Founder of 2016 Drivers for Change begs Ghanaians for forgiveness
The founder of a 2016 advocacy group, Drivers for Change, that promoted the candidature of President Akufo-Addo in 2016 has apologized for helping bring Akufo-Addo to power.
According to Yaw Barimah who founded the group to support Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP due to the hardship under John Mahama, what he and his group members are experiencing now under Akufo-Addo is worse than what they complained about under Mahama.
Going on his knees as part of protesters who thronged Kwame Nkrumah Circle for the Arise Ghana Demonstrations, Yaw Barimah urged Ghanaians to forgive him.
“I am the founder of Drivers for Change. I took Akufo-Addo in a Trotro for him to drink Kalyppo. I was the one who played mate in that clip. If the Kalyppo he drank is what is causing this mess, then I wonder what would have happened if he drank the other one” Yaw Barimah said as went on his knees.
“We are pleading with Ghanaians that every wrong we have done …. me Yaw Barimah all the wrongs I did by founding Drivers for Change to promote Nana Akufo-Addo, please Ghanaians should forgive me. I am on my knees begging Ghanaians to forgive me. I have done a huge wrong
This is not the first time group of commercial drivers who campaigned for the New Patriotic Party to win the 2016 election says they feel disappointed for supporting the party.
In 2021, the drivers, members of the ‘True Drivers Union’ say they feel compelled to apologise to Ghanaians because the current economic conditions defeat their purpose for campaigning for the NPP.
Public Relation Officer of the Union, Yaw Barimah, says he and other drivers formed the “Drivers for Change” to campaign for the NPP to win the general election, believing then that they would be cushioned by the party’s policies.
Source: MyNewsGh.com/2022
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