THE flag bearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the party would continue its good work by ensuring that the Greater Accra and Central regions voted massively again for the NPP, this year.
He said contrary to claims that the Central Region was no longer one of the strongholds of the NPP, his recent visit to the area showed clearly that the people in the region appreciated the work of the NPP and would continue to vote for it .
Nana Akufo Addo who was speaking at a mini-rally in Bukom, a suburb of Accra on Friday said the people in the Central Region and Ghanaians in general would vote for NPP in the 2008 elections ,due to the good work done by the Kufuor Administration coupled with the belief that the NPP party was the best for them.
He, therefore, discounted claims by some media houses and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) that the Central Region was no longer the strong hold of the NPP.
He expressed concern about what he termed tribal politics by some politicians who believed that Ghanaians would vote for them when they played such dangerous political games.
“In all that we do we must bear in mind that we are Ghanaian first before any tribal arrangements” he said and urged Ghanaian to be wary of such political leaders who want to use tribalism to score cheap political point.
Speaking in both Ga and English, the NPP flag bearer said the entire world was looking up to Ghana to repeat its usual peaceful election that it had conducted since the year 2000 and urged all Ghanaians especially leaders of political parties to be careful with their utterances before, during and after the elections.
“We are the number one when it comes to elections and we should again show to the world that we can do that against. Everyone is looking up to us to set the example again for the rest of Africa. We should do that without a drop of anybody’s blood”, he said.
He urged all the political parties to collaborate with the Electoral Commission (EC) for a peaceful, transparent and fair elections to take place and also urged all parties to accept the verdict of the people of Ghana after December 7.
Nana Akufo Addo said he was confident of winning the elections because of the developments the NPP had done in the areas of education, democracy, rule of law, freedom of the individual and institutions and the economy.
He said education, especially quality-free education from the kindergarten to senior high school would be his government’s priority, because through that, coupled with expanded tertiary and technical education Ghana can move forward.
He said just as Japan, Malaysia and South Korea among other nations had been able to achieve high literacy rates, with determination and commitment Ghana could replicate such example.
Explaining how his government would finance these programmes, Nana Akufo Addo said just as President Kufuor through prudent economic management had been able to start the free basic education, his administration would do the same and add the revenue that would be accrued from the oil to supplement it.
“Initially when President Kufuor started with the free basic education and the school feeding programme, the NDC said there was no money to sustain that, but through judicious economic management he was able to achieve that and I will also make senior high school free ”, he added.
He said if the NPP had had the 19 years in government like the PNDC/NDC had, the NPP would have transformed Ghana greatly adding that “we will not have messed up the economy like the NDC left it for us in 2000 after 19 years in power.”
The National Chairman, Mr peter Mac Manu, urged members of the NPP to be vigilant on the polling day and never hesitate to report any criminal or clandestine activity to the security agencies for prompt action to be effected.
The Member of Parliament for Dome Kwabenya, Prof. Mike Oquaye said the country had 33 cold stores before the NDC came in to power but managed to sell all of them including the one at Montford in the Central Region.
He urged the people of the Central Region to demand from the NDC why they sold the cold stores and are claiming that President had not built one for them.
Others speakers were a former National Chairman, the Greater Accra Regional Minister, Sheikh I C Quaye, Mr Odoi Sykes and NPP parliamentary aspirant for Krowor, Nii Ayikwei Otoo.
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