Renowned figure and leader of the New Force, Nana Kwame Bediako, popularly known as Cheddar, has expressed gratitude to God Almighty for the cancellation of the New Convention event which was slated to take place on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at Black Star Square.
Cheddar recently made a significant appearance at Perez Dome to express his gratitude and thanksgiving.
Having been a dedicated member of the Perez Dome community for 21 years, Cheddar highlighted the importance of his faith and the influence of God in his life.
Despite facing unexpected challenges, including the cancellation of New Convention event due to “unforeseen” circumstances, an event scheduled to take place at the Black Star square, he emphasized that every prayer he directed towards God had been answered.
“ I started fasting the first day of the year, I do it at the beginning of the year, with the church and by myself, so I was praying that let the Convention be successful so that it can reach Africans but I want to tell you this, everything I have asked God he has giving it to me.
“So I was expecting more and just an hour before the event I was told the event was cancelled with helicopters and with men, guns and soldiers, you can’t fight this one you have to step back.
“I went back to God to ask, I thought you said you were going to make the event successful but he said God meant for the event to be cancelled for the event to be successful,” Cheddar stated.
The Convention was to bring together thought leaders in Africa including Professor PLO Lumumba, Peter Obi, Julius Malema, and others to speak on key challenges confronting Africa’s development.
Hours after the cancellation, the leaders of the Convention organized a press conference at Cantonments.
Professor PLO Lumumba said, “We came to Ghana to share a message of hope that Africa needs at this time and there is no better place to begin that message than Accra Ghana.
“It is in Accra that Osageyefo Kwame Nkrumah almost 67 years ago, spoke to the world and said the ‘Independence of Ghana is meaningless until it is linked with the independence of the African continent'”.
He said 67 years later, they were congregating in Accra in the very same place where the founding fathers of Ghana stood to make that statement but they were stopped bizarrely.
Professor PLO Lumumba, however, said, “The message will be served” as the journey of hope “continues with the youth.”