I am a Nigerian and I have always had a very soft spot for Ghana. Even though my admiration dates from the heydays of Kwame Nkrumah of blessed memory, I have followed the ups and downs of Ghana and have wept inwardly when the country was in the doldrums.

I must say that when Flight- Lieutenant Rawlings came to power, I was very excited by his revolution and I know many of my fellow countrymen were also excited. There are many of us. who have been looking on what is happening in Ghana in the hope that it might serve as an example for Nigeria.

Now however, I am getting confused about what is happening in Ghana. From what I read in the papers, it looks as if Flight-Lieutenant Rawlings is abandoning the revolution. He appears to be reverting to the institutions that he said he would dismantle when the Holy War was launched.

I don’t know of anywhere in the world where the US government gives approval to a revolutionary regime but these days it looks like Ghana has become the darling boy of the West. What, in fact, is happening in Ghana! Those of us who love the country and admire Flight-Lieutenant Rawlings are getting very baffled.

Last week the Nigerian papers carried a report saying that Rawlings had been accused by his aides of having betrayed the revolution? Is that true?

‘Sina Adediran, Ilesha