A strong wind of change is blowing - Akufo-Addo
The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says a strong wind of change is blowing within Ghana and he is convinced the time is up for a change of government.
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He said throughout the country, the clarion call has been ‘change’, an indication that the elephant will walk majestically to occupy the Flagstaff House come December 7 when Ghanaians go to the polls.
“I am not going to disappoint Ghanaians”, he assured, as he addressed a milling crowd at the party’s final campaign rally at the Trade Fair Centre in Accra on Sunday, explaining that the party seeks power to liberate the nation from poverty and disease and bid goodbye to President Mahama and his government.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the Mahama-led administration was on the way to record Ghana’s poorest economic growth record in 22 years after inheriting a growth rate of nine per cent.
He said he has the men and women to make Ghana work better and restore the country to better days, reiterating many of the promises that the NPP has been promising to implement to grow and develop the country, including restoring and injecting new life into the National Health Insurance Scheme, restoring trainee nurses and teachers allowances, restoring and putting life in Adult Education to ensure the nation is built with a knowledge-based population, creating jobs through district-level factories, and establishing a Zongo development fund.
I have not killed anybody
According to Nana Addo, in the 48 hours leading to the voting day, his opponents in the National Democratic Congress are set to tell wild stories about him and his running mate, - false and defamatory – stories, and cautioned party followers not to give ear to such stories because they are ‘utter rubbish’.
He said while his opponents accuse him of murder, he has never killed before and so he is not bothered about those accusations.
Nana accused President Mahama of preaching divisiveness and tribal politics but said the electorate will on Wednesday show him that they cherish their unity and oneness.
He reminded the crowd that in 2008, he almost got elected, while in 2012, everybody knows what happened, but in 2016, everyone should rally behind him and give him the mandate.
I thought I had seen my largest crowd yet
Nana Addo had expressed surprise at the massive turnout of party followers as began his address.
He recalled that when the party launched its manifesto at the same venue, he had been enthused about the crowd and concluded that it was the largest he would see, however, Sunday’s turnout meant the nation was ready for change.
He pleaded with the party supporters not to be complacent and think that victory was a done deal but to turn out in their numbers on Wednesday, December 7, to vote out the Mahama administration and ensure the elephant takes over the reins of government.
He said the electorate must first cast their vote before attending to any other business.
According to Nana Addo, the party seeks power to galvanize rich ideas to better develop the country and not to lord it over the people.
He said he did not seek power to steal from the electorate or pocket their money but comes with good plans to ensure development and money.
We sit on money but we are hungry, he said in Twi to chants of ‘change’, ‘change’.
According to Nana Addo, President Mahama appears not to understand what democracy means when he mocks him for ‘begging’ the electorates to vote for him.
I will continue to plead with you to give me the mandate, doesn’t the power belong to you? When I plead with you to give me the mandate to do a good job of managing the country, is that not in order. I will beg and beg you to give me the mandate.