President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has appealed to Ghanaians to exercise some amount of patience with his struggling administration.
According to him, “just as our fight for freedom and independence was not achieved in a day, so, too, national prosperity will not come overnight.”
The President made the appeal at this year’s ‘President’s Independence Day Awards’ held on Tuesday, 2 March 2022, at the Accra International Conference Centre (AICC).
President Akufo-Addo said: “As we prepare to celebrate 65 years of independence from colonial power with the theme, ‘Working together, bouncing back to get better,’ let us eschew all acts of divisiveness and self-centeredness which will only retire our forward march”.
He added, “We must have the pride to acknowledge that we’ve made positive strides and we must also have the humility to appreciate that we still have some way to go.
“We must have the patience to accept that just as our fight for freedom and independence was not achieved in a day, so too national prosperity will not come overnight.”
He believes, his government is “establishing a solid foundation for the economic take-off of our country in peace and in unity” while expressing optimism that “we will build a new Ghanaian civilization which will attract the admiration of Africa and the world.”
Before the 2016 elections, President Nana Akufo-Addo, who is currently in his second administration, promised to make Ghana a better place by way of fixing the country in less than two years especially if Ghanaians give him the mandate.
“I am promising you that within 18 months of a new government of the NPP, under my leadership, the face of our country, Ghana, is going to change. We are going to get out of stagnation and backwardness and move our country onto the path of progress and prosperity. We can do it. We, the Ghanaian people, have the capacity to change the circumstances of our lives”, he then promised.
“This will be a Ghana with opportunities for all, and where everybody is taken care of. We will have a society that is caring and compassionate and expresses solidarity. Nobody is going to be left behind. We are all going to march together, hands linked together, to that great future that beckons us, here in Ghana”, President Akufo-Addo added.
He made these promises as the then flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party in November 2016 during a rally in Northern Region.
