Leadership expert, Professor Stephen Adei, has noted that President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, will go down in history as one of the most disappointing leaders in Ghana’s history if he does not redeem himself in the next 14 months.
The former Rector of the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA) says the country requires a leader who is trustworthy and selfless to take Ghana out of the current economic predicament in the short time, something President Akufo-Addo lacks.
According to him, the President raised the expectations of Ghanaians prior to his election into office and ended up dumping it when much was expected of him.
He says the President wielded the aura of hope, charisma, vision and determination many felt would have guided him to salvage the country from its problems. However, things have turned out to be rather worse with his appointees wallowing in corruption.
He was speaking exclusively to TV3’s George Kwaning on Ghana’s chances of rebound when he made those assertions.
“One of the greatest disappointments of Nana Akufo-Addo’s regime is that, honestly, he raised the hope of Ghanaians. Ghanaians expected that they had gotten the leader with vision, charisma, determination, and it seems if he doesn’t redeem himself in the next 14 months, he will go down in history as one of the most disappointing leaders,” the Professor indicated.
He bemoaned the sheer arrogance that has characterised the President’s appointees.
“…The corruption, the arrogance, they think that Ghana is for them and that without them Ghana will not be there and some of them thinking that they should tell us who should be our next president,” he berated.
The President has come under many criticisms regarding the state of Ghana’s economy some economists have projected a true recovery in the next 30 year, all other things being equal.
Inflation rate has risen sharply to a record 54 per cent until a recent decline stemming from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) bailout which granted the first tranche of the US$3billion some few months ago.
The President who appears to have lost control over recent affairs is only casting his hopes on who the next leader becomes, per a response he gave to journalists on his way to vote in the super delegates’ conference of the NPP in August 2023.
“It’s difficult, I’m the first to admit it. I have said it several times, but at the end of the day I believe when the moment comes, Ghanaians will reflect on who best can get us out of this difficulty,” Akufo-Addo had said.
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