NPP won’t disappoint Ghanaians - Nana Akufo-Addo
The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP’s) 2016 flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has urged members of the party to work hard to enable the party to win the 2016 general election.
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He said the party’s failure to win the 2016 general election would condemn generations to a future of helplessness, hopelessness and wretchedness.
Nana Akufo-Addo was addressing participants on the final day of the International Conference of the NPP at the NH Grand in Amsterdam last Saturday.
“If we do not stay focused and work hard and smart together to win the power that is before us, we risk condemning generations to a future of helplessness, hopelessness and wretchedness.
“Ghanaians know that we of the NPP have the ideas. They know we have the competence and they have no doubt that we have the people, and they can tell that we have love for our country, not to seek to destroy it for the sake of enriching ourselves. They know we have what it takes to rescue Ghana and make her work again. And, by the Grace of God, we will not disappoint them,” he said
Helping Ghanaians
Nana Akufo-Addo said his long stay in politics had made him to appreciate the concerns of Ghanaians, and he also knew what to do to help citizens live in dignity and fulfillment.
According to him, there were far too many Ghanaians who struggled and yet could not make ends meet, and too many Ghanaian children who were being failed by the education system.
“I listen to the disillusionment of the average Ghana with politicians who promise them relief and end up bringing them grief when they get into office. I listen to the journalist who is saddened by the revelation that a government can spend $10 million to print presidential diaries. Yes, you heard me right: $10 million. And yet we are barely able to scrape together $10 million as a down payment on our debt to Nigeria for the supply of a truly essential product — gas,” he said.
“The message when you travel across the country is the same. We have had enough of the lies. We have been taken for granted for far too long. You and I know Ghanaians deserve better. That is why you and I have the responsibility to do what we have to do to bring about change. Change is coming. Change is within our reach, but change will depend on you and I,” he said.
Doing things differently
Nana Akufo-Addo assured Ghanaians that he was committed to doing things differently when elected President in 2016.
That, he said, was hinged on the fact that he was the presidential candidate of a party that had a credible record of delivering results. “We have shown both with our philosophy and our policy actions that ours is the party that believes in the wellbeing of the individual. We believe in enterprise because we know that when business thrives, society benefits from the profits of enterprise,” he said.
That, according to Nana Akufo-Addo, was why his government, God willing, would from 2017 push for policies that are jobs-focused, promote low taxes, ensure access to affordable and competitive credits and make investors feel confident that their ventures will be bankable.
Ghanaians ready for NPP
“We will then create the hundreds of thousands of jobs that the young people of Ghana are yearning for… Ours is not to create, exploit and benefit from divisive politics. Ours is to sell equal hope to every Ghanaian. We are committed to a one, united Ghana because we believe in equality between ethnic groups; equality of rights and equality of responsibilities,” he added.
The two terms of President Kufuor from 2001 to 2009, the NPP flag bearer said, had left the country in no doubt about who the better managers of the Ghanaian economy were.
“We showed that we walk more than the talk. Others talk and even take our talk and stumble when they attempt to do our walk. Examples are plenty, the NHIS, which is collapsing; the school feeding programme, which is dead; the free antenatal care, which is no more, and the development of the North, which has been saddened by SADA,” he said.
“I believe that the Ghanaian people are ready to take on our vision — enhancing productivity and diversifying our agriculture; expanding our industrial and manufacturing capacity; reforming our financial sector to support the growth of agriculture and industry; and accelerating the creation of a genuine regional market out of ECOWAS to stimulate Ghanaian enterprise and ingenuity.”
To Ghanaians in the diaspora, Nana Akufo-Addo stated that they had an important and critical role to play.
“You have the expertise, and, in many cases, the capital to contribute to the growth of Ghanaian civilisation. Together, we at home and you abroad, can work to realise the dreams of the founder members for a free, prosperous Ghana as the vanguard for a free, prosperous Africa. We will rebuild Ghana together,” he said.
