President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) objective in this year’s elections is to secure a decisive victory, in a free, fair, peaceful and transparent manner.
Addressing members of the National Executive Committee (NEC) of the NPP, Saturday, August 22, 2020, at the launch of its 2020 Manifesto dubbed: “Leadership of Service: Protecting Our Progress, Transforming Ghana for All” in Cape Coast, the President reassured that he would do everything to ensure the peace and stability of the country in the run-up to, during and after the polls of 7th December 2020.
President Akufo-Addo said the struggle of the party’s forebears in the Danquah-Dombo-Busia political tradition, is “to construct, at great sacrifice, a democratic, open, free system of government in Ghana.”
That, he indicated, “will not be jeopardised by me, and I am calling on all actors in the political space to join me to ensure the maintenance of the peace and stability of our country and to conduct ourselves in a manner devoid of violence and ethnocentrism. The Ghana Project can best be achieved in unity, tolerance and mutual respect.”
President Akufo-Addo intimated that the NPP has an excellent message, as set out in its 2020 Manifesto.
Nearly four years that he has been in office, President Akufo-Addo said, his government, had recorded successes in all sectors of national life, which had significantly impacted the lives of all Ghanaians.
“By common consent, it has been established that we have kept faith with the people of Ghana, by fulfilling the great majority of our manifesto promises.
“We have changed the outlook on education in this country; we have revived and strengthened our healthcare delivery system; we have been busy in the delivery of physical infrastructure in all parts of the country; we have made huge investments in agriculture, with the goal of ensuring nation’s food security,” he stated.
Again, “we have cleaned the financial sector mess we inherited and have, with the active co-operation of the Bank of Ghana, strengthened the banking and financial sector; and we have shown that the economy of our country can be transformed and diversified by a government of the New Patriotic Party.
He disclosed, that, 2020 election is between him “the current President” and the former President. “It is about leadership. It is about integrity. It is about the performances of the two men when given the opportunity by the Ghanaian people to lead.”
“It is about measuring records against promises. It is about which of the two leaders has shown in the office that he knows how to manage the economy. It is about which of the two leaders you, the voter, can trust with the future of your children…put in motion, the necessary measures to revive and strengthen the economy, businesses, and social services, and build our country out of the Coronavirus pandemic.”
Rex Mainoo Yeboah, ISD
