Significantly, however, there well appears to have been the seminal influence of several male relatives in his life. He came among the ranks of the latter’s party’s operatives through the opportunistic political disaffection of Ghana’s longest-reigning First Lady with the Jerry John Rawlings-founded bloody juggernaut that is the National Democratic Congress. It was quite obvious that having thoroughly and completely burned his bridge back into the fold of the National Democratic Congress, about the only bridge left over whose crossing could make any iota of a difference, of course, was the Akufo-Addo-led New Patriotic Party. And he to do this with the blessing of an angry but badly and, perhaps, even irreparably defeated Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, Ghana’s longest-reigning Co-Chairman and Co-President of both the erstwhile Provisional National Defense Council (PNDC) and the National Democratic Congress. *Visit my blog at: KwameOkoampaAhoofeJrBy Kwame Okoampa-Ahoofe, Jr., PhDEnglish Department, SUNY-NassauGarden City, New YorkAugust 12, 2020E-mail: [email protected]

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