Former President John Agyekum Kufuor says the New Patriotic Party (NPP) started well under Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s presidency.
From where he sat, he pointed out, then President Akufo-Addo managed the Covid-19 pandemic very well.
“But after the Covid, I didn’t understand some of the things that happened,” he told Deloris Frimpong Manso on The Delay Show aired on Sunday, December 7.
He cited the domestic debt exchange programme, the non-completion of the National Cathedral and the use of public funds for the project and the PDS saga as some of the decisions that contributed to the downfall of the party.
“The surprising thing is that in 2016, we won power by a landslide but getting into the 2020 elections, there was tension that resulted in the hung Parliament to the extent that it took just one seat in Parliament though the President had a huge majority.”
The first NPP Presidential Candidate to win power urged the party to be united if it wants to return to power.
“I have quoted our [late] Chairman Da Rocha from 1992. He said, that we are in a party doesn’t mean we are friends. I may not like you, you may not like me but with party principles, we come together.”