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NPP
November 18, 2015
GHANAIANS WANT A CHANGE FROM YOUR
INCOMPETENCE, NPP TELLS MAHAMA
The Acting Chairman of the New Patriotic Party, Mr. Freddie
Blay, says Ghanaians, in the 2016 general elections, will
vote in a party that is well-versed in the business of
governance, and has proven to possess a solid track record
in improving the quality of lives of Ghanaians.
Addressing a press conference at the Headquarters of the
Party on Wednesday, 18th November, and flanked by National
Executives of the party, Mr. Freddie Blay, stated that
Ghanaians have endured for 7 years, under the NDC
government, an administration that has proven to be clueless
and incompetent in every sector of the Ghanaian economy.
According to the acting NPP Chairman, indications from the
vast majority of the people on the ground points to the fact
that 2016 is really about a change from the NDC to the NPP,
“a change from a party that in eight years makes the people
poorer and the nation bankrupt to the Party that can rescue
the economy and put Ghana back to work.”
He continued, “It is about a change from the needless and
avoidable hardships that Ghanaians have been forced to face
in these eight years of NDC. The campaign in 2016 is
essentially about which party can be TRUSTED to change the
lives of Ghanaians. And these decisions will be based on the
facts. Nothing more, nothing less.”
Agreeing with President Mahama that that the 2016 campaign
is all about Change, in a riposte to the President’s
“Changing Lives” tour, Mr. Freddie Blay stressed that “2016
is about a change from the INCOMPETENCE the people see, the
incompetence we feel and the incompetence we know.”
Citing the return of the Cash and Carry policy in place of
the collapsed National Health Insurance Scheme, coupled with
the rampant and widespread corruption and rising levels of
youth employment, Mr. Freddie Blay insisted that change from
the Mahama government to an Akufo-Addo-led NPP
administration is what is needed to bring back hope to the
people of Ghana.
“(2016) is about a change from dumsor. It is about a change
from broken promises… it is all about a change from falling
education standards. It is about a change from the collapse
of the school-feeding programme. It is about a change from
increasing the burden of the cost of education on parents
and students.”
“2016 is about a change in the rising cost of living. It is
about changing the rising cost of borrowing. It is about
business people wanting a change in the high cost of running
their business. . It is about changing the fate of the
falling Ghana Cedi. It is about ensuring that Ghanaian
workers can have some change in their pockets,” he added.
With the NDC government, led by President Mahama, ending its
second term in office and promising to transform Ghana,
when, according to the acting NPP Chairman, it cannot even
afford to get power plants and transformers end ‘dumsor’,
the good people of Ghana know what to say to that
government.
“The message from Ghanaians to President John Mahama is,
‘enough is enough!’”, he stressed.
It will be recalled that on President Mahama’stour in Tamale
at the weekend, he could not understand why Ghanaians were
not seeing the work he claims to be doing. His explanation
was that, “We are working just like an artist. When artists
are working you don’t actually know what they are doing
until they finish the work.”
“The NPP is struggling to get the logic here… If after more
than 80 per cent of the drawing or painting has been done,
and the person who is sitting there for her portrait to be
done cannot recognise herself on the canvass then what
difference will the remaining 20% make? What image can come
out of the creative hands of such a hopeless so-called
artist?” he asked.
He continued, “After seven years of a Better Ghana, the
President is now telling us that we should not worry if we
cannot see the work the NDC claims to have done. That all
the promises that he has failed to fulfil will suddenly be
fulfilled in the last year and under an IMF austerity
programme.”
This, according to Mr Freddie Blay, is an admission of
failure on the part of President Mahama.
“By describing himself as the artist whose finishing touches
we still cannot see, the President is himself admitting that
he has failed. He is saying he is guilty of failing Ghana,”
he added.
NPP Communications
Directorate
NPP Headquarters, Asylum Down. Accra
November 18, 2015
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