Every year, the University of Ghana encounters SRC Presidential aspirants who vouch to make sanitation a matter of precedence and yet so overcome are they by their insatiable want for the office, their ideals alter a few months into their campaigns when they imprudently plaster their flyers just about anywhere on campus; lawful or not.
Pascal thinks this preposterousness is unworthy of an office holder; a reason which makes it safe to assume in a world where this conduct qualifies as hypocrisy… as it should, by default, he ought to be SRC President.
Candidly, his assertion isn’t far from right. I’ve seen flyers in some of the most ludicrous places you could ever think of; from NNB bathroom floors to major structures, streets (and street pavements) which bear names of noblemen and women who once helped shape the history of our beloved University and nation.
You want one instance of such? How about five? Akilagpa Sawyerr, Folson, Busia, Cruise and Quartey.
Amongst the Presidential aspirants for the upcoming elections, Pascal Hayford seems to have decided to take the high road. He wants to run a clean campaign and a clean aftermath; and he means it literally. In his own words,
“..we need a leader who is honest, and has commitment to serving the student populace… it is against my ethics to use unlawful means to get sheer popularity… we need to look beyond sheer popularity and get the right person with the right direction into that noble Office. “
Former SRC President of Prampram Senior High, Pascal who has also served on UG-SRC and Sarbah JCR committees is tasking the electorates to uphold trust and dispel hypocrisy in the government of the people. To take pragmatic steps to ensure this, the electorates need him and he alone.