POLITICAL UNPRECEDENTED HAPPENINGS IN GHANA

Strange things happened in the year 2012 and I would like to take this opportunity to update you on some of the unprecedented things that  that occurred this year. We have been through a lot as a nation. The year carried with it a lot of good as well as bad things. My year of unprecedented happenings started with the death of a sitting president. For the first time in Ghana, a sitting president died and his vice president was sworn in on the same day. His Excellency John Evans Atta Mills passed on the baton to his vice president John Dramani Mahama, on the 24^th of July after a short illness at the 37 Military Hospital in Accra. A lot of people wish to be president of this country one day, but how many have their dreams come through. His Excellence John Dramani Mahama now president elect of Ghana, left home for the office as a vice president in the morning; and returned home as the president of Ghana. Something that was unprecedented in this country. I must commend Ghanaians for the way they came together to give the late president Mills a befitting burial.

Another unprecedented thing that happened in this country, was the visit of the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Danquah  Akuffo Addo to the residence of ex. President Rawlings. His visit to the ex. President was to discuss issues that will ensure free and fair elections in the December polls. He also discussed matters that would ensure that Ghana will remain peaceful during and after the elections. This was the first time an opposition party has held a meeting with the other party to discuss matters like this. Again, I will take this opportunity to thank Nana Addo for such an act.  Some people however found it difficult to accept such kind gestures from the opposition as politics as usual is full to tricks. This was an unprecedented thing in the year 2012.

Still on politics, the political scene was taken over by one man called Hassan Ayariga. The presidential candidate of the PNC became a popular figure due to his jovial nature. We cannot bring the curtains of 2012 down without talking about Hasaan Ayariga. Indeed he changed the face of politics in Ghana from a rigid one to a much flexible one. When politicians mount the stage, they all talked seriously on the issues at hand.

Ayariga treated matters with a lot of flexibility and still managed to send his message across to Ghanaians.  He became the talk of the day and others could not help but design a mixture called “Ayaricough” in his honor. The year 2012 will always remember you Mr. Hassan Ayariga for your immense contribution of jokes and laughter that you placed on the faces of Ghanaians. This was unprecedented.

The unprecedented year did only take away a president but also a vice president, leaving Ghana with no living vice president. Former vice president of Ghana, your Excellence Alhaji Aliu Mahama died after he was taken ill and hospitalized at the Korle Bu Teaching Hospital in Accra. Another beloved son of the land is gone and we seem to have lost all our former vice presidents.

Share your thoughts with me by writing the unprecedented things that happened in the year twenty 2012 which is not stated.