New Patriotic Party Presidential candidate, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo Addo has dismissed claims that he wants to move the national capital to Kyebi in the Eastern Region when elected Head of the Republic.
Last week, images of a purported leaked email attributed to Nana Addo and a member of the NPP surfaced, hinting that the NPP Presidential Nominee plans to the capital from Accra to his hometown, Kyebi.
The leaked email also purported that Nana Addo had promised a German firm a contract to build a new Township in the Eastern Region and use it as the new capital for the country.
Responding to the issues in the studios of Peace FM, Nana Addo stated emphatically that he doesn't "send e-mails. I don’t do that. I understand it well. I have an account but I don’t use it...I prefer face to face dealing.”
He explained the reports as a propaganda strategy by his political opponents to score political points.
“In fact, it’s alarming for someone to even imagine that. It’s like when they said that President Kufour would carry the sea from Accra to Kumasi. It is a pity that our opponent, that is the level of engagement they want to bring to Ghanaians. It’s like they don’t respect Ghanaians. What will make me, within a short period of presidency; move the capital from Accra to Kyebi; because I hail from there?
“I think some people don’t understand that you come to work for the progress of the country. If you are from Bole, does that mean, you must only care about people from Bole? I don’t understand why someone will come out with such malicious allegations that I come from Kyebi, so all that I’m coming to do is to elevate the position of Okyehene just because of politics. I don’t know why someone who come into Ghanaian politics and give very narrow limited vision of what the country is.”
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Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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U r mad and to crown it very ***barred word*** to have said that. See monkey
Even covering his bald head he still look terrible. I wouldn't want this piece of schit as my president.
NANA, THIS TIME ROUND MY VOTE IS FOR YOU. YOU ARE INDEED A STATESMAN
I thought meeting the media for questions was an abomination to nana Addo. At least this capital relocation allegation has made him face the media for questions for once. The presidency is not like giving bowfloat, you need to work for it. Ghanaians want you to speak to them and stop running away form issues. You could have gone to the debate to explain all these things facing other candidates.
Nana, they have said all kinds of negativities about you but have not washed. They have tried to kill you by ritual means, but you are still alive. You have rather endeared your self to the floating voters and I can assure you a massive sympathy vote. They are scared of their lives because the Office of Independent Prosecutor is haunting them.