Nana Akufo-Addo (INSET) addressing a section of the massive crowd at the NPP rally at Jackson Park in Koforidua yesterday
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), yesterday ended his regional rallies at Koforidua in the Eastern Region with a call on Ghanaians to vote massively for the NPP to change what he described as the government with the poorest record of landmark achievements and progress.
“Ghanaians who are feeling the effect of this non-performing government must turn up in their numbers on Friday and vote this incompetent government which has brought a lot of hardships to the ordinary Ghanaian out,” he stated.
He said the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), under Mills/Mahama, had been the worst performing government since the Fourth Republic.
“It is under Mills/Mahama administration that Ghanaians have experienced unprecedented hardship and institutionalised corruption and waste, yet it is the government which has had the most resources at its disposal,” he noted
He asked Ghanaians to show the Mills/Mahama the red card and bring back the NPP to continue with its prudent policies that were intended to bridge the gap between the rich and the poor.
The Eastern regional rally was attended by an unprecedented crowd at the Jackson Park in Koforidua which is yearning for a change on December 7.
Nana Addo said his promise of free senior high education, senior high vocational and senior high technical was no fluke but a well-thought-out policy which would not only expand the human resource base of the country but also help to protect the future of the nation with an accelerated growth.
“We are coming to implement the free senior high school come September 2013, when Ghanaians give us the mandate, despite the lies of our opponents that it cannot be done because there is no money.”
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the nation had the resources to fully fund the free senior high education policy.
“We have the money, especially with the discovery of oil and we must not allow the NDC to misuse the money at the expense of poor masses,” he said, stressing that President Mahama, who benefitted from the free senior high school, had been the number crusader against free senior high school because he and his people wanted to ‘chop’ the money.
“We in the NPP want to use the money for the benefit of all Ghanaians,” he said, adding that he would also create jobs for the teeming unemployed youth and lead the industrialisation drive of the country.
He called on Ghanaians to be very vigilant on the election day because there were plans by the NDC to rig the elections after realisinng that it would lose the elections.
He promised his commitment to peace and violence-free elections but added that the NDC faithful should not start any provocation or acts of violence because the NPP would resist them.
“I have always said that I don’t want blood to be spilled because I want to become president. No. I don’t want to be president under the circumstances of violence and bloodshed,” he said and challenged President Mahama to openly advise NDC supporters to stay away from violence and strictly observe the electoral rules on the election day.
“I know God is on our side and by the close of Friday, Ghanaians will vote for a change for a better future.”
A former Minister for Finance, and Education under Kufuor’s administration, Yaw Osafo Maafo, for his part said the party had done meticulous calculation and had realised that the free senior high school policy could easily be done with even surplus resources to spare.
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