According to his claim, the Nana Addo administration is engaged in misguided discourse, which is bad news for the functioning of the government.
Professor David Millar said he has a strong conviction something has fundamentally gone wrong with President Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo, which has led to the current avoidable lapses and pitfalls under his administration. This is despite the fact that he voted for President Akufo-Addo in both the 2016 and 2020 elections following a critical assessment of the then candidate Akufo-Addo.
“The President says one thing, then one of his ministers says something completely different or his statements don’t match up with reality. There is no remorse, and life continues on. I voted for the President because I felt quite confident in him. He stated in an interview for Dreamz Fm’s State of Our Nation program in Bolgatanga, “I’m not an NPP person, but I voted for him.
“The first voting was with the understanding that the qualities I know of his father and of UNC. When I was a student I was a member of UNC and that was his father’s party. Those qualities I thought his son could carry forward. Because of relating the father’s qualities with the son, I went voting for him. By the end of the first term, it appeared he had a lot of obligations to honour.
So he spent his first term trying to satisfy all the constituencies that assisted him to come to power, so I said he could have compromised on so many things. I saw the second term as a dedicated term for he himself and to say this is what I’m and this is what I want to do for my country. That’s the reason I voted for him in the second election,” he explained.
He asserts that the president is not exhibiting the leadership traits of firmness, discipline, and honesty as a result of recent events in the government.
Professor Millar emphasized that he has not yet fully recovered from his shock and regret at the course that events took while the president was in office.
“I have not recovered from that strange feeling that something has happened. Maybe the witches in his village have come across him”.
The government’s decision to launch a domestic debt restructuring program, which will require individual bondholders to voluntarily enroll in the program or risk losing their investments, prompted the former vice chancellor to respond to the developments.
Professor Millar expressed his displeasure of the action and claimed that it was a negative one as an individual bondholder.
In his opinion, the government should think about decreasing spending by shrinking itself and streamlining some policies and programs in order to relieve the current financial strain it is experiencing.
