SOLOMON OWUSU DAMNS KUFOUR

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Mr Solomon Owusu, a spokesperson of the Movement for Change (MFC) has said that he no longer recognizes former President J.A. Kufour as a statesman.

He said, he is simply “a die hard NPP member”.

Mr Owusu was reacting to a call by former President Kufour on Ghanaians to vote for Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the upcoming presidential election on December 7, 2024.

Speaking on Pan African Television’s breakfast show “Good Morning Africa”, he asked ‘how can you stay on the mountain and make such a call’.

He said in view of the fact that Dr Bawumia and the administration he serves as Vice President have destroyed the national economy, he was surprised that President Kufour could make such a call.

He claimed that the current government has pushed more than one million people into poverty and has been unable to resolve the economic problems it promised to deal with.

The Movement for Change is led by Mr Alan Kyeremanteng, a Minister of Trade in both the Kufour and Akufo-Addo administrations.

He has put forward what he calls the Transformational  Plan which emphasizes youth mobilization, enhanced private capital participation in agriculture and industry as well as a review of the existing tax regime.

Mr Kyeremanteng has been known throughout his political; life as protege of former President Kufour who has also openly supported the NPP’s position on the speaker’s declaration of four seats in parliament as vacant.

In a television interview, Mr Kufour urged Rt Hon Alban Bagbin to display “Statesmanship” in the resolution of the problem