Ghanaians want change from incompetence — NPP
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said in the 2016 polls Ghanaians will vote for a party that is well-versed in the business of governance and has proved to possess a solid track record in improving the quality of lives of Ghanaians.
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At a press conference at the party’s headquarters in Accra yesterday, the acting Chairman, Mr Freddie Blay, stated that Ghanaians had endured for seven years under the NDC government an administration that had proved to be clueless and incompetent in every sector of the economy.
The conference was on recent pronouncements made by President John Dramani Mahama on his ‘Changing Lives’ tour in the three northern regions.
Flanked by national executives of the party, Mr Blay said indications from the vast majority of the people on the ground pointed to the fact that 2016 was really about a change from the NDC to the NPP, “a change from a party that, in eight years, makes the people poorer and the nation bankrupt to the party that can rescue the economy and put Ghana back to work”.
According to the acting NPP Chairman, “It is about a change from the needless and avoidable hardships that Ghanaians have been forced to face in these eight years of NDC. The campaign in 2016 is essentially about which party can be trusted to change the lives of Ghanaians. And these decisions will be based on the facts, nothing more, nothing less.”
Agreeing with President Mahama that the 2016 campaign was all about change, in a riposte to the President’s ‘Changing Lives’ tour, Mr Blay stressed that “2016 is about a change from the incompetence the people see, the incompetence we feel and the incompetence we know”.
Citing what he said was the return of the cash-and-carry policy in place of the collapsed National Health Insurance Scheme, coupled with the rampant and widespread corruption and rising levels of youth unemployment, he insisted that change from the Mahama government to an Akufo-Addo-led NPP administration was what was needed to bring back hope to the people of Ghana.
According to Mr Blay, considering the abysmal record of President Mahama and his NDC government over the last seven years, it came as no surprise that President Mahama was resorting to the politics of division, as that represented his only chance of remotely winning the 2016 elections.
He said President Mahama was so desperate to hang on to power that he did not mind if he banged the heads of Ghanaians together, tribe against tribe and religion against religion.
“To him, politics must be about ‘we against them’; the politics of division is what he chooses,” he said.
“We wish to remind the President that he first became President by a very unfortunate accident. He became President because of the sad and arguably mysterious death of his boss, President John Atta Mills. May God bless his soul,” he added.
Mr Blay noted that President Mahama would not have been President if he were in the NPP because “the NPP will not risk putting the destiny of Ghana in the hands of an incompetent person who has shown to be soft on corruption, who is friendly to corruption and was even under investigation by his boss for corruption, according to the then Attorney-General, Martin Amidu”.
