 | Not content to spend Kojo's millions, is he? |
ACCRA - Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan is due to return to his native Ghana on Tuesday night where he is being urged to contest the West African countryÂ’s presidential election in 2008.
The movement set up the website draftkofiannan2008.com to campaign for his candidacy. The website, which is not endorsed by Annan, said “is the best qualified person to lead the country “at this crucial time.”
| How millions of people in Ghana and this is the best they can do? Sure hope the second-best guy in Ghana is never put in charge of the U.N. |
Annan, 68, is reported to have turned down the advances of the New Life Ghana Movement urging his candidacy.
| "No, no, I couldn't, really. How much does it pay?" |
The draftkofiannan2008.com website said its team was calling on Annan “to come and lead us as a nation” and contest the election as an independent candidate. “We find it necessary that Mr. Annan take up this challenge as an independent presidential candidate so that he can concentrate on building the administrative and managerial competences of our ministries and departments while oversight is provided by political activity, parliament, the judiciary, media, and society at large, without the dangers of a one-party state,” the website said.
| "Just like he did at the U.N.!" |
An official statement Saturday asked the public to come to the airport to give Annan a heroÂ’s welcome. |