Ghana faces one of the most consequential and monumental cross roads in our nation’s history.
We exist in an era of unprecedented opportunity across the globe. The internet, a depository of all the worlds knowledge is at our fingertips with a click of a button. Globalization allows goods and services to travel thousands of miles unfettered as if oceans and national boundaries never existed.
We now have access to capital from almost every corner of the world. Containerization and marine transportation can now deliver to people’s door steps products one could only see on foreign commercials but never dream of touching, tasting or owning. Medical miracles are providing hope for diseases that were once a certain condemnation of death, like HIV and Ebola. Tourism and the ease of global travel connects us all in ways that were once the prerogative of a few elite and wealthy.
While the world exists in this era of unprecedented opportunity, we in Ghana are being enslaved in an era of unprecedented incompetency and mediocrity from our government. While other nations are planning to go to Mars, we are stuck in the same old predictable routine of weak leadership, corruption, nepotism, violence, disease, poverty, crumbling infrastructure, lack of discipline, lack of national focus, failing education standards and the most bizarre economic policies.
And when one man stands up to say no more to poverty, no more to small thinking, no more to corruption, no more to failing systems, no more bad schools, no more abuse of power – some say it cannot be done. When Akufo-Addo says every district in this nation deserves an industrial factory – the small minded in our government say it cannot be done. When he says, he will take less than 1% of our GDP and give it to each constituency every year so you can determine what to do with it, small minds say it cannot be done. When he says, education is the bedrock of eradicating poverty and fostering development so Senior High education should be TOTALLY FREE; those who only value ill-gotten wealth say it cannot be done.
I have always argued that, the bane of Africa and cause of our woes is bad leadership. The question I ask myself is; what are we doing about it? Will we forever identify a problem and just complain about it and banter about it on radio and Television? Or will we do something about it! Fellow citizens, an opportunity for great leadership is staring us right in the face. Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo represents a generational opportunity to truly transform our country. We cannot afford to miss this opportunity. I urge every Ghanaian to support and vote for him.
Great leadership is what is missing in our struggle for economic freedom since we attained the status of self- rule. Mediocre and bad leadership are actually prevalent and dominant in our history as a country. Here in Africa, the statistics are terrible because we have antiquated cultural practices, education systems that do not produce thinkers, poor environmental influences and poverty that dramatically increase the odds that we will end up with bad and ill-prepared leadership. But this year is different, we have an opportunity to break a general curse of bad leadership. If we fail to seize this moment, we will set back our development by a generation. It takes about a generation or sometimes two for great leaders to arise. Look at the time between the Presidency of Washington and Lincoln. Or how long it took for the U. S to have a President like FDR.
Since the fall of apartheid, South Africa has failed to find or produce another Mandela. If we as Ghanaians miss the chance to experience an Akufo Addo Presidency, I believe we will have set ourselves back by at least another 20 -30 years. Skeptics might ask how can I be so sure that we are on the cusp of a Presidency capable of making the seismic adjustments that we all dream and talk about for Ghana. Just look at the man’s past. It is all there. Akufo Addo is revered legal luminary.
He launched paradigm changing businesses; to his own personal peril, he fought oppressive military rule and saved hundreds from persecution and death. He was instrumental in fighting to bring multi-party democracy to Ghana. As a Minister, he fought to end the most horrifying Liberian civil war. He has never been accused of corruption.
This is not even half of his acheivements. In fact, it is only in a politically bankrupt country like ours can you even mention any politician in recent times and Nana in the same sentence. And we are now surprised at the national malaise we find ourselves in? The Mahama led government has totally failed as he has prevailed over the most mediocre and myopic 8 years of wasting our lives. Too many have suffered, too many have shed their blood for us to have democracy in this country. Most Ghanaians have had the blood of their families shed so we might today be fortunate enough to have the opportunity to use the ballot box instead of the barrel of gun to determine our own destinies.
Akuffo Addo will make one of the finest Presidents Ghana has ever seen. I urge you to go out and vote and let every son, daughter and sympathizer of the great country go out and support Nana, vote for Nana and protect the ballot box until every single vote is accounted for and accurately recorded. Let your love for our country wake you up from your slumber. My love for Ghana has rekindled my fighting spirit. My love for Ghana compels me to be in the field; working with majority of Ghanaians to deliver the badly needed change for our country. But most importantly my love for our country compels me to do everything that I can legally to ensure that Akuffo Addo is elected the next President of the Great Republic of Ghana. Akufo-Addo is indefatigably resilient, genuinely honest and hugely assertive. He will make an excellent President.
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