A leading member of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko has hit back at the flagbearer of All Peoples Congress (APC), Hassan Ayariga.
"I hear an "opposition" presidential candidate has started attacking Nduom and Nana Addo. He says at 72, the latter should not be staying in the house his father built. Is this supposed to be an attack?!? If Nana Addo, one of Ghana's most successful lawyers, were materialistic he would have probably owned 30 houses by now plus others abroad" he wrote on his facebook page.
This follows comments made by Hassan Ayariga against the flagbearers of the NPP, Nana Akufo Addo and the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Paa Kwesi Nduom.
Speaking in an interview on an Accra-based radio station, the APC flagbearer described himself as the best candidate to win the 2016 elections.
According to him, “I made my first $1million at the age of 24 without working with any government. I have never been in a government position; I have never worked as a Minister for you to say I have stolen government money. I built my first house at the age of 22…; at age 72, my senior and my father, Nana Akufo-Addo, is still living in his father’s house. At this age 72, I would have retired from politics and been advising young men of this country to move this country forward and not contest with them anymore....So, if they go round telling Ghanaians Ghana is in crisis and Ghana has become a difficult place for us to live and that we need a change, yes, let’s accept and believe that we need change but that change will not be a change from the NDC to any of them because if Ghana is in crisis, these people are part of the problem why Ghana is in crisis today, because they were given the opportunity to serve and have served,”
However, Gabby disagrees.
This is what he said on his facebook page said:
I hear an "opposition" presidential candidate has started attacking Nduom and Nana Addo. He says at 72, the latter should not be staying in the house his father built. Is this supposed to be an attack?!? If Nana Addo, one of Ghana's most successful lawyers, were materialistic he would have probably owned 30 houses by now plus others abroad.
What he has done is to improve upon what his father left him, dedicating all his energies to pursuing happiness for the greatest number of people. He is overly generous with whatever wealth he gets. He is not greedy. He does not possess even a credit card and does not have a foreign account.
Yes! He owns three houses, one built by his father (Nima), another built by his mother (Kyebi) and one he built (East Legon), where he lived as MP and Minister. Ghana is blessed to have in 2017 a president who is not driven by material things for himself but for all citizens of his nation. He is honest, he is selfless and he is not corrupt. He is just a simple man, with a big heart and a big mind.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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This is the difference between Europe and Africa. Those countries create opportunities for their citizens, opportunities in study, in business, in research et cetera, that is why their societies advance rapidly. A man can build a house and towards the end of his life if he thinks it is too much to handle he sells it and moves to a care home with his money and has his peace of mind. None of his children will go contesting his decision because they may not even be interested in living in that city, let alone house anymore. Because the opportunities in their countries give them the room to move live and work where they can thrive; a woman can be childless and make a name for herself because she writes books read all over the world, teenagers can become whizkids at 17 because their talent was recognized early and supported by parents and teachers and society. In Africa we bicker about how many houses we have built, how many cars we own, how many children we have, how many women we can con and so on, because our only talent is to stifle others when we see them succeeding. And that is precisely the kind of chaff being put out there by Ayariga. In any decent society, Gabby need not respond to this man.
Ayeriga well done, keep it up.
Honestly but for cheap politics appendages of NDC like Ayariga is not fit to lace the boot of Nana. Ghanaians must ask him what hr did to his mother in bawku.ask him if the poor woman is alive?
I wonder why Gabby would waste his time to explain why NAD lives in his father's house. What is wrong in living in a house you inherited from your father?? It is not a a chamber and hall in a compound house but a beautiful house built from his father's labour. Maybe Ayariga does not know that it is the duty of parents to live their child a legacy, education, property etc. It is obvious that Ayariga's father was as ***barred word*** and h*o*p*e*l*e*s*s as himself and left him nothing not even a brain. A grown man licking the ***barred word*** of his fellow man and making a mockery of himself because of bread and butter. I really feel sorry for his family, really sorry.....
NANA AKUFFO ADDO HAS BEATEN ATTA MILLS AND MAHAMA BEFORE .WHY CANT HE BEAT HIS BOY MAHAMA THIS TIME .IF HE BEAT MAHAM AND HIS BOSS OF BLESED MEMORY.
we have to be very carefully about the way we do our politics in Ghana especially we the youth. Pls we need to study our holy BIBLE and QURAN very well to guide us. POLITICS IS not ABOUT INSULTS PLS.
Folks watch out. Anybody who writes on this platform in the name of defending Nana or NPP and in turn denigrate or insult Northerners, Gas and Ewes, is a NDC person. @Bob -2 is NDC number 1. They did this same trick in the last election and still doing it. No true NPP will do that. NDC using all foul means, even dividing this nation, just to win election. Let's all be alert about NDC tricks.
There are people are extremely good at spinning things. I am not sure in you have been in politics from your youthful era up to date and cannot boast of one building it implies you are not greedy. According to those old friends of nana addo , the man was a very use.less character in his youthful days. He was extravagant, wasteful and essentially a drug addtict who spend all his monies on drugs and women. Therefore such a ***barred word*** person would always end up not having his own house at the age of 72. Not having a house at his age doesn't mean he has been caring for anyone. We know of so many children of rich men who have made so much money yet the have wasted the money living debauchery lives. This is what nana addo is. I am sure Gabby himself has a house, does it make him greedy to own his own house. I don't know why people defend the indefensible. Over fifty years in politics without your own house suggest you are use.less and I don't see why Ghanaians should hand the country into the hands of such a use.less character.
Mr.***barred word*** Bob which part of Ghana do you reside because if you live in Accra; Kumasi or T'di you will notice that there are very old houses built in the 1900's which belong to families whose families are all well to do people before this Ayariga drug dealer became this so called rich man besides we all hope the tax people investigate this jaguar joker for his claims ; perhaps at the time you and Ayariga's family were living in shack houses with no toilet facilities ; the children of these house including Nana Addo cannot throw these houses away besides in japan you do not throw your family hose away but rather go and live there if you are old ; these houses are in highly sort after areas ; some families tend to rennovate these houses and live in them or prefer to lease these houses or rent their own houses out get extra income; go to Accra today many families have leased their family houses out to Banks and share the proceeds or go and build elsewhere or prefer to stay in these houses besides is there any law against living in your fathers or mothers house; Nana Addo has a house and not a greedy man to acquire over 30 houses ; WHY DO YOU NEED THESE HOUSES FOR ? APART FROM BEING GREEDY AND HAVING SO MANY CHILDREN THE VERY TRAITS OF NORTHNERS TODAY !!!!!!!! : Nana Addo will not still state cash to build himself another house because he does not need another house besides the man has only three grown up children ; afterall when you die do you do not carry these houses into your grave ; ask these GREEDY northners to help their woman folks from being treated like slaves as Kayayei ; tell Ayariga and these northners in good positions who live in the capitals to help generate employment for these poor women who flee from the north to the south because it is a disgrace to see these women work so hard like slaves ; get very little and are used like doormats in Accra ; Nana Addo is not the type who goes round Accra seeking to sleep every PIG in ladies skirt; Nana Addo is not the type to still from Ghanaians to buy houses in Dubai ; lie to women and go round having so many children with women because the full called Jon Mahama wants to taste the underbelly of a woman .
Ayariga is best known for excessive coughing at presidential debates and selling out the PNC to the ndc the last time. I will not be surprised if he sells out his own party to the NDC again. Who is to stop him. A man's life does not consist in the abundance of "materialistic" things.