2023 Martin A. B. K. Amidu 2023 Martin A. B. K. Amidu

LGBTQ+ AS AN INSTRUMENT OF POLITICAL ELECTIONEERING IN GHANA

The NDC and the NPP appear to be so invested in their opposing positions and the desire to use the dynamics of gay rights to win political power that they have not stopped to think about the consequences of their actions to the sustenance of constitutionalism, democracy, and the rule of law. The elders in the room who could have sought a compromise appear to have taken sides leading to both sides engaging in a dialogue of the deaf.

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2023 Martin A. B. K. Amidu 2023 Martin A. B. K. Amidu

TO AVOID POLITICAL SUICIDE, NANA AKUFO-ADDO WILL NOT ASSENT TO THE LGBTQ+BILL

“Self-preservation is the first law of nature”, and it would be political suicide for Nana Akufo-Addo to assent to the LGBTQ+ Bill being passed by Parliament into law. Nana Akufo-Addo’s long game, the aura he has built around himself as a democrat in the Western tradition, and all the ingratiation efforts he has invested in, will come to nought should he assent to the Bill upon passage. The fact that other citizens knew the difficulty the Bill was going to face when it got to the desk of the President was articulated by no less a person than Minority Leader Ato Forson.

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