I notice that after Kofi Bentil’s glowing endorsement of Dr Bawumia’s candidature for presidential office, Prof Ransford Gyampo is out in the public square having a field day.
Kofi Bentil simply opined that amongst the two forerunners for the 2024 presidential elections, Dr Bawumia is more credible to lead. And as always Ransford Gyampo is out there with a dagger trying to mark Bawumia’s homework and to award marks. He’s an expert in that. Isn’t it?
Honestly, it has been excruciating reading Ransford Gyampo’s response to Kofi Bentil.
Indeed, it was a harmless advocacy by Kofi Bentil and instead of Rasnford Gyampo and his likes, to counter him with verifiable facts to render his argument lifeless, they’re out there on the offensive and acting like the proverbial Kweku Ananse who thought he owns all the wisdom in the universe.
In fact, the irredeemable dreadfulness of Rasnford Gyampo’s argument confirms my long held suspicions that the man has simply lost it.
Ransford Gyampo feels he is the most important person in any room he enters; His ego is in inverse proportion to his self worth. There is Gyampo’s World or there is nothing. That level of narcissism must get tiring after a while – the constant struggle to reconfigure reality, the terror of it all falling apart.
Truly, nobody is advocating that Dr Bawumia should be given a free pass but then, we need to have a dispassionate conversation about the two front runners seeking to lead our nation, and the conversation ought to be fact based.
Isn’t it a fact that Dr Bawumia hasn’t been President? Isn’t it also true that Mahama has been President before?
Isn’t it true that Dr Bawumia has been Ghana’s best and most impactful Vice President ever?
Again, isn’t it pretty obvious that Dr Bawumia is incorruptible?
Can we say the same about Mahama?
Is Mahama not under investigations by the Office of the Special Prosecutor?
Isn’t it trite that Mahama has been embroiled in corrupt activities locally and internationally?
Isn’t it also true that the Special Prosecutor has established that Mahama is Government Official 1 in the receipt of bribes regarding the Airbus corruption saga?
So, where is the lie in Kofi Bentil’s argument?
I am always bemused as to how those people who say they are opposed to the Dr Bawumia always transform into comedians once there’s a call for intellectual conversation between Bawumia and Mahama.
Yes, by courtesy of a democratic vote on both sides of the political aisle, Dr Bawumia will win the presidency in the forthcoming elections and all of this tiresome nonsense will be left for future generations of schoolkids to marvel at the pettiness of it all
I shall be back
Ernest Owusu-Bempah
Deputy Director of Communications, NPP
What Gyampo said
A Professor at the University of Ghana, Ransford Gyampo has said one cannot be one of the loudest critics of the current government and suddenly make the case for its remnants to be given hearing when things are growing from bad to worse.
He was replying to a comment made by Vice President of IMANI Africa Kofi Bentil on Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.
Mr Bentil had indicated that Dr Bawumia should be given the chance to be president of Ghana. He said he does not doubt that Dr Bawumia will be a better president.
In a Facebook post, Mr Bentil, also a private legal practitioner said “Every man deserves a fair hearing. We gave President Mahama a chance to be President, the least we can do is give Dr Bawumia a fair and objective hearing.
“He is not President, and has never been President! I have no doubt he will be better! The VP position in Ghana, apart from standing in when the president is away (and he can’t make any serious decisions), it is totally powerless! he is like an advisor! There’s a good reason Kwame Nkrumah refused to have a Vice President! Indeed the Minister of finance has more constitutional power than the VP in managing our finances and the EMT has zero power to effect its decisions. They advise the President who acts through his ministers!”
But in a Facebook post responding to him, Prof Gyampo said “Dear Sir, you cannot be one of the loudest critics of this regime and suddenly make the case for its remnants to be given hearing when things are growing from bad to worse. A smarter strategy could have been used. This one is outmoded at birth!”
