Why did I vote for Akufo-Addo in 2016

It was in 2008. I was walking from Keta High School to the police station, and then I saw it – a very large billboard with candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who was smiling and a slogan hanging below him: "We are moving forward.

This caught my attention. After almost 20 years of Rawlings rule, the NPP won the 2000 elections with John Agyekum Kuffour as a candidate for the inauguration of Brave New Ghana.

Personally, I found the national health insurance plan very necessary and benefited greatly from 2006 to 2008. And I was really impressed by Akuffo Addo's statement of intent in the 2008 election: " We are moving forward. There was no need to return to the NDC which was still heavily influenced by Jerry John Rawlings. Ghana had to keep moving forward, but we had not done so.

Despite all the successes that the NPP government had directed against Kuffour for Ghana, corruption scandals abounded in good old cocaine, even causing a Houdini to become Kokonte. Ghanaians wanted a change. And the change that they had with 8 years of NDC rule.

Then came 2016. All the wheelchair political scientists could now read the plan. It is very easy to win elections in Ghana if it is one of the two main political parties. Stay in opposition for 8 years and you will probably be forced to return to power.

The 2016 election was crucial and meaningful. We have a president who has won with a lead of almost 10% on the second candidate and with the many promises made and the many so-called intellectuals, entrepreneurs, academics, businessmen and lawyers renowned for their excellence, and the advocacy activities were all optimistic.

Alas. It was as usual. Since 2016, lawlessness is rising in Ghana – with the badault of a court by devotees, brutalized journalists and security officials allowed to play hide and seek with the police. Emotion of citizens and relatives of kidnapped girls, political patronage – individuals openly confessed to spending too much public money and offered positions to campaign financiers. They have been rewarded with lucrative contracts. We are currently plunged into the doldrums of corruption, even though we have a special prosecutor and a president who has promised zero tolerance for corruption. Remember the dog that would not allow anyone to give him a bad name? Well, he finally has a bad reputation and could be ransacked next year.

At the moment when I write, the level of tolerance to corruption in our body politic reaches 101%.

So, why did I vote for Akuffo-Addo in 2016? Quite simply, because Mahama failed and I loved the idea of ​​"getting ahead" even though this slogan became a word that I did not find impressive at all: "The battle is the Lord."

Interestingly, the NPP has a habit of thinking that it won the 2016 elections only through the votes of its members. It seems so, which is very far from the truth. Hence the many supporters who doubt that you voted for them in 2016. No fears, they will have the opportunity to test our lie in 2016.

Then what? Should we bring the NDC back to 2020, instead of waiting until 2024 to perpetuate our tradition of government change every 8 years? Is it even a change? Our two main political parties seem to be playing a game of – let's see who's the worst?

So, we should all stay home and not go to vote? Of course not. There is a choice.

It happens. They doubt it and do not think it will happen and that it is good for us.

Time no dey. The real change is coming. Vote MKG. Vote for Marricke Kofi Gane.

We will scramble the tracks and move up a gear or win the victory.

It was in 2008. I was walking from Keta High School to the police station, and then I saw it – a very large billboard with candidate Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo who was smiling and a slogan hanging below him: "We are moving forward.

This caught my attention. After almost 20 years of Rawlings rule, the NPP won the 2000 elections with John Agyekum Kuffour as a candidate for the inauguration of Brave New Ghana.

Personally, I found the national health insurance plan very necessary and benefited greatly from 2006 to 2008. And I was really impressed by Akuffo Addo's statement of intent in the 2008 election: " We are moving forward. There was no need to return to the NDC which was still heavily influenced by Jerry John Rawlings. Ghana had to keep moving forward, but we had not done so.

Despite all the successes that the NPP government had directed against Kuffour for Ghana, corruption scandals abounded in good old cocaine, even causing a Houdini to become Kokonte. Ghanaians wanted a change. And the change that they had with 8 years of NDC rule.

Then came 2016. All the wheelchair political scientists could now read the plan. It is very easy to win elections in Ghana if it is one of the two main political parties. Stay in opposition for 8 years and you will probably be forced to return to power.

The 2016 election was crucial and meaningful. We have a president who has won with a lead of almost 10% on the second candidate and with the many promises made and the many so-called intellectuals, entrepreneurs, academics, businessmen and lawyers renowned for their excellence, and the advocacy activities were all optimistic.

Alas. It was as usual. Since 2016, lawlessness is rising in Ghana – with the badault of a court by devotees, brutalized journalists and security officials allowed to play hide and seek with the police. Emotion of citizens and relatives of kidnapped girls, political patronage – individuals openly confessed to spending too much public money and offered positions to campaign financiers. They have been rewarded with lucrative contracts. We are currently plunged into the doldrums of corruption, even though we have a special prosecutor and a president who has promised zero tolerance for corruption. Remember the dog that would not allow anyone to give him a bad name? Well, he finally has a bad reputation and could be ransacked next year.

At the moment when I write, the level of tolerance to corruption in our body politic reaches 101%.

So, why did I vote for Akuffo-Addo in 2016? Quite simply, because Mahama failed and I loved the idea of ​​"getting ahead" even though this slogan became a word that I did not find impressive at all: "The battle is the Lord."

Interestingly, the NPP has a habit of thinking that it won the 2016 elections only through the votes of its members. It seems so, which is very far from the truth. Hence the many supporters who doubt that you voted for them in 2016. No fears, they will have the opportunity to test our lie in 2016.

Then what? Should we bring the NDC back to 2020, instead of waiting until 2024 to perpetuate our tradition of government change every 8 years? Is it even a change? Our two main political parties seem to be playing a game of – let's see who's the worst?

So, we should all stay home and not go to vote? Of course not. There is a choice.

It happens. They doubt it and do not think it will happen and that it is good for us.

Time no dey. The real change is coming. Vote MKG. Vote for Marricke Kofi Gane.

We will scramble the tracks and move up a gear or win the victory.