An ever-present feature of Ghana's political history is the tags or labels usually slapped on the ruling class as a sarcastic way of identifying the group of persons wielding powerful influence in the country's leadership architecture of the time.
These tags are often coined to reflect the general feeling of the country towards the persons dominating the governance principles and also establish the trend of how members of an ethnic group dominate power in the country.
Under Kufuor, it was the Ashanti Cabal; Mills' government lived with the reputation of the Fante Cabal, and the Akyem Mafia is associated with the Akufo-Addo government.
For those who witnessed the Rawlings administration, the Dzelukope Mafia is a moniker that resurrects memories of the administration from the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council era through to the Provisional National Defence Council era to the era of the .