*Akufo-Addo’s “All die be die” comments confirm he’s a Tribal Warmonger*

On Tuesday the 8th of February 2011, Nana Akufo-Addo, NPP Presidential Candidate for election 2012 was reported to have spoken to party supporters in Koforidua where he called on his party’s “Akan” supporters to get ready to fight what could best be described as a battle of death in election 2012, encouraging them to get ready to fight because “all die be die, all die be die”. The Secretariat of the NDC UK and Ireland Chapter considers Nana Akufo Addo’s irresponsible comments not only as very unpresidential, but also as a potentially dangerous and violent incitement against ethnic and tribal political cohesion in Ghana.

Akufo-Addo’s irresponsible incitement of NPP party supporters to prepare for “all die be die...” electoral fight confirm the NPP Presidential Candidate is a violent, anarchist Tribal Warmonger. This is more especially so because in May 2009, just four months into President Atta Mills’ term of office, the same Akufo-Addo hinted Ghanaians that there are “militants” in his NPP party when he said: “...sooner or later, militants on our side convinced that the state cannot or will not protect them, may take measures to protect their interest, themselves and their loved ones.” He confirmed this militant attitude in Koforidua last Tuesday when he hinted again that his party’s “militants” committed violent acts in the Atiwa bye-election last year. Nana Akufo-Addo’s penchant for war is a disturbingly unpresidential attitude which is often common practice among the ranks of violent Drug Dealers and Addicts as seen in some Latin American countries’ local politics. This constant incitement of violence deserves condemnation by all well-meaning Ghanaians.

Just recently, Akufo-Addo and his party were busy suggesting Ghana should commit to a violent war in the Ivory Coast, chiding President Atta Mills’ inability to commit the over-stretched Ghanaian Military to enforce the ECOWAS threat of war in Ivory Coast, forgetting that war can only bring about the death of Ghanaian troops and possibly the death of some of the about a million Ghanaians who currently reside in the Ivory Coast. Akufo-Addo and the NPP don’t get it that war in the Ivory Coast has the potential to affect Ghana more negatively than any other ECOWAS member country. Talk about warmongers and nation wreckers! Akufo-Addo and his NPP party have forgotten so soon how they tried—albeit unsuccessfully—to fraudulently cling on to power after President Mills clearly won the 2008 elections.

This latest extremist comments from NPP Presidential Candidate Akufo-Addo is very dangerous for politics in Ghana as it might encourage the kind of violent tactics employed by the NPP’s Danquah-Busia opposition predecessors against President Nkrumah as reported by TIME magazine in its Friday April 26, 1963 edition that opposition bombers “were charged with treason in connection with half a dozen explosions that killed 35 persons and injured 300. The bombing began last August, when the blast of a hand grenade wounded Osagyefo in the shoulder as he drove by in his Russian-made Chaika limousine near the northern border village of Kulungugu.” Why is Akufo-Addo advocating political violence in Ghana? He is too desperate to become President. Ghanaians are very peaceful and hardworking people who cannot have a violent, anarchist warmonger as President.

The NDC UK & Ireland Chapter Secretariat would like to urge the hardworking people of Ghana to condemn Nana Akufo-Addo’s anarchist tribal warmongering comments since such comments are totally inimical to Ghana’s unity, peace and stability—conditions that the NDC party and its leader President Atta Mills strongly believe are necessary for effective national development.

Signed

Prince-Kassim Alubankudi

Secretary, NDC UK & Ireland Chapter