According to him, the people who want to cut short the democracy of Ghana are those pronouncing coups in Ghana.
President Akufo-Addo made this revelation in his address on the 30th Anniversary of the 1992 Constitution, on Thursday, 28 April. 2022.
According to him, persons pronouncing coups in Ghana either do not respect Ghanaians or fear that they will be rejected in an election, hence calling for overthrow of an elected government.
The President urged all Ghanaians to reject such persons.
He claimed that several attempts to take Ghana down the path of multiparty democracy was met with stiff opposition and cynical response.
“Those who were not in support of Ghana’s return to Multiparty Democracy will rather have Authoritarian Rule foisted on the citizens claiming Ghana was underdeveloped and we needed to get things done in a hurry.
They claimed that democracy was cumbersome and will divide Ghanaians along tribal lines. However, the word was widespread and unanimous to have a decade-long ban on party political activities imposed in 1981 lifted and the return to multiparty democracy established” President Akufo-Addo noted.
Thirty years down the line, there are some people who still want to see Ghana returning to the dark days of authoritarian rule.
“This is simply because they have no respect for the Ghanaian people, they are either unwilling to subject themselves to the open scrutiny of the Ghanaian people or because they know that they will be rejected by the Ghanaian people when they go to the polls.
Thus, seeking a short cut to office in power. Let us resist such persons for our common good”, he reiterated.
He said Ghanaians want a living condition of freedom where there is respect for individual liberty.
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