Stan Dogbe, an activist for the NDC, has responded to the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) assertion that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was behind President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-heckling Addo’s at the Global Citizens Festival on Saturday.
During the event, Mr Akufo-Addo gave a keynote speech while being jeered at by the audience.
He discussed the efforts made by the Ghanaian administration to eradicate poverty and preserve the country’s unity.
“Ladies and gentlemen, I extend a hearty Akwaaba, our word of welcome, from a very hospitable people. To all of you, who have come from afar and wide, to our vibrant city of Accra, Ghana’s capital, to join us on this great occasion,” the President said at the event amidst the heckling.
However, the NPP claimed that the NDC was responsible for the President’s disgrace.
Below is his full statement published on Facebook:
When it first came from some of their usual noisemakers, it wasn’t worth that attention.
I cannot believe, though not surprised, that a whole ruling party will put ‘pen to paper and make such claims!
There’s a certain reality that escapes you because of the seeming comfort one finds him/herself, and for many within the high echelons of the NPP and Government, they may not have started experiencing directly what the teeming majority are facing.
And that is because they are all living in denial. Your own financiers, genuine business people with investments in their businesses, and your relatives who do not live with you, or hardly see you, are feeling it.
This our Ghanaian economy is in tatters, as my brother Edward Omane Boamah puts it.
Stop the foolhardiness, mates. The hardship is real, and it can only increase. Nana Akufo-Addo, Bawumia and their government have absolutely no clue.
The resounding reaction of ordinary Ghanaians- not the fake and real middle class- who are feeling the brunt of the hopelessness being forced on us by a completely clueless, useless and incompetent administration, is just what it is!!!
The booing of the President off the stage, a global stage, is just the tip of the iceberg of the frustration and disappointment of the people of Ghana.
You will be ‘fooling’ yourself if you think that Saturday’s global embarrassment of Nana Addo was a political masterpiece! Check well, and you will find that the spontaneity of it, means some of your card-bearing members who are now openly expressing their disgust, were the loudest.
Instead of comforting the gullible among your supporters that this was an NDC and John Mahama-controlled reaction, think, think and think out of the box!
Ghana must be saved. John Mahama and the NDC will save Ghana, but it must not be crumbled to the ground before the redemption work starts. Get thinking and start a process to resolve the challenges Nana Addo and Bawumia have brought upon this country.
If there was no crisis management meeting on Sunday to discuss and begin to finally find ways towards salvaging the little that is left of the President’s Image because of the poverty he has plunged our people into, then it further tells why we are here.
If all you have done as a government is to send out loudmouths with a message to bleat all over and blame the NDC and John Dramani Mahama, then I can only tell the people of Ghana that, there is no solution in sight over the remaining months of this clueless and incompetent administration.
Even at the Global Concert, the Nana Addo family created their usual ‘we and them’ society. Did you see the party in the enclosed circle where, together with their children and family, it was a wild party?
Before you send out noisemakers with these irritating messages, please pause to think, think, and think about the state of the people you pretend to be leading, and caring for.
Another example of just how not to respond to a Crisis!!!
I thought Crisis Communications Management is taught.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
