Get over your loss - Akufo-Addo to defeated 41 MPs
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the 41 Members of Parliament (MPs) of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) who lost the parliamentary primaries to get over their disappointments and unite to propagate the good story of the party to the people.
“For those of us in politics, note that these things happen, we know and so we have to continue to fear delegates but we will remain firm in our belief that losing one election cannot and does not mean the end of your political life. I am a living example and I urge all of us to get over our disappointments quickly and unite to go before the country,” he stated.
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President Akufo-Addo made the call when he addressed a national council of the party after his acclamation as the flagbearer of the NPP for the December 2020 presidential election.
The council, at the meeting, also endorsed the Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, as the running mate of President Akufo-Addo for this year’s presidential election.
“I urge you, therefore, my dear friends and colleagues to go out there with confidence that comes from your government performing well and running the affairs of the country competently. Tell our story to the Ghanaian people and tell it often,” he stated.
NPP and NDC difference
The President also urged members of the NPP to continue to show the difference between the NPP way of tackling problems as against that of its opponents in their everyday lives and pointed out that “we grow the economy and they shrink the economy.
“We create a properly regulated enabling atmosphere for businesses to flourish, they allow chancers and speculators to lure citizens into putting their moneys into dodgy enterprises,” he added.
Again, he said, while their opponents brought the country’s banks and financial services to near collapse, the NPP had to clean up thoroughly and restore confidence.
“They plunge us into dumsor, we keep the lights on, they look on clueless as hundreds of thousands of Ghana’s children exit school at JHS, we bring free SHS and free Technical Vocational Education Training (TVET) to prepare our children better to face life, they resort to crude language when faced with difficult arguments but we raise the level of public discourse,” he added.
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President Akufo-Addo said inspite of the truly abysmal state in which the NPP found the economy of Ghana in January 2017, it was proud of what it had have been able to achieve for the past three and a half years, acknowledging however, that the government was yet to achieve the optimum.
Physical infrastructure
Touching on the development of physical infrastructure, the President said, “we have been busy in the delivery of physical infrastructure as well and that just after three and half years in office, I can say without any fear of contradiction that every constituency in this country has seen the provision of some basic infrastructure to their community.”
He said the government was “pursuing infrastructure for all”.
Coronavirus pandemic
The need to be self-sufficient, the President noted, had been demonstrated dramatically in this most trying year for the whole world.
He said the arrival of the novel coronavirus has “taught all of us that we have to be self-reliant which has been my mantra since I took office and advocating the objective of a Ghana beyond aid.”
“The pandemic has also showed all of us the important role of leadership in the management of the affairs of human beings. There are no hiding places when the pandemic is abroad. I thank the Almighty that I have had a hardworking team to support me as we have grappled with the management of the virus in our country since March.