The
2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party says election
2016 is about the future of the Ghanaian youth, explaining that the
electoral choice they make this year will go a long way to determining
their future and the future of successive generations of Ghanaians.
According
to Nana Akufo-Addo, the youth of Ghana have a basic choice to make in
this year’s election – a choice between the current NDC government which
is overseeing unprecedented levels of economic difficulties and
hardships, and the NPP which has demonstrated, from 2001 to 2009, that
it has a proven track record of delivering progress and prosperity to
the people of Ghana.
“If you, the youth, feel comfortable with
the current situation, then vote for the NDC and continuity. However, if
you are dissatisfied with your current situation, then vote for change
in November. We are living today in hardships and difficulties. This is
not the kind of Ghana we want. Ghanaians want change and I strongly
believe that the youth want change,” he said.
Nana Akufo-Addo
made this known when he attended the inauguration ceremony of the
Kobreso NPP Youth Wing on Friday, March 25, at Kobreso, a small town, in
the Offinso North constituency, in the Ashanti Region.
With
nearly 60% of Ghana’s population being 35 years and below, the NPP
flagbearer explained that if Ghana becomes a success story, the youth
will be the biggest beneficiaries. However, if the nation fails, it is
the youth who have most to lose.
“Therefore, it is important
that the youth view this election as being very critical, and an
election whose outcome will determine whether the nation has a bright
future. I believe Ghana has a bright future under the right leadership.
So there is hope for the youth,” he stressed
He continued, “the
bad state of Ghana’s economy is because of bad governance, evidenced by
the implementation of bad policies over the last 7 years. It is bad
leadership that has brought about the poverty, economic difficulties and
hardships Ghanaians are going through. If the fundamentals of our
economy were right, there would have been an abundance of jobs in Ghana.
So there is hope for Ghana. Ghana’s youth have hope. If we can vote for
change in November, I assure you that Ghana will be a nation that will
be able to provide for the needs of her youth.”
Have confidence in me
Nana
Akufo-Addo, therefore, urged the youth to have confidence in him,
trusting that when they give him the mantle to serve the people of
Ghana, God-wiling from January 2017, “I am coming to do a job for Ghana.
I am coming to use the resources of this nation, not to enrich myself,
but for the benefit of all Ghanaians.”
He assured that two main
sectors that will deliver the hundreds of thousands of jobs required by
the teeming masses of unemployed Ghanaian youth, namely manufacturing
and agriculture, will be given a major boost through the implementation
of a number of well-thought out policies and programmes.
Nana
Akufo-Addo indicated, for example, that Ghana’s over-reliance on cocoa
will not be a feature of his government, as an aggressive
diversification of cash crops, akin to the developments in neighbouring
Cote d’Ivoire, which earns that country $12 billion in export revenues,
will be pursued by his government.
“I said in Sampa, a week ago,
that an Akufo-Addo government will establish a Cashew Marketing Board,
which will do for cashew farmers exactly what the Cocoa Marketing Board
does for cocoa farmers. Likewise, we will give strong government backing
to producers of maize. If Ghana is to make any meaningful change in the
lives of her people, our efforts must be directed at this sector. The
majority of people can only feel a change in their lives when we develop
agriculture. That is the road to prosperity in Ghana,” he added.
All
these policies, he stressed, will be brought to fruition by providing
Ghanaians with a first class government whose main aim will be to
improve their living conditions. Nana Akufo-Addo emphasised that “we in
the NPP have the men and the women that will give Ghanaians a first
class government which is going to work honestly to solve the problems
of our people.”
In concluding, he appealed to the people of
Kobreso that they should, on his third attempt, “have confidence and
trust in me, and try me. Give me the chance to show you what I can do.
God knows my heart and I can assure you that I won’t disappoint you.
Progress and prosperity are what I am offering the youth, and the people
of Ghana.”
Nana Akufo-Addo, prior to the inauguration
of the youth wing, visited the NPP’s Offinso North constituency
chairman, Mr. D.K. Boakye Asare, at his residence in Afrancho, to
console him on the loss of his wife.
The NPP flagbearer
also paid a courtesy call on the Akwamuhene of Kobreso, who was sitting
in state on behalf of the Chief of Kobreso, who is out of the country,
to inform him officially of his presence in the town, ahead of the event
in Kobreso.
Accompanying Nana Akufo-Addo were the NPP
National Women’s Organiser, Otiko Afisa Djaba, former MP for Offinso
North and former Minister of Trade and Industry under President Kufuor,
Dr. Kofi Konadu Apraku; MP for Offinso North, Hon. Collins Ntim; MP for
Offinso South, Hon. Ben Abdallah; and Campaign Aides to Nana Akufo-Addo,
Iddrisu Musah Superior, Pius Enam Hadzide and Charles Nii Teiko Tagoe;
amongst others. |
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