2016 Polls: I Won’t Be Surprised At Nana Addo’s Victory – Nunoo-Mensah

The former National Security Coordinator, Brigadier General Joseph Nunoo-Mensah (rtd), has stated that he would not be surprised at a Nana Akufo-Addo victory in the December presidential election.

“Will I be surprised? On what basis will I be surprised? I don't have any fact as I sit here on the political front, so how will I be surprised if he wins? If the people's choice is him, who am I to say no?,” the outspoken former military man said on Accra FM Thursday.

Brig. Gen. Nunoo-Mensah added: “I was Nana Akufo-Addo's campaign manager in 1998…in the early '40s and '50s, as young men, we were all after Kwame Nkrumah because he gave us hope for the future. After Nkrumah, there was no politics in my life until PNDC (Provisional National Defence Council) came and I got involved. I left and went away (to UK).

“I came back in 1994 and I did a bit of politics with the NPP, so, I have served with every major political party in this country. So, today, I see myself as a statesman, not as a politician. That is why if I see people who are not serving the country properly, I speak up.”

“I am not going to say NPP [or] NDC. If NPP did something which I think was right, I say they have done well and same with the NDC: if it is wrong, I say it is wrong.

“I am in Winneba and President Mahama is in power. He has put someone in charge of Winneba, yet we don't have water, and so because I am working with the NDC I should keep quiet? If my niece is not paid for months, should I keep quiet? No, I won't do that. So, at this stage, I am someone who will speak on issues that will make Ghana a better place.”

Brig. Gen. Nunoo-Mensah was the campaign manager for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s bid for nomination as the NPP’s candidate for presidential elections in 1998.

He was previously a member of the PNDC but resigned over differences with the leader of the junta, Flt. Lt. Jerry John Rawlings.