COLLATION FOR INTEGRITY IN GOVERNANCE (COFIIG) CONGRATULATES NANA ADDO.

We want to congratulate Mr. Nana Addo Danquah Akuffo Addo on winning the Special Delegates Congress of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) as its flagbearer to the 2016 elections.

We also want to express our gratitude to the entire fraternity of the NPP for conducting this election in an atmosphere of peace and tranquility.

Having said that, we would want to admonish Nana Addo to ensure that as he has become the flagbearer of the NPP into the 2016 elections, he take steps to ensure that activities in terms of his campaign are conducted in an atmosphere that would place ahead of it, peace and the development of this country.

Having held the position of flagbearer of the NPP for the past eight (8) years, we know Nana Addo would have learnt some vital lessons that would inure to the benefit of our political development in this country. We expect nothing less than a great show of leadership on his party supporters. The insults on the leadership of this country must been seen to be stopped by his leadership.

A peaceful posturing towards the 2016 campaign would bring down the political temperature and tension. It would be appropriate to ensure that his followers adopt a responsibility of speaking with the aim of projecting Ghana rather than seeking to project this country as a country that is lost of hope.

It is equally important that Nana Addo and his supporters would hold high the status of the Seat of Government rather than ridiculing the very seat he seeks to occupy. It would be suicidal that, for the purpose of power, he would remain blind to unfortunate political tactics. The consequences are that, by the time he resumes the seat, there would be virtually no respect left for that Seat.

The dynamics of politics in this country have changed from one of vindictiveness to tolerance and from persecution to consensus building. It is necessary, that, no matter the political differences, we speak well of this country at all times especially out there. Painting a gloomy picture of our country would rather scare investors away.

The welfare of the Ghanaian must be high on his agenda no matter which political party is in power. At all times, there is a government acting in the name of the people of Ghana and that must be respected and the welfare of the people protected.

We wish Nana Addo well in his third quest to become president of Ghana after losing the 2008 and 2012 elections respectively.

Thank you.
Stephen Kwabena Attuh
Governance and Political Analyst
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