Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia keeps winning the heart of the nation with honesty and intellect again and again, by redefining how politics can and should be done in Africa. His composure, intellect, and honesty are gradually polishing the rough edges of Ghana’s political culture, setting an example that could inspire generations to come.
There is something refreshing about a politician who thinks before he talks, reasons before he reacts, and admits faults before the public forces him to. In a political climate where apology is mistaken for weakness, Bawumia’s humility stands tall a moral giant among noisy pygmies. He continues to demonstrate that rare blend of intelligence, sincerity, and humanity that many politicians lack. Indeed, Dr. Bawumia’s got it all.
His recent reflections on the factors that caused the NPP’s decline revealed not just deep insight but genuine accountability. When he dissected the policies that led to the party’s fall from grace, it became clear why he chose to apologize to the nation for the government’s missteps. In explaining those self-inflicted wounds, Bawumia spoke not as an opulent economist or an arrogant strategist, but as a humble servant seeking honest peace with himself, with God, and with the Ghanaian conscience. He spoke truth to his own record and that alone separates him from the usual political chorus line of blame-shifting saints and convenient forgetters.
In stark contrast stands the “Hypo-Hypo Hypocrite” Kennedy Agyapong, who continues to bark at the very party that made him and his family wealthy. When a man bites the hand that fed him, he must be ready to chew his own fingers next. While his wife and associates enjoyed appointments and contracts under the same regime, he now postures as an outsider with no apologies to offer.
Kennedy claims he owes no apology to Ghanaians, perhaps because he believes shouting is a substitute for sincerity. His self-anointed role as a “truth-teller” has made him the nation’s loudest alarm clock, ringing endlessly yet waking no one but himself. His hypocrisy would be laughable if it weren’t so tragic.
Dr. Bawumia, on the other hand, is proving that politics need not be a theatre of arrogance. His calm reasoning and honest confessions are rare acts of statesmanship in a time when deceit is marketed as boldness. He has chosen the path of truth — not because it is fashionable, but because it is right.
In this season of political noise, Ghana needs fewer barkers and more thinkers.
By Venerable Nathaniel Nartey
