The Chief Executive Officer of the Ghana Shippers Authority, Professor Ransford Gyampo, has described former President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s administration as the worst in Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
In an interview on The Point of View on Channel One TV on Wednesday, July 23, he made it clear that his political views have always been independent and performance-based, rather than rooted in loyalty to any single party.
“I have never been a supporter of any one political party, but I have voted since 1992. I have voted for NPP, I have voted for NDC,” he said, underscoring his non-partisan approach.
He recalled his admiration for former President Jerry John Rawlings, for whom he voted in successive elections. However, he added that he joined the call for Rawlings to step aside after two terms, subsequently supporting former President John Agyekum Kufuor of the NPP.
“We were the ones who kicked against Rawlings after supporting him for two terms… and then we voted for J.A. Kufuor,” he noted.
Gyampo also expressed support for the late former President John Atta Mills and initially backed President John Mahama, only to later become disillusioned with Mahama’s second term and help push for change ahead of the 2016 elections.
“We chased him [Mahama] out with the hope that [former] President Akufo-Addo was going to be the messiah,” he said.
However, he believes President Akufo-Addo failed to live up to expectations. While he acknowledged that Akufo-Addo’s government started on a positive note, Gyampo argued that by 2020, the administration had “lost it.”“In the lead-up to the 2024 elections, I felt he had done worse than all the governments in the Fourth Republic — and that is my view,” Gyampo asserted.
