President John Mills’ 4 "I" contra Nana Addo’s 4 "E," over to you!

President Mills and Nana Akufo-Addo

An choosing year provides a height for domestic parties and their care to rivet a adults in a review about a issues confronting a republic and how they intend to govern.

Expectedly, a celebration in energy (incumbent) seeks to remonstrate a adults to stay a course. Typically, a obligatory anchors this justification by touting a achievements, if it has any, or demonstrating to a adults that it has over a before debate promises. An well-developed obligatory personality will not usually showcase his achievements though will also draft a trail forward.

In contrast, a antithesis celebration seeks to remonstrate a adults to change course. It does this by display that a obligatory has unsuccessful to perform a promises, wear a customary of living, or run out of ideas. Exceptional antithesis parties will also draft a trail brazen for a country.

As a ubiquitous rule, therefore, an choosing puts an obligatory on trial. The antithesis is equivalent to a plaintiff, a obligatory is equivalent to a suspect and a adults are equivalent to a jury.

Continuing a embellishment of a domestic trial, a suspect (incumbent) has a weight of warning and contingency lift this weight by a majority of a evidence. Indeed, a antithesis needs not do many though to uncover that a obligatory has unsuccessful to perform. For if a adults concludes that a obligatory has failed, they should and will opinion it out of power.

One of a by-products of this electoral existence is that antithesis parties can win on perfect promotion while incumbents contingency uncover petrify achievements. This explains a startling better of NPP during a 2008 polls, that NDC won by highlighting a failings of a NPP.

President Mills, as a incumbent, and Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo, as a challenger, have both done their opening arguments to outrider a opening of a 2012 choosing and debate year.

The obligatory appears to be emphasizing an “I” strategy. From his arguments as good as those of his surrogates, a incumbent’s devise is going to be formed on “Insults, Invectives, Insinuations and Innuendos.” This is clear from their concentration on scornful Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo. One day, they credit him of “peeing” behind a mosque. The subsequent day they recover a video of him allegedly fondling a lady in front of several studio artists. Followed by allegations that he has liberated drug barons and supposing tactful passports to people. Sadly, these allegations are prima facie meaningless and have always been fast disproved.

But Nana Addo is not a usually aim of a “I” bombs. Farmers are “kokoase nkurasefuo.” Nurses are “stupid and are on probation.” Chairman Jerry Rawlings and ex President Kufuor have had their satisfactory share of a invectives and insults. Indeed, not even a normal authorities have been spared as a Volta chiefs recently found it.

Perhaps, President Mills and his strategists have lost that they are no longer in opposition. Perhaps, they do not comprehend that a weight of an obligatory in an choosing year is to showcase accomplishments. Perhaps, they have learnt a wrong lessons from their feat in 2008 or maybe they can't find accomplishments to run on.

The many unfortunate aspect of this devise is a series of paid ministers who are peddling these lies, hence violating their oaths of bureau by bringing their offices into disrepute.

Ironically, a antithesis that could win on perfect promotion has selected to debate on ideas and has emphasized an “E” strategy. In opening arguments, Nana Addo has indicated that should he be elected, his concentration will be on “Education, Enablers, Enterprise and Employment.”

Nana Addo has resolutely claimed that pre-tertiary preparation is a healthy right of all Ghanaians. Accordingly, he is going to route resources to assure that all Ghanaians of pre-tertiary preparation age are in propagandize appropriation vicious skills that will make them rival in today’s tellurian economy. He is also going to revamp a pre-tertiary educational zone by attracting, rewarding and maintaining rarely competent teachers who can use slicing corner pedagogical inclination and record to teach a destiny entrants into a labor market.

Nana Addo has also argued that supervision has an critical purpose to emanate an enabling sourroundings for mercantile expansion and growth. As a result, he is going to move a laws, courts, and law coercion to a 21st century. He has scrupulously remarkable that though law and law enforcement, usually a mark marketplace will flower though a republic needs a credit marketplace to means growth. He also understands and has remarkable that a skill laws of a republic contingency be revamped to discharge land guards and a headaches immaterial to appropriation property.

But enablers are not usually laws underneath Nana Addo’s platform, they embody a extensive horizon to move a country’s WETT (Water, Electricity, Toilet and Traffic) into a 21st century. Accordingly, suggestive of a 1971 Busia’s plan, he skeleton to deposit heavily and massively in a country’s transport, irrigation and sewage sectors.

The large infrastructural expostulate underneath WETT is a gateway to Nana Addo’s third E, that is employment. He has pronounced that unless a adults are employed, they can't play their correct roles as citizens. The WETT module will emanate thousands of approach jobs to be filled by a well-trained graduates entrance out of a schools underneath his preparation program. In addition, it is approaching that even some-more surreptitious jobs will follow from this WETT infrastructure.

Finally, Nana Addo understands that a private zone is a genuine engine of growth. That is because he has due a origination of “Enterprise” zones in a farming areas. The cornerstone of a devise is to yield taxation holidays to enterprises that set adult industries in a farming areas to implement internal tender materials and occupy internal labor.

It is approaching that a craving zones will renovate a trade zone from a primary importance to a prolongation importance within 10 years, while expanding a use sector. And these transformations will occur, while concurrently augmenting rural production, by a faith on complicated rural technology.

The adults contingency constantly remind itself that elections are an costly exercise. The responsibility is usually fit if those who find their votes benefaction competing views of how to urge their lives. They contingency listen to a arguments and expel a opinion that rewards those who benefaction a forward-looking prophesy while punishing those who abuse a electoral platform.

President John Mills’ 4 “I” contra Nana Addo’s 4 “E,” over to you!

By S. Kwaku Asare, New Achimota
Email: kwakuazar@hotmail.com

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