Re: The hypocrisy of Gabby & the NPP
I read with a genuine but small dose of angst an article by
one Gameli Hoedoafia of Croydon, Surrey, UK (togbegh@gmail.com),
titled: RE: Does Ghana need to buy 5 aircraft now? The
hypocrisy of Gabby & the NPP.
May I restrict this rejoinder to the first couple of
paragraphs of his piece as reproduced below:
He wrote, “I read with angst Gabby’s submissions in his
article of the 25th of July which was published on the 26th
July. Gabby’s attempt to present himself and the Danquah
Institute as a respectable non-aligned voice of reason was
frankly pathetic. We all know that Gabby and the Danquah
institute are nothing like the paragraph below asserts, but
underscores the cacophony in his and the NPP submissions:
“Otchere Darko; [This writer, {who is not the same as
Gabby Otchere_Darko} is a centrist, semi-liberalist,
pragmatist, and an advocate for “inter-ethnic cooperation
and unity”. He is an anti-corruption campaigner and a
community-based development protagonist. He opposes the
negative, corrupt, and domineering politics of NDC and NPP
and actively campaigns for the development and strengthening
of “third parties”. He is against “a two-party only” system
of democracy {in Ghana}....... which, in practice, is what
we have today.”]
One would have thought that the concluding details of the
author of the original article which sparked off Mr
Hoedoafia’s rejoinder were clear enough on the identity of
the writer. The writer, who goes by the name Otchere Darko,
had (as it is usual with all his articles) gone to extra
lengths to show that he IS NOT Asare “Gabby” Otchere-Darko.
I wish to tell Mr Hoedoafia that I do not hold any
antonymous right to the name Otchere Darko. I have no
exclusive proprietary entitlement to a name which my dad (Dr
Joseph Felix Otchere-Darko) gave me and my other siblings,
which we have also passed on to our children. Not even my
dad can claim autochthonous ownership to that name.
The writer, who signs off as Otchere Darko, a centrist,
semi-liberalist, etc, advocating for a third party in Ghana,
is a regular contributor to current affairs issues in Ghana,
who always signs of with that detailed description of who he
is. He signs off with Otchere as his first name, presumably,
and certainly, not Gabby.
Mr Hoedoafia has every right to criticize me, whether fairly
or unfairly, so long as he is expressing his own opinion,
whether informed or not. But, I plead with him to try next
time to refrain from giving me credit for opinions I have
not expressed only to use that as a basis to give his
opinion about me.
Asare Otchere-Darko, aka Gabby.
gabby@danquahinstitute.org
