Nana Kwame Bediako, also known as Cheddar or Freedom Jacob Caesar, the leader of the New Force Movement, has said The New Force has not been established with the aim of becoming a third force in Ghana’s politics.
According to the business mogul, who has announced he’ll run as an Independent Presidential candidate come December 7 election, The New Force is here to change the existing political regime that the movement is convinced must be changed to make the lives of Ghanaians better.
”The New Force is not a third force, we are new, we are a force. In forty years you haven’t seen young people get up all of a sudden and said that we are here to build a new nation. We are here to face the existing political regime that we believe has to be changed, that narrative that has to be changed. We are not politicians, we are not in their industry. We just rose up and said power to the people. We are saying that an average Ghanaian’s life matters. So we are standing for a new nation, a new Ghana,” Nana Kwame Bediako said in an exclusive interview on GH Today on GHOne TV Tuesday.
He added: ”We are not here to compete with the geo-political platforms that have been ruling for the past 40 years. Instead of governance, I will like to say ruling because from where I sit, I look at it as okay, it’s time for NDC-8 years, it’s time for the NPP – 8 years, and the nation keeps complaining, I don’t have a job, I don’t have this or that, tax is this and that. Why, complaining? get up and do something, this is what the New Force is. We are not a third force, we are not here for any political competition, we are here for a purpose and the purpose is to change the political narrative which is ruling this country that is not giving us the right economy to survive within as a country.
Cheddar emphasized his commitment to convince the youth for them to believe in themselves that they have the capacity to rise up and make Ghana a better place.
”Just last year they told me that this country’s economy is crushed, there’s no money at the Central Bank so we have to go to IMF to be saved. If the government is telling me that, I shouldn’t even sit down for one day for something to happen between these two geo-political parties and then I end up running to another man’s country as a refugee. No, I need to get up now, I need to be able to influence and convince the young people that they have the capacity to move into the future.”
Source: Kasapafmonline.com/102.5FM
