Vote to get change - Akufo-Addo urges supporters
The Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has wrapped up his tour of the Brong Ahafo Region with a mammoth rally at Atebubu in the Atebubu-Amanteng Constituency where he charged the people that “if you want change, you have to vote to get change.”
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He said the overwhelming popular clamour for change would not occur if the majority of Ghanaians sat at home on Election Day and assumed that the agenda for change had already been achieved.
Rather, he said, the success of that agenda hinged on the massive turnout of all Ghanaians who felt disgruntled by the mismanagement of the economy by the Mahama-led administration to express their displeasure by resoundingly voting out the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government and ushering a regime of hope, progress and prosperity of the NPP under his leadership.
‘We can’t afford to be complacent’
He said while God had intervened and given the people of Ghana the opportunity to right the wrongs that had brought so much pain and suffering to the majority of Ghanaians, God would not descend to vote but expected that the people would take the step in bringing that God-given promise to pass by turning out in their numbers and voting for the NPP.
Nana Akufo-Addo said the biggest obstacle that the devil could place in the way of the change victory that God had ordained for the people of Ghana was complacency and cautioned against it.
“We need to turn out in our numbers to ensure that we vote ‘boom’ for Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP,” he stressed with a thunderous response from the crowd.
He had earlier addressed a rally at the Yeji Lorry Park where he announced that given the nod as the next President of Ghana, he would establish a ferry port at Yeji and also create a special police unit to tackle the high cases of armed robbery in the area.
A plea to women
The National Women’s Organiser of the NPP, Madam Otiko Afisa Djaba, addressing the concerns of women, made a passionate appeal, saying the hardship brought about by the ill administration of the Mahama-led government had not only broken families apart but made women become more like slaves in a country that was supposed to ensure their freedom, independence, progress and prosperity.
She said the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) which was one of the key social interventions that guaranteed the provision of free health care for women and their children had been killed by the NDC government.
As a result, mothers who went to hospital to deliver were dying needlessly due to preventable conditions that the Kufuor-led NPP administration had foreseen and had covered under the NHIS.
But rather unfortunately, the Mahama-led administration, which had failed to have any inkling of concern for the welfare of women and children, had gradually and somehow, wilfully, collapsed the scheme.
‘Restore sanctity of families and homes’
“Women by nature, are the ones who support the home when husbands are away or are unable for one reason or the other to provide for the upkeep of the home. But under the NDC government, women have become more hopeless than their male counterparts. The little trades that they ply have collapsed and even when one is able to raise some small capital, it vanishes under the dark economic cloud that hangs over the country due to the bad policies of the government,” she said.
Her desire, she said, was for all Ghanaians, especially women, to work at restoring the sanctity of their marriages, homes and families by ensuring that the vibrant economic environment that supported their hard work and diligence was restored.
That, she said, could be attained when women turned out in their numbers on election day to vote for Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP.
But beyond that, she urged them to encourage their husbands, as well as their sons and daughters of voting age, to also come out in their numbers and vote to secure a huge victory for the NPP on December 7.