Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, Flagbearer hopeful of New Patriotic Party (NPP) says the party?s impending presidential primary is about the future of Ghana.
Nana Akufo-Addo said the process is not merely about the selection of a flag bearer to contest the December 2016 election.
?What is important is ensuring that Ghanaians will have the confidence to give the NPP the opportunity to remove the incompetent NDC administration. That is what is important?, he told delegates at Kajeji, in the Sene East Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region, at the beginning of the final phase of his campaign ahead of NPP presidential primary on October 18.
Nana Akufo-Addo urged the delegates to be guided constantly, long after October 18, by an uncompromising sense of victory in 2016, as ?this is the only way to restore Ghana back onto the path of progress and prosperity?.
Addressing hundreds of residents of Kajeji, including the 300 polling station executives of the constituency, Nana Addo stated that the NDC has shown, in its tenure of office spanning almost six years, that it cannot provide the basic needs of Ghanaians, citing the example of the deplorable road network linking the Sene East and West constituencies.
He recounted how the late President John Evans Atta Mills cut the sod, awarded the contract for the construction of the road and three years down the line ?we haven?t seen anything?.
?An Akufo-Addo government will use less than three years to complete this important stretch of road if given the opportunity. We (NPP) are not asking for power to enrich ourselves? we want power to help Ghana.
?We want to make sure the youth find employment. We want to ensure that education does not become an unbearable burden for parents, to be able to fix your roads for you and to bring prosperity to every Ghanaian,? he said.
In order for these to be achieved, Nana Akufo-Addo appealed to the gathering to, firstly, vote for him as the flag bearer of the NPP and secondly, help push the NPP into the Jubilee House come January 2017.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the NPP has never won in the Sene East constituency since the onset of multi-party democracy in the country in 1992, and yet the constituency has seen no marked improvement in their standard of living under the NDC.
?I appeal to you that in 2016, try the NPP and see for yourselves if we can do the job or not. If you vote for us and we are not able to turn around your fortunes in four years, simply kick us out,? he said.
Nana Akufo-Addo asked the delegates to vote massively for him, as this would send a clear message to Ghanaians and the ruling NDC government that the NPP is solidly united behind its presidential candidate and ready to ensure a decent standard of living for all Ghanaians.
Addressing another rally at Kwame Danso, also in the Constituency, Nana Akufo-Addo reiterated his appeal to the delegates to vote for him and ensure that he obtains a massive victory on October 18.
He urged the rank and file of the party to rally behind the winner of the primary, no matter which aspirant they supported in the course of campaigning, as ?this has always been the NPP way?.
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