The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has described as “baseless and vile fabrication” reports making rounds in the media purporting that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has legalise same-ex marriages in Ghana.
The General Secretary of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia is reported to have made the jaw-dropping allegation against the government during the NDC’s Unity Walk in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region where he claimed that president Nana Addo has said “men will marry men, and women will marry women” under his governance.
According to report, the secretary while addressing a large crowd of NDC supporters in Kumasi on Saturday, April 28, 2018 made reference to the 2016 electioneering year, arguing that the incumbent President while in opposition at the time promised the Ghanaian youth marriages when elected into office.
He is quoted to have said, “Now you know what is coming? I won’t talk about it” and then seconds later declaring that “Nana Addo says men will marry men, and women will marry women.”
However, the Presidency in a statement describing the commentary of Johnson Asiedu Nketia as “fabrication” said President Akufo-Addo has never made such proclamations on any platform.
The statement signed by the Director of Communications, Eugene Arhin iterated that the President remains focused on delivering on his mandate, and improving on the quality of lives of the Ghanaian people not legalising same-sex marriage in Ghana.
It added that the President is fervently indisposed to pursuing the matter neither by requesting for an apology or retraction from the NDC General Secretary but rather urged well-meaning Ghanaians and NPP faithful’s to ignore the lies, deceit and propaganda paraded by the opposition.
Below is the full statement
RE: PRESIDENT AKUFO-ADDO HAS APPROVED GAY MARRIAGE
The attention of the Office of the President has been drawn to comments made by the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, as reported by the online news outlet, The Pulse, to the effect that same-sex marriage has been approved by President Akufo-Addo.
Speaking at the NDC’s health/unity walk, on Saturday, 28th April, 2018, in Kumasi, the NDC General Secretary is reported to have stated that “Nana Addo says men will marry men, and women will marry women.”
This is nothing but a baseless and vile fabrication, by no less a person than the General Secretary of the leading opposition party in Ghana. For the avoidance of doubt, President Akufo-Addo has NEVER stated anywhere that, under his presidency, “men will marry men, and women will marry women”.
Indeed, the President remains focussed on delivering on his mandate, and improving on the quality of lives of the Ghanaian people. It will NOT be under his Presidency that same-sex marriage will be legalised in Ghana.
We will neither ask for an apology or retraction from the NDC General Secretary, who, obviously, is still stuck in the age of the politics of lies, deceit and propaganda, which was rejected decisively by discerning Ghanaians in the 2016 general elections.
We will rather appeal to Ghanaians to, once again, ignore the falsehoods of the NDC, and urge Mr. Asiedu Nketiah to concentrate his energies on uniting his divided and discredited party.
Eugene Arhin Director of Communications
Source: Ghana/otecfmghana.com/Eric Asamoah Protocol
