Ghanaian actress, Yvonne Nelson has shared that she regrets taking a photo with H.E. Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo after his victory in the 2016 elections.
According to Yvonne, who spearheaded the
“Dumsor Must Stop” vigil in 2015 to protest the energy crisis amongst others,
the change in power in 2016 brought hope because Akufo-Addo was sold to be
“incorruptible,” and would be an antidote to “corruption.”
“A year later, the opposition NPP and its candidate
won the 2016 election. The power crisis and its effects were a major sin of the
incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC). Dumsor had resulted in job losses
and dealt a deadly blow to the small-scale enterprises that depended on
electricity but could not afford alternative sources of power. Even though the
NDC administration resolved the crises at a huge cost and through shady
procurement deals, the victims of dumsor, corruption, and mismanagement could
not forgive the party at the presidential and parliamentary polls,” she writes.
This hope for a change encouraged Yvonne
to visit the president-elect, Akufo-Addo alongside some of her friends to
extend their congratulatory wishes. Yvonne was captured in a photo with
Akufo-Addo during her visit, and she regrets taking that photo terribly.
“The NPP, led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, won
massively in both the presidential and parliamentary elections. Some friends
and I went to congratulate the president-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo, with whom we
took a photograph. It is a photograph I regret taking,” Yvonne laments.
Yvonne added that Akufo-Addo has turned out to be a
“monumental disappointment.”
“He was said to be incorruptible, and Ghanaians
thought he was going to be the antidote to mass stealing at the highest level,
which is euphemized as corruption. Unfortunately for Ghana and those who
trusted in him, he has turned out to be a monumental disappointment whose
government’s unbridled borrowing, corruption, and reckless spending plunged the
nation into economic dumsor,” she writes.
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