{"id":1206983,"date":"2022-09-19T10:57:39","date_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:57:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/ghana-is-on-autopilot-as-akufo-addo-lacks-mental-capacity-to-govern-sammy-gyamfi\/"},"modified":"2022-09-19T10:57:39","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T10:57:39","slug":"ghana-is-on-autopilot-as-akufo-addo-lacks-mental-capacity-to-govern-sammy-gyamfi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/19\/ghana-is-on-autopilot-as-akufo-addo-lacks-mental-capacity-to-govern-sammy-gyamfi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says President Akufo-Addo is unfit to govern the country.<\/p>\n<p>Sammy Gyamfi insists the President lacks the mental fortitude to lead Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, President Akufo-Addo does not have the \u201cmental intelligence to govern.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"674\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/1663582494_673_WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-12-at-16.58.03-1024x674.jpeg\" alt=\"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi\" class=\"wp-image-10032169448 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi\"\/><figcaption>President Akufo-Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Mr Gyamfi however, said his party are not just tagging President Akufo-Addo with names but is only describing him as he has demonstrated.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with JoyNews on Monday, Mr Gyamfi cited President Akufo-Addo\u2019s signing of Queen Elizabeth II\u2019s book of condolence at the British High Commission last week to back his claim.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sammy-Gyamfi222-1024x682.jpg\" alt=\"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi\" class=\"wp-image-10031709633 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi\"\/><figcaption>NDC National Communication Officer,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cWe call this government incompetent, call them clueless, we call them reckless, wasteful, insensitive and dishonest because that is who they are. We are not just making tags for taggings sake, we are only describing them by who they are.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&#038;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fjoy997fm%2Fvideos%2F1135944890684164%2F&#038;show_text=false&#038;width=560&#038;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a president who has demonstrated even in recent times that he lacks the mental capacity, and mental intelligence to govern, then he is unfortunate to rule this country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"440\" height=\"271\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Sammy-Gyamfi-2.png\" alt=\"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi\" class=\"wp-image-10031986787 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a president who cannot write a simple message of condolence, we all saw at the UK High Commission signing the book of condolence that has been opened in memory of the late queen and the president could not put his thoughts together to write a simple one paragraph or two paragraphs or at most three paragraphs message of condolence in memory of the queen.<\/p>\n<p>He [President Akufo-Addo] had to copiously copy from notes that has been prepared for him by his handlers, clearly, this is not a president who has what it takes to govern this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"643\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/Law-Reform-Commission-Fund-and-the-Legal-Aid-Commission-Fund-_-Akufo-Addo3-1024x643.jpeg\" alt=\"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi\" class=\"wp-image-10032150225 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ghana is on autopilot as Akufo-Addo lacks mental capacity to govern \u2013 Sammy Gyamfi\"\/><figcaption>President Akufo-Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>For the above reasons, Mr Gyamfi said the country is currently on autopilot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe country is on autopilot because the president lacks that mental fortitude to govern tabs that is what has played out a few days ago,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Communications Officer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) says President Akufo-Addo is unfit to govern the country. Sammy Gyamfi insists the President lacks the mental fortitude to lead Ghana. According to him, President Akufo-Addo does not have the \u201cmental intelligence to govern.\u201d President Akufo-Addo Mr Gyamfi however, said his party are not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1206954,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1206983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1206983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206983\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1206983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1206983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1206983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}