{"id":1239409,"date":"2022-10-31T11:27:10","date_gmt":"2022-10-31T11:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/akufo-addo-is-empty-asiedu-nketiah\/"},"modified":"2022-10-31T11:27:10","modified_gmt":"2022-10-31T11:27:10","slug":"akufo-addo-is-empty-asiedu-nketiah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/31\/akufo-addo-is-empty-asiedu-nketiah\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo is empty &#8211; Asiedu Nketiah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah says President Akufo-Addo is empty.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the veteran politician, the President carries no substance.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He said this is a view has formed of Nana Akufo-Addo long before became the President of the country.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/nana_addo_myjoyonline.jpeg\" alt=\"President Akufo-Addo\" class=\"wp-image-10032193362 lazy\"  data- title=\"Akufo-Addo is empty - Asiedu Nketiah\"\/><figcaption>President Akufo-Addo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a Facebook post on Sunday, the NDC National Chairman hopeful said President Akufo-Addo has nothing better to offer Ghanaians in these turbulent times.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have always insisted that President Nana Akufo-Addo is empty. I formed this opinion many years ago as an NDC Parliamentarian.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was representing the NPP in Parliament. Listen critically to him, and you will know he is full of smoke. Nothing beyond the smoke,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr Asiedu Nketiah also accused the President of being arrogant and not heeding advice.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"591\" height=\"926\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/1FC4F06C-A7F7-4E0D-B918-FE2B6F38DA71.jpeg\" alt=\"Akufo-Addo is empty - Asiedu Nketiah\" class=\"wp-image-10032199892 lazy\"  data- title=\"Akufo-Addo is empty - Asiedu Nketiah\"\/><figcaption>Asiedu Nketiah\u2019s Facebook post<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to General Mosquito, President Akufo-Addo should have taken a cue from his predecessor, John Dramani Mahama\u2019s lecture on Thursday, October 27.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Mahama set the right tone in his brilliant address, with solutions and proposals, at the UPSA for Akufo-Addo to learn from.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut arrogance and lack of capacity deprived him of the opportunity to drink from his predecessor\u2019s fountain of wisdom,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo addressed the nation on Sunday, October 30, about measures his government was taking to curtail the current economic crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In his address, the President hinted at possibly securing a deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) by the end of the year.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the country is likely to arrive at an agreement by December to get the crucial bailout it seeks.<\/p>\n<p>Amidst the general economic difficulties facing Ghanaians, the President in the address to the nation on Sunday insisted that the government is committed to ensuring that the economy is back on track.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah says President Akufo-Addo is empty.\u00a0 According to the veteran politician, the President carries no substance.\u00a0 He said this is a view has formed of Nana Akufo-Addo long before became the President of the country. President Akufo-Addo In a Facebook post on Sunday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1208938,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1239409","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\/1239409","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=1239409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1239409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1239409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1239409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1239409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}