Akufo-Addo’s gangster supporters will haunt him - Bature

Managing Editor of the Al-Hajj Newspaper, Alhaji Iddrisu Bature says despite Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s clean hands when it comes to the issue of corruption, his infamous “All-Die-Be-Die” mantra and “gangster” followers will always haunt him.

According to him, the New Patriotic Party [NPP] must decide on another flagbearer if really their objective is to win the 2016 presidential polls. He explained that, until the the two-time presidential candidate of the NPP divest himself of the rowdiness associated with him, “NPP will not come near the presidency,” not even if Nana Addo is elected again to lead the elephant fraternity.

“No one can accuse Nana Addo of corruption…I really respect him for that.”

“…If you look at the trend as far as political violence is concerned, Nana Addo, since the NPP Legon Congress which he [Nana Addo] did not get the 50%, yet got the opportunity to lead the NPP; look at what happened in Legon. And after Legon throughout 2008 and 2012, within the NPP and in the country…there is always tension. These same Nana Addo supporters pummeled the current NPP National Chairman [Paul Afoko] to the extent that the tension created forced Alan Kwadwo Kyeremanten to withdraw from the congress [2007 NPP congress] which was supposed to go on a second round…”

“…I don’t know whether it is by design, but suddenly everyone who supports Nana Addo has become radical hardliners. They are lawbreakers,” he asserted.

Speaking on Adom FM, the NDC sympathizer noted that, “Nana Addo never came out to condemn the recent clash at the NPP headquarters. Almost all the miscreants in the NPP are associated with Nana Addo."

Alhaji Bature further wondered why all ten NPP regional chairmen appear to have sold their conscience to Nana Addo and have suddenly shown a proclivity for violence.

“All ten regional chairmen are mobsters now. That is why Nana Addo was more popular and won. They can intimidate. People are scared about their lives because of Nana Addo and his followers,” he stated.

He therefore warned Ghanaians to be wary of Nana Addo’s presidential ambition saying; “That man [Nana Addo] can bring Ghana down in the next 800 days if elected as Ghana’s president. Suddenly, Nana Addo has become ‘God’ in the NPP… why?”