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Ladies and gentlemen of the media, good afternoon. I welcome you to another press conference of the New Patriotic Party (PNP) campaign. We thank you for your continued contribution to democracy in our country.
This afternoon, we called you on three issues:
Give an overview of where our campaign came from, where we are now, and the final steps we plan to take before the ballots are cast on December 7, 2020.
We will also highlight the fact that the PNP is the only party in the history of the Fourth Republican, whose mandate brings tremendous progress to the lives of citizens and the country in general.
Finally, we seek to alert the people of Ghana to the despair of our opponents, in particular the NDC and how in the face of their campaign collapse they have resolved to throw mud in the last week of the campaign, hoping that they will revive their dead campaign. .
Ladies and gentlemen of the media, due to the COVID pandemic, this year’s campaign has not been characterized by the usual large rallies and street carnivals that have been the hallmarks of all campaigns around the world.
Nonetheless, through the various boards of our campaign structure, we have covered every blade of grass in the country. We have tried to knock on all the doors of the country’s communities. Our campaign on social media has been vibrant and engaging.
We know that more than 55 percent of the electorate are young people active on social media. We have sold our message to the country through all party media, the pages of the president and vice president, the first and second ladies, and even the pages of key members of the campaign, and we are sure that Insha Allah , victory calls us on December 7, 2020.
We are confident that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo will have another four years to do more for our country. We find that our number one position on the ballot is indicative of the position we will occupy when all ballots are tabulated.
The President since taking office in 2017, has traveled the country every year to listen to the concerns of the people, inform them of what he is doing to address the nation’s challenges, commission projects, engage with the citizenry and in general bring governance. to the steps of the town gate.
In fact, no president in the fourth Republican history has involved the citizenry in the course of his term as President Akufo-Addo has. That program continued throughout this year.
In fact, the president only recently switched to the full campaign march as the PNP presidential candidate. Since switching to campaign mode, the president has been busy touring the regions and selling his message to the people.
Many Ghanaians have had reason to complain that the president works too hard for his age. But the president believes that the country’s development agenda must prevail and personalize its comforts.
He continues to work with all his will and strength to ensure that we achieve a Ghana beyond aid. All the flagship programs that the President started and is running will ensure that we achieve a Ghana Beyond Aid.
Our industrialization program of a district, a factory, based on the reactivation of the agricultural sector with the program of planting for food and jobs, provides employment to thousands of Ghanaians, both young and old.
Ladies and gentlemen of the media, I am sure that we have all seen the testimony of the former NDC MP for Ejura, Hon. Pangabu, who shows the prosperity that the planting campaign has brought for food and employment, not just for him and his family, but also for the hundreds of casual and permanent workers he has employed on his farms.
Thousands of farmers in the north and across the country remain grateful for the pride that President Akufo-Addo has returned to the business of agriculture in this country.
Ladies and gentlemen of the media, President Akufo-Addo inherited an economy that was on the verge of collapse and a generally demoralized society.
We put our shoulders behind the wheel and in three years we doubled economic growth, reduced the rate of exchange rate depreciation and improved our external payments position.
Improving the economy is what allowed us to reinstate teacher trainee allowances, nurse trainee allowances, implement free SHS, and clean up the financial sector mess created by the John Mahama government. This is the message that the president has been preaching to the people of Ghana.
The vice president has also been around the country. In fact, in recent months, he has toured virtually all 16 regions, selling the history of the nuclear power plant’s mandate thus far. In fact, many countries around the world continue to suffer the pressure of the pandemic.
The World Bank and IMF project that economies around the world will recover from 2024. However, Ghana is beginning to recover much earlier than all the world’s economic experts predicted.
A few days ago, Bloomberg had this to say about Ghana: “Ghana was one of the first countries in sub-Saharan Africa to lower interest rates to counter the impact of the virus, and its economy has performed better than expected even as the pandemic stopped. activity and the price of oil plummeted. “
The first and second ladies have also been all over the country. In fact, the first and second ladies have participated since 2017 in courses that have helped millions of Ghanaians.
The history of the First Lady’s intervention in the health sector is a matter of public domain. The Second Lady’s work among poor and vulnerable communities across the country continues to put smiles on the faces of a people who until then were dejected and dejected.
Therefore, they have been key communicators of our accomplishments thus far. Both continue to draw large crowds of people who come to them to express their gratitude for the contributions they have made to their lives.
The key members of the campaign structure, i.e. the National Party President, the General Secretary, the National Organizer, the Youth Organizer, the Women’s Organizer, the Campaign Manager and all his deputies, Lord Commey, Afua Asabea Asare and I have been around the country.
In fact, as we speak, many of these officers are on the ground, peddling the PNP’s message of a better future. These press conferences that we have addressed are part of the sales channels of our message.
Ladies and gentlemen of the media, we are prepared. We are ready for December 7th. We are winning but we must win. I call on all NPP people across the country to focus on our message.
We have done a lot. We continue to point out that no government of the fourth republic, in its first term, has carried out the volume of work that the PNP has done. The people of Ghana know this. They will show it on December 7th.
The NDC knows. They also go around the country. They listen to people. In fact, there is a video in circulation of the NDC presidential candidate when he visited the West-North region. At a rally he asked the people of Twi: “Have your lives progressed or regressed?”
Of course, I expected people to say that their lives had regressed. To their utter shock and dismay, the people shouted in unison: “EKO NE NIM.” I mean, our lives have progressed. And why not? Those areas are agricultural areas.
They have seen the benefits of the forced food labor program and how that has improved their income. They have seen how the reactivation of the NHIS gives them better access to health care. They have seen how the free SHS program has allowed their children to go to school.
For many families in those areas, it is the free SHS program that led many families to graduate from SHS for the first time in their lives. To compound the NDC’s ills, their attempt to claim ownership of the free SHS program has subjected them to public ridicule.
Candidate John Mahama has become the butt of many jokes in Ghana today. They know they are losing. In fact, they know they have lost.
Therefore, they have decided that they will resort to the policy of libel, defamation and defamation as the last desperate attempt to revive their dead campaign. NDC campaign no, ator nsuom. NDC campaign, egblen. NDC campaign, yamutu. NDC campaign nim maa, kpiya.
So they have started releasing doctored videos, fabricated and tailored documents, all in an attempt to cast NPP actors into a bad position and in the hope that it will attract some revulsion for the NPP and hopefully revive their campaign. .
But no amount of fake news, concoctions, distortions, lies, and smears will revive a dead campaign. Dead campaigns are revived by a coherent strategy, anchored in a solid message. Nothing else will work. Therefore, we are advising the public to watch out for these false stories in the final week of the campaign. Let us treat them with the contempt they deserve.
I want to conclude by stating without fear of contradicting myself that the PNP is the only party in the Fourth Republic that has initiated and executed programs that have benefited the popular masses.
In fact, we are the only true party for the people. The NDC opposed many of the things and programs that benefit millions of Ghanaians. When we found oil, they called it ridiculed and called it adwengu. When we introduced the NHIS bill in parliament, they didn’t want any of it.
They left parliament. When we looked to introduce SHS for free, they scorned it and said it wasn’t possible.
I can count all the serious programs that have transformed lives in Ghana: free maternal care, NPP; capitation grant, NPP; school feeding, NPP; mass transit metro, NPP; NHIS, NPP; a district, a factory, a nuclear power plant; sowing for food and employment, NPP; a village, a dam, a nuclear power plant; free SHS / TVET, NPP; Zongo Development Fund, NPP; an ambulance, a constituency, NPP; a district, a warehouse, a nuclear power plant.
So every time the NDC takes office, what do they do? Nothing. It’s about creating, looting and sharing. The bankruptcy of ideas by the NDC is even more revealing in this election cycle. Go outside and ask people what they remember about the NDC manifesto.
They will tell you two things: Okada and morgues for Muslim communities. Subhanallah! Ladies and gentlemen, let’s move Ghana forward. Let’s protect our progress.
Let’s go out in our numbers on December 7, 2020 and give Akufo-Addo a resounding victory that will teach politicians that Ghanaians will only accept governments that work to advance the interests of citizens, not those that come to power for the sake of and that they invest in Guinea fowl Authorities flying to Burkina Fasso.
Four more to do more for you! Number one on the ballot! God bless our homeland Ghana and make it big and strong.
