President Nana Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo has stated that the gloating of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) over the current economic challenges is a pyrrhic victory for the party.
According to him, the NDC will certainly lose the 2024 general election, which members of the party have begun to celebrate, hitting the rooftop as a result of the present economic difficulties.
Speaking in an interview with a radio station in the Upper East Region on Monday, August 22, President Akufo-Addo reminded the NDC that they had in times past stated categorically that he could never become President, but he eventually did.
“I know that there are people, especially in the National Democratic Congress, who have begun to celebrate already because of the difficulties that the country is facing.
“Tell them, one duck does not make a summer. One swallow does not make a summer. Tell them they should hesitate. They have been writing me off all my political career, and they say I can’t make it. I have won twice, and I am going to win again for the party in December 2024,” the President asserted.
Later on Nandom FM in the Upper West Region, President Akufo-Addo stated that he would do what is humanly possible to ensure victory for the NPP and the candidate who will be elected to lead the party, while pledging to remain neutral in the whole process in choosing the candidate.
Previous Assertions
On December 19, 2021, he expressed the desire to hand over power to an NPP government in 2025, while cautioning the party’s faithful against anything that would bring about disunity, indicating that internal party actions leading to the next election will actualise that dream or not.
“Every step taken now leading to 2024 is going to be decisive either to give us victory or not,” the President told NPP delegates in Kumasi.
The NPP was in Kumasi for the party’s annual delegates conference to take stock and undertake amendments of its constitution.
He reckoned that it would require discipline and unity for the party to achieve the dream of breaking the eight-year political cycle.
By Ernest Kofi Adu