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President Akufo-Addo’s Twitter page has quickly changed shape, after rapper, Sarkodie, directed some of the controversy generated from his endorsement of the President for re-election.
The President had quickly gone on his Twitter page to flaunt the alleged cash-induced endorsement from Sarkodie.
“If I complained about ‘Dumsor’ and I also hit on inflation but today, if there is electricity and my kids, will go to school free, then Nana ‘toaso’ (Nana continue),” Sarkodie had rapped on “Happy Day,” a collaboration with Highlife crooner, Kuami Eugene.
Sarkodie, a long time Akufo-Addo loyalist had sought to claim for the Akufo Addo administration the ending of ‘dumsor’ the debilitating power crisis that had perennially dogged Ghana, for.
Akufo-Addo had quickly gone on Twitter to boast about the endorsement, tweeting, “Nice song @sarkodie and @KuamiEugene. Indeed, the battle is still the Lord’s”, with the hashtag #4MoreForNana.”
But by the time Akufo-Addo had made the tweet, the endorsement was engulfed in controversy, even from within Sarkodie’s fan base, chiefly because of the claim that dumsor had been ended by the Akufo-Addo government despite evidence to the contrary.
Apparently, the increasing heat on Sarkodie forced him to rethink his endorsement of Akufo-Addo and so immediately corrected the President on Twitter not to misconstrue his words.
“Nana M3nfa bronya ho nre akoko oo lool !! (to wit ‘don’t take advantage of my endorsement for hype’) when I say aban ( all parties ) Shouts to yourself x JM but if i feel like pointing out the negatives too you know how we do”. Minutes later, Akufo-Addo’s Twitter handle expunged the endorsement and replaced it with a tweet appreciating the song, “Happy Day.”
Meanwhile, guest singer on Happy Day, Kuami Eugene has said that Sarkodie tricked him into doing the song and that he has not endorsed Akufo-Addo or any political party for that matter.
According to the young crooner, he is not ready to take chances with Ghana’s Game of Thrones-styled politics and that if he had known that Sarkodie was doing the song to endorse his political godfather, he would have never sang on it.
.“It makes me uncomfortable,” Kuami Eugene said.