This chieftaincy issue is becoming worrisome. The fact that quite a few of our people are prepared to put people on their stools who should, according to tradition, be unfit for the post, should make us sit up and ask a few questions. As a result, many people have begun to disrespect the institution and accept the authority of chiefs with unwillingness and some disdain. Only those close to it can help eliminate this. Those who are close to stools ought therefore to make such views known to their relatives who are influential in chieftaincy matters.
Chieftaincy is already capable of bringing divisions into families.
But the institution is strong enough to often get these divisions papered over. But the institution cannot be eternally elastic or resilient. The NDC can say with confidence that it will relinquish power in 2009 because it knows how it has been holding on to power all these years.