Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe Jr.: "The Ghanaian President's Tribalist Politics Is Dividing Us. We Can't Reward Him With A Mandate"

Ghana's presidential election is next month. The Ghanaian-born English professor in USA and board member of the center-right Danquah Institute (Ghana), writes about Ghanaian center-left president John Mahama: "What cannot be reasonably denied is the grim fact that his vicious attempt to both 'ethnicize' and tendentiously 'regionalize' Ghanaian politics indisputably renders Transitional-President John Dramani Mahama [after President John Atta Mills' death in July] a pathological opportunist and dangerous tribalist who cannot, under any circumstances whatsoever, be expected and/or trusted to govern the country with the functionally admirable poise of a statesman in the neoclassical sense of the term. It is also rather insulting for Mr. Mahama to pretend that this is the very first time in the 55-year-old history of our beloved country that a northerner [where many ethnic minorities live] is being presented with the 'golden opportunity' – whatever that means – of being elected president."