The National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate-elect for the Ketu North constituency, Edem Agbana has reacted to President Nana Akufo-Addo‘s recent comment about Ekumfi that has got Ghanaians talking on social media.
Previous InsightNewsgh.com reported that President Akufo-Addo admitted that he ignored Ekumfi’s development issues because the people did not retain Francis Kingsley Ato Cudjoe, the candidate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), in the 2020 election.
The President claims that in order to direct certain development projects toward the Ekumfi constituency, he appointed Mr. Ato Cudjoe as a substantive and deputy minister during his first term as a member of parliament.
But after Mr. Ato Cudjoe lost the 2020 election, the President disregarded the demands of the people.
Ever since the video went viral on social media, Ghanaians have expressed their disappointment in President Nana Addo once again following a similar comment he passed when he visited the people of Mepe in the Volta region who were greatly affected by the Akosombo spillage.
In a reaction, Edem Agbana took to his X (formerly Twitter) page to describe Akufo-Addo as petty person.
By using the word ‘petty’ for the president, Edem Agbana is trying to say Akufo-Addo care too much about small, unimportant things and perhaps that they are unnecessarily unkind.
President Akufo-Addo openly admit to deliberately neglecting the needs of the people of Ekumfi simply because they voted against their NPP MP. This man is Petty.
— ᴇᴅᴇᴍ ᴀɢʙᴀɴᴀ (@edemagbana) January 17, 2024
Meanwhile, the Kyedomhemaa of the Ekumfi traditional area, Nana Enyimfua III, demanded that the state establish a project in the area to assist the youth in earning a living, and the President complied.
During her visit to the Presidency to thank President Akufo-Addo for renovating the late President Mills’ burial grounds, the queen mother said the state had not yet kept any of the promises it had made to the late Prof. Mills’ family and the community following their kinsman’s death.
In order for the next generation to be able to rely on the benefits of the service their son provided to the state, she begged the President to keep at least one of the promises made to the traditional area.
