Nana B (left) handing Salam his portrait picture
National Youth Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Salam Mustapha, has declared that the party will continue to invest in the country’s youth.
He has, therefore, called on the youth to focus on the party’s achievement and support its innovative programmes targeted at investing in and developing the potential of the youth.
Mr. Mustapha said this at the NPP’s mentorship event on the theme: “Building Leaders for Party and Country” which was hosted at the University of Professional Studies (UPSA) and organised by the party’s youth wing.
Unlike the NDC, which invests in intangible projects with no value, the NPP government, according to him, has throughout the years implemented a number of projects and programmes, like the Free Senior High School (SHS), geared at empowering the youth.
“Today we can tell the difference between a good government and a bad one. One decided to invest in Guinea fowls, while one decided to build schools to bring Free SHS; build 111 hospitals at a go; to buy over 300 ambulances at a go, all for the good people of this country and that is what a good leader does,” he said.
“That is why the National Youth Wing wishes to continue developing good, responsible leaders for the country and the party,” he added.
Mr. Mustapha stated that the mentorship programme was part of the preparation to recruit young people into the NPP and get them trained to take leadership roles in the country.
It is also a move to help the party break the eight-year cycle of power alternation, intimating that ‘breaking the eight’ was a herculean task.
He asked party members, particularly the youth wing at various tertiary campuses, to assist the party’s drive to increase votes in order for the NPP to win the 2024 elections.
“I happen to be a deputy under this iconic leader, Sammi Awuku, and with a combined strength, energy, determination, fortitude, we took the NDC to the cleaners with almost one million votes, the biggest ever margin in the political history of this country, and nobody can do more than what the combined energy of young people in this country can do,” he intimated.
He continued, “It is for us to show courage, attitude and fortitude. Seeing all the youth seated here today gives me the biggest joy and belief that we shall do it.”
Minister for Lands and Natural Resources, Samuel Abu Jinapor, also exhorted the youth not to give up on supporting the NPP for re-election since the NPP is the best in terms of administration.
He recalled the NPP’s major accomplishments from the days of former President Kufuor to the present.
“We are in difficult times and the world is in difficult times. Things are not rosy, times are tough, school fees and electricity bills are difficult to pay. Inflation is in 40’s, and that means people are getting tired and the income of people is eroding. And so, there are difficulties in this country, but there are difficulties everywhere around the world,” he explained.
According to him, those difficulties are temporary and they are momentary, adding that “if you examine the various propositions in the country, both historically and contemporarily, I say this without any shred of equivocation, there is no political force that can take this country to where we want to get to than the NPP.”