In a radio interview on Accra based Asempa FM on Wednesday afternoon [November 27, 2019], Mr. Blay argued that local level elections have always been political clandestinely and that President Akufo-Addo was only seeking to make it legal.
But if other people are campaigning otherwise, and the President decides to take a step back, that will be okay but it would be a "pity."
"I think the president [Akufo-Addo] is a person who listens, it may even be painful and he will say that for now, if people are saying so, I may reconsider that, I don't know but that is the President and his Cabinet. If they decide that the party itself has decided that let's go the full hog, it is a good idea, even if we go and 75 percent do not vote for us and about 60 percent do, to me its a victory," Mr. Blay said in the live radio interview monitored by Graphic Online.
Asked about what he advises about the referendum will be for the President, Mr. Blay said:
"Its leadership, leadership is not just deciding to go on with what you think you are convinced about in certain cases, sometimes you listen, and say I wish I will go this way but if the people in this country say it's not just right for me to move ahead of you..., I will later on come back to it, its a pity, I will miss my fufu maybe today, but actually that is one of the good things that the President of the Republic has come out with it. I [Freddie Blay] was so glad over it and I think it is so good, some of us who believe in democracy, who believe in partisan involvement in the management of this country, of course some people say that party politics sometimes have a little problem here and there but they say that democracy may be a very bad government except that it has no other alternative."
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