The crushing phobia of dissent and the alternative voice: the new strategic dilemma of the APC leadership cauldron
By: Ibrahim Jalloh - (Jallomy) Civic Educator, Political Analyst and Development Consultant For a considerable number of years to come, the exchange of the batton of national leadership will be an exchange between the ruling SLPP and the roaring opposition APC. To flavour the soup of democracy, generational emergence of a Third Political Force will happen from time to time but the enduring spirit of political sustainability has always been thin and waned. Demonstratively, PDP Sorbeh sprouted and dramatically fragmented; PMDC formed, stormed the political waves but in the end, all is a mute phenomenon; finally, NGC emerged, unsettled presumptive leaders but ended a stillbirth! Historic political errors have always been in the centre of the demise of the giant political parties. SLPP and APC share few things in common but differ a lot on many many things. One poignant variance is that SLPP ingrained her leadership in the corridors of intellectualism; on the flip side, APC celebrates an...