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Former President of the Committee on Confiscated Vehicles (CVC) under the late President J.E.A. The Mills government, Carl Wilson, said that Ghana would continue to sink into poverty and underdevelopment if its current system of governance, in which presidents are elected on a partisan basis, was not changed. .
He believes that Ghana's prosperity lies in the election of an independent president to an independent personality.
According to him, an independent president would serve 10 times better the interests of the country than a president elected on the list of parties.
When asked if he had any presidential ambitions, Mr. Wilson said he did not have any and that his movement as a defender of an independent president would support any Ghanaian with the skill and ability to stand as a candidate to the presidency.
"We will support any man or woman who will stand as an independent candidate for the presidency," he said.
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Third force
Wilson, who spoke with the Daily Graphic in Accra yesterday, said the shift in power from one political party to another was not the solution to Ghana's current problems.
He felt that the National Democratic Congress (NCD) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had become complacent because they knew they were the only substitutes in the country.
He added that the NDC and the NPP would not offer a better alternative for solving Ghana's problems and that the two sides were different parts of the same room.
Mr Wilson noted that Ghana needed a third political force to change the status quo, in which the electorate had to choose between the NDC and the NPP.
He explained that having a third political force did not mean turning to another minor political party and that the difficult situation in Ghana had been created by both political parties.
"Ghana should not be only the NDC and the NPP, nor any other political party," he said, adding that "the problem of Ghana is the political parties".
Mr. Wilson stated that, to the extent that political parties were in power to serve the interests of their party rather than those of the state, they first took into account the interests of the party rather than the interests of the party. State in their decisions.
Vigilance
According to him, many of Ghana's problems, including political vigilance, had not been addressed because of their political influence.
He expressed his optimism that if an independent person who had no connection with any political party was elected to the presidency of Ghana, political vigilance would become a thing of the past, as such a president would have no allegiance to such groups.
"Political parties fuel vigilance in Ghana because they have party support," Wilson said, adding that the NDC and the NPP could not do without political vigilance because they all benefited from it.
"Vigilance will be dead under an independent president," he said, noting that an independent president would also benefit from the best ideas of the majority and the minority in Parliament, as all MPs would lend their sincere support.
Waste
Wilson said the NDC and NPP governments have created ministries that would be of no use to Ghana's development but only to satisfy their members.
He added that because of the partisan nature of the country's governance system, there was no adequate control system.
He said the president would still have the support of the majority because all the majority wanted was to maintain the executive.
Skirt and blouse
Mr Wilson said it was time for Ghanaians to take the bold decision to change both the NDC and the NPP for an independent president.
"Too much is too much Ghana needs to find the courage to say that it's enough, both for the NDC and the NPP," he said.
Asked whether Ghanaians were ready for an independent president, he said, "Ghanaians have shown in the past that they can change the system."
According to him, Ghanaians knew the concept of "skirt and blouse" according to which a constituency decides either to vote for a candidate for the presidency of a party, or to vote for a candidate in the parliament of another party .
Mr. Wilson was of the opinion that Ghanaians could practice skirts and blouses by voting for an independent candidate for the presidency and electing MPs from different parties.
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