The Adage "the Mouth of the Aged may have a Foul Odour, but not the Words" is one that has Completely Eluded Ex-President John Agyekum Kuffuor

According to recent reports from mid-2025, former President John Agyekum Kufuor has expressed serious worries about the Akufo-Addo-led government, urging him to apologise to Ghanaians for the country's financial difficulties and governance issues. Kufuor has also described the New Patriotic Party's (NPP) current leadership as "troubling". Today, he is back in the news chastising his own party leadership under the erstwhile regime.

From his own mouth, these were his own words. “I will be honest with you, I didn’t understand the leadership of Akufo-Addo most precisely after Covid-19. He’s one of the reasons we lost the 2024 elections. They never consulted me when taking those decisions. I even believed the cathedral would be privately funded, only to realise state funds were involved. It’s difficult to fathom the DDEP, National Cathedral, and PDS sagas. You cannot take the Ghana electorate for GRANTED."

Every time this aged man, who is meant to be a statesman, opens his mouth to discuss national matters, I wish he were dumb and never spoke. A hypocrite is a national disgrace and has no place around leadership principles. I believe Nana Addo performed admirably in comparison to this man, who wishes we had remained dissatisfied with the NPP government led by Dr Bawumia as the 2024 flag-bearer to the NPP.

I fear to think that, as a former head of state and commander-in-chief of the Republic of Ghana's armed forces, he lacks a trustworthy adviser who is in the right frame of mind. As much as I attempt to seek answers, it has become an untenable circumstance. It will help him if he can remain silent on national issues for the rest of his life.

What gives him the impetus to start talking about national issues? His recent behaviour in the media space, reminiscent of Charles Maurice de Talleyrand's ability to fuse successfully into succeeding governments, may irritate the ruling party's base. Nobody is affected by his circus weeping under this all-inclusive dispensation. When Ghanaians actually needed him to speak out against the government's faults, he opted to curl up in his comfort and cared nothing about how things turned out with ex-President Nana Addo and Bawumia and the citizenry.

Today, Kuffuor claims that the NPP strongly campaigned on his legacy during the 2016 presidential election, which resulted in the party's electoral win. He's claiming the party after its victory sought to have abandoned him, with his opinions no longer worth it, especially when the economy was thrown off gear by Nana Addo and Bawumia's deception and misgovernance. What irked me was his silence at the time, and he has now found his voice, believing that any reasonable person will sympathise with him. You will be regarded as a hypocrite beneath my feet.

When things got rougher, it was your own Sophia Akuffo who only stood up for us, reinvigorating a new vitality in us so that we could face tomorrow with hope. Where were you? Imagine the innumerable looting episodes and scandal after scandal; all you care about are DDEP, PDS, and a personal national cathedral commitment as your only worries then and today.

Last week, you were given a magnificent platform on TV3 called The Agenda to remark on the stinking SML deal and the fugitive Ken Ofori Atta; you cleverly chose to abstain and refuse to denounce. Despite the fact that many people died and continue to suffer from the spill, you chose to remain taciturn.

What happened to you today that caused you to discover your conscience or voice, something many people had previously sought but never found? That's hellish, to say the least, and to think that all of us are so gullible as to kowtow to your ridiculous lamentations was a hysteric Give us a break and stop being an opportunist and a detractor of today's government, which is perfectly on track. If not hypocrisy, how could you have publicly and brazenly supported Bawumia's campaign for the 2024 December presidential election when you were well aware of how he and his boss, Nana Addo, mistreated or marginalised you and ran the country into the junk?

You abandoned your close friend and brother, Alan Kojo Kyeremanteng, who campaigned tenaciously for you to ascend to the highest office as president, to support the prodigy Goroboy. He endured a hard exit, which inspired him and his followers to form the UP+. You were here, but it was evident that every bootlicker will choose to follow his master. I think you have no guilt in turning your back on us, but you find it expedient to believe that we will blindly offer you a needed audience. No way.