Hosting some senior citizens to mark the 2024 Founders’ Day on Monday in Accra, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo told them it has been the greatest honour of his life to have served as president not once, but twice and that “I will willingly step down as president on 7th January [2025].
“I do so because I will be in good company, that of Jerry John Rawlings and John Agyekum Kufuor, who in the fourth republic have been privileged by the people of Ghana to serve two terms as president of the republic”.
Amidst food and beautiful tunes of Ghanaian music, President Akufo-Addo and other government officials as well as the senior citizens took to the floor to dance.
Best
President Akufo-Addo indicated that in the last seven years as President steered the ship of the state through the deeply troubled times of the COVID-19 pandemic and its aftermath.
“It’s been a very difficult time, but I believe most of us can see that we are now turning the corner and returning our economy back to normalcy and revive growth, the growth that made our economy one of the fastest growing economies in the world in the years prior to the outbreak of the COVID pandemic” he added.
He assured that just as the country did it in the past, it would do it again.
Last Challenge
President Akufo-Addo said his last major challenge was to preside over peaceful and fair elections in December 2024.
He explained that this was a commitment that with the help of all Ghanaians he intend to realise because the people of Ghana deserve no less than to be given the best atmosphere in which to choose freely their next president and parliament.