The Office of Mr Jacob Osei Yeboah, the independent presidential candidate in the 2012 election has expressed the hope that the New Patriotic Party (NPP), as the largest opposition party, will assure Ghanaians of their readiness to govern by lowering the political temperature so as to give room for deep thinkers to help contribute innovatively to find solutions to the myriad of problems facing the country.
This, the NPP can demonstrate by electing national executives who believe in the ‘gentle-giant philosophical (GGP) leadership’ style to help solve the country’s problems, even in opposition.
In a goodwill message signed by Mr Yeboah to the NPP, it said “On behalf of the Office of JOY2012, we wish you a successful national delegates’ conference in Tamale towards a good run for noble ideas for 2016.
“Saturday, April 12, 2014 will be a memorable day for the largest opposition party because they will converge on the Tamale Sports Stadium in the Northern Region to elect their national executives to lead the party towards Election 2016. This day is not only historic as the Office of JOY2012 understands that it is the first time the party is organising a national delegates’ congress in the Northern Region but also symbolic as it reaffirms your belief in the tradition of Danquah-Busia-Dombo,” it stated.
According to the statement, electing national executives ought to affirm NPP’s belief in the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition, adding that the perceptive exclusiveness of the Dombo Foundation needs to be relayed at the conference in order to strengthen the party’s foundation.
The statement said political parties, like humans, had both pleasant and unpleasant history that needed to be affirmed and corrected respectively for the betterment of the governance of the nation and growth of democracy.
It urged the delegates to elect leaders who were not only gentle in the language and linguistics of our political discourse but were also giants in the application of the literature of our anthropological disposition and with a deep sense of patriotism.
The office of JOY2012, it said, could say emphatically that fourth republic elections have affirmed the belief in the ‘gentle-giant leadership’ style through floating voters or “king-maker voters”.
On the other hand, he said floating voters have demonstrated their abhorrence towards radicalism from party executives.
“Ghanaians believe they can entrust their sovereignty to GGP leaders before assessing competence or whatever pedigree the leader has reached.
“The GGP style, therefore, serves as the lens through which Ghanaians see the leadership before listening to their competence-based messages.
“Indeed, the NPP national executive’s response to the Supreme Court’s judgement through Nana Akufo-Addo has affirmed and demonstrated your belief once again in the GGP style to the admiration of the world and has given hope to our democracy and longevity to the fourth republic,” it stated.
