President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
Veteran politician and author Asamoah Yau has given a very low assessment of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, claiming that his now fading administration will long be remembered as the worst in Ghana’s history.
Speaking to Ultimate Breakfast Show host Julius Caesar Anadem, the 80-year-old alleged that President Akufo-Addo’s leadership was smearing the league of black leaders around the world.
“I give him a minus 100 because he has no idea what a country is made of. He will be remembered for years as the worst leader in this country. The worst black leader in the entire world.”
“We will remember him for at least 50 years as we remember Kwame Nkrumah and Kufuor. Akufo-Addo will be remembered as the worst black leader in the world,” he stressed.
To buttress his argument, Asamoah Yau cited allegations of corruption and mismanagement which he said have tainted Nana Addo’s administration.
“There is no accountability, there is no discipline in the system, corruption is everywhere and waste of resources is happening every second.
He cited major achievements of the Akufo-Addo administration such as one factory per district, one ambulance per constituency and one dam per village, and asked whether Nana Addo’s administration had carried out an impact assessment of the funds it had invested in these policies.
“Are the villagers saying they are benefiting from it? They are suffering from all this,” he argues.
In his opinion, the president is not serving any aspirations other than his own personal interests.
“Akufo-Addo has no foresight for the people. He always thinks only of himself. I, Akufo-Addo. Arrogance, pride… When I, Akufo-Addo, come, the chiefs should rise up and greet me,” he mimed.
Asamoah Yau called on presidential candidates to submit manifestos detailing how Ghana can become self-reliant.
He maintained that there was no excuse for Ghana to depend on foreign aid to meet basic needs when the country has abundant arable land and mineral resources.
“The declaration we need is one that ensures we have these resources and I have come here to ensure that we use our energy and our wisdom to harness them, to feed ourselves first and then export the surplus so that we can buy what we cannot produce domestically,” he suggested.
Asamoah Yau further vowed to support a total ban on all goods that can be produced locally.
He called for decisive leadership that would enforce the country’s laws at all costs and used sophisticated critical thinking to solve the country’s long-standing challenges.