Posted on: www.dailyguideghana.com
By William Yaw Owusu
Tuesday, August 30, 2016
New Patriotic Party (NPP) presidential candidate Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo, has reminded President John Mahama and his National Democratic
Congress (NDC) that no amount of scurrilous attacks against him will distract
him from pursuing his political goals for the country.
He has therefore, vowed to continue to sell the NPP’s ideas to the
electorate towards the December 7, general election and help to change Ghana
for the better, when he is voted into power.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, in the face of an abysmal record of
the John Mahama-led NDC administration
which has led to widespread hardship and suffering amongst the people, the only
option left for the current regime is to embark on an abusive campaign against
him, (Nana), the latest being that he is suffering from cancer.
“The president and those who speak for him are today in a difficult
situation in Ghana. They want to have a third term in office. But, instead of
telling us about all the things they promised to do, so that we can decide
whether or not to grant them the third term (ie, being in office for 12 years),
they can’t do that,” he said at a well-attended rally in Bolgatanga.
Vile Propaganda
There has been a frantic attempt of late by the ruling NDC to
portray the NPP presidential candidate as a sick man, after attempts to tag him
as a divisive character fell flat on their face.
The NDC appears to have contracted the US-based magazine called
Africawatch, edited by Steve Mallory (real name, Raymond Poku), to perpetrate
the diabolical agenda. The recent copies of the magazine had focused on Nana
Akufo-Addo.
In what looks like a calculated plan between the NDC and Steve
Mallory, the magazine’s yesterday edition had a publication headlined, “NPP campaign
in jeopardy…Akufo-Addo has cancer,” to portray the NPP leader as not fit for
the election, even though Nana Addo is on his feet campaigning in the Upper
East Region.
NDC’s Sam George, last Friday dropped the hint on radio that the NPP
campaign was going to grind to a halt by Monday (yesterday).
Sam George, on Asempa
FM’s political programme, said boldly, "If you guys know what is coming on
Monday, you will run away from Ghana.”
He said in fact, Nana Addo's campaign would come to a halt from
Monday going. “Monday is going to be a bomb," Sam George boasted,
apparently revealing the NDC’s diabolical agenda.
Mahama’s Campaign Tool
During his address in Bolgatanga, Nana Akufo-Addo said, "Issues
of life and death and health are in the hands of the Almighty...I will continue
to say, 'The battle is the Lord's.’
“The president has made me his campaign tool. I am his campaign in
Ghana today. I am saying to you, as defeat stares him in the face, the language
against me is going to go higher and higher and higher, because it is clear to
the overwhelming majority of Ghanaians that on the 7th of December, we are
going to say to John Dramani Mahama, ‘Thank you and goodbye.’”
He predicted that the NDC would step up the vile propaganda against
him saying, “In the meantime the language against me is going to continue, and
I want to recall some of the things they have said.
“First they said I was a drug addict. It didn’t work. They said I
was sick. It didn’t work. They said I was too old. It didn’t work. They said I
was a hunchback. It didn’t work. They said I was a dwarf. It didn’t work. They
said I was in a wheelchair. It didn’t work. They said I am a murderer. It
didn’t work. They said I will die in June. It didn’t work. They said I was a dictator.
It didn’t work. They said I was intolerant. It didn’t work. They said I was
violent. It didn’t work. They said I had a secret agenda to destabilize the
country. It didn’t work. Now, they say I have cancer. It will not work.”
He added, “It looks as if the only way the president will get a
third term is when I am sick or I am dead. That is the only ground on which he
will get his third term. Issues of life, death and health are in the hands of
the Almighty. I will leave matters in the hands of the Almighty because I
believe, and I continue to say ‘The Battle is the Lord’s.’”
Broken Promises
Cataloguing a litany of President Mahama’s broken promises, Nana
Akufo-Addo recounted how the NDC promised a “one time premium for the National
Health Insurance Scheme,” and have reneged on this promise, eight years after
making it. The NPP flagbearer noted that “not only did this promise not
materialize, but they have collapsed the NHIS.”
He continued, “He (President Mahama) told us he was going to build
200 community day senior high schools.
According to his finance minister, he
has been able to build nine. He told us in 2012 that dumsor will be over by
2013. We are in 2016, and dumsor is still with us in Ghana. President Mahama
was here in the North last week, and not once did he speak about SADA, because
SADA has become a monumental failure.”
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