PNC's Mahama Pleads For NPP

THE LEADER of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama, has advocated that Ghanaians should exercise patience for the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Government.

“PNC as a party, shall continue to advocate that Ghanaians should have patience and judge the performance of the NPP Government after the four-year term they have given it (NPP) to rule the nation”, he stressed.

Addressing a press conference held by the PNC in Accra yesterday. Dr. Mahama said, “but for Ghanaians’ ‘perception’ that the PNC is poor and small, PNC would have won the 2000 election”.

He therefore took the opportunity to urge the government to take the ‘perception’ that the Fast Tract High Court (FTHC) is for political opponents seriously and do something about it.

Government must try and act properly to remove all doubts about the FTHC, which he observed is good for the smooth and faster way of delivering justice.

On the National Reconciliation Commission, the PNC leader said, this has come at the appropriate time, since it is a good platform for healing the wounds of the nation.

Dr. Mahama advised the government to “develop policies that would gradually steer the nation away from its present hopelessly dependent status and strive towards both personal and national self-reliance”.

“The PNC is eager to see a programme of goal setting and strategies for achieving the basic needs of Ghanaians”, he emphasised.

In a remark, Hon. David Apasara, PNC Member of Parliament for Bolga, noted that, the party has no regrets for supporting the NPP before the election and in Parliament.

He said PNC MPs are supporting the NPP to give it a sizeable majority in order to propel this nation into achieving a real positive change.

Hon. Apasara lamented on how he and his two other colleague PNC MPs have been relegated to the background in the House.

He said due to the positions of sitting in Parliament, the PNC members find it difficult to “catch the eyes of the Speaker in order to make their contributions.

He advocated a change in sitting arrangements in the House to make multi-party democracy effective.

He stressed that Ghanaians have voted for multi-party democracy not a bi-party democracy, adding that, what currently exists is a bi-party-democracy”.