[ 2014-10-19 ]

Nana Addo's speech after being declared winner of primary
STATEMENT BY NANA AKUFO-ADDO AFTER DECLARATION OF
VICTORY IN NPP PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY ON 18TH
OCTOBER, 2014 AT THE EFUA SUTHERLAND CHILDREN’S
PARK, ACCRA.

This is the day the Lord has made; We will rejoice
and be glad in it.

I thank the Lord Almighty for his continuing
blessings on our beloved Ghana, the NPP and
myself.

I thank, from the bottom of my heart, the
thousands and thousands of NPP members – polling
station executives, electoral area co-ordinators,
constituency executives, regional executives,
National Council and National Executive Committee
members, National Council of Elders, Members of
Parliament, past national officers, founding
members and ordinary members and youth of the
party – for this overwhelming show of support.

I am profoundly grateful and truly humbled by the
massive confidence you have reposed in me. You
have put an enormous responsibility on my modest
shoulders, but I want to assure you that I shall
do everything humanly possible, under the guidance
of Almighty God, to justify your confidence.

I congratulate my opponents, Alan Kwadwo
Kyerematen and Hon. Francis Addai-Nimoh, for their
competition, and appreciate the gracious call that
Alan Kyerematen made to me earlier this evening
about my victory. I congratulate also those who
did not make the shortlist of five and those who
did, but dropped out of the race to support me, my
good friends, Hon. Joe Ghartey and Hon. Kofi
Osei-Ameyaw. We will all co-operate and work
together to advance the cause of the NPP and
Mother Ghana. That is what the people of Ghana and
the membership of the NPP expect of us.

I am grateful to those in the party, from the
national to the polling station level, who were
responsible for the organisation of this
successful election, and to the members of the
Electoral Commission, who supervised it. My thanks
also to the Police Force for their service.

I thank warmly all those who supported my
candidature and participated in my campaign. This
historic result could not have been achieved
without your hard work and enthusiasm.

I acknowledge with thanks the extensive coverage
given to the conduct of the campaign by the media.


My final thanks goes to my beautiful lady, my wife
Rebecca, my children and family for their constant
support and encouragement. Without them, I cannot
go forth.

Tonight’s declaration brings to an end the
process of internal reorganisation of our party.
We have now to gird up our loins, put ourselves
together and get ready to face the big battle of
2016. We, in the NPP, have a sacred, two-fold
duty. We must rid our country, through the peace
of the ballot box, of this incompetent NDC
government of John Dramani Mahama, and relieve the
Ghanaian people of the unjustifiable hardships and
difficulties they are encountering.

We are then to form a government for Ghana where
we will reverse the decline of our nation, do the
work of the Ghanaian people with integrity and
bring about their rapid progress and prosperity.
We have the men and women who can do it. We can
fulfil, in our generation, the dreams and
ambitions of our founding fathers to build a free,
prosperous, modern African nation, governed on the
principles of democratic accountability, the rule
of law and social justice. Let us be up and
doing.

God bless Ghana. God bless the NPP. God bless
Mother Africa.

Thank you.

Source - Office Of Nana Akufo Addo/Ghan

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