The
National Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Kofi
Adams, has stated that it does not lie in the hands of opposition leader
Nana Akufo-Addo to make Ghana ungovernable.
Mr Akufo-Addo on
Easter Sunday March 28, 2016, asked Ghanaians to disregard the violence
tag slapped on him by his political opponents saying Ghana could have
been plunged into chaos after the 2012 election petition – of which he
was the main petitioner – were he violent.
He cited his decision
to contest the results of the 2012 presidential poll at the Supreme
Court, and his subsequent acceptance of the verdict by the Court against
him, as proof of his disposition to the rule of law, rather than
violence.
But Mr Adams, in an interview with Chief Jerry Forson
on Ghana Yensom on Accra 100.5FM, said Mr Akufo-Addo is exactly the
opposite of what he claims to be. “What do you expect from Nana Addo
addressing chiefs? He will say he is not violent. Even when an accused
person is charged with theft, he hires a lawyer and pleads not guilty in
court. That does not mean Nana Addo is not guilty. Because the record
is there. His claim to fame is doing violent demonstrations,” the former
aide to Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings said.
Mr Adams said Mr
Akufo-Addo’s ‘all-die-be-die’ remarks in the lead up to the 2012
elections, further betray his violent nature. “You can always make out a
violent person from his demeanour. But to start with, Nana Akufo-Addo
cannot do anything. His violent tendencies can only go as far as within
his political party because he is worshipped like a god there. But he
can’t extend it to Ghanaians.”
“If he is listening…make it known
to him that I say we, Ghanaians, are ready for him. Ghana will not burn,
Ghana will not be destroyed, Nana Addo cannot destroy Ghana.”
His
opinion of the NPP’s flagbearer was shared by Hassan Ayariga,
flagbearer of the newly-formed All People’s Congress (APC), on the same
show.
Asked what he made of Mr Akufo-Addo’s comments, Mr Ayariga
said: “In the first place nobody tagged him as a violent person; he did
himself. His comments of ‘all die be die’ and others he has made over
the past, [are] what people have used to tag him as a violent person.
“And
if he says that if he were a violent person the country would have
turned into chaos, I don’t think that one person has the right or
audacity to turn this country [chaotic] because he or she wants to be
president of this nation.”
Mr Ayariga stated that four years ago,
when all presidential candidates convened in Kumasi to commit to
post-electoral peace prior to the 2012 poll, he personally asked Nana
Akufo-Addo to withdraw the ‘all die be die’ comment, but he refused to
do so.
“Nana did not have a choice in 2012 to have said he would
[plunge] the country into chaos. His choice was to send the matter to
court. He did that. He sent the matter to court, and that was his
choice. Nothing more, nothing less. If he had said something, he would
have been arrested, that’s a fact. Nobody is beyond arrest, and nobody
can break the rules of this country and walk free, not even the
president can do that,” added Mr Ayariga.
“So, nobody should
think that he has the power and authority to turn this country upside
down. No, let’s make it clear that this country does not belong to one
individual or a political party. This country belongs to all of us and
we must all protect it with our lives and all our power.” |
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