On Christmas Day I went to Legon in the supreme interest of journalistic research: I wanted to check on those flags and posters that had commanded pride of place at the campus environs in the run-up to the NPP congress. I just couldn't resist the temptation to take a final look at the massed ranks of posters at the gate and along the university's main routes. It is unlikely that there will ever be so many political streamers and garlands squeezed in such a confined space, and in any case, never in the history of the human race have so much decoration rewarded so few. I had hoped that in typical Ghana style, the posters will be where they were planted for at least one week until the weather and other elemental forces took their toll. So, armed with my camera I headed for the university. Sad to report, there was not much left to admire or even observe. Ironically, the only giant poster still on its feet, albeit leaning askew, belongs to ex-aspirant, Dr Arthur Kennedy, the man who has secured his place in our country's political history by securing one single vote in his party's primary. Here and there stood smaller posters of Alan Cash, Oyeadeeyie, and "Apparatchiki", who obviously was the darling of the rank and file. There was a big papier-mache animal, presumably an elephant, still standing in the Volta Hall roundabout, otherwise the campus of the University of Ghana at Legon had been reclaimed for the purpose for which it was set up. This was by courtesy to Zoom Lion, which had sent in its Charge of the Light Brigade to do battle on the detritus of war. I got out of the car to take a closer look at a rubbish pile near Commonwealth Hall, which had been declared the legal limit for unauthorised persons during the congress. Two torn posters lay one on the other like fallen comrades in a death embrace. They belonged to Vice-President Alhaji Aliu Mahama and Mr Dan Botwe. As I looked at those posters, it occurred to me that this was an existential moment pregnant with meaning. The NPP congress resembled the year 2007; they both promised much but delivered little. The year 2007 was the Golden Jubilee of Ghana's independence and was rightfully signposted as a significant moment in the country's history. The fact that it was happening at a moment of settled consensus on our governance structures was seen as favourable for the country. All previous significant anniversaries had come during military regimes except the 40th in 1997 which happened under the NDC. A Planning Committee was announced for the Jubilee, which ran into immediate predictable trouble for not having representatives nominated by other political parties. Despite being reminded that the 40th anniversary was not organised by an all-party committee, one NDC radio panellist said that they would have done it differently now if his party was in power. Logic and politics apparently are not bedfellows. After the committee was formed money was secured for it to do its work. There was a lot of agitation at the fact that 20 million US dollars was going to be spent on the Jubilee. Many people suggested other very useful things that we could buy for that amount. The government argued that the Jubilee was not a one-off affair and that it would leave infrastructure in its wake. Pro-government commentators also pointed out that the Jubilee was going to provide the nation with valuable intangible assets such as national identity, pride in our heritage and a conscious melding of our multiform cultures into one underscored by unity in diVersity.