Gapping NPP volcano, George Boateng’s bellydance

Ordinarily, what is happening in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) is an internal party matter – that had been my thought initially. In fact, I had wondered how the media particularly could spend hours and spaces on the current brouhaha in the party at the expense of discussing social and economic problems facing the country.

But when it is realised that for close to about a year after electing the party’s officials, it can still not get a hold on internal wrangling within it, then it no longer becomes a party matter but a national one since it is the biggest opposition party in the country.

Opposition

Until it came to power in 2001, it is said that the NPP had stayed in opposition for close to 30 years. It experienced eight years of democratic rule after hibernation and so one would have expected that a party which prides itself on its democratic credentials, coupled with the exemplary leadership of President John Kufuor during his time at the helm o