One of the leaders campaigning for an airport and harbour in Cape Coast, Abeiku Adams has rejected the apology offered by President Akufo-Addo about the promised harbour at Cape Coast which was captured in the NPP's manifesto in 2016.

Speaking on Joy FM's Top Story, Mr Adams said, the people of Cape Coast “still don’t know what Akufo-Addo is apologizing for. Whether he is apologizing for the denial or he is apologising for the promise he made in the manifesto."

His comments come after President Akufo-Addo admitted that he has made a mistake in his comment regarding the construction of a harbour in Cape Coast.

“Let me just confess it. I made a mistake,” he said on Accra-based Peace FM’s Kokrokoo on Thursday in an interview with Kwame Sefa Kayi.

He added, “Presidents are human after all, we are not super men. We make mistakes.”

But Mr Adams insists the medium through which President Akufo-Addo offered the apology is not appropriate, adding that he expected a better approach from him.

He said if President Akufo-Addo is ready to backtrack on the comment, he should do so according to the customary tradition of the people of Cape Coast thus where he committed that error.

“You can’t stand in Accra and make that apology... it’s not traditionally appropriate to do so. He’s from a royal house and he should know that kind of courtesy. It should be part of our national politics. As a people we cannot forgo our culture,” he stated.

He added that if President Akufo-Addo acknowledges that he has defaulted, he should go to Cape Coast to express regret. This according to him “makes a lot of difference because it shows that kind of human centeredness of leadership. It gives us [people of Cape Coast] that sense of being respected as citizen.

“It gives us sense of you acknowledging us, making legitimate demands or request from the central government.”

Before the apology, President Akufo-Addo early on denied that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) had made any commitment to undertake the said infrastructural project in the region, asserting that “the commitment was never to a harbour; it was to a landing site.”

Justifying his statement, President Akufo-Addo referenced Page 88 of the NPP’s 2020 Manifesto, dubbed Leadership of Service: Protecting our Progress, Transforming Ghana for All.

Per the document, he outlined a few of the sites slated for the Central Region, which he said are at various stages of completion as far as Phase One is concerned.

“I never said I was going to build a harbour in Cape Coast. I said I was going to build a landing site like what I’ve done in these six other places in the Central Region. Cape Coast will also have its landing site, and the construction of that will start next year,” President Akufo-Addo said.