The man who is shilling for Mr. Alan John Kwadwo Kyerematen, namely, Mr. Kwame Asafo-Agyei, is described by the media as a former Member of Parliament for Nsuta-Kwamang, in the Asante Region (Read More: Alan is our best bet to win election 2024 – Former NPP MP Asafo Agyei Modernghana.com 1/22/22). We need to ask several significant questions here, not the least of which pertains to the question of the political track record of Mr. Asafo-Agyei, both as a New Patriotic Party Member of Parliament and the set of factors that led to him losing the Nsuta-Kwamang Parliamentary Seat.
There is that common maxim which runs as follows: “Show me your friend and I will tell you your character.” Merely telling us that in a recent polling, the Trade and Industry Minister, that is, Mr. Kyerematen, secured 50 percent of the nods from participants of such polling, while Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia only managed to secure 20 percent of the nods of polling participants, tells us absolutely nothing about the validity or the integrity of such polling survey. First of all, we, the general Ghanaian public, need to know the person, group of persons or the company or establishment that conducted such polling.
For instance, what is the expertise of the person or the people who conducted the aforesaid poll? What were the areas of the 16 regions of the country from which the polling participants were selected? How many eligible voters participated in the polling? Of what political party affiliation were these polling participants? How many of these participants came from every one of the 16 regions in the country? Breakdown by gender? And the statistical margin-of-error of such polling sampling.
In other words, it is not as simple as the Nsuta-Kwamang native would have the rest of us believe. Plus, the fact that it is insufferably insulting to the intelligence of the Ghanaian electorate to suppose that they would so facilely chuck all moral or ethical scruples into the garbage can by going for a candidate who abandoned the party, that is, the New Patriotic Party, in the runup to the 2008 General Election because Alan Cash, as Mr. Kyerematen is also popularly known, had woefully failed to command the approval of the majority of the Congressional Delegates of the New Patriotic Party.
You see, not only did Mr. Kyerematen abandon the party with barely four months to the 2008 General Election, for good measure, the sore losing candidate also wrote and virally publicized his resignation letter from the New Patriotic Party in the mainstream of the national media arena. Alan Cash would also repeat the same dastardly and flagrantly narcissistic mischief come Election 2012. In sum, it is only arrogant and self-infatuated politicians like Mr. Asafo-Agyei who would line up their mock ballots behind the unarguably unattractive Presidential Candidacy of a man who carcinogenically lacks the requisite humility and patriotism of the man who had twice crushingly defeated him in the party’s Presidential Primaries.
We also need to have published for our strategic edification the kinds of questions that were posed to the participants of the clearly bogus self-serving polling survey that had Mr. Kyerematen carrying 50 percent of the participants with him, and Vice-President Bawumia a diddly 20 percent of such polling. We also need to be discussing the respective national appeal of these two presumptive New Patriotic Party nominees for the 2024 Presidential Election, in particular the fact that unlike Mr. Kyerematen, Vice-President Bawumia has convincingly clinched two electoral victories as the Running-Mate of Candidate Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
In other words, Vice-President Bawumia is a tried and tested derby steed or a fetching political racehorse, whereas Alan Cash has yet to achieve the epiphenomenal or marginal status of an amateur racehorse or saddle. We need to also critically examine and evaluate the discrete individual contributions made by these two personalities to both the resonant success of the New Patriotic Party and our national economy at large. Put more bluntly, nobody should be allowed to lightly get away with the sort of electioneering campaign nonsensicalities being shamelessly peddled by Mr. Asafo-Agyei, another obviously boorish and churlish political loser.
