Mario Cuomo asserted famously, “You campaign in poetry, but govern in prose.” The latter transcends the mere political reality we face. We cohabit in an era of low predictability which clearly resonates through Ghanaian politics today. The leadership deficit under this Mills Administration has culminated into a leaderless revolution which is a remnant of past NDC inadequacy. The immediate cessation of the euphoric optimism once envisaged by NDC voters at Inauguration day, seems to have fizzled out, and is indicative of the overall sentiment felt by many Ghanaians under this administration. Susceptible ideals in the form of vision and vigor are the primus inter pares of any claim to leadership. Woeful attempts by Ministers and Deputy Ministers to propagate government responsibility as miracles to the ordinary Ghanaian, simply constitutes ‘the cult of personality’ in leftist politics the NDC are characterized by. How risible is it, the constant attempt to liken Atta Mills’ presidency to the visionary Nkrumah. The disparity is clear, the paradox; non-existent. The sentiments shared by the two are in the form of carefully orchestrated propaganda which scars the NDC eternally. The very powerful and beguiling ‘Better Ghana Agenda’, has not translated into concrete answers or policy. A claim of opposition is so much more powerful, than a claim to government. In professional politics, there comes a moment when people switch on. This leaderless revolution has failed to switch on thus far; it is quite frankly been overburdened by the complexity of governance and lack the pragmatism and foresight necessary to spearhead the country towards prosperity. The constant propaganda and low skullduggery of minions within the administration, namely; Baba Jamal, Koku Anyidoho, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Peter Otokunor, Felix Kwakye Ofusu, and Allotey Jacobs sum up the administration in more words than is necessary in this piece. The leadership vacuum is apparent enough for their unbridled jargon to go amiss. He who wishes to be obeyed must know how to command, is a key tenet to leadership, which is been absent post President Kufour. It is nowhere more illustrative than the recent internal wrangling within the NDC. It has become clear that the FONKAR and Jerry Rawlings no longer accept Mills’ leadership of their party, and consequently the nation. The reactionary populism which characterizes this leadership has been glaring enough for all discerning Ghanaians to critique. Since his inauguration, it has been NDC policy to herald an ordinary man and a cunning politician as a saint. This cult of personality is an opaquely callus attempt to change the discourse necessary by focusing on the individual rather than policy. It is my firm conviction that this leadership is causing immeasurable hurt to the momentum left by the previous administration, plunging Ghanaians into high taxes, high unemployment, high utility bills and unprecedented failure rates and high student drop outs. The rather ridiculed David Cameron said to his opposite number at British Prime Ministers Questions recently, ‘It is better to jump on a bandwagon whilst it is still moving.’ This can be accentuated to the missed opportunities under the Mills -Mahama administration. Among the many examples are these: the Doctors Strike, Gay Rights controversy, Ivory Coast post-election violence, The Arab and North African spring, Somalia famine etc. These examples are by no means exhausting. The pragmatic idealism offered alternatively by the NPP, has translated farther internationally, and the acute sense of rationale behind Nana Addo’s vision embodies this very notion. An NPP administered government under Nana Addo, would add value to every facet of Ghanaian life, and is determined to “get Ghana once again leading our continent in entrenching democracy and transforming the structure of the African economy to a modern, manufacturing kind that has the capacity to create and spread wealth across the length and breadth of our vast continent.” Today many Ghanaians face perpetual uncertainty. To suffer the humility of failing courage in the face pitiless ambiguity is how many Ghanaians live. Leave Mills and the NDC in government and the blunt truth is, that is how Ghanaians will be forced to live. The choice before us stark, dreadful and inescapable: Quite rightly, the sentiments echoed by NPP bigwigs are right in the sense that, in the imminent elections, if the central government fails to arbitrate between divergent political ideals and quash possible tribal tensions, then the ordinary man will be forced to protect his family’s physical security. In this rudderless revolution, it is down to the electorate to undergo an introspective assessment if the country is to be put back in its rightful place; domestically and internationally. This introspective revolution requires individuals to undergo an internal locus of critical self-evaluation which will be translated into endogenous electoral participation come 2012. There is a need for moral rearmament in every corner of our society today; if we have lost confidence in ourselves that is more a reason why we need a leadership that can rise above the fog, a leadership that will inspire and a leadership that can take us to the promise land. Ghanaians wanted a change of government in 2008, which was a legitimate demand; it happened. In the upcoming elections hang the fate of many things, of whether we collectively summon the strengths to recognize the domestic and global challenge of the 21st Century and meet it; or continue to coexist as we are? In our combined afflictions, it is imperative that the flame for change is lit. The NPP and Nana Addo as the torchbearers of our democracy need not to be steered away from this path. As the Danquah-Busia-Dombo tradition has taught us painfully, ‘it is better to act in the face of adversity, than not to; because that is something history will forgive.’ Theories and rhetoric of socialism the NDC espouse are anachronisms which belong to a past era, yet it has once again gained prominence in our political discourse. In this dilemma, no choice is perfect, no choice is ideal but on this decision, our society will either take a step forward or many steps back. The issues that confront us are manifold and complex. Yet the will confronting us is decaying and feeble and this is not the time to falter; in the words of the Scripture, ‘hold firmly, without wavering, to the hope that we confess.’