Deputy Chief of Staff Abu Jinapor says President Akufo-Addo's decision not to don the official Ghana@60 anniversary for the independence day parade was deliberate.
The deputy Chief of Staff says the choice of the smock was to represent Northern Ghana where the attire is an iconic cultural feature.
The vice-chairman of the Ghana@60 anniversary planning committee said during the inauguration of the NPP government on January 7, President had donned a beautiful kente to represent the South where the intricately woven cloth is symbolic.
The defence comes after Ghana's critical and mocking social media jumped on the President's 'bad taste' of attire for the independence day parade. Critics say on the day when all eyes were fixed on the President, he failed to mobilise Ghanaians to patronise the anniversary cloth.
They questioned how the government could set a theme of the celebrations as 'mobilising for a better future' when it could not even mobilise Ghanaians to buy the locally printed anniversary cloth.
The president was not alone in the firing line of criticisms. The Vice-President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia also wore an elaborate blue 'agbada' accompanied by his wife,Samira, in a dress choice which also snubbed the anniversary cloth.
All former Presidents wore the anniversary cloth except President Kufuor. A former First Lady Nana Konadu Agyeman Rawlings also wore the cloth but not the current First Lady Rebecca Akufo-Addo. Abu Jinapor explained that the President first wore his anniversary cloth when he attended a premiering of a documentary of the independence struggle in Accra.
He assured Ghanaians, there will be 'several opportunities' for the president to wear the cloth.
Source: JFM/Ghana
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Stop being petty and lets think of better things that will bring relieve to the nation. Will wearing of the cloth put food on my table? Childish talk
Stop this ***barred word*** Abu, was he there only for the Northern part of Ghana or Ghana as a whole. When you make mistakes instead of you to accept and correct them you throw more dust into our eyes. Do you think we are imbeciles and we have not brains at all think in between the lines. You guys should give as us a break and admit the the brains you said you have, you have none. What is the essence of putting taxpayers money into designing and printing of the anniversary cloth? to showcase? when? We are not ***barred word*** ooo may be some people are that is why no matter the foolishness you are doing they still support you.
This is most nunsensicall explanation to give. Nana is the president and should have been the first to wear the Ghana at 60 cloth. If the president was not going to wear the cloth, then what was the sense in advocating for the cloth in the first place. There so many hypocrites in the nation who never want to say the truth when it's about some group of persons. If John Mahama was in power and didn't wear the cloth, his wife, vice and his wife didn't wear this anniversary cloth by now we would have had otabil and Martey saying he is not wise. If you keep shielding nana Addo, all you are doing is pushing him into a ditch. If he does what is wrong, people should not be afraid to let him know. He says we must be citizens and not spectators. What is wrong is wrong.
This boy is been used by politicians and he will regret soon