Dr Richard Amoako Baah, one of the staunch Members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has divulged that the popularity of Ghana’s President, His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo, has declined drastically.
According to him, President Akuffo Addo is not as popular as he was in 2016. In the words of the stalwart, a President who is in touch with the people is not booed when he appears in public.
Dr Amoako Baah emphasized that the President, after winning his second term in office, has been booed on many occasions. He further indicated that, what was worrying was the levels of the booing of the President in the stronghold of the governing party.
The former Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST) Political Science lecturer made this assertion while speaking in an interview today January 25, 2023.
“If I were the President, I would have advised myself in the face of the spontaneous booing, particularly from the youth of the country. The very moment the people start booing at you should tell you that all is not well.”
Dr Amoako Baah
Giving reasons for the President’s declining popularity, Dr Amoako Baah disclosed that the mismanagement of the economy, coupled with the high levels of corruption in the Akufo Addo led government, are the cause. He further disclosed that people are worried about the dwindling economic fortunes under the watch of the President.
Discuss Party Problems Internally
Meanwhile, the immediate past Afigya Kwabre South Constituency Chairman of the NPP, Mr. Odeneho Kwaku Appiah (COKA), urged members of the party to try and discuss all NPP issues and troubles behind closed doors.
“The NPP, just like all human organisations, has its share of internal conflicts, but the way to go is to prevent public or open discussions of the troubles outside the party structures that may in the end damage the NPP brand.”
COKA
Odeneho Kwaku Appiah opined that he is baffled by some comments that undermine the legacy of President Akufo Addo by some leading members of the party who are seeking to become the flagbearer of the NPP for election 2024. “When l listened to the way some NPP members are talking nowadays, especially some presidential candidate hopefuls; l feel sorry for NPP, ” he bemoaned.
“Tell me who among the aspirants can stand on his own legacy to lead the NPP to retain power in 2024. No one. It will surprise you that when you leave some of them to be on their own, they will have nothing to show or tell Ghanaians for their vote.
“One thing that all well-meaning NPP members should know is that the party is going to campaign to win the election 2024 with President Akufo Addo’s policies and programmes implemented in the last 6 years in government. For this reason, we must protect the President’s legacy.”
COKA
Kwaku Appiah enumerated some of the programmes and policies of President Akufo-Addo which must be protected in the interest of NPP.
“Which of the aspirants, when selected as NPP candidate for 2024, can go around the country to campaign for votes without talking about one district one factory, free senior High school programme, digitalisation, planting for food and jobs, one ambulance one constituency, one village one dam, among others.”
COKA
COKA counselled the party delegates to reject aspirants who are openly attacking the President and his policies.
“Dear NPP delegates, any Presidential candidate hopeful or his agent whose body language, behaviour, character and utterances in public against the President and his policies cannot lead the party to victory in 2024, NPP must be careful because when you bring the President down, it is the NPP that suffers.”
COKA
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