Former Special Prosecutor, Martin Alamisi Burns Kaiser Amidu, has accused President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo of manipulating this year’s elections with state resources.
Amidu says Akufo-Addo’s commissioning of projects few days to elections is an abuse of incumbency and a calculated effort to obscure his administration’s economic and social failures.
In an opinion piece shared by the former Attorney-General, he said the President is scared of a free and fair election, the reason he has pushed project inaugurations to the last days to the elections to hoodwink voters.
“President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is so scared of a free and fair democratic contest… that he reserved most of the infrastructural developments
undertaken under his tenure to be commissioned by his chosen successor and himself within the last three months to the 7 December 2024 elections,” he wrote.
In his words, Amidu described Akufo-Addo’s strategy as “a condescending insult to the electorate” and a “smokescreen to syphon public funds at the taxpayers’ expense.”
According to him, history has shown that administrations that resort to such tactics tend to lose the elections afterwards.
“The electorate has historically exhibited an awareness of incumbent governments’ ploy to deliberately postpone the commissioning of projects… to cover up their mismanagement of the public purse, abuse of power, and corruption,” he pointed out.
He stated further that the acts of the President suggests Ghanaians are some irrational beings whose votes can be bought with few images on television, adding that this year’s election is different from those held in the years 2000, 2008 and 2016.
“The corrupt and looting government machinery of Nana Akufo-Addo and Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is so power-drunk that they only see the ordinary Ghanaian as a zombified idiot whose vote can be bought after dangling a few television pictures,” he stated.
He advised Ghanaians that the act is a desperate move by the government to retain power, calling on the public to let their living conditions and the state of the economy reflect their votes to end the “create, loot, and share” governance model.
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