Yvonne Nelson recently expressed her regret over posing for a photograph with H.E. Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo following his victory in the 2016 elections.
Yvonne initially thought that the change in government in 2016 would bring hope because Akufo-Addo was portrayed as being “incorruptible” and a potential remedy to combat corruption. Yvonne was a key organizer of the “Dumsor Must Stop” vigil in 2015 to protest the energy crisis and other issues.
Her viewpoint has now changed, making her regret taking the aforementioned picture.
She said in her autobiography, “I AM NOT YVONNE NELSON,”
A year later, the opposition NPP and its candidate won the 2016 election. The power crisis and its effects were a major sin of the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC).
Dumsor had resulted in job losses and dealt a deadly blow to the small-scale enterprises that depended on electricity but could not afford alternative sources of power.
Even though the NDC administration resolved the crises at a huge cost and through shady procurement deals, the victims of dumsor, corruption, and mismanagement could not forgive the party at the presidential and parliamentary polls,” she writes.
She visited the president-elect, Akufo-Addo, along with several of her friends to offer their congratulations because she had hope for a change.
During her visit, Yvonne was photographed with Akufo-Addo, and she deeply regrets taking the picture.
“The NPP, led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, won massively in both the presidential and parliamentary elections. Some friends and I went to congratulate the president-elect, Nana Akufo-Addo, with whom we took a photograph. It is a photograph I regret taking,” Yvonne laments.
Akufo-Addo, according to Yvonne, has proven to be a “monumental disappointment.”
“He was said to be incorruptible, and Ghanaians thought he was going to be the antidote to mass stealing at the highest level, which is euphemized as corruption.
Unfortunately for Ghana and those who trusted in him, he has turned out to be a monumental disappointment whose government’s unbridled borrowing, corruption, and reckless spending plunged the nation into economic dumsor,” she writes.
