General News of Monday, 10 September 2012

Source: todaygh.com

Don’t Waste Your Vote…On those who have disappointed you in 4th Republic

The Progressive People’s Party (PPP) over the weekend has been campaigning in the Central and Western regions of the country and whiles at this, the leader of the campaign team, Dr. Papa Kwesi Nduom, has urged Ghanaians not to waste their vote on political parties that have disappointed them since the beginning of the Fourth Republic of Ghana.

According to the PPP flag bearer, a vote for the these parties would be wasted because they have failed to deliver on all the promises they made to Ghanaians during their tenure of office adding that there was no indication that they had changed their modus operandi.

“They have failed us in the delivery of quality healthcare, education and provision of suitable jobs…when you continue doing the same thing and you don’t have different results, you have to change.”

According to Dr. Nduom, governance especially under the Mahama led administration has led to families being torn apart, fishermen struggling under the perennial premix fuel shortage and unprecedented levels of poverty in the Central and Western regions.

Dr. Nduom further decried the mass failure recorded in recent BECE results in both regions, and probing that “what else has the Mahama led government left to offer Ghanaians with this kind of performance?”

The PPP standard bearer throughout all his interactions with the indigenes of both regions averred that “a vote for PPP would bring total transformation in the lives of Ghanaians.”

Dr. Nduom and his team re-echoed all these when they joined the Chiefs and people of Mankesim in the Central region to celebrate the Borborfante festival. The PPP entourage were also guest at both the Komenda and Saltpond festivals where Dr. Nduom reiterated his call on the other presidential aspirants, to show commitment to his call for strict separation of powers.

These include the prohibition of Members of Parliament from being appointed as Ministers of State; the direct election of district, municipal and metropolitan chief executives without any interference from the President and strengthening of the office of Attorney General by separating it from the Ministry of Justice.

Dr. Nduom also repeated his call for all presidential candidates to make available to the public, their total assets, income tax returns, the disclosure of health records and sources of campaign funding before the December 7th elections, and to conduct a campaign to prove competence and ability to offer solutions to the nation’s numerous problems.