During the height of Ghana’s severe power supply crisis under former President John Dramani Mahama’s administration, Akufo-Addo was actively campaigning for his first presidency.
In the midst of the prevalent dumsor crisis, Akufo-Addo consistently criticized the government’s handling of the situation, using various platforms to draw attention to the issue.
In a notable tweet dated November 16, 2016, at 9:00 AM, Akufo-Addo urged Ghanaians to vote for change, using the hashtag #VoteForChange, expressing dissatisfaction with dumsor, incompetence, mismanagement, corruption, and other perceived shortcomings of the Mahama administration.
Interestingly, this tweet has resurfaced at a time when Ghana is experiencing recurrent unannounced power outages, leading many to draw parallels to the dumsor era.
“#VoteForChange if you’re tired of dumsor, incompetence, mismanagement, corruption, celebrated mediocrity, inflated infrastructure contracts,” his tweet of November 16, 2016, at 9:00 AM, said.
#VoteForChange if you're tired of dumsor, incompetence, mismanagement, corruption, celebrated mediocrity, inflated infrastructure contracts.
— Nana Akufo-Addo (@NAkufoAddo) November 16, 2016
Despite government denials, particularly through the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG), suggesting that the outages may be due to localized faults, calls for a timetable for power outages have been disregarded.
Instead, citizens have been advised to devise their own schedules for managing the outages. Meanwhile, the Ashanti Democrats have announced plans to bring the Dumsor Vigil from Kumasi to Accra.
Is that all you can say?? Oh shame. Lier, you pretended as if you were a human being, not knowing you were something else who wanted to take our Nzema land by force. Shame onto you. You are a disgrace to mankind. Nzemas will never forgive you for disrespecting our overlord Otumfo Kaku Aka 111, and the Galamsey mess you have created on our lands and our water bodies as well.