Reject NDC, NPP to restore sanity in politics — JOY
The only Independent Presidential Candidate in the 2016 election, Mr Jacob Osei Yeboah, has called on Ghanians to reject the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) on December 7, to in his words, “restore sanity into Ghanian politics and safeguard the peace the country is enjoying.”
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Popularly known as JOY, Mr Yeboah said these two political parties were taking advantage of their popularity and numbers to act in ways that divide the citizenry and make politics look like a war.
He said such divisions and seemingly cold war was a threat to the country's peace, stability and development.
Speaking to parents, staff and students of the Vocational Africa Training Institute (VATI) in Takoradi last Saturday, Mr Yeboah said if the elderly were really concerned about the future of the younger generation they would secure a better future for them by rejecting the NDC and the NPP at the December polls.
"If we the electorate, who are the owners and givers of political power will decide to teach the two big political parties in the country a lesson by sending them into opposition, they will do their homework well, will no more take electorate for granted but would pursue national interest rather than their parochial and party interest,” he said.
He said Ghana had reached a stage where it would no longer tolerate the excesses of political parties, particularly the NDC and the NPP, which continue to polarise the country and hinder real development.
Vote for JOY
Running for the second time in a presidential race, Mr Yeboah called on electorate to vote massively for him because he represented the unifier who could heal the polarisation of the country and leverage massive national development by implementing his all-inclusive system of governance stated in his manifesto, which he prefers to call a policy document.
He reiterated that if voting for the two bigger political parties would continue to polarise the country and slow down development, then it was time to emulate Benin by giving the nod to an independent candidate, who represented a unifying force for Ghana’s accelerated development.
He explained that the Beninese, realising the impact of political governance on national development and tranquility, decided on two occasions to give the nod to an independent candidate, Mr Thomas Boni Yayi, in 2006 and 2011.
“When Boni set up a political party after his two terms in office, the people rejected his party in 2016 and voted for another independent candidate, Mr Patrice Talon, in April this year,” he said.
Political parties have not helped Ghana
Mr Yeboah said over the years, Ghana had experienced a change from one political party to the other but that had not accelerated development in the country or helped to unite the country, but rather polarised the country on the basis of political ideologies and ethnicity.
