Love at Second Sight — A Tale of Lust and Love and Crime

Image

Prior Warning to the Reader

Dear reader,

Satan’s Seductress–actual title of the piece–is a narrative containing graphic scenes, some of which are extremely pornographic. While not strictly a sex tale, it contains a few paragraphs with such scenes.

Readers who are extremely religious or preoccupied with protecting their emotions are, therefore, advised not to read. It’s a love tale with a sexual tinge.

You were warned.

It’s self-edited, hence, any grammatical error, typo, or wrong sentence structuring, if not knowingly done for narrative effect, can be laid at my doorstep.

Here’s to your reading pleasure, anyway.

I remain,

S. Stanley.


Prologue

They were asking questions upon questions, gradually and craftily, leading me to the point of voluntary confession. I almost did. I held out, however. I was chief suspect in the case, but nobody caught me with bloodied hands, and no one was going to cull out a confession from my lips. I was innocent until proven guilty. But the two thaw-faced police detectives were doing a damn good job at it, and I had to calm myself from within and not let the apprehension and tension become evident on my face. Hell! They were after evidences.

“You said the quarrels between you and the deceased were just girlish banters, Miss. Coldhart?” the more handsome of the two resumed.

“Indeed,” said I.

“How came you both once exchanging slaps then?”

“Things boiled over at the time,” said I.

“And spilled onto the bathroom floor?” the less handsome detective jumped in. How I wished I could have grabbed his thick neck and strangle it like I did that bitch of a girl. She was a boyfriend snatcher, and the ugly-faced detective looked like a brother of hers. He was driving me nuts with his unorthodox attempt to force a confession out of me.

I, nevertheless, maintained my cool and remained silent. If he was trying to take my innocent answer to a question, furnish it with a parochial but pretty continuation, and connect it to the murder in an allusion to the blots of blood found on the bathroom floor then he was in for a game. I wasn’t budging. Not in a million years.

That girl was stupid enough to fall onto pieces of broken mirror on the bathroom floor as she swooned into the ever ready arms of death. Curse her.

“And spilled onto the bathroom floor?” he really repeated the question, big-headed at his flash-in-the—pan witticism and clever questioning. How I wished I had a lawyer around to lecture him on the inappropriateness of asking such prejudicial questions when interrogating a mere suspect. Yes, a mere suspect. I didn’t do it. I am innocent until proven guilty. Keep that in mind.

“Answer the question, Miss. Coldhart,” the handsome one said with a handsome smile.

“I am unable to answer,” said I.

The ugly cop flashed an ugly smile, perused his writing pad, and came up with the deadliest question of all—one I wasn’t prepared for. He knew it. Curse him.

I remained silent, thinking fast and furious. Hell. For the first time in my life, I wished that I had never felt anything for Peter. I wished that I had never laid eyes on Peter Hectorelite.

Love at Second Sight

When he first ambled into my class, Peter Hectorelite was dressed in a greenish dark shirt of sleeves short, which rested gracefully on his chiseled frame. A deep, black pantaloon clothed his not too short legs, also, and hanged above a pair of tanned shoes. He was to be our new Biology teacher in place of Mr. Karim Kroma, who passed away three weeks earlier. He introduced himself, and listened to the class as we, in turns, sang out our names.

Appraising his physique, I rated him as the most sinfully handsome chalk-pusher I ever laid eyes on. Wasn’t feeling anything for him, however. Yet, I didn’t, at the time, begrudged his having a sort of manly aura and facial firmness, which could move a woman’s heart and cause her to burst out in admiring applause. He had it. Good looks.

The second time I beheld him, I fell in love. Believe it or not.  It started with a sudden surge in my heart rate, which gradually inflamed my blood, causing pleasurable warmth I never experienced before in me. I felt hot and humid down there. It was the real thing. Love.

I, Nymphia Coldhart, was in love—an emotion altogether alien to me; sugar I never sampled before. Never knew such fire existed. I was smitten. I was vanquished. Sir Peter stood tall and strong—in dazzling aura—a knight in shining armour. I was in love with him and fantasized about it.  Making sure no other student was likely to look in my direction, with all their attentions riveted on Sir Peter, I slid an arm down my dress, in between my thighs, stuck the three middle fingers together, pulled aside my panties, and expertly crammed them in and out, all the while, imagining that the new Biology teacher was making passionate love to me.

Of course, I had never been in love, but, with enough sexual experiences between my thighs, I considered Sir. Peter the perfect male any horny slut could fall in love with at last. Ah.

Those muscular arms of his closing around me in an amorous hug, and his lips searching for and worshipping every sweet spot of my body while his turgid manhood pushes against my pelvic area became a dream deeply desired. Imagine the pain, the pleasure, and the glory. Rough, rocking, rude sex effected by amore. Glorious sandwiching in a candle-lighted room—heaven on earth, paradise in the throng of pleasure; I craved it!

To make myself conspicuous I asked a question.

“Sir,” said I.

“Yes?”

“Where do you come from, please? Seems as if I’ve seen you somewhere before.”

“Well,” he said, “I used to live in Ho before I came here.”

‘Oh, then it must have been somebody else who looked like you,” I said and rolled my eyes at him. He spoke and taught in a deep, rich voice, which reverberated round and round the room. His voice was music to my ears—authoritative, clear and loud, and pleasing to listen to. I imagined how it’ll boom in a bedroom while he was in the throngs of pleasure.

His was the last lesson of the day, and I stalked him as soon as he stepped out of the class.

I maintained a cautious distance until we reached the Methodist Estates, which housed a church, a mission school, a hospital, a morgue, and a number of bungalows and apartments for rent. He entered, and I followed.

“Sir,” I called out in my most melodious intonation.

He stopped. He turned. “Hello,” he said.

“You’re living here?”

“Yes.”

I smiled. “You live alone?”

“Yes.”

“And how long have you been here?”

“A few days,” said he. “Why do you ask?”

I was now walking beside him. I laughed, and replied not.

Sir Peter’s apartment was littered with his possessions and boxes of books, which made the room hot.  He pulled off his shirt and began sampling and placing some of them on two large shelves fixed in the room. I pulled off my school uniform and made to help him. He strengthened up and stared at me.

I was wearing an undergarment, which wasn’t all that short and covered my panties, but much of my boobs were bared. I never felt comfortable in brassieres, and my boobs were firm enough to do without them. Same with panties; I only wore them during menses.

When we finished packing the books, and took care of other works available, I grasped his hands, waved aside his enthused expressions of gratitude and told him: “I’m happy to have helped you, Sir, and I’ll always be available anytime you need help around here. In anything. Anytime. Just let me know.”

“Thank you, Nymphia,” he said and favoured me with his biggest smile.

A Problem

Three fortnights had passed, and, within that time, we had grown very close, but Sir. Peter was yet to make any move to indicate his being aware of my more than friendly interest in him. He had been asking questions about me and my family, but none of them touched on love, and he never seemed to be much moved when I visit him in clothing ensembles that leave my most attractive features exposed.

I often wondered whether he was being coy or just taking his time. As far as I knew, mine was a body the most obstinate men may find hard not admiring. I was a carbon copy of my mom—more than six feet tall, full breasted, soot skinned, and not facially unattractive, with my most seductive asset behind. A pair of peerless buttocks that were ever rounded, ever clapping each other, and ever rolling with every step I take. And who, which male with an inquisitive manhood—almost all of them have it, won’t want to take a trip down there to scavenge for the fabled G-spot?

I was yet to find a man who could resist my sexual charm, and getting Sir. Peter was just a matter of time. Others had fallen, and he’ll soon be among them.

First to fall prey to my seductive prowess was, Jared, my step brother.  It was the day I caught him in the house, alone, watching porn. I, without any words said, undressed myself before him then proceeded to take off his cloths. He was speechless and could only stare at me in sexual stupefaction as I licked him sweet. When we started, he was so slow and frustrating, and I had to stop him and take things into my own hands. I rode him sore.

Another was the assistant head of Honeycomb High. He was a noted pervert and rumours abounded about his nocturnal flings with some of the younger teachers living on campus, and a few students. His continual observation of my booty anytime I was in his presence became an open secret, and he had the shock of his life when I walked into his office, one day after school, shut the door, and uplifted my dress to favour him with a view of my bushy pelvis and asked: “How long will you continue dreaming about taking a bite?”

You wonder at my sexual fecundity? Haha. I’m no nympho, but I do love having sex and think that no pleasure compares to an elongated male genital inside a woman’s most sensitive spot.

“Sir Peter will be mine,” I swore.  Just a matter of time. Yes.

                                                                                                                                                         Love at Last

It was raining outside, and the cold winds crept through every available crevice and chilled the four corners of the bedroom, but our immediate surrounding was warm, hot actually. Sir. Peter was in his underpants and seated in an armchair while I, naked and ever ready, sat on his lap with my soft bottom resting on his hardened manhood. He, soon, lolled out his tongue and licked round my neck then to the space between my boobs while his nervy but sure fingers worked wonders between my thighs. I, also, slid a hand into his underpants and tenderly played his balls. The foreplay was long; titillating, poetic, and steamy—being commanded by a master of the art.

It lasted for close to 20 minutes.

Afterwards, he shifted me to fully face him, and unleashed his manhood. I sat on it and rolled and wobbled there for almost half an hour. We rested for a few minutes then brought on the sequel. He pushed me faced down onto the bed, with two pillows placed beneath my pelvis, and drove in from behind. Oh, pleasure of pleasures. I was in love and in bed with a real man—one who knew the value of foreplay to passionate and prolonged sex, and wasn’t ignorant in the art of devouring a woman’s sweetest spot. The horny truth was obvious—this was a man who knew the stuff good sex’s made of.

We rested for six or so minutes and brought on the sequel.

He switched of the electric bulb, lighted a candle, and asked me to position myself faced down with hips raised on the floor. The light from the candle reflected our shadows, and I got much pleasure from looking sideways and watching them quiver on the wall as I did from his tentative excursions in and out of my other hole.

“You lazybones, aren’t you going to school today?” I heard my twin sister’s voice floating into my still sleepy brain. I opened a pair of drowsy eyes. “Get up!” she screamed.

“Where’s Peter?” said I.

“Peter? Who’s Peter?” she retorted and looked at me quizzically. A mischievous smile soon played on her lips as she went down and looked under the bed.  I gasped, now fully awake. It had all been nothing more than a dream. A damn dream.

A Problem Different

I found it difficult concentrating in class, and worst of all, Sir Peter wasn’t having a lesson with us. Yet, the dream occupied my thoughts and made me wet all day long. If he could be that good within a dream, what won’t he do without one?

The mere remembrance of the dream stirred my womanhood and I crave it being stuffed with a full cock. Soon. Less I masturbate and moan before the class and the theology tutor, who would, probably, die on the spot, fatally shocked.

Ah. Peter. Peter. Peter.

I hastened to the staff common room as soon as the school clock struck midday. The room was bare save an unknown teacher with his eyes glued to the screen of an Apple Macbook. The noise from the system was tuned low—but it was one my ears were not unfamiliar to. He was watching porn. I shifted my feet to make him aware of my presence.

“Where’s Sir Peter?”

“He….isn’t…here,’ he said. “They all are at lunch, I think.”

I moved toward him. He said nothing, but looked ruffled as I glanced over his shoulders and at the screen; a teacher ashamed at being caught by a student watching such silly videos. I calmed him down, however.

I loosed his trousers and fingered him, and then raised my dress and sat on him; heaving and hovering—satisfying an immediate want on both sides.  It was quick but worthwhile. Juicy too. I moaned in pleasure, pretending and fantasizing that he was Sir Peter.

Before lunchtime was over, I got up and made to leave.

“Thank you,” he said lamely.

“Anytime,” said I and dashed out of the room.

It was dusk when I packed a few things to move to Sir Peter’s place. He was bathing when I arrived and halted outside the bathroom door, contemplating whether I should barge in naked and lock us in. It would happen then—what my heart and womanhood had been yearning for since my second sighting of him and falling in love.

I thought otherwise, however. I controlled my emotions, fingered down there for awhile, and went away from the bathroom door. Patience was needed. And no matter how long it takes, Sir. Peter will be mine. I swear it. Soon I will have his hands all over me, and his manhood bulldozing in and out of my already juicy pot. Yes.

When he came out, I lied to him about my parent’s expecting visitors, whom I wanted to avoid and asked to stay at his place for two or three days. He agreed.

Seeing him getting dressed in his best cloths, I asked: “You’re going out?”

“Yes, Nymphia.”

“Where to?”

“An all night service, “said he. I stood looking at him with my annoyance barely concealed. He bid me goodnight and left. Damn.

When Sir Peter came back in the morning, there was a woman with her. She looked like a girl. Actually. “Good morning, Nymphia,: he said as they entered.

“Morning, Sir,” said I.

“Meet my girlfriend, Lily.”

I gasped for breath. After spending the whole night, alone, because of some damn all-night- service, and hoping that things will even out at the break of dawn, he comes home with a girlfriend? Damn.

Here I was. Faced with a problem different. Sir Peter was already having a woman.

Upon all his good looks and mental astuteness, he turned out to be a man who was naïve enough to have a girlfriend to whom he wants to be faithful and not have anything doing with other girls. Such stupidity.  In a man like Peter. Damn.

“Welcome, Lily,” I said. I, all the same, maintained my composure and acted as coy as possible. Shouldn’t let them know that I was jealous and prone to having fantasies about Sir Peter getting into my panties and holing me.

“Thank you,” she said with a smile, revealing white but quite large teeth that made her look not too beautiful. But a tiny gap between her front teeth redeemed her. She looked just pretty.

She was short but slender, and due to that, had the false appearance of appreciable tallness. There wasn’t much to her physique save a pair of petite boobs that were becoming on her and lovely to look at. Wished I could suck them for her. She also had an almost flat bottom, and wouldn’t have made much of a rival. But she was already having him and wasn’t competing with me.

Moreover, Peter was already in love with her, despite her bleached beauty looks, the lack of a sumptuous bottom, and an overly wide mouth that made her look unbecoming anytime she smiled. But I have to confess this—she had a sort of tender loveliness to her appearance, and I could very well imagine a gentleman like Peter loving her wholeheartedly.

How much he loved her became obvious in the next few days, when I chanced on them in the sitting room. The delicate creature was snuggled in the arms of my heart desire.

Yet I still retained hope of my dream becoming reality. Even if Peter never loves me, his making love to me once in a while will be enough. But he appeared to be no such man.

I will make him do that, all the same. Soon.

    

I am Nymphia Coldhart

While moving further and further away from the school, I recalled a story my grandma once told me. About a man who was pursued by a hungry lion. A man who was small of stature and not one to even face a mouse in a fight, a man who couldn’t be brave; he was. It was only when the lion chased and cornered him that he discovered himself, his strength, and the killer within.

The lion, fierce, furious, and ferocious, stood and roared and prepared to pounce. The man squared his shoulders, squatted for a second, sprang up, and killed the beast.

Recalling the tale, my blood run hot in me in contrast to my heart, which remained as cold as ever. A killer needs a cold heart, and I, Nymphia, was going for the kill. She was my rival and must be eliminated if things should improve. Come hell or high-water, she’ll die.

You marvel at my cold-heartedness? Do not. As my grandma used to say; “any slutty bitch is capable of the most heinous sins.”

I am capable.  I am Nymphia Coldhart. Yes.

Lily was in the bathroom when I arrived. I looked through the keyhole; she was covered in foam and furiously scrubbing her bleached face.

I entered. She died. I killed the beloved of a man I lusted after and never loved.

END OF STORY

Stanley Courage Dugah is a self educated writer and poet based in Ghana. Besides writing online (where he had won multiple writing contests), he’s working on a number of novels, novellas, short stories, screenplays, and a poetry collection. His current work-in-progress: “A Love Tale, a Political Satire, and a Thriller,” will be published in July, 2013.

You can connect with him on facebook or follow @StanleyCDugah.

Why Ghana Lost to Burkina Faso

Image

 

Earlier on in the day, West African Soccer giants Nigeria had seen off Mali 4-1, and most people were expecting another giant in the form of Ghana to see of Burkina Faso and set up a juicy  clashwith  its eastern neighbor, but the Stallions came along and spoiled the party.

From the first blast of the referee’s whistle, the Burkinabe exerted much dynamism and confidence and bossed majority possession. They dominated Ghana all over the pitch, but were not resourceful in front of goal.

But Ghana took the lead through a debatable penalty converted by regular shooter Mumbarak Wakaso. From then on the Black Stars came more into the game and had a few chances that better players would have savored and buried, with Asamoah Gyan being the worst culprit—having the Burkinabe keeper at his mercy, but choosing to shoot straight instead of going for  an intelligent chip. No wonder he plays in the United Arab Emirates. He’s fit for that league.

The second half seemed more even, with Ghana creating better chances. But the Burkinabe also had their fair share of chances, most notably Bance, who went ahead to equalize for the Stallions.

As the second help pattered out, extra time and penalties seemed inevitable, and I was lest dumbfounded when Kwesi Appiah substituted our regular spot-kick taker and goal scorer Wakaso.

“Naive substitution” was the first thing that jumped out of my mouth. But I take those words back. Even Jose Mourihno once made such a mistake; when he substituted Mesut Ozil (a potential penalty taker) in last season’s Champions’ League semi-final clash against Bayern in a match that Madrid eventually lost on penalties.

All the same, Wakaso staying on the pitch to see out the game and take our first shootout would have been a better alternative. He could have scored to inspire confidence in the subsequent penalty takers. One then wonders what the coach was thinking—to win the match during normal time or within the extra 30 minutes? He evidently didn’t know what he was doing.

In a nutshell, Ghana was mediocre throughout the tournament, and losing to a better team shouldn’t be painful. The coach wasn’t up to scratch, and his players seemed only interested in  sporting hairstyles that were more attractive than their footballing skills.

A bunch of below par players captained by a Middle East  league player. We deserved to lose.

Burkina Faso was always going to be the better team, and they were.

Why Die Young and Leave a Good Looking Corpse?

Image

Nothing moves my heart and saddens me more than hearing about the death of someone young; most especially, if such a death could have been prevented by the person himself/herself or a different set of circumstances occurring. Take for instance the scenario of the young man who gets caught having sex with a married woman, and the furious husband chances on them, and, in his anger, strangles him to death there and then. What about the young boy who was repeatedly warned by his mom to not go on the school excursion to that dangerous waterfall, but slips out of the house, goes, and never comes back alive? Oh, Lord!

Now, if you’re a literature buff like me, you’ll readily recognize the inspiration behind the title of this piece: Why Die Young and Leave a Good Looking Corpse?

For those of you not familiar with that phrase, a variation of it occurs in “Knock on any Door;” a novel by African-American writer Willard F. Motley. Nick Romano, the leading character in the novel, said something thus: “Live fast, die young and leave a good looking corpse.”

I’m not in anyway trying to pinpoint and suspect people who die young as individuals who knew what they were doing. No! But some, surely, live as if they were only born to die young and leave good looking corpses. A perfect example would be the young man who gets caught with someone another person’s wife and gets killed. What was he thinking? Has he never contemplated what would occur if the husband discovers him in the act? Only God knows.

Let’s rest the speculations there. Now, why do some people die young? Why do some people leave behind good looking corpses rather than living long and growing old then dying to gift their relatives with ugly corpses to dispose off?

I believe the answers to these questions are provided in a few scripture verses—Romans 9:15 and the 13th chapter of Luke most succinctly. Yes, God sometimes take some people away for reasons known only to him (including people who may not be sinners), but some die because of sin. Death is the reward of sin. It is.

Romans 9:15 records God saying: “I will have mercy on whom I have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I have compassion.”

I’m no Bible scholar but will stretch my neck out to claim that if the above be true then God sometimes stays his hand and refuses to have mercy or interfere in things happening down here as he did for a while during Satan’s buffeting of Jobs. Ezekiel 18:20 vouchsafes this actually.

That 13th Chapter of Luke also contains a story that illustrates this scenario poignantly. Jesus’ disciples were talking to him about an accident—the Tower of Siloam falling and killing a number of people. They sort of asked the Savior, “Those people who died were they sinners?”

“No,” the Christ seemingly replied. “They were not sinners more than those alive. But unless you repent, you shall likewise perish.”

Christ, put another way, was saying that everyone is a sinner but anyone who continually and notoriously abides in sin is like a leaf in the wind.

He/she can be blown here or there and anything can happen to him/her. Such a person can drop dead at any moment from just something small happening to him/her unless God intervenes. And HE AT TIMES CHOOSES NOT TO INTERVENE!

GOD AT TIMES CHOOSES NOT TO INTERVENE!

Now, let us pray, O Lord, grant that we might have the strength in Christ to walk far from sin and abide under your heavenly care always. May we not sin and open ourselves to Satan’s buffeting, for if we sin he pronounces us guilty and punishes at will. Save us from this, O Lord.

In the name of Christ we pray with much thanksgiving. Amen.

 ***
Stanley Courage Dugah is a writer and poet based in Ghana. He regularly blogs at scdugah.wordpress.com. Besides writing online, he’s also working on a number of novels, novellas, short stories, and a poetry collection. You can connect with him on facebook or follow @StanleyCDugah.

Zig Ziglar: A Life Well Lived?

Image

Zig Ziglar wasn’t the first motivational/inspirational speaker I stumbled on, but he was the one who got me going. Prior to listening to his exceptional audio ‘How to Stay Motivated,” I had read “Goals” by Brain Tracy and listened to a few Jim Rohn tapes. None of them, however, resonated with me or influenced me into consistent action. And it probably was because of my greenness to the motivational classroom not any incapability on the part of Brain and Jim.

They sure inspired some self-belief and hope in me, but Ziglar it was who changed me.

I had been, before listening to Ziglar’s tape, a dreamer and an inactive one at that. I haboured ambitions of becoming a great writer one day, and a social entrepreneur who’ll matter to my society and be of significance in other people’s lives, but I wasn’t doing anything to make my dreams realities. I wasn’t honing my creative talent, and I wasn’t saving money to start my own business sometime to come. I was totally inactive and stagnating, not indulging in the consistent actions necessary for any form of success in life.

Added to that, I was also battling depression and a sense of worthlessness after losing a girl I loved passionately and was building my world around.

But Ziglar came by and gave me hope. He lighted a fire under my ass that got me jumping up and down and screaming my head off at the possibilities that are open to me once I leave the past behind, become grateful for the present, and prepare for tomorrow by developing my abilities and working my socks off now. He inspired me into consistent action.

Below are some of the hardest-hitting quotes from that exceptional audio of his (with a few paraphrased):

“Motivation doesn’t last? Neither does bathing! That’s why we recommend it daily.”

“Failure is an event not a person. Night really ends today. Tomorrow is a chance to make a new beginning.”

“When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.”

“Regardless of how good or bad my past had been, regardless of how good or bad my present is, there’s something I can specifically do now that will make my tomorrow/future either better or worse, and the choice is mine.”

“If there’s hope in the future, there’s power in the present.”

“Money isn’t everything, but it rates reasonably close to oxygen/air on the “got to have it scale.”

“You’re at the top when you clearly understand that failure is an event, not a person. That yesterday ended last night, and today is your brand new day. You make friends with your past, but focus on the present and become optimistic about the future. You’re at the top when you know that a success doesn’t make you and failure doesn’t break you. You’re at the top when you’re at peace with God and in fellowship with man. You’re at the top when you recognize and use your God-given talents to the benefit of mankind. You’re at the top when you stand before God and He tells you: “Well done, you faithful and productive servant.”

Zig Ziglar’s life was, indeed, one well lived. He inspired millions upon millions to discover their true potentials, and I’m chief among them.Hats off to the departed. His was a life well lived.

I see him now. He stands before God, and the Old Man tells him: “Well done, you faithful and good servant.”

-
Stanley Courage Dugah is a writer and poet based in Ghana. He regularly blogs at scdugah.wordpress.com. Besides writing online, he’s also working on a number of novels, novellas, short stories, and a poetry collection. You can connect with him on facebook or follow @StanleyCDugah.

Significance of JDM’s Emergence as President of Ghana

Image

 

He isn’t an Akan or Ewe but a citizen of Gonja origins in the Northern part of Ghana, and without shame, hails from one of a number of ethnic groups that some foul-mouthed and ignorant politicians consider as being incapable of doing nothing other than rearing cattle and delighting in internal conflicts. I speak of John Dramani Mahama; Ex-Vice President, President interim, President-elect, and now Chief Commander of Ghana.

When then President John Evans Fiifi Atta Mills dropped dead on the 24th of July, 2012, a new chapter got opened in Ghanaian politics. Yet the party he led was on familiar territory.

Since the adoption of democracy in 1992, the National Democratic Congress seemed to have stipulated a succession rule, which may not be written in stone but apparent. Ideally, a leader who have exhausted his/her term of leadership or becomes incapacitated or dies should be succeeded by a deputy,  who had understudied him and boasts enough experience to step into the shoes of the former boss. Ex-President Rawlings, in 2000, passed on the NDC baton to his Vice President at the time, Prof. John E.A. Mills, and some may have suspected that the Professor’s selection of Mahama as his running mate for the 2008 elections made him an automatic and future successor to the leadership post. But others thought otherwise.

Save Dr. Hilla Limann’s brief stint as President from 1979 to 1981, no other person or candidate of Northern origins ever became head of state, and such a thing happening seemed, for the foreseeable future, unlikely. Northerners might be anointed as presidential running mates of the two major parties (the NPP and NDC), but be put forward as ultimate candidates? That was a no-go area. It was definite and decided for the wooing of Northern voters.

A few NDC folks may play the Ostrich and hide their heads in the sand to argue that JDM succeeding President Mills in 2016 was to be the case, but I beg to differ. Bigwig NDC members wouldn’t have seen it that way and would have contested the post with him in the same way Ex-Vice President John Aliu Mahama of the New Patriotic Party was denied the chance to succeed Ex-President Kuffour in 2008.

Mills’ demise, however, enabled Mahama to become interim President and de facto leader of the National Democratic Congress (a case of fortune favouring the prepared or lady luck smiling on a Vice-President who would have lost a 2016 flagbearership if he dared put himself forward to be chosen?) Whatever.

Finding itself in such a position, the NDC was not prepared to allow a flabearership contest that could have brought up a new face as party leader after John Dramani Mahama serves as President interim before the public eye for more than four months. That would have been political naivety; a move without political forethought and fineness, surely?

The man was already well known, easy to market, and looked poised to continue the so called “Better Ghana Agenda” initiated by the late President John Evans Atta Mills. Strategy then recommended that he be maintained as party leader and candidate for the December Elections.

And with an exuberance of character, which no one can take away form him, a communicative edge, a positive personality brand, “normal abuse of incumbency,” and a flat-footed stance from the opposition, he was enabled and clinched an NDC victory in Election 2012 to become President-elect.

Foul-mouthed politicians, eat your hearts out! Nay-sayers, begone! John Dramani Mahama (after being sworn in) is now President of State and Commander in Chief of the Ghana Armed Forces.

Pop goes the bubble. A myth is busted.  Anybody (whether Ga, Ewe, Akan, Hausa etc. ; whether coming from a cattle rearing community, a fishing enclave, a farming culture, a gold mining environment or anywhere else in Ghana) can now aspire to the highest post of the land. That’s a plus for Ghanaian democracy. That’s the significance of John Dramani Mahama’s emergence and election and enthronement as President on this 7th day of January, 2013.

Hail the Chief! Hearken unto the Commander! Congrats Sir. Ghana is now yours to steer.   

A Blue Monday in Blue Manchester (Written yesterday, immediately after Man. City’s 1-0 victory over United.)

A glance at the team list amused me.

We’re gonna mimic Mourhino!

Why bench Silva’s twin?

Why bench virtuoso Valencia?

Ah, Fergie knows best.

A few first passes pleased me.

We’re gonna have a real United go!

But? Why not mark Kompany, Ferdinard?

But? Why not goal out and grab, Gea?

Ah, the blue boys have the answers.

Soon, it staled.

We’re in for a boring, boring non-goal fest.

Alas, a player with a Company like head

Came along, piloted up and painted Manchester blue.

Now, our noisy neighbors have a pain-thing to noise about.

There–a revolution real in Manchester.

There reigns Mancini in Manchester.

Image

End of season, end of story; banter starts.