Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New
Patriotic Party, has assured Ghanaians that a vote for him in the
December polls will mean they would have elected a President who will
treat all citizens with the utmost respect, and one who will also
jealously guard the public purse for the improvement of their
livelihoods.
“I am not coming into office to lord power over the
people. Neither, am I coming into office to use disrespectful language
on the people. I will not say to Ghanaians that they have short
memories. I am also not coming into office to steal the people’s money
to fill my pockets. That’s not why I am seeking your mandate.”
The
2016 NPP presidential candidate made this known on Friday, November 4,
2016, when he addressed hundreds and hundreds of residents at Ateiku, a
village in the Wassa East constituency, in the Western Region, on the
1st day of his tour of the region.
Nana Akufo-Addo assured
residents of Ateiku, as well Ghanaian populace, that “I am coming into
office to use the little wisdom, knowledge and strength the good Lord
has given me to help move Ghana forward, so we can create wealth, jobs
and prosperity for all Ghanaians.”
He noted that “every nation
whose leader has love for the country, is experienced, and is backed by
an able team of competent men and women, is a nation which will
transform its circumstances and improve on the livelihoods of its
citizenry within a relatively short period of time.”
That, the NPP flagbearer stressed, “is what I am offering the good people of Ghana”.
Having
announced a programme of for the rapid industrialization of the
Ghanaian economy; ‘1-District-1-Factory’ policy; ‘1-Village-1-Dam’
policy; the diversification of the country’s agriculture; the effective
implementation of the Free SHS policy; and the setting up of an
Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), where every
constituency will receive the cedi equivalent of $1 million a year to
tackle developmental issues, Nana Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians that
these policies will be implemented to the latter when he is given the
mandate to serve Ghana in the December 7 election.
“These are not
election policies. I am not one to make promises I know I cannot keep,
all in the hope of getting votes. I have too much love and respect for
Ghanaians to make promises which I cannot fulfill. We have though
through all these policies very well, and we know it can be done.”
He
reiterated that “we in the NPP will not make promises we cannot keep.
When we said we were going to implement the NHIS, they (NDC) said it
could not be done. However, President Kufuor did it. Likewise, I am
telling Ghanaians that Free SHS policy, amongst others, will be truly
implemented to the benefit of all.”
With one of the mainstays of
residents of Ateiku being the cultivation of cocoa, Nana Akufo-Addo
assured that his government, God-willing, from 2017, will institute
measures including, the payment of significantly higher producer prices
of cocoa above the levels which the NDC administration has provided to
farmers in the last 8 years; the reintroduction of bonuses scrapped by
the NDC government; and the reintroduction and non-politicisation of the
mass spraying exercise and the hi-tech programmes.
Whilst in
the region on Friday, the NPP flagbearer visited Mpohor, Shama and Effia
constituencies, climaxing his tour on the day with a mini-rally at the
Takoradi polytechnic.
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