The Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has chastised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for saying that he starved the Ekumfi constituency of developments because they voted against the New Patriotic Party’s parliamentary candidate in the 2020 general elections.
The NDC has said that Akuffo Addo’s comment is unfortunate and unpresidential, thus a clear reflection of his ‘vindictive’ tendencies.
President Akufo-Addo made these reckless comments while speaking to some traditional leaders from Ekumfi who called on him at the Jubilee House.
He disclosed that Ekumfi was neglected in terms of development because the constituents during the 2020 general elections voted against Francis Ato Cudjoe, whom he had appointed as Deputy Minister during his first term in office.
In an official response to his comments, Mustapha Gbande, a Deputy Secretary of the NDC, stated that it was in bad taste for President Akufo-Addo to address the kinsmen of a late former president in such an unpatriotic manner. “It seems that if the president was speaking to somebody like me, it would have been acceptable, but the president being the president of the Republic of Ghana was speaking to the family, direct family members of a late former president [John Evans Atta Mills]. So, to have made such comments, for us, is unpresidential.”
“It just reflects the nature of the president we have, who is so vindictive and prioritizes politics over development. That is why his government is failing,” Mr. Gbande added.