Our constitution, our national flag and our national anthem are all intended to ensure national cohesion even in the face of diversity in faith and ethnicity.
In some countries, wars have been fought to ensure such a cohesion because inter alia it is such unity which brings out the best in us.
Africa’s most populous nation with over two hundred million people fought a bitter civil war to keep the country together.
Working towards what binds us should be the priority of all Ghanaians. The advantages of national cohesion can best be appreciated by those who have witnessed the fallouts from a civil war occasioned by division along faith and ethnocentric lines.
In recent times, some frontline actors in one of the two dominant political parties have played the religious and ethnic card in their bid to win hearts to their side as the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) prepares to choose a flagbearer for the 2028 polls.
Internal politics should not take this course, not at all. For those who cherish the progress of Ghana and wish her well, let them not choose those who would not mind compromising the overall interest of the nation just so they would have their way. Let them not choose those who would rather Ghana burns if they do not have their way. Let them choose those who have track records of achievements and post admirable emotional intelligence to lead a nation such as Ghana.
Incendiary remarks have the tendency to inflame passions, especially as unregulated new media offer the fuel to disseminate such divisive utterances.
We would not allow such nonsense to fester any further, Ghana is bigger than such politicians. Politicians should tell their constituents what they intend to do to uplift them socially and economically. To descend this low by attacking opponents based on ethnocentric and religious lines should be despised with all the might at our disposal.
We have come a long way from independence that such level of irresponsible and cheap talk should have no place in our political space.
Delegates and indeed all Ghanaians should begin to think about the bigger picture, which is Ghana rather than succumb to such inciting remarks.
Ghana has on her hands the Bawku crisis which has remained unresponsive to treatment for so long. When irresponsible politicians therefore start spewing remarks which aggravate rather than restore normalcy to restive Bawku, we have cause to descend heavily on them.
The parochial interests of selfish politicians should not compromise the country’s national security.
It is unacceptable that persons who seek to lead their political parties and eventually lead the nation would be so naïve and irresponsible. Come on!