A founding member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Nyaho Nyaho-Tamakloe, has urged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to apologise to Ghanaians for the economic hardships plaguing the country.
Dr. Nyaho-Tamakloe suggested that President Akufo-Addo should make a public apology in a manner similar to Nkrumah’s dawn broadcasts
“Kennedy Agyapong’s call, to me, is a very good call. But one thing is that you ask yourself, has it come too late or too early? To me it’s come too late,” the NPP stalwart noted.
“When there is economic hardship it’s the rank and file that suffer. There are people who cannot have a meal a day. They live on water and even water, it’s a problem, bottle or pure water you know how much it costs.
“The President, as Nkrumah used to do years ago, should come out with a dawn broadcast as Nkrumah did for all Ghanaians to listen to his apology, maybe that might turn the minds of the people,” 3news.com quoted him to have said in an interview.
He also criticized the government for failing to deliver on its promises, stating, “They gave us promises which have not been fulfilled, assurances which never came. Indeed, democracy itself, which is the foundation of our party, has been grossly destroyed.”
His remarks come in response to comments made by Assin Central MP, Kennedy Agyapong, who suggested that the NPP could improve its chances in the upcoming elections by addressing the nation’s economic woes and apologising for them.
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