Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Vice Presidential
Candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has given the assurance that, if
given the mandate to govern, they turn the economy around to lift the people out
of poverty.His party’s government led by Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo
would make sure that Ghana worked for everybody but not a privilege
few.
They would keep faith with the people - live up to expectation and
were not going to disappoint, he added.
He was speaking to students of
the Assin-Fosu College of Education as part of his week-long campaign tour of
the Central Region to win over more voters ahead of the December
polls.
Dr. Bawumia mocked the Mahama Administration for poor economic
performance, which he said, had led to untold hardship and widespread
suffering.
“The government proven that it clearly lacks the ability to
manage the resources of the nation efficiently to bring development and
transform the lives of the people.”
He said the coming election was
therefore an opportunity to vote out the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for
messing up things.
Dr. Bawumia, an Economist and a former Deputy Governor
of the Bank of Ghana, indicated that the prevailing harsh economic conditions
were the result of the massive corruption, wastefulness and the ineptitude of
managers of the economy.
He repeated the pledge to move quickly to
restore teacher trainee allowances and bring back to life collapsing social
intervention programmes introduced by the NPP under President John Agyekum
Kufuor.
He had earlier toured a number of communities in the Assin North,
Assin Central and Assin South constituencies, where he interacted with the
people, to help them to appreciate why they should trust the NPP with their
votes.
He was accompanied by the regional party officers and some NPP
Members of Parliament (MPs) in the region.
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