NPP,NDC disappointed Ghanaians says Nduom

The Convention People's Party (CPP) has said that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) have for the past 16 years failed Ghanaians with their bad policies and antagonism.
It has, therefore, urged the electorate to disregard their empty promises as contained in their manifestos and their campaigns of animosity and vote for the CPP for a better and a united Ghana.
Mr David Ampofo, the Campaign Strategist of the CPP who was reacting the launch of the manifestos of the two parties said "The people of Ghana wanted a change and the CPP is the party with a well-thought out programme of 'Change you can feel in your pocket'".
"It has become obvious that the NDC and the NPP have a collective plan to engage in a war of words and turn the campaign this year into a contest of who has the worst records in government", he said.
He said under the Presidency of Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, just like Dr Kwame Nkrumah did during the first Republic, the CPP government would place Ghanaian interest first and use the resources of the nation for its development, build industries to provide jobs, offer quality education and health delivery to all.
"A CPP administration will create a just and disciplined society with a passion for excellence with a per capita income of at least $5,000 and work to move Ghana progressively from the third world to a first world", Mr Ampofo said.
Mr Ampofo said the NDC and the NPP were only interested in taking Ghanaians back to the politics of divide and rule, exclusion as well as continue to experiment their mediocre ideologies.
He said both parties were making claims to certain development like free education, health, GETFund and freedom, forgetting that Ghana under the CPP in the First Republic experienced all these and more in a better and wider fashion.
Mr Ampofo said unlike the two parties, the CPP in launching its manifesto concentrated on what it would do when given the opportunity, because it was ready to offer response to the change that Ghanaians were yearning for.
He said when the NPP flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was launching the party's manifesto, he focused much on what the Kufuor Administration had done as the basis why Ghanaians should vote for him.
"The NPP flag bearer would have made a better point if he had outlined the promises made in the 2000 and 2008 manifestos of his party and why they failed to live up to it", he asked.
Mr Ampofo again said in launching the NDC manifesto, Prof JEA Mills, the NDC flag bearer spent a great deal of time to compare the records of the NDC and the NPP, especially who had built more schools, provided more electricity for communities and built more roads.
He said Prof Mills would have also done a better job if he had told Ghanaians what the NDC had promised in 1992 and 1996 manifestos and in the Vision 2020 and what it had delivered, what it failed to do and why.
He added that Prof Mills' claim that Ghana was currently moving backward and that there was hardship and systemic parochialism were the same reason Ghanaian gave when they rejected the NDC in 2000 and that the claim would have been better made with an objective comparison of what was there today compared to what the NDC left in 2001.
Mr Ampofo said under the governments of both the NDC and the NPP, Ghana had remained vulnerable and relied on foreign aid to fund its basic social and infrastructure.
He said the Ghanaians economy has been turned back after the gains made under the CPP administration led by Kwame Nkrumah, and this was evident in the reversal of the industrialisation process to a situation where in now imported 70 per cent of what its citizens used.
"At the same time, we are still exporters or raw materials, - gold, cocoa, timber, bauxite, etc. The question is what did the NPP and the NDC do when they were given the chance to lead the nation", Mr Ampofo said.