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Everyone who has followed me here knows how much I loved my Dad. When he was alive, my vote was on autopilot for the NDC. Chale, my dad would get upset if you suggested you were going to vote for the NPP. My mum just used to tease him about voting for the NPP just to hear his long tirade. In the last 2 elections, I convinced myself that as an intellectual that I voted for the NDC because I felt change was needed after 8 years of the NPP and the NDDC needed 8 years to fulfil its promises. I remember saying to my roommates in 2012 that I would vote for a different party after every 8 years. I guess I was not being true to myself. Perhaps I was but the situation was different in this election. The NDC had 8 years and John Mahama 4. I felt the developmental infrastructure started was going to stall with a change in government and I really needed Kasoa where I stayed for the better part of my life, 18 years to be precise to go through its needed transformation but then all the ...