Kids. A stage for great times if you ask me. Remember how those days you just sat in the hall and build something - anything - with cassettes or books or coca-cola corks.

Then just as you smile at your handy work as the corks take some shape - another kid comes to knock off a small part of the infrastructure, sending oFf parts tumbling down and spreading out into different directions. All your hardwork is gone.

Yeah. We did that when we were kids.

Apparently grown-ups play the game today too. And where is the playground this time? In politics.

CPP Vice Chairpersons accuse 'autocratic' Samia of abusing her office

"Three Vice Chairpersons of the Convention People's Party (CPP) have written a strongly worded petition to the party's Council of Elders with complains about a leadership crisis which they blame on National Chairperson, Samia Nkrumah.

They accuse Madam Nkrumah of creating personal structures to stifle consultation and feed her bid to contest the 2016 presidential elections.

The letter signed by Susan Adu Amankwah, Rodaline Ayarna and Kweku Oteng Anane argues that the decision by Samia Nkrumah to create a Consultative Committee of Chairmen has taken away any form of consultation with elected leadership of the party.

They accused Madam Nkrumah of autocratic leadership which they claim has led to widespread apathy with no sense of direction in the party.

According to them, the primary source of this leadership crisis is the Chairperson's autocratic leadership style, compounded by her blatant disregard of the opinions of elected leadership. She rather chooses to seek counsel from non elected advisors who run affairs of the party, the vice chairpersons noted.

They said the Chairman is sidelining elected leadership in order to nurse her ambition to become the party's flagbearer in 2016. They also accuse Madam Nkrumah of using her position to solicit for funds for her upkeep since she does not have a paying job." (posted on myjoyonline.com)

Ordinarily, Edwinology's Lab shouldn't be bothered. But I have watched the 1992 award-winning movie, 'A Few Good Men' - and methink, there are too few women in Ghana politics and even much more fewer good women doing politics with conscience.

Samia Yaba Nkrumah has been building her party, CPP, in the most expensive way possible - rallying behind critical issues and fighting social causes that appear too hard or inconvenient for the New Patriotic Party, National Democratic Congress and Peoples National Convention.

The cheaper way to build visibility for the party would be descending in the gutters and grabbing the headlines with vituperative attacks on Mahama's men.

She would have made faster inroads. But she hasn't.

The 'dictator's' record

The CPP is the only party right now with a clear statement on the Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA). And you probably didn't hear of it because in the mainstream media it is only what NPP accuses or what NDC defends that is heard.

The CPP is the only party picking up the fight to rid Ghana of any bill to introduce Genetically Modified foods. Gene-what? Yeah. Not the kind of issues political parties would be interested in, when there is a whole President John Mahama to insult or demean.

She is pushing government and arousing the conscience of the nation against Genetically Modified foods (GM foods). Something contained in the Plant Breeders Bill before parliament which will change your understanding of healthy foods for good. The bill questions God by literally asking what he may have meant when He said "God created everything and said it was good".

Why not make them better by inserting some genes?, GMO activists are insisting.

Collaborating with Coalition For Farmers' Rights Against GMOs, Rastafarian Council and an aggressive social media foot soldiers, Samia and her CPP youths are screaming to get an anti-GMO cause noticed.

She has been to Kaneshie and Madina markets bearing out her soul to the women that something terrible is about to happen to the foods they sell. And oh yes - she is struggling with her Egyptian/Italian English accent to get the local women on board.

The CPP and its youth led by Samia are talking to Rastafarians about GMO. Hanging out with them to get their involvement any way they can. And the CPP has forced media attention on GMOs and forced parliament to hold on to its passage.

A small victory for a so-called small party. Side by side, these activists are weary but hopeful, patting themselves in the back for the little victory as they ready themselves for another onslaught against GMOs.

She is building a party on causes, virtue and conscience.

Until three adults decided to kick off the blocks, mess up the hardwork and distract the woman, energize an already negative media against the CPP. Time to focus on pettiness.

"The letter signed by Susan Adu Amankwah, Rodaline Ayarna and Kweku Oteng Anane argues that the decision by Samia Nkrumah to create a Consultative Committee of Chairmen has taken away any form of consultation with elected leadership of the party.

They accuse Madam Nkrumah of creating personal structures to stifle consultation and feed her bid to contest the 2016 presidential elections".

Creating personal structures to stifle consultation?

What's that? Who is that? Oh teacher me! me! me! me!

"Oh teacher...I have personal structures on my phone, it is called my personal contacts of my party chairmen and I call them when I want to take an important decision". Is this how they understand "personal structures"?

Of all the ways you can define a dictator, three people within the CPP want us to understand that a dictator is somebody who consults everybody else but them.

Without any evidence only a permit for wordiness, the trio have managed to take some attention from the GMO crusade to the crusader.

If consulting everybody except them is dictatorship, consulting them and not everybody else becomes what? genocide?

Guys, come on. come on. Really, come on.

According to the CPP's constitution, the three vice-persons are to take instructions from the chairperson.

Instructions? Now that's an interesting word.

When it comes from a teacher, it's called training. When it comes from a parent, it's called loving discipline. When it comes from a coach it's called tactics - but when it comes from Samia, it's called ......dictatorship?

Bizzare. Very bizzare.

Calling Samia a dictator is like calling Ghana Black Stars manager Kwesi Appiah a proud, egoistic coach.

Following the GMO crusade has got me following Samia and her CPP youths to several places. Even places where I haven't dreamed of going to share the gospel. And in all these places, you will not see any of the mutineers.

Here is what you will see -  the meekness of one of the most-underrated leaders of our time. A personal sincere that makes up for her lack of political flair. An authenticity in her hopes to build an independent party.

Samia's meekness is her weakness. Meekness - according to Jesus, those who personify this trait shall inherit the kingdom of God. But according to our politics, the meek will never win elections. But they are exactly what we need especially when Joseph Yamin's recent comments are played back to you.

It's one thing to say your Chairperson doesn't have a paying job. But to conclude that the lack of a paying job means she is using your party to buy food is @!@@#$%$<)*^%???? - wicked.

Samia's integrity

Okay so Samia can't buy food anymore because she has no job. The IEA can confirm that Samia is the only politician who doesn't take her per diem after high-profile political leaders meet to discuss political and governance issues.

Her unemployment explains why she was at Circle in Accra with the youth for a blood donation exercise and at UCC to educate students over GMOs. And it perhaps explains why she was at everywhere else Suzanne, Rodaline and Oteng are not.

Dr. Tony Aidoo's biggest axe with political parties in Ghana is that they have taken the word  'party' in the phrase political party too literally. So their meetings are often cacophonic chasing after a candidate with placards or chasing the government with angry demonstrations.

No policy discussion. No position on anything. No depth. For the CPP to attempt to drive a very non-partisan agenda, pretty heavy intellectual GMO stuff or EPA matters is responsible opposition.

These issues may not be frontline 2016 electoral matters but for a leader of any party such as the CPP to pick this up confirms, we have a lady who is about people not politics.

For the three wise mutineers, our worst fears have been confirmed - For politicians it is always about the next elections but not  the next generation.

If we are to judge people by their actions, which we should, then Samia has been to University of Cape Coast, Kaneshie, Madina markets on GMOs. She was even at the wedding of one-time National Youth Organiser Kwabena Bomfeh Kabila.

And the trio who find their rebellion legitimate have been to......?????????????.

Oh yeah. Sitting behind their desk to write that press statement.