It’s not a threat, it’s a promise – Prof. Naana Jane affirms NDC will deal with corruption under Akufo-Addo

Running mate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) for the 2024 presidential election, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang has reiterated the resolve of the party to ensure that corrupt members of the current government are held to account.

According to her, the decision by herself and her flagbearer, former President John Dramani Mahama to ensure those responsible for looting the state in the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government, is one that is hinged on the principle of accountability and premised on the wishes of Ghanaians.

“John and I have agreed, that whoever has participated in the plunder of the state must be held accountable. This is not a threat; it is a promise, premised on the wishes of our citizens across the various political and social divides, and hinged on the principle of accountability,” she stated during her inaugural address at an event to officially outdoor her on Wednesday, April 24, 2024.

In the speech delivered at the UPSA Auditorium in Accra, she accused the government of promoting cronyism and nepotism to the detriment of the Ghanaian population.

“Across the political divide, across social and professional groupings, among the youth, you hear of complaints and stories concerning state capture, where this government has chosen to use its power not in the broader interest of all Ghanaians but to favour a small clique. What is that?” she questioned.

She emphasised that under the current administration, ills such as ethnocentrism have been disguised as intellectualism leading the country into a near collapse.

“Let us face the facts: The promotion of ethnocentric elitism masquerading as intellectualism; nepotism cloaked as know-how; weakness strutting as courage; and crony capitalism masked as development in freedom; shameless hypocrisy acting as objectivity… these never served a country determined to make progress at any level.

“Rather, the most significant achievement of these things has been a country in near insolvency, its natural resources such as water and land and environment in rebellion, a people harassed and intimidated into numbness and as some say cynically, bribed into silence,” she stated.

Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, a former minister for education and former Vice Chancellor for the University of Cape Coast was nominated by former President John Dramani Mahama as his running mate for the 2020 election. Their bid failed.

Four years down the line, Mr Mahama has once again settled on the educationist maintaining the possibility of her becoming Ghana’s first female vice president.



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