According to him, Greenstreet's disability does not qualify him to become the presidential candidate of the party.
“I don’t think a cripple can lead a political party,” Franklin Jantuah told GH Today in an interview to mark the 50th anniversary of the overthrow of Osagyefo’s dr Kwame Nkrumah's government.
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The Ghana Federation for the Disabled had earlier welcomed the decision by the Convention People's Party to elect Ivor Greenstreet as the flag bearer to lead the party in the 2016 elections.
The election of Ivor Greenstreet makes him the first person with disability to run for presidency in Ghana.
But, the only surviving member of Nkrumah's cabinet, Jantuah believes Dr. Agyeman Badu Akosa “would have been better because he is not a cripple.”
Jantuah added that “If you have a CPP with a leader who is a crippled…I wonder how he is going to rule,” because "he has to walk also…have the capacity to walk and go places and talk”.
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