[ 2016-11-21 ]

Wild promises intended to destroy Ghana’s destiny – Prez Mahama
President John Dramani Mahama has stated that the
wild election promises by the opposition New
Patriotic Party (NPP) are meant to deceive
Ghanaians into acting in a manner that will help
them destroy the destiny of the country.
The President referred to the NPP’s “one
community, one dam”; “one district, one
factory” and “one constituency, one million
dollar” among other promises as wild election
gimmicks intended to deceive Ghanaians to disrupt
the steady growth currently happening under his
administration.

President Mahama stated this when he paid a
courtesy call on the Overlord of the Waala
Traditional Area, Naa Seidu Fuseini Pelpuo IV at
his palace in Wa during his second day campaign
tour of the Upper West Region.

He said up-to-date, the NPP had not been able to
clearly tell Ghanaians what type of dams and
factories they wanted to put up in which community
and in which district, and wondered why they
wanted Ghanaians to vote for them base on those
promises.

He said it was based on that calculated move to
deceive Ghanaians that the National Democratic
Congress (NDC) was campaigning vigorously as if it
was rather the party in opposition to let the
people know the truth and renew their mandate.

“We are travelling across the length and breadth
of the country campaigning vigorously as if we are
the party in opposition to let Ghanaians know the
truth from deception and vote wisely for the NDC
to protect the future and destiny of the
nation”, he emphasized.

President Mahama therefore urged Ghanaians not to
entrust the destiny of the country into the hands
of someone who had not been tried and tested,
saying “doing that would jeopardize the future
of the country”.

He expressed concern about how some people had
been attacking the integrity of the Electoral
Commission (EC) especially the Chairperson, and
appealed to traditional rulers not to sit aloof
but with open and neutral minds, offer words of
wisdom and advice to such persons to ensure a
peaceful election.

President Mahama who was given a chieftaincy title
“Naapogba Kolee Naa” by Naa Fuseini Pelpuo
expressed his gratitude to the chiefs and people
of the Wala Traditional Area for the prayers and
honour done him.

President Mahama also paid courtesy calls on Naa
Puoure Puobe Chiir the VII and Naa Puowele Karbo
III, Paramount Chiefs of Nandom and Lawra
Traditional Areas respectively.

The two Paramount Chiefs expressed gratitude to
the President for the provisions of many health,
educational and road infrastructure in to their
areas and wished him the best of luck in the
coming election.

President Mahama also addressed separate rallies
at Nandom, Lawra, Jirapa and Wa where he charged
the people to turnout in their large numbers on
December 7, and vote massively to retain the NDC
in power to continue with the good work that it
was doing to improve development in the country.

Source - Graphiconline

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