NPP UK?S Message Of Condolence And A Tribute To Prof. Adu Boahene

We the members of NPP UK and Ireland have learnt with deep regret the death of Professor Adu Boahene, our spiritual father and the founding father of the modern party.

We in UK and Ireland of the Danquah-Busia fraternity recall with a sense of happiness the hope he gave us in the early nineties when we seem to lose hope of liberation from the clutches of military dictatorship. We also recall with gratitude the bravery he imbued in all of us in realisation our lost ambitions to ?fight oppressors? rule?.

Today we mourn with our mother Party in Ghana the loss of a true doyen whose sense of patriotism is unparalleled in our recent history. We mourn the loss of a true son of Ghana, a true political leader and a great teacher.

Our thoughts and condolences go to his family who undoubtedly have lost a father, a grandfather, an uncle, a husband and indeed a pillar.

Our thoughts also go to the leadership of our Party who worked closely with him and who will be in the forefront of arranging a befitting farewell for our spiritual father.

To us a great tree has fallen and a political gap has been created in the form of spiritual leadership of our Party. Prof was brave, he had vision and he showed leadership at a time when we as a Party were desperate to find our way forward. Prof has left us a time when his dream of liberating Ghana to the ideals of democracy is truly underway under the leadership of President Kufour and for us as a Party in government the only way we can honour his name is to work even harder to realise the ideals he lived and fought for all his life.

Professor Adu Boahene?s gift to us in the New Patriotic Party was the realisation, in the late 80s and early 90s, of the dream and values of our founding fathers when they formed the UGCC in 1947 and for this we shall remain eternally grateful. The hope he gave will continue to burn in us and imbue us with a sense of tenacity to continue to fight for Ghana?s economic and political dream.

We thank his family for giving us a son in the name of Prof and thank God for blessing our nation with such a talent.

We sincerely believe that history will judge him as our greatest historian, a patriot, the bravest politician and indeed our greatest political saviour in modern times.

Ohene, Nante Yie,

DAMIRIFA DUE

Hayford Atta-Krufi GHAIRMAN for and on behalf of NPP UK & EIRE