The Great Akufo-Addo

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Eko 12 years ago

Interesting and insightful opinion piece about how an exciting politician can go from the 'audacity of hope' to the 'austerity of hope' once they do their time in the machine. However this analogy was a bit much for me: "His ...
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Interesting and insightful opinion piece about how an exciting politician can go from the 'audacity of hope' to the 'austerity of hope' once they do their time in the machine. However this analogy was a bit much for me: "His confidence was as potent as the gas released in Auschwitz and it had all of us at the National Theatre on that faithful day in 2001, "dying" for him as you'll directly translate from twi" As much as Addo currently annoys me, being compared to a Nazi concentration camp seems a bit cruel.
Old Dirty Bastard 12 years ago

The Akyem dwarf is a loser.

The Akyem dwarf is a loser.
Desmond 12 years ago

How great is Nana wen he lost in 8regions in 2008 and lost again in the same 8 regions?How great can a dwarf be.We can keep adjusting every platform where the president have to speak.

How great is Nana wen he lost in 8regions in 2008 and lost again in the same 8 regions?How great can a dwarf be.We can keep adjusting every platform where the president have to speak.
KOLA, INSIDE LONDON. 12 years ago

You put up a very insightful article and well balanced one but discrediting it with the reference to Auschwitz Gas. Be careful of the use of such references as it may have some repercussions.

You put up a very insightful article and well balanced one but discrediting it with the reference to Auschwitz Gas. Be careful of the use of such references as it may have some repercussions.
bex 12 years ago

Kola, you are very observant. I hit a stop brake and reversed when I read that. Then I stopped reading entirely. We ought to be sensitive when we talk.

Thanks.

Kola, you are very observant. I hit a stop brake and reversed when I read that. Then I stopped reading entirely. We ought to be sensitive when we talk.

Thanks.
Greedy Bastards 12 years ago

You of all people, an ewe fool since when did you start empathizing with peoples feelings? You heartless son of a whore have used far more worst similes than this well intentioned, and selfdeprecating author. You are so disin ...
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You of all people, an ewe fool since when did you start empathizing with peoples feelings? You heartless son of a whore have used far more worst similes than this well intentioned, and selfdeprecating author. You are so disingenuous and deceitful fool no one comes close to your foul mouth. Race-baiter like you shouldn't worry about Jews because they're very intelligent, and well equipped to snort out hitlers like yourself.
Kojo T 12 years ago

Why tribalize all. Sam Okudjeto is Ewe but is NPP

Why tribalize all. Sam Okudjeto is Ewe but is NPP
Atsiglini 12 years ago

When a donkey laughs at an ape it means a lot. You are indeed a greedy bastard.

When a donkey laughs at an ape it means a lot. You are indeed a greedy bastard.
The Israelites 12 years ago

Nana Akufo-Addo is the greatest African politician I know. This man has become an asset to Africa and I will always be motivated by him. For now people who are full of psychological problems will continue to insult this great ...
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Nana Akufo-Addo is the greatest African politician I know. This man has become an asset to Africa and I will always be motivated by him. For now people who are full of psychological problems will continue to insult this great son of Africa. You are a blessing, Nana! STAY BLESSED!!! Thank you Selorm. Mawu ne yrawo!!
GOAHEAD 12 years ago

NPP ARE SORE LOSERS

NPP ARE SORE LOSERS

Mother Ghana 12 years ago

Nana Addo has completely disgrace the entire NPP folks, so what makes you call him great. Whatever! You may be short of words or a better caption for this article.

Nana Addo has completely disgrace the entire NPP folks, so what makes you call him great. Whatever! You may be short of words or a better caption for this article.
Awura Ama 12 years ago

You are not good for Ghana.Don't call yourself mother Ghana.You are an enemy of this great land.May the spirits of the land deal with you.

You are not good for Ghana.Don't call yourself mother Ghana.You are an enemy of this great land.May the spirits of the land deal with you.
BARIMA 12 years ago

NANA ADDO IS GREAT B,COS HE FUNDLES WITH WOMEN BOTTOCKS,( ASS ) AND TRY TO STEAL FEELINGS FROM PEOPLES WIVES. WHAT A NATION ?

NANA ADDO IS GREAT B,COS HE FUNDLES WITH WOMEN BOTTOCKS,( ASS ) AND TRY TO STEAL FEELINGS FROM PEOPLES WIVES. WHAT A NATION ?
Victor A. Young 12 years ago

The NPP is not only arguing about the presidential elections but parliamentary as well. Both presidential and parliamentary results are being challenged. The NDC have been rigging elections since 1992 and it's time we put a s ...
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The NPP is not only arguing about the presidential elections but parliamentary as well. Both presidential and parliamentary results are being challenged. The NDC have been rigging elections since 1992 and it's time we put a stop to it!!!!!
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

I love and enjoy excellent pieces of writing like my Denkyira food. You write well, and I commend you for that. That said, I find your tongue-in-cheek article bordering on the very thing that you sought to critique: demonizi ...
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I love and enjoy excellent pieces of writing like my Denkyira food. You write well, and I commend you for that. That said, I find your tongue-in-cheek article bordering on the very thing that you sought to critique: demonizing political opponents! The paragraph that I have quoted below is overshadowed by the demonizing snippets that you applied to characterize Akufo-Addo. You obviously don't like him!You lost the marbles of your gems in the end.

"For from what I am seeing, any stance taken by either the NPP or the NDC on an issue becomes the gospel which is sermonized into a creed for what could easily be one half of the population of the nation. The sharp dichotomy in views, which is fashioned at the whims and emotional commotions of political party leaders and party propaganda machineries, is very dangerous for our country. Until our people make that choice to question things for themselves and not just tow a party line, it is important we do a critical study of our so-called leaders to know their true motives because they could well be propagating strife among us for no good reason, if there is ever a good reason for strife."
Cantankerous 12 years ago

Unfortunately there appears to be a growing consensus amongst the party faithful that blind loyalty to a defeated flagbearer is not the best way forward.The whispering has started. The NPP really needs to focus on the coming ...
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Unfortunately there appears to be a growing consensus amongst the party faithful that blind loyalty to a defeated flagbearer is not the best way forward.The whispering has started. The NPP really needs to focus on the coming 2016 election above all else. Getting bogged down in litigation is gross misallocation of time and resources pure and simple. The NPP needs to go back to the drawing board. Time is of essence.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

It is the right to do: court! Whatever the outcomes, the next elections will be better.

It is the right to do: court! Whatever the outcomes, the next elections will be better.
bex 12 years ago

I stopped reading after the mention of "gas," but I don't think I will classify the piece as well written. This is a feature article--not how we write here on the fly. He wrote it, read and re-read it before sending it in for ...
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I stopped reading after the mention of "gas," but I don't think I will classify the piece as well written. This is a feature article--not how we write here on the fly. He wrote it, read and re-read it before sending it in for publishing. Glaring mistakes like "faithful day" should not have occurred. Or maybe he is trying to say something that I did not get.
Painstsil 12 years ago

wonderful writing. "fateful day" anyone could make such a mistake

wonderful writing. "fateful day" anyone could make such a mistake
AGYA KOW 12 years ago

Akadu,you claim the writer lost the marbles at the end simply because you did not like the anti climax of this piece.He starts by expressing his admiration for the man.His(Akuffo Addo) eloquence and gracefulness and how he d ...
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Akadu,you claim the writer lost the marbles at the end simply because you did not like the anti climax of this piece.He starts by expressing his admiration for the man.His(Akuffo Addo) eloquence and gracefulness and how he devoured the then candidate Mahama in a debate.I therefore find it difficult to agree with you when you say he dislikes the man

ATEABISA 12 years ago

GREAT?.GREAT FOR WHAT? .MAYBE GREAT FOR SNIFFING COCAINE & SMOKING WEE.GREAT FOR REMAINING SILENT ON ISSUES THAT BOTHER ON HIS QUESTIONABLE MORAL CHARACTER. GREAT FOR HIS INABILITY TO DEFEND HIS OWN CURRICULUM VITAE OR RESUME ...
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GREAT?.GREAT FOR WHAT? .MAYBE GREAT FOR SNIFFING COCAINE & SMOKING WEE.GREAT FOR REMAINING SILENT ON ISSUES THAT BOTHER ON HIS QUESTIONABLE MORAL CHARACTER. GREAT FOR HIS INABILITY TO DEFEND HIS OWN CURRICULUM VITAE OR RESUME. HE IS RATHER A DISGRACE TO THE INTELLIGENCE HE CLAIMS HE HAS.
BIssy 12 years ago

How dare you say this stuff about Nana. You know Nana Akufo Addo is a self made man. He made all his money in the private sector. What do you say about your NDC leaders and followers. They are all a bunch of thieves. All the ...
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How dare you say this stuff about Nana. You know Nana Akufo Addo is a self made man. He made all his money in the private sector. What do you say about your NDC leaders and followers. They are all a bunch of thieves. All the money that the NDC leaders and followers have are all ill gotten wealth. NDC folks are a disgrace to Mother Ghana. Shame on you all.
BARIMA 12 years ago

YOU ARE A REAL ASSSSSHOLE. STUPID IDIOT FOR INSULTING NDC. ABOA FU NU LIKE YOU. WHO IS NANA ?

YOU ARE A REAL ASSSSSHOLE. STUPID IDIOT FOR INSULTING NDC. ABOA FU NU LIKE YOU. WHO IS NANA ?
SHIT 12 years ago

HE IS A GREAT TO YOU NOT WE BUSH BASTARD HE IS A LOOSER AND SHOULD GO BACK TO HIS VILLAGE THAT AKYIM.

HE IS A GREAT TO YOU NOT WE BUSH BASTARD HE IS A LOOSER AND SHOULD GO BACK TO HIS VILLAGE THAT AKYIM.
Dovlo 12 years ago

Stupid you Ewe bastard. You are afraid to go back home for the Ewe Jujuman is waiting for you.

Stupid you Ewe bastard. You are afraid to go back home for the Ewe Jujuman is waiting for you.
BIssy 12 years ago

Well said.

Well said.
FRANK 12 years ago

Sadly,many peple did not get the term,"Great" The writer is not praising Akufo Addo per se.He is rather talking about his emptiness.Who doesn´t knows that this old man is a man of self importance? This piece is analogy which ...
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Sadly,many peple did not get the term,"Great" The writer is not praising Akufo Addo per se.He is rather talking about his emptiness.Who doesn´t knows that this old man is a man of self importance? This piece is analogy which needs that has a deep understanding.Whatever it is, Akufo Addo will go down in the history of mother Ghana as the most violent and foolish man.We are waiting for te court to make him the president.Yaka gbomo!
Issah Seidu Sulemana Bawku 12 years ago

Please your article started on a good note,but at the tail end you mistakenly wrote that '.....one man's vituperation could put the nation on edge......' It is not one man almost all the 5M+ who voted for the NPP are solidly ...
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Please your article started on a good note,but at the tail end you mistakenly wrote that '.....one man's vituperation could put the nation on edge......' It is not one man almost all the 5M+ who voted for the NPP are solidly behind the legal battle ensuing at the SC. JM also got 5M+ slighly ahead of the NPP it is painful if this was gained through unfair means. Nana Addo is indeed great and has demonstrated typical Ashanti or is it Akan fashion far from the propaganda churned out by the NDC that he was a war monger. Come next elections i will want to see surveys conducted to expose lies instead of abusive language. For instance if a lie is told against a person who cannot extricate him/her self from that entanglement, there's a tendency to resort to abusive language.
Quaye Mensah 12 years ago

Akufo is surely great and he has the potential to mastermind the turnaround strategy for the country. He is a strong and hard working leader. He has direction and knows what makes a country tick. Unfortunately the NDC using ...
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Akufo is surely great and he has the potential to mastermind the turnaround strategy for the country. He is a strong and hard working leader. He has direction and knows what makes a country tick. Unfortunately the NDC using dramatic trickly has poison the illiterate mind of many Ghanaians to gulp their falsehood. We wait and see if Mahama can rescue us in this time of poisonous despair!
Cantankerous 12 years ago

Unfortunately it is only a matter of time before the NPP faithful turn their anger against the NPP leadership and Nana Akufo Addo for taking them on a "wild goose chase". The fallout from this futile litigation embarked upon ...
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Unfortunately it is only a matter of time before the NPP faithful turn their anger against the NPP leadership and Nana Akufo Addo for taking them on a "wild goose chase". The fallout from this futile litigation embarked upon by Nana Akufo Addo et al is going to be really nasty. I suspect that ex president Kuffour recognizes this reality and has wisely chosen to be less than enthusiastic about this ill advised venture. The immediate biggest challenge facing the NPP is how to help the defeated flagbearer overcome or live with his bruised and battered ego so that the NPP can get on with the all important businesses of preparing and winning the next election. Already much valuable time has been lost as the NPP remains in a state of paralysis bogged down by litigation. The countdown to the 2016 election has already started. The NPP leadership cannot seem to hear the ticking of the clock because of all the noise in the court room!

Seymour Gray, LL. 12 years ago

1.8: Who is Nana Addo? Nana Addo possesses grace, a grace filled with adiabatic-gravity. Adiabatic-action consists of a cool-action; action without friction. To possess a cool-grace often it is a result of responding to the ...
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1.8: Who is Nana Addo? Nana Addo possesses grace, a grace filled with adiabatic-gravity. Adiabatic-action consists of a cool-action; action without friction. To possess a cool-grace often it is a result of responding to the leadership of Spiritual-Allies; Nana Addo had as wise, trusted, charismatic-mentors his father and Nkrumah who were his models and examples to emulate; both men were powerful-forces that accompanied and led the development of Nana Addo’s personality and drive. Nana Addo possess an inner ability to solve problems; it may have come from the mathematical mind of his father, but Nana Addo possesses a unique ability to create solutions. His ability to create solutions gives height and mass to Nana Addo’s Tall-Confidence.
With Nana Addo’s return to Ghana and the Ghana political scene Akufo-Addo began to reveal himself as a uniquely developed leader; Akufo Addo believed in what he was doing and that he could accomplish anything he endeavored. He began to strive with a systematic focus and he began to think in a detailed way about the intricacies of becoming both successful and becoming a good Servant-Leader. He would join and organize; he would endeavor to organize with a basic consensus. Akufo-Addo has become a servant-leader for the people of Ghana. As a servant-leader Nana Addo maintains a spiritual-connection with the people; Nana Addo’s spiritual-connection has grown into the covenant that exists between the People and God. The people’s-theurgy, the people’s-magic, provides an uplifting and a divine in the Gestalt of his mental-posture. Nana Addo has become a successful leader because he became proficient at prayer and meditation. By concentrating on prayer and meditation he has been able to focus on the presence-of-the-present, the here and now. With Nana Addo’s entry into the University of Ghana; Nana Addo focused on some of the choices that might go into the development of his career. His father had followed the paths of the law and politics and Nana Addo was thinking those areas would set the course he would follow also. Nana Addo realized that learning leadership would be important. Nana Addo began by thinking about and creating steps-and-stages he felt would promote succeeding. He thought about his father’s comment about building Tall-Confidence. Even then at Legon, Nana Addo generated others who followed his leadership. In Nana Addo’s personal life he generated Tall-Confidence with prayer and by meditating and thinking deeply. The more the prayer gains in focus, the deeper Nana Addo is able to immerse in the suspended-moment; it is in these moments that he often comes to solutions of problems he has been contemplating. Often, Nana Addo envisions his thoughts about the National-Dreams of the People, while maintaining his focus on setting a course that would facilitate obtaining the objects and goals necessary to fulfill the Peoples’-Dreams. While envisioning probable goal implementations he has moved imminently close to his purpose, the presidency. In Akufo-Addo’s endeavors for the People he maintains a positive-attitude and a persistent-persuasion in obtaining his objectives and ultimate-goals. In my association with Nana Addo at Legon Campus I caught glimpses of a deeper structure in his presence, there was something profound in his approach to his being; I got the feeling early in my friendship with him that Nana Addo understood where his life’s journey would lead him. Every good person want to improve themselves, but no one can accomplish great things by themselves. Of course Nana Addo knew this, he knew he would have to work assiduously with other people and of course when he practiced international law in Paris he was succeeding financially working with the people in his law firm, but Nana Addo wanted to accomplish truly great things for the people of Ghana. He knew he had the potential of great accomplishment within him and he realized he would have to multiply himself to catch the dreams floating above Ghana and see them accomplished. Akufo-Addo knows multiple-effort and so he has taught himself the art of joining with the people he meets, his constituency, to increase their ability to accomplish. Akufo-Addo has masteredthe method of accomplishing great things; a key is to open the doors of Mastermind-Alliances. He returned from Paris to Ghana in 1975, he ran for Parliament and became an MP—1997--2005. He was actively involved in the formation of the NPP in 1992, with the formation of the Danquah –Busia Memorial Club. When political parties became allowed under the ruling military dictatorship the NPP became one of the first political parties allowed to function. Akufo-Addo understands that in a democracy great accomplishment needs multiple-effort and he has been attempting to lead all of Ghana to the necessity of truly working together and you know what I mean. Everyone wants to improve themselves, but many people; even most people do not understand how to accomplish well, their own self-improvement. All people need to utilize joint-effort. In the political field the value of joint-effort is more easily seen, but many people do not even vote and that means they do not count; they do not appear on a voting statistic. To make yourself count you must vote and more, you need to join a party that wants to and knows how to improve the economy sufficiently to admit you, to improve the economy so that you have a job. Akufo-Addo is a trained economist, he knows how to improve the economy so that most people will become part of the economy; more people will have jobs; Akufo-Addo knows how to make jobs happen; join Akufo-Addo, join those who want to see accomplishment on a grand scale, co-operate with Akufo-Addo, join those who are working diligently to improve Ghana. Akufo-Addo is a great, prepared leader; Akufo-Addo is your leader, join your leader, join Akufo-Addo; all Ghanaians need to team-up to perfect their use of mutual-effort, we must multiply our ability to achieve and to achieve through a leader who has come home to serve the people, to make dreams a reality. We need a good leader who is not a leader, like most of our political leaders, who have come to find and receive financial reward. I know Nana Addo. At Legon I have walked with him and I came to realize that Nana Addo has the ability to meditate deeply while doing as unassuming an activity as walking to the library or the Logia.
In New York City, in Harlem, there is a street called Strivers’ Row, I think of that now as I remember Nana Addo. Nana Addo is a striver who bears the torch of self-confident-initiative. Nana Addo maintained a- directed-effort-to-generate-success with those he worked with and for. Akufo-Addo planned and controlled his efforts to become successful; he used positive thought, initiative and will. Nana Addo would always strive no matter what he was doing, weather it was playing football or practicing international law in Paris. He was always striving, always working hard, always trying to do his best and always making his best better. Akufo-Addo is striving to serve the people of Ghana he’s trying to lead the people to economic success. Akufo-Addo is determined to produce a viable First World economy in Ghana. Akufo-Addo has been preparing himself to lead this drive all his life and he knows how to better and build an economy that will make a First World economy happen. Akufo-Addo’s goal is to provide opportunity for the people of Ghana. With the opportunity that Akufo-Addo is determined to provide, and he will provide the leadership that will produce jobs and the opportunity for enterprise and entrepreneurship. He will strive for that goal until it becomes part of the identity of Ghanaians. We must learn to always strive, to work using initiative guided by enterprise. We all must learn the true meaning of initiative, which is an ability to originate and follow a plan of action. We must direct our desires and our will to goal-accomplishment. We must concentrate and make our endeavors guided and augmented, to the point that our endeavors become better sustained and lastingly motivated. We should emulate Akufo-Addo, he is the master, the teacher and he knows the multiple lessons of initiative well. Akufo-Addo’s knowledge of the value of initiative is not something Nana Addo was born with, it is an acquired knowledge and he acquired the knowledge of initiative because he knows the value of initiative; he knows initiative produces success. Leadership is what initiative produces and success is what proficient-initiative produces. As Ghana’s president Akufo-Addo will work with the leadership of the NPP, (soon to be Parliament’s predominant party), and he and the NPP will provide governmental-initiative; he will propose legislation that will improve the economy and attract enterprise and help develop large scale businesses that are started and run by Ghanaians.
I realized that Nana Addo was someone who had often thought about what the meaning of his life should become. Nana Addo possesses a powerful world within him. It has always seemed to me that his will has come from a force generated through effort. Nana Addo placed force behind his effort-to-accomplish. He derives from the charismatic mentors he has emulated and from something bestowed upon Akufo-Addo by his desire to advocate for the People. There is an African saying: “When there is no enemy within, an external enemy cannot harm you.” Nana Addo has no enemy within; he has Tall-Confidence and is a champion.
Nana Addo’s Tall-Confidence comes from something Nana Addo believes. He believes he can accomplish what he has set out to do; to bring the economy of Ghana to the status of a First World economy. This accomplishment would be the beginning of his principal achievement-goal, which is to become President, establish the NPP as Parliament leader and improve the economy until it becomes a First World economy. Nana Addo has uncovered the secret nature of analyzing and understanding how to produce success. Here, at the stage before finally becoming stands a statistical goal: the analytical measurements of a First World economy. Akufo-Addo has the unique ability to analyze the requirements for the production of a First World economy and Akufo-Addo possesses the understanding and ability to produce the goal. Akufo-Addo is not afraid to work to solve any problem, whether it is economic, or political. This is because Akufo-Addo knows he can summon groupings that can devise the solution to any problem.
When he returned to Ghana Nana Addo began thinking more and more as a Servant-Leader, it was then he began to lead on a broad scale. The path that Nana Addo began following is a well thought out path; he has focused on reaching destinations, as well as following his chosen course of leadership. Nana Addo has been able to do this because he believes in himself; this perception causes him to believe he can accomplish the things he sets as goals. Akufo-Addo wants to lead a 60%-plus constituency, while growing Ghana’s GNP.
Seymour Gray, LL.B. (USA) 12 years ago

1.8: Who is Nana Addo? Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo possesses grace, a grace filled with adiabatic-gravity. Adiabatic-action consists of a cool-action; action without friction. To possess a cool-grace often it is a result of ...
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1.8: Who is Nana Addo? Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo possesses grace, a grace filled with adiabatic-gravity. Adiabatic-action consists of a cool-action; action without friction. To possess a cool-grace often it is a result of responding to the leadership of Spiritual-Allies; Nana Addo had as wise, trusted, charismatic-mentors his father and Nkrumah who were his models and examples to emulate; both men were powerful-forces that accompanied and led the development of Nana Addo’s personality and drive. Nana Addo possess an inner ability to solve problems; it may have come from the mathematical mind of his father, but Nana Addo possesses a unique ability to create solutions. His ability to create solutions gives height and mass to Nana Addo’s Tall-Confidence.
With Nana Addo’s return to Ghana and the Ghana political scene Akufo-Addo began to reveal himself as a uniquely developed leader; Akufo Addo believed in what he was doing and that he could accomplish anything he endeavored. He began to strive with a systematic focus and he began to think in a detailed way about the intricacies of becoming both successful and becoming a good Servant-Leader. He would join and organize; he would endeavor to organize with a basic consensus. Akufo-Addo has become a servant-leader for the people of Ghana. As a servant-leader Nana Addo maintains a spiritual-connection with the people; Nana Addo’s spiritual-connection has grown into the covenant that exists between the People and God. The people’s-theurgy, the people’s-magic, provides an uplifting and a divine in the Gestalt of his mental-posture. Nana Addo has become a successful leader because he became proficient at prayer and meditation. By concentrating on prayer and meditation he has been able to focus on the presence-of-the-present, the here and now. With Nana Addo’s entry into the University of Ghana; Nana Addo focused on some of the choices that might go into the development of his career. His father had followed the paths of the law and politics and Nana Addo was thinking those areas would set the course he would follow also. Nana Addo realized that learning leadership would be important. Nana Addo began by thinking about and creating steps-and-stages he felt would promote succeeding. He thought about his father’s comment about building Tall-Confidence. Even then at Legon, Nana Addo generated others who followed his leadership. In Nana Addo’s personal life he generated Tall-Confidence with prayer and by meditating and thinking deeply. The more the prayer gains in focus, the deeper Nana Addo is able to immerse in the suspended-moment; it is in these moments that he often comes to solutions of problems he has been contemplating. Often, Nana Addo envisions his thoughts about the National-Dreams of the People, while maintaining his focus on setting a course that would facilitate obtaining the objects and goals necessary to fulfill the Peoples’-Dreams. While envisioning probable goal implementations he has moved imminently close to his purpose, the presidency. In Akufo-Addo’s endeavors for the People he maintains a positive-attitude and a persistent-persuasion in obtaining his objectives and ultimate-goals. In my association with Nana Addo at Legon Campus I caught glimpses of a deeper structure in his presence, there was something profound in his approach to his being; I got the feeling early in my friendship with him that Nana Addo understood where his life’s journey would lead him. Every good person want to improve themselves, but no one can accomplish great things by themselves. Of course Nana Addo knew this, he knew he would have to work assiduously with other people and of course when he practiced international law in Paris he was succeeding financially working with the people in his law firm, but Nana Addo wanted to accomplish truly great things for the people of Ghana. He knew he had the potential of great accomplishment within him and he realized he would have to multiply himself to catch the dreams floating above Ghana and see them accomplished. Akufo-Addo knows multiple-effort and so he has taught himself the art of joining with the people he meets, his constituency, to increase their ability to accomplish. Akufo-Addo has masteredthe method of accomplishing great things; a key is to open the doors of Mastermind-Alliances. He returned from Paris to Ghana in 1975, he ran for Parliament and became an MP—1997--2005. He was actively involved in the formation of the NPP in 1992, with the formation of the Danquah –Busia Memorial Club. When political parties became allowed under the ruling military dictatorship the NPP became one of the first political parties allowed to function. Akufo-Addo understands that in a democracy great accomplishment needs multiple-effort and he has been attempting to lead all of Ghana to the necessity of truly working together and you know what I mean. Everyone wants to improve themselves, but many people; even most people do not understand how to accomplish well, their own self-improvement. All people need to utilize joint-effort. In the political field the value of joint-effort is more easily seen, but many people do not even vote and that means they do not count; they do not appear on a voting statistic. To make yourself count you must vote and more, you need to join a party that wants to and knows how to improve the economy sufficiently to admit you, to improve the economy so that you have a job. Akufo-Addo is a trained economist, he knows how to improve the economy so that most people will become part of the economy; more people will have jobs; Akufo-Addo knows how to make jobs happen; join Akufo-Addo, join those who want to see accomplishment on a grand scale, co-operate with Akufo-Addo, join those who are working diligently to improve Ghana. Akufo-Addo is a great, prepared leader; Akufo-Addo is your leader, join your leader, join Akufo-Addo; all Ghanaians need to team-up to perfect their use of mutual-effort, we must multiply our ability to achieve and to achieve through a leader who has come home to serve the people, to make dreams a reality. We need a good leader who is not a leader, like most of our political leaders, who have come to find and receive financial reward. I know Nana Addo. At Legon I have walked with him and I came to realize that Nana Addo has the ability to meditate deeply while doing as unassuming an activity as walking to the library or the Logia.
In New York City, in Harlem, there is a street called Strivers’ Row, I think of that now as I remember Nana Addo. Nana Addo is a striver who bears the torch of self-confident-initiative. Nana Addo maintained a- directed-effort-to-generate-success with those he worked with and for. Akufo-Addo planned and controlled his efforts to become successful; he used positive thought, initiative and will. Nana Addo would always strive no matter what he was doing, weather it was playing football or practicing international law in Paris. He was always striving, always working hard, always trying to do his best and always making his best better. Akufo-Addo is striving to serve the people of Ghana he’s trying to lead the people to economic success. Akufo-Addo is determined to produce a viable First World economy in Ghana. Akufo-Addo has been preparing himself to lead this drive all his life and he knows how to better and build an economy that will make a First World economy happen. Akufo-Addo’s goal is to provide opportunity for the people of Ghana. With the opportunity that Akufo-Addo is determined to provide, and he will provide the leadership that will produce jobs and the opportunity for enterprise and entrepreneurship. He will strive for that goal until it becomes part of the identity of Ghanaians. We must learn to always strive, to work using initiative guided by enterprise. We all must learn the true meaning of initiative, which is an ability to originate and follow a plan of action. We must direct our desires and our will to goal-accomplishment. We must concentrate and make our endeavors guided and augmented, to the point that our endeavors become better sustained and lastingly motivated. We should emulate Akufo-Addo, he is the master, the teacher and he knows the multiple lessons of initiative well. Akufo-Addo’s knowledge of the value of initiative is not something Nana Addo was born with, it is an acquired knowledge and he acquired the knowledge of initiative because he knows the value of initiative; he knows initiative produces success. Leadership is what initiative produces and success is what proficient-initiative produces. As Ghana’s president Akufo-Addo will work with the leadership of the NPP, (soon to be Parliament’s predominant party), and he and the NPP will provide governmental-initiative; he will propose legislation that will improve the economy and attract enterprise and help develop large scale businesses that are started and run by Ghanaians.
I realized that Nana Addo was someone who had often thought about what the meaning of his life should become. Nana Addo possesses a powerful world within him. It has always seemed to me that his will has come from a force generated through effort. Nana Addo placed force behind his effort-to-accomplish. He derives from the charismatic mentors he has emulated and from something bestowed upon Akufo-Addo by his desire to advocate for the People. There is an African saying: “When there is no enemy within, an external enemy cannot harm you.” Nana Addo has no enemy within; he has Tall-Confidence and is a champion.
Nana Addo’s Tall-Confidence comes from something Nana Addo believes. He believes he can accomplish what he has set out to do; to bring the economy of Ghana to the status of a First World economy. This accomplishment would be the beginning of his principal achievement-goal, which is to become President, establish the NPP as Parliament leader and improve the economy until it becomes a First World economy. Nana Addo has uncovered the secret nature of analyzing and understanding how to produce success. Here, at the stage before finally becoming stands a statistical goal: the analytical measurements of a First World economy. Akufo-Addo has the unique ability to analyze the requirements for the production of a First World economy and Akufo-Addo possesses the understanding and ability to produce the goal. Akufo-Addo is not afraid to work to solve any problem, whether it is economic, or political. This is because Akufo-Addo knows he can summon groupings that can devise the solution to any problem.
When he returned to Ghana Nana Addo began thinking more and more as a Servant-Leader, it was then he began to lead on a broad scale. The path that Nana Addo began following is a well thought out path; he has focused on reaching destinations, as well as following his chosen course of leadership. Nana Addo has been able to do this because he believes in himself; this perception causes him to believe he can accomplish the things he sets as goals. Akufo-Addo wants to lead a 60%-plus constituency, while growing Ghana’s GNP.
Wofa 12 years ago

Eish!

Eish!
wiggy 12 years ago

GREAT IN WEARING BIG SUITS AND BIG ENGLISH.BIG FUFU EATER AND FRIEND OF JAKE THE BANKU EATER

GREAT IN WEARING BIG SUITS AND BIG ENGLISH.BIG FUFU EATER AND FRIEND OF JAKE THE BANKU EATER
Kofi Asaase- Asa----Mantukwa 12 years ago

"If Ghana is sick it is not because the whole Ghanaians are sick but it is rather, because some Ghanaians are sick in Ghana , they are making Ghana sick".

This article , in the first place, is clouded in the clothes of 'su ...
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"If Ghana is sick it is not because the whole Ghanaians are sick but it is rather, because some Ghanaians are sick in Ghana , they are making Ghana sick".

This article , in the first place, is clouded in the clothes of 'subtle sarcasm'. It takes wisdom to understand whether or not the author is making a 'mockery of Nana Akuffo Addo' and The NPP, or he is 'opening his mouth' at them, and which ever is his intentions, it is left to his conscience.

Why should I say this? Let us just consider the conclusion from the premises of this article written by Mr. Selorm Kordzo-Aheto Avorkliyah.

And I quote:

"..I do pray and hope there is some merit to the case the NPP is waging at the Supreme Court because it would be a colossal embarrassment to the entire nation to have this whole "rigging" debacle be looked back on, sometime to come, as an instance of one man's vituperations putting a whole nation on the edge.."

This man has taken his own 'gun and shot his foot'.

Why is this man's foot bleeding profusely, because he shot his own foot with his own gun.

Why are people still in darkness?

".Why are Christians praying always fervently to go to heaven when they die, but when they fall sick, they rush to the hospital, because they are afraid to die".

"You cannot go to heaven unless you die."

It was one man, Hon. Nelson Mandela who stood up, went through all the tribulations and fought against apatheid regime in South Africa, and later became the first Black President of South Africa; Look at the late Dr Martin Luther King Jr. of The United States Of America (USA) and his "I dream speech": Now President Barrack Obama, is the first Black President of The United States of America. The son of one man, Mr Obama , from Kenya in Africa.... The Emphasis her is 'ONE MAN'.

The Constitution of Ghana states that it is only an aggrieved citizen ( One Man) of Ghana, who can petition The Supreme court to reconsider the results of a presidential elections. Now, if one man is implementing what The Law is saying, is there anything wrong? Does it mean that one should sit down all the time and allow things to get out of hand?

What is happening in Ghana now is very dangerous and this is one of them.

Anytime there is an article on Ghanaweb and you begin to read and you realize that the content is against the petition filed by Nana Akufo -Addo and the rest, you would later-on find out that the author's name is either a 'Northerner' or a 'Voltaian'/ 'Voltarian' and the vice versa.

This situation is very dangerous and I think this situation is so , because either some educated people are recalcitrant, or they are deliberately refusing to learn, most especially, when an issue affects the Constitution of The Land, which is the basic Law that binds us together, protects and gives us our Basic Freedom to Live Our Lives, Our Freedom and Liberty, and allow us to be governed by a good government.
John 12 years ago

You forgot one thing. Akufo Addo is a coc sniffer and wee smoker. There is nothing great about him otherwise he would have won the elections. Losing two in a row is rather pitiful.

You forgot one thing. Akufo Addo is a coc sniffer and wee smoker. There is nothing great about him otherwise he would have won the elections. Losing two in a row is rather pitiful.
Gman 12 years ago

What an ignoramus writer. He is a member of the Narcotic Peddler's Party. Akufo Addo, the coc siffer and wee smoker will never become a president of Ghana. He and thiefman Kufour are making NPP and the Asantes the laughing st ...
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What an ignoramus writer. He is a member of the Narcotic Peddler's Party. Akufo Addo, the coc siffer and wee smoker will never become a president of Ghana. He and thiefman Kufour are making NPP and the Asantes the laughing stock of the world.
Seth 12 years ago

Did you even read the article?

Did you even read the article?
DOGBEDA TORKPLIZOH 12 years ago

Thank you, Kordzo, you have said it right: "it would be a colossal embarrassment to the entire nation to have this whole 'rigging' debacle be looked back on, sometime to come, as an instance of one man's [STUPID AND GREEDY] ...
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Thank you, Kordzo, you have said it right: "it would be a colossal embarrassment to the entire nation to have this whole 'rigging' debacle be looked back on, sometime to come, as an instance of one man's [STUPID AND GREEDY] vituperations putting a whole nation on the edge.

Kordzo, very well said. Julius Caesar would have said to Brutus "Exampla bonorum vivorum immitandant pueri sunt". And Brutus perhaps simply would have responded "Verbum sapienti satis est" - A word to a wise is enough.
Whatever 12 years ago

I don'know what point you want to make but there are people in Ghana who can overdo what Akuffo Addo does yet those people don't even merit the tag of 'great'

I don'know what point you want to make but there are people in Ghana who can overdo what Akuffo Addo does yet those people don't even merit the tag of 'great'
BOLD 12 years ago

Can you name them? Why are they not coming out to help the country? That is why they are not great!

Can you name them? Why are they not coming out to help the country? That is why they are not great!
BOLD 12 years ago

Yes, Akuffo Addo is a great man, period!

Yes, Akuffo Addo is a great man, period!
Nyame Ekuma 12 years ago

yes akufo Addo is a great dwarf magician. he can conjure freebie and free BONTOS and even free "onye aye sorrrrmi" SHS education.

yes akufo Addo is a great dwarf magician. he can conjure freebie and free BONTOS and even free "onye aye sorrrrmi" SHS education.

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