Nana Akufo-Addo is not a dictator, the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said.
Reacting to President John Mahama’s description of the three-time opposition flag bearer as a “divisive dictator”, Deputy General Secretary of the NPP Nana Obiri Boahen told Emefa Apawu on Class91.3FM’s 505 news programme yesterday, that, “When you hear people in government raving and ranting, it’s quite amazing. What exactly is their problem?”
He said instead of the NDC making Mr Akufo-Addo its campaign message, the Mahama administration should rather concentrate on fixing the problems facing the country.
Lawyer Obiri Boahen rebuffing the accusation said: “Nana Addo is not a dictator. They (NDC) are at liberty to make Paul Afoko (suspended chairman of the NPP) a co-chairman. Some of us are reliably informed about the way NDC is sponsoring and financing Paul Afoko… What exactly is the problem? …They are financing and sponsoring Paul Afoko” he alleged, and continued that, “Ghanaians have voted for them to fix the problems confronting Ghanaians”.
Ghanaians did not vote for them to make Nana Addo an issue of attack; fix the economy, cedi is declining in value, businessmen are crying, unemployment is the order of the day. Fix the problems. What exactly has Nana Addo done to warrant all this unnecessary, irresponsible, unwarranted, unreasonable, uncouth, uncultured attacks?”
More so, Mustapha Hamid, spokesperson of the opposition leader, has said President John Dramani Mahama has no tangible message to convince Ghanaians to retain him in office so he has targeted the flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, for attack.
Mr Hamid argued that the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) was only interested in the “noises” within the NPP upon which it has based its campaign, but had been disarmed. He cited the exoneration of the party in the recent case involving suspended chairman Paul Afoko as well as other favourable occurrences within the NPP that have left the governing party with nothing tangible to fall on in their campaign.
He made the comments in an interview with Class FM's Naa Dedei Tettey on 12Live while reacting to several comments made by the president.
It would be recalled that addressing supporters of the NDC in Bimbilla in the Northern Region on Tuesday August 23 as part of his campaign, President Mahama said: “What we need in Ghana is an understanding president. The era of dictatorship is gone: we are not looking for a dictator, somebody who cannot stand criticism in his own party. If you criticise him, he will sack you…that is not the kind of leader we are looking for. We are looking for a leader who can bring people together," he stressed in reference to the flag bearer of the main opposition party....It is a very dangerous experiment. Ghana is not at the stage where we are experimenting leadership, and so you cannot come and beg that we should try you. We are not in the era of experiments and trials; we are in the era of what is sure. We have seen this government: one of the major successes of this government is peace and stability”.
“We are looking for a leader who can unite Ghana and not a leader who will divide Ghana. If you cannot unite your own party, how do you unite a nation?" he questioned.
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