Festivals as a new grounds for campaigns.

A political Candidate talking a CHIEF

 Ghana is known to have various ethnic groups divided into tribes, under regions. Each year festivals and durbars are celebrated by the various ethnic groups, whereby a lot is put in place in remembrance of their ancestors, events and stories of the past, a lot of rules and laws are made to based on the festivals, like the ban on noise making.

 However, this year marking an election year has one way or the other changed the celebration of festivals into "celebration of political candidates", who the various ethnic groups might consider the winners, although the elections are yet to take place. During these festivals, political candidates attend, share souvenirs and make a whole lot of promises. 

Questions Ghanaian's should ask, is that if political candidates can ignore the main reason for the celebration of these festivals; which is to foster posterity, bring people together and in the long term, pay homage to our ancestors and ply this place as a campaign ground thus going against rules that have been put in place by ancestors, putting their will first, how sure are Ghanaian's that these same political candidates when given power and mandate, wouldn't ignore the promises made and put their will before any other issue.