Sammi Awuku
The National Organizer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Sammi Awuku, has announced that the party will be unveiling its 2020 Election Manifesto on August 22.
He said this would help cement the achievements made so far by the NPP government and also open up the economy for more socio-economic opportunities.
He, therefore, called on Ghanaians to turn up in their numbers on Monday, December 7, as they did during the recent registration of voters and vote massively for President Akufo-Addo to lead the country into the promised land with bold and decisive leadership.
He said three and half years of President Akufo-Addo had seen massive development, youth employment and implementation of social interventions like Free SHS, training allowances for trainee nurses and teachers, NABCO, Planting for Food and Jobs, free electricity and water and provision of constant electricity which former President John Mahama, who is also the presidential candidate of the main opposition party National Democratic Congress (NDC), failed to implement and also campaigned against their implementation while in office.
He said Ghanaians had come to realize that former President John Mahama is the worst performing president and that was why they voted massively to remove him from office in 2016, with over one million votes difference which has never happened in the history of the country.
The NPP national organizer made the call yesterday at a press conference to appeal to Ghanaians not to try ‘silver-tongued’ the former President whose only aim of becoming a president again, according to Sammi Awuku, is to enrich himself and not for the well-being of Ghanaians.
He said the promise by the former President to invest a whopping $10 billion into the country’s infrastructure and open the economy when re-elected is a testimony that his intention is to enrich himself at the expense of suffering Ghanaians when he is given another chance.
He explained that all infrastructural projects undertaken by former President Mahama were hugely inflated in prices, stressing that the amount of money being used by the NPP to construct four interchanges at Pokuase, Tema, Obetsebi Lamptey roundabout and Tamale at the current rate is far less than the money former President Mahama used to construct just two interchanges at Kwame Nkrumah Circle and Kasoa before the 2016 elections.
He said former president Mahama had exhibited consistently that he is incompetent, visionless and indecisive, with the poorest economic management record out of all presidents the country has had while in office, resulting in his massive unprecedented defeat in the 2016 general election.
“There is nothing new the former President is bringing on board again. He is so bereft of ideas to help Ghanaians to the extent that he is promising again to implement Free SHS if re-elected which has already been implemented by this President,” he said, stressing that many NDC members know in their hearts that former President Mahama can neither help the nation nor their party.
According to him, the founder of the NDC and a former President, Flt Lt J.J. Rawlings, has indicated that he will not vote for candidate Mahama in 2020 and even did not vote for him in 2016 because for him Mr. Mahama is only interested in using the NDC to achieve his personal gains and refusing to lay down a proper succession plan for the party.
“Bold, decisive and progressive leader like Nana Akufo-Addo promised to implement Free SHS for all Ghanaian children to have access to at least secondary education as far back as 2008 when he was a candidate and truly implemented it within the first eight months when he was elected the President in 2016,” he said.
“I still trust that Ghanaians did not make a mistake by voting out an incompetent former President Mahama and installing President Nana Akufo-Addo to bring the needed development to Ghanaians,” he said, adding that on December 7, Ghanaians are ready to renew the mandate of selfless, visionary, courageous and decisive president, Nana Akufo-Addo, to continue with his good works for the nation.
By Thomas Fosu Jnr