Today, 13th November 2023, I write in the interest of all citizens and our beloved nation Ghana, as the Referee in the Ghanaian Political space to bring peace, unity and tolerance and sensitize the political arena and throughout media with good practices. True democracy ensures full participation of all citizens without entertaining any dominance nor minority; true democracy stands to respect and give a voice to all citizens irrespective of their religion or ethnic background. After the election of the flagbearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party, I realized throughout last week that people were engaging in baseless, needless and unpatriotic argument with regards to H. E. Bawumia’s ability to win the Presidency as a Muslim. I have been waiting for such individuals to end the conversation, and since they are not, I decided to whistle for foul against such unpatriotic, needless and unprogressive conversations. Listen, Politics should be based on constructive argument, void of abusive words and geared towards the progress of all citizens. Have we forgotten, Great Ghanaian People? Have we forgotten how such unbridled conversation have destroyed the hope and aspiration of many nations? Have we forgotten how unpatriotic religious and ethnic discourse have trashed the dreams of many citizens in Balkans, Chechnya, Iraq, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Darfur, as well as in certain parts of Nigeria. Do I need to educate you? Some empirical studies have shown that thousands of Nigerians have been left dead, wounded and homeless over the years due to constant religious strife pitting people of different religions against each other (Okpanachi 2010); Is this what we want? I believe its absolutely no for any normal Ghanaian citizen. As the Referee in the Ghanaian political space, I would like to offer relevant vision pathways to both National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP). Now, I realized from my 10 hours research on Saturday, 11th November 2023 that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has one of the best Internationally accepted themes for Election 2024. Unfortunately, they are not talking about it. What is this theme? THE FUTURE WE WANT. THE FUTURE WE WANT was first adopted during the RIO +20 Conference which acknowledged the need to transition to a Sustainable and Inclusive Green Economy. The Sustainable and Inclusive Green Economy concept can be seen as a tool to implement sustainable development in which the environment-economy equation is solved through a focus on new opportunities. THE FUTURE WE WANT as a theme, coiled from Sustainable Inclusive Green Economy comes with a lot of opportunities including low carbon, efficient and clean in production, but also inclusive in consumption and outcomes, based on sharing, circularity, collaboration, solidarity, resilience, opportunity and interdependence. Gladly, all markets globally are shifting towards environmentally friendly goods and services.

1. CONSTRUCTIVE ARGUMENT AND NEITHER NOT
RELIGION NOR ETHNICITY
Today, 13th
November 2023, I write in the interest of all citizens and our beloved nation
Ghana, as the Referee in the Ghanaian Political space to bring peace, unity and tolerance
and sensitize the political arena and throughout media with good practices. True democracy
ensures full participation of all citizens without entertaining any dominance nor minority;
true democracy stands to respect and give a voice to all citizens irrespective of their religion
or ethnic background.
After the election of the flagbearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party, I realized throughout
last week that people were engaging in baseless, needless and unpatriotic argument with
regards to H. E. Bawumia’s ability to win the Presidency as a Muslim. I have been waiting
for such individuals to end the conversation, and since they are not, I decided to whistle for
foul against such unpatriotic, needless and unprogressive conversations. Listen, Politics
should be based on constructive argument, void of abusive words and geared towards the
progress of all citizens.
Have we forgotten, Great Ghanaian People? Have we forgotten how such unbridled
conversation have destroyed the hope and aspiration of many nations? Have we forgotten
how unpatriotic religious and ethnic discourse have trashed the dreams of many citizens in
Balkans, Chechnya, Iraq, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and Darfur, as well as in certain parts of
Nigeria. Do I need to educate you? Some empirical studies have shown that thousands of
Nigerians have been left dead, wounded and homeless over the years due to constant
religious strife pitting people of different religions against each other (Okpanachi 2010); Is
this what we want? I believe its absolutely no for any normal Ghanaian citizen.
As the Referee in the Ghanaian political space, I would like to offer relevant vision
pathways to both National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party
(NPP).
Now, I realized from my 10 hours research on Saturday, 11th
November 2023 that the
National Democratic Congress (NDC) has one of the best Internationally accepted themes
for Election 2024. Unfortunately, they are not talking about it. What is this theme? THE
FUTURE WE WANT. THE FUTURE WE WANT was first adopted during the RIO
+20 Conference which acknowledged the need to transition to a Sustainable and Inclusive
Green Economy. The Sustainable and Inclusive Green Economy concept can be seen as a
tool to implement sustainable development in which the environment-economy equation is

2. solved through a focus on new opportunities. THE FUTURE WE WANT as a theme,
coiled from Sustainable Inclusive Green Economy comes with a lot of opportunities
including low carbon, efficient and clean in production, but also inclusive in consumption
and outcomes, based on sharing, circularity, collaboration, solidarity, resilience,
opportunity and interdependence. Gladly, all markets globally are shifting towards
environmentally friendly goods and services. The good news for the National Democratic
Congress is that even the least developed countries stand to benefit from the global value
chain of this green economy by specializing in a niche within the value chain without
building an industry from scratch.
Moreover, for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), they are fortunate to be the government in
power and therefore can mobilize resources, both capital and labour to aid them in Election
2024. Why do you keep turning your back, when you are on the lead? Why do you
unnecessarily spend all your time trying to answer the opposition party when you have a
country to run? And this should certainly be left for Party Communicators. Rather, the
leadership of the New Patriotic Party through the Executive Arm of Government should
consistently call for peace and unity among its people and empower the Members of
Parliaments to work diligently in their constituency in order for the party to earn a good
name come Election 2024. The people are undoubtedly going to vote based on their current
situations, and if there are no changes in their situations, then you don’t expect any vote
from them. So, empower the Members of Parliament to tolerate, focus and diligently work
with the people under the theme, “WORKING FOR GHANA FOR ITS
ADVANCEMENT”. This certainly requires an action plan and a lot of hard work and you
can do it so start.
All said and done, I would like to reiterate the need for constructive arguments in the
Ghanaian political space and not neither religion nor ethnicity as this will promote peace,
unity, tolerance and promote the progress of our beloved nation.
May God bless our beloved nation, Ghana and make us great and strong.
SIGNED
SIR SUCCESS PRINCE DUAH MENSAH
POLITICAL REFEREE AND PRESIDENT, PEACE OVER EVERYTHING
MOVEMENT
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, SUSTAINABLE INCLUSIVE GREEN ECONOMY
FOUNDER AND DIRECTOR, LEADERS APPRECIATION FORUM