[ 2016-11-11 ]

Call your ‘violent’ ministers to order – Nana Addo to Mahama
The flagbearer of the opposition New Patriotic
Party (NPP), Nana Akufo-Addo, has asked President
John Mahama to call his Ministers for Local
Government and Sports, Collins Dauda and Nii
Lantey Vaderpuye to order, over some comments he
considers an attacks on members of the NPP.

According to Akufo-Addo, the President has told
the world that, Ghana is very peaceful, yet “in
his cabinet, around the cabinet table at which he
is presiding, are people who are to be instigated
for violence – purveyors of violence, sitting
around his cabinet table.” “He doesn’t
care.

He doesn’t have the strength of character to
reprimand them, and tell them to stop what they
are doing. He is simply looking on unconcerned.
Does this mean he endorses this kind of
conduct?” Akufo-Addo made the comment while
campaigning at Hwidiem in the Asutifi South
Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region, on
Thursday.

Akufo-Addo made the comment on the back of what he
calls consistent attacks against NPP members in
Asutifi South, allegedly being perpetrated by
Collins Dauda, who also is the Member of
Parliament for the area, as well as a recent
assault on NPP members in the Odododiodioo
Constituency, allegedly led by Nii Lante
Vanderpuye.

Nana Akufo-Addo noted that, this kind of
leadership, being displayed by President Mahama,
is not the kind needed to move Ghana forward and
return the country on the path of progress and
prosperity.

“No one should see himself or herself above the
law. We don’t want any trouble in Ghana. Those
who think that violence, through the use of guns
and machetes is the only path to which they can
succeed, should have a good rethink, because it
will not succeed, he added.”

The NPP Presidential Candidate further rebuked
Collins Daudu for the attacks in the Asutifi South
constituency. “You [Collins Dauda] are
contesting a woman, and you’re having to employ
guns, harmful weapons and the use of macho men in
order to win? It is a shame and a disgrace.

What kind of a man are you then? You are employing
all of these shameful tactics, not against a
fellow man, but, against a woman. This is a
disgrace. When such things happen, it means you
have already lost,” he said.

Nana Akufo-Addo further urged the constituents to
vote massively for the NPP in the upcoming polls
on December 7. “Until the ballots are cast and
counted, we should not be complacent. If you want
change, you have to go and vote for the change,”
he charged.

Source - Citifmonline

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