Bernard Allotey Jacobs has charged the leadership and members of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) to protect the President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, at all costs.
The former National Democratic Congress (NDC) Central Regional Chairman was alarmed at the embarrassment that the President had to endure at the Global Citizen Festival held in Accra on Saturday, 24th September, 2022.
The President was booed by a section of the crowd gathered at the event while addressing them.
The disgruntled patrons could be heard chanting 'away' to elicit their disapproval of the President's presence during the concert which was televised on national screens and via YouTube to an audience across the globe.
Expressing his resentments over the patrons' conduct, Allotey Jacobs accused the opposition NDC of orchestrating the move.
As a veteran in politics, he strongly believed the NDC stationed some people within the crowd to hoot at the President and also mobilized bloggers to blog it so as to create an impression that Nana Addo is unpopular with the masses.
"You would realize that some bloggers have been organized behind the scene just to take pictures and then make noise about and that is propaganda," he told Kwami Sefa Kayi on Peace FM's morning show "Kokrokoo".
Allotey also took a swipe at the rank and file of the NPP for failing to avert the incident.
"Your leader is always your leader. You should ensure any path he charts is clear. What he (President) said was full of wisdom and hope . . . They should be conscious of themselves that though it's left with two years for the President to end his tenure, once he is the leader of the party, he needs the protection of every party member. For the party, your leader is more important than anything else," he advised the ruling party.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Allotey Jacobs, people on empty stomachs can't protect their leaders especially when the leaders are just in a political galamsey competing for war booty. A leader who does not look back to see whether his followers are following him will get to realize nobody is following him when he finally looks back. Jacobs ask yourself whether the vibrant and enthusiastic NPP supporters you saw from 1992-2016 is same vibrant NPP you are currently seeing. The hopes of the npp youtha have been dashed. Their party is in power for they are orphans. Unlike kufour and his appointees who cared about a future NPP by acting in ways that sought to strengthen the grassroots, these particular crop of appointees in the akuffo Addo government seems to care less about a future NPP after their exit. Their behaving as if party politics in Ghana will end at the end of December,2024 . A competition as to who can grab more is the order of the day. The ordinary NPP foot soldier has been relegated to the background. I expect the appointees, their wives and children to protect the president. To whom much is given, much is expected.
Thanks so much Uncle Papa Kojo Allotey for reminding them to remember what happened to them after they neglected their priorities in 2008 elections. God bless you so Much