WE WANT MAHAMA
SAFE FOR 2016, SAYS AKUFO-ADDO
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New
Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo,
says no single person within his party wants any
harm to befall the President of the Republic,
John Dramani Mahama, with some 16 months to the
holding of the 2016 general elections.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, contrary to the
reasons given by the hierarchy of the Ghana
Police Service in the Upper East Region that
President Mahama will not be safe in Talensi
should the NPP hold a rally on the same day as
the ruling NDC, the NPP wants President Mahama
alive and well, so Ghanaians can vote him out of
power in 2016.
Nana Akufo-Addo made this known when he
addressed a mammoth rally at Winkogo, in the
Talensi constituency, on Sunday, July 5, 2015,
signifying the end of official campaigning for
all political parties ahead of the July 7
by-election.
“They did not want us to have this rally, but in
the end we are having it. The Police said that
because the President is here, he will not be
safe if we have our rally. We want to tell the
Police and Mr. President that there is nobody in
the NPP who would want anything to happen to
him,” Nana Akufo-Addo said to loud cheers from
the thousands of NPP supporters and symapthisers
who had congregated from Winkogo, Duusi, Tongo
Nayiri, Gorogo, Gbani, Baare, Pwalugu, Balungu,
Sheaga, amongst others, at the rally grounds.
He continued, “We don’t want anything to happen
to him. We want him to be safe and well so that
next year in December, we can have the pleasure
of voting him out of power. Then, he can spend
four years watching what a party with the plan
and the programme can do to bring prosperity and
upliftment to the Ghanaian people.”
Flanked by his running mate, Dr. Mahamudu
Bawumia; the NPP’s candidate for Talensi, Thomas
Duanab Wuni; and the Upper East Regional NPP
Chairman, Murtala Mohammed, Nana Akufo-Addo
stated that victory in the Talensi by-election
for the NPP “will be the best signal to the
world that, indeed, the elephant is on the move
and, God-willing, the elephant will be back in
the Jubilee House in 2017.”
Akufo-Addo assured the people of Talensi, and,
indeed, all Ghanaians that the NPP is coming
back to power because the party has a plan for
the development of all sections of the country.
This plan, he explained, is one that is going to
bring jobs for the teeming masses of unemployed
Ghanaian youth, improve the country’s
agriculture, which will in turn strengthen
Ghanaian farmers, and also develop Ghana’s
industrial potential.
“That is the plan that we have to transform the
lives of the people of Ghana and bring
prosperity and progress to the Ghanaian people,”
he said, adding that “our programme is not about
propaganda, lies, stealing and the mismanagement
of the affairs of the people of this country. We
are for progress, development and improving the
lives of the people of Ghana.”
In the estimation of Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghana, a
country rich in human and natural resources, has
her citizens being poor “because we have poor
leadership.”
When Ghana gets good leadership, he said, “like
we saw in Kufuor’s time, we can see what it does
in improving the economy and standards of living
of the people of our country. And that is why we
are coming back.”
He assured the people of Ghana that the NPP is
coming back not to steal the money of the people
of Ghana.
“I am not into politics to enrich myself. That
is not why I am in politics. We are coming to
serve the people of Ghana because we know that
with good, honest and competent leadership, we
can make this country into what it was destined
to be – a rich, powerful and progressive nation,
the Black Star of the African continent,” Nana
Akufo-Addo reiterated
