The Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Akufo Addo has described Ghana as a country currently in crisis.

According to him, throughout the period in which he has been in public life, never has he seen such high level of desperation and depth of despair that today has become the daily existence of the majority of people in Ghana.

“This is Ghana, …our Ghana, a nation where most people in times of trouble try and lift themselves up and try to do something that will improve upon the circumstances. Today that spark which pushes us and gives us the determination to overcome is disappearing and the sense of gloom is enveloping our nation.”

Speaking during what he describes as the ‘True State of the Nation’ event in Accra Monday, Nana Akufo Addo said he was hopeful that President John Mahama while presenting the State of the Nation Address last Thursday, would have captured the mood and the difficulties that faced Ghanaians daily.

He said he expected President Mahama to have offered Ghanaians a glimmer of hope and ask Ghanaians to help resolve the crisis that the country finds itself.

“I wanted him to admit that ours is indeed a nation in crisis, unfortunately millions of Ghanaians including my humble self waited in vain. President Mahama painted a picture that bore very little resemblance to today’s Ghana. We have made cocoa farming attractive, NHIS is flourishing, he has overcome the energy crisis,…really! Mr President, are you living in the same Ghana as the rest of us? I was forced to make the conclusion that he presented a tale of two Ghanas during his three hour, forty minutes address on the State of the Nation.  There is the Ghana inhabited by the President, family, friends and selected small group and the real Ghana inhabited by the 27 million of Ghanaians” Nana Addo said.

The former Attorney General added that he felt in the circumstances that the public interest would be well served by putting before the Ghanaian people in this critical year of choice the real state of the nation.

“It will be a solemn exercise devoid of gimmickry,” Akufo Addo noted.