#Election2020: Akufo-Addo will follow Trump out of office—Asiedu-Nketiah
The General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu-Nketiah, says results from the United States elections shows that President Nana Akufo-Addo will also lose the 2020 elections.
Playing clairvoyance with election trends in Ghana and the United States as a guide, he predicted that just like President Donald Trump, the end of the road would come for President Akufo-Addo on December 7.
“The American elections are a sign of victory for the NDC. It looks like elections in Ghana and the United States have some special link. Anytime they vote for change since 1992, a similar thing happens in Ghana,” he told an Accra-based radio station.
After four days of sitting on the edge, the American media, including the Associated Press, CNN, and Politico projected the elections for Mr. Biden, whose previous shots at the presidency in 1988 and 2008 failed.
While Mr. Biden and his supporters jubilate, the incumbent, Mr. Trump and his sympathisers are counting on a legal challenge the Republic Party has filed in five states–Michigan, Nevada, Pennsylvania, Georgia and Wisconsin– to turn the results in the sitting president’s favour.
In 1992, Bill Clinton, a Democrat defeated George W. Bush Snr, a Republican to become America’s 42nd President. In Ghana, J.J. Rawlings, who led the country as a military leader since 1981 contested and won the 1992 elections on the ticket of the NDC. The same trend was repeated in 1996.
But Mr. Asiedu-Nketiah believed the US election was over and would follow a 28-year old trend in the two countries.
When Ghana and the United States went to the polls again in 2000, the Americans voted for a Republican—George W. Bush Jnr—while Ghanaians elected J.A Kufuor of the New Patriotic Party (NPP). The two countries re-elected the same candidates in 2004.
The tables turned again in 2008 when Americans chose Barack Obama, a Democrat for two terms (2008 and 2012). But in Ghana’s case, a twist of fate meant that Prof J.E.A Mills who was elected in 2008 died before the 2012 elections. The NDC chose John Mahama to lead it into the 2012 elections which he won.
A second shot at the presidency for Mahama in 2016 was cut short by the NPP’s Nana Akufo-Addo who won that election just as Donald Trump did in America on a Republican ticket.
With American voters rejecting Trump in their November 3 elections, Mr. Asiedu-Nketiah, said he was hopeful Ghanaians would replicate the trend.
“Some people claim that in Ghana we change presidents every eight years. But the 2016 elections in Ghana and the American elections this year shows that if you don’t do your job well, you’ll be out of office.
“During the 2016 elections, it was obvious that Trump was nowhere close to winning the elections but he won. Right after the elections, Nana Akomea [NPP’s Director of Communications in 2016] said once Trump had won, Nana Akufo-Addo was also winning. Indeed, he won,” he told Okay FM on Monday.
The NDC General Secretary said the Trump administration and that of President Akufo-Addo mirrored each other as the two leaders tried to undermine what their predecessors left behind.
“In the US, they did everything to repeal Obamacare, in Ghana, they [NPP], even changed the name of the Flagstaff House to Jubilee House,” he said.
He also happed on the choices of Mr Biden’s running mate—Kamala Harris and John Mahama’s vice-presidential candidate, Prof Naana Jane Opoku-Agyemang, as divine similarities that pointed to the fact that election patterns in the two countries were inextricably linked.
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