Joe Ghartey, Member of Parliament (MP) for
Essikado in the Sekondi- Takoradi Metropolis of the Western Region,
last Tuesday made a startling revelation to the effect that he
actually met his lovely wife, Efua Ghartey, while he was working as a
young lawyer at Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo's chambers.
"Apart from the fact that Nana Akufo-Addo
taught me in his chambers as a young lawyer, I also met a beautiful lady
in the same chambers who is now my wife. So I can say, Nana Addo gave
me a wife", he underscored. Joe Ghartey, a legal luminary and former
Attorney General, joined the law firm, Akufo-Addo, Prempeh & Co. -
one of the leading law firms in Ghana.
This was after he had taken up a job as an Associate at the chambers of Lawyer Gwira in Sekondi.
Joe Ghartey later left Nana Addo's firm and cofounded Ghartey & Ghartey with his wife Efua Ghartey.
Explaining probably one of the reasons why
he had thrown his unflinching support behind Nana Addo towards the
NPP's presidential primary on Saturday, Joe Ghartey stressed that he had
known the two-time NPP flagbearer for some years now.
Mr. Ghartey, current Deputy Speaker of
Parliament, was speaking at a mini-rally which was attended by the
party's * delegates from about seven constituencies in the region at
Effia near Takoradi, as part of the two-day campaign tour of Nana
Akufo- Addo in the Western Region.
"After completing the law school I once
had the opportunity to interact with Nana Addo and after speaking with
him, I knew I wanted to work with him. Subsequently, I worked with
Nana", he maintained.
He therefore implored the delegates in
Saturday's congress, particularly those in the Western Region, to vote
massively for Nana Addo.
Trial and Error
Papa Owusu-Ankom- ah, MP for Sekondi, told
the delegates to think beyond Saturday's congress and realize that
whoever would be elected as the flagbearer would become the next
president of Ghana.
Papa Owusu Ankomah has therefore
admonished delegates not to elect a "trial and error presidential
candidate" when they go to the polls on Saturday to elect a presidential
candidate for the Party ahead of the 2016 election. the 2016 election.
"I appeal to you to be minded of the fact
that the exercise we are going to undertake on Saturday is not one of
trial and error. We don't need a trial and error presidential
candidate. You need a candidate who has proven himself over time that
he is not only a candidate, but also a good leader for the party and for
the nation.
"Our selection of a flagbearer for the NPP
this Saturday is about the country. Nana Addo is tried and tested and I
know he is the best for the NPP in the next general elections", he
noted.
Nana Addo told the gathering that one of
the legacies he would want to leave behind when elected as president,
was that Ghanaians would realize that it was under his term of office
that the country became better.
Source: Daily Guide
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