According to a survey conducted by the Centre for Democratic Governance (CDD), majority of Ghanaians still have confidence in Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President.
In their estimation of the first gentleman of the land, he has shown ability and capacity to lead the country and deliver on his mandate in improving lives and livelihoods. At least, that was also evident in the verdict that the presidential polls of the 2020 gave.
Hopes and dreams
That the survey did not show a marked decline in support and confidence level, but an affirmation of that truth, is further revealed in the statement that the President and his government, for that matter, can be trusted in the coming years to do “much better or better” in addressing public/social service delivery.
It is refreshing that the public still trusts that the President and his government will significantly add to the existing infrastructure level by building and maintaining roads and bridges, providing more potable water and electricity to needy areas.
It is particularly refreshing to note that a staggering 44 and 45 per cent of respondents expressed optimism that educational issues, for instance, would be managed, and energy issues as well contained in enhancing our industrial drive, respectively.
Vile propaganda
Of course, the CDD report equally cited some lows, including the areas where the main opposition party seeks to blow out of proportion.
From its defeated 2020 presidential candidate to serial callers on FM networks, the clarion call is shifting to a stampede of government in the name of alleged corruption, though members of the party shudder at making their evidence of corruption available to the appropriate authorities for action.
Worse is the fact that when the NPP, after 2016, decided to show that it was a better alternative, used the processes to get NDC appointees hauled before the courts for lawful determination, the NDC on the other hand is using extra-legal means in an attempt to change government merely on the wings of illiterate, vile, wicked and barbarian propaganda.
Plugging the holes
It is in this regard that we urge NPP members, especially the MPs and political appointees, to not only to do their utmost in blowing holes into the NDC’s propaganda, but also plug all holes that are likely to give their opponents excuses to jab government over allegations of corruption.
Opposition parties everywhere, particularly in our part of the world, tend to get unduly aggressive, exhibiting the syndromes that we see and hear.
For a one-term President who wants to prove a point, together with his patrons, that he is no pampered kitten and that he could bounce back with some posturing, the excesses may be normal.
It is in that vein that those directly in government must be cautious in executing their roles so that the party and government do not suffer any jeopardy arising out of mere stampede over allegations.
Thank God, the President still keeps showing the way that we all may follow and witness a continuation of the good works started in 2017 into the 2030s when Ghana would have stabilised, and the real thieving generation expired.
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