Statement: Nana Akufo-Addo has not bowed out

Over the weekend, an unconfirmed rumour circulated that, New Patriotic Party’s twice failed Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo has bowed out from contesting the party’s flagbearership again. The office of Nana Akufo-Addo reacts to the rumour. Below is the statement from the aide to Nana Addo;

The attention of the Office of Nana Akufo-Addo has been drawn to a story published on Ghanaweb today, Friday, 21 February, 2014, and sourced to the Al-Hajj newspaper, with the headline: ‘Akufo-Addo bows out, Kufuor Agrees’.

It reads: “Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, who is cooling off in his ‘hide out’ in far-away UK has finally thrown in the towel on his wildly rumored third term bid for the presidency due to old age and health concerns.”

We wish to assure the good people of Ghana that the story is entirely false. This alleged news item only exemplifies the unacceptable face of creative journalism which seems to be the specialty of the Al Hajj newspaper.

Nana Akufo-Addo has made no such decision. As indicated before his departure to London last September, he will make known his future in Ghanaian politics on his return to Ghana, which will be very shortly.

……signed……
Kow Essuman
Aide to Nana Akufo-Addo

Author: Nana Kwesi Coomson (www.233times.net)

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An Entrepreneur, Corporate Social Responsibility, Corporate Communications Executive and Philanthropist. Editor-in-Chief of www.233times.com. A Senior Journalist with Ghanaian Chronicle Newspaper. An alumnus of Adisadel College where he read General Arts. His first degree is in Bachelor of Arts - Political Science (major) and History (minor) from the University of Ghana. He holds MSc in Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and Energy with Public Relations (PR) from the Robert Gordon University in the United Kingdom. He is a 2018 Mandela Washington Fellow who studied at Clark Atlanta University in USA on the Business and Entrepreneurship track.

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