The Chief scribe for the National Democratic Congress Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has indicated that president Akufo-Addo should focus on building a better Ghanarather giving updates on the novel coronavirus.
According to him, the peculiar circumstances found in the 2020 presidential and parliamentary elections should be corrected otherwise the president’s addresses on Ghana’s COVID-19 fight will be an exercise in futility.
Asiedu Nketia noted in an interview with Joy News on the back of the President’s 20th COVID-19 address on Sunday, December 20, “if we’re going to die, many more people can die of bad governance than COVID-19. So, you [Akufo-Addo] must fix the governance system.”
He mentioned the killings at some polling stations and other electoral violence which characterised the just-ended polls according to him gunshots kill faster than COVID-19.
“If I’m affected by COVID-19 now, I have a chance of surviving and it will take me some time to solve. But if the shooting that is going on now… If they shoot me now, won’t I die? And I will die faster than the COVID-19.”
Asiedu Nketia urged the government to “fix the wrong things that are threatening to throw this country into explosion than to be talking about COVID-19 at this stage”.
The NDC has rejected the presidential election verdict announced by the Electoral Commission which declared Nana Akufo-Addo president-elect.
They have held consecutive demonstrations across the country to express discontent with the outcome of the election.
BY: ALHASSAN TAJUDEEN
