WOOOW! WHICH IS TRUE?

Nana Akufo Addo, wake up from thy slumber!

By  Ekow Duncan.

This week, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) slept again and that is true.

If Nana is truly Ghanaian and lives in Ghana then State of the Nation Addresses may capture the fact that he has been sleeping in very awkward places and at times which may not be altogether convenient.

 He went to the Hall of Physicians and Surgeons to deliver what had been styled as the “True State of the Nation Address” and was captured by the “Daily Post” newspaper sleeping comfortably.

Sleeping in public and at such events cannot always be strange. It is associated with people who work beyond their capabilities. People who are tired and sometimes people whose age is catching up with them.

 At 72 years, sleeping in public is not and cannot be strange for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who is struggling to beat the national record if he is elected as President of Ghana in November 2016.

 He will become the oldest President ever elected in Ghana.

Nana jumped up from his sleep and began pontificating about what he called the true state of the nation address. He went back deep into history and dug up a few promises which were not fulfilled when the New Patriotic Party (NPP) captured power in 2001.

Can you remember that in 1992, the New Patriotic Party promised that if it was elected, it would make sure that District Chief Executives, Municipal and Metro Politian Chief Executives are elected by universal adult Suffrage? 

The NPP won the 2000 elections and stayed in power for eight-long years without fulfilling this promise.

Significantly Nana was part of the Kufuor administration, which made the promise it failed to keep so how can he convince the people of Ghana that this time it will be kept.

First, Nana was not just part of the Kufour administration. He was a most important part as Attorney- General and if the promise was to be kept he had to start the process of constitutional amendments.

What did Nana do to help Kufuor keep this promise? And if he didn’t do anything to help Kufour keep this promise why should he be believed now?

The problem with Nana Addo is that what he says is calculated to win votes for him to become the next president of Ghana.

If something is true and it can’t win votes, it would not be said. And if something is not true and it can win votes it would be said.

 With all the noise about the true state of the nation address, Nana Addo made no comment about the fact that Ghanaian resources are no longer controlled by Ghanaians and that they are exploited solely to enlarge the bank accounts of Multi-national corporations originated from the colonial metropolis.

The fixation with micro-economic stability is not new and is a complete waste of time. The levels of inflation, interest rates and Gross Domestic Product have never really told the full story of the living conditions of the people of Ghana.

 If Nana Addo were paying attention, he would have realized by now that these same noises about micro-economic indicators were made by people like Dr Kwesi Botchwey , Dr Joe Abbey and Jerry John Rawlings  and they didn’t take Ghana anywhere.

The true state of the nation indeed!