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Hon. Inusah Abdulai B. Fuseini, the Member of Parliament for Tamale Central has linked events leading up to the Independence of Ghana to the contestation in the Supreme Court of the validity of the 2012 General Elections by the NPP. He claimed: �On the dawn of independence, people made trips to the UK to tell the British to hold the Independence for some time because we were not prepared, so it is not new. I mean the Achimota congress�they have passed this onto their offsprings. I mean when a cow is chewing grass the younger one watches its mouth�. The MP, who doubles as the Minister for Energy, said this on Accra-based Citi FM�s Saturday political talk show where he appeared as a panelist representing the National democratic congress (NDC). In discussing the progress Ghana has made over the period after independence, the Law maker casted insinuations at his fellow panelist; Ken Kurankye, the Managing Editor of the Searchlight Newspaper and constantly referred to the opposition of Kwame Nkrumah as his forbears, because according him, the journalist stated that Nkrumah made it impossible for a change of government except through a coup d��tat. He went on to assert that; �indeed when Nkrumah won the 1956 elections, they told the British government not to hand over to Nkrumah� because he would pursue a socialist agenda. So the Foreign Secretary asked, so who do we hand over to. When we have conducted democratic elections. The legislator explained that the opposition now, like their long-dead relatives who opposed Nkrumah are doing so because they are not the ones in the �saddle� at the moment. Hon. Fuseini further alleged that the opposition like their forebears would wish Ghana were not given independence hence the sentiments that �we drove the British away too early�.