Why I believe in continuity
Let us stop pretending. Let us stop acting civilised while living inside a lie.
Ghana is not poor because we lack intelligence. Ghana is not backward because we lack resources.
Ghana is not stuck because we lack leaders.
Ghana is stuck because we are addicted to rotating power instead of building capacity. And democracy, as practised in Ghana, has become the politest way to destroy a nation without firing a single bullet.
This is why I believe President John Mahama must continue.
Not because he is a messiah.
Not because he is flawless.
Not because of party colours. But because development has a minimum time requirement and Ghana has refused to respect it since independence.
Every four years, we reset the country like a foolish gambler who believes the next card will save him.
We destroy policies midstream.
We abandon factories half-built.
We cancel contracts not because they failed, but because the signature belongs to the “wrong” president.
We replace institutional memory with slogans.
We trade continuity for applause.
And then we shout “corruption” when nothing works.
National self-sabotage
Let us say the shameful truth plainly: 95 per cent of Ghanaian politicians are not development-minded; they are job-seeking managers of access.
They want power because power is employment.
Power is contracts. Power is connections. Power is security.
Power is relevance. Development, on the other hand, is slow, boring, painful and politically dangerous.
So, nobody wants it badly enough to protect it with time.
Mahama understands something most of our elites refuse to admit: you cannot industrialise a country on an election timetable.
You cannot build factories, supply chains, skilled labour, export markets and financial sovereignty in four years.
You cannot even do it in eight.
Anyone who claims otherwise is either ignorant or lying to get votes. China did not do it in four years. South Korea did not do it in four years.
Singapore did not do it in four years.
Even the Western countries preaching democracy to us did not develop under short-term electoral cycles.
Yet, Ghana insists on repeating the same experiment and acting shocked by the same failure.
Mahama continuing is not about personality; it is about protecting time.
Time to finish what is started.
Time to let institutions mature.
Time to allow policies to compound.
Time to fail, correct and stabilise without the constant threat of political reversal.
Democracy
Democracy has taught Ghanaians to worship competition, not construction.
We argue NPP versus NDC as if development were a football match.
We confuse debates with delivery.
We celebrate manifesto poetry while importing toothpicks.
We call ourselves free while borrowing currencies printed freely by others.
This is not sovereignty; it is organised dependency.
And the most shameful part? We have normalised it.
We clap when inflation “comes down” while prices remain high.
We praise exchange rate stability while factories remain absent.
We celebrate gold inflows while selling the very asset that could anchor industrial power.
We cheer democracy while our youth queue endlessly for jobs that do not exist.
We are loud, but we are empty. Asking our leader to continue for 15–20 years under strict developmental rules is not anti-democratic.
What is anti-democratic is condemning generations to unemployment so we can feel morally superior about elections.
What is evil is rotating leaders while rotating poverty alongside them.
Let us be brutally honest: even Jesus Christ himself would fail under Ghana’s 4–8-year democratic structure.
Not because He lacks wisdom, but because wisdom without time is mocked by reality.
Development is not spiritual; it is structural.
And structures do not bend to prayers, slogans or campaign promises.
Prophets
This is why prophets who prophesy election victories without speaking about development time are lying to themselves and to the nation.
God is not impressed by power.
God is impressed by fruit. And fruit takes time.
I recommend that the President continue because Ghana must choose development over ego.
Because we must finally admit that our elites do not understand what it takes to build an economy.
Because we must stop pretending that changing drivers will fix a broken engine.
Because we must grow up as a nation.
This is not a call for dictatorship.
This is a call for developmental discipline.
Clear rules. Clear limits.
No family enrichment. No party capture.
No policy reversals.
One mission: factories, trade, jobs and institutional strength.
If the President fails under such a mandate, history will judge him.
But if we refuse to give any leader the time required to succeed, history will judge us far more harshly.
Ghana does not need another election hero.
Ghana does not need another “brilliant” candidate. Ghana needs time to be protected from politics.
And until we are brave enough to say that out loud, we will remain exactly where we are: noisy, divided, import-dependent and permanently surprised that nothing ever changes.
The leader must continue not because of power, but because development is hungry and democracy keeps starving it.
