Mr David Apasera, the Flagbearer of the People’s National Convention for the 2020 election, on Thursday stated the overthrow of Dr Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first President, left the nation’s financial growth within the wilderness.
He stated Ghana had retrogressed vastly on account of Nkrumah’s overthrow and that except a celebration along with his imaginative and prescient was in energy, the nation’s growth would ‘continue to backtrack.’
Mr Apasera stated this in an interview with the Ghana News Agency to mark the overthrow of Dr Nkrumah’s authorities 55 years in the past.
The interval of the overthrow was the darkest days in Ghana as socioeconomic growth got here to a standstill, he stated.
Mr Apasera stated political upheavals that adopted Nkrumah’s overthrow additional suffocated the nation’s financial prosperity.
He stated the PNC was decided to saving the scenario and was analysing its efficiency within the final elections to take over political energy in 2024.
Madam Janet Asana Nabila, the General Secretary of the Party, stated overthrowing a professional authorities was detrimental to the event of a rustic.
She stated Ghana gained nothing from the overthrow, including: “We were far better off with Nkrumah than with his overthrow.”
Madam Nabila stated below Nkrumah, Ghana witnessed progressive growth in infrastructure, agriculture and the financial system and that the nation wanted selfless leaders like him to quick observe its growth.
Source: GNA
