{"id":2486,"date":"2024-07-30T04:06:35","date_gmt":"2024-07-30T04:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2486"},"modified":"2024-07-30T04:07:56","modified_gmt":"2024-07-30T04:07:56","slug":"akufo-addos-tenacity-has-been-a-great-lesson-to-me-kojo-oppong-nkrumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ghnewsbay.com\/?p=2486","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo\u2019s tenacity has been a great lesson to me \u2013 Kojo Oppong Nkrumah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Works and Housing, Kojo\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.asaaseradio.com\/ghanaians-hail-oppong-nkrumah-after-dialysis-subsidy\/\">Oppong Nkrumah<\/a>, has disclosed that among the many lessons he has learnt throughout his career, one of the greatest of them all is President Akufo-Addo\u2019s tenacity and strength to deal with difficult situations and go through difficult times.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on\u00a0<strong>Asaase 99.5 Accra<\/strong>\u2019s flagship programme\u00a0<em>Sunday Night<\/em>, Oppong Nkrumah told the show host Kwaku Nhyira Addo that throughout the period he has worked with President Akufo-Addo, he has seen him deal with challenging national issues tenaciously, refusing to give up despite the odds.<span id=\"more-221644\"><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>In answering a question posed by Nhyira Addo on what lessons he has learned throughout his career, Oppong Nkrumah said the first lesson he learned is that one must always be curious about learning new skills. The second is the tenacity of President Akufo-Addo, and the third thing he has learned is how to reflect.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Trained mind<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cI had not done anything in marketing or communication when I was given the opportunity to work at Joy FM, I decided to go to Legon to study for a Master\u2019s degree in marketing so that I could do that job well, and it came in handy to help me with all the work I did at Joy FM.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThen I got challenged by Yonny Kulendi who was my pupil master that I should go study the law. This was the case of the\u00a0<em>Republic versus Kwadwo Mpiani and Charles Wereko Brobbey<\/em>, where I just moderated the show, and when we went on break, he asked me, \u2018Have you studied the law before?\u2019 I said, \u2018No,\u2019\u201d Oppong Nkrumah told Nhyira Addo.<\/p>\n<div class=\"google-auto-placed ap_container\">\n<p>\u201cHe [Kulendi] said, \u2018You\u2019ll do yourself and this country a disservice if you don\u2019t study the law.\u2019 He said, \u2018The way you think through things is remarkable. The law will help you.\u2019 And I went to law school and today when I am on my feet in Parliament, having a debate, or we are doing legislation, or I am in a committee meeting and we are discussing something, and I go through the legal rubrics \u2026 I could have imagined that it will come in handy,\u201d Oppong Nkrumah said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\">\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\">\u201cSo, one of the first lessons for me is that, be curious to acquire more skills; it will come in handy for you.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cAnother lesson \u2013 and I always tell my kids that one of the biggest lessons I have learned from President Akufo-Addo \u2013 is tenacity. No matter the odds, no matter the difficulties, be tenacious and have that clarity in your head that you are going to fight through this and get to the end,\u201d the Works and Housing Minister said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\">\n<div class=\"stream-item-size\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<h4>Push it through<\/h4>\n<p>Throwing more light on the lesson of tenacity he learned from Akufo-Addo, Oppong Nkrumah said he remembers the COVID era, when, \u201cThere were times that he [President Akufo-Addo] would be deep in thought for about five minutes and the room would be silent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the advisors are sometimes disagreeing among themselves. And he [President Akufo-Addo] will sit there and he will make a decision and he will say, \u2018We are not too clear if this is the right decision but with all the information available, this where we are going to go and we have to stick it through and push it through till we get the results.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have seen [President Akufo-Addo] in very difficult situations. When the economic crisis started, you could tell the pressure on him but he would tell you, \u2018Oppong Nkrumah, we got to go through it, go through it.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat tenacity is a lesson that I think a lot of young people need to learn. No matter the odds, you have to be tenacious and focused, knowing that you are going to push through this, until you get to the very end,\u201d the minister said.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.asaaseradio.com\"><strong>www.asaaseradio.com<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Works and Housing, Kojo\u00a0Oppong Nkrumah, has disclosed that among the many lessons he has learnt throughout his career, one of the greatest of them all is President Akufo-Addo\u2019s tenacity and strength to deal with difficult situations and go through difficult times. 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