I have come to know now that anything these two people say are always gibberish. They have the right to go to court if they feel cheated but their arguments do not hold enough water to win them this volatile and sensitive case. They should rather blame their agents who represented the party in the counting and after, signed, sealed and delivered it to the EC.

Ex- president Kuffour is another person who is giving the NPP supporters ample ammunition to be insane by attacking innocent citizens when he said nobody should blame any party in this moment of madness but the EC. What is happening now is causing serious damage to the party and the long term prognosis is less encouraging as it is now at a critical crossroads. Intimidation and threats of violence cannot change anything for the people of Ghana spoke on election day. NPP have to end the finger pointing, bickering and intolerable paralysis and they should know that NDC is winning over this issue in the arena of public opinion and in the interest of peace. If the Ghanaian people could figure how to convert hypocrisy and cynicism into sources of energy, NPP might be able to power the world.

Without good ground work from NDC to counter whatever NPP threw at them, their hopes of staying in power would have been in intensive care. This good ground work is what NPP must start to work on towards the next election and stop all this madness. I know that despite whatever noise NPP is making, it is like a leaf which has broken loose from a tree and after all its fluttering, it will succumb to the laws of gravity and fall to the ground. What the Supreme Court Judges will do is to replace this acrimony with civility and gridlock with progress as the results have been accepted by all the international communities. Ghana will never descend into chaos and we will once again prove to the world that we are the first in Africa. My advise to NPP is that the Rubicon has now been crossed and there is no turning back. They should go back to the drawing table and see where they went wrong and polish that side maybe 2016 will be their lucky year. May God bless Ghana.

Seth Bonsu (Denver. USA)