• Before that, he might have been right when he said that Ghanaians were impressed with his work
• He therefore urged eligible voters to come out in their numbers to vote in 2020
The president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, seems to have gotten it right when, in 2020, he said that Ghanaians were happy with his work.
The president also said that he believed that his work had been tried and tested by the people of Ghana, urging eligible voters to come out to register and vote in the December general elections since it "would be sad to sit in the house, and, then, other people take a decision for you".
The story was first published in 2020 on Ghanaweb.com. Read it here:
The President, on Monday, 3rd August 2020, took his turn to register for a voter ID card at the Rock of Ages registration centre in Kyebi, in the Eastern Region, and declared "I know that the Ghanaian people are also impressed with the work I have done".
Nana Akufo-Addo, went on "they have tried me, and they can discern better whether I have done a good job or not".
The President, urged eligible voters to come out register and vote in the December general election since it "would be sad is to sit in the house, and, then, other people take a decision for you".
Accompanied by his wife, the First Lady, Rebecca Akufo-Addo, and his daughters, President Akufo-Addo was taken through the COVID-19 protocols, presented his Ghana Card, as proof of identification, before he was registered by the officials at the centre.
Addressing members of the media after the completion of the exercise, the President urged all eligible Ghanaians, who are yet to register, to do so, especially as the registration exercise will soon come to an end.
"What would be sad is to sit in the house, and, then, other people take a decision for you. So, it's better that everybody, who has not yet registered, should come out and register. It's a simple process, it's not complicated," he said.
Secondly, President Akufo-Addo appealed to the Ghanaian electorate to hinge their decision on 7th December on the records of the various contestants vying for the Office of President of the Republic.
He recounted how, in the run-up to the 2016 election, he urged the Ghanaian people to give him a chance to implement his agenda of transforming the circumstances of the Ghanaian people.
"They gave me the chance, so it is now for them to decide on the work I have done. I told them to try me, they have tried me, and they can discern better whether I have done a good job or not. On my part, I have done what I could do, and I know that the Ghanaian people are also impressed with the work I have done," he added.
President Akufo-Addo and wife at voter registration center going through the process