Akufo-Addo urges Ghanaians to renew NPP's mandate

Adeiso (E/R), April 24, GNA - Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has appealed to Ghanaians to consider the achievements of the NPP government over the past seven years and give it another chance to continue to develop the country.

He said this when his campaign tour to the Eastern Region took him to Adeiso in the Upper West Akyem constituency on Wednesday where he addressed supporters of the party. Nana Akufo-Addo said the NPP government over the last seven years had undertaken more development projects in all parts of the country to improve the living standard of the people.

He said giving the NPP another chance to govern the country meant giving development of the country a chance. Nana Akufo-Addo said the National Health Insurance Scheme, the School Feeding Programme, the Capitation Grant and the Mass Cocoa Spraying exercise among others introduced by the NPP government had taken a lot of burdens from the people, assuring that more of such interventions would be introduced when given the mandate in December.

He expressed concern about the inability of the NPP to win the Upper West Akyem constituency seat from the National Democratic Congress in previous elections and said the party would do all it could positively to win the seat for the first time come December 7. Mr Kwabena Sintim Aboagye, West Akyem Municipal Chief Executive, said the constituency had benefited from government interventions since it came to power in 2001.

He said the area had benefited from road construction, school building, clinics and rural electrification and that 31 more communities would benefit from the electrification project this year. Mr Sintim-Aboagye also mentioned that the Asuokoo small water project would soon be completed at the cost of 8 million Ghana cedis. Mr Yaw Osafo-Maafo, a former Minister of Education, Youth and sports, said Nana Akufo-Addo had a lot of experience to move the country to the next level of development and appealed to Ghanaians to give him the mandate to continue the good works of President Kufuor.