The 2016 presidential nominee of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said the continued stay in office of President Mahama poses the biggest threat to the future of Ghanaians and generations unborn.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, President Mahama’s tenure in “high office” over the last eight years, first as Vice President for four years and President for another four, has been characterised by deception, propaganda, massive levels of unemployment, despondency, rising cost of living, severe hardships and suffering.
“We need a new kind of politics in Ghana. A politics based on principle, on policy and on direction for the Ghanaian people. That’s the politics we need, and not the politics of deception. We want a new direction for our nation. John Dramani Mahama is the biggest threat to the future of our nation, and we have to work hard between now and December to kick him out of office,” the NPP flag bearer said.
Nana Akufo-Addo was addressing a rally at Mallam junction in the Weija/Gbawe constituency at the campaign launch of the NPP’s parliamentary nominee, Tina Mensah, on Sunday, October 2, 2016.
The NPP flag bearer’s comments were premised on recent comments made by President Mahama who, in the wake of Moody’s upgrade of Ghana’s credit ratings, stated that “everybody recognises that Ghana is rising and Ghana is doing well.”
Mr Akufo-Addo, however, said: “I have said this before and I want to repeat it. Is President Mahama living in Ghana with us, or, perhaps, he lives in a different country? Has he given jobs to the thousands of jobless young men and women in the country? Has he revived the large numbers of companies which have collapsed under his tenure? Are parents now able to pay the high school fees of their wards? Has he resuscitated the collapsed National Health Insurance Scheme?”
Touching on the recent rating of Ghana’s outlook from “negative” to “stable” by Moody’s, the NPP flag bearer wondered: “Did the Moody’s rating take into account the hundreds and hundreds of thousands of youth who have no jobs? Have they taken into account the massive and unprecedented levels of unemployment for which President Mahama says Ghana is doing well? We beg of him (President Mahama). If he is coming to the end of his term of office, Ghanaians are urging him not to say things that will further anger them.”
Source: Ghana/AccraFM.com
