{"id":7009,"date":"2024-07-13T21:41:21","date_gmt":"2024-07-13T21:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7009"},"modified":"2024-07-13T21:41:26","modified_gmt":"2024-07-13T21:41:26","slug":"napo-has-shown-maturity-and-leadership-by-apologising-miracles-aboagye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=7009","title":{"rendered":"NAPO has shown maturity and leadership by apologising \u2013 Miracles Aboagye"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Director of Communications and Spokesperson for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia\u2019s campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has commended the running mate, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh for his apology regarding the controversial Kwame Nkrumah comment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an interview on JoyNews\u2019 Newsfile, he described NAPO\u2019s apology as demonstrating \u201cmaturity and leadership.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to him, the apology reflects positively on Dr Opoku Prempeh\u2019s character emphasizing the importance of giving credit to the NPP running mate rather than criticising him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNAPO has apologized and I think that it shows the way,\u201d he added on Saturday, July 13.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He pointed out that other leaders, including former President Mahama, have made similar or worse comments without facing similar accountability.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-f6c5b2f464f43b25c2044dfa749b71a9 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wV4rgvOoAMw?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWe\u2019ve seen leaders including former president Mahama make worst comments and he hasn\u2019t even had the course to think that he has to come and apologise so that alone is leadership and maturity that he has shown,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 9, during Dr Opoku Prempeh\u2019s unveiling ceremony in Kumasi, he declared that no president has developed the nation like President Akufo-Addo, including Ghana\u2019s first President, Dr Kwame Nkrumah.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He asserted that Nkrumah\u2019s tenure saw fewer accomplishments compared to President Akufo-Addo\u2019s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Dr. Opoku Prempeh\u2019s comments faced significant backlash, prompting him to eventually issue an apology after initially defending his position.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, Senior Vice President of IMANI-Africa, Kofi Bentil, said Dr Opoku Prempeh\u2019s comments on Ghana\u2019s first president, Dr Kwame Nkrumah, were politically incorrect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to Bentil, these remarks were out of place and disrespectful to the legacy of the great leader, arguing that Dr Prempeh\u2019s comments only provided a political advantage to his opponents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhat Napo did weakens his friends and strengthens his enemies. It has nothing to do with arrogance. It is strategically inept. It is emotionally unintelligent. Kwame Nkrumah is the greatest African of the last millennium.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe best leader we have ever had. The one man who could have been President of the United States of Africa. How do you take him on in those terms?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Director of Communications and Spokesperson for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia\u2019s campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has commended the running mate, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh for his apology regarding the controversial Kwame Nkrumah comment. In an interview on JoyNews\u2019 Newsfile, he described NAPO\u2019s apology as demonstrating \u201cmaturity and leadership.\u201d According to him, the apology reflects positively on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7010,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,18],"tags":[2378],"class_list":["post-7009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-news","category-politics","tag-napo-has-shown-maturity-and-leadership-by-apologising-miracles-aboagye"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7009"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7011,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7009\/revisions\/7011"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}