Nana Addo questions critics painting him as too old for presidency

Europa

May 8, 2016 8:08 PM

According to him, age should not be a factor when it comes to issues of presidency, but rather the ability to provide solutions to challenges facing the country.

The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo-Addo has downplayed suggestions by some critics that he is too old to contest this years elections.

"Alassane Ouattara, who I am talking about, in Cote d’Ivoire is two years older than me. Muhammadu Buhari is three years older than me, and you see what he is doing in Nigeria," the former foreign affairs minister told the gathering."The so-called young man that we have is plunging our country into a ditch. Let’s elect the so-called old man to come and take our country out of the ditch," the 72-year-old presidential candidate said.

Nana Addo was speaking at the inauguration of the South African branch of the NPP on Saturday, at Illovo in Johannesburg.

He called on party members to vote the NPP in order to change the fortunes of the country.

"Let this be the generation that saved Ghana, so that, one day, when the history books are being written they will say ‘it was in our grandparents’ time, when Akufo-Addo was president, that we changed the fortunes of our country", he said.

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