President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has urged the New Patriotic Party (NPP) members to do everything in their power to ensure the party’s victory in the 2024 general elections.
He argued that the National Democratic Congress (NDC), a political party in opposition in Ghana, should be kept out of power at all costs. According to President Akufo-Addo, the party must prevent a repeat of the events of 2008 in order to have any chance of winning in 2024.
“We are all witnesses to the derailing of the achievements chalked by President John Agyekum Kufuor by the successor NDC Government, from 2009 to 2017, in which John Dramani Mahama featured so prominently,” the President noted.
“Under the eight years of the successor NDC Government, we became famous for all the wrong reasons. Four successive years of dumsor, the mismanagement of the economy, wrong and dangerous energy contracts, and wanton corruption dissipated any hope the Ghanaians had for sustained economic development. Never again should we allow this to happen.”
President Akufo-Addo has expressed concern over recent headlines portraying the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for all the wrong reasons, as the party’s final round of internal competitions has begun.
“We are expending some of our energies hurling invectives at each other instead of at our opponents and, in the process, taking digs at our own Government. It has been an anxious time for all who love our party and who see us as the party that can bring progress and prosperity to our nation. It is for this reason that, as President of the Republic and de-facto leader of the Party, I want to ensure that certain actions of yesteryear, which contributed to our loss in 2008, are not repeated. We cannot afford an internal campaign based on ethnic or religious considerations,” he added.
Mr. Akufo-Addo made these remarks on Wednesday, August 2, 2023, at Jubilee House, the nation’s presidential residence, during a meeting with communicators of the New Patriotic Party.
