The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) has warned that the leader of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, would unleash a reign of terror on Ghanaians if handed the keys to the Flagstaff House on December 7.
According to the NDC, Akufo-Addo is harbouring an agenda only to punish some citizens he has always targeted and not to salvage any economy as he claims. A presidential staffer, Caesar Kale, issued this warning Saturday when Dr. Clement Apaak, another presidential staffer widely referred to as President John Dramani Mahama’s darling boy, took his turn to launch his 2016 parliamentary election campaign in the Builsa South Constituency.
“Let me tell you, a Nana Akufo-Addo presidency would be full vindictiveness. A Nana Akufo-Addo presidency would be full of violence. This is an individual who is so obsessed with power and so bitter and would want to grab power and use it to punish people he has been eyeing over the years. We don’t have to entertain such an individual in our governance of this country.
“We have our own presidential candidate, JM (John Mahama), who has actually shown respect to the people of this country, who has actually shown dedication and hard work, who has actually shown a peaceful government, who has actually shown some amount of unity. We want to develop as a country. I believe, even as a northerner, a JM presidency in the next four-year term is automatically going to consolidate the position of the northern territory in our governance system in Ghana,” Mr. Kale told a cheering crowd of party supporters at Fumbisi, capital of the Builsa South District.
NPP’s $1 million for each constituency will sink Ghana
Mr. Kale also stated that the NPP’s campaign promise to allot “$1 million” for every constituency had only exposed the plans of a party whose policies were designed to sink the country.
“Some people are promising that when they win, they are going to give every constituency $1 million. That statement alone clearly shows that such an individual wants the retrogression of this country, because as we speak today, if we take the cost of the total budget for each constituency every year, since the last four years, it is always more than $3 million.
“What government provides for every district or every constituency every year is more than $3 million. Cross check. I can say on authority, even though I’m not in the Builsa South District, but you do know that in the last 4 years, projects initiated in this district alone each year [are] more than that $1 million he (Akufo-Addo) is talking about,” he explained.
He added: “So, how can a presidential candidate say that when he wins, he will give every constituency $1 million every year and we see it as something progressive which in actual fact is retrogressive? Ladies and gentlemen, we should not be deceived- especially the youth and the students- with sugarcoated promises that can never be achieved.”
PNC chairman resigns to join Apaak’s campaign
If there is one thing that makes Dr. Apaak’s campaign launch outstanding among the 14 campaign launch rallies seen so far in the 15 constituencies of the Upper East Region, it is the resignation of a popular chairman of the People’s National Convention (PNC) from his party to join Dr. Apaak’s campaign team.
Abuda Agboluk, former Gbedema Zonal Chairman, told an overjoyed NDC crowd Saturday that he took the decision because the “PNC is full of lies and the NDC has always fulfilled whatever it promises”.
What makes that decision very significant to the NDC is not just the popularity of the zonal chairman. It is largely the fact that the NDC’s main contender for the seat in the area is the PNC whose candidate, Alhassan Azong, is also as well resourced and grounded as Dr. Apaak, who is also the Director of Ghana’s anti-graft institute, the Citizens’ Complaints Centre. The high-profile defection that favours the NDC, who is yet to lose any such member to its mai
