[ 2014-10-20 ]

Akufo-Addo to NPP: 'I’ll justify your confidence in me'
Three-time flagbearer of the main opposition New
Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has
promised his party that he will justify the
confidence reposed in him.

Akufo-Addo polled 117, 413 votes representing
94.35 per cent as against 5,908 representing 4.75
per cent by Alan Kyerematen in the party’s
flagbearership contest on Saturday.

Third contender Francis Addai Nimoh secured 1,198
representing 0.91 per cent, according to official
results declared by the Electoral Commission at
the Efua Sutherland Park.

“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”,
the former Attorney General said in his victory
speech.

He said the party must now focus on defeating the
governing National Democratic Congress in the 2016
elections.

“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”, he said.

Source - Starrfmonline

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