By Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.

Let us get this straight, upfront and center - Dr. Wereko-Brobbey's hostile rhetoric against the ongoing New Patriotic Party's Election 2012 presidential petition has absolutely nothing to do with the expression of any truths about the respective conduct of Messrs. Mahamudu Bawumia and Johnson Asiedu-Nketia before the Atuguba-presided Supreme Court panel hearing the case (See "NPP At A Sorrowful Crossroads - Tarzan" Ghanaweb.com 6/17/13; also, "Don't Punish Me - Wereko-Brobbey Writes To NPP" JoyOnline.com 6/17/13).

Rather, it has everything to do with arrogance and spite against the party whose leadership reins he has been struggling desperately to assume for his own political ambitions, all to no avail. His hubris clearly shows when, rather than diplomatically plead for the revocation of his well-deserved membership suspension by the party's National Executive Council, Dr. Wereko-Brobbey rudely thumbs his nose at the latter by falsely declaring that "NPP does not put food on my table."

And so, in the opinion of the "Honorable" Tarzan, it embarrassingly appears that it all boils down to what he can materially gain or acquire from his "founding-membership" of the New Patriotic Party. The fact of the matter, though, is that his is a patently false declaration; for as both Chief Executive Officer of the Volta River Authority and Chief Coordinator of the Ghana@50 Secretariat, Dr. Wereko-Brobbey drew enviably fat salaries from the Kufuor-led NPP government.

And so precisely how does he expect his vehement and vitriolic and downright vacuous rhetoric of denial to be publicly received, especially when Tarzan pontifically declares: "NPP does not put food on my table"? Indeed, anybody who either witnessed or studiously read transcripts regarding the deportment of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the Election 2012 NPP Vice-Presidential Candidate, could not have arrived at any other conclusion than the glaring fact that the former Deputy-Governor of the Bank of Ghana eloquently proved to the Atuguba-presided court that he is the expert to beat, when it comes to statistical deliberations on the pink-sheet documents used to ascertain the actual number of eligible Ghanaian voters who exercised their franchise in the 2012 presidential election.

This is no sheer happanstance, as yours truly has had occasion to point out, time and again, that it was the Oxbridge-educated Dr. Bawumia who led the landmark effort of redenominating the veritable shinplaster that was the Ghana CEDI under 19 years of P/NDC misrule. The General-Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Johnson Asiedu-Nketia, on the other hand, used a dubious rural banking rudimentary knowledge of the difference between a check and a bank-deposit receipt to make an indisputable buffoon out of himself.

Indeed, if Mr. Asiedu-Nketia's analogical non-sequitur, in the cynical opinion of the ousted CEO of the VRA, is what makes Dr. Bawumia "a clueless star-witness," then, clearly, what we have here is an unpardonably classical case of cutting one's nose to spite one's face, proverbially speaking; and that is assuming that, indeed, Dr. Wereko-Brobbey is a "leading member of the NPP" in good standing.

And, by the way, "KABI NA ME NKA BI" is not a very sound translation of the definition of "Democracy" into the Akan language; the latter definition is rather facile and an outright no-brainer. Rather, "Dodoo Amanmmuo," majority governance/government or government of the plurality is the more appropriate definition of constitutional democracy in Akan.

No wonder, then, that people like Drs. Wereko-Brobbey and Arthur Kennedy would so capriciously and whimsically equate their anti-NPP rhetorical mischief with protected, democratic free speech.

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*Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., Ph.D.
Department of English
Nassau Community College of SUNY
Garden City, New York
June 22, 2013
E-mail: okoampaahoofe@optimum.net
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