The world is watching the events in Niger as the military junta continues to hold on to power. The West African nation earlier this week witnessed an upheaval as the military overturned the democratically elected government and replaced it with a military one. The Economic Community of West African States in response have condemned the coup in Niger. They have also sent a strong response that they are willing to send an armed group to Niger to help restore the previous government.
Kwesi Pratt, managing editor of the Insight newspaper while reacting this the trend of coups in West Africa blamed African leaders for acting arbitrarily and leaving their people to wallow in poverty. He noted that some leaders have changed their constitutions so as to hang on to power and this leaves no option but for a coup to happen.
Kwesi Pratt shifted his attention and cited an example with Mahamudu Bawumia. According to Kwesi Pratt, Bawumia joined the NPP in 2008 and thus is not rooted enough to contest as flagbearer. He questioned the moral right Bawumia had to be telling others to leave the party if they are unhappy about certain things happening.
Kwesi Pratt boldly stated that with Bawumia' s utterances in calling for unsatisfied candidates to leave the party, he is only inviting a coup in the NPP. He noted that some aspirants who have served the party for long might take offense and rebel against the party by forming their own parties to contest the NPP. Kwesi Pratt called on Bawumia to tone down on some of his comments because there are others within the party who have more influence and have served more than him.
Kwesi maintained that the selfish desires of certain individuals are the biggest cause of coups. Bawumia will come up against 9 other candidates in the upcoming NPP mini congress. The congress seeks to prune down the number of flagbearer aspirants from 10 to 5.
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