NDC may be planning a coup - JAK

Congress to announce JAK as ghanaweb's Person of the year
As expected, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) endorsed the nomination of President J.A. Kufuor, the party’s sole candidate, as the flagbearer of the NPP for the 2004 presidential election. He gave his acceptance speech at around 13:00 local time.
High points include: His claim that the NPP is perhaps the best performing govt Ghana has ever had and that the NDC may be plotting a coup -- implied with some indirection in this statement

"They think there will be a shortcut for them to come to power…of course they are going to fail".

An audio of the speech will be posted here soon.

An annoncement is expected to be made at the congress on the voting of President Kufuor as the "Ghanaweb Person of the Year" for 2002.

We have been good for the people of Ghana - JAK

04.01.2003 -- President Kuffour has urged Ghanaians to give the New Patriotic Party (NPP) their mandate again for the next General Elections in 2004. President Kuffour told the party‘s three-day national delegates congress that the NPP has proved in the two years that it’s been in office that it has what it takes to make Ghana prosper.

President Kuffour’s speech dwelled largely on the achievements of his government but it was spiced by the customary swipes at the major opposition party the National Democratic Congress.

''We have been good for the people of Ghana. The level of freedom in the country now is wonderful and I think for that alone, Ghanaians should be grateful to the NPP'', he said.

President Kuffour,who led the NPP to victory after 20 years of PNDC/NDC rule also said Ghanaians should be at least grateful to the N.P.P for rescuing them from the "senile" period of the NDC. He called recent damming comments by former president Jerry Rawlings as "empty boasts of an opponent".

The Congress would endorse President Kuffour as the NPP’s candidate for the 2004 General Elections by a unanimous declaration.

Attorney General Nana Akuffo Addo who was one of President Kuufour’s challengers for the N.P.P presidential ticket in 2000 said if for nothing, the NPP government has ensured an atmosphere of freedom that is unprecedented in Ghana.

''Now Ghanaians are free to speak their mind and do what they are legally bound to without living in fear of getting an identification haircut'', he said in apparent reference to the case in which former first lady described punishment meted out to her first daughter’s former boyfriend as an identification haircut.

Over 2,000 delegates made up of 10 members from each of the 200 constituencies and members of the council of elders, patrons and founding members are attending the Congress.

The Congress would later today elect of officers for the National Women and Youth wings of the party. 420 delegates, made up of constituency and regional youth and women organisers, will vote at the congress to elect executives for the two wings.