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Akwasi Addai Odike
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Akwasi Addai Odike is a Ghanaian businessman and politician.
Quotes
“The way Ghana is going, if any soldier decides to take up arms, I will support the person. I have said it, and anyone who does not like it can have me arrested.”
This is not treason because I have not said I am the one going to carry out a coup.
You are being hypocritical, you allowed someone else to estimate how many Ghanaians would support a coup, yet you are asking me to retract my statement.
He indicated that he I’ll support any soldier who takes up arms with the way things are going
“The Whites made Blacks understand that partisan politics or partisan democracy is what will help; it was lies they told Africans so that we cannot get the economic freedom we want but rather a stagnant economy in order to go behind us to steal our natural resources, so I, Akwasi Addai Odike, have left parties and brought a union government.”
“I do not belong to any party again. Research has shown that partisan politics are destroying Africa, particularly Ghana.
The Union Government is a governance for all; it is a system running governance, so when we talk about governing the nation, we are all doing it.
There is also a governance where some people have formed parties that they will govern through, and we have noticed that these parties are what have brought the country down; they are not helping us to move forward.
If we want to make a difference, then these party systems will not help us; they bring division, war, selfishness, and people prioritising their party over the country. That is what is happening, and it is not helping.
Reasons why he left his former party
If you look at the architectural structure of the 1992 constitution, it has given all the powers to the president which in real terms gives the country to a small group of people to rule.
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