[ 2014-12-18 ]

Dr Kwabena Adjei, incumbent NDC chairman

Stop calling Akufo-Addo 'Grandpa' – Kwabena Adjei tells NDC
Stop referring to Nana Akufo-Addo as an old man
and grandfather, national chairman of the
governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr
Kwabena Adjei has admonished supporters and
leaders of his party.

“I simply don’t like it. Why grandpa? Me too
I’m a grandpa. So is it a crime to become
grandpa?” he wondered in an interview on Starr
news.

Akufo-Addo, three-time Flag-bearer of the main
opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), will be 72
years old in 2016, as he attempts, for the third
consecutive time, to win the presidency.

The former foreign affairs Minister’s critics
and political opponents have constantly made
reference to his age as a disadvantage, vis-à-vis
that of President John Mahama, who will be 58
years old in 2016, and will be slugging it out,
for the second time, with Akufo-Addo in the 2016
elections.

However, 71-year-old Dr Adjei, who is a few months
older than the former Attorney General, and is
also contesting with three people to retain his
position as chairman of the NDC for the third
consecutive time, despite the age card being
played against him by his opponents, said: “We
in the 70s, we’re a few–about five or so
percent of the Ghanaian population – we are a
treasured generation.”

“If the young ones refuse to take our wisdom and
experiences from us, we’ll be lost. We’ll be a
lost generation,” the former Minister who served
in the Rawlings administration said.

He put up a strong defence of Akufo-Addo’s
decision to run for the presidency for a third
time despite his age.

“I don’t think that any person who is worth
his salt and who comes out to say: ‘I want to be
a leader’ must be brought down. Nana Addo has a
democratic right to stand as a leader. That’s
the way I see him.

“He hasn’t done anything wrong, in much the
same if I want to stand as a President, which I
don’t want to do, nobody should say I’m an old
man so I should not stand, because the wisdom and
the intelligence and the strength I have, are not
even present in some of the youngest ones who
believe that they are good,” Dr Adjei argued.

Source - Peacefmonline

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