Reflections on Akufo-Addo’s “all die be die” speech

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Floating Voter 12 years ago

The fact is,both Nana Addo and John Mahama are not the kind of leaders Ghana needs at this time in our nation's development journey,There is too much negativity and incompetence in their dealings and his is reflecting on the ...
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The fact is,both Nana Addo and John Mahama are not the kind of leaders Ghana needs at this time in our nation's development journey,There is too much negativity and incompetence in their dealings and his is reflecting on the general attitude of the citizenry.Too bad both major parties failed to present credible flag-bearers but then,Ghana as a nation do not have the wisdom to select the right people at the right time.
Atta Owusu 12 years ago

Mahama does not deserve to be president but Akuffo Addo is the only man to save Ghana at this rotten time in Ghana. So Floating Voter, get that into your head and vote for Akuffo Addo when the opportunity presents itself.

Mahama does not deserve to be president but Akuffo Addo is the only man to save Ghana at this rotten time in Ghana. So Floating Voter, get that into your head and vote for Akuffo Addo when the opportunity presents itself.
Floating Voter 12 years ago

Both are incompetent

Both are incompetent
Matthew 12 years ago

Following the election the NPP has continued
On a path that is not endearing them with the
General public.The lBawumia accident is an example.

Following the election the NPP has continued
On a path that is not endearing them with the
General public.The lBawumia accident is an example.
Bisa 12 years ago

why all NDC writers are ethnocentric EWES? they should rather use their talents to create developement in that Trokosi land and stop relying and stealing from Government

why all NDC writers are ethnocentric EWES? they should rather use their talents to create developement in that Trokosi land and stop relying and stealing from Government
YAW MANU 12 years ago

YES. THE ALL DIE BE DIE COMMENT CAUSED NANA THE 1012 ELECTION, MORESO WHEN HE HAS A CHAIRMAN AND A GENERAL SECRETARY WHO ALWAYS MADE THE PARTY UNATTRACTIVE TO FLOOTING VOTERS.

YES. THE ALL DIE BE DIE COMMENT CAUSED NANA THE 1012 ELECTION, MORESO WHEN HE HAS A CHAIRMAN AND A GENERAL SECRETARY WHO ALWAYS MADE THE PARTY UNATTRACTIVE TO FLOOTING VOTERS.
gambi 12 years ago

NPP must choose a better candidate, you the politics of ghana, has grown to a certain level,and must stop discrimination,bring a northner to be ur pres. candidate

NPP must choose a better candidate, you the politics of ghana, has grown to a certain level,and must stop discrimination,bring a northner to be ur pres. candidate
Isaac 12 years ago

Bisa's types are too much abound in NPP. They are too primitive, intolerant, and too tribalistic. Not until such animals are far away from the NPP the party will always be nauseatic to minorities.

Bisa's types are too much abound in NPP. They are too primitive, intolerant, and too tribalistic. Not until such animals are far away from the NPP the party will always be nauseatic to minorities.
Blaa Atta 12 years ago

Nana all the way. No weapon fashioned against Nana will prosper.

Nana all the way. No weapon fashioned against Nana will prosper.
Blessings 12 years ago

"Will Akufo-Addo’s fate be like Enoch Powell’s – a brilliant man who was not understood by his generation and who is, today, regarded negatively in British politics?"

Mr. A:

I am really not sure why you have decid ...
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"Will Akufo-Addo’s fate be like Enoch Powell’s – a brilliant man who was not understood by his generation and who is, today, regarded negatively in British politics?"

Mr. A:

I am really not sure why you have decided to "romanticize" Akuffo Addo's "all-die-be die" speech today.... It must be freedom of speech and expression or something perhaps?hahaha!

I know, I know, you are trying to "build a bridge over troubled waters" for THE Doyen of modern democratic movements?huum... It is quite difficult, isn't it?

Well, I have to say that A-A will be forever known for that speech-WHY? After he officially adopted it, if not having coined it, T-shirts were printed and it became the "war song" of the NPP being led by the likes of Sir John and Ursula Owusu- if you catch my drift, as we say in these United States"...

Akuffo- Addo made it his campaign mantra, chanting it anytime he got the opportunity- so why we reasonable minds think that he did not mean it to have a negative impact? Then why was the speech used to fuel his overzealous youths at Obra-Spot, and other spots shortly after the elections? Shall reasonable minds ignore the repetitive way in which this mantra was used over and over again, that even a 2 year old was said to chant Akufo-Addo's name when he heard that saying?

Also, we must not forget- it is the totality of acts that have created this albatross of image around Akufo-Addo's neck- it is the "Ye Akanfuo speech"; it was his deafening silence when K. Agyepong went chanting for Ewes and Gas to be clubbed in Kumasi by Asantes and Akans; it is his fueling of youths after the election results were announced and how he apparently addressed supporters in French, leading me to conclude that he may have been giving "secret" codes to his Akan counterparts in Ivory Coast as well, certainly not his Ghanaian Akans right? Ghana is surrounded by French speaking countries but the Ghanaian populace as a whole is USELESS in French, so who was AA addressing in French, in his infamous Obra spot speech?

Please Kindly, I am well aware that Akuff-Addo has a legacy and has been a champion of many causes to be a part of the opposition which pressured Rawlings towards multi-party rule- We are all grateful to those who fought in the hot sun while some of us were tucked far away.....

However, if Akuffo Addo is not careful, especially with all the heated political rhetoric in the country and fierce resistance of his party to follow the rule of law in the country, if Ghana should experience anymore instability above where it is now, especially if the SC decision do not go his way, and refuses to concede, posterity will NOT smile on Akufo Addo, and heaven will surely NOT welcome him, when he goes!

BTW, I was very disappointed about the Oxford brouhaha, and still even more disappointed about Kpegah's latest suit against Nana Addo- for me no one should ever descend into such vindictiveness to take another down- after all, " Every sinner has a future, and ever Saint has a past, so let the Church say Amen" is the popular African American denoting, "He who is without sin, let him cast the first stone"...AMEN!

CHEERS!

AKASI MARTHA ARIZONA USA 12 years ago

DANKWA FOUNDATION WAS WEAK. NKRUMAH FOUNDATION WAS STRONG AND SOLID. NO WONDER DANKWA FOLLOWERS ARE SUFFERING. FLOATING VOTER/AKASI MARTHA.

DANKWA FOUNDATION WAS WEAK. NKRUMAH FOUNDATION WAS STRONG AND SOLID. NO WONDER DANKWA FOLLOWERS ARE SUFFERING. FLOATING VOTER/AKASI MARTHA.
KWAKU MANU 12 years ago

THE WRITER AND HIS KIND ARE NOW SEEKING TO PUT AN INTELLECTUAL FACE ON WHAT HAS BEEN AN NDC PROPAGANDA ITEM. WHY DO YOU STILL PICK ONLY THAT ASPECT OF THE AKUFFO ADDO SPEACH AND CONTINUE TO SPIN IT OUT OF CONTEXT. HE MENT WHA ...
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THE WRITER AND HIS KIND ARE NOW SEEKING TO PUT AN INTELLECTUAL FACE ON WHAT HAS BEEN AN NDC PROPAGANDA ITEM. WHY DO YOU STILL PICK ONLY THAT ASPECT OF THE AKUFFO ADDO SPEACH AND CONTINUE TO SPIN IT OUT OF CONTEXT. HE MENT WHAT HE SAID, AND NOT THE VIOLENCE SPIN YOU AND YOUR KIND PUT ON IT. THE FACT OF IT IS WHAT HE IS PURSUING NOW: IN THE COURTS, NOT WITH THE VIOLENCE YOU SOUGHT TO SMEAR HIM WITH. AHORLU, YOUR ARTICLE HAS STAINS OF INTELLECTUAL DISHONESTY-
Tuurosung(Tuas) 12 years ago

you have less and irrelevant words to share,sit back and read from people who are wiser than you.Nana "all die be die" speech he made proves his arrogance and rendered him such beautiful deserving failure at polls.Henceforth ...
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you have less and irrelevant words to share,sit back and read from people who are wiser than you.Nana "all die be die" speech he made proves his arrogance and rendered him such beautiful deserving failure at polls.Henceforth,he is not qualified to rule Ghana he was only led by uncharistimatic learnants.Wether court or no court HE is ruling.JM all the way to 2020.I congratulate my writer for his beautiful words use to address politicians and the public .Well done. This is a deterant lessont to NPP politicians.
PATRIOPA 12 years ago

WHO EVER WROTE THIS STATEMENT IS STUPID, IDIOT AND HAS NO HUMAN HEAD.. MAY HIS REBELLIOUS SPIRIT WANDER IN THE UNDERWORLD FROM NOW TILL ETERNITY... HE SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN SOMETHING ABOUT THE WATER, GA ...
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WHO EVER WROTE THIS STATEMENT IS STUPID, IDIOT AND HAS NO HUMAN HEAD.. MAY HIS REBELLIOUS SPIRIT WANDER IN THE UNDERWORLD FROM NOW TILL ETERNITY... HE SHOULD HAVE WRITTEN SOMETHING ABOUT THE WATER, GAS AND LIGHT ISSUES WE ARE FACING.. OH AYIGBEFOR.. THAT IS WHY GOD GAVE YOU THAT WICKED KING AGOKORLY, COS NOTHING GOOD IS IN YOUR MIND
kotoo 12 years ago

Idiot and stupid article

Idiot and stupid article
M M 12 years ago

Kotoo, are you sure you understood what you read?

Kotoo, are you sure you understood what you read?
kotoo 12 years ago

"All die be die will eventually comes true

"All die be die will eventually comes true
aj-usa 12 years ago

guys,i´m really shock.why the country is passing through hard times like eco,elec and water problems.we dont need to go and re-visite past issues to make it sound like using tribal woes to turn the attension from the hardsh ...
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guys,i´m really shock.why the country is passing through hard times like eco,elec and water problems.we dont need to go and re-visite past issues to make it sound like using tribal woes to turn the attension from the hardship on the ppl.
Mighty man 12 years ago

Nana Addo does not need to apologise to anyone. Prof. Mills never apologized when he said Ghana will be like Kenya.

Nana Addo does not need to apologise to anyone. Prof. Mills never apologized when he said Ghana will be like Kenya.
bkk 12 years ago

yooo !

yooo !

Benash, NJ 12 years ago

Mr Kofi Amennyo, this is very brilliant and I just had a discussion with one of my friend's just after the elections about the exact issue you raised. I said Nana Akufo Addo doesn't have good advisers because if he had had on ...
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Mr Kofi Amennyo, this is very brilliant and I just had a discussion with one of my friend's just after the elections about the exact issue you raised. I said Nana Akufo Addo doesn't have good advisers because if he had had one he/she would have asked him to withdraw that "All Die Be Die" statement and also apologize to Ghanaians just like you mentioned.
He would have also condemned the statement by one of their MP's who said the Ashantis should kill the Ewes and Ga something like that. The NPP or any other political party needs to come to you for consultation.
Kwame Boamah, NV 12 years ago

I disagree with your comment. Nana said nothing that meant violence by any means. He was just reiterating that his followers had been bullied many times during elections and warned that they would fight back this time in the ...
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I disagree with your comment. Nana said nothing that meant violence by any means. He was just reiterating that his followers had been bullied many times during elections and warned that they would fight back this time in the face of any agression from the NDC hooligans. Let me remind you that Nana is selfless, honest and peaceful in all his undertakings. He is going to win the court case and use the presidential power to give free high school eduction to all Ghanaians. We need a leader who openly proclaims that he is not corrupt and that is Nana. Nana is the only leader who would be able to deal with the corruption which is like canker eating the fabric of the society.
Akadu Mensema 12 years ago

WHY APOLOGIZE:

"The question now is if he should have apologized to the people of Ghana, humbly expressed his regrets and formally withdrawn the statement. Such an act may not have any effects on his die-hard opponents who ...
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WHY APOLOGIZE:

"The question now is if he should have apologized to the people of Ghana, humbly expressed his regrets and formally withdrawn the statement. Such an act may not have any effects on his die-hard opponents who would not have been moved even if he had poured ashes on his head and walked around barefoot in sack cloth for seven days. But for a section of the floating voters, and even his own party members, it would have cast him in a more favourable light. They may have seen him as a man (and a Ghanaian politician as such) who is ready to admit his faults. This would have made him as human as those who were going to vote for him. Besides, he would have proven to Ghanaians that he is not the arrogant person rumours say he is. And if the opposition raised the issue, his supporters could have responded: Yes, but he has apologized and withdrawn the statement. Is it not human to err and is not forgiveness divine?"
Kofi Amenyo 12 years ago

If I have not, in the past, written an article telling Rawlings to apologize, then I have no reason to reflect on Akufo-Addo's speech in which I discuss if he should have apologized. What is the logical/argumentative connecti ...
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If I have not, in the past, written an article telling Rawlings to apologize, then I have no reason to reflect on Akufo-Addo's speech in which I discuss if he should have apologized. What is the logical/argumentative connection between the two?

"U these people" - even you, Akadu, with all your exposure, cannot go beyond seeing people as belonging to groups rather than as individuals... Do you also act, behave and think exactly like all "Denkyira beauties"?

Because I carry an Ewe name, I am doomed forever to comment on Rawlings first before I dare recommend the same thing for Akufo-Addo!
mensah abrampa 12 years ago

His enemies in the NDC saw how formidable an opponent he is and they decided to win the election not on their own merit but on how much mud they would be able to throw at him and cast him in the mould of a scarecrow. The NDC ...
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His enemies in the NDC saw how formidable an opponent he is and they decided to win the election not on their own merit but on how much mud they would be able to throw at him and cast him in the mould of a scarecrow. The NDC propagandists and every ghanaian who heard him make the "all die be die" statement understood perfectly what Akuffo Addo meant so what's the basis for the apology? The man who needs to apologize profusely to ghanaians, cover himself with ashes and be gnawed by an unrelenting remorsefulness is John Jeremiah Rawlings. He inflicted hard to heal wounds in the hearts and souls of numerous ghanaians, brought untold hardships on all ghanaians and caused the murder of citizens whose numbers are not yet quantified and will forever remain unknown.
The article by Amenyo is not entirely negative.At least he's chosen to come out of their closet to acknowlede they had a clear understanding of what Nana Akuffo Addo said but deliberately twisted and distorted it just to discredit him .They achieved their evil purpose but still had to rig the election to win. They need to apologize to Nana Akuffo Addo and all ghanaians if they have a pure heart and want to clear their filthy conscience or remain silent to be tormented spiritually and emotionally for the rest of their lives.
Kofi Amenyo 12 years ago

If I were not carrying an Ewe name, would you include me among the "they" who have "chosen to come out of their closet"? Why do you brand me in a particular way because my name is one carried by a particular ethnic group? Wha ...
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If I were not carrying an Ewe name, would you include me among the "they" who have "chosen to come out of their closet"? Why do you brand me in a particular way because my name is one carried by a particular ethnic group? What closet do you assign me to when you don't even know me?
mensah abrampa 12 years ago

I never made mention of Ewe anywhere in my contribution to your feature article. Are you being haunted by your own guilty conscience? You're right when you say I don't know you. Don't you see it's preposterous to think I'm ma ...
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I never made mention of Ewe anywhere in my contribution to your feature article. Are you being haunted by your own guilty conscience? You're right when you say I don't know you. Don't you see it's preposterous to think I'm making the comments because of the name you bear? I made the comments in good faith based on what you wrote .These comments have nothing to do with your name or tribe.I have a number of Ewe friends and I just love to deal with people on a one to one basis and not at all on their tribal affiliation. Why do you think you can flip an article into the laps of the public and expect no one to question your reasoning? Opinions are free and you and I have the right to express our opinions even if we have irreconcilable differences in opinions.No grudges.
Kofi Amenyo 12 years ago

Mensah, of course you should question my reasoning. If I make a faulty argument, you should question it. That's the whole idea, isn't it?

What I am concerned with is that you have put me in a closet - one in which the oppo ...
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Mensah, of course you should question my reasoning. If I make a faulty argument, you should question it. That's the whole idea, isn't it?

What I am concerned with is that you have put me in a closet - one in which the opponents of Akufo-Addo belong. And the only reason I can see for your putting me there is the colour of my name. I don't think my article is one that is against Akufo-Addo or one that can only be written by an opponent of the man. Why should I be haunted by a guilty conscience because of my tribe?

Oh no, I don't think you bear me any grudges. Neither do I you. But I do think you have been prejudicial when you put me in a certain group/closet. That is the only aspect of your comment I react to. I don't even think you and I have irreconcilable differences in opinions when it comes to the subject matter of the piece.
mensah abrampa 12 years ago

Forgive me if I'm wrong in any conceivable way. I'm human and not right all the time. I love you as a brother because at the end of the day we're all ghanaians and all children of God. Let's pray for the day a person's name w ...
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Forgive me if I'm wrong in any conceivable way. I'm human and not right all the time. I love you as a brother because at the end of the day we're all ghanaians and all children of God. Let's pray for the day a person's name will not define his character or personality ,or, where he comes from as the determinant for the political party he will affiliate with. Have a blessed day, bro.
Blessings 12 years ago

Mr.

I think it can be said that Kofi Amenyo, from his writings on these pages is actually "sympathetic" to the Man and the cause of Akuffo-Addo.

My mother always told me growing up that the word SORRY costs nothing to ...
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Mr.

I think it can be said that Kofi Amenyo, from his writings on these pages is actually "sympathetic" to the Man and the cause of Akuffo-Addo.

My mother always told me growing up that the word SORRY costs nothing to say but it so difficult for human beings to say that they would rather choose to destroy families and relationships than say a simple sorry.

I wouldn't be so dismissive of his intention with this article. I think they are genuine.. He is among the few that actually writes from a "clean hands, clean heart" stance on national issues...

mensah abrampa 12 years ago

Thanks, bro. I respect your views.

Thanks, bro. I respect your views.

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