A communication team member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Sammy Gyamfi has said the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, sounded like a Middle Eastern dictator when he addressed the nation on Thursday.
Speaking on Asempa FM’s Ekosii Sen on Friday, Gyamfi said the diction of the President during his address made him think he was listening to the speech of a dictator from the Middle East.
“When I was listening to the President, I felt I was listening to some dictator in the Middle East, Syria or any other Middle Eastern country…,” he said.
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President Akufo-Addo has come under a barrage of attacks for reacting ‘angrily’ to criticisms against the military deal between Ghana and the USA.
In his speech, President Akufo-Addo clarified that Ghana has “not offered a military base, and will not offer a military base to the United States of America.”
According to him, no such request would even have been considered by government if any had been made by the US government.
He was rather confident that the agreement “will help enhance our defence capability, and offer an important layer of support in our common effort to protect the peace in our region.”
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He, among other things, also criticized his political opponent’s reaction to the decision since its announcement.
But Sammy Gyamfi believes the President rather ‘insulted’ the intelligence of Ghanaians who have criticized the agreement.
“I never knew the President could pour such venom on people…if he doesn’t want anyone to criticize him or his decisions, he should go and be President in Syria…,” he charged.
Do not be deceived, hold him to explain the terms/clauses of the so called agreement one by one and he should tell ghanaians how he is going to respond to the US about all those things they have requested which instead of discussing it with the ghanaian public as a whole they rather chose to rush to ratify. If he fails to answer with regards to all that the americans have requested from ghana satisfactorily then ghanaian should be of no doubts whatsoever that he is prepared to grant all the US have asked but would not tell ghanaians as someone has already alleged that he sees himself as if he is a king or a dictator in the middle east but ghana is not the middle east so in less than four year time ghanaians are to determine the fate of you akuffo addow so let ghanaians understand line by line what you intend to do about the requests made by the americans on the so called agreement that your party abused its majority and rushed to ratify