Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, a deputy director of the party’s 2020 campaign, addresses the press
The governing NPP says Ghanaians are on board an Akufo-Addo train that is bound to lead the country to glory, and has restored the hopes of thousands of young boys and girls.
The party is therefore urging the electorate to remain focused and ignore the vicious lies and vile propaganda thrown out by members of the opposition NDC.
According to the NPP, the Akufo-Addo train has revived small, medium and large-scale industries by resolving the power crisis, and has also brought smiles back on the faces of farmers with the Planting for Food and Jobs programme.
“It has brought back the smile on the faces of Zongo people, who are now a central part of Ghana’s development planning agenda. Hitherto, they lived in the margins where the NDC turned them into vote banks. It has brought back the smile on the face of the sick, who hitherto, would die because there is no ambulance to take them to the hospital,” the party said.
Fake news
Addressing a press conference yesterday, Dr Mustapha Abdul-Hamid, a deputy director of the party’s 2020 campaign, said the NDC, knowing that it has lost the December 7 election, is resorting to throwing in fake videos alleging corruption on the part of the President.
“It will not wash. You take old videos of a campaign donation and distort it, seeking to make it look like a recent video? Come on! Is the NDC so incompetent even at faking things? And listen to the spurious explanation- that the President took a bribe of 40,000 dollars? (⊄160,000 in 2016 terms?) Pathetic souls!” he stated.
He called on Ghanaians to “teach the NDC that decency and ethical behaviour are very much a part of politics.”
“Indeed, politicians more than everybody else, should be ethical. Governance is serious business. When unethical people like those in the NDC assume the governance of a country, then what happened to Ghana pre-2016 is what happens. You have a demoralized society, collapsed businesses, broken financial sector, collapsed educational system and a ruined economy,” he said.
2016 lessons
Dr Abdul-Hamid encouraged Ghanaians who have their names “on the voter roll to make a firm commitment to come out on December 7 and cast their vote for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.”
“If before 2016, you took voting for granted; if before 2016 you saw voting as an empty ritual; if before 2016 you viewed politics and voting as a worthless venture, I am sure you have revised your notes by now. And why not? I guess we have all seen the video of the young man from a village near Adeiso who before 2016 was consigned to a life of destitution hopelessness and despair.
“I am sure you have seen the video of Shadrach, who before 2016 spent his life on the sea as an errand boy for fisherfolk. I am sure you have seen the video of the boy from Kojokrom who before 2016 had lost all hope of progress in life. How did their lives take a dramatic turn for the better?
“How did they suddenly get back on track to dreaming of doing big things in life? How did that poor boy from Kojokrom end up as Sports Prefect in an elite school like Accra Academy? How did the young man from the village near Adeiso end up in Adeiso secondary school and now on his way to a university in the United Kingdom? These stories are just a few of the hundreds and perhaps thousands of such stories which are being told in every hamlet, village, town and city across the country,” he said.
He added that it took the votes of 5, 755,758 Ghanaians to make Akufo-Addo President, and for him to implement his vision of Free SHS, which has revived the hopes of thousands of other young boys and girls of a better future.
“Now, think about the wasted years of 2009 to 2017, during which period 800,000 other young boys and girls ended up on the streets. Many of them are still on the streets. We have lost many of them to drug addiction and even worse, to prison houses,” he added.
Brighter future
Dr Abdul-Hamid stated that the more than five million Ghanaians who voted for President Akufo-Addo in 2016 took the opportunity that beckoned, saying this has put the country back on the path of progress and development.
He therefore called on the electorate to think about the successes chalked by the Akufo-Addo government and re-elect him for a second term.
“Think about my friend Abdul-Razak, the barber near the Achimota lorry park who because of five years of dumsor, was hardly able to keep body and soul together. Think about how he closed shop often and sent the many apprentice young boys and girls home to a future of hopelessness. Think about Abdul-Razak today, whose salon is now buzzing with activity, thanks to the restoration of power by the visionary Akufo-Addo.
“Let us make progress. Let us come out in our numbers and help take these young boys and girls future to its logical next step,” he stated.
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