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A member of the governing National Democratic Congress� legal team, Chris Ackumey, has described the twice-defeated presidential candidate of the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, as a �political juggernaut� in Ghana. �I think that Nana from my point of view is a political force to reckon with in this country�, Mr. Ackumey told Radio XYZ�s news analysis programme �The Analyst� on Saturday September 7, 2013. In his view, Nana Akufo-Addo �draws a great crowd. He draws a great following. He�s got very great sympathisers and people who believe in him are too many to ignore�. �Nana cannot be [wished] away�, he warned. �If I, as an NDC member, think that he cannot be [wished] away, then I believe that it is the same with an NPP man�, Mr. Ackumey said. According to him: �Today, even those of us who are not NPP, we think that he is the political general who can take the NPP army to war at anytime�� He said Nana Akufo-Addo is cast in the mould of the late self-acclaimed �political juggernaut� of Nigeria, Mr. K. O. Mbadiwe and, therefore, urged the NPP to recognise the clout of the former Attorney General as the party debates who leads it into the 2016 elections.