I cannot be an Andani or Abudu – President Akufo-Addo

President Nana Akufo-Addo has stated categorically that he has no interest whatsoever to side with either the Abudu royal family or the Andanis.

According to him, his only interest is to make sure that there is absolute peace between the two royal families.

“I have said on many occasions, I am not a Dagomba and, I, therefore, cannot be an Andani or Abudu,” the first gentleman said in his speech at the investiture of the new Ya Na at the Gbewaa Palace in Yendi in the Northern Region on Friday, 25 January 2019," he said.

Nana Akufo-Addo, however, called on the people of Dagbon to work hard to protect the peace that has been restored, leading to the installation of a new Ya Naa.

“There are a handful of people who have benefitted for a long time from the conflict and never wanted to see it end. We are not to rest on our oars and assume that every citizen of Dagbon is elated about the enskinment of a new Ya Na. Indeed, there is a new term for people who profit from conflict. They are called ‘confictpreneurs’. We have to be resolute in warding off such people by strengthening the process of reconciliation among the people of Dagbon,” he noted.