Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is a Ghanaian politician who has served as the president of Ghana since 2017. He previously served as Attorney General from 2001 to 2003 and as Minister for Foreign Affairs from 2003 to 2007 under the Kufuor-led administration.
Excerpts of my speech delivered at the 2023 Annual Bar Conference of the Ghana Bar Association held in Cape Coast on 11th September, 2023.
Next Year, we will be going to the polls for the ninth time in the 4th Republic to elect a new President and new Members of Parliament. We will in the results of those polls witness either the changing of power from one political party to another as we have done on three (3) separate occasions in the 4th Republic or the breaking of the eight. Something that has never happened before in the 4th Republic. I am sure I do not need to tell you what my preference is. It is public knowledge.
However, what is important is that the Ghanaian people have demonstrated that they are fully conversant with the process of peaceful democratic transitions and need no lessons in the exercise of their democratic integrity in public life is key to extending our association with multiparty democracy.
Meanwhile, ensuring High Standard and integrity in public life has its own impact on the image of our nation, and our ability to attract the substantial amounts of investment, foreign and domestic needed to help grow our economy.
According to President Akufo Addo, we will attract the requisite investments if we continue to hold ourselves as a haven of peace, security and stability if we continue to show that we are a country where the separation of power is real and the principles of democratic accountability and respect for the rule of law, individual liberties and human rights are firmly extrenched in our body politic.
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