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News Release
Office of Nana Akufo-Addo
September 23, 2014
“WE DON’T HATE NDC,
WE LOVE GHANA MORE” – AKUFO-ADDO
“We are not making these criticisms against the
President, his government and the NDC because we
hate the NDC or we hate Mahama. We are making them
because we love Ghana more. We are concerned about
today and the future of our country.”
These were the words of Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
on Monday, September 22, 2014, when he rounded off
his Thank You tour at Sogakope, in the Volta Region,
ahead of the October 18 presidential primary contest
of the New Patriotic Party.
Addressing the delegates who voted in the August 31,
2014 Special Electoral College, which delivered an
overwhelming 80.81% margin of victory for him, Nana
Akufo-Addo told the delegates that nearly sixty
years after independence, “our country should be
much further down the road than where it is today.”
Under the John Mahama-led NDC government, Nana Addo
explained that Ghana is witnessing a “meltdown and a
breakdown of our social security system in our
country, directly the result of mismanagement and
widespread corruption.”
“All of us of today have seen the direct link
between corruption and mismanagement and the
difficult conditions that we are having in our
country today. If you don’t have any cash, because
you have mismanaged the economy, you cannot fulfil
your statutory payments. So today the District
Assemblies Common Fund is in arrears by three
quarters. District Assemblies Common Fund are in
arrears, do you know what it means? There is no
money to collect garbage and sanitation is going
down. Are you then surprised by the outbreak of
cholera?” he asked.
He continued, “There is shortage of cash so you
cannot meet your obligations to the GETFund,
District Assemblies Common Fund and School Feeding.
You cannot pay nurses and teachers their allowances.
Even chalk in our public schools has become an
issue.”
Nana Akufo-Addo noted that “our nation is desperate
for change”, assuring Ghanaians that an NPP
government, under his leadership, will restore
confidence into the Ghanaian economy and ensure a
decent standard of living for all Ghanaians.
“We will establish a competent government drawing
from talents from all sides of the NPP and all
regions of the country. We will put together a
formidable team. We did it in (President) Kufuor’s
time, we are going to do it again,” he emphasized,
much to the approval and delight of the delegates
gathered who gave him a rapturous applause.
Eugene Arhin
Press Secretary to Nana Akufo-Addo
Office of Nana Akufo-Addo
21 Ringway Crescent
Ringway Estates
Osu, Accra
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