Akufo-Addo: “We want power to help Ghana"

Presidential hopeful, Nana Akufo-Addo, has said the main opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), is aiming to win political power to help Ghana rather than plunder the country.

“We are not asking for power to enrich ourselves… we want power to help Ghana,” the two-time presidential candidate said Sunday when he toured Kajeji in the Sene East Constituency of the Brong Ahafo Region, to campaign ahead of the party’s October 18, 2014 mega presidential primary, at which 141,000 Delegates will elect one of three contestants as flagbearer ahead of the 2016 elections.

According to him, “What is important is ensuring that Ghanaians will have the confidence to give the NPP the opportunity to remove the incompetent NDC administration. That is what is important.”

“We want to make sure the youth find employment. We want to ensure that education does not become an unbearable burden for parents, to be able to fix your roads for you and to bring prosperity to every Ghanaian,” the former Attorney General added.

The former Foreign Affairs Minister accused the government of failing on its many promises to Ghanaians, citing the deplorable road network linking the Sene East and West constituencies as an example to buttress his point.

He recounted how President John Mills (late) awarded the contract for that road and cut the sod for it amidst pomp and pageantry, yet nothing has become of it.

“We haven’t seen anything. An Akufo-Addo government will use less than 3 years to complete this important stretch of road if given the opportunity,” he promised.

In order for these to be achieved, Nana Addo appealed to the gathering to, firstly, vote for him as the flagbearer of the NPP and secondly, help push the NPP into the Jubilee House come January 2017.

The NPP, according to Nana Addo, has never won in the Sene East constituency since the onset of multi-party democracy in the country in 1992, and yet the constituency has seen no marked improvement in their standard of living under the NDC.

“I appeal to you that in 2016, try the NPP and see for yourselves if we can do the job or not. If you vote for us and we are not able to turn around your fortunes in 4 years, simply kick us out,” he emphasised.