If elections were held in Ghana today, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) would lose because the government has failed Ghanaians, Ablekuma South MP Alfred Oko Vanderpuije has said.
According to Mr Vanderpuije, the NPP’s performance in government is below par compared to the previous National Democratic Congress administration which the NPP severely criticised.
Speaking on the Executive Breakfast Show (EBS) on Class91.3FM on Tuesday 30 May, he told show host Moro Awudu: “Going into the [2016] elections, with everything that was happening under the NDC administration led by His Excellency John Dramani Mahama – we were attending to the needs of our schools, road networks, railway networks, attending to the needs of energy, attending to those challenges. We were busy attending to all those things, then the opposition party came along and said: ‘This government is working with too many people as ministers of state, this government is borrowing too much money, the utilities are too high, this government is incompetent.’ Today, they are saying don’t use that word ‘incompetent’…
“Secondly, the same party now in power hasn’t done anything about utility bills…they haven’t done anything about it and they will not do anything about it, mark my words. It is going to continue, that is what people are facing every day. They told them [Ghanaians] as soon as they come to office it is going to change, but it hasn’t changed.
“They said we were taking too many ministers of state [but] now you come and you are close to tripling it – 110 ministers. And you were calling us incompetent but you needed 110 ministers to justify you can do the work? You don’t need 110 ministers.
“Today, Ghana has the highest ministerial appointments with a population of 27 million, so who is incompetent? So Ghanaians have already seen. They have seen that this government is not going to offer them anything and, therefore, I’m telling you if there was election today they would lose.
“I’m on the ground, parliament has been on recess, so I’ve been on the streets of my constituency, I’ve been in schools, on the streets, in homes everyday …I’m at the Mamprobi Police Station painting the whole police station, it has never been painted since we knew it as children. I’m cleaning the gutters, working with the community, visiting the polyclinics, I know what is happening. I talk to the people every day and I know that today, if you were to put a ballot box anywhere in this country, NPP would lose.”
Source: Classfmonline
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A government should not be judged within five months in office. It's too early for Alfred Vanderpuiji to predict the polls
mr,Oko you are talking like an ndc foot soldier. You stayed in office for more than four years you did not paint the police station and the other things you are doing now what prevented you to do those things earlier. now that you are doing them it is a lot of money where is the money coming from? creat loot and share minister you will loose the 2020 elections mark it. Why did you run away to find solace as an MP?.You are a disgrace to your people the GA's.
So you mean me never painted that police station? Even when you were Accra MCE? So who has failed? Disappointed Rick Ross.
The ecto parasites in Oko's beard are causing him to day-dream. how can the National DEMONS Congress come to power with all the pride, arrogance, corruption in high places, over-invoicing and robbery? Ghanaians don't have short memory as your ex-president thought. We are wild awake
Whats with their fixation on elections? What power drunkenness is this? Must you rule by force? Oaf! You have another 3.5 years and more to deal with NPP....you can kill yourselves!
NPP WOULD WIN HANDS DOWN, PERIOD! GHANAIANS ARE NOT THAT ***barred word*** TO GO BACK TO THE NATIONAL DEMONS CONGRESS (NDC). NO SANE GHANAIAN WILL EVER VOTE FOR SHEER INCOMPETENCE, ***barred word***, THUGGERY AND DIVIDE AND RULE PARTY!!!!!!!!!
NDC lost the last elections because of persons like Oko Vanderpuye. !.d.i.0.T
hahahahahahahahaha!!! in your dreams oko. in your dreams. but then keep on dreaming. dreaming is not a crime.
All that NDC thinks about is election.u left power only five months ago and u said what?NDC will never learn governance.their minds are always pre-occupied by elections and when they lied their way to power in 2009,they created,looted and shared the little resources that belong to the innocent people they claimed to be serving. bid your time okay.
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