Nana Akufo-Addo, Attorney General and Minister for Justice, says he has no intentions of contesting the Presidency in the 2004 elections, reports The Accra Mail.
The AG made the revelation in an interview with the Accra Mail this week, when he was responding to the question; “Do you still hold ambitions for higher officer than the Attorney General?” Nana Akufo-Addo, in a response said, “To be honest, my mind hasn’t gone nearly that far.”
He said the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) immediate and most pressing task is to make sure that the Ghanaian people at the end of the party’s current four-year term, are satisfied that the NPP which came in on the programme of reform, revitalisation and renewal of the nation, was able to deliver and improve the conditions of life of the people of this country.
According to him, it is extremely important to recognise that there will be no NPP future if this first NPP government does not succeed.
“So far as I’m concerned, that is the hard political fact. If the President’s government doesn’t succeed, the rest of us don’t have a future. None of us can have a space to operate unless this first NPP government is seen by the nation to have succeeded. We can’t dominate the future if we begin with a failure.”
He said the issue at stake is the NPP, but not any individual, and for that reason he is very clear in his mind despite speculations that apparently, he is a candidate for 2004.
“I’m not a candidate, I’m not preparing myself to be a candidate and I would be very very surprised, the way that the President is conducting himself and managing the affairs of the country that there is going to be any challenger to him in the year 2004. I would be astonished,” the Attorney-General stated.
