[ 2015-04-24 ]

Akufo-Addo confers with Nigeria’s Buhari
The leader of Ghana’s biggest opposition party
Nana Akufo-Addo met with Nigeria’s
president-elect Muhammadu Buhari Thursday.

The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP)
met with the incoming president of West Africa’s
most populous nation in Abuja to cement ties with
the then opposition party.

The three-time presidential candidate also
congratulated Gen Buhari on his historic victory,
having become the first opposition leader to
defeat an incumbent president.

Accompanying Akufo-Addo were Alhaji Rashid Bawa,
Ghana's former Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and
Saratu Atta, Akufo-Addo's Executive Assistant.

Akufo-Addo had earlier issued a statement to pat
the APC leader on the back for unseating Goodluck
Jonathan.


“I join well-wishers in the rest of Africa and
across the world to extend warm congratulations to
the APC presidential candidate, General Muhammadu
Buhari, on his decisive victory in the March 28,
29 Nigerian presidential election, thus becoming
the next President of the Federal Republic,” the
statement read.

“Through the peaceful exercise of their
sovereign and democratic right to elect their own
leaders, the people of Nigeria have strengthened
the frontiers of democracy for all other African
countries to emulate.

“This is the first time, in Nigeria’s history,
that one democratically elected government has
been voted out for another, and that a sitting
President has been rejected at the polls. This
change, after 16 years of the Fourth Republic,
should go a long way to enhancing the quality of
competitive governance in Nigeria. It has
reinforced the democratic notion that the people
have the power to change governments.

“President Goodluck Jonathan is to be commended
for graciously conceding defeat, thereby laying to
rest any lingering suspicion and anxiety about the
fate of Nigeria in the aftermath of the
elections.

“By their exemplary conduct, both outgoing
President Jonathan and his successor have
reinforced the resilience of Nigeria's democracy,
and demonstrated to the entire world that politics
in Africa can be positively competitive, when
conducted on the basis of time-honoured principles
of transparency, fairness and equal opportunity.

“I hope that the determination and perseverance
shown over the years by General Buhari, evident in
this victory, which is his 4th attempt at the
Presidency, will result in him bringing his wealth
of experience, as a military ruler and
subsequently as an acknowledged democrat, to the
fore in delivering unity, security, progress and
prosperity to the Nigerian people,” the
statement concluded.

Source - Starrfmonline

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