Firstly, let me congratulate the author of the article Mr. Kwaku Dadzie for a
brilliant and succinct analysis of this problem child call Sekou Nkrumah. It
paints a clear picture of the problem at hand for those of us who are neutral to
the situation or more importantly, don't have all the facts and have not been
paying attention to what's going on at the grassroots.

As painful and strange as it is to watch, Sekou in his twisted and hate-filled
behavior towards his elder sister is providing a platform for the Hon. Lady
Samia Yaba Nkrumah to prove to all and sundry, her mettle; strength of
character, toughness, judgment, maturity, sense of direction, commitment to the
cause, even temperament under fire; all leadership qualities she needs and is
expected of her to embark on this monumental task of party reconstruction. I'm
sure, it hasn't been easy for her to watch one's own blood brother become a
public antagonist for all to witness; I hope and believe at the end of the day
she'II develop a tough skin. But, at a great cost!

She is serving a warning to all who may be attempted to underrate or dismiss her
capabilities as a leader; they do so at their own peril. Those who engage her
in battle will quickly realize they're confronting an immovable object and a
steely spine reminiscent of her father; our great leader Osagyefo Dr. Kwame
Nkrumah. She is proving that she is worthy of the name Nkrumah; not only by
birth, but by example. Considering the insurmountable legacy of her father and
the unenviable task to follow in his footsteps; it takes great courage and guts
to undertake such a herculean task of rebuilding this fractious party of ours.
At the very least, she is unafraid to grab the bull by the horn! She is
demonstrating the uncompromising fighting spirit; like her great father, who I
believe will be filled with tears of joy and pride to call her, beating his
chest saying "this is the daughter of Kwame". By default, she has become the
Yaa Ashantiwaa of the Nkrumah clan!

In contrast, Sekou has not demonstrated or justify; he is worthy of the name
Sekou; after his father's friend and brother the Great Sekou Toure of Guinea.
President Sekou Toure was famously renowned for his loyalty and dependability to
a friend, Dr. Nkrumah. He has not displayed or demonstrated any of these traits
nor does he appear to appreciate their meaning. I wonder where he gets this
erratic behavior which is a total contrast from the two great men associated
with his life. My advice or suggestion to Sekou is to be quite, if he has
nothing constructive to contribute to the cause. Because the more he talks; the
more he demonstrates his lunatic disposition and obvious irrelevance.

Ekow B. Eburay


--- In cppnorthamerica@yahoogroups.com, Kwasi Budu <akokonini@...> wrote:
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> In every home there is the prodigal son. Saul who persecuted Christians later
became the Apostle Paul.
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> From: Abdurrahman Nelson <unification_front@...>
> To: "cppnorthamerica@yahoogroups.com" <cppnorthamerica@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 9:53 AM
> Subject: Re: [cppnorthamerica] Fw: Sekou’s anti-Samia Agenda: flawed,
malicious and plainly wrong
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>  
> If Sekou hooks up Nduom, I am going to be sick enough to throw up. Osagyero
would turn over in his grave to even think of such. It is bad enough already.
Maybe Sekou was too young to remember his father. Maybe that is his problem. He
needs to do what Samia has been doing and read some of Osagyefo's writings.
>  
> Abd.
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> From: Yaw Adu-Otu <aduotu1@...>
> To: "cppnorthamerica@yahoogroups.com" <cppnorthamerica@yahoogroups.com>
> Sent: Thursday, December 8, 2011 9:38 AM
> Subject: Re: [cppnorthamerica] Fw: Sekou’s anti-Samia Agenda: flawed,
malicious and plainly wrong
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>  
> Kweku and all:
> Good treatise:  Sekou's envy of his sister has clouded his brain matter.  He
left the CPP willingly and should stay out peacefully until somebody seeks his
contribution.  Meanwhile we are riding with Comrade Samia, willy nilly.
> Next, I expect to see Sekou campaigning for Nduom for the same reason
that Nduom campaigned for J. A. Kufuor in 2004.
>  
> If Ghana were a monarchy and Osagyefo had been a king, Sekou would have sought
to succeed his father without working for it.  In the Ghanaian instance Sekou
finds it difficult to work for power and that is tearing him apart.  I suggest
we stay away fom Sekou without giving any more esposure.
>  
> Moving forward!
>  
> Commder-in-chief of CPP fighting crabs 
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> From: Guy Mmoasem <mmoasem1965@...>
> To: cppnorthamerica@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Wednesday, December 7, 2011 3:17 PM
> Subject: [cppnorthamerica] Fw: Sekou’s anti-Samia Agenda: flawed, malicious
and plainly wrong
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> subject of interest.
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> --- On Wed, 12/7/11, Kweku Dadzie <kwekudadzie2000@...> wrote:
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> >From: Kweku Dadzie <kwekudadzie2000@...>
> >Subject: Sekou’s anti-Samia Agenda: flawed, malicious and plainly wrong
> >To: cppghana@googlegroups.com
> >Date: Wednesday, December 7, 2011, 5:05 AM
> >
> >
> >http://opinion.myjoyonline.com/pages/articles/201112/77789.php
> >Sekou’s anti-Samia Agenda: flawed, malicious and plainly wrong
> >From: Kweku Dadzie |ABLEKUMA South Youth Organiser | kwekudadzie2000@...
         Last Updated: December 7, 2011, 9:00 am
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> > Sekou Nkrumah
> > Introducing Sekou:
> >
> >Sekou Nkrumah, the brother of the Chairperson of the CPP has acquired the
unenviable reputation of a wannabe political assassin, for attacks on his sister
and his use of every opportunity to run her down in print and on electronic
media. These unwarranted and often vicious attacks which started when Samia came
to Ghana to stake a claim to a political life in Ghana, the land of their birth
have continued to this day. It is a matter of public record that Sekou stated
with confidence that Samia had no chance of winning in Jomoro and that, he has,
in a complete about turn, now referred to Jomoro as a safe seat!
> >
> >It is my view that Sekou’s views on his sister are always flawed from a
factual point of view, malicious in spirit and wrong morally. In that sense
Sekou is neither a credible political analyst nor someone who
> acts on
> principle. I will seek to illustrate his ineptitude as a political
commentator and the maliciousness of his actions. Hatred, jealousy and
misinformation cannot masquerade as political opinion. Dear reader, kindly think
of three (3) questions as we proceed: Is it possible to see Sekou as a parasite
that feeds on the success of his sister to give himself a platform? Does he
think he is wiser than the people of Jomoro and the CPP who have reposed their
confidence in Samia? And, is it not the case that his only qualification to
speak is a shared surname?
> >
> >In the latest outburst from this gentleman (Sekou) who has over the past few
years gained notoriety for his dubious political choices, he has described his
sister as politically immature and stated without any evidence that she is being
taken advantage of by certain persons in the CPP for their selfish ends.
> >
> >Prior to this, and in the period preceding the CPP Congress to elect a
Chairperson in
> September this year, Sekou gave his biased views freely to whoever was
listening. On the day she filed her nomination forms to contest the position of
Chairperson and leader, Sekou could be seen giving interviews to the press at
the CPP HQ. At every turn he gave pessimistic and dim views about Samia’s
prospects and ability to lead the CPP. This negativity continued well into the
two-day Congress that elected her Chairperson. It is perhaps unnecessary to say
that her landslide victory proved how wrong he is at analysing political trends.
In all the time he has been in Ghana, he has acquired the dubious capacity of a
political grasshopper, hopping from the CPP to the NDC, on whose ticket he was
appointed head of the National Youth Council upon the assumption of office by
the Mills administration.
> >
> >He left the NDC and started hobnobbing with the NPP’s presidential
candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo. In the kind of logic that only Sekou understands,
> readers might remember him announcing that he left the NDC so as not to be
seen as “an obstacle to her ambition and to those who are trying to revive the
CPP because my position has always been that the NDC has captured the CPP
constituency and therefore, the NDC is the biggest block to the revival of the
CPP”, his open support of the NPP flag bearer and his undermining of his
sister only show how his mind works. A better example of cheap politics would be
hard to find.
> >
> >Making common cause with Anti-Nkrumaist forces:
> >Some have described his constant sniping at and denigration of his sister
which have now assumed obsessive proportions of late, as sibling jealousy. Be
that as it may, Sekou clearly to all intents and purposes, appears to have made
common cause with those within and without the CPP who are intent on ruining his
sister’s attempts at reforming and re-organising the party. At a more
fundamental level, the campaign to
> vilify Hon Samia by Sekou and his ilk show that those behind it do not
respect her position as the Leader of the CPP and her mission �" a mission to
reconnect the party to its grassroots, instil discipline within its ranks as
well as ensure accountability and transparency, all in the process of making the
party more credible as a political force in Ghana and abroad.
> >
> >The mission of these opponents appears to be “no change, business as
usual” and anything that goes against this way of thinking is a threat to
their interests; interests that have contributed to the poor showing of the CPP
at the polls. For them it is not about the CPP or the people of Ghana. It is
just about themselves and their narrow, small-minded and selfish interests.
> >
> >Sekou’s malicious disrespect of facts and contradictory character:
> >In a recent press interview on November 2011, he alleged that the delay in
going to Congress to elect the party’s flag
> bearer was due to the presidential ambitions her sister, Hon Samia, was
harbouring for 2016. This is patently false as well as misleading, as the party
has made it clear that organisational and logistical considerations precluded an
immediate holding of election of the flag bearer so soon after the national
executive was elected. Various interpretations had been put on constitutional
provisions regarding the date for the holding of the congress to elect the flag
bearer. The fact however is that the coming into being of the new constitution
was not preceded by transitional provisions to clarify when to hold congress.
Sekou’s assertions are therefore false and Hon Samia has made it very clear
that she has no presidential ambitions for 2016, so one wonders where Sekou has
his information from, if his claim to the contrary is to be taken seriously.
> >
> >What is very clear from these outbursts is that Sekou Nkrumah has little or
no respect for his
> sister, her political choices and her democratic right, not only to air her
views, but also act on them. This is very strange coming from a man whose sister
has to date never said a bad word about him in public, stating, anytime she has
been asked, that family matters should remain family matters, thereby
demonstrating not only her sisterly love but a great sense of maturity. She is
not the one for loose talk and many were those who waited with bated breath as
she rode the recent storm of insults and attacks on her in public. Talk is cheap
and it is very easy for people to call on her to exercise restraint in the face
of such attacks and expect her not to respond. But respond she did this time.
> >
> >The absurdity of Sekou’s depiction of her as immature is all the more
evident in the light of her measured riposte to her detractors. It has to be
stated in no uncertain terms that Hon Ms Samia Yaba Nkrumah has her own mind and
nothing and nobody can
> change her mind when it is made up. Not even Sekou, her younger brother, can
deny her the right to make her own decisions and stick to them. The fact that
Hon Samia is his sister does not make him privy to any of her plans. Since Sekou
is neither her advisor nor calls her to discuss politics one can only assume
that his views about her plans are all imaginary and based on falsehood. And,
that any authority he claims is because of their shared parentage. In any case,
she would be imprudent to trust her thoughts and plans to an obviously unstable
personality like Sekou.
> >
> >Samia the Leader:
> >In sharp contrast to her brother, Samia has remained faithful to the
Nkrumaist vision and pledged her life toward its realisation. This is remarkable
given the fact that she had lived outside Ghana for long stretches of time and
could have chosen not to return home, let alone embark on a political career.
She has succeeded in being elected a member of
> parliament for Jomoro and is now Chairperson of the CPP and is the first
woman in Ghanaian history to lead a political party. She has chosen to be in the
CPP and nowhere else as a matter of principle. Sekou would therefore do himself
a world of good to take a leaf from her example and state what his political
views are and act on them instead of continually sniping at her from the
sidelines.
> >
> >Hon Samia Nkrumah, as MP, has initiated and overseen the completion of
several projects to her name in her Jomorro constituency. As head of the
National Youth Council, Sekou Nkrumah does not appear to have any initiative,
concept or programme as a lasting monument to his name. Again neither at Legon
where he worked, nor at the Du Bois Centre did he particularly make an
impression.
> >
> >Sekou should also have known better than to claim that her entry into
parliament was due to the fact that she was the daughter of Osagyefo Kwame
Nkrumah. As those who
> accompanied Samia throughout the campaign would confirm, Hon Samia Nkrumah
came against the formidable personality of Hon Lee Ocran, the sitting MP (NDC)
as well as the sitting District Chief Executive (NPP). She won a hard fought
election that also saw her poll the highest percentage of CPP votes. She just
did not turn up with the message “Please vote for me, I am Kwame Nkrumah’s
daughter.” She won by the force of argument and political strategy.
> >
> >Beware of Sekou:
> >Samia’s record speaks for itself and those who, out of political
expediency, want to latch on to the vile rants of a man whose life story is
riddled with instability and controversy had better advise themselves. The man
is a loose cannon with a loose tongue and those who think he is serving their
interest now better beware; they could be the next victim of his unbridled
tongue. The neutrals in this should also see Sekou for what he is: a disgruntled
man who seeks fame
> by attacking his sister and an unwitting agent in the bid to derail the
revival of the CPP which his sister so magnificently represents. May the good
people of Ghana ignore this attempt at political assassination and let us all
support the possibility of another force in Ghanaian politics. Good luck Hon
Samia Yaba Nkrumah, don’t mind Sekou!
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