Okay so Edwinology's Lab was gonna continue and concentrate on the revelations at the ongoing World Cup Presidential Inquiry and also show why FIFA ought to just shut up and let Ghana do our thing.

And then there is a response-in-waiting to the NDC's response to Otabil's response to the state of the nation christened "the sinking ship".

Pretty, juicy stuff....juicy stuff....until this happened

Mayhem at NPP HQ; machete wielding guards clash with angry youth

Violent protests by some aggrieved supporters of the opposition New Patriotic Party has disrupted a press conference called by the party's National Chairman and General Secretary.

The Headquarters of the NPP was the scene of mayhem and violent confrontation between different factions of the party.

Some supporters of the party besieged the headquarters threatening to attack the party chairman Paul Afoko and General Secretary Kwabena Agyapong.

 

So by this singular self-inflicting, self-destructing act, the greatest political diversion since the 2014 World Cup has been created.

Sorry. We have to suspend a shot at the sinking ship called Ghana to focus on a sinking rescue boat called the NPP.

Okay so how do we deal with this? How do we proceed? Well, why not start with the Lord's Prayer?

Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy Name, 
thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. 
Give us this day our daily bread. 
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those  who trespass against us. 
And lead us not into temptation,     but deliver us from evil. 
For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, 
for ever and ever. Amen.

[Breath oooouuuuttt]

Okay now let's do this.

Look - Paul Afoko can kiss his New Power Plan goodbye. Yes, he campaigned on it. Yes he got voted for it but No.No. No. A big No.

Open rebellion, thuggery, an obesession for vituperative responses and counter-responses, a social media war is not a power plan. It is a bride price you pay to marry defeat in 2016.

CPP is tackling GMOs, PNC has gone to court over voter's registration exercise, PPP has organised two anti-corruption demonstrations. Even Akua Donkor attended the National Economic Dialogue to air her views - and sleep in the air-conditioned conference room or so we heard.

Without a single, sensitive, solid cause to champion in Ghana, the NPP remains the laziest political party in 2014.

Everybody else is doing hard work.

See - An energized Ghanaian mass have began taking political responsibility than ever before.  

There is the unprecedented Occupy Flagstaff House -  taking the fight to President Mahama.

There is the TUC nationwide protest - taking their rights to Mahama.

Moody's downgrading of the economy twice is - taking its international might to Mahama

And Mahama faced 13 demonstrations and strikes in 2013 - strikes were like his salary. Once every month and with payment for overtime.

We have even been asked to exchange our National Friday Wear  for a National Red Day wear to mark our protest against bad governance.

Otabil's intended motivational message has had an unintended effect of provoking national discussion on Ghana's "sinking ship".

Even the President is doing something to help you guys. See the cash flight to Brazil, the fuel shortages, the power crisis, the mediocre appointments - everything to help you go get 'em.

It gets worse - Nature is guilty of contributing to Mahama's mess by withholding rains from where it is needed - the Akosombo Hydroelectric Dam - and unleashing it where it is most dreaded filth- fitting Accra - causing in its wake, a cholera epidemic unseen in recent times.

And all you guys have to do is to just - just - just, stay together, hug each other, anything, anything except this Sulley Muntari-style of settling differences.

But look at what you have done? Pissing all over the place just days after Spio Garbrah apologised for pissing out in 2007.

You guys said teenage girls don't need government to provide sanitary pads to help them go to school. Well, guess what?

You guys need diapers. Definitely. You need diapers to keep your 'pee' on yourself and out of every one's face.

Here is the thing: If a political party is like a business or say the Korle-Bu Teaching Hospital, the Chairman is like the head of the governing board, his vice-chairmen are board members and the General Secretary is like the CEO.

The responsibility of the board is to have a vision, sell a vision and focus on the big picture, while the General Secretary drives the mission of the organisation through administrative decision making.

So you got it right. There is a vision - called the New Power Plan.  And see - you guys really need a plan - and your power plan really has to be new because the NPP can never win an election on its own without a strategy to rope in minor support bases. Mahama will pay fees for every school kid in Ghana next year even if he has to abduct the IMF boss at gun point and order her to release funds.

Here is what you guys have done and are doing. The chairmen have abandoned the big picture and are interested in micromanaging the General Secretary - micromanaging the mission while the vision is on auto-pilot.

Now just tell me what is most likely, if the plane is on auto-pilot and the pilot and his co-pilot are discussing with air hostess on how to share drinks to passengers.

Yes. Crash. That's the same thing that happened on Otabil's reference to the Titanic.

You guys are even getting the public to understand your party constitution so much more and better than the NCCE has taught us about the 1992 constitution.

Emphasizing consultations here and there.

Look- Democracy is not a fetish priest in a village shrine where you go to consult every time your goat goes astray. No. Somebody must make hard choices, take difficult decisions and people must despite their misgivings or even opinions give you the lee way to execute your plan because they trust you - according to the last congress.

But no. Not the NPP.

Paul Afoko is inviting the general public to interrogate the issues at stake and judge who is right - they or the thugs. We are being asked to look into the sacking of Perry Okudzeto and Opare Hammond.

Paul, you know what?

Nobody gives a damn whether Perry is a cherry or a cheerleader. We won't even text short code  651 to find out who Opare Hammond is, even if MTN, Airtel, Vodafone provided the service for free.

And you know why?

The same reason why nobody gives a damn if your wife called you 'honey' or 'carrot' last night - because - wait for it - it is none of our business!

We are already having problems memorising the names of the deputy ministers for Health, Transport, Lands and Natural resources - and virtually half of the President's appointments.

So you can shred your New Power Plan and take this one, cause right now, the NPP is simply Not Prepared for Power.