The NPP’s running mate, Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, is under pressure from the chiefs and people of Nkroful in the Western Region to visit Nzema and offer an apology to the traditional authorities and the family of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, Ghana’s first president.
They characterize his apologies as fake and claim that his remarks in Kumasi were an insult to Ghana’s democracy, which has the power to destroy the nation’s peace and togetherness.
Running mate for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh, incited indignation and dissatisfaction among the populace when he asserted that not even Ghana’s first president, Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, accomplished anything approaching what President Akufo Addo has accomplished.
He apologized in a statement last Friday in response to a strong public outcry, but it doesn’t seem to have been enough to appease some groups of people.
A group, the concerned youth of the Western Region called for a proper apology from him whilst urging the traditional leaders of the land to add their voices and also ban him from their palaces in the interim.
The latest call is from the Chiefs and people of Nkroful who say his comments on July 9, sought to undermine, denigrate and humiliate their icon, Osagyefo Dr. Kwame Nkrumah.
Addressing the media on Sunday July 14, at Nkroful in the Ellembele District, the Chief of Nkroful, Nana Kwasi Kutuah the fifth demanded that Dr. Matthew Opoku Prempeh goes Nzema to meet Nananom and the family of Dr Kwame Nkrumah to render an unreserved apology to the kinsmen of the late president.
“We think that Dr. Prempeh was not forthright with Ghanaians when he alluded to the fact that he didn’t mean to insult Dr. Kwame Nkrumah. We have also learned that he has apologized to the good people of Ghana, and you know past presidents of Ghana. We want to demand that Dr. Prempeh, running mate of NPP should come to Nkroful to come and meet Nananom and the family of Kwame Nkrumah and make a formal apology to us”.
He has also cautioned political actors and their followers to foster unity, peace, and development.
Opoku Prempeh in trouble again as chiefs calls him out
Meanwhile, the District Chief Executive and NPP Parliamentary candidate for Ellembelle Constituency, Kwasi Bonzo, says plans are far advanced for Dr Matthew Prempeh to meet the traditional authorities in Nzema land to apologize, particularly the Chiefs and People of Nkroful.
“I have spoken to him personally in my capacity as Ellembele DCE and he has assured me that even after his national apology, all politics is local. He says he’s coming home, to Kwame Nkrumah’s hometown to meet the chiefs and the elders in the shortest possible time to render an unqualified apology, so that we can all move on as a people. So, we are working on fixing the date for him to render the apology. It had been agreed even before this press conference”.
