Ghana’s president-elect to boost his country’s relationship with Nigeria

The President-elect of Ghana, Nana Akufo-Addo, says he will improve on the existing relationship between Nigeria and Ghana during his tenure as president.
Akufo-Addo spoke at the Imo Day of Thanksgiving held on Monday night in Owerri, Imo State.
According to him, Nigeria/Ghana relationship should set a good example for the rest of West Africa.
Akufo-Addo said: “I am determined, following the mandate my people have conferred on me to do everything to establish good relations with the leadership of this great country, Nigeria because together we can work for the construction of a better Africa.”
Akufo-Addo said that Ghanaians valued their relationship with Nigeria which dated back to decades, stressing that the stronger the relationship, the better for the rest of Africa.
He praised the leadership spirit of his host, Governor Rochas Okorocha of Imo State, and called on the people to give him maximum support.
Former President, Chief Olusegun Obasanjo, also commended Okorocha for the good work he was doing in the state.
Obasanjo said that he was particularly delighted to join Imo people in thanking God for what he had used the governor to do in the state.
He stressed that he was amazed to see a new Owerri town because the Owerri capital he saw on arrival was quite different from the one he used to know.
Obasanjo said: “Rochas Okorocha was my unpaid adviser who helped me in most of the good policies I initiated as a president.
“I want to congratulate him because he has changed the face of Owerri, I know this city very well. As I came today I was forced to ask, is this Owerri that I used to know or another Owerri?”
Earlier, Governor Okorocha said the Imo Day of Thanksgiving was not for All Progressives Congress members in the state only, adding that the event was for the entire Imo State people.
Okorocha said: “The thanksgiving is for Imo people to thank God for what he has done in the lives of the state and her people.”
Okorocha said that what the present administration had achieved in the state would not have been possible without God.
He thanked Obasanjo and Akufo-Addo for their participation in the event.
Chief Emmanuel Iwuanyanwu, who chaired the occasion, described Okorocha as “a statesman who knows when to play politics and when to offer leadership to his people”.
Iwuanyanwu said the governor had never discriminated against people based on partisan politics, but had continued to carry everybody along.