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Press Release
Office of Nana Akufo-Addo
August 15, 2014
" AM FIT AND STRONG
FOR THE TASK AHEAD" - AKUFO-ADDO
Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has ridiculed assertions
being made by persons, both within and outside of
the New Patriotic Party, that his age will prevent
him from effectively governing this country when he
is elected President of the Republic in 2017.
"I am being told that I am too old to be President",
Nana Akufo-Addo said, to which the delegates at a
packed Cultural Centre in Kumasi shouted, "No".
He recounted how "one man, two years older than me
in Cote d'Ivoire" is putting to shame the work of
the "so-called young man here in Ghana", a reference
to the stunning developmental record chalked by
72-year old President Alassane Ouattara in
war-ravaged Cote d'Ivoire in some 2½ years.
"Give me the chance to do the same for Ghana and
bring Ghana back onto the path of prosperity and a
good life for all citizens. I am fit and strong for
the task ahead," Nana Addo reiterated.
Nana Akufo-Addo made this known when he took his
campaign for the leadership of the NPP to the
Ashanti region on Friday, August 15.
Akufo-Addo explained that the task of governing a
country is serious business, adding the reduction of
this all important duty to a matter of where one
hails from, by President Mahama in the run up to the
2012 election, is not the way to go.
"If you are experiencing hardships, will those
problems be solved knowing that you hail from the
same region as the President? The business of
governing a country should not be reduced to where
one comes from and must never be a tribal issue. We
are one Ghana," Nana Addo said.
He reassured the delegates and Ghanaians that, when
voted into office in 2017, the NPP, under his
leadership, will ensure that Ghana industrialises, a
process, he explained, will structurally transform
the economy.
Akufo-Addo explained that unless Ghana
industrialises with the goal of adding significant
value to our raw materials, "we cannot create the
necessary numbers of high-paying jobs that will
enhance the living standards of the mass of our
people."
Raw material producing economies, according to
Akufo-Addo do not create prosperity for the masses.
"The way to that goal, the goal of ensuring access
to prosperity, is value addition activities in a
transformed and a diversified modern economy. In
other words, the industrial development of our
economy," he said.
Present at the function were Dr. Kwame Addo Kufuor,
former Minister of Defence, former Minister of
Interior and former MP for Manhyia; Hon. Osei
Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu, Minority Leader in Parliament;
Dr. Amoako Tuffuor, former National Co-ordinator of
the School Feeding programme; Hon. Osei Assibey,
former deputy Ashanti Regional Minister; Hon. Kwame
Osei Prempeh, former deputy Attorney General, and
former MP for Nsuta Kwamang; Dr. Nsiah Asare, former
director of the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital;
Stephen Ntim, former NPP National 1st Vice Chairman;
Maxwell Kofi Jumah, former Mayor of Kumasi and
former MP for Asokwa; F.F. Antoh, NPP National 3rd
Vice Chairman, and former Ashanti Regional NPP
Chairman; Hon. Elizabeth Agyemang, Chair of the
caucus of NPP MPs from the Ashanti Region and MP for
Oforikrom; all 47 NPP constituency chairmen; some
former District Chief Executives of the party in the
region; and 30 odd NPP Members of Parliament.
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Eugene Arhin
Press Secretary to Nana Akufo-Addo
Office of Nana Akufo-Addo
21 Ringway Crescent
Ringway Estates
Osu, Accra
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