“The President claims all is moving on smoothly in Ghana, the reason why he is seeking a renewal of his mandate in office. President Mahama, clearly, does not feel your pain and suffering. He is impervious to the hardships Ghanaians are going through on a daily basis, in their efforts to make ends meet. I doubt he is living in Ghana with us, because if he was, he wouldn’t be making such comments.”
These were the words of the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Wednesday, October 19, 2016, in Kramoase, in the Atwima Kwanwoma constituency, at the beginning of his 4-day tour of the Ashanti Region.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, he is at a loss as to why the President will make comments to the effect that all is well with Ghana, in the midst of record levels of unemployment, rising cost of living, high utility tariffs, widespread despondency, and untold levels of hardship and suffering amongst the populace.
Nonetheless, the NPP presidential candidate is urging Ghanaians not to lose hope in the ability of the country to offer citizens a decent standard of living, stressing that an Akufo-Addo-led NPP government is coming into office to improve the conditions of living of Ghanaians.
“We have an opportunity this year to rid our nation of the suffering and hardship the Ghanaian is going through under the leadership of President Mahama. When we vote in a competent government in December, I assure you that Ghana will be put on the path of progress and prosperity once again. That is the task before us in Ghana in this year’s election”, Nana Akufo-Addo said.
Thus, the ‘1-District-1-Factory’ policy, ‘1-Village-1-Dam’ policy, the diversification of the country’s agriculture, the effective implementation of the Free SHS policy, the setting up of an Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP) the restoration of the teacher training and nursing training allowances, the effective implementation of the Free SHS policy, amongst others, he said, are policies that will bring progress and prosperity to Ghanaians.
With the cultivation of ginger being one of the major produce in Atwima Kwanwoma, the NPP flagbearer stated that, in line with his 1-District-1-Factory policy, “it will not be difficult to establish a ginger processing factory in this constituency. We are going to do that, I assure you.”
To this end, Nana Akufo-Addo told the hundreds and hundreds gathered at Kramoase “to repose your confidence in me, believing that all I have just said to you, I am coming to implement them. What I am telling you is nothing but the truth. I have too much respect for Ghanaians to lie to them and say things I know I cannot do.”
NPP is the only party that can unseat Mahama
With some 49 days to the conduct of the December 7 election, Nana Akufo-Addo stressed that “there is no other political party in Ghana that has the support and organization to remove the NDC from office, other than the NPP.”
Thus, “if you are a Ghanaian who is fed up with the hardship under Mahama, please come and ride on the back of the elephant and let us go together to Jubilee House, so we can go and do a good job for Ghanaians.”
The NPP flagbearer urged residents of Kramoase to vote massively for the NPP in this year’s elections, and increase the 80.83% margin of victory chalked by the party in the 2012 presidential election.
Nana Akufo-Addo also admonished party faithful to vote for the NPP’s parliamentary candidate for the constituency, Dr. Kwadwo Appiah Kubi, and ignore any calls by independent parliamentary candidates in the upcoming election to vote ‘skirt and blouse’ in the parliamentary election.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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Npp were in government before, how did they reduce the pain of ghanaians? Didn't they increase fuel, vat, lorry fares almost every week, taxes, etc.? How many jobs did they gives to ghanaians? Did they hear that people complained in their time and Asamoah Boateng told them they should go and eat Konkonte; and Kuffuor told them that they are lazy? Today their manifesto is full of infrastrature development, job creation, etc, are they not exposing themselves?. Yet they dont see roads, hospitals, clinics, CHIPS, ports expansions, flyovers, teaching hospitals, new universities, new secondary schools, upgrading of others, airports, bridges, expanding NHIS, expanding Metro mass system, building dams, factories, etc, etc, etc, being done. Are all these not creating a lot jobs for the people, or opportunities for the people? Do they know the jobs created by one university? Mention the lecturers, non-teaching staff, secrtarial works aroud the campus, food venders, electricians, rentals for the communities. They should come again, because some of us would not understand them. Dr Bawumia is an economist, I suppose?
Anyone that thinks the NDC government are building Schools and they are doing a good job should go and read about "Ghana SERIOUS DEBT CRISIS". "More money was then borrowed following the fall in the price of oil and other commodities since 2013". "Ghana debt had grown from $14.7billion in 2013 to $21.1billion in 2016, an increase of 44%, external debt had gone up from 30% of GDP in 2016, an increase of 87%% The kind of money this government has borrowed all over should go to a good use creating jobs for young people, paying teacher's and nurses. Don't get me wrong building Schools are not a bed thing but what is the point when the economy are falling and no jobs. We need to think about our future children and not our stomach and all the big cars and house the government owns. Think of CHANGE for your future children.
i se pain and destruction after dec 7 because mahama will win again and things will fall apart pls nana watch out and be mindful dat in life what God has ordained is wat God answer to God has chosen mahama ahead of you and mark my words you will lose again and pain will confront you
If you feel the pain of Ghanaians I am sure you be doing dry fasting and prayers for them instead sharing children's kalyppo with them.
NDC HAS BOUGHT BATURE, KWESI PRATT, BEN EPHSON AND SOME OTHERS BUT THEY CAN'T BUY ALL MEDIA MEN AND WOMEN ESPECIALLY THE PATRIOTIC ONES. MEDIA MEN AND WOMEN WHO LOVE GHANA MORE THAN THIER STOMACH SHOULD HELP US UPROOT BARAWO MAHAMA AND HIS NDC GANG OF JULOR, BRING IN A PRESIDENT AND MINISTERS WHO WILL NOT STEAL GHANA MONEY INTO THEIR POCKETS BUT USE GHANA MONEY FOR MAKING LIFE BETTER FOR ALL GHANAIANS.
Nana is best placed to fix our problems since john mahama is not a capable guy. Let us vote for change and get rid of ndc incompetence
What pain are Ghanaians in that the president don't feel with them. Is Ghana a war torn nation like Syria or Iraq? Is drinking kalyppo equal to feeling the so called pain of Ghanaians. The pains of most Ghanaians is lack of schools, roads, hospitals, markets, electricity and other infrastructure. If the president is providing this then what other pain does the president have to feel for Ghanaians. If drinking kalyppo is feeling pain for Ghanaians, john Mahama could have drunk a gallon. Old men can't think far.
Nana has no chance. He should forget the presidency and go on taking care of his health. Ghanaians cannot afford his medical bills when he comes to power.