A Senegalese-based reporter with AFP, Jennifer O’Mahony has taken to Twitter to hail Ghana’s President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for being punctual during yesterday’s investiture of former football star, George Oppong Weah as Liberian President.
An image of President Akufo-Addo surrounded by empty seats have been circulating on various social media platforms.
Elements within the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) have tried making political gain out of it by drawing linkage to the controversial ‘cash for seat’
But the journalist who reported for her media house from Monrovia, conflicted the claims indicating that Akufo-Addo rather arrived at the event earlier than other African leaders and took his seat anticipating the commencement of the historic event.
Meanwhile, the former football star, George Weah was on Monday sworn in as the new president of Liberia taking over from the continent’s first democratically elected female president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf according to an africanfeeds.com report.
This is the first time in over 70 years that Liberia is witnessing the peaceful transfer of power from one government to the other after a peaceful electoral process.
George Weah will now serve as the 25th president of the West African nation as hopes are high for him to transform the country by creating jobs and providing improved social amenities after taking his oath of office.
Thousands of Liberians mostly young people thronged the Samuel Kanyon Doe stadium near the capital, Monrovia for a ceremony which was witnessed by several heads of state from Ghana, Mali, Nigeria and Togo.
Weah’s former football colleagues and were also in attendance to support him on his big day.
President Weah beat the former vice president, Joseph Boakai in last year’s elections after failing in two previous attempts to be president.
Weah on Saturday told journalists that “I am a human being, I strive to be excellent, and I can be successful”.
“When I work hard I believe what I believe in and I showed I could persevere,” he added.
Source: mynewsgh.com
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Yes they have to pay and learn real leadership,pay with wisdom,pay by arriving early pay by being extra O kojo wo ye ***barred word*** BI BA
NDC IF YOU DO NOT CHANGE YOUR WAYS YOU WILL CONTINUE TO FALL BEFORE NANA UNTIL YOU ARE NO MORE. JUST SEE THE GRADIENT OF YOUR FALL
ndc and their stup1d1>ty. the thing is now more of an eternal curse than I thought. it has affected everyone associated with them including the followers and their generations even yet unborn. its serious. only God can help them He is also angry with them bcos there is an innocent blood on their hands which needs cleansing. but they are not helping themselves in anyway. wetin be my own with ndc and their stup1d1>ty sef. My able president we know you are always on time for events bcos time is very important. unlike a certain de>ad g>o>at who goes to events late even when the boss himself (papa J) is already there. and when he (papa j) talks they say his (the de>ad g>oa>t) babies with sharp teeth will jump on him all bcos they are all ex-president. they 4got that there is a difference. even though they all became president with someone dying one way or the other, the difference is that one is bold enough to accept his involvement where as the other is running away from his own shadow.
hahahahhaaha I JUST CANT STOP LAUGHING. HAHAHHA
A worthy measure for dedication is punctuality. Hail the President! People from far away Senegal have admired his steadfastness, shown here by punctuality. Who in their right sense will be a prey to NDC lies in cash for seat? When intelligent minds are thinking of how to move the nation forward and create jobs to solve real problems NDC is wasting MPs time on frivolous cash for seat probe, which like Agyarko's case will end nowhere because there is no iota of truth in it.
NOBODY WAS WILLING TO PAY TO SIT BY OUR PREZ,NOT EVEN MAHAMA AND JJ.
Kojo your head is hollow just like ur NDC cohorts
The controversy is not going to end now but it was just for fun . Millennium Excellence Awards set the standard and they are in all Africa countries.
The other African leaders fear they have to pay by sitting close Akuffo Addo. Dat is a fact.