Message of Love and Brotherhood to Africa — Page 34
34 During the last organizational elections the president of the Ghana Ahmadiyya Community harboured a bee in his bonnet and threatened to create trouble if he was not re-elected. When I got this news, I wired back forbidding him to hold elections which I said I would personally see through. It happened two months before my tour. When I went there the working committee personnel and other African executives were also present on one occasion. During the course of conversation, turning to them I observed that I had brought a present for their ex-president—I wanted that it should be known to him so that he should be mentally prepared beforehand. They heard and understood. Next I called a meeting of the Executive and told them that no people and no movement ever made headway in the world if it did not care enough for their ex-office- holders. If, for instance, a country started calling its former president a dog and when the number of these 'dogs' ran into four or five—that is as soon as they retired from the office of president—they would be dubbed 'dogs', foreign nations would treat the people as a nation of dogs who chooses dogs for the