A former Member of Parliament (MP) for Mampong, Francis Addai-Nimoh, has described as "unfortunate" the booing of President Akufo-Addo at a recent event.
The President who delivered a keynote address at the 2022 Global Citizen Festival at the Black Star Square in Accra was met with loud boos and hoots from spectators.
The crowd can be heard chanting ‘away, away . . . ’ immediately he started speaking.
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of orchestrating the unfortunate incident.
Deputy Director of Communications, Ernest Owusu Bempah Bonsu in a statement said "to allow politics to take centre stage at such an event and single out the President unfairly for political point scoring raises serious concerns. To put it more bluntly, it is pure evil and utter disgrace for the NDC to organize its supporters to go and shout down the President the manner it happened”.
Addai Nimoh speaking on New Day show on TV 3, Tuesday believes jeering at the President was wrong.
However, he has disagreed with his party, saying it cannot be true that the NDC was behind the "unfortunate" incident.
Meanwhile, Professor at the University of Ghana, Ransford Yaw Gyampo has condemned the action.
In a release, he stressed, “I insist we cannot throw our culture of courtesy, respect and civility to the dogs".
“The President’s speech writers who are obviously out of touch with the economic miserization of the people, keep writing flowery and utopian speeches for the President, in a manner that plays on the emotional keyboards of Ghanaians. But I end by insisting that we are still Ghanaians, a well cultured people and must go back to our values that found a decent way of expressing dissent,” Prof. Ransford Gyampo has indicated in a statement.
He concludes, “We know the lines between disagreements, criticisms and disrespect and we must keep the boundaries. We also know the lines between the PRESIDENCY and the President as well as the OFFICE and the PERSON who occupies it. Let us keep these boundaries for the sake of national cohesion and development. This is my position both as a Normative Political Scientist and a Logical Positivist.”
The crowd can be heard chanting ‘away, away . . . ’ immediately he started speaking.
The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has accused the National Democratic Congress (NDC) of orchestrating the unfortunate incident.
Deputy Director of Communications, Ernest Owusu Bempah Bonsu in a statement said "to allow politics to take centre stage at such an event and single out the President unfairly for political point scoring raises serious concerns. To put it more bluntly, it is pure evil and utter disgrace for the NDC to organize its supporters to go and shout down the President the manner it happened”.
Addai Nimoh speaking on New Day show on TV 3, Tuesday believes jeering at the President was wrong.
However, he has disagreed with his party, saying it cannot be true that the NDC was behind the "unfortunate" incident.
Meanwhile, Professor at the University of Ghana, Ransford Yaw Gyampo has condemned the action.
In a release, he stressed, “I insist we cannot throw our culture of courtesy, respect and civility to the dogs".
“The President’s speech writers who are obviously out of touch with the economic miserization of the people, keep writing flowery and utopian speeches for the President, in a manner that plays on the emotional keyboards of Ghanaians. But I end by insisting that we are still Ghanaians, a well cultured people and must go back to our values that found a decent way of expressing dissent,” Prof. Ransford Gyampo has indicated in a statement.
He concludes, “We know the lines between disagreements, criticisms and disrespect and we must keep the boundaries. We also know the lines between the PRESIDENCY and the President as well as the OFFICE and the PERSON who occupies it. Let us keep these boundaries for the sake of national cohesion and development. This is my position both as a Normative Political Scientist and a Logical Positivist.”
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Mr Nimoh. You are so embittered because Nana Addo did not give you any portfolio. Remember the party doesn't belong to you and if you become a flag bearer, which you will never become any way whose record will you campaign on? Please this and support the NPP government to succeed
Well said, i don't want to believe that if the people at the event were asked to vote for the political party of their choice, the NPP will get Zero. So it can't be true the NPP organized the hooting. What happened was a clear message to the president that the good people of Ghana are disappointed in him. Before 2017 people saw him as one person who could turn things round. Unfortunately he has squandered a golden opportunity to have made history for himself. He doesn't seem to know what is happening around him not to talk of the country as a whole. His actions and inactions creates the impression that he is not up to the task. People are eager to see his back. Others wished 2024 should have been weeks away for him to just go. From behind the scenes his own party supporters want to exit fast. The NPP will have to go through a complete overhaul after he's gone. All the efforts of kufour at making the NPP attractive has vanished. A 2017 elephant with big ears, unfortunately it doesn't listen, at best it hears but won't listen. Sad.
A confused presidential aspirant.