Prof. Joseph Osafo, the director of the University of Ghana’s Center for Ageing Studies, expressed sympathy to the losers of the New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary election that took place on Saturday, January 27.
The chief psychologist advised the defeated candidates to get back together and run again in four years.
Prof. Joseph Osafo made these assertions on Peace FM’s “Kokrokoo” morning show.
“Sorry for you, but I think you should organize yourselves again. Four years is not too long; you can come back and reclaim your good works,” he said.
He also called for the losers to undergo psychotherapy, saying “there must be a strategic way of managing the pain. Life challenges will always continue to confront us, but some challenges must always be strategically managed, or they can become an albatross.”
“People will become bitter in life; that’s how it is. But there is a kind of bitterness that, if not managed, will make it worse. I think political parties will need a certain service, where every aspirant who represents the party in any election should find a way of managing them before and after the elections, he requested.
He further advised the political parties to utilize the services of psychologists, saying, “preparing them mentally and then, after a loss, managing them mentally so that the person will still say I am still part of the competition, but not to see the recent primaries that he or she has lost means the party doesn’t like him.”
Source:Mybrytfmonline.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
