Professor David Millar, a former Pro Vice-Chancellor of the University for Development Studies says President Nana Akufo-Addo has failed to show some leadership qualities he was confident about.
According to him, such leadership qualities which include decisiveness, firmness and integrity were the hallmark of the late father of the President as a leader of the then UNC. He therefore was confident that such leadership traits would have been carried through by the President when he took over the reins of government.
While disclosing that he voted for then candidate Akufo Addo in both the 2016 and 2020 elections with the hope that the qualities of late father of the president would be manifested, the revered Professor Professor and Development Economist said he is still recovering from a disappointment in the President.
“The first voting was with the understanding that the qualities I know of his father and of UNC. When I was a student, I was a member of UNC and that was his father’s party. Those qualities I thought his son could carry forward. Because of relating the father’s qualities with the son, I went voting for him. By the end of the first term, it appeared he had a lot of obligations to honor. So, he spent his first term trying to satisfy all the constituencies that assisted him to come to power, so I said he could have compromised on so many things. I saw the second term as a dedicated term for he himself and to say this is what I’m and this is what I want to do for my country. That’s the reason I voted for him in the second election,” he said in an interview on Dreamz Fm’s State of Our Nation.
Professor Millar who is Founder and President of the Millar University for Transdisciplinary and Development Studies explained that recent happenings where the President makes a public statement and such statements turn to be contravened in implementation by his appointees without any apology is a dent on the leadership of the President.
While describing the situation as a cross-purpose talking, he added that “The President says one thing and the next time one of his ministers says something on the contrary or his words don’t reflect in reality and there is no apology for it and life goes on. Personally, I had a lot of confidence in the President and I did vote for him. I’m not an NPP person but I voted for him”.
Professor David Millar was commenting on the ongoing discussions on government’s domestic debt exchange program. In his assertion, the inclusion of individual bondholders like himself is a threat to thousands of retirees and must be reviewed.
