Lawyer and politician Nana Akufo-Addo has opened up on how he won two successful elections held in 2016 and 2020 to become the president of Ghana.
It will be recalled that Akufo-Addo, then flagbearer of the NPP suddenly fell when the stage on which he was addressing a huge crowd in Kumasi caved in at the Jubilee Park on Sunday, December 2, 2012.
Other party leaders, including former president John Agyekum Kufuor were on stage with him when the dramatic incident occurred at about 6pm.
They escaped serious injuries. However, the rally came to an abrupt end.
Akufo-Addo lost that year’s presidential polls.
He campaigned again in 2016 and defeated John Dramani Mahama of the NDC to become the next president of Ghana.
There have been ongoing conversations on President Nana Akufo-Addo’s struggle to power.
Whereas some feel he won the first election out of sympathy votes, there are others who firmly argue that he genuinely came to power based on a clear campaign messages especially the introduction of the Free SHS policy.
Making a statement on his political career, President Akufo-Addo said he made it because of his strong faith in God.
‘My struggles to become president of my country are well known. My experiences have been a testimony of God’s love, and a vindication of the words of our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ, in the Gospel according to St. Matthew, chapter 19 verse 26, which says ‘with man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible’, he said at the Inaugural Africa lecture by the Museum of the Bible in Washington, USA.
Akufo-Addo stated that ‘It took three tries between 2008 and 2016 for me to get elected. By which time, the popular catch phrases of ‘Akufo-Addo cannot be President’, ‘God does not want Akufo-Addo to be President’, ‘Akufo-Addo is short, and does not have the stature to be President’ had become so prevalent, you had to be firmly rooted in your faith to have had the courage to persist’.
He said ‘I committed that third election campaign to God, and indicated to the Ghanaian people that ‘The Battle is the Lord’s’.
‘By God’s grace, I won a famous victory against an incumbent President by a gap of nearly a million votes, the largest margin of victory for two decades. And, by the same Grace, I won re-election in the December 2020 elections, and I am now in my second and last term as President’.
SOURCE: Kasatintin.com