Well done Ghana for allowing citizens to freely choose the leaders. I think Africa will learn a lot from the Ghanaian case. Africa should learn that the advent of All Inclusive Gorvenments in some African countries like Kenya and Zimbabwe is a step towards autocracy; it's not democracy. Incumbents that lose elections should step down and not enter into some shaddy deals with the victors like Mugabe of Zimbabwe and Kibbaki of Kenya did. I think African democracies like Ghana, Senegal, Liberia and Siera Leone should establish a league of democracies in Africa where only African countries that completely adhere to democratic standards of holding elections are allowed to be members. I think the AU is quite useless as it as an all embracing organisation and the majority dictatorships in the AU are not willing to give democracy a chance.

Free and fair elections should not be a point of pride especially at the expense of other neighbouring countries that may not have been so successful. Depending on one's perspective, it is time we also acknowledged that the Kenyan experience provided some invaluable lessons on what has been an assumption that multi-partism was the answer to democracy for Africa. One could conclude that Zimbabwe built on the Kenyan experience which is why the election process did not have the same intensity as Kenya. Lets take stock of lessons on the Continent and stop this finger-pointing and suggesting that one country is better than another.

If this is true, it is a strategy in the right direction. The original campaign team was overbloated and full of deadweight(s). This lean and mean team has the potential to be more effective.