Hon. Sammi Awuku writes ;
There appears to be a deliberate and coordinated attempt to tilt Ghana toward a One-party state and weaken the institutional foundations that keep our nation stable and accountable.
President Mahama secured an overwhelming victory in 2024, but electoral goodwill is never permanent. Mr President, this is the time to protect your legacy not to gamble with it. Those urging you toward altering constitutional limits or entertaining ideas of extended or lifelong leadership are not serving the national interest. Rawlings never went down that path. President Kufuor never did. President Mills never did. President Akufo-Addo never did. Our past leaders respected the boundaries set by the Constitution, and so must we all.
Ghanaians go to the polls for one reason: to renew or withdraw their consent. That is the essence of leadership accountability. It is how citizens remind those in power that authority is borrowed, not owned, entrusted, not inherited and always subject to being taken back. We vote so that no single individual or political group becomes bigger than the nation itself. Allow Ghanaians to decide if they want NPP or NDC again.
That is the basic social contract every leader swears to uphold.
What is troubling today is the loud silence of the clergy, civil society, and the moral voices that have historically called out governments for misdemeanors.
Silence at a time like this is dangerous. We cannot wait until the damage is irreversible before raising our concerns.
The pattern emerging across the country is too consistent to ignore. What began as rumours keeps becoming reality: the removal of the Chief Justice, the Ablekuma North rerun, the events surrounding the Late Ernest Yaw Kumi’s seat, tensions in Kpandai over a controversial rerun of the polls, an activated process seeking the removal of the Electoral Commission Chair, her Deputies and the Special Prosecutor from office and the latest being a Bill before Parliament seeking to abolish the Office of the Special Prosecutor.
We are on a slippery slope. This is the moment for every principled voice regardless of political affiliation to rise in defense of Ghana’s future. Power must never become more important than the people who confer it.
Our silence today could cost us the country we hope to leave for the next generation.
Let’s protect our democracy because we owe the future generations this sacred responsibility.
I AM A GHANAIAN and I have a Voice too.
God Bless Our Homeland Ghana 🇬🇭
