Is It "Nana" Or "Mr" Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo?

by Nana Akyea Mensah, The Odikro.*

It has come to my attention that a certain gentleman, Addo Danquah

Akufo-Addo, Esquire, has been going with the title of "Nana" and has

very recently been elected a flag-bearer of the main opposition party

in Ghana, the New Patriotic Party, ( NPP). What even surprises me is

the fact the being a lawyer, Mr. Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo would be

extremely conversant with the provisions of the constitution and

abdicate from whatever traditional stool he occupied before contesting

for public office in compliance with the sacred provisions of our

constitution.

CHAPTER TEN of our constitution reads under Article 94. QUALIFICATIONS

AND ELIGIBILITY "( 3).A person shall not be eligible to be a member of

Parliament if he—(c) is a chief." So there is no ambiguity here. You

are either a cheif or you are not a chief. "Nana" is a title

exclusively reserved for cheifs as their official titles, so where is

Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo coming from? Is this man so attached to

this title that he is willing to flout the constitution in doing so?

The problem is that I suppose that he is not a chief and so why the

official title of Nana? On all his posters, website, facebook,

everywhere, even on the recent Electoral results sheet, Alan

Kyeremanten was simply "Mr" whilst Akufo-Addo went by "Nana". Titles

are not triffles. One way of respecting our constitution is not to

allow misleading titles that mean absolutely nothing to create the

impression that we are relaxing important provisions in our

constitution. Even if he used to be a chief or a prince or what have

you, he was deemed to have abdicated the moment he decided to contest

for public office several years ago, so why still "Nana"?

Needless to say that if up to this time he has not abdicated from his

feudal posts then he has been in violation of the constitution and the

Electoral Commission has serious questions to answer for such an

anomaly and can only redeem itself in no other way than according Mr.

Akufo-Addo his official title of "Mr" or to promptly disqualify him

from the race to teach other charlatans, who would not abdicate before

contesting like the late Mr. Dan Lartey did as ex-chief of Gomoa Lome,

a good lesson. It is not enough to cut your hair "sakora" and call

yourself a chief to qualify for an official recognition even up to the

level of the Electoral Commission of Ghana, and to be routinely called

"Nana" rather than "Mr" for all official purposes. It should take more

than an ordinary hair cut! On what legal basis is he calling himself

Nana?

Mr. Akufo-Addo must be brought into order to drop that misleading

title with immediate effect!

Forward Ever! Backwards Never!!!

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