'#VoteForChange if you’re tired of dumsor' – Akufo-Addo’s 2016 tweet re-emerges

At the peak of what many have described as the worst times of erratic power supply in Ghana, under the administration of former President John Dramani Mahama, the sitting Head of State, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, was neck-deep in his campaign to become president for the first time.

And being the most obvious counter-campaign message at the time, Akufo-Addo used every little opportunity to call out the government over their handling of dumsor, as the erratic power supply is commonly known.

Using a hashtag, #VoteForChange, he urged Ghanaians who had had enough of the effects of dumsor to use the ballot to change the state of their situations, promising to being better management of the power sector.

Ironically, the re-emergence of this tweet is coming at a point in the country where there have been recurrent unannounced power outages in the country; a situation that many Ghanaians have described as a return of dumsor.

The government has also rubbished calls by the citizenry for a timetable on the power outages, rather urging them to create their own schedules for the outages.